Loans; Investments Make or suffer to exist any loans, guaranties, advances, or investments, except: (a) Accounts receivable in the ordinary course of Borrower's business; (b) Investments in domestic certificates of deposit issued by, and other domestic investments with, financial institutions organized under the laws of the United States or a state thereof, having One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) in capital and a rating of at least "investment grade" or "A" by Mood▇'▇ ▇▇ any successor rating agency;" 9 (c) Investments in marketable obligations of the United States of America and in open market commercial paper given the highest credit rating by a national credit agency and maturing not more than one year from the creation thereof; and (d) Temporary advances to cover incidental expenses to be incurred in the ordinary course of business. (e) loans, guaranties, advances or investments in subsidiaries of Borrower; (1) travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the ordinary course of business and (2) loans to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of equity securities of Borrower pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by Borrower's Board of Directors; (g) investments consisting of endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; (h) any investment permitted by Borrower's investment policy, as amended from time to time, provided such investment policy (and any amendments thereto) has been previously approved by Lender. (i) investments permitted by Article 6.4; (j) investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with customers or suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business; (k) investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions to, customers and suppliers, in the ordinary course of business; (l) hedge investments arising under currency agreements or interest rate agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business; (m) investments in joint ventures or strategic partnerships in the ordinary course of business; (n) deposit accounts of Borrower; and (o) other investments not otherwise permitted in the Article 6.5 in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $250,000 at any one time.
Loans, Investments, Etc No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make or agree to make, any Investment in any other Person, except: (a) the endorsement of instruments for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business; (b) Investments in cash or Cash Equivalents; provided that the terms and conditions of Section 5.2 hereof shall have been satisfied with respect to the deposit account, investment account or other account in which such cash or Cash Equivalents are held; (c) the existing Investments of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date, as set forth on Schedule 10.4; (d) Investments made by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; (e) Investments made after the Closing Date, by any Loan Party to or in any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, provided that such Investments made pursuant to this Section 10.4(e)) do not exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate for all such Subsidiaries at any time outstanding; so long as both before and after giving effect to the making of such Investments (i) the Aggregate Threshold Test is satisfied and (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (f) loans and advances made by any Loan Party to employees of such Loan Party not to exceed $2,500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding; (g) stock or obligations issued to any Loan Party by any Person (or the representative of such Person) in respect of Indebtedness of such Person owing to such Loan Party in connection with the insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership or reorganization of such Person or a composition or readjustment of the debts of such Person; provided that the original of any such stock or instrument evidencing such obligations shall be promptly delivered to Agent, upon Agent’s request, together with such stock power, assignment or endorsement by such Loan Party as Agent may request; (h) obligations of account debtors to any Loan Party arising from Accounts that are past due evidenced by a promissory note made by such account debtor payable to such Loan Party; provided that promptly upon the receipt of the original of any such promissory note by such Loan Party, such promissory note shall be endorsed to the order of Agent by such Loan Party and promptly delivered to Agent as so endorsed; (i) Investments made by a Loan Party to or in another Loan Party after the Closing Date, provided that (i) such Investments to or in any Canadian Loan Party by any U.S. Loan Party shall be limited to such Investments, at levels and on terms, consistent with the Company’s historical practices and (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (j) Investments made by a Loan Party in or to Joint Ventures, not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.4, when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (j) in the immediately preceding twelve (12) month period, in an amount not to exceed $25,000,000 (or such lesser amount as would not cause the aggregate amount of all such Investments made during such period, together with the aggregate consideration paid by the Loan Parties in respect of Permitted Acquisitions consummated during such period, to exceed the applicable amount permitted pursuant to clause (d) of the definition of Permitted Acquisitions); so long as both before and after giving effect to the making of such Investment (i) the Aggregate Threshold Test is satisfied and (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (k) Investments by any Loan Party not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.4 of up to $25,000,000, when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (k) in the immediately preceding twelve (12) month period (including the outstanding amount of all Investments made in the form of loans or advances as of any date of determination), net of any amount realized in respect of the principal of such Investment upon the sale, collection or return of capital (not to exceed the original amount invested) during such period; so long as before and after giving effect to the making of such Investment, (i) the Aggregate Threshold Test is satisfied and (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (l) Investments constituting guarantees and other Indebtedness permitted under Section 10.3; (m) Investments made after the Closing Date by the Company in LP Brasil Participacoes LTDA (“LP Brasil”) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $42,000,000 enabling LP Brasil (i) to pay the purchase price in connection with the initial Acquisition of 75% of the Capital Stock of Masisa OSB Industrie e Comerico S.A. (“Masisa”), (ii) to purchase the remaining 25% of the Capital Stock of Masisa, and (iii) to fund its portion of the initial working capital contribution to Masisa as further described in Section 8.1 of the Shareholders’ Agreement (defined below), in each case, pursuant to (A) that certain Share Purchase Agreement dated as of May 12, 2008 and/or (B) that certain Shareholders’ Agreement in respect of LP-Masisa OSB Indutria e Comercio S.A. dated as of May 12, 2008 (the “Shareholders’ Agreement”); so long as before and after giving effect to the making of such Investment, no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (n) Investments by the Company in a Joint Venture with ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Company in respect of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Mill in an aggregate amount not to exceed $35,000,000, pursuant to that certain Put and Call Agreement between the Company and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Company dated as of August 2, 2006; so long as before and after giving effect to the making of such Investment, no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom; (o) Investments made after the Closing Date for the purchase of the remaining 50% of the Capital Stock of Canfor-LP OSB Limited Partnership, pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement dated as of October 24, 2005, in an aggregate amount not to exceed (i) $50,000,000 plus (ii) the unused amount set forth in clause (d) of the definition of Permitted Acquisitions for the twelve (12) month period in which such Investment is made; provided that each of the requirements set forth in the definition of Permitted Acquisitions shall have been satisfied with respect to such Investment as if such Investment were a Permitted Acquisition; and (p) promissory notes, earn-outs, other contingent obligations and/or non-cash consideration received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as partial payment of the total consideration for any sale or other disposition not prohibited by Section 10.1; provided that such promissory notes, earn-outs, other contingent obligations and/or non-cash consideration shall in no event exceed ten percent (10%) of the total consideration received in connection with a sale or other disposition permitted pursuant to clauses (c), (d), (f) or (h) through and including (p) of Section 10.1; and
Subordinated Loans to FINRA Members To the Company’s knowledge, no Company Affiliate has made a subordinated loan to any Member.
Advances Payments Non Funding Lenders Information Actions in Concert (a) Advances; Payments (i) Revolving Lenders shall refund or participate in the Swing Line Loan in accordance with clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 1.l(b). If the Swing Line Lender declines to make a Swing Line Loan or if Swing Line Availability is zero, Agent shall notify Revolving Lenders, promptly after receipt of a Notice of Revolving Credit Advance and in any event prior to noon (New York time) on the date such Notice of Revolving Credit Advance is received, by telecopy, telephone or other similar form of transmission. Each Revolving Lender shall make the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each Revolving Credit Advance available to Agent in same day funds by wire transfer to Agent’s account as set forth in Annex H not later than 3:00 p.m. (New York time) on the requested funding date, in the case of an Index Rate Loan, and not later than 3:00 p.m. (New York time) on the requested funding date in the case of a LIBOR Loan. After receipt of such wire transfers (or, in the Agent’s sole discretion, before receipt of such wire transfers), subject to the terms hereof, Agent shall make the requested Revolving Credit Advance to the Borrower designated by Borrower Representative in the Notice of Revolving Credit Advance. All payments by each Revolving Lender shall be made without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind. (ii) On the 2nd Business Day of each calendar week or more frequently at Agent’s election (each, a “Settlement Date”), Agent shall advise each Lender by telephone or telecopy of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of principal, interest and Fees paid for the benefit of Lenders with respect to each applicable Loan. Provided that each Lender has funded all payments or Advances required to be made by it and purchased all participations required to be purchased by it under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as of such Settlement Date, Agent shall pay to each Lender such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of principal, interest and Fees paid by Borrowers since the previous Settlement Date for the benefit of such Lender on the Loans held by it. To the extent that any Lender (a “Non-Funding Lender”) has failed to fund all such payments and Advances or failed to fund the purchase of all such participations, Agent shall be entitled to set off the funding short-fall against that Non-Funding Lender’s Pro Rata Share of all payments received from Borrowers. Such payments shall be made by wire transfer to such Lender’s account (as specified by such Lender in Annex H or the applicable Assignment Agreement) not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the next Business Day following each Settlement Date. (b) Availability of Lender’s Pro Rata Share Agent may assume that each Revolving Lender will make its Pro Rata Share of each Revolving Credit Advance available to Agent on each funding date. If such Pro Rata Share is not, in fact, paid to Agent by such Revolving Lender when due, Agent will be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind. If any Revolving Lender fails to pay the amount of its Pro Rata Share forthwith upon Agent’s demand, Agent shall promptly notify Borrower Representative and Borrowers shall immediately repay such amount to Agent. Nothing in this Section 9.9(b) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Revolving Lender or to relieve any Revolving Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that Borrowers may have against any Revolving Lender as a result of any default by such Revolving Lender hereunder. To the extent that Agent advances funds to any Borrower on behalf of any Revolving Lender and is not reimbursed therefor on the same Business Day as such Advance is made, Agent shall be entitled to retain for its account all interest accrued on such Advance until reimbursed by the applicable Revolving Lender.
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