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• Acquisition of Participations Upon any Issuance of a Letter of Credit in accordance with the terms of this Agreement resulting in any increase in the Letter of Credit Obligations, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have acquired, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation in such Letter of Credit and the related Letter of Credit Obligations in an amount equal to its Commitment Percentage of such Letter of Credit Obligations.

• Repayment of Participations (i) At any time after any Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.

• Participations Generally Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or any Letter of Credit Issuer, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities, other than an Ineligible Institution, (a “Participant”), in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Revolving Credit Commitment, Swingline Exposure and the Revolving Credit Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender, each Letter of Credit Issuer and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the second sentence of Section 12.1 that affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.10, 2.11 and 3.5 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 12.8 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a nonfiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loans, Letters of Credit or other obligations under the Agreement (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loans, Letters of Credit or its other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loan, Letters of Credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

• Right of Participation and First Refusal (i) Other than arrangements that are in place or disclosed in SEC Documents prior to the date of this Agreement, from the date of this Agreement until the Note is extinguished in its entirety, the Company will not, (i) directly or indirectly, offer, sell, grant any option to purchase, or otherwise dispose of (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition of) any of its or its Subsidiaries’ debt, equity, or equity equivalent securities, including without limitation any debt, preferred shares or other instrument or security that is, at any time during its life and/or under any circumstances, convertible into, exchangeable, or exercisable for Common Stock (any such offer, sale, grant, disposition or announcement being referred to as a “Subsequent Placement”) or (ii) enter into any definitive agreement with regard to the foregoing, in each case unless the Company shall have first complied with this Section 4(d).

• Participation Rights At least 20 days prior to any Transfer, in any one transaction or series of related transactions, by a holder of Class A Unit, Class B Units or Class C Units, of any Units (other than one or more Transfers (i) pursuant to a transaction pursuant to Section 10.3 or Section 15.7, (ii) to any Affiliate of the Investors or Contributors, as applicable, (iii) which are Exempt Transfers or (iv) to any current or former officer, employee, manager, director, member, partner or co-investor of the Investors or any of their Affiliates), such holder of Class A Units, Class B Units and/or Class C Units (the “Transferring Unitholder”) shall deliver a written notice (the “Sale Notice”) to the LLC and to each of the other Unitholders (the “Other Unitholders”), specifying in reasonable detail the number and class of Units to be Transferred and the terms and conditions of the contemplated Transfer. The Other Unitholders holding the same class or series of Units (with the Class A Units, Class B Units, Class C Units and Class D Units each being treated as a separate class or series for purposes of this Section 10.2) may elect to participate in the contemplated Transfer by delivering written notice to the Transferring Unitholder within 20 days after delivery of the Sale Notice (such Unitholders delivering such notice of election in accordance with this Section 10.2, collectively, the “Electing Unitholders”). Such participation shall be based upon the Pro Rata Share represented by the Units requested to be included in such Transfer by each Unitholder relative to the Pro Rata Share of all Units of such class or series held by the Unitholders participating in such Transfer (including the Transferring Unitholder). Each Electing Unitholder shall Transfer his, her or its Units on the same terms and conditions, with the aggregate consideration to be paid in connection with such Transfer allocated among each Unit included therein based on such Unit’s Pro Rata Share, determined based upon the Total Equity Value Proceeds implied by the price offered in the Sale Notice; provided that in the event that Units being transferred by the Transferring Unitholder are comprised solely of Class A Units or Class B Units, the aggregate consideration to be paid in connection with such Transfer shall be allocated based on the proportionate Class A Unreturned Capital and Class A Unpaid Yield, or Class B Unreturned Capital and Class B Unpaid Yield, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A) if the Transferring Unitholder intends to Transfer Units of more than one class or series, each of the Other Unitholders electing to participate must participate in all such Transfers (to the extent such Other Unitholders hold such other class or series), (B) if such Transfer constitutes a Sale of the LLC, the Class D Units shall be deemed to be the same class of Units as the Class C Units for the purpose of this Section 10.2, and (C) in no event shall any Unitholder be entitled to Transfer any unvested Management Incentive Units pursuant this Section 10.2.

• Reimbursement and Participations (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally agrees to pay to the Issuing Bank immediately on demand at the Principal Office all amounts required to pay all drafts drawn or purporting to be drawn under the Letters of Credit and all reasonable expenses incurred by the Issuing Bank in connection with the Letters of Credit, and in any event and without demand to place in possession of the Issuing Bank (which shall include Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility if permitted by SECTION 2.1 and Swing Line Loans if permitted by SECTION 2.4) sufficient funds to pay all debts and liabilities arising under any Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank agrees to give the Borrower prompt notice of any request for a draw under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank may charge any account the Borrower may have with it for any and all amounts the Issuing Bank pays under a Letter of Credit, plus charges and reasonable expenses as from time to time agreed to by the Issuing Bank and the Borrower; provided that to the extent permitted by SECTION 2.1(c)(iii) and SECTION 2.4, amounts shall be paid pursuant to Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility or, if the Borrower shall elect, by Swing Line Loans. The Borrower agrees to pay the Issuing Bank interest on any Reimbursement Obligations not paid when due hereunder at the Default Rate.

• L/C Participations (a) The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage in the Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under and in respect of each Letter of Credit issued hereunder and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with the Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower through a Revolving Credit Loan or otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lender’s address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, which is not so reimbursed.

• Nature of Participation and Reimbursement Obligations Each Lender’s obligation in accordance with this Agreement to make the Revolving Advances or Participation Advances as a result of a drawing under a Letter of Credit, and the obligations of Borrowers to reimburse Agent upon a draw under a Letter of Credit, shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Section 2.16 under all circumstances, including the following circumstances:

• Sub-participation A Lender may sub-participate all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under the Security Documents at its own expense without the consent of, consultation with or notice to, the Borrowers.

• Assignments, Designations and Participations (a) Each Lender may (i) with the prior consent of the Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and which consent shall not be required in the event of an assignment or grant pursuant to Sections 8.07(g) or (h) or an assignment to any other Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, or an Approved Fund) and (ii) for so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, with the consent of the Borrower (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and provided, in any event, that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to Agent within ten (10) days after having received notice thereof, and which consent shall not be required in the event of an assignment or grant pursuant to Sections 8.07(g) or (h) or an assignment to any other Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, or an Approved Fund), assign to one or more Persons all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment, the Revolving Credit Advances owed to it and any Note or Notes held by it); provided, however, that (A) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (B) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (C) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (D) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Assumption, together with any Note subject to such assignment and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, which fee may be waived by the Agent in its sole discretion if such assignment is to an Affiliate of the assigning Lender. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, (1) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder and (2) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto).