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• Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Debt Instruments (a) Make or offer to make any optional or voluntary payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption of (including any “call,” open market purchase or cash payment in connection with the Borrower’s election to cash settle or “net share” settle in connection with a “conversion” requirement under any Convertible Notes) or otherwise optionally or voluntarily defease or segregate funds with respect to any Junior Financing except (i) pursuant to Restricted Payments permitted by Section 8.6(f), (g), (h), (i), (k) and (l), (ii) with the proceeds of other Junior Indebtedness pursuant to a Permitted Refinancing or (iii) the conversion of any Junior Financing to Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock that is not permitted hereunder) including payments permitted under Section 8.6(h) in connection therewith; provided that nothing in this Section 8 shall restrict the Group Members from repaying intercompany loans so long as such repayments are in accordance with the terms of the Intercompany Note, if applicable; provided further that with respect to the Convertible Notes, (A) the 2026 Convertible Notes may be converted into the right to receive cash in accordance with the conversion provisions of the 2026 Convertible Notes Indenture (and the Borrower may pay cash settlements to the holders of the 2026 Convertible Notes in accordance with the 2026 Convertible Notes Indenture); and (B) the 2026 Convertible Notes may be redeemed or repurchased in connection with the “call” provisions set forth in Section 3.01 of the 2026 Convertible Notes Indenture pursuant to the terms thereof. (b) Amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Junior Financing other than any amendment that is not (i) materially adverse to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries and/or the Secured Parties or (ii) more onerous in any material respect than the existing applicable provisions in the Junior Financing or the applicable provision set forth in this Agreement, in each case as determined by the board of directors (including an authorized committee thereof) of the Borrower in good faith; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall any such amendment, modification or change shorten the maturity or average life to maturity of any Junior Financing (or any Permitted Refinancings thereof), require any payment with respect thereto sooner than previously scheduled, increase the interest rate or fees applicable thereto or grant collateral as security thereof. (c) Amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Organizational Document of any Restricted Subsidiary if such amendment, modification, waiver or change could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or would be materially adverse to the Lenders.

• Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, acquire or form any new Subsidiaries after the Closing Date, acquire, form or suffer to exist any new Affiliates after the Closing Date, purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger, other than a merger permitted by Section 5.4) any Stock, 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 (including pursuant to any merger)) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit, except: (a) Permitted Investments; (b) investments existing on the date as of the last financial statement furnished to the Bank as set forth on Annex 2; (c) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business; (d) loans and advances to officers, directors and employees of Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as presently conducted in compliance with all applicable laws (including, to the extent applicable, the Sxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as amended) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000 at any time outstanding; and (e) investments made by Borrower in the equity securities of any Domestic Subsidiary and made by any Domestic Subsidiary in the equity securities of any other Domestic Subsidiary provided that (i) any such equity securities owned by Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary shall become Collateral pursuant to this Agreement.

• SALE/PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL LOANS AND SUBSTITUTION OF SUBSTITUTED LOANS (A) Requirements Relating to Additional Loans From time to time during the Supplemental Purchase Period, SLM ECFC may, but shall not be obligated to, sell Eligible Loans to Funding, and Funding may (but only to the extent that the Eligible Loans are contemporaneously sold to the Eligible Lender Trustee on behalf of the Trust in accordance with the Sale Agreement and the related Additional Sale Agreement) purchase such Additional Loans from SLM ECFC at the related Additional Loans Purchase Price set forth in the related Additional Purchase Agreement. In addition, at any time, SLM ECFC may transfer Substituted Loans to Funding in satisfaction of any Loan repurchase obligations hereunder. The sale and purchase (or substitution) of Additional Loans (or Substituted Loans) pursuant to an Additional Purchase Agreement shall be consummated as set forth in this Section 3.2.

• Conditions of Loans 5 3.1 Conditions Precedent to Initial Credit Extension.................. 5 3.2 Conditions Precedent to all Credit Extensions..................... 5

• Conditions to Obligations of Seller The obligations of Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be subject to fulfillment at or prior to the Closing of the following conditions (any one or more of which may be waived in whole or in part by Seller):

• Conditions to All Loans and Letters of Credit The obligations of the Lenders to make any Loan or issue any Letter of Credit is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on the relevant borrowing or issue date, as applicable:

• Conditions to Obligations of the Seller The obligations of the Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be subject to the fulfillment or written waiver, at or prior to the Closing, of each of the following conditions:

• Conditions of Initial Loans The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Loans and of each L/C Issuer to Issue, or cause to be Issued, the initial Letters of Credit hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions in a manner satisfactory to Agent:

• Conditions to the Obligations of Seller The obligations of Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing are subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions, unless waived in whole or in part in writing by Seller: (a) The representations and warranties of Purchaser set forth in this agreement must be true and correct in all material respects (provided that any representation or warranty contained herein that is qualified by a materiality or material adverse effect qualification shall not be so qualified for purposes of determining the existence of any breach thereof by Purchaser) as of the date of this agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date (except for any representation or warranty that is limited to an earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been true and correct only as of such earlier date); (b) Purchaser must have performed in all material respects all obligations under its covenants and agreements required by this agreement to be performed by Purchaser on or before the Closing Date; (c) Purchaser must have delivered to Seller a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an authorized representative of Purchaser, as to the satisfaction of the conditions in the foregoing subsections; (d) Purchaser must have delivered to Seller or other specified persons the documents, instruments, certificates and other items required to be delivered by Purchaser pursuant to section 5.2; (e) There must not be in effect any temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, stay or other order issued by any Governmental Authority preventing the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing must be in effect; and (f) No law must have been enacted, issued, enforced, entered, or promulgated that prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

• CONDITIONS OF BORROWING The obligation of each Lender to make its Loan hereunder on the Closing Date is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent: (a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent: (i) executed counterparts of this Agreement sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Borrower; (ii) a Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender requesting a Note; (iii) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require evidencing (A) the authority of each Loan Party to enter into this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a party and (B) the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a party; (iv) copies of each Loan Party’s Organization Documents and such other documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and that each Loan Party is validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (v) a favorable opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender and as to such matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request (including, without limitation, with respect to enforceability, due authorization, perfection of the Liens in favor the Collateral Agent and “no conflicts” with the First Lien Loan Documents); (vi) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying (a) that (1) the representations and warranties of the Loan Parties contained in Article V or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, (A) which are qualified by materiality are true and correct, and (B) which are not qualified by materiality are true and correct in all material respects, in each case, on and as of the Closing Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct, or true and correct in all material respects, as the case may be, as of such earlier date and (2) no Default exists or would result from the borrowing of the Loans or from the application of the proceeds thereof, (b) that there has been no event or circumstance since May 1, 2021, that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) either that (1) no consents, licenses or approvals are required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such Loan Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, or (2) that all such consents, licenses and approvals have been obtained and are in full force and effect; (vii) a certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrower, satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent, attesting to the Solvency of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the Closing Date after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby; (viii) the Perfection Certificate; (ix) the Security Documents, each duly executed by the applicable Loan Parties; (x) all other Loan Documents, each duly executed by the applicable Loan Parties; and (xi) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create or perfect the first priority Liens intended to be created under the Loan Documents and all such documents and instruments shall have been so filed, registered or recorded, in each case, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Collateral Agent. (b) The Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received all documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Patriot Act”). (c) The Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable to them by the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date, including, to the extent invoiced, reimbursement or payment of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including the legal fees and expenses of King & Spalding LLP, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP and Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx & Ashton LLP, counsel to the Agents and the Lenders, as applicable); provided that, in the case of costs and expenses, an invoice for all such fees and expenses shall be received by the Borrower at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing Date for payment to be required as a condition to the Closing Date. Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.04, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have Consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be Consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.