The U. S. Borrower agrees to pay to each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender), through the Administrative Agent, three Business Days after the last day of March, June, September and December in each year, and three Business Days after the date on which the Commitments of all the Lenders shall be terminated as provided herein, a commitment fee (a “Commitment Fee”) on the average daily amount of the Available Unused Commitment of such Lender during the preceding quarter (or other period ending with the date on which the last of the Commitments of such Lender shall be terminated) at a rate equal to the Applicable Commitment Fee. All Commitment Fees shall be payable in U.S. Dollars and computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days. For the purpose of calculating any Lender’s Commitment Fee, the outstanding Swingline Loans during the period for which such Lender’s Commitment Fee is calculated shall be deemed to be zero. The Commitment Fee due to each Lender shall commence to accrue on the Closing Date and shall cease to accrue on the date on which the last of the Commitments of such Lender shall be terminated as provided herein. For purposes of computing the average daily amount of any Revolving L/C Exposure for any period under this Section 2.13(a) and under Section 2.13(b), the average daily amount of Alternative Currency Revolving L/C Exposure for such period shall be calculated by multiplying (i) the average daily balance of each Alternative Currency Letter of Credit (expressed in the currency in which such Alternative Currency Letter of Credit is denominated) by (ii) the Exchange Rate for the Alternative Currency in which such Letter of Credit is denominated in effect on the last Business Day of such period or by such other reasonable method that the Administrative Agent deems appropriate.
The U. S. Borrower hereby agrees to reimburse (or cause any LC Obligor for whose account a Letter of Credit was issued to reimburse) each LC Issuer, by making payment directly to such LC Issuer in immediately available funds at the payment office of such LC Issuer, for any Unpaid Drawing with respect to any Letter of Credit promptly after, and in any event on the date on which, such LC Issuer notifies the U.S. Borrower (or any such other LC Obligor for whose account such Letter of Credit was issued) of such payment or disbursement (which notice to the U.S. Borrower (or such other LC Obligor) shall be delivered reasonably promptly after any such payment or disbursement), such payment to be made in Dollars (or another Approved Currency pursuant to the proviso below), with interest on the amount so paid or disbursed by such LC Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed prior to 1:00 P.M. (local time at the payment office of the applicable LC Issuer) on the date of such payment or disbursement, from and including the date paid or disbursed to but not including the date such LC Issuer is reimbursed therefor at a rate per annum that shall be the rate then applicable to Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.09(a) that are Base Rate Loans or, if not reimbursed on the date of such payment or disbursement, at the Default Rate, any such interest also to be payable on demand; provided that in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Approved Foreign Currency, the U.S. Borrower shall reimburse such LC Issuer in such Approved Foreign Currency, unless (A) such LC Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in its notice to the U.S. Borrower that it will require reimbursement in Dollars or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the U.S. Borrower shall have notified such LC Issuer promptly following receipt of the LC Issuer’s notice that the U.S. Borrower will reimburse the LC Issuer in Dollars, in each case of clauses (A) and (B) at the Exchange Rate in effect on the date such payment is required. If by 11:00 A.M. on the Business Day immediately following notice to it of its obligation to make reimbursement in respect of an Unpaid Drawing, the U.S. Borrower or the relevant LC Obligor has not made such reimbursement out of its available cash on hand or, in the case of the U.S. Borrower, a contemporaneous Borrowing hereunder (if such Borrowing is otherwise available to the U.S. Borrower), (x) the U.S. Borrower will in each case be deemed to have...
The U. S. Borrower agrees that, if any payment made by the Borrower or any other Person applied to the Bowater Guaranteed Obligations is at any time annulled, set aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or is repaid in whole or in part pursuant to a good faith settlement of a pending or threatened claim, or the proceeds of any Collateral are required to be refunded by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to the Borrower, its estate, trustee, receiver or any other Person, including, without limitation, the U.S. Borrower, under any Applicable Law or equitable cause, then, to the extent of such payment or repayment, the U.S. Borrower’s liability hereunder shall be and remain in full force and effect, as fully as if such payment had never been made, and, if prior thereto, this U.S. Borrower Guaranty shall have been canceled or surrendered, this U.S. Borrower Guaranty shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the U.S. Borrower in respect of the amount of such payment.
The U. S. Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the applicable Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the U.S. Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments delivered by the U.S. Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the U.S. Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments under any Facility shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments under such Facility.
The U. S. Borrower agrees to indemnify the Agents, each Issuing Bank, each Lender, each Ancillary Lender and each of their respective directors, trustees, officers, employees and agents (each such person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and to hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel fees, charges and disbursements, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in any way connected with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto and thereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions and the other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) the use of the proceeds of the Loans or the use of any Letter of Credit or (iii) any claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not any Indemnitee is a party thereto, provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the bad faith, gross negligence or wilful misconduct of, or material breach of this Agreement by, such Indemnitee (treating, for this purpose only, any Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender, any Ancillary Lender and any of their respective Related Parties as a single Indemnitee). Subject to and without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the U.S. Borrower agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel or consultant fees, charges and disbursements, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in any way connected with, or as a result of (A) any Environmental Liability related in any way to Holdings, Intermediate Holdings, the U.S. Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, or (B) any actual or alleged presence, Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials on any Property or any property owned, leased or operated by any predecessor of Holdings, Intermediate Holdings, the U.S. Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to...
The U. S. Borrower shall not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to become a Restricted Subsidiary except pursuant to the penultimate paragraph of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary.” For purposes of designating any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, all outstanding Investments by the U.S. Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (except to the extent repaid) in the subsidiary so designated shall be deemed to be Investments in an amount determined as set forth in the last sentence of the definition of “Investment.” Such designation shall be permitted only if an Investment by the U.S. Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the definition of Permitted Investments and if such Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an “Unrestricted Subsidiary.”
The U. S. Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the U.S. Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
The U. S. Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make any Investment other than Permitted Investments.
The U. S. Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the U.S. Borrower (each of the foregoing, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $20.0 million, unless (i) such Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are not materially less favorable to the U.S. Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the U.S. Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary with an unrelated Person and (ii) the U.S. Borrower delivers to the Agent with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $50.0 million, a Board Resolution adopted by the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Borrower approving such Affiliate Transaction and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i) above.
The U. S. Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist:
