SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. (b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof. (d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09. (e) [Reserved]. (f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes. (g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. (h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. (i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor. (j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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Samples: Financing Agreement (AgileThought, Inc.), Financing Agreement (AgileThought, Inc.), Financing Agreement (AgileThought, Inc.)
SOFR Option. (a) a. The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) b. Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) c. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) d. The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) e. [Reserved].
(f) f. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) g. In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) h. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) i. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark Xxxxxxxxx has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) j. Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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Samples: Financing Agreement (AgileThought, Inc.), Financing Agreement (AgileThought, Inc.)
SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term the SOFR Rate (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Rate Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Rate Loan as a SOFR Rate Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) Notice prior to the SOFR Deadline (or by telephonic notice received by the Administrative Agent before the SOFR Deadline (to be confirmed by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a SOFR Notice received by the Administrative Agent prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the SOFR Deadline)). Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Rate Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d2.04(c). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have has exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Rate Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term the SOFR Rate and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Rate Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) two SOFR Rate Loans in effect at any given time, time (unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent) and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Rate Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Rate Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR such Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08 and shall pay the Prepayment Premium due under Section 2.06(a).
(e) [Reserved]Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither any Agent nor any Lender, nor any of their participants, is required actually to acquire deposits to fund or otherwise match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at the SOFR Rate. The provisions of this Article II shall apply as if each Lender or its participants had match funded any Obligation as to which interest is accruing at the SOFR Rate by acquiring deposits for each Interest Period in the amount of the SOFR Rate Loans.
(f) Unless and until a Replacement Rate is implemented in accordance with clause (g) below, if prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for any SOFR Rate Loan,
(i) the Administrative Agent shall have determined that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining Term SOFR for such Interest Period, or
(ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required Lenders that Term SOFR does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their SOFR Rate Loans for such Interest Period, then the Administrative Agent shall give written notice to the Borrower and to the Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter. Until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) the obligations of the Lenders to make SOFR Rate Loans, or to continue or convert outstanding Loans as or into SOFR Rate Loans, shall be suspended and (B) all such affected Loans shall be converted into Reference Rate Loans on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained herein, if at any time the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that (i) the circumstances described in Section 2.07(f)(i) or (f)(ii) have arisen and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary, (ii) syndicated loans currently being executed, or that include language similar to that contained in any Section 2.07(f), are being executed or amended (as applicable), to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace Term SOFR or (iii) the supervisor for the administrator of SOFR Rate or a Governmental Authority has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which Term SOFR shall no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans, then the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, shall endeavor to establish an alternate index rate (the “Replacement Rate”) that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for leveraged syndicated loans in the United States at such time, in which case the Replacement Rate shall, subject to the following provisions of this Section 2.07(g), replace such applicable interest rate for all purposes under the Loan Documents unless and until (A) an event described in Section 2.07(f)(i), (f)(ii), (g)(i), (g)(ii) or (g)(iii) occurs with respect to the Replacement Rate or (B) the Required Lenders through the Administrative Agent notify the Borrower that the Replacement Rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of making, funding or maintaining the Loans bearing interest at the Replacement Rate. In connection with the establishment and application of the Replacement Rate, this Agreement and the other Loan Document, upon Documents shall be amended solely with the occurrence consent of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.07(g). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 12.02, such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any Lender so long as the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days after the date notice such amendment is provided to the Lenders, a written notice from Required Lenders may amend this Agreement stating that they object to replace such amendment (which amendment shall not be effective prior to the then-current Benchmark end of such five (5) Business Day notice period). To the extent the Replacement Rate is adopted as contemplated hereby, the Replacement Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidanceprevailing market convention; provided that, to the effect that extent no prevailing market convention exists or such prevailing market convention is not administratively feasible for the implementation of a Benchmark Administrative Agent, such Replacement will not result Rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent makes a determination described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, until a Replacement Rate has been determined and an amendment with respect thereto has become effective in accordance with the terms and conditions of this paragraph, (x) any notice from the Borrower that requests the conversion of any Reference Rate Loan to, or continuation of any SOFR Rate Loan as, a SOFR Rate Loan shall be ineffective, and (y) if any notice of borrowing requests a SOFR Rate Loan, such Loan shall be made as a Reference Rate Loan. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if such Replacement Rate as determined in this paragraph is determined to be less than 1.00% per annum, such rate shall be deemed exchange to be 1.00% per annum for U.S. federal income tax the purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposesAgreement.
(gh) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action consent or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan DocumentTerm SOFR.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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Samples: Financing Agreement (Beachbody Company, Inc.), Financing Agreement (Beachbody Company, Inc.)
SOFR Option. (a) 1. The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Administrative Borrower’s 's election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) Notice prior to the SOFR Deadline; provided that, election of the SOFR Option with a 3-month Interest Period shall be automatically deemed made for all Loans on each SOFR Deadline for each Interest Period occurring in the Fiscal Years ending December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to notify each of the LendersLenders thereof. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the BorrowerBorrowers.
(b) 2. Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) 4. The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall 142901395v2 indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement5. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither any Agent nor any Lender, nor any of their participants, is required match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at Adjusted Term SOFR or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant .
6. Subject to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacementg), then if, on or prior to the Administrative Agent may modify the definition first day of “any Interest Period” (or Period for any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.Loan:
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) Notice prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) five SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any timetime in accordance with terms of this Agreement; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.the
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the useuse or administration of Term SOFR. Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, administrationneither any Agent nor any
(f) Subject to clause (g), adoption if, on or implementation prior to the first day of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by any Interest Period for any SOFR Loan: (i) the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determines (which determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything determined pursuant to the contrary herein definition thereof, or in (ii) the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans) determine that for any other Loan Document, at any time (including reason in connection with any request for a SOFR Loan or a conversion thereto or a continuation thereof that Adjusted Term SOFR for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed SOFR Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the implementation cost to such Lenders of a Benchmark Replacementmaking and maintaining such Loan, and the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans) have provided notice of such determination to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and each Lender. Upon notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Administrative Borrower, any obligation of the Lenders to make SOFR Loans, and any right of the Administrative Borrower to continue SOFR Loans or to convert Reference Rate Loans to SOFR Loans, shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Administrative Agent (with respect to clause (b), at the instruction of the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans)) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans (to be made, converted the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period andaffected Interest Periods) or, failing that, the Administrative Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate LoansLoans in the amount specified therein and (ii) any outstanding affected SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted into Reference Rate Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period. Upon any such conversion, the Administrative Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.08. Subject to Section 2.07(g), if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof on any given day, the interest rate on Reference Rate Loans shall be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Reference Rate” until the Administrative Agent revokes such determination.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Term Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted the Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Term Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period Loan (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Term Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.11(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Term Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a written notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d)2.04. On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have has exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Term Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term the SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three two (32) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 2,500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 1,000,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of if a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent Event and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior any setting of the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidanceBenchmark, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange replace such Benchmark for U.S. federal income tax all purposes of hereunder and under any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation Document in respect of a such Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Document and (hy) The Administrative Agent if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will promptly notify the Borrower replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and the Lenders of (i) the implementation under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement and (ii) is provided to the effectiveness of Lenders without any Conforming Changes in connection with the useamendment to, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any further action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from of any other party to to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time Document so long as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. If the Benchmark Replacement is not or Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed payable on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenormonthly basis.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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SOFR Option. (a) 1. The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Administrative Borrower’s 's election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) Notice prior to the SOFR Deadline; provided that, election of the SOFR Option with a 3-month Interest Period shall be automatically deemed made for all Loans on each SOFR Deadline for each Interest Period occurring in the Fiscal Years ending December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to notify each of the LendersLenders thereof. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the BorrowerBorrowers.
(b) 2. Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) 4. The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any 137907439v16 mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement5. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither any Agent nor any Lender, nor any of their participants, is required match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at Adjusted Term SOFR or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant .
6. Subject to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacementg), then if, on or prior to the Administrative Agent may modify the definition first day of “any Interest Period” (or Period for any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.Loan:
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SOFR Option. (a) 1. The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Administrative Borrower’s 's election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) Notice prior to the SOFR Deadline; provided that, election of the SOFR Option with a 3-month Interest Period shall be automatically deemed made for all Loans on each SOFR Deadline for each Interest Period occurring in the Fiscal Years ending December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to notify each of the LendersLenders thereof. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the BorrowerBorrowers.
(b) 2. Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) 4. The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement5. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the useuse or administration of Term SOFR. Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, administrationneither any Agent nor any Lender, adoption nor any of their participants, is required match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at Adjusted Term SOFR or implementation the Term SOFR Reference Rate.
6. Subject to clause (g), if, on or prior to the first day of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by any Interest Period for any SOFR Loan:
(a) the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determines (which determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party determined pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.the definition thereof, or
(ib) Notwithstanding anything the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the contrary herein Term Loans) or in the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans) determine that for any other Loan Document, at any time (including reason in connection with any request for a SOFR Loan or a conversion thereto or a continuation thereof that Adjusted Term SOFR for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed SOFR Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the implementation cost to such Lenders of a Benchmark Replacementmaking and maintaining such Loan, and the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans) have provided notice of such determination to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and each Lender. Upon notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Administrative Borrower, any obligation of the Lenders to make SOFR Loans, and any right of the Administrative Borrower to continue SOFR Loans or to convert Reference Rate Loans to SOFR Loans, shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Administrative Agent (with respect to clause (b), at the instruction of the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans)) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans (to be made, converted the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period andaffected Interest Periods) or, failing that, the Administrative Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate LoansLoans in the amount specified therein and (ii) any outstanding affected SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted into Reference Rate Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period. Upon any such conversion, the Administrative Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.08. Subject to Section 2.07(g), if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof on any given day, the interest rate on Reference Rate Loans shall be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Reference Rate” until the Administrative Agent revokes such determination.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.the
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither any Agent nor any Lender, nor any of their participants, is required match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at Adjusted Term SOFR or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate.
(f) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant Subject to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacementg), then if, on or prior to the Administrative Agent may modify the definition first day of “any Interest Period” (or Period for any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.Loan:
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SOFR Option. (a) The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.on
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or
(f) Subject to clause (g), if, on or consent prior to the first day of any other party to this Agreement or Interest Period for any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of SOFR Loan: (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determines (which determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything determined pursuant to the contrary herein definition thereof, or in (ii) the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans) determine that for any other Loan Document, at any time (including reason in connection with any request for a SOFR Loan or a conversion thereto or a continuation thereof that Adjusted Term SOFR for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed SOFR Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the implementation cost to such Lenders of a Benchmark Replacementmaking and maintaining such Loan, and the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans) have provided notice of such determination to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and each Lender. Upon notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Administrative Borrower, any obligation of the Lenders to make SOFR Loans, and any right of the Administrative Borrower to continue SOFR Loans or to convert Reference Rate Loans to SOFR Loans, shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Administrative Agent (with respect to clause (b), at the instruction of the Required Term Loan Lenders (with respect to the Term Loans) or the Required Revolving Loan Lenders (with respect to the Revolving Loans)) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans (to be made, converted the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period andaffected Interest Periods) or, failing that, the Administrative Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate LoansLoans in the amount specified therein and (ii) any outstanding affected SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted into Reference Rate Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period. Upon any such conversion, the Administrative Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.08. Subject to Section 2.07(g), if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that “Adjusted Term SOFR” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof on any given day, the interest rate on Reference Rate Loans shall be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Reference Rate” until the Administrative Agent revokes such determination.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Term Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted the Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Term Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Term Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.11(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Term Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a written notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d)2.04. On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have has exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Term Loans bear interest at Adjusted the Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 2,500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 1,000,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of if a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent Event and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior any setting of the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidanceBenchmark, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange replace such Benchmark for U.S. federal income tax all purposes of hereunder and under any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation Document in respect of a such Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Document and (hy) The Administrative Agent if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will promptly notify the Borrower replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and the Lenders of (i) the implementation under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement and (ii) is provided to the effectiveness of Lenders without any Conforming Changes in connection with the useamendment to, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any further action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from of any other party to to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time Document so long as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. If the Benchmark Replacement is not or Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed payable on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenormonthly basis.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Boxlight Corp)
SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08(e).
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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SOFR Option. (a) 1. The Administrative Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) 3 Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Administrative Borrower’s 's election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) Notice prior to the SOFR Deadline; provided that, election of the SOFR Option with a 3-month Interest Period shall be automatically deemed made for all Loans on each SOFR Deadline for each Interest Period occurring in the Fiscal Years ending December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to notify each of the LendersLenders thereof. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the BorrowerBorrowers.
(b) 2. Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Administrative Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. If the Administrative Borrower submits a timely SOFR Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected an Interest Period of one month's duration. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) 5 SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) 4. The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement5. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) . The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Administrative Borrower, the Revolving Agent and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption use or implementation administration of a Benchmark ReplacementTerm SOFR. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, neither any Agent nor any Lender, nor any of their participants, is required match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues at Adjusted Term SOFR or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant .
6. Subject to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacementg), then if, on or prior to the Administrative Agent may modify the definition first day of “any Interest Period” (or Period for any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.Loan:
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a2.07(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, writing in substantially the same form of as Exhibit D hereto (( a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d2.04(c). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have has exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and (in consultation with the Required Lenders Borrower) may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. Any such amendment with respect to a Benchmark Transition Event will become effective at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the Administrative Agent has posted such proposed amendment to all affected Lenders and the Borrower so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such amendment from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. No replacement of a Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement pursuant to this clause (f) will occur prior to the applicable Benchmark Transition Start Date. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax Tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax Tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. The Administrative Agent will notify the Borrower of (x) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to Section 2.07(i) and (y) the commencement of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.082.07, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.07.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) . Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans. During a Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Reference Rate based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of Reference Rate.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, at any time and from time to time, and only for so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Interim Term Loans or Final Term Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Term Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Term Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Term Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Term Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower mayIn lieu of having interest charged at the rate based upon the Reference Rate, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect the Borrowers shall have the option (the “SOFR Option”) to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term the SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Rate. Each Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan shall commence on the date such SOFR Loan is made and shall end on such date as a SOFR Loan, the last day Borrowers may elect as set forth in Section 2.02(a) above. At the direction of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At Required Lenders at any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and and, at the Administrative Agent shall have end of the right (but not the obligation) to convert applicable Interest Period, the interest rate on all outstanding applicable SOFR Loans shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans hereunder.
(b) The Administrative Borrower shall elect the initial Interest Period applicable to a SOFR Loan by its Notice of Borrowing given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.02(a), by its notice of continuation given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.09(b) or by its notice of conversion given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.09(c), as the case may be. To continue a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan at the end of the same type hereunder Interest Period applicable thereto, the Administrative Borrower shall elect the duration of each succeeding Interest Period by giving irrevocable written notice to the Administrative Agent of such duration in the form of a SOFR Notice not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the day which is three (3) Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.Period applicable to such SOFR Loan. If the Administrative Agent does not receive timely notice of the Interest Period elected by the Administrative Borrower, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such SOFR Loan to a Reference Rate Loan. #97889169v6
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this AgreementThe Administrative Borrower may, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable theretoto any outstanding SOFR Loan, including as a result of or on any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination Business Day with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans., convert any such loan into a loan of another type of loan (i.e., a Reference Rate Loan or a SOFR Loan) in the same aggregate principal amount, provided that any conversion of a SOFR Loan not made on the last Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such SOFR Loan shall be subject to Section 2.09
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SOFR Option. (a) The Lead Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon the Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Lead Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans and an Interest Period pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) 2.07 shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the BorrowerBorrowers.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d2.04(c). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Lead Borrower has properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Lead Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower Borrowers (i) shall have not more than three (3) two SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower Borrowers may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c2.05(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower Borrowers shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.092.08.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(gf) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(hg) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower Borrowers and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.082.07, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(ih) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(ja) Upon the Lead Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Lead Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower Borrowers will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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SOFR Option. In lieu of having interest charged at the rate based upon the Base Rate, Borrowers shall have the option, subject to Section 2.13(h) below (athe “SOFR Option”) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Revolving Facility Loans or the Term Loan be charged (whether at the time when made (unless otherwise provided herein), upon conversion from a Base Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, or upon continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan) at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”)SOFR. Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable on the earliest of (i) the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto; provided, that subject to the following clauses (ii) and (iii), in accordance with Section 2.04(d)the case of any Interest Period greater than three months in duration, interest shall be payable at three month intervals after the commencement of the applicable Interest Period and on the last day of such Interest Period, (ii) the date on which all or any portion of the Obligations are accelerated pursuant to the terms hereof, or (iii) the date on which this Agreement is terminated pursuant to the terms hereof. On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower Borrowers have properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans Loan automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Base Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at the Borrower written election of Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, Borrowers no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Revolving Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
Term Loan bear interest at a rate based upon Adjusted Term SOFR. (e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacementb), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower mayIn lieu of having interest charged at the rate based upon the Reference Rate, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect the Borrowers shall have the option (the “SOFR Option”) to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term the SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Rate. Each Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan shall commence on the date such SOFR Loan is made and shall end on such date as a SOFR Loan, the last day Borrowers may elect as set forth in Section 2.02(a) above. At the direction of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At Required Lenders at any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at the Adjusted Term SOFR and and, at the Administrative Agent shall have end of the right (but not the obligation) to convert applicable Interest Period, the interest rate on all outstanding applicable SOFR Loans shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans hereunder.
(b) The Administrative Borrower shall elect the initial Interest Period applicable to a SOFR Loan by its Notice of Borrowing given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.02(a), by its notice of continuation given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.09(b) or by its notice of conversion given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.09(c), as the case may be. To continue a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan at the end of the same type hereunder Interest Period applicable thereto, the Administrative Borrower shall elect the duration of each succeeding Interest Period by giving irrevocable written notice to the Administrative Agent of such duration in the form of a SOFR Notice not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the day which is three (3) Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period.Period applicable to such SOFR Loan. If the Administrative Agent does not receive timely notice of the Interest Period elected by the Administrative Borrower, the Administrative Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such SOFR Loan to a Reference Rate Loan. #97100791v3
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this AgreementThe Administrative Borrower may, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable theretoto any outstanding SOFR Loan, including as a result of or on any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination Business Day with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans., convert any such loan into a loan of another type of loan (i.e., a Reference Rate Loan or a SOFR Loan) in the same aggregate principal amount, provided that any conversion of a SOFR Loan not made on the last Business Day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such SOFR Loan shall be subject to Section 2.09
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SOFR Option. (a) The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, elect to have interest on all or a portion of the Loans be charged at a rate of interest based upon Adjusted Term SOFR (the “SOFR Option”) by notifying the Administrative Agent in writing prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to (i) the proposed borrowing date of a Loan (as provided in Section 2.02), (ii) in the case of the conversion of a Reference Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the commencement of the proposed Interest Period or (iii) in the case of the continuation of a SOFR Loan as a SOFR Loan, the last day of the then current Interest Period (the “SOFR Deadline”). Notice of the Borrower’s election of the SOFR Option for a permitted portion of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.08(a) shall be made by delivery to the Administrative Agent of (A) a Notice of Borrowing (in the case of the initial making of a Loan) in accordance with Section 2.02 or (B) a notice in writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (a “SOFR Notice”) prior to the SOFR Deadline. Promptly upon its receipt of each such SOFR Notice, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy thereof to each of the Lenders. Each SOFR Notice shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest on SOFR Loans shall be payable in accordance with Section 2.04(d). On the last day of each applicable Interest Period, unless the Borrower properly have exercised the SOFR Option with respect thereto, the interest rate applicable to such SOFR Loans automatically shall convert to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder. At any time that a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower no longer shall have the option to request that any portion of the Loans bear interest at Adjusted Term SOFR and the Administrative Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to convert the interest rate on all outstanding SOFR Loans to the rate of interest then applicable to Reference Rate Loans of the same type hereunder on the last day of the then current Interest Period.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower (i) shall have not more than three (3) SOFR Loans in effect at any given time, and (ii) only may exercise the SOFR Option for SOFR Loans of at least $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
(d) The Borrower may prepay SOFR Loans at any time; provided, however, that in the event that SOFR Loans are prepaid on any date that is not the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, including as a result of any mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) or any application of payments or proceeds of Collateral in accordance with Section 4.03 or Section 4.04 or for any other reason, including early termination of the term of this Agreement or acceleration of all or any portion of the Obligations pursuant to the terms hereof, the Borrower shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Agents and the Lenders and their participants harmless against any and all Funding Losses in accordance with Section 2.09.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. The parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy any applicable IRS guidance, including Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-6 and any future guidance, to the effect that the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement will not result in a deemed exchange for U.S. federal income tax purposes of any Loan under this Agreement for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(g) In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.08, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(j) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Reference Rate Loans.
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