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For more information visit our privacy policy.Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, form any subsidiary after the Effective Date, or purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger or consolidation with any Person that was not a Loan Party and a wholly-owned Subsidiary prior to such merger or consolidation) any Equity Interests, evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any Person or any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit (whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise), except: (a) cash and Permitted Investments, plus any investments in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate, which would otherwise constitute Permitted Investments under clause (c) of the definition thereof but-for the requirement that any such investment be issued, guaranteed or offered by, or placed with a domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the U.S. or any state thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000; (b) investments in existence on the date hereof and described in Schedule 6.04; (c) investments made by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their respective Subsidiaries, provided that (i) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party (other than Excluded Assets) shall be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement, (ii) the aggregate outstanding amount of investments by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with outstanding intercompany loans permitted under clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 6.04(d) and outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness subject to Guarantees permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $15,000,000 (or such greater amount as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) in any fiscal year of the Borrower (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs) and (iii) no Event of Default exists and is continuing if such investment is by a Loan Party in a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; (d) loans or advances made by any Loan Party to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to a Loan Party or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) any such loans and advances made by a Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement, (ii) the outstanding amount of such loans and advances made by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with outstanding investments permitted under clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 6.04(c) and the outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness subject to Guarantees permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $15,000,000 (or such greater amount as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) in any fiscal year of the Borrower (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs) and (iii) no Event of Default exists and is continuing if such investment is by a Loan Party in a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; (e) Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 6.01 and Guarantee Obligations of obligations not constituting Indebtedness in the ordinary course of business; provided that (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party (together with outstanding investments permitted under clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 6.04(c) and outstanding intercompany loans permitted under clause (ii) of the proviso to Section 6.04(d)) shall not exceed $15,000,000 (or such greater amount as agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) in any fiscal year of the Borrower (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs) and (ii) no Event of Default exists and is continuing if such investment is by a Loan Party in a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; (f) investments consisting of (i) travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) non-cash loans to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of equity securities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by the Borrower’s board of directors; (g) notes payable, or stock or other securities issued by Account Debtors to a Loan Party pursuant to negotiated agreements with respect to settlement of such Account Debtor’s Accounts in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices; (h) investments in the form of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07; (i) investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or consolidates or merges with the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including in connection with a Permitted Acquisition), so long as such investments were not made in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary or of such merger; (j) investments received in connection with the Disposition of assets permitted by Section 6.05; (k) investments constituting deposits described in clauses (c) and (d) of the definition of the term “Permitted Encumbrances”; (l) Permitted Acquisitions; (m) investments received in settlement of amounts due to any Loan Party or Subsidiary effected in the ordinary course of business or owing to such Loan Party or Subsidiary as a result of insolvency proceedings involving an Account Debtor or upon the foreclosure or enforcement of any Lien in favor of such Loan Party or Subsidiary; (n) the licensing or contribution of intellectual property pursuant to joint marketing or joint venture arrangements with other Persons in the ordinary course of business; (o) deposits made to secure the performance of leases, licenses or contracts in the ordinary course of business and other deposits made in connection with the insurance of Liens permitted by Section 6.02; (p) promissory notes and other non-cash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 6.05, to the extent not exceeding the limits specified therein with respect to the receipt of non-cash consideration in connection with such Dispositions; (q) investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements of negotiable instruments for collection or deposit; (r) extensions of trade credit to customers in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (s) so long as no Event of Default exists immediately after giving effect to such investment, in addition to investments otherwise expressly permitted by this Section 6.04, any investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Borrower; (t) so long as no Event of Default exists immediately after giving effect to such investment, investments in joint ventures, corporate collaborations, or strategic alliances; provided that, the aggregate amount of all such investments made in cash shall not exceed, together with investments permitted by Section 6.04(u), $15,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Borrower; (u) so long as no Event of Default exists immediately after giving effect to such investment, minority equity investments in companies in a similar line of business with non-U.S. operations in amounts not to exceed, together with Investments permitted by Section 6.04(t), $15,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Borrower; and (v) the formation and/or capitalization of a new Subsidiary so long as such Loan Party and Subsidiary comply with Section 5.13, and so long as any such capitalization is otherwise permitted by this Section 6.04.
Repayment of Securities Securities of any series subject to repayment in whole or in part at the option of the Holders thereof will, unless otherwise provided in the terms of such Securities, be repaid at a price equal to the principal amount thereof, together with interest (if any) thereon accrued to the Repayment Date specified in or pursuant to the terms of such Securities. The Company covenants that, with respect to such Securities, on or before the Repayment Date it will deposit with a Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money in the Currency in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series and except, if applicable, as provided in Sections 3.12(b), 3.12(d) and 3.12(e)) sufficient to pay the principal (or, if so provided by the terms of the Securities of any series, a percentage of the principal) of and (except if the Repayment Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest (if any) on, all the Securities or portions thereof, as the case may be, to be repaid on such date.