Dated ___ October 2022
CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P.
as Borrower
and
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUITONS
listed in schedule 1
as Lenders
and
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG
as Agent, Xxxxxxxx Lead Arranger, Bookrunner
and Security Trustee
LOAN
AGREEMENT
relating to
a senior secured term loan facility of up to US$105,000,000
to provide finance secured on one 2022-built Neo-Panamax container carrier of 13,278 TEU to be named "MANZANILLO EXPRESS"
Index
Clause Page
1 Interpretation |
2 |
2 Facility |
26 |
3 Position of the Lenders |
27 |
4 Drawdown |
27 |
5 Interest |
29 |
6 Interest Periods |
31 |
7 Default Interest |
32 |
8 Repayment and Prepayment |
33 |
9 Conditions Precedent |
36 |
10 Representations and Warranties |
37 |
11 General Undertakings |
42 |
12 Corporate Undertakings |
49 |
13 Insurance |
51 |
14 Ship Covenants |
59 |
15 Security Cover |
65 |
16 Payments and Calculations |
67 |
17 Application of Receipts |
69 |
18 Application of Earnings |
71 |
19 Events of Default |
73 |
20 Fees and Expenses |
78 |
21 Indemnities |
80 |
22 No Set-Off or Tax Deduction |
83 |
23 Illegality, etc. |
86 |
24 Increased Costs |
86 |
25 Set-Off |
88 |
26 Transfers and Changes in Lending Offices |
89 |
27 Variations and Waivers |
94 |
28 Notices |
97 |
29 Bail-In |
99 |
30 Confidential Information |
100 |
31 Supplemental |
103 |
32 Law and Jurisdiction |
104 |
Schedules
Schedule 1 |
106 |
Part A Lenders and Original Commitments |
106 |
Part B Lenders and Contributions |
107 |
Schedule 2 Drawdown Notice |
108 |
Schedule 3 Condition Precedent Documents |
109 |
Part A |
109 |
Part B |
111 |
Part C |
113 |
Schedule 4 Transfer Certificate |
114 |
Schedule 5 Power of Attorney |
118 |
Schedule 6 Form of Compliance Certificate |
119 |
Schedule 7 Reference Rate Terms |
121 |
Schedule 8 Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate |
123 |
Schedule 9 Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate |
125 |
Execution
THIS AGREEMENT is made on ___ October 2022
Parties
|
(1) |
CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P., a limited partnership formed in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered address is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, the
Xxxxxxxx Islands as "Borrower" |
|
(2) |
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Part A of Schedule 1, as "Lenders" |
|
(3) |
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG, acting through its office is at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, as "Agent" |
|
(4) |
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG, acting through its office is at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, as "Mandated Lead
Arranger" |
|
(5) |
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG, acting through its office is at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, as "Bookrunner" |
|
(6) |
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG, acting through its office is at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, as "Security Trustee" |
Background
The Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower a senior secured post-delivery term loan facility, in a single advance, in
an amount of up to the lesser of:
|
(ii) |
60 per cent. of the Initial Market Value of the Ship, |
for the purpose
of partly financing, on post-delivery terms, the Market Value of the Ship.
Operative
Provisions
Subject to Clause 1.5, in this Agreement:
"Account" means each of the Earnings Account and the Retention Account and, in the plural, means all of
them.
"Account Pledge" means, in relation to each Account, a pledge agreement creating security in respect
of that Account in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them.
"Accounting Information" means the
annual audited consolidated financial statements or, as the case may be, the quarterly unaudited consolidated financial statements, each in respect of the Borrower and the Group, to be provided by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance with Clause 11.6.
"Agency and Trust Deed" means the agency and trust deed executed or to be
executed between the Borrower and the Creditor Parties in the Agreed Form.
"Agent" means Hamburg Commercial
Bank AG, acting in such capacity through its office at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and Trust Deed.
"Agreed Form" means in relation to any document, that document in the form approved in writing by the Agent
(acting on the instructions of all the Lenders) or as otherwise approved in accordance with any other approval procedure specified in any relevant provisions of any Finance Document.
"Annex VI" means Xxxxx XX of the Protocol of 1997 to amend the International Convention for the Prevention of
Pollution from Ships 1973 (Marpol), as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto;
"Approved Broker"
means each of Arrow Valuations Ltd, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X. Xxxxxxxx & Co. Ltd., Maersk Brokers K/S, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Partners, Xxxxxxxxx AS and Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx and Xxxxx (or any affiliate of such person through which valuations are commonly
issued) and, in plural, means all of them.
"Approved Charter" means a time charter evidenced by a
recapitulation email dated 7 June 2021 and made between the Owner as owner and Hapag Xxxxx XX as charterer expiring, subject to the terms thereof, for a period of minimum 120 months plus or minus 90 days and providing
for a gross hire rate of not less than $39,000.
"Approved Classification Society" means a first class
classification society acceptable to the Agent in the highest classification rating available, being one of Lloyd's Registry, American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Bureau Veritas (BV), Korean Registry of Shipping, Nippon Kaiji
Kyoykai or Registro Italiano Navale, which as at the date of this Agreement is ABS.
"Approved Flag" means
the Liberian, the Xxxxxxxx Islands, the Maltese, the Panamanian, the Greek or the Isle of Man flag or such other flag as the Agent may approve (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) as the flag on which the Ship is or, as the
case may be, shall be registered, which as at the date of this Agreement is the Liberian flag.
"Approved Flag State" means the Republic of Liberia, the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands,
the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Panama, Greece, the Isle of Man or any other country in which the Agent may approve (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) that the Ship is or, as the case may be, shall be registered.
"Approved Manager" means:
|
(a) |
Capital-Executive Ship Management Corp., a corporation incorporated in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, having its registered address at Trust Company House, Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island,
Majuro, the Xxxxxxxx Islands; or |
|
(b) |
Capital Ship Management Corp., a company incorporated in Panama having its registered office at Hong Kong Bank Building, 6th floor, Xxxxxx Xxxxx Avenue, Panama, Republic of Panama; or |
|
(c) |
any other experienced and capable management company which the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) may approve (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed or conditioned) from time
to time as the commercial, technical and/or operational manager of the Ship and, in the plural, means all of them, being as at the date of this Agreement Capital-Executive Ship Management Corp.. |
"Approved Manager's Undertaking" means a letter of undertaking including (inter alia) an assignment of an
Approved Manager's rights, title and interest in the Insurances executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by that Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form agreeing certain matters in relation to that
Approved Manager, serving as manager of the Ship and subordinating its rights against the Ship and the Owner to the rights of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents and, in the plural, means all of them.
"Article 55 BRRD" means Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and
resolution of credit institutions and investment firms.
"Assignable Charter" means any time charterparty
(including any Approved Charter), consecutive voyage charter or contract of affreightment in respect of the Ship having a duration (or capable of exceeding a duration) of 12 months or more and any guarantee of the obligations of the charterer under
such charter or any bareboat charter in respect of the Ship (irrespective of its duration) and any guarantee of the obligations of the charterer under such bareboat charter, entered or to be entered into by the Owner and a charterer or, as the
context may require, bareboat charterer and, in the plural, means all of them.
"Availability Period" means
the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the earlier of:
|
(a) |
1 December 2022 (or such later date as the Agent may, with the authorisation of all the Lenders, agree with the Borrower); and |
|
(b) |
the date on which the Total Commitments are fully borrowed, cancelled or terminated. |
"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
"Bail-In Legislation" means:
|
(a) |
in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 BRRD, the relevant implementing law or regulation as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time
to time; |
|
(b) |
in relation to any state other than such an EEA Member Country and the United Kingdom, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers
contained in that law or regulation; and |
|
(c) |
in relation to the United Kingdom, the UK Bail-In Legislation. |
"Balloon
Instalment" has the meaning given in Clause 8.1.
"Bareboat Charter Security Agreement" means, in
relation to an Assignable Charter which is a bareboat charter (which charter may be entered into by the Owner subject to Clause 14.12(a)), an agreement or agreements whereby the Security Trustee receives an
assignment of the rights of the Owner under the bareboat charter and certain undertakings from the Owner and the relevant charterer and, if so agreed by the Security Trustee (acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders), agrees to give
certain undertakings to that charterer, in an Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them.
"Basel III"
means, together:
|
(a) |
the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems", "Basel III:
International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December
2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated; |
|
(b) |
the rules for global systemically important banks contained in "Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement - Rules text" published by the Basel
Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated; and |
|
(c) |
any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to "Basel III". |
"Borrower" means Capital Product Partners L.P., a limited partnership formed in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx
Islands whose registered address is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, the Xxxxxxxx Islands.
"Break Costs" has the meaning given in Clause 21.2.
"Builder" means Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., of South Korea.
"Business Day" means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business:
|
(a) |
in Hamburg and New York regarding the fixing of any interest rate which is required to be determined under this Agreement or any Finance Document; |
|
(b) |
in Hamburg and New York and, until the Delivery Date, also in Korea in respect of any payment which is required to be made under a Finance Document; |
|
(c) |
in Hamburg and Piraeus regarding any other action to be taken under this Agreement or any other Finance Document; and |
|
(i) |
any date for payment or purchase of dollars; or |
|
(ii) |
the determination of the first day or the last day of an Interest Period or otherwise in relation to the determination of the length of or rate for an Interest Period, |
a day which is an Additional Business Day.
"Cancellation Notice" has the meaning given in Clause 8.7.
"Central Bank Rate" has the meaning given to that term in the Reference Rate Terms;
"Central Bank Rate Adjustment" has the meaning given to that term in the Reference Rate Terms;
"Central Bank Rate Spread" has the meaning given to that term in the Reference Rate Terms;
"Change of Control" means:
|
(a) |
any person or group of persons acting in concert gaining direct or indirect control of the Borrower or the Owner other than the Permitted Holders; and/or |
|
(b) |
any person or group of persons acting in concert (save for any passive institutional investor) acquiring ownership of more common units in the capital of the Borrower than the Permitted Holders;
and/or |
|
(c) |
on and from the Delivery Date, the Borrower ceasing to directly or indirectly own 100 per cent. of, or ceasing to control, the Owner; and/or |
|
(d) |
Capital GP L.L.C. of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands ceasing to be the Borrower's general partner, provided that no Change of Control shall be deemed to have occurred under this paragraph (d) if the common units
in the capital of the Borrower (save for any passive institutional investor) are in direct or indirect control by the Permitted Holders. |
"Charterparty Assignment" means, in relation to an Assignable Charter, an assignment of the rights of the Owner
which is a party to that Assignable Charter and any guarantee of such Assignable Charter executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by the Owner in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of
them.
"Code" means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
"Commitment" means, in relation to a Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Part A of Schedule 1, or, as
the case may require, the amount specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate, as that amount may be reduced, cancelled or terminated in accordance with this
Agreement (and "Total Commitments" means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders).
"Compliance Certificate" means a certificate in the form set out in Schedule 6 (or in any other form which the
Agent approves or reasonably requires) to be provided at the times and in the manner set out in Clause 11.21.
"Compounded Reference Rate" means in relation to any RFR Banking Day during the Interest Period of the Loan or
any part of the Loan, the percentage rate per annum which is the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for that RFR Banking Day;
"Compounding Methodology Supplement" means, in relation to the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate or the
Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate, a document which:
|
(a) |
is agreed in writing by the Borrower and the Agent (in its own capacity) and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders); |
|
(b) |
specifies a calculation methodology for that rate; and |
|
(c) |
has been made available to the Borrower and each Creditor Party; |
"Confidential Information" means all information relating to the Borrower, any Security Party, any Approved Manager, the Group, the Finance Documents or the Loan of which a
Creditor Party becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Creditor Party or which is received by a Creditor Party in relation to, or for the purpose of becoming a Creditor Party under, the Finance Documents or the Loan from
either:
|
(a) |
any member of the Group or any of its advisers; or |
|
(b) |
another Creditor Party, if the information was obtained by that Creditor Party directly or indirectly from any member of the Group or any of its advisers, |
in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic
file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes:
|
(A) |
is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by that Creditor Party of Clause 30; or |
|
(B) |
is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by any member of the Group or any of its advisers; or |
|
(C) |
is known by that Creditor Party before the date the information is disclosed to it in accordance with paragraphs (a) or (b) above or is lawfully obtained by that Creditor Party after that date, from a source which is,
as far as that Creditor Party is aware, unconnected with the Group and which, in either case, as far as that Creditor Party is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of
confidentiality. |
"Confidentiality
Undertaking" means a confidentiality undertaking in substantially the appropriate form recommended by the LMA from time to time or in any other form agreed between the Borrower and the Agent.
"Contractual Currency" has the meaning given in Clause 21.6.
"Contribution" means, in relation to a Lender, the part of the Loan which is owing to that Lender.
"Corporate Guarantee" means, in relation to the Owner, a guarantee of the obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement and the other Finance Documents executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by the Owner in the Agreed Form.
"Creditor Party" means the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Mandated Lead Arranger, any Lender, whether as at
the date of this Agreement or at any later time and, in the plural, means all of them.
"Cumulative Compounded RFR
Rate" means, in relation to an Interest Period for the Loan or any part of the Loan, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent (or by any other Creditor Party which agrees to determine that rate in place of the Agent) in
accordance with the methodology set out in Schedule 9 or in any relevant Compounding Methodology Supplement;
"Daily
Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate" means, in relation to any RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for the Loan or any part of the Loan, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent (or by any other Creditor Party which agrees
to determine that rate in place of the Agent) in accordance with the methodology set out in Schedule 8 or in any relevant Compounding Methodology Supplement;
"Daily Rate" means the rate specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms.
"Deed of Covenant" means if required by the laws of the Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral to
the Mortgage on the Ship and creating charges over (inter alia) the Ship, her Earnings, her Insurances, any Requisition Compensation and the benefit of any warranties of quality in favour of the Owner under the
Shipbuilding Contract in the Agreed Form.
"Delivery Date" means the
date on which the Ship is delivered by the Builder to the Owner under the Shipbuilding Contract.
"Disruption
Event" means either or both of:
|
(a) |
a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in connection with the Loan (or otherwise in
order for the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the Parties; or |
|
(b) |
the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party preventing that, or any other, Party: |
|
(i) |
from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or |
|
(ii) |
from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents, |
and which (in either such case) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the Party whose operations are disrupted.
"Dollars" and "$" means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of
America.
"Drawdown Date" means, the date requested by the Borrower for the Loan to be borrowed, or (as the
context requires) the date on which the Loan is actually borrowed.
"Drawdown Notice" means a notice in the
form set out in Schedule 2 (or in any other form which the Agent approves or reasonably requires).
"EEA Member Country" means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
"Earnings" means all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the
Owner or the Security Trustee and which arise out of the use or operation of the Ship, including (but not limited to):
|
(a) |
except to the extent that they fall within paragraph (b): |
|
(i) |
all freight, hire and passage moneys; |
|
(ii) |
compensation payable to the Owner or the Security Trustee in the event of requisition of the Ship for hire; |
|
(iii) |
remuneration for salvage and towage services; |
|
(iv) |
demurrage and detention moneys; |
|
(v) |
damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Ship; and |
|
(vi) |
all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in respect of loss of hire; and |
|
(b) |
if and whenever the Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a)(i) to (vi) are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or
sharing arrangement which is attributable to the Ship. |
"Earnings Account" means an account in
the name of the Owner with the Agent in Hamburg designated "Panormos Container Carrier S.A. - Earnings Account" or any other account (with that or another office of the Agent) which replaces such account and is designated by the Agent as
the Earnings Account for the purposes of this Agreement.
"EBITDA" means, in respect of any relevant period,
the aggregate amount of consolidated or combined pre-tax profits of the Group before extraordinary or exceptional items, depreciation, interest, repayment of principal in respect of any loan, rentals under finance leases and similar charges
payable.
"Environmental Claim" means:
|
(a) |
any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which relates to any Environmental Law; or |
|
(b) |
any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident or to an alleged Environmental Incident, |
and "claim" means a claim for damages, compensation, fines, penalties or any other payment of any kind whether or not similar
to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain action or to desist from or suspend certain action; and any form of enforcement or regulatory action, including the arrest or attachment of any asset.
"Environmental Incident" means:
|
(a) |
any release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from the Ship; or |
|
(b) |
any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released from a vessel other than the Ship and which involves a collision between the Ship and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or
operation, in either case, in connection with which the Ship is actually to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or the Ship and/or the Owner which is the owner thereof and/or any operator or manager of the Ship is at fault or otherwise
liable to any legal or administrative action; or |
|
(c) |
any other incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released otherwise than from the Ship and in connection with which the Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested and/or where the Owner
which is the owner thereof and/or any operator or manager of the Ship is at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action. |
"Environmental Law" means any law, regulation, convention and agreement relating to pollution or protection of
the environment, to the carriage of Environmentally Sensitive Material or to actual or threatened releases of Environmentally Sensitive Material.
"Environmentally Sensitive Material" means oil, oil products and any other substance (including any chemical,
gas or other hazardous or noxious substance) which is (or is capable of being or becoming) polluting, toxic or hazardous.
"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market
Association (or any successor person) from time to time.
"Event of Default" means any of the events or
circumstances described in Clause 19.1.
"FATCA" means:
|
(a) |
sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations; |
|
(b) |
any treaty, law or regulation of any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of any law or
regulation referred to in paragraph (a) above; or |
|
(c) |
any agreement pursuant to the implementation of any treaty, law or regulation referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation
authority in any other jurisdiction. |
"FATCA
Deduction" means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA.
"FATCA Exempt Party" means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.
"Fee Letter" means any letter or letters dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Creditor
Parties (or any of them) and the Borrower setting out any of the fees referred to in Clause 20.
"Final Repayment Date" means the date falling on the earlier of (i) the date falling on the sixth anniversary of
the Drawdown Date and (ii) 1 December 2028.
"Finance Documents" means
together:
|
(c) |
the Agency and Trust Deed; |
|
(e) |
the Corporate Guarantee; |
|
(f) |
any Subordination Agreement; |
|
(g) |
any Subordinated Debt Security; |
|
(i) |
the General Assignment; |
|
(j) |
any Deed of Covenant; |
|
(k) |
the Charterparty Assignment; |
|
(l) |
any Bareboat Charter Security Agreement; |
|
(m) |
any Approved Manager's Undertaking; |
|
(n) |
any Reference Rate Supplement; |
|
(o) |
any Compounding Methodology Supplement; |
|
(p) |
any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by the Borrower, the Owner, any Approved Manager or any other person as security for, or to establish any form of
subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lenders under this Agreement or any of the other documents referred to in this definition; and |
|
(q) |
any other document designated as such by the Agent and the Borrower, |
and, in the singular,
means any of them.
"Financial Indebtedness" means, in relation to a person (the "debtor"), any
actual or contingent liability of the debtor:
|
(a) |
for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor; |
|
(b) |
under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor; |
|
(c) |
under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility made available to the debtor; |
|
(d) |
under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money by the debtor; |
|
(e) |
under any foreign exchange transaction, any interest or currency swap, exchange or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the agreement under which any such transaction is entered
into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; |
|
(f) |
under receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent that they are sold on a non-recourse basis); or |
|
(g) |
under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within (a) to (f) if the references to the debtor referred to the other
person. |
"Financial Year" means, in relation to the Borrower, the Owner and the Group, each
period of one year commencing on 1 January in respect of which its individual or, as the case may be, consolidated accounts are or ought to be prepared.
"Fleet Vessels" means all of the vessels (including, but not limited to, the Ship) from time to time wholly
owned by members of the Group (each a "Fleet Vessel").
"GAAP" means generally accepted
accounting principles as from time to time in effect in the US including IFRS.
"General Assignment" means a
general assignment of (inter alia) the Earnings, the Insurances, any Requisition Compensation relative to the Ship and the benefit of any warranties of quality in favour of the Owner under the Shipbuilding
Contract in the Agreed Form.
"Group" means, together, the Owner, the Borrower and each of their
respective subsidiaries (direct or indirect) from time to time during the Security Period and "member of the Group" shall be construed accordingly;
"IACS" means the International Association of Classification Societies.
"IFRS" means international accounting standards within the meaning of the IAS Regulations 1606/2002 to the
extent applicable to the relevant financial statements.
"Initial Market Value" means the Market Value of the Ship calculated in accordance with
the valuations relative thereto referred to in paragraph 5 of Part B of Schedule 3.
"Instalment" has the
meaning given in Clause 8.1.
"Insurances" means:
|
(a) |
all policies and contracts of insurance (including, without limitation, any loss of hire insurance) and any reinsurance, policies or contracts, including entries of the Ship in any protection and indemnity or war
risks association, effected in respect of the Ship, its Earnings or otherwise in relation to it whether before, on or after the date of this Agreement; and |
|
(b) |
all rights (including, without limitation, any and all rights or claims which the Owner may have under or in connection with any cut-through clause relative to any reinsurance contract relating to the aforesaid
policies or contracts of insurance) and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium and any rights in respect of any claim whether or not the relevant policy, contract of insurance
or entry has expired on or before the date of this Agreement; |
"Interest Payment" means the
aggregate amount of interest that is, or is scheduled to become, payable under any Finance Document;
"Interest
Period" means a period determined in accordance with Clause 6.
"ISM Code" means the International
Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (and the terms "safety management system",
"Safety Management Certificate" and "Document of Compliance" have the same meanings as are given to them in the ISM Code).
"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code as adopted by the International
Maritime Organisation, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
"ISSC" means a valid
and current International Ship Security Certificate issued under the ISPS Code.
"Lender" means, subject to
Clause 26.6, a bank or financial institution listed in Part A of Schedule 1 and acting through its branch indicated in Part A of Schedule 1 (or through another branch notified to the Agent under Clause 26.16) or its transferee, successor or
assign.
"Leverage Ratio" means, any relevant time, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of:
|
(a) |
the aggregate Financial Indebtedness of the Group net of any Liquid Assets; and |
|
(b) |
the Market Value Adjusted Total Assets (including, without limitation, the Ship). |
"Liquid Assets" means, at any relevant time hereunder, the aggregate of:
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(a) |
cash in hand or held with banks or other financial institutions of the Borrower and/or any other member of the Group in Dollars or another currency freely convertible into |
Dollars, which is free of any Security Interest (other than a Permitted Security Interest and other than ordinary bankers'
liens which have not been enforced or become capable of being enforced);
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(b) |
any other short-term financial investment which is free of any Security Interest (other than a Permitted Security Interest); |
|
(c) |
any cash equivalent of the Borrower and/or any other member of the Group; and |
|
(d) |
any marketable securities of the Borrower and/or any other member of the Group, |
as stated in
the latest Accounting Information.
"Loan" means the principal amount for the time being outstanding under
this Agreement.
"Lookback Period" means the number of days specified as such in the Reference Rate
Terms;
"LSW 1189" means the London Standard Wording for marine insurances which incorporates the German
Direct Mortgage Clause.
"Major Casualty" means any casualty to the Ship in respect of which the claim or the
aggregate of the claims against all insurers, before adjustment for any relevant franchise or deductible, exceeds $3,000,000 or the equivalent in any other currency.
"Majority Lenders" means:
|
(a) |
before the Loan is advanced, Lenders whose Commitments total 66 2/3 per cent. of the Total Commitments; and |
|
(b) |
after the Loan is advanced, Xxxxxxx whose Contributions total 66 2/3 per cent. of the Loan. |
"Mandated Lead Arranger" means Hamburg Commercial Bank AG, acting in such capacity through its office at
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, or any successor.
"Margin" means 2.15 per cent. per
annum.
"Market Disruption Credit Adjustment Spread" means any rate which is specified as such in the
Reference Rate Terms;
"Market Disruption Rate" means the rate specified as such in the Reference Rate
Terms;
"Market Value" means, in relation to the Ship or other Fleet Vessel, the market value of that Ship or
Fleet Vessel determined in accordance with Clause 15.3.
"Market Value Adjusted Total Assets" means, at any
time, the Total Assets adjusted to reflect the aggregate Market Value of all the Fleet Vessels.
"Material Adverse
Change" means any event or series of events which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
"Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse effect which, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority
Xxxxxxx, has an effect on:
|
(a) |
the business, property, assets, liabilities, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and/or any Security Party taken as a whole; |
|
(b) |
the ability of the Borrower and/or any Security Party to (i) comply with or perform any of its obligations or (ii) discharge any of its liabilities, under any Finance Document as they fall due; or |
|
(c) |
the validity, legality or enforceability of any Finance Document. |
"Maximum Loan Amount" means an amount up to the lesser of (i) $105,000,000 and (ii) 60 per cent. of the Initial
Market Value of the Ship.
"Mortgage" means the first preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship
mortgage on the Ship in the Agreed Form as from time to time amended.
"Net Interest Expense" means, as at any date of
calculation, the aggregate of all interest payable by any member of the Group on any Financial Indebtedness (excluding any amounts owing by one member of the Group to another member of the Group) and any net amounts payable under interest rate hedge
agreements for the 12-month period commencing on the date of calculation less any income received from any Liquid Assets as stated in the latest Accounting Information.
"Notifying Lender" has the meaning given in Clause 21.2 or Clause 23.1 as the context requires.
"Original Financial Statements" means the consolidated annual financial statements of the Group for the
Financial Year which ended on 31 December 2021.
"Owner" means Panormos Container Carrier S.A., a corporation
incorporated in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered address is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, the Xxxxxxxx Islands MH 96960.
"Participating Member State" means any member state of the European Union that has the Euro as its lawful
currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
"Party" means a party to a Finance Document.
"Payment Currency" has the meaning given in Clause 21.6.
"Permitted Holders" has the meaning given in the Side Letter.
"Permitted Security Interests" means:
|
(a) |
Security Interests created by the Finance Documents; |
|
(b) |
liens for unpaid master's and crew's wages in accordance with usual maritime practice; |
|
(d) |
liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months' prepaid hire under any charter in relation to the Ship not prohibited by this Agreement; |
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(e) |
liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading and any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary course of the |
trading, chartering, operation, repair or maintenance of the Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30
days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the Owner in good faith by appropriate steps) and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 14.13(d);
|
(f) |
any Security Interest created in favour of a plaintiff or defendant in any proceedings or arbitration as security for costs and expenses while the Borrower is prosecuting or defending such proceedings or arbitration
in good faith; and |
|
(g) |
Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment or in respect of taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate
reserves have been made. |
"Pertinent Document" means:
|
(a) |
any Finance Document; |
|
(b) |
any policy or contract of insurance contemplated by or referred to in Clause 13 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; |
|
(c) |
any other document contemplated by or referred to in any Finance Document; and |
|
(d) |
any document which has been or is at any time sent by or to a Servicing Bank in contemplation of or in connection with any Finance Document or any policy, contract or document falling within paragraphs (b) or
(c). |
"Pertinent Jurisdiction" in relation to a company, means:
|
(b) |
the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed; |
|
(c) |
a country in which the company has the centre of its main interests or which the company's central management and control is or has recently been exercised; |
|
(d) |
a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax; |
|
(e) |
a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which the company maintains a branch or permanent place of
business, or in which a Security Interest created by the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority; and |
|
(f) |
a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up, administration or similar order in relation to the company, whether as a main or territorial or ancillary proceedings, or which would have such
jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c). |
"Pertinent Matter" means:
|
(a) |
any transaction or matter contemplated by, arising out of, or in connection with a Pertinent Document; or |
|
(b) |
any statement relating to a Pertinent Document or to a transaction or matter falling within paragraph (a), |
and covers any such transaction, matter or statement, whether entered into, arising or made at any time before the signing of this Agreement or
on or at any time after that signing.
"Potential Event of Default" means an event or circumstance which,
with the giving of any notice, the lapse of time, a determination of the Majority Lenders and/or the satisfaction of any other condition, would constitute an Event of Default.
"Prepayment Date" has the meaning given in Clause 15.2.
"Prepayment Notice" has the meaning given in Clause 8.5(b).
"Reference Rate Terms" means the terms set out in Schedule 7 or in any Reference Rate Supplement;
"Reference Rate Supplement" means a document which:
|
(a) |
is agreed in writing by the Borrower and the Agent (in its own capacity) and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders); |
|
(b) |
specifies the relevant terms which are expressed in this Agreement to be determined by reference to the Reference Rate Terms; and |
|
(c) |
has been made available to the Borrower and each Creditor Party; |
"Relevant Market" means the market specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms;
"Relevant Nominating Body" means any applicable central bank,
regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board;
"Relevant Person" has the meaning given in Clause 19.9.
"Repayment Date" means a date on which a repayment is required to be made under Clause 8.
"Replacement Reference Rate" means a reference rate which is:
|
(a) |
formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for the RFR by: |
|
(i) |
the administrator of the RFR (provided that the market or economic reality that such reference rate measures is the same as that measured by the RFR); or |
|
(ii) |
any Relevant Nominating Body, |
and if replacements have, at the relevant time,
been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the "Replacement Reference Rate" will be the replacement under paragraph (ii) above;
|
(b) |
in the opinion of the Lenders, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to the RFR; or |
|
(c) |
in the reasonable opinion of the Lenders, an appropriate successor or alternative to the RFR; |
"Reporting Day" means the day specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms;
"Reporting Time" means the relevant time (if any) specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms;
"Resolution Authority" means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.
"Restricted Party" means a person that is:
|
(a) |
listed on, or owned or controlled by a person listed on any Sanctions List; |
|
(b) |
located in, organised under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organised under the laws of a country or territory which is a subject of country-wide or
territory-wide Sanctions (any such country or territory, a "Sanctioned Country"); or |
|
(c) |
otherwise a subject of Sanctions. |
"Requisition Compensation"
includes all compensation or other moneys payable by reason of any act or event such as is referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "Total Loss".
"Retention Account" means an account in the name of the Borrower with the Agent in Hamburg designated
"Capital Product Partners L.P. - Retention Account" and having account number 1200082878 or any other account (with that or another office of the Agent) which replaces such account and is designated by the Agent as the Retention Account
for the purposes of this Agreement.
"RFR" means the rate specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms;
"RFR Banking Day" means any day specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms;
"RFR Replacement Event" means:
|
(a) |
the methodology, formula or other means of determining the RFR has, in the opinion of the Lenders, materially changed; |
|
(i) |
the administrator of the RFR or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or |
|
(ii) |
information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body
which reasonably confirms that the administrator of the RFR is insolvent, |
provided that, in each case, at that
time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide the RFR;
|
(c) |
the administrator of the RFR publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease, to provide the RFR permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide the
RFR; |
|
(d) |
the supervisor of the administrator of the RFR publicly announces that the RFR has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or |
|
(e) |
the administrator of the RFR or its supervisor publicly announces that the RFR may no longer be used; or |
|
(f) |
the administrator of the RFR (or the administrator of an interest rate which is a constituent element of the RFR) determines that the RFR should be calculated in accordance with its reduced submissions or other
contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and either: |
|
(i) |
the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Lenders) temporary; or |
|
(ii) |
the RFR is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period which is no less than 10 Additional Business Days; or |
|
(g) |
in the opinion of the Lenders and the Borrower, the RFR is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement; |
"Sanctions" means any trade, economic or financial sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive
measures administered, enacted or enforced by:
|
(a) |
the Security Council of the United Nations; |
|
(e) |
any member state of the European Union; |
|
(f) |
any country to which any Security Party or the Borrower or any Approved Manager or any affiliate of any of them is bound; or |
|
(g) |
the governments and official institutions or agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury ("OFAC"), the United
States Department of State, and Her Majesty’s Treasury ("HMT") |
((a) to (g) together
"Sanctions Authorities" and each a "Sanctions Authority").
"Sanctions
List" means the "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" list maintained by OFAC, the "Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and Investment Ban List" maintained by HMT, or any similar list
maintained by, or public announcement of a Sanctions designation made by, a Sanctions Authority, each as amended, supplemented or substituted from time to time.
"Sale and Purchase Agreement" means the Sale and Purchase Agreement made between (i)
Capital Maritime & Trading Corp as seller and (ii) the Borrower or another wholly owned subsidiary of the Borrower for the sale and the purchase for 100% of the issued shares of the Owner.
"Secured Liabilities" means all liabilities which the Borrower, the Owner, the other Security Parties or any of
them have, at the date of this Agreement or at any later time or times, under or in connection with any Finance Document or any judgment relating to any Finance Document; and for this purpose, there shall be disregarded any total or partial
discharge of these liabilities, or variation of their terms, which is effected by, or in connection with, any bankruptcy, liquidation, arrangement or other procedure under the insolvency laws of any country.
"Security Cover Ratio" means, at any relevant time, the aggregate of (i) the Market Value of the Ship and (ii)
the net realisable value of any acceptable additional security provided at that time under Clause 15, at that time, expressed as a percentage of the Loan.
"Security Interest" means:
|
(a) |
a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind; |
|
(b) |
the rights of a plaintiff under an action in rem in which the vessel concerned has been arrested or a writ has been issued or similar step taken; and |
|
(c) |
any arrangement entered into by a person (A) the effect of which is to place another person (B) in a position which is similar, in economic terms, to the position in which B would have been had he held a security
interest over an asset of A; but paragraph (c) does not apply to a right of set off or combination of accounts conferred by the standard terms of business of a bank or financial institution. |
"Security Party" means the Owner, the Borrower and any other person (except a Creditor Party, any Approved
Manager which is not a member of the Group, the Builder and any charterer (other than a bareboat or demise charterer which is a member of Hapag Lloyd)) who, as a surety or mortgagor, as a party to any subordination or priorities arrangement, or in
any similar capacity, executes a document falling within the final paragraph of the definition of "Finance Documents" and, in the plural, means all of them.
"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date on which the
Agent notifies the Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties that:
|
(a) |
all amounts which have become due for payment by the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager under the Finance Documents have been paid; |
|
(b) |
no amount is owing or has accrued (without yet having become due for payment) under any Finance Document; |
|
(c) |
neither the Borrower nor any Security Party nor any Approved Manager has any future or contingent liability under Clauses 20, 21 or 22 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;
and |
|
(d) |
the Agent, the Mandated Lead Arranger, the Security Trustee and the Majority Lenders do not consider that there is a significant risk that any payment or transaction under a Finance Document would be set aside, or
would have to be reversed or adjusted, in any present or possible future bankruptcy of the Borrower or a Security Party or in any present or possible future proceeding relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a
Security Interest created by a Finance Document. |
"Security Trustee" means Hamburg Commercial
Bank AG, acting in such capacity through its office at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, X-00000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and Trust Deed.
"Servicing Bank" means the Agent or the Security Trustee.
"Ship" means the 2022-built Neo-Panamax container carrier vessel of approximately 13,278 TEU currently build by
the Builder having builder's Hull No. 8071 to be registered in the ownership of the Owner with IMO number 9520039 and with the name "MANZANILLO EXPRESS".
"Shipbuilding Contract" means, in relation to
the Ship, the Shipbuilding Contract dated 18 December 2020 (as from time to time amended and/or supplemented) and made between (i) the Builder and (ii) the Owner for the construction by the Builder of the Ship to be owned by the Owner and its
purchase by the Owner.
"Side Letter" means a letter dated on or about the date of this Agreement specifying
the Permitted Holders to be executed by the Agent, the Borrower and the Owner in the Agreed Form.
"Subordinated
Creditor" means a Security Party, the general or a limited partner of the Borrower or any other person who becomes a Subordinated Creditor in accordance with this Agreement.
"Subordinated Debt Security" means a document creating a Security Interest in relation to any Subordinated Debt
in the Agreed Form.
"Subordinated Debt" in relation to a Subordinated Creditor, has the meaning given to it
in the Subordination Agreement entered into by that Subordinated Creditor.
"Subordination Agreement" means a
subordination agreement entered into or to be entered into by a Subordinated Creditor, the Borrower and the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form.
"Total Assets" means, as at any date of calculation or, as the case may be, for any accounting period, the
aggregate value of all assets of the Group on a consolidated basis (including, without limitation, the Ship), as stated in the latest Accounting Information.
"Total Loss" means:
|
(a) |
actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship; |
|
(b) |
any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of the Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is
effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority unless it is within 1 month from the date of such occurrence redelivered to |
the full control of the Owner excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding 90 days without any right to
an extension;
|
(c) |
any condemnation of the Ship by any tribunal or by any competent person or any competent person claiming to be a tribunal; and |
|
(d) |
any arrest, capture, seizure, confiscation or detention of the Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless it is within 3 months redelivered to the full control of the Owner. |
"Total Loss Date" means:
|
(a) |
in the case of an actual loss of the Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when the Ship was last heard of; |
|
(b) |
in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship, the earlier of: |
|
(i) |
30 days after the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and |
|
(ii) |
the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Owner with the Ship's insurers in which the insurers agree to treat the Ship as a total loss; and |
|
(c) |
in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Agent that the event constituting the total loss occurred. |
"Transfer Certificate" has the meaning given in Clause 26.2.
"Trust Property" has the meaning given in clause 3.1 of the Agency and Trust Deed.
"UK Bail-In Legislation" means Part 1 of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation
applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutes or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
"Underlying Documents" means the Approved Charter, any other Assignable Charter
and a Shipbuilding Contract and, in the singular, means any of them.
"US" means the United States of America.
"US Tax Obligor" means:
|
(a) |
the Borrower, if it is resident for tax purposes in the US; or |
|
(b) |
the Borrower or a Security Party some or all whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the US for US federal income tax purposes. |
"Write-down and Conversion Powers" means:
|
(a) |
in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation
Schedule; |
|
(b) |
in relation to the UK Bail-In Legislation, any powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or
affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that
liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that
liability or any of the powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and |
|
(c) |
in relation to any other applicable Bail-In Legislation: |
|
(i) |
any powers under that Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other
financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of
that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In
Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and |
|
(ii) |
any similar or analogous powers under that Bail-In Legislation. |
|
1.2 |
Construction of certain terms |
In this Agreement:
"acting in concert" means a group of persons who, pursuant to an agreement or understanding (whether formal or
informal), actively co-operate, through the acquisition directly or indirectly of equity in the Borrower or the Owner, either directly or indirectly, to obtain or consolidate control of the Borrower or the Owner;
"administration notice" means a notice appointing an administrator, a notice of intended appointment and any
other notice which is required by law (generally or in the case concerned) to be filed with the court or given to a person prior to, or in connection with, the appointment of an administrator;
"affiliate" means, in relation to any person, a subsidiary of that person or a holding company of that person or
any other subsidiary of that holding company;
"approved" means, for the purposes of Clause 13,
approved in writing by the Agent at its discretion;
"asset" includes every kind of property, asset, interest
or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment;
"company"
includes any partnership, joint venture and unincorporated association;
"control" means the power (whether
by way of ownership of equity, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:
|
(a) |
cast, or control the casting of, more than 50 per cent. of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a meeting of the limited partners of the Borrower or at a general meeting of the shareholders of the Owner;
or |
|
(b) |
appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors of the Borrower or officers of the Borrower's general partner or officers or directors of the Owner; or |
|
(c) |
give directions with respect to the operating and financial policies of the Borrower or the Owner with which the directors of the Borrower or officers of the Borrower's general partner or officers or directors of the
Owner are obliged to comply; |
|
(d) |
approve a merger or consolidation of the Borrower and/or the Owner and/or the sale or other dispositions of the Owner or any of them; and/or |
|
(e) |
approve a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Borrower or the Owner; |
"consent" includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration,
notarisation and legalisation;
"contingent liability" means a liability which is not certain to arise and/or
the amount of which remains unascertained;
"document" includes a deed; also a letter or fax;
"excess risks" means the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable
under the hull and machinery policies in respect of the Ship in consequence of its insured value being less than the value at which the Ship is assessed for the purpose of such claims;
"expense" means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any
applicable value added or other tax;
"gross negligence" means a form of negligence which is distinct from
ordinary negligence, in which the due diligence and care which are generally to be exercised have been disregarded to a particularly high degree, in which the plainest deliberations have not been made and that which should be most obvious to
everybody has not been followed;
"law" includes any order or decree, any form of delegated legislation, any
treaty or international convention and any regulation or resolution of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the United Nations or its Security Council;
"legal or administrative action" means any legal proceeding or arbitration and any administrative or regulatory
action or investigation;
"liability" includes every kind of debt or liability (present or future, certain or
contingent), whether incurred as principal or surety or otherwise;
"months" shall be construed in accordance
with Clause 1.3;
"obligatory insurances" means all insurances effected, or which the Owner is obliged to
effect, under Clause 13 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;
"parent
company" has the meaning given in Clause 1.4;
"person" includes any individual, any partnership, any company; any state, political
sub-division of a state and local or municipal authority; and any international organisation;
"policy",
in relation to any insurance, includes a slip, cover note, certificate of entry or other document evidencing the contract of insurance or its terms;
"protection and indemnity risks" means the usual risks covered by a protection and indemnity association managed
in London, including pollution risks and the proportion (if any) of any sums payable to any other person or persons in case of collision which are not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies by reason of the incorporation in them of clause
1 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83) or clause 6 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02) (1/11/03) or clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/11/1995) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71) or any
equivalent provision;
"regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline
(either having the force of law or compliance with which is reasonable in the ordinary course of business of the party concerned) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency (monetary or otherwise), department, central bank,
regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
"subsidiary" has the meaning given in Clause
1.4;
"successor" includes any person who is entitled (by assignment, novation, merger or otherwise) to any
person's rights under this Agreement or any other Finance Document (or any interest in those rights) or who, as administrator, liquidator or otherwise, is entitled to exercise those rights; and in particular references to a successor include a
person to whom those rights (or any interest in those rights) are transferred or pass as a result of a merger, division, reconstruction or other reorganisation of it or any other person;
"tax" includes any present or future tax, duty, impost, levy or charge of any kind which is imposed by any
state, any political sub-division of a state or any local or municipal authority (including any such imposed in connection with exchange controls), and any connected penalty, interest or fine; and
"war risks" includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded by clauses 29, 30 or 31 of the International Hull
Clauses (1/11/02), clauses 29 or 30 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/03), clauses 24, 25 or 26 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/11/95) or clauses 23, 24 or 25 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83) or any equivalent
provision.
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(a) |
a Lender's "cost of funds" in relation to its participation in the Loan or any part of the Loan is a reference to the average cost (determined either on an actual or a notional basis) which that
Lender would incur if it were to fund, from whatever source(s) it may reasonably select, an amount equal to the amount of that participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan
or the relevant part of the Loan; |
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(b) |
a reference to a page or screen of an information service displaying a rate shall include: |
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(i) |
any replacement page of that information service which displays that rate; and |
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(ii) |
the appropriate page of such other information service which displays that rate from time to time in place of that information service, |
and, if such page or service ceases to be available, shall include any other page or service displaying
that rate specified by the Agent after consultation with the Borrower;
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(c) |
a reference to a "Central Bank Rate" shall include any successor rate to, or replacement rate for, that rate; |
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(d) |
any Reference Rate Supplement overrides anything in: |
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(i) |
Schedule 7 (Reference Rate Terms); or |
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(ii) |
any earlier Reference Rate Supplement; and |
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(e) |
a Compounding Methodology Supplement relating to the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate or the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate overrides anything relating to that rate in: |
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(i) |
Schedule 8 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate) or Schedule 9 (Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate), as the case may be; or |
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(ii) |
any earlier Compounding Methodology Supplement. |
A period of one or more "months" ends on the day
in the relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started ("the numerically corresponding day"), but:
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(a) |
on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day
preceding the numerically corresponding day; or |
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(b) |
on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of the period has no numerically corresponding
day, |
and "month" and "monthly" shall be construed accordingly.
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1.4 |
Meaning of "subsidiary" |
A company (S) is a subsidiary of another company (P) if:
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(a) |
a majority of the issued shares in S (or a majority of the issued shares in S which carry unlimited rights to capital and income distributions) are directly owned by P or are indirectly attributable to P;
or |
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(b) |
P has direct or (other than for the purposes of the definition of "Group") indirect control over a majority of the voting rights attaching to the issued shares of S; or |
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(c) |
P has the direct or (other than for the purposes of the definition of "Group") indirect power to appoint or remove a majority of the directors of S; or |
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(d) |
P otherwise has the direct or (other than for the purposes of the definition of "Group") indirect power to ensure that the affairs of S are conducted in accordance with the wishes of P, |
and any company of which S is a subsidiary is a parent company of S.
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1.5 |
General Interpretation |
In this Agreement:
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(a) |
references to, or to a provision of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended or supplemented, whether before the date of this Agreement or otherwise; |
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(b) |
references to, or to a provision of, any law include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or otherwise; |
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(c) |
words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa; |
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(d) |
in relation to each Creditor Party that is incorporated in Germany or otherwise notifies the Agent that it has become subject to the regulation below (each a "Restricted Lender"), each Clause
referring to Sanctions and/or Restricted Party shall only apply for the benefit of that Restricted Lender to the extent that the relevant sanctions provisions would not result in (i) any violation of, conflict with or liability under EU Regulation
(EC) 2271/96 or (ii) a violation or conflict with section 7 foreign trade rules (AWV) (Auâenwirtschaftsverordnung) (in connection with section 2 paragraph 15 trade law (AWG) Auâenwirtschaftsgesetz) or a similar anti-boycott
statute (the "Mandatory Restrictions"). In connection with any determination or direction relating to any part of a Clause of which a Restricted Lender does not have the benefit due to a Mandatory Restriction, and any consequential
determinations to be made or actions to be taken as a result of the initial determination or action relating to any part of that Clause, for so long as they remain subject to a Mandatory Restriction, the commitments of that Restricted Lender will be
excluded for the purpose of determining whether the consent of the Lenders has been obtained or whether the determination or direction by the Lenders has been made; and |
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(e) |
Clauses 1.1 to 1.5 apply unless the contrary intention appears. |
In interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all
clause, sub-clause and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded.
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders shall make
available to the Borrower a senior secured term loan facility of up to $105,000,000, in a single advance, for the purpose stated in the preamble to this Agreement.
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2.2 |
Lenders' participations in the Loan |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, each
Lender shall participate in the Loan in the proportion which, as at the Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.
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3 |
Position of the Lenders |
The rights of the Lenders under this Agreement are several.
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3.2 |
Individual right of action |
Each Lender shall be entitled to sue for any amount which has
become due and payable by the Borrower to it under this Agreement without joining the Agent, the Security Trustee or any other Lender as additional parties in the proceedings.
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3.3 |
Proceedings requiring Majority Lender consent |
Except as provided in Clause 3.2, no Lender may
commence proceedings against the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager in connection with a Finance Document without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders.
The obligations of the Lenders under this Agreement are several; and a
failure of a Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not result in:
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(a) |
the obligations of the other Lenders being increased; nor |
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(b) |
the Borrower, any Security Party, any Approved Manager or any other Lender being discharged (in whole or in part) from its obligations under any Finance Document; |
and in no circumstances shall a Lender have any responsibility for a failure of another Lender to perform its obligations under this
Agreement.
Subject to the following conditions, the Borrower may request the Loan to
be borrowed by ensuring that the Agent receives a completed Drawdown Notice not later than 11.00 a.m. (Hamburg time) 3 Business Days prior to the Drawdown Date.
The conditions referred to in Clause 4.1 are that:
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(a) |
the Drawdown Date has to be a Business Day during the Availability Period; |
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(b) |
the amount of the Loan shall not exceed the Maximum Loan Amount; |
|
(c) |
any undrawn portion of the Total Commitments in respect of the borrowing of the Loan shall be automatically cancelled as at the Drawdown Date; and |
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(d) |
the amount of the Loan shall not exceed the Total Commitments. |
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4.3 |
Notification to Lenders of receipt of the Drawdown Notice |
The Agent shall promptly notify the
Lenders that it has received the Drawdown Notice and shall inform each Lender of:
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(a) |
the amount of the Loan and the Drawdown Date; |
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(b) |
the amount of that Xxxxxx's participation in the Loan; and |
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(c) |
the duration of the first Interest Period. |
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4.4 |
Drawdown Notice irrevocable |
The Drawdown Notice must be signed by a duly authorised signatory
of the Borrower; and once served, the Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Agent, acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders.
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4.5 |
Lenders to make available Contributions |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each
Lender shall, on and with value on the Drawdown Date, make available to the Agent for the account of the Borrower the amount due from that Lender on the Drawdown Date under Clause 2.2.
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4.6 |
Disbursement of the Loan |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent shall on the
Drawdown Date pay to the Borrower the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.5 and the payment to the Borrower shall be made:
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(a) |
to the account which the Borrower specifies in the Drawdown Notice; and |
|
(b) |
in like funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders. |
The payment by the Agent
under this Clause 4.6 shall constitute the making of the Loan and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Xxxxxx's participation in the Loan.
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4.7 |
Prepositioning of funds |
The Agent (at its sole discretion) may, at the Borrower's request,
agree to preposition and, as the case may be, remit on the relevant Drawdown Date the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders in respect of the Loan by making payment of such amounts:
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(a) |
to such account of the Builder and with such bank (the "Prepositioning Bank") and, as the case may be, to the Retention Account, as the Borrower may have agreed with the Agent in advance of that
Drawdown Date and as specified in the relevant Drawdown Notice; |
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(b) |
in like funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders; and |
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(A) |
in relation to any remittance to the Prepositioning Bank, such amounts shall be held to the order of the Agent until the conditions described in the remittance message (the "Remittance Message") with
which the conditional payment is effected for transfer of funds to the Builder are fulfilled or, if earlier, such time as the Agent confirms in writing to the Prepositioning Bank that the Loan may be released to the Builder in accordance with Clause
4.8; |
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(B) |
in relation to any remittance to the Retention Account, such amounts shall be held therein until the conditions described in the Drawdown Notice are fulfilled at which time such amounts shall be released to the
Borrower pursuant to the instructions included in the Drawdown Notice. In the event that such conditions are not fulfilled on the Delivery Date the Agent shall debit the Retention Account and apply such amounts towards repayment of the
Loan; |
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(ii) |
such prepositioning and, as the case may be, remittance shall constitute the making of the Loan and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligors, to each Lender in an amount equal
to that Xxxxxx's participation in the Loan; and |
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(iii) |
the date on which the Loan (or any part of the Loan) is prepositioned and, as the case may be, remitted shall constitute its Drawdown Date. |
If the Agent has agreed to the Borrower's request under Clause 4.7, the
Agent shall, on the Ship's delivery, instruct the Prepositioning Bank to release the amount of the Loan to the Builder subject to the Agent having received all the documents described in Part B of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the
Agent and its lawyers and further subject to the other provisions of Clause 9.1 unless the funds representing the Loan will be released by the Prepositioning Bank pursuant to the Remittance Message.
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5.1 |
Payment of normal interest |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, interest on the Loan
in respect of each Interest Period shall be paid by the Borrower on the last day of that Interest Period.
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5.2 |
Normal rate of interest |
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(a) |
The rate of interest on the Loan for any day during an Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: |
|
(ii) |
the Compounded Reference Rate for that day. |
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(b) |
If any day during an Interest Period for the Loan is not a RFR Banking Day, the rate of interest on the Loan for that day will be the rate applicable to the immediately preceding RFR Banking Day. |
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5.3 |
Payment of accrued interest |
In the case of an Interest Period of longer than three months,
accrued interest shall be paid every three months during that Interest Period and on the last day of that Interest Period.
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(a) |
The Agent shall promptly upon an Interest Payment being determinable notify: |
|
(i) |
the Borrower of that Interest Payment; |
|
(ii) |
each Lender of the proportion of that Interest Payment which relates to that Xxxxxx's participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan; and |
|
(iii) |
each Lender and the Borrower of, to the extent it is then determinable, the Market Disruption Rate (if any) relating to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan. |
This paragraph (a) shall not apply to any Interest Payment determined pursuant to Clause 5.7.
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(b) |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of each rate of interest notified pursuant to sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of Clause 5.7 relating to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan. |
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(c) |
The Agent shall promptly notify each Lender and the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest relating to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan to which Clause 5.7 applies. |
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(d) |
This Clause 5.4 shall not require the Agent to make any notification to any Party on a day which is not a Business Day. |
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5.5 |
Interest calculation if no RFR or Central Bank Rate |
If:
|
(a) |
there is no RFR or Central Bank Rate for the purposes of calculating the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for an RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for the Loan or any part of the Loan;
and |
|
(b) |
"Cost of funds will apply as a fallback" is specified in the Reference Rate Terms, |
Clause 5.7 shall apply to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for that Interest Period.
If:
|
(a) |
a Market Disruption Rate is specified in the Reference Rate Terms; and |
|
(b) |
before the Reporting Time for the Loan, the Agent receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders (whose Contributions exceed 10 per cent. of the Loan) that its cost of funds relating to its participation in the Loan
would be in excess of that Market Disruption Rate, |
then Clause 5.7 shall apply to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan
for the relevant Interest Period.
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(a) |
If this Clause 5.7 applies to the Loan or any part of the Loan for an Interest Period, Clause 5.2 shall not apply to the Loan or any part of the
Loan for that Interest Period and the rate of interest on the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for that Interest Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of: |
|
(ii) |
the rate notified to the Agent by each Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by the Reporting Time for the Loan, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per
annum its cost of funds relating to its participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan. |
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(b) |
If this Clause 5.7 applies and the Agent or the Borrower so require, the Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not
more than 30 days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest or (as the case may be) an alternative basis for funding. |
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(c) |
Subject to Clause 27.4, any substitute or alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all Parties. |
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(d) |
If paragraph (e) below does not apply and any rate notified to the Agent under sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above is less than zero, the relevant rate shall be deemed to be zero. |
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(e) |
If this Clause 5.7 applies pursuant to Clause 5.6 and: |
|
(i) |
a Lender's rate notified pursuant to sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above is less than the relevant Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate; or |
|
(ii) |
a Lender does not notify a rate to the Agent by the time specified in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above, |
that Xxxxxx's cost of funds relating to its participation in the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed,
for the purposes of sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above, to be the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan.
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(f) |
If this Clause 5.7 applies, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable, notify the Borrower. |
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5.8 |
Suspension of drawdown |
If Clauses 5.5 or 5.6 apply before the Loan is made the Lenders'
obligations to make the Loan shall be suspended while the circumstances referred to in the Agent's notice continue.
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6.1 |
Commencement of Interest Periods |
The first Interest Period applicable to the Loan shall
commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.
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6.2 |
Duration of normal Interest Periods |
Subject to Clauses 6.3, and
6.4, each Interest Period shall be:
|
(a) |
3, 6 or 12 months as notified by the Borrower to the Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. (Hamburg time) 3 Business Days before the commencement of the Interest Period; or |
|
(b) |
such other period (as proposed by the Borrower to the Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (Hamburg time) 5 Business Days before the commencement of the Interest Period in respect of the Loan) as the Agent may, with the
authorisation of the Majority Lenders, agree with the Borrower; or |
|
(c) |
3 months, if the Borrower fails to notify the Agent by the time specified in paragraph (a) or if no such other period is agreed with the Borrower and the Agent in accordance with paragraph (b). |
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6.3 |
Duration of Interest Periods for Instalments |
In respect of an amount due to be repaid under
Clause 8 on a particular Repayment Date, an Interest Period in respect of the Loan to which that Repayment Date relates shall end on that Repayment Date.
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6.4 |
Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected |
If, after the Borrower has
selected, or proposed and the Lenders have agreed, an Interest Period longer than three months, any Lender notifies the Agent by 1.00 p.m. (Hamburg time) on the second Business Day before the commencement of the Interest Period that it is not
satisfied that deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Period will be available to it in the Relevant Market when the Interest Period commences, the Interest Period shall be three months.
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7.1 |
Payment of default interest on overdue amounts |
The Borrower shall pay interest in accordance
with the following provisions of this Clause 7 on any amount payable by the Borrower under any Finance Document which the Agent, the Security Trustee or the other designated payee does not receive on or before the relevant date, that is:
|
(a) |
the date on which the Finance Documents provide that such amount is due for payment; or |
|
(b) |
if a Finance Document provides that such amount is payable on demand, the date on which the demand is served; or |
|
(c) |
if such amount has become immediately due and payable under Clause 19.4, the date on which it became immediately due and payable. |
|
7.2 |
Default rate of interest |
Interest shall accrue on an overdue amount from (and including) the
relevant date until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be 2.50 per cent. above:
|
(a) |
in the case of an overdue amount of principal, the higher of the rates set out at paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 7.3; or |
|
(b) |
in the case of any other overdue amount, the rate set out at paragraph (b) of Clause 7.3. |
|
7.3 |
Calculation of default rate of interest |
The rates referred to in Clause 7.2 are:
|
(a) |
the rate applicable to the overdue principal amount immediately prior to the relevant date (but only for any unexpired part of any then current Interest Period applicable to it); |
|
(b) |
the aggregate of the Margin plus, in respect of successive Interest Periods of any duration (including at call) up to three months which the Agent may select from time to time, a rate from time to time determined by
the Agent by reference to each Lender’s "cost of funds" (as such term is referred to in paragraph (a) of Clause 1.2). |
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7.4 |
Notification of interest periods and default rates |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders
and the Borrower of each interest rate determined by the Agent under Clause 7.3 and of each period selected by the Agent for the purposes of paragraph (b) of Clause 7.3of that Clause; but this shall not be taken to imply that the Borrower is liable
to pay such interest only with effect from the date of the Agent's notification.
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7.5 |
Payment of accrued default interest |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, any
interest due under this Clause shall be paid on the last day of the period by reference to which it was determined; and the payment shall be made to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Party to which the overdue amount is due.
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7.6 |
Compounding of default interest |
Any such interest which is not paid at the end of the period
by reference to which it was determined shall thereupon be compounded.
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8 |
Repayment and Prepayment |
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8.1 |
Amount of Instalments |
The Borrower shall repay the Loan by:
|
(a) |
24 equal consecutive quarterly instalments, each in the amount of $1,330,000 (each an "Instalment" and, together, the "Instalments"); and |
|
(b) |
together with the last instalment, a balloon instalment in the amount of $73,080,000 (the "Balloon Instalment"), |
Provided that, if the amount of the Loan advanced is less than $105,000,000, each Instalment and the Balloon Instalment
shall be reduced by an amount equal to the undrawn amount on a pro rata basis.
The first Instalment shall be repaid on the date falling three months after
the Drawdown Date, each subsequent Instalment shall be repaid at three-monthly intervals thereafter and the last Instalment, shall be repaid together with the Balloon Instalment, on the Final Repayment Date.
On the Final Repayment Date the Borrower shall additionally pay to the
Agent for the account of the Creditor Parties all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.
Subject to the following conditions, the Borrower may prepay the whole or
any part of the Loan on the last day of an Interest Period.
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8.5 |
Conditions for voluntary prepayment |
The conditions referred to in Clause 8.4 are that:
|
(a) |
a partial prepayment shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000 or a higher integral multiple thereof (or such other amount acceptable to the Agent in its discretion); |
|
(b) |
the Agent has received from the Borrower at least 5 Business Days' prior irrevocable written notice (in each case, a "Prepayment Notice") specifying the amount to be prepaid and the date on which the
prepayment is to be made; |
|
(c) |
the Borrower has provided evidence satisfactory to the Agent that any consent required by the Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the prepayment has been obtained and remains in force, and that any
regulation relevant to this Agreement which affects the Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with; and |
|
(d) |
the Borrower has complied with Clause 8.11, on or prior to the date of prepayment. |
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8.6 |
Optional facility cancellation |
The Borrower shall be entitled, upon giving to the Agent not
less than 5 Business Days' prior written notice, to cancel, in whole or in part, and, if in part, by an aggregate amount not less than an amount equal to $1,000,000 or a higher integral multiple thereof (or such other amount acceptable to the Agent
in its sole discretion), the undrawn balance of the Total Commitments (the "Cancellation Notice") which notice shall be irrevocable. Upon such cancellation taking effect on expiry of a Cancellation Notice the several obligations of
the Lenders to make their respective Commitments available in relation to the portion of the Total Commitments to which such Cancellation Notice relates shall terminate.
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8.7 |
Cancellation Notice or Prepayment Notice |
The Agent shall notify the Lenders promptly upon
receiving a Cancellation Notice or Prepayment Notice, and shall provide, in the case of a Prepayment Notice, any Lender which so requests with a copy of any document delivered by the Borrower under Clause 8.5(c).
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8.8 |
Mandatory prepayment on sale or Total Loss |
The Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the Loan if
the Ship:
|
(a) |
is sold, on or before the date on which the sale is completed by delivery of the Ship to the buyer; or |
|
(b) |
becomes a Total Loss, on the earlier of the date falling 150 days after the Total Loss Date and the date of receipt by the Security Trustee of the proceeds of insurance relating to such Total Loss. |
|
8.9 |
Effect of Prepayment Notice and Cancellation Notice |
Neither a Prepayment Notice nor a
Cancellation Notice may be withdrawn or amended without the consent of the Agent, given with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, and:
|
(a) |
in the case of a Prepayment Notice, the amount specified in that Prepayment Notice shall become due and payable by the Borrower on the date for prepayment specified in that Prepayment Notice; and |
|
(b) |
in the case of a Cancellation Notice, the amount cancelled shall be permanently cancelled and may not be borrowed. |
|
8.10 |
Right of repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender |
|
(i) |
any sum payable to any Lender by the Borrower or a Security Party or any Approved Manager is required to be increased under paragraph (b) of Clause 22.2 or under that Clause as incorporated by reference or in full in
any other Finance Document; or |
|
(ii) |
any Lender claims indemnification from the Borrower under Clause 24.1; or |
|
(iii) |
the Agent receives notification from a Relevant Lender under Clause 5.6, |
the Borrower may:
|
(A) |
whilst in the case of sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) above the circumstance giving rise to the requirement for that increase or indemnification continues; or |
|
(B) |
whilst in the case of sub-paragraph (iii) above the situation in relation to the Relevant Xxxxxx continues, |
give the Agent notice of cancellation of the Commitment of that Xxxxxx and its intention to procure the repayment of that Xxxxxx's participation
in the Loan.
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(b) |
On receipt of a notice of cancellation referred to in paragraph (a) above, the Commitment of that Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero. |
|
(c) |
On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Borrower have given notice of cancellation under paragraph (a) above in relation to a Lender (or, if earlier, the date specified by the Borrower in that
notice), the Borrower shall repay that Xxxxxx's participation in the Loan. |
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8.11 |
Amounts payable on prepayment |
A prepayment shall be made together with accrued interest (and
any other amount payable under Clause 21 or otherwise) in respect of the amount prepaid and, if the prepayment is not made on the last day of an Interest Period together with any sums payable under Clause 21.2 but without premium or penalty.
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8.12 |
Application of partial prepayment |
Each partial prepayment made pursuant to Clauses 8.4, 8.10,
15.2, 19.2 or 23.3, shall be applied between the Instalments and the Balloon Instalment pro rata.
No amount prepaid or cancelled may be (re)borrowed.
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9.1 |
Documents, fees and no default |
Each Lender's obligation to contribute to the Loan is subject
to the following conditions precedent:
|
(a) |
that, on or before the service of the Drawdown Notice, the Agent receives: |
|
(i) |
the documents described in Part A of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers; and |
|
(ii) |
payment in full of any fees payable by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 20.1 which are due and payable on or before the Drawdown Date; |
|
(b) |
that, on the Drawdown Date but prior to the making of the Loan, the Agent receives: |
|
(i) |
the documents described in Part B of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers save for any documents that the Agent agrees at the Borrower's request to receive after any
prepositioning of funds but before the disbursement of the Loan; |
|
(ii) |
payment in full of any fees payable by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 20.1 which are due and payable on or before the Drawdown Date; and |
|
(iii) |
payment of any expenses payable pursuant to Clause 20.2 which are due and payable on the Drawdown Date; |
|
(c) |
that both at the date of the Drawdown Notice and at the Drawdown Date and, if applicable, the date on which the Loan is disbursed: |
|
(i) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or would result from the borrowing of the Loan; |
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(ii) |
the representations and warranties in Clause 10 and those of the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager which are set out in the other Finance Documents would be true and not misleading if repeated on
each of those dates with reference to the circumstances then existing; |
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(iii) |
none of the circumstances contemplated by Xxxxxx 5.6 has occurred and is continuing; and |
|
(iv) |
there has been no Material Adverse Change; and |
|
(d) |
that, if the Security Cover Ratio was tested immediately following the making of the Loan, the Borrower would not be obliged to provide additional security or prepay part of the Loan under that Clause 15.1;
and |
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(e) |
that the Agent has received, and found to be acceptable to it, any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with the Finance Documents which the Agent may, with the authorisation of the
Majority Lenders, request by notice to the Borrower prior to the Drawdown Date. |
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9.2 |
Waiver of conditions precedent |
If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, permit the Loan
to be borrowed before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 9.1 are satisfied, the Borrower shall ensure that those conditions are satisfied within 5 Business Days after the Drawdown Date (or such longer period as the Agent may, with the
authorisation of the Majority Lenders, specify).
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9.3 |
Conditions Subsequent |
The Borrower shall use its best endeavours to deliver
or cause to be delivered to the Agent within 10 Business Days after the Drawdown Date, the additional documents and other evidence listed in Part C of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
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10 |
Representations and Warranties |
The Borrower represents and warrants to each Creditor Party as follows.
The Borrower is a limited partnership (comprised of a single general partner and
multiple limited partners) formed and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Republic of Xxxxxxxx Islands.
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10.3 |
Partnership interests and ownership |
The Borrower's partnership interests consist of 15,676,365
common units held by third-party unitholders, 4,175,007 common units held by Capital Maritime & Trading Corp., 348,570 general partner units.
The Borrower or, as the case may be, the Owner has the capacity, and has taken all
action and obtained all consents necessary for it:
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(a) |
in the case of the Owner, to execute the Underlying Documents to which it is a party and to register the Ship in its ownership under the applicable Approved Flag; |
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(b) |
to execute the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party; and |
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(c) |
in the case of the Borrower, to borrow under this Agreement and, in the case of the Borrower and/or the Owner, to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, those Finance Documents to which it is a
party. |
All the consents referred to in Clause 10.4 remain in force and nothing has
occurred which makes any of them liable to revocation.
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10.6 |
Legal validity; effective Security Interests |
The Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a
party, do now or, as the case may be, will, upon execution and delivery (and, where applicable, registration as provided for in the Finance Documents):
|
(a) |
constitute the Borrower's legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and |
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(b) |
create legal, valid and binding Security Interests (having the priority specified in the relevant Finance Document) enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets to which they, by their
terms, relate, |
subject to any relevant insolvency laws affecting creditors' rights generally.
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10.7 |
No third party Security Interests |
Without limiting the generality of Clause 10.6, at the time
of the execution and delivery of each Finance Document to which the Borrower is a party:
|
(a) |
the Borrower will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to create; and |
|
(b) |
no third party will have any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) or any other interest, right or claim over, in or in relation to any asset to which any such Security Interest, by its terms,
relates. |
The execution by the Borrower and each Security Party of each Finance Document
and each Underlying Document to which it is a party, and the borrowing by the Borrower of the Loan (or any part thereof), and its compliance with each Finance Document and each Underlying Document to which it is a party:
|
(a) |
will not involve or lead to a contravention of: |
|
(i) |
any law or regulation; or |
|
(ii) |
the constitutional documents of the Borrower or any Security Party; or |
|
(iii) |
any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on the Borrower or any Security Party or any of its assets, and |
|
(b) |
will not have a Material Adverse Effect; and |
|
(c) |
is for the corporate benefit of the Borrower or the relevant Security Party. |
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10.9 |
No withholding taxes |
All payments which the Borrower is liable to make under the Finance
Documents to which it is a party may be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any Pertinent Jurisdiction.
No Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred.
All information which has been provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower
or any Security Party or, to the best of the Borrower's knowledge by or on behalf of any Approved Manager who is not a member of the Group, to any Creditor Party in connection with any Finance Document satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.5; all audited and unaudited accounts and financial statements which have been so provided satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.7 and are true, correct and not misleading and present fairly and accurately the
financial position of the Borrower, the Owner or the Group (as the case may be); and there has been no change in the financial position or state of affairs of the Borrower, the Owner or the Group (or any member thereof) from that disclosed in the
latest of those accounts which is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No legal or administrative action involving the Borrower or any Security Party
or any Approved Manager (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code) has been commenced or taken or, to the Borrower's knowledge, is likely to be commenced or taken which would, in either case, be
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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10.13 |
Validity and completeness of Underlying Documents |
Each Underlying Document constitutes valid,
binding and enforceable obligations of the parties thereto in accordance with its terms and:
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(a) |
each of the copies of that Underlying Document delivered to the Agent before the date of this Agreement is a true and complete copy; and |
|
(b) |
no amendments or additions to that Underlying Document have been agreed nor has any party which is a party to that Underlying Document, waived any of their respective rights thereunder. |
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10.14 |
Compliance with certain undertakings |
At the date of this Agreement, the Borrower is in
compliance with Clauses 11.2, 11.4, 11.9, 11.13, 13, 14.3 and 14.10.
The Borrower has paid all taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to the
Borrower and its business.
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10.16 |
ISM Code and ISPS Code compliance |
All requirements of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code as they
relate to the Borrower, the Owner, an Approved Manager and the Ship have been complied with.
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10.17 |
No Money laundering |
The Borrower:
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(a) |
will not, and will procure that no Security Party, to the extent applicable, will, in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents, contravene or permit any subsidiary to contravene, any law,
official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat "money laundering" (as defined in Article 1 of Directive 2015/849/EC of the Council of the European Communities) and comparable United States Federal and
state laws. The Borrower shall further submit any documents and declarations on request, if such documents or declarations are required by any Creditor Party to comply with its domestic money laundering and/or legal identification requirements;
and |
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(b) |
confirms that it is the beneficiary within the meaning of the German Anti Money Laundering Act (Gesetz über das Aufspüren von Gewinnen aus schweren Straftaten (Geldwäschegesetz)), acting for its own
account and not for or on behalf of any other person for each part of the Loan made or to be made available to it under this Agreement. That is to say, it acts for its own account and not for or on behalf of anyone else. |
The Borrower will promptly inform the Agent by written notice, if it is not or ceases to be the beneficiary and will provide in writing the name
and address of the beneficiary.
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any written notice it receives under this
Clause 10.17.
Neither the Borrower nor any of its assets is entitled to immunity on grounds of
sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (including, without limitation, suit, attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement).
It has observed and, to the best of its knowledge and belief, parties acting
on its behalf have observed in the course of acting for it, all applicable laws and regulations relating to bribery and corrupt practices.
The choice of the laws of England to govern this Agreement and those other
Finance Documents which are expressed to be governed by the laws of England, the laws of Germany to govern the Account Pledges and the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State to govern the Mortgages constitutes a valid choice of law and the
submission by the Borrower or, as the case may be, the relevant Security Parties thereunder to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and, in the case of the Account Pledges, Germany or, in the case of the Mortgages, the applicable
Approved Flag State is a valid submission and does not contravene the laws of England or, in the case of the Account Pledges, Germany or, in the case of the Mortgage, the applicable Approved Flag State or the laws of any other Pertinent
Jurisdiction,
will be applied by the courts of any Pertinent Jurisdiction if this Agreement or those other Finance Documents or any
claim thereunder comes under their jurisdiction upon proof of the relevant provisions of the laws of England or, in the case of the Account Pledges, Germany or, in the case of the Mortgage, the applicable Approved Flag State.
The obligations of the Borrower and each Security Party under the Finance
Documents to which it is a party are direct, general and unconditional obligations and rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to
companies generally.
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(a) |
Neither the Borrower, nor any Security Party, nor any Approved Manager, nor any member of the Group or any of their respective directors or officers or, to the Borrower's or the relevant Security Party's or any
Approved Manager's, or the relevant member of the Group's best knowledge (after due and careful inquiry), any of the Borrower's or such Security Party's or any Approved Manager's or such member of the Group’s employees, affiliates, agents or
representatives: |
|
(i) |
is a Restricted Party; |
|
(ii) |
has been engaged in any transaction, activity or conduct that could reasonably be expected to result in its becoming a Restricted Party; |
|
(iii) |
has or intends to have any business operations or other dealings: |
|
(A) |
in any Sanctioned Country which may result in a violation of any Sanctions applicable to it; |
|
(B) |
with any Specially Designated National (SDN) on OFAC’s SDN list or with a designated person targeted by asset freeze sanctions imposed by the UN, EU, Switzerland or HMT or owned or controlled by any such SDN or
designated person; or |
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(C) |
involving commodities or services of a Sanctioned Country origin or shipped to, through, or from a Sanctioned Country, or on Sanctioned Country owned or registered vessels or aircraft, or finance or subsidise any of
the foregoing exceeding 5 per cent. aggregated in comparison to the Borrower's or each Owner's total assets or revenues; |
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(iv) |
has received notice of, or is otherwise aware of, any claim, action, suit, proceedings or investigation involving it with respect to Sanctions; and/or |
|
(v) |
is acting on behalf of or at the direction of any Restricted Party. |
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(b) |
Each member of the Group, has taken, to the extent applicable to it, reasonable measures to ensure compliance with any Sanctions and will not use any part of the proceeds from the Loan or any part of the Loan in a
manner which may result in a violation of any Sanctions by any person. |
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(c) |
The representations and warranties provided for in this Clause 10.22 are only given by, and/or (as applicable) shall only apply to, any member of the Group which is a German Relevant Person (as defined in Clause 19.9)
or any other member of the Group bound by any applicable statutory anti-boycott law or regulation insofar as the giving of and compliance with such representations and warranties do not and will not result in a violation of or conflict with or
liability under section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, AWV) (in conjunction with section 4 and section 19 paragraph 3 no. 1 a) of the German Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz,
AWG)), any provision of Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation. |
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(d) |
In relation to a Restricted Lender, the representations and warranties provided for in this Clause 10.22 shall only apply for the benefit of that Restricted Lender to the extent that such benefit and the exercise of
any rights based on such representations and warranties will not result in a violation of or conflict with or liability under section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, AWV) (in conjunction with
section 4 and section 19 paragraph 3 no. 1 a) of the German Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz, AWG)), any provision of Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation. In connection with
any amendment, waiver, determination or direction relating to any part of this Clause 10.22 of which a Restricted Lender does not have the benefit, the commitments of that Restricted Lender will be disregarded for all purposes when determining
whether the consent of the Majority Lenders or such other applicable quorum has been obtained or whether the determination or direction by the Majority Lenders or such other applicable quorum has been made. |
The representations and warranties in this Clause 10 shall be deemed to be repeated
by the Borrower:
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(a) |
on the date of service of the Drawdown Notice; |
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(b) |
on the Drawdown Date; and |
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(c) |
with the exception of Clauses 10.3, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 and 10.14 on the first day of each Interest Period and on the date of any Compliance Certificate issued pursuant to Clause 11.21, |
as if made with reference to the facts and circumstances existing on each such day.
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following
provisions of this Clause 11 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may otherwise permit in writing.
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11.2 |
Title; negative pledge |
The Borrower will:
|
(a) |
on and from the Delivery Date, hold (directly or indirectly) the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in the Owner, the Ship, her Insurances and Earnings, free from all Security Interests and other
interests and rights of every kind, except for those created by the Finance |
Documents and the effect of assignments contained in the Finance Documents and except for Permitted Security Interests;
and
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(b) |
not create or permit to arise any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) over any other asset, present or future, other than Security Interests arising in the normal course of the Borrower's
business of acquiring, operating and (re)financing vessels. |
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11.3 |
No disposal of assets |
The Borrower will not, and shall procure that the Owner will not,
transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of:
|
(a) |
all or a substantial part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a number of transactions, whether related or not; |
|
(b) |
any debt payable to it or any other right (present, future or contingent right) to receive a payment, including any right to damages or compensation, |
but paragraph (a) does not apply to:
|
(i) |
any charter of the Ship; |
|
(ii) |
any sale of the Ship, subject to (A) the net sale proceeds of such sale being in an amount sufficient to make the mandatory prepayment of the Loan pursuant to Clause 8.8 and (B) no
Event of Default has occurred, which is continuing at the relevant time; |
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(iii) |
in the case of the Borrower, if such transfer, lease or disposal results in (A) the Borrower being in breach of any of its obligations under Clause 12.5 or (B) the occurrence of an Event of Default. |
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11.4 |
No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred |
The Borrower will not, and shall procure
that the Owner will not, incur any liability or obligation (including, without limitation, any Financial Indebtedness or any obligations under a guarantee) except:
|
(a) |
liabilities and obligations under the Finance Documents and the Underlying Documents to which it is or, as the case may be, will be a party; |
|
(b) |
in the case of the Owner, liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the normal course of its business of trading, operating and chartering, maintaining and repairing the Ship (including, without limitation,
any Financial Indebtedness owing to the Borrower); and |
|
(c) |
in the case of the Borrower, liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the normal course of its business of acquiring, operating and financing or refinancing vessels (and issuing relevant guarantees),
acquiring shares in vessel owning companies (or their holding companies) and financing from any type of lender of such acquisitions and all other matters incidental thereto (including, without limitation, any Financial Indebtedness owing to the
partners of the Borrower, subject to the Borrower ensuring on or prior to the Drawdown Date, that the rights of each creditor thereunder are fully subordinated in writing pursuant to a Subordination Agreement). |
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11.5 |
Information provided to be accurate |
All financial and other information, including but not
limited to factual information, exhibits and reports, which is provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower under or in connection with any Finance Document will be true, correct and not misleading and will not omit any material fact or
consideration.
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11.6 |
Provision of financial statements |
The Borrower will send or procure that there are sent to the
Agent or, in relation to the consolidated audited annual financial statements of the Group referred to in paragraph (a) of this Clause 11.6, notify the Agent that they have been made available to the public and
promptly after each request of the Agent send:
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(a) |
as soon as possible, but in no event later than 120 days after the end of each Financial Year of the Borrower the consolidated audited annual financial statements of the Group for that Financial Year (commencing with
the financial statements for the Financial Year which ended on 31 December 2021); |
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(b) |
as soon as possible, but in no event later than 60 days after the end of each 3-month period ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September, 31 December in each Financial Year of the Borrower the quarterly consolidated
unaudited financial statements of the Group, in each case, for that 3-month period (commencing with the financial statements for the 3-month period, ending on 30 June 2022), duly certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of
the Borrower; and |
|
(c) |
promptly after each request by the Agent, such further financial or other information in respect of the Borrower, the Ship, the Owner, the other Security Parties and the Group (including, without limitation any sale
and purchase agreements, investment brochure(s), shipbuilding contracts and charter agreements) as may be requested by the Agent. |
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11.7 |
Form of financial statements |
All financial statements delivered under Clause 11.6 will:
|
(a) |
be prepared in accordance with all applicable laws and GAAP and, in the case of any audited financial statements, be certified by an independent and reputable auditor having requisite experience selected and appointed
by the Borrower; |
|
(b) |
give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Borrower and the Group at the date of those accounts and of its profit for the period to which those accounts relate; and |
|
(c) |
fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Borrower and the Group. |
The Borrower will send the Agent:
|
(a) |
whilst an Event of Default is in existence, at the same time as they are dispatched; and |
|
(b) |
at all other times, upon the Agent's request, |
copies of all communications which are despatched to the Borrower's partners or creditors or any class of them.
The Borrower will, and shall procure, where applicable, that the Owner will, maintain
in force and promptly obtain or renew, and will promptly send certified copies to the Agent of, all consents required:
|
(a) |
for the Borrower and the Owner to perform their respective obligations under any Finance Document and/or any Underlying Document to which each is or, as the case may be, will be a party; |
|
(b) |
for the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document and/or any Underlying Document to which each is or, as the case may be, will be a party; and |
|
(c) |
for the Owner to continue to own and operate the Ship, |
and the Borrower will, and shall
procure that the Owner will, comply (or procure compliance as the case may be) with the terms of all such consents.
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11.10 |
Maintenance of Security Interests |
The Borrower will:
|
(a) |
at its own cost, do all that it reasonably can to ensure that any Finance Document validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it purports to create; and |
|
(b) |
without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol any Finance Document with any court or authority in all Pertinent Jurisdictions, pay any stamp, registration
or similar tax in all Pertinent Jurisdictions in respect of any Finance Document, give any notice or take any other step which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is or has become necessary or desirable for any Finance Document to be valid,
enforceable or admissible in evidence or to ensure or protect the priority of any Security Interest which it creates. |
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11.11 |
Notification of litigation |
The Borrower will provide the Agent with details of any legal or
administrative action involving the Borrower, the Owner, the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances in respect of the Ship, any Security Party or to the best of Xxxxxxxx's knowledge in respect of any Approved Manager who is not a member of the Group
in relation to the Ship, as soon as such action is instituted or it becomes apparent to the Borrower that it is likely to be instituted, unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered material in the context of any
Finance Document and the Borrower shall procure that reasonable measures are taken to defend any such legal or administrative action.
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11.12 |
No amendment to the Underlying Documents |
The Borrower shall not, and shall procure that the
Owner will not, waive or fail to enforce, the Underlying Documents to which it is a party or any of its provisions and promptly notify the Agent of any material amendment or supplement to any Underlying Document.
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11.13 |
Principal place of business |
The Borrower will maintain its place of business, and keep its
corporate documents and records, at the address stated in Clause 28.2(a); and the Borrower will not establish, or do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in any country other than Greece.
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11.14 |
Confirmation of no default |
The Borrower will, within five Business Days after service by the
Agent of a written request, serve on the Agent a notice which is signed by the authorised representative of the Borrower or an officer of the Borrower's general partner and which:
|
(a) |
states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred; or |
|
(b) |
states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given. |
The Agent may serve requests under this Clause 11.14 from time to time but only if asked to do so by a Lender
or Xxxxxxx having Contributions exceeding 10 per cent. of the Loan (if the Loan has not been advanced) or Commitments exceeding 10 per cent. of the Total Commitments and this Clause 11.14 does not affect the
Borrower's obligations under Clause 11.15.
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11.15 |
Notification of default |
The Borrower will notify the Agent as soon as the Borrower becomes
aware of:
|
(a) |
the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default; or |
|
(b) |
any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred, |
and will keep the Agent fully up-to-date with all developments.
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11.16 |
Provision of further information |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Owner will as
soon as practicable after receiving the request, provide the Agent with any additional financial or other information relating:
|
(a) |
to the Borrower, the Owner, the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances of any Ship; or |
|
(b) |
to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document, |
which may be
requested by the Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender at any time.
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11.17 |
General and administrative costs |
The Borrower shall ensure that the payment of all the general
and administrative costs of the Borrower and the Owner in connection with the ownership and operation of the Ship (including, without limitation, the payment of the management fees pursuant to any management agreement) shall be fully subordinated to
the payment obligations of the Borrower and the Owner under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents throughout the Security Period.
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11.18 |
Provision of copies of SEC filings |
The Borrower will send to the Agent copies of all filings
made with, and reports submitted to, the US Securities and Exchange Commission promptly after making such filings or submitting such reports Provided that any such filings or reports which are made available to the public shall be considered
to have been delivered to the Agent.
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11.19 |
Provision of copies and translation of documents |
The Borrower will supply the Agent with a
sufficient number of copies of the documents referred to above to provide one copy for each Creditor Party; and if the Agent so requires in respect of any of those documents, the Borrower will provide a certified English translation prepared by a
translator approved by the Agent or have them legalised and/or notarised by a competent authority.
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11.20 |
"Know your customer" checks |
If:
|
(a) |
the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement; |
|
(b) |
any change in the status of the general partner of the Borrower or any Security Party after the date of this Agreement; or |
|
(c) |
a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer, |
obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender) to comply with "know your customer" or
similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Borrower shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or the Lender concerned supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation
and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or the Lender concerned (for itself or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the
Agent, the Lender concerned or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all
applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
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11.21 |
Compliance Certificate |
|
(a) |
The Borrower shall supply to the Agent, together with each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 11.6 or, in the case of paragraph (a) of Clause 11.6, together with
the notification that the consolidated audited annual financial statements of the Group have been made available to the public, a Compliance Certificate. |
|
(b) |
Each Compliance Certificate shall be duly signed by the chief financial officer of the Borrower, evidencing (inter alia) the Borrower's compliance (or not, as the case may be) with the provisions of Clauses 12.5 and
15.1 (setting out calculations in reasonable details as to such compliance or not). |
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11.22 |
No Money laundering |
|
(i) |
will not, and will procure that no Security Party, to the extent applicable, will, in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents, contravene, or permit any subsidiary to contravene, any law,
official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat "money laundering" (as defined in Article 1 of the Directive 2015/849/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union of 20 May
2015) and any comparable US federal and state laws; and |
|
(ii) |
shall further submit any documents and declarations on request, if such documents or declarations are required by any Creditor Party to comply with its domestic money laundering and/or legal identification
requirements. |
|
(i) |
shall confirm to the Agent that it is the beneficiary within the meaning of the German Anti Money Laundering Act (Gesetz über das Aufspüren von Gewinnen aus schweren Straftaten
(Geldwäschegesetz)), acting for its own account and not for or on behalf of any other person for each part of the Loan made or to be made available to it under this Agreement (that is to say, it acts for its own account and not for or on
behalf of anyone else); and |
|
(ii) |
will promptly inform the Agent by written notice, if it is not or ceases to be the beneficiary and will provide in writing the name and address of the beneficiary. |
|
(c) |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any written notice it receives under sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of Clause 11.22 above. |
|
(a) |
The Borrower undertakes that neither it nor its subsidiaries will, directly or indirectly, |
|
(i) |
engage in any activities in conflict with or in violation of any Sanctions and, in particular, |
|
(ii) |
use the proceeds of the Loan or any part of the Loan to lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person that is a Restricted Party; |
|
(iii) |
directly or indirectly fund all or part of any repayment or prepayment of the Loan with funds that are the property of, are beneficially owned directly or indirectly by, or are derived from any transaction with or
action involving a Restricted Party; or |
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(iv) |
otherwise act in any manner with respect to such proceeds which would result in a violation by any person (including any Creditor Party or any person participating in the transaction, whether as initial purchaser,
advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. |
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(b) |
The undertakings provided for in this Clause 11.22 are only given by, and/or (as applicable) shall only apply to, any member of the Group which is a German Relevant Person or any other member of the Group bound by any
applicable statutory anti-boycott law or regulation insofar |
as the giving of and compliance with such undertakings do not and will not result in a violation of or conflict with or
liability under section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, AWV) (in conjunction with section 4 and section 19 paragraph 3 no. 1 a) of the German Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz,
AWG)), any provision of Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 or any other applicable anti-boycott or similar applicable laws or regulation.
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(c) |
In relation to a Restricted Lender, the undertakings provided for in this Clause 11.22 shall only apply for the benefit of that Restricted Lender to the extent that such benefit and the exercise of any rights based on
such undertakings will not result in a violation of or conflict with or liability under section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung, AWV) (in conjunction with section 4 and section 19 paragraph 3 no. 1
a) of the German Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz, AWG)), any provision of Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation. In connection with any amendment, waiver, determination or
direction relating to any part of this Clause 11.22 of which a Restricted Lender does not have the benefit, the Commitments of that Restricted Lender will be disregarded for all purposes when determining whether the consent of the Majority Lenders
(or such other applicable quorum) has been obtained or whether the determination or direction by the Majority Lenders (or such other applicable quorum) has been made. |
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12 |
Corporate Undertakings |
The Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following
provisions of this Clause 12 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may otherwise permit in writing.
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12.2 |
Maintenance of status |
The Borrower will maintain its separate existence and remain in good
standing under the laws of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands.
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12.3 |
Negative undertakings |
The Borrower will not:
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(a) |
change the nature of its business; or |
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(b) |
pay any dividend or make any other form of distribution or effect any form of redemption, purchase, return or reduction of its partnership interests unless: |
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(i) |
no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the relevant time (including, without limitation, any failure by the Borrower to satisfy the covenants contained in Clauses 12.5 and 15.1); |
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(ii) |
no Event of Default will result from the payment of a dividend or the making of any other form of distribution; and |
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(iii) |
it has first supplied to the Agent any Compliance Certificate required to be supplied at the relevant time to the Agent pursuant to Clause 11.21 evidencing compliance
with |
the provisions of Clauses 12.5 and 15.1 for the period covered by the latest financial statements delivered to the Agent
pursuant to Clause 11.6;
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(c) |
provide any form of credit or financial assistance to: |
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(i) |
a person who is directly or indirectly interested in the Borrower's partnership interests; or |
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(ii) |
any company in or with which such a person is directly or indirectly interested or connected, |
or enter into any transaction with or involving such a person or company on terms which are, in any respect, less favourable to the Borrower
than those which it could obtain in a bargain made at arms' length;
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(d) |
allow the Owner to open or maintain any account with any bank or financial institution except accounts with the Agent and the Security Trustee for the purposes of the Finance Documents; |
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(e) |
enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger, acquisition, divesture, split-up or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation unless: |
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(i) |
the surviving entity following such amalgamation, merger or de-merger, acquisition, divesture, split-up or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation is the Borrower; and |
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(ii) |
no Event of Default has occurred which is continuing nor any Event of Default (including, without limitation, any breach of Clause 12.5) will occur as a result of such amalgamation,
merger or de-merger, acquisition, divesture, split-up or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation; |
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(f) |
change, or allow the Owner to change, its Financial Year; or |
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(g) |
change its auditors without notifying the Agent promptly after the occurrence of such change. |
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12.4 |
Subordination of rights of Xxxxxxxx |
All rights which the Borrower at any time has against the
Owner or its assets shall be fully subordinated to the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents; and in particular, the Borrower shall not during the Security Period:
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(a) |
claim, or in a bankruptcy of the Owner prove for, any amount payable to the Borrower by the Owner, whether in respect of this or any other transaction; |
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(b) |
take or enforce any Security Interest for any such amount; or |
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(c) |
claim to set-off any such amount against any amount payable by the Borrower to the Owner. |
The Borrower shall ensure that at all times:
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(a) |
the Leverage Ratio shall be less than 75 per cent.; |
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(b) |
the Borrower and other members of the Group maintain immediately freely available and unencumbered bank or cash deposits (including time deposits and the amounts standing to |
the credit of the Retention Account) in an amount of not less than the product of (i) $500,000 and (ii) the number of
Fleet Vessels at the time; and
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(c) |
the ratio of EBITDA to Net Interest Expense shall be no less than 2:1. |
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(a) |
The Borrower confirms that as at the date of this Agreement the financial covenants, including without limitation the asset cover ratio requirement set out in Clause 15.1 and the
dividend restrictions set out in Clause 12.3(b), applicable to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement, place no lender or other credit provider of the Borrower or any other member of the Group in a more favourable
position than that applicable to the Creditor Parties pursuant to the Finance Documents. |
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(b) |
If, in the opinion of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders), the Borrower or any other member of the Group agrees with any lender or other credit provider in the context of a financing made or to be
made available to that member of the Group, financial covenants including without limitation any asset cover ratio and dividend restrictions (the "Covenants"), which place such lender or credit provider in a more favourable position
than that applicable to the Creditor Parties pursuant to the Finance Documents, the Borrower shall, or shall procure that any Security Party or any other member of the Group shall give the Creditor Parties the benefit of such Covenants which, in the
opinion of the Creditor Parties, would place them in an equivalent position as that applicable to the other lender or credit provider at the relevant time. The Borrower and the Owner shall also enter, if required by the Agent (acting on the
instructions of all Lenders), into a supplemental agreement to this Agreement or, as the case may be, any of the other Finance Documents, to amend each such document accordingly (with such supplemental agreement or agreements being entered into on
or immediately after the date on which the Covenants are granted). |
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12.7 |
Xxxxxxxx's and Owner's subsidiaries |
The Borrower and Owner have provided the Agent on or
before the date of this Agreement with a list of their subsidiaries as included in their annual audited financial statements (together with any information requested by the Agent pursuant to Clause 11.6(c) in
respect of such subsidiaries) and shall ensure to include an updated list of their active subsidiaries in each set of financial statements to be provided to the Agent pursuant to Clause 11.6.
The Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to procure that the Owner
complies with the following provisions of this Clause 13 as from the Drawdown Date and at all times thereafter during the Security Period except as the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Xxxxxxx, may otherwise permit in
writing.
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13.2 |
Maintenance of obligatory insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall keep the
Ship insured at its own expense against:
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(a) |
fire and usual marine risks (including hull and machinery and excess risks); |
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(b) |
war risks (including, without limitation, protection and indemnity war risks with a separate limit not less than hull value of the Ship); |
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(c) |
protection and indemnity risks (including, without limitation protection and indemnity war risks in excess of the amount for war risks (hull) and oil pollution liability risks in each case in the highest amount
available in the international insurance market); and |
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(d) |
any other risks the insurance of which the Security Trustee acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, having regard to practices, recommendations and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, may
from time to time require by notice to the Borrower (excluding loss of hire insurance). |
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13.3 |
Terms of obligatory insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall effect such
insurances in such amounts in such currency and upon such terms and conditions (including, without limitation, any LSW 1189 or, in the opinion of the Security Trustee, comparable mortgage clause) as shall from time to time be approved in writing by
the Security Trustee in its sole discretion, but in any event as follows:
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(b) |
in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, on an agreed value basis in an amount equal to at least the higher of: |
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(i) |
an amount equal to 120 per cent. of the aggregate of: |
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(B) |
the principal amount secured by any equal or prior ranking Security Interest on the Ship; and |
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(ii) |
the Market Value of the Ship, |
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(c) |
in the case of oil pollution liability risks, for an amount equal to the highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection and indemnity club entry (with the International Group of Protection
and Indemnity Clubs) and the international marine insurance market (currently $1,000,000,000 for any one accident or occurrence); |
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(d) |
in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the full value and tonnage of the Ship; |
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(e) |
in relation to war risks insurance, extended to cover piracy and terrorism where excluded under the fire and usual marine risks insurance; |
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(f) |
on approved terms and conditions; |
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(g) |
such other risks of whatever nature and howsoever arising in respect of which insurance would be maintained by a prudent owner of a vessel similar to the Ship; and |
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(h) |
through approved brokers and with approved insurance companies and/or underwriters which have a Standard & Poor's rating of at least BBB- or a comparable rating by any other rating agency acceptable to the
Security Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) |
or, in the case of war risks and protection and indemnity risks, in approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks
associations which are members of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Clubs.
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13.4 |
Further protections for the Creditor Parties |
In addition to the terms set out in Clause 13.3,
the Borrower shall procure that the obligatory insurances shall:
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(a) |
the Borrower, the Owner and any and all third parties who are named assured or co-assured under any obligatory insurance shall assign their interest in any and all obligatory insurances and other Insurances if so
required by the Agent; |
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(b) |
whenever the Security Trustee requires, the obligatory insurances name (or be amended to name) the Security Trustee as additional named assured for its rights and interests, warranted no operational interest and with
full waiver of rights of subrogation they may have under any applicable law against the Security Trustee but without the Security Trustee thereby being liable to pay (but having the right to pay) premiums, calls or other assessments in respect of
such insurance; |
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(c) |
the interest of the Security Trustee as assignee and as loss payee shall be duly endorsed on all slips, cover notes, policies, certificates of entry or other instruments of insurance in respect of the obligatory
insurances; |
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(d) |
the obligatory insurances shall name the Security Trustee as sole loss payee with such directions for payment as the Security Trustee may specify; |
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(e) |
the obligatory insurances shall provide that all payments by or on behalf of the insurers under the obligatory insurances to the Security Trustee shall be made without set-off, counterclaim or deductions or condition
whatsoever; |
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(f) |
the obligatory insurances shall provide that the insurers shall waive, to the fullest extent permitted by English law, their entitlement (if any) (whether by statute, common law, equity, or otherwise) to be subrogated
to the rights and remedies of the Security Trustee in respect of any rights or interests (secured or not) held by or available to the Security Trustee in respect of the Secured Liabilities, until the Secured Liabilities shall have been fully repaid
and discharged, except that the insurers shall not be restricted by the terms of this paragraph (f) from making personal claims against persons (other than the Owner or any Creditor Party) in circumstances where the insurers have fully discharged
their liabilities and obligations under the relevant obligatory insurances; |
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(g) |
the obligatory insurances shall provide that the obligatory insurances shall be primary without right of contribution from other insurances effected by the Security Trustee or any other Creditor
Party; |
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(h) |
the obligatory insurances shall provide that the Security Trustee may make proof of loss if the Owner fails to do so; and |
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(i) |
the obligatory insurances shall provide that if any obligatory insurance is cancelled, or if any substantial change is made in the coverage which adversely affects the interest of the Security Trustee, or if any
obligatory insurance is allowed to lapse for non-payment of premium, such cancellation, charge or lapse shall only be effective against the Security Trustee 14 days (or 7 |
days in the case of war risks) after receipt by the Security Trustee of prior written notice from the insurers of such
cancellation, change or lapse.
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13.5 |
Renewal of obligatory insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall:
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(a) |
at least 10 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance effected by it: |
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(i) |
notify the Security Trustee of the brokers, underwriters, insurance companies and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom the Owner proposes to renew that obligatory insurance and of
the proposed terms of renewal; and |
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(ii) |
seek the Security Trustee's approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i); |
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(b) |
at least 7 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew that obligatory insurance in accordance with the Security Trustee's approval pursuant to paragraph (a); and |
|
(c) |
procure that the approved brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity associations with which such a renewal is effected shall promptly after the renewal notify the Security Trustee in writing of the
terms and conditions of the renewal. |
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13.6 |
Copies of policies; letters of undertaking |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall
ensure that all approved brokers provide the Security Trustee with pro forma copies of all cover notes and policies relating to the obligatory insurances which they are to effect or renew and of a letter or letters of undertaking in a form required
by the Security Trustee and including undertakings by the approved brokers that:
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(a) |
they will have endorsed on each policy, immediately upon issue, a loss payable clause and a notice of assignment complying with the provisions of Clause 13.4; |
|
(b) |
they will hold such policies, and the benefit of such insurances, to the order of the Security Trustee in accordance with the said loss payable clause; |
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(c) |
they will advise the Security Trustee immediately of any change to the terms of the obligatory insurances; |
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(d) |
they will notify the Security Trustee, not less than 14 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances, in the event of their not having received notice of renewal instructions from the Owner or its agents and,
in the event of their receiving instructions to renew, they will promptly notify the Security Trustee of the terms of the instructions; and |
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(e) |
they will not set off against any sum recoverable in respect of a claim relating to the Ship under such obligatory insurances any premiums or other amounts due to them or any other person whether in respect of the
Ship or otherwise, they waive any lien on the policies, or any sums received under them, which they might have in respect of such premiums or other amounts, and they will not cancel such obligatory insurances by reason of non-payment of such
premiums or other amounts, and will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of the Ship forthwith upon being so requested by the Security Trustee. |
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13.7 |
Copies of certificates of entry; letters of undertaking |
The Borrower shall procure that the
Owner shall ensure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations in which the Ship is entered provides the Security Trustee with:
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(a) |
a certified copy of the certificate of entry for the Ship; |
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(b) |
a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as may be required by the Security Trustee; |
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(c) |
where required to be issued under the terms of insurance/indemnity provided by the Owner's protection and indemnity association, a certified copy of each United States of America voyage quarterly declaration (or other
similar document or documents) made by the Owner in accordance with the requirements of such protection and indemnity association; and |
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(d) |
a certified copy of each certificate of financial responsibility for pollution by oil or other Environmentally Sensitive Material issued by the relevant certifying authority or, as the case may be, protection and
indemnity associations in relation to the Ship (if applicable). |
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13.8 |
Deposit of original policies |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall ensure that all
policies relating to obligatory insurances effected by it are deposited with the approved brokers through which the insurances are effected or renewed.
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall punctually pay all
premiums or other sums payable in respect of the obligatory insurances effected by it and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Security Trustee.
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall ensure that any guarantees required
by a protection and indemnity or war risks association are promptly issued and remain in full force and effect.
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13.11 |
Compliance with terms of insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall not do or
omit to do (or permit to be done or not to be done) any act or thing which would or might render any obligatory insurance invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable or render any sum payable under an obligatory insurance repayable in whole or in part;
and, in particular:
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(a) |
the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall take all necessary action and comply with all requirements which may from time to time be applicable to the obligatory insurances, and (without limiting the obligation
contained in Clause 13.6(c)) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Security Trustee has not given its prior approval; |
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(b) |
the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall not make any changes relating to the classification or classification society or manager or operator of the Ship approved by the underwriters of the obligatory
insurances; |
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(c) |
the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall make (and promptly supply copies to the Agent (upon its request)) of all quarterly or other voyage declarations which may be required by the protection and indemnity
risks association in which the Ship is entered to maintain cover for trading to the United States of America and Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other applicable legislation) and, if applicable,
shall procure that each Approved Manager complies with this requirement; and |
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(d) |
the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall not employ the Ship, nor allow it to be employed, otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of the obligatory insurances, without first obtaining the
consent of the insurers and complying with any requirements (as to extra premium or otherwise) which the insurers specify. |
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13.12 |
Alteration to terms of insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall not make or
agree to any alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance or waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance.
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13.13 |
Settlement of claims |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall not settle, compromise or
abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty, and shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys which at
any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances and shall do all things necessary to ensure such collection or recovery is made.
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13.14 |
Provision of copies of communications |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall provide
the Security Trustee with copies of all written communications:
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(i) |
an Event of Default, for as long as such Event of Default is continuing; |
|
(ii) |
a Major Casualty, for as long as such Major Casualty has not been rectified and/or the relevant insurances proceeds have not been paid to the Security Trustee, pursuant to the Finance Documents; and |
|
(iii) |
a Total Loss during the period commencing on the Total Loss Date and ending on the earlier of (A) the date falling 120 days after the Total Loss Date and (B) the date of receipt by the Security Trustee of the proceeds
of insurance relating to such Total Loss, |
at the time of each such communication regarding the above-mentioned events; and
|
(b) |
at all other times, upon the Security Trustee's request, |
between the Owner and:
|
(i) |
the approved brokers; |
|
(ii) |
the approved protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations; and |
|
(iii) |
the approved insurance companies and/or underwriters, which relate directly or indirectly to: |
|
(A) |
the Owner's obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional premiums or calls; |
|
(B) |
any credit arrangements made between the Owner and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) relating wholly or partly to the effecting or maintenance of the obligatory insurances; and |
|
(C) |
a claim under any obligatory insurances of the Ship. |
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13.15 |
Provision of information and further undertakings |
In addition, the Borrower shall procure that
the Owner shall promptly provide the Security Trustee (or any persons which it may designate) with any information which the Security Trustee (or any such designated person) requests for the purpose of:
|
(a) |
obtaining or preparing any report from an independent marine insurance broker as to the adequacy of the obligatory insurances effected or proposed to be effected; and/or |
|
(b) |
effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurances as are referred to in Clause 13.17 or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any such insurances, |
and the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall:
|
(c) |
do all things necessary and provide the Agent and the Security Trustee with all documents and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys in respect of the Insurances which are payable
to the Security Trustee pursuant to the Finance Documents; and |
|
(d) |
promptly provide the Agent with full information regarding any Major Casualty or in consequence whereof the Ship has become or may become a Total Loss and agree to any settlement of such casualty or other accident or
damage to the Ship only with the Agent's prior written consent, |
and the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall, forthwith
upon demand, indemnify the Security Trustee in respect of all fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Security Trustee in connection with any such report as is referred to in paragraph (a).
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13.16 |
Mortgagee's interest and additional perils insurances |
The Security Trustee shall be entitled
from time to time to effect, maintain and renew all or any of the following insurances in such amounts, on such terms, through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Majority Lenders may from time to time consider appropriate:
|
(a) |
a mortgagee's interest insurance in relation to the Ship providing for the indemnification of the Creditor Parties for any losses under or in connection with any Finance Document in an amount of up to 120 per cent. of
the aggregate of: |
|
(ii) |
the principal amount secured by any equal or prior ranking Security Interest on the Ship, |
which
directly or indirectly result from loss of or damage to the Ship or a liability of the that or of the Owner, being a loss or damage which is prima facie covered by an obligatory insurance but in respect of which there is a non-payment (or reduced
payment) by the underwriters by reason of, or on the basis of an allegation concerning:
|
(A) |
any act or omission on the part of the Owner, of any operator, charterer, manager or sub-manager of the Ship or of any officer, employee or agent of the Owner or of any such person, including any breach of warranty or
condition or any non-disclosure relating to such obligatory insurance; |
|
(B) |
any act or omission, whether deliberate, negligent or accidental, or any knowledge or privity of the Owner, any other person referred to in paragraph (i) above, or of any officer, employee or agent of the Owner or of
such a person, including the casting away or damaging of the Ship and/or the Ship being unseaworthy; and/or |
|
(C) |
any other matter capable of being insured against under a mortgagee's interest marine insurance policy whether or not similar to the foregoing; and |
|
(b) |
a mortgagee's interest additional perils insurance in relation to the Ship providing for the indemnification of the Creditor Parties against, among other things, any possible losses or other consequences of any
Environmental Claim, including the risk of expropriation, arrest or any form of detention of a Ship, the imposition of any Security Interest over the Ship and/or any other matter capable of being insured against under a mortgagee's interest
additional perils policy whether or not similar to the foregoing, and in an amount of up to 110 per cent. of the aggregate of: |
|
(ii) |
the principal amount secured by any equal or prior ranking Security Interest on the Ship, |
and
the Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Security Trustee in respect of all premiums and other expenses which are incurred in connection with or with a view to effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurance or dealing with, or
considering, any matter arising out of any such insurance.
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13.17 |
Review of insurance requirements |
The Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders) shall be entitled to review the requirements of this Clause 13 from time to time in order to take account of any changes in circumstances after the date of this Agreement which are, in the opinion of the Agent (acting on the instructions of
the Majority Lenders), significant and capable of affecting the Owner, the Ship and its Insurances (including, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance coverage or the risks to which the Owner may be subject) and the
Borrower and the Owner shall upon demand fully indemnify the Agent in respect of all documented fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Agent in appointing an independent marine insurance broker or adviser to conduct such
review.
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13.18 |
Modification of insurance requirements |
The Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders) shall notify the Borrower and the Owner of any proposed modification under Clause 13.18 to the requirements of this Clause 13 which the Agent reasonably considers appropriate in the circumstances, and such modification shall take effect on
and from the date it is notified in writing to the Borrower and the Owner as an amendment to this Clause 13 and shall bind the Borrower and the Owner accordingly.
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13.19 |
Compliance with mortgagee's instructions |
The Security Trustee shall be entitled (without
prejudice to or limitation of any other rights which it may have or acquire under any Finance Document) to require the Ship to remain at any safe port or to proceed to and remain at any safe port designated by the Security Trustee until the Owner
implements any amendments to the terms of the obligatory insurances and any operational changes required as a result of a notice served under Clause 13.19.
The Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to procure that the Owner
complies as from the Drawdown Date and at all times thereafter during the Security Period with the following provisions of this Clause 14 except as the Agent, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may otherwise permit (in the case of
Clauses 14.2, 14.3(b) and 14.13 such authorisation not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed by any Lender).
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14.2 |
Ship's name and registration |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall keep the Ship
registered in its name under the Approved Flag; shall not do, omit to do or allow to be done anything as a result of which such registration might be cancelled or imperilled; and shall not change the name or port of registry of the Ship.
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14.3 |
Repair and classification |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner and each Approved Manager
shall, keep the Ship in a good and safe condition and state of repair, sea and cargo worthy in all respects:
|
(a) |
consistent with first-class ship ownership and management practice; |
|
(b) |
so as to maintain the highest class available for vessels of the same type, specification and age as the Ship free of overdue recommendations and conditions, with the Approved Classification Society;
and |
|
(c) |
so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered at ports in the applicable Approved Flag State or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction to which the Ship may trade from time to time,
including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code, |
and the Agent shall be given power of attorney in the form
attached as Schedule 5 to act on behalf of the Owner in order to, inspect the class records and any files held by the classification society and to require the classification society to provide the Agent or any of its nominees
with any information, document or file, it might request and the classification society shall be fully entitled to rely
hereon without any further inquiry.
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14.4 |
Classification society undertaking |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall instruct
the classification society referred to in Clause 14.3 (and procure that the classification society undertakes with the Security Trustee):
|
(a) |
to send to the Security Trustee, following receipt of a written request from the Security Trustee, certified true copies of all original class records and any other related records held by the classification society
in relation to the Ship; |
|
(b) |
to allow the Security Trustee (or its agents), at any time and from time to time, to inspect the original class and related records of the Ship at the offices of the classification society and to take copies of
them; |
|
(c) |
to notify the Security Trustee immediately in writing if the classification society: |
|
(i) |
receives notification from the Borrower or the Owner or any person that the Ship's classification society is to be changed; or |
|
(ii) |
becomes aware of any facts or matters which may result in or have resulted in a change, suspension, discontinuance, withdrawal or expiry of the Ship's class under the rules or terms and conditions of the Owner's or
the Ship's membership of the classification society; |
|
(d) |
following receipt of a written request from the Security Trustee: |
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(i) |
to confirm that the Owner is not in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society and, without limiting the foregoing, that it has paid in full all fees or other charges
due and payable to the classification society; or |
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(ii) |
if the Owner is in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society, to specify to the Security Trustee in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances of such default, the
consequences thereof, and any remedy period agreed or allowed by the classification society. |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall make no modification or repairs
to, or replacement of, the Ship or equipment installed on it which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of the Ship or materially reduce its value.
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall not remove any material part
of the Ship, or any item of equipment installed on the Ship unless the part or item so removed is forthwith replaced by a suitable part or item which is in the same condition as or better condition than the part or item removed, is free from any
Security Interest or any right in favour of any person other than the Security Trustee and becomes on installation on the Ship the property of the Owner and subject to the security constituted by the Mortgage and any Deed of Covenant
Provided that the Owner may install equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any
risk of damage to the Ship.
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall submit the Ship regularly to all
periodical or other surveys which may be required for classification purposes and, if so required by the Security Trustee provide the Security Trustee, with copies of all survey reports.
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall permit the Security Trustee (by
surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) to board the Ship at all reasonable times to inspect its condition or to satisfy themselves about proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections
at the Owner's expense and if the inspector or surveyor appointed by the Security Trustee under this Clause is of the opinion that there are any technical, commercial or operational actions being undertaken or omitted to be undertaken by the Owner
or the Approved Manager which adversely affect the operation or value of the Ship, the Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall forthwith (at the Owner's expense) on the Security Trustee's demand remedy such action or inaction and provide the
Security Trustee with evidence that it has taken such remedial action Provided that the Owner shall be obliged to pay for one inspection per calendar year during the Security Period unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing in
which case it shall pay for all inspections made whilst such Event of Default is in existence.
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14.9 |
Prevention of and release from arrest |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall promptly
discharge:
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(a) |
all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Ship and the Earnings or the Insurances of the Ship; |
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(b) |
all taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship and the Earnings or the Insurances of the Ship; and |
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(c) |
all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Ship and the Earnings or the Insurances of the Ship, |
and, forthwith upon receiving notice of the arrest of the Ship, or of its detention in exercise or purported exercise of any lien or claim, the
Owner shall procure its release by providing bail or otherwise as the circumstances may require.
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14.10 |
Compliance with laws etc. |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall:
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(a) |
comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws and all other laws or regulations relating to the Ship, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of the
Owner; |
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(b) |
not employ the Ship nor allow its employment in any manner contrary to any law or regulation in any relevant jurisdiction including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code; and |
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(c) |
in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), not cause or permit the Ship to enter or trade to any zone which is declared a war zone by any government or by the Ship's war
risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Security Trustee has been given and the Owner has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the Security Trustee may require. |
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14.11 |
Provision of information |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall promptly provide the
Security Trustee with any information which it requests regarding:
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(a) |
the Ship, its employment, position and engagements; |
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(b) |
the Earnings and payments and amounts due to the master and crew of the Ship; |
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(c) |
any expenses incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the operation, maintenance or repair of the Ship and any payments made in respect of the Ship; |
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(d) |
any towages and salvages; and |
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(e) |
its compliance, each Approved Manager's compliance and the compliance of the Ship with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code, |
and, upon the Security Trustee's request, provide copies of any current charter relating to the Ship, of any current charter guarantee and
copies of the Owner's or each Approved Manager's Document of Compliance, Safety Management Certificate and the ISSC.
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14.12 |
Notification of certain events |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner:
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(a) |
within 30 days after entering into any demise or bareboat charter for any period in respect of its Ship or any other Assignable Charter in respect of its Ship, notify the Agent and provide certified true and complete
copies of such charter and, if applicable, any charter guarantee and that: |
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(i) |
the Owner executes in favour of the Security Trustee a specific assignment of all its rights, title and interest in and to such charter and any charter guarantee in the form of a Charterparty
Assignment; |
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(ii) |
to use its reasonable endeavours to procure that (1) the charterer and any charter guarantor agree to acknowledge to the Security Trustee the specific assignment of such charter and charter guarantee by executing an
acknowledgement substantially in the form included in the relevant Charterparty Assignment and (2) that the Mortgage over the Ship has been registered prior to the entry into such charter, the charterer provides to the Security Trustee a letter of
undertaking pursuant to which the charterer subordinates all its claims against the Owner and the Ship to the claims of the Creditor Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents in the Agreed Form; |
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(iii) |
in the case where such charter is a demise charter the charterer undertakes to the Security Trustee (1) to comply with all of the Owner's undertakings with regard to the employment, insurances, operation, repairs and
maintenance of its Ship contained in |
this Agreement, the Mortgage, any Deed of Covenant and the General Assignment in relation to the Ship and (2) to execute a
Bareboat Charter Security Agreement, including (inter alia) an assignment of its interest in the insurances of the Ship in Agreed Form;
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(iv) |
the Agent's receipt of a copy of the charter and its failure or neglect to act, delay or acquiescence in connection with the Owner's entering into such charter shall not in any way constitute an acceptance by the
Agent of whether or not the Earnings under the charter are sufficient to meet the debt service requirements under this Agreement nor shall it in any way affect the Agent's or the Security Trustee's entitlement to exercise its rights under the
Finance Documents pursuant to Clause 19 upon the occurrence of an Event of Default arising as a result of an act or omission of the charterer; and |
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(v) |
the Owner delivers to the Agent such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 12 of Part A of Schedule 3, as the Agent may require;
and |
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(b) |
immediately notify the Security Trustee by letter, of: |
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(i) |
its entry into any agreement or arrangement for the postponement of any date on which any Earnings are due, the reduction of the amount of any Earnings or otherwise for the release or adverse alteration of any right
of the Owner to any Earnings; |
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(ii) |
its entry into any time or consecutive voyage charter in respect of the Ship for a term which exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed, three months; |
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(iii) |
any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty; |
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(iv) |
any occurrence as a result of which the Ship has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss; |
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(v) |
any requirement, condition or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with; |
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(vi) |
any arrest or detention of the Ship, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on the Ship or its Earnings or any requisition of the Ship for hire; |
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(vii) |
any intended dry docking of the Ship; |
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(viii) |
any Environmental Claim made against the Owner or in connection with the Ship, or any Environmental Incident; |
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(ix) |
any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against the Owner, any Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship; |
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(x) |
its intention to de-activate or lay up the Ship; or |
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(xi) |
any other matter, event or incident, actual or threatened, the effect of which will or could lead to the ISM Code or the ISPS Code not being complied with, |
and the Owner shall keep the Security Trustee advised in writing on a regular basis and in such detail as the Security
Trustee shall require of the Owner's, each Approved Manager's or any other person's response to any of those events or matters.
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14.13 |
Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc. |
The Borrower shall procure that the
Owner shall not, in relation to the Ship:
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(a) |
enter into any charter in relation to the Ship under which more than 2 months' hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance; |
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(b) |
charter the Ship otherwise than on bona fide arm's length terms at the time when the Ship is fixed; |
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(c) |
appoint a manager of the Ship other than an Approved Manager or agree to any alteration to the terms of any Approved Manager's appointment; or |
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(d) |
put the Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon it in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed $3,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first
given to the Security Trustee and in terms satisfactory to it a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on the Ship or its Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other reason. |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall keep the Mortgage
registered against the Ship as a valid first preferred or, as the case may be, priority mortgage, carry on board the Ship a certified copy of that Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the Master's cabin
of the Ship a framed printed notice stating that the Ship is mortgaged by the Owner to the Security Trustee.
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14.15 |
Sharing of Earnings |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall enter into any agreement or
arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings (other than (i) any profit sharing agreement with a charterer which takes effect above an agreed minimum charter hire rate payable to the Owner under a charter and (ii) any pool agreement, in either case,
on bona fide arm's length terms).
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner complies with the ISPS Code and in
particular, without limitation, shall:
|
(a) |
procure that the Ship and the company responsible for the Ship's compliance with the ISPS Code comply with the ISPS Code; and |
|
(b) |
maintain for the Ship an ISSC; and |
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(c) |
notify the Agent immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC. |
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14.17 |
Green Passport and green scrapping |
The Borrower shall procure that the Owner shall:
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(a) |
obtain and maintain throughout the Security Period an Inventory of Hazardous Material in respect of the Ship owned by it; and |
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(b) |
provide the Agent with a copy of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials for the Ship owned by it and each update to, or amendment of, such Inventory of Hazardous Materials from time to time during the Security
Period; |
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(c) |
maintain a safe, sustainable and socially responsible policy with respect to the dismantling of the Ship owned by it and that Ship being taken out of service; |
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(d) |
ensure that, if during the Security Period, the Ship owned by it is sold for scrapping or sold to an intermediary with the intention of being scrapped, that Ship is recycled at a recycling yard which conducts its
recycling business in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, in accordance with the provisions of: |
|
(i) |
the Hong Kong Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships 2009 in relation to non-EU flagged vessels; |
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(ii) |
the International Maritime Organisation's Guidelines for the development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials (Resolution MEPC.269(68)) in relation to non-EU flagged vessels; |
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(iii) |
Regulation (EU) No. 127/2013 adopted by the EU Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 20 November 2013 in relation to EU flagged vessels; |
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(iv) |
any other applicable laws or regulations relating to ship scrapping or ship recycling; and |
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(e) |
comply with Xxxxx XX or any replacement of Annex VI and shall in particular, without limitation: |
|
(i) |
procure that the relevant Ship’s master and crew are familiar with, and that the Ship owned by it complied with, Xxxxx XX; and |
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(ii) |
maintain for the Ship owned by it throughout the Security Period a valid and current IAPPC and provide a copy to the Agent. |
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14.18 |
Sustainability reporting |
The Borrower shall, at its own cost, starting with the
calendar year ending 31 December 2022, supply or procure the supply by the Approved Classification Society to the Agent of all information regarding the annual emissions in respect of each Ship for the preceding calendar year as provided to the
IMO.
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15.1 |
Minimum required security cover |
Clause 15.2 applies if the Agent notifies the Borrower that
the Security Cover Ratio is below 125 per cent.
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15.2 |
Prepayment; provision of additional security |
If the Agent serves a notice on the Borrower
under Clause 15.1, the Borrower shall prepay such part at least of the Loan as will eliminate the shortfall on or before the date falling 21 Business Days after the date on which the Agent's notice is served under Clause 15.1 (the
"Prepayment Date") unless at least 5 calendar days before the Prepayment Date the Borrower has provided, or ensured that a third party has provided, additional security acceptable to the Agent (acting on the instructions of the
Majority Lenders) which, in the opinion of the Majority Xxxxxxx, has a net realisable value at least equal to the shortfall and is documented in such terms as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve or require.
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(a) |
The Market Value of a Ship for the purpose of determination of the Initial Market Value of the Ship, is that shown by one valuation issued by an Approved Broker, selected and appointed by the Agent. |
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(b) |
The Market Value of the Ship or other Fleet Vessel at any other date is that shown by taking the arithmetic mean of two valuations requested by the Agent to be issued by two Approved Brokers, selected and appointed by
the Borrower (unless the Borrower does not select or appoint two Approved Brokers within 14 days after the Agent's request, in which case the Agent shall select and appoint one Approved Broker and the Market Value of the Ship or other Fleet Vessel
shall be that shown by the single valuation issued by such Approved Broker). |
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(c) |
Each valuation referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall be prepared: |
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(i) |
as at a date not more than 30 days previously; |
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(ii) |
with or without physical inspection of the Ship (as the Agent may require); and |
|
(iii) |
on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash on normal arm's length commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer, free of any existing charter or other contract of
employment |
Provided that if the higher of the two valuations in respect of the Ship or other Fleet Vessel issued for
the purpose of determination of its Market Value pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Clause 15.3 shows a value of more than 15 per cent. of that shown by the lower of the two valuations, a third valuation shall be requested from a third Approved
Broker selected and appointed by the Agent to be prepared in accordance with this Clause 15.3 and the Market Value of the Ship or other Fleet Vessel in such circumstances shall be the arithmetic mean of all three valuations.
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15.4 |
Value of additional vessel security |
The net realisable value of any additional security which
is provided under Clause 15.2 and which consists of a Security Interest over a vessel shall be that shown by a valuation complying with the requirements of Clause 15.3.
Any valuation under Clause 15.2, 15.3 or 15.4 shall be binding and
conclusive as regards the Borrower, as shall be any valuation which the Majority Lenders make of any additional security which does not consist of or include a Security Interest.
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15.6 |
Provision of information |
The Borrower shall promptly provide the Agent and any Approved Broker
or expert acting under Clause 15.3 or 15.4 with any information which the Agent or that Approved Broker or expert may request for the purposes of the valuation; and, if the Borrower fails to provide the information by the date specified in the
request, the valuation may be made on any basis and assumptions which that Approved Broker or the Majority Lenders (or the expert appointed by them) consider prudent.
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15.7 |
Payment of valuation expenses |
Without prejudice to the generality of the Borrower's
obligations under Clauses 20.2, 20.3 and 21.3, the Borrower shall, on demand, pay the Agent the documented amount of the fees and expenses of any Approved Broker or expert instructed by the Agent under this Clause and all legal and other expenses
incurred by any Creditor Party in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause.
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15.8 |
Frequency of valuations |
The Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Agent may commission
valuation(s) of the Ship at such times as the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders) shall deem necessary and, in any event, not less than once during each 6-month period of the Security Period. The Borrower shall be responsible for the
cost of two valuations per year, unless an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default is continuing
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16 |
Payments and Calculations |
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16.1 |
Currency and method of payments |
All payments to be made by the Lenders or by the Borrower
under a Finance Document shall be made to the Agent or to the Security Trustee, in the case of an amount payable to it:
|
(a) |
by not later than 11.00 a.m. (New York City time) on the due date; |
|
(b) |
in same day Dollar funds settled through the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds and/or settled in such other manner as the Agent shall specify as being customary at the
time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement); |
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(c) |
in the case of an amount payable by a Lender to the Agent or by the Borrower to the Agent or any Lender, to the account of the Agent at X.X. Xxxxxx Xxxxx Bank (SWIFT Code XXXXXX00) |
(Account No. 001 1331 808 in favour of Hamburg Commercial Bank AG, SWIFT Code XXXXXXXX; Reference "Capital Product
Partners L.P. - US$105m facility") or to such other account with such other bank as the Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the other Creditor Parties; and
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(d) |
in the case of an amount payable to the Security Trustee, to such account as it may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the other Creditor Parties. |
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16.2 |
Payment on non-Business Day |
If any payment by the Borrower under a Finance Document would
otherwise fall due on a day which is not a Business Day:
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(a) |
the due date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; or |
|
(b) |
if the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the due date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day, |
and interest shall be payable during any extension under paragraph (a) at the rate payable on the original due date.
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16.3 |
Basis for calculation of periodic payments |
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(a) |
Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and the amount of any such interest, commission or fee is calculated: |
|
(i) |
on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days or, in any case where the practice in the Relevant Market differs, in accordance with that market practice; and |
|
(ii) |
subject to paragraph (b) below, without rounding. |
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(b) |
The aggregate amount of any accrued interest, commission or fee which is, or becomes, payable by the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager under a Finance Document shall be rounded to two decimal
places. |
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16.4 |
Distribution of payments to Creditor Parties |
Subject to Clauses 16.5, 16.6 and 16.7:
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(a) |
any amount received by the Agent under a Finance Document for distribution or remittance to a Lender or the Security Trustee shall be made available by the Agent to that Lender or, as the case may be, the Security
Trustee by payment, with funds having the same value as the funds received, to such account as the Lender or the Security Trustee may have notified to the Agent not less than 5 Business Days previously; and |
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(b) |
amounts to be applied in satisfying amounts of a particular category which are due to the Lenders generally shall be distributed by the Agent to each Lender pro rata to the amount in that category which is due to
it. |
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16.5 |
Permitted deductions by Agent |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any
other Finance Document, the Agent may, before making an amount available to a Lender, deduct and withhold from that amount any sum which is then due and payable to the Agent from that Lender under any Finance Document or any sum which the Agent is
then entitled under any Finance Document to require that Lender to pay on demand.
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16.6 |
Agent only obliged to pay when monies received |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent shall not be obliged to make available to the Borrower or any Lender any sum which the Agent is expecting to receive for remittance or distribution to the Borrower or that Lender until the Agent has
satisfied itself that it has received that sum.
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16.7 |
Refund to Agent of monies not received |
If and to the extent that the Agent makes available a
sum to the Borrower or a Lender, without first having received that sum, the Borrower or (as the case may be) the Lender concerned shall, on demand:
|
(a) |
refund the sum in full to the Agent; and |
|
(b) |
pay to the Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any funding or other loss, liability or expense incurred by the Agent as a result of making the sum available before
receiving it. |
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16.8 |
Agent may assume receipt |
Clause 16.7 shall not affect any claim which the Agent has under the
law of restitution, and applies irrespective of whether the Agent had any form of notice that it had not received the sum which it made available.
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16.9 |
Creditor Party accounts |
Each Creditor Party shall maintain accounts showing the amounts owing
to it by the Borrower, each Security Party and any Approved Manager under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrower, any Security Party and any Approved Manager.
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16.10 |
Agent's memorandum account |
The Agent shall maintain a memorandum account showing the amounts
advanced by the Lenders and all other sums owing to the Agent, the Security Trustee and each Lender from the Borrower, each Security Party and any Approved Manager under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the
Borrower, any Security Party and any Approved Manager.
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16.11 |
Accounts prima facie evidence |
If any accounts maintained under Clauses 16.9 and 16.10 show an
amount to be owing by the Borrower or a Security Party or an Approved Manager to a Creditor Party, those accounts shall be prima facie evidence that that amount is owing to that Creditor Party.
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17 |
Application of Receipts |
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17.1 |
Normal order of application |
Except as any Finance Document may otherwise provide, any sums
which are received or recovered by any Creditor Party under or by virtue of any Finance Document shall be applied:
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(a) |
FIRST: in or towards satisfaction of any amounts then due and payable under the Finance Documents in the following order and proportions: |
|
(i) |
first, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of all amounts then due and payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents (including, but without limitation, all amounts payable by the Borrower under Clauses
20, 21 and 22 of this Agreement or by the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager under any corresponding or similar provision in any other Finance Document) other than those amounts referred to at paragraphs (ii), and
(iii); |
|
(ii) |
secondly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of any and all amounts of interest or default interest payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents; and |
|
(iii) |
thirdly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of the Loan; |
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(b) |
SECONDLY: in retention (in an interest bearing account) of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document but which the Agent, by notice to the Borrower, the Security Parties and the
other Creditor Parties, states in its opinion will either or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance with the provisions of Clause 17.1(a);
and |
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(c) |
THIRDLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrower or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it. |
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17.2 |
Application by any covered bond Lender |
If and to the extent that any Lender includes the Loan
and/or a Mortgage in its covered bond register, any enforcement proceeds recovered under any of the Finance Documents and attributable to that Lender under the relevant Finance Document shall, notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 17.1(a), be
applied by it first to the part of the Loan that corresponds to that Lender's Contribution registered in its covered bond register and thereafter in the following order:
|
(a) |
first, in or towards satisfaction of the amounts set out under Clause 17.1(a)(i); |
|
(b) |
secondly, in or towards satisfaction of the amounts set out under Clause 17.1(a)(ii); and |
|
(c) |
thirdly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of any part of the Loan that corresponds to any unregistered part of that Xxxxxx's contribution. |
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17.3 |
Variation of order of application |
The Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority
Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties provide for a different manner of application from that set out in Clause 17.1 (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, that set out in
Clause 17.2) either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories.
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17.4 |
Notice of variation of order of application |
The Agent may give notices under Xxxxxx 17.3 from
time to time; and such a notice may be stated to apply not only to sums which may be received or recovered in the future, but also to any sum which has been received or recovered on or after the third Business Day before the date on which the notice
is served.
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17.5 |
Appropriation rights overridden |
This Clause 17 and any notice which the Agent gives under
Clause 17.3 shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager.
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18 |
Application of Earnings |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party that, throughout the
Security Period:
|
(a) |
it shall, and it shall procure that the Owner will, maintain the Accounts with the Agent; and |
|
(b) |
it shall procure that the Owner ensures that all Earnings of the Ship are paid (subject only to the provisions of the General Assignment and any Deed of Covenant to which the Owner is a party) to the Earnings Account
for the Ship. |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to ensure that, on and
from the date on which an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default has occurred and at monthly intervals thereafter during the Security Period whilst such an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default is continuing, there are transferred
to the Retention Account out of the Earnings received in the Earnings Accounts during the preceding month:
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(a) |
one-third of the amount of the Instalment falling due under Clause 8.1 on the next Repayment Date; and |
|
(b) |
the relevant fraction of the aggregate amount of interest on the Loan which is payable on the next due date for payment of interest for the Loan under this Agreement, |
and the Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agent to make those transfers (in its sole discretion and without any obligation) if the Borrower
fails to do so.
The "relevant fraction", in relation to paragraph (b), is a fraction of which the numerator is 1 and the
denominator the number of months comprised in the then current Interest Period applicable to the Loan (or if the current Interest Period ends after the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement, the number of months from the later
of the commencement of the current Interest Period or the last due date for payment of interest to the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement).
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18.3 |
Shortfall in Earnings |
If the aggregate Earnings received in the Earnings Accounts are
insufficient at any time for the required amount to be transferred to the Retention Account under Clause 18.2, the Borrower shall immediately pay the amount of the insufficiency into the Retention Account.
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18.4 |
Application of retentions |
Until an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default occurs,
the Agent shall, to the extent there are sufficient funds standing to the credit of the Retention Account, on each Repayment Date and on each due date for the payment of interest in respect of the Loan under this Agreement distribute to the Lenders
in accordance with Clause (a) so much of the then balance on the Retention Account as equals:
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(a) |
the Instalment due on that Repayment Date pursuant to Clause 8.1; or |
|
(b) |
the amount of interest in respect of the Loan payable on that interest payment date, |
in
discharge of the Borrower's liability for that Instalment or that interest.
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18.5 |
Interest accrued on the Accounts |
Any credit balance on each Account shall bear interest at the
rate from time to time offered by the Agent to its customers for Dollar deposits of similar amounts and for periods similar to those for which such balances appear to the Agent likely to remain on that Account.
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18.6 |
Release of accrued interest |
Interest accruing under Clause 18.5 shall be credited to the
relevant Account and may be released to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 18.10.
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18.7 |
Location of Accounts |
The Borrower shall promptly:
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(a) |
comply or, as the case may be, procure compliance by the Owner, with any requirement of the Agent as to the location or re-location of the Accounts (or any of them); and |
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(b) |
execute or, as the case may be, procure the execution by the Owner of, any documents which the Agent specifies to create or maintain in favour of the Security Trustee a Security Interest over (and/or rights of
set-off, consolidation or other rights in relation to) the Accounts. |
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18.8 |
Debits for fees, expenses etc. |
The Agent shall be entitled (but not obliged) from time to time
to debit the Earnings Account without prior notice in order to discharge any amount due and payable under Clauses 20 or 21 to a Creditor Party or payment of which any Creditor Party has become entitled to demand under Clauses 20 or 21.
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18.9 |
Borrower's obligations unaffected |
The provisions of this Clause 18 (as distinct from a
distribution effected under Clause 18.4) do not affect:
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(a) |
the liability of the Borrower to make payments of principal and interest on the due dates; or |
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(b) |
any other liability or obligation of the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager under any Finance Document. |
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18.10 |
Restriction on withdrawal |
During the Security Period no sum may be withdrawn by the Borrower
from the Retention Account (other than interest accruing thereon pursuant to Clause 18.6, provided that no Event of Default which is continuing has occurred), without the prior written consent of the Agent.
The Owner may, in any calendar month, after having transferred and/or after having taken into account all amounts due or which will become due
to be transferred to the Retention Account in such calendar month in accordance with Clause 18.2, withdraw any surplus (a "Surplus") from its Earnings Account as it may think fit for purposes permitted by this Agreement and the
other Finance Documents Provided always that if an Event of Default which is continuing has occurred, the Borrower shall procure that any Surplus shall remain on the relevant Earnings Account and the Owner may only withdraw the Surplus (or
any part thereof) with the prior written consent of the Agent (acting upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders) in order to satisfy the documented and properly incurred operating expenses of the Ship.
An Event of Default occurs if:
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(a) |
the Borrower, any Security Party or any Approved Manager fails to pay when due or (if so payable) on demand any sum payable under a Finance Document or under any document relating to a Finance Document
unless: |
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(i) |
its failure to pay is caused by: |
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(A) |
administrative or technical error; or |
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(B) |
a Disruption Event; and |
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(ii) |
payment is made within 3 Business Days of its due date; or |
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(b) |
any breach occurs of Clauses 9.2, 9.3, 11.2, 11.3, 11.20, 11.23, 12.2, 12.3, 12.5 or 15.2 Provided that in respect of any breach of Clause 9.2, 9.3, 11.2 or 12.3(a), (c), (d), (f) and (g) which, in the opinion
of the Majority Lenders, is capable of remedy, such default continues unremedied 14 days after written notice from the Agent requesting action to remedy the same (subject to any other applicable grace period specified in a Finance Document or
otherwise agreed by the Agent); or |
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(c) |
any breach by the Borrower, any Security Party or any Approved Manager occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraphs (a) or (b)) which, in the opinion of the Majority
Lenders, is capable of remedy, and such default continues unremedied 14 Business Days after written notice from the Agent requesting action to remedy the same (subject to any other applicable grace period specified in a Finance Document or otherwise
agreed by the Agent); or |
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(d) |
(subject to any applicable grace period specified in the Finance Document) any breach by the Borrower, any Security Party or any Approved Manager occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach
falling within paragraphs (a), (b) or (c)); or |
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(e) |
any representation, warranty or statement made or repeated by, or by an officer of, the Borrower, a Security Party or any Approved Manager in a Finance Document or in the Drawdown Notice or any other notice or
document relating to a Finance Document is untrue or misleading when it is made or repeated; or |
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(f) |
any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person, which in the case of any member of the Group, equals $25,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) or more or, as
regards Financial Indebtedness arising under different documents or transactions, an aggregate amount of $25,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) or more: |
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(i) |
any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is not paid when due or, if so payable, on demand; or |
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(ii) |
any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date as a consequence of any event of default; or |
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(iii) |
a lease, hire purchase agreement or charter creating any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is terminated by the lessor or owner or becomes capable of being terminated as a consequence of any termination
event; or |
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(iv) |
any overdraft, loan, note issuance, acceptance credit, letter of credit, guarantee, foreign exchange or other facility, or any swap or other derivative contract or transaction, relating to any Financial Indebtedness
of a Relevant Person ceases to be available or becomes capable of being terminated as a result of any event of default, or cash cover is required, or becomes capable of being required, in respect of such a facility as a result of any event of
default; or |
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(v) |
any Security Interest securing any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes enforceable; or |
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(g) |
any of the following occurs in relation to a Relevant Person: |
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(i) |
a Relevant Person becomes, in the opinion of the Majority Xxxxxxx, unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or |
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(ii) |
any assets of a Relevant Person are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress or any form of freezing order, which in the case of the Borrower relate to a sum of, or sums
aggregating, $20,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) or more unless such execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress is dismissed, withdrawn, released or lifted within 10 Business Days of the occurrence of such event;
or |
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(iii) |
any administrative or other receiver is appointed over any asset of a Relevant Person; or |
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(iv) |
an administrator is appointed (whether by the court or otherwise) in respect of a Relevant Person; or |
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(v) |
any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that a Relevant Person is insolvent or likely to become insolvent is made by a Relevant Person or by the directors of a Relevant Person or, in
any proceedings, by a lawyer acting for a Relevant Person; or |
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(vi) |
a provisional liquidator is appointed in respect of a Relevant Person, a winding up order is made in relation to a Relevant Person or a winding up resolution is passed by a Relevant Person; or |
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(vii) |
a resolution is passed, an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by (aa) a Relevant Person, (bb) the members or directors of a
Relevant Person, (cc) a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person, or (dd) a government minister or public or regulatory authority of a Pertinent Jurisdiction for or with a view
to the winding up of that or another Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of that or another Relevant Person, or that or another Relevant Person ceasing or suspending business operations or
payments to creditors, save that this paragraph does not apply to a fully solvent winding up of a Relevant Person other than the Borrower or the Owner which is, or is to be, effected for the purposes of an amalgamation or reconstruction previously
approved by the Majority Lenders and effected not later than three months after the commencement of the winding up; or |
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(viii) |
an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by a creditor of a Relevant Person (other than a holder of Security Interests which
together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person) for the winding up of a Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of a Relevant Person in any Pertinent Jurisdiction,
unless the proposed winding up, appointment of a provisional liquidator or administration is being contested in good faith, on substantial grounds and not with a view to some other insolvency law procedure being implemented instead and either (aa)
the application or petition is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of being made or presented, or (bb) within 30 days of the administration notice being given or filed, or the other relevant steps being taken, other action is taken which will
ensure that there will be no administration and (in both cases (aa) or (bb)) the Relevant Person will continue to carry on business in the ordinary way and without being the subject of any actual, interim or pending insolvency law procedure;
or |
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(ix) |
a Relevant Person or its directors take any steps (whether by making or presenting an application or petition to a court, or submitting or presenting a document setting out a proposal or proposed terms, or otherwise)
with a view to obtaining, in relation to that or another Relevant Person, any form of moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of debt (or certain debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value)
of creditors or of any class of them or any such moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by court order, by the filing of documents with a court, by means of a contract or in any other way at all;
or |
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(x) |
any meeting of the members or directors, or of any committee of the board or senior management, of a Relevant Person is held or summoned for the purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any
action of a type described |
in paragraphs (iv) to (ix) or a step preparatory to such action, or (with or without such a meeting) the members, directors
or such a committee resolve or agree that such an action or step should be taken or should be taken if certain conditions materialise or fail to materialise; or
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(xi) |
in a country other than England, any event occurs, any proceedings are opened or commenced or any step is taken which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders is similar to any of the foregoing; or |
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(h) |
the Borrower or the Owner or any other Security Party ceases or suspends carrying on its business or a part of its business which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is material in the context of this Agreement;
or |
|
(i) |
it becomes unlawful in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or impossible: |
|
(i) |
for the Borrower, the Owner, any other Security Party or any Approved Manager to discharge any liability under a Finance Document or to comply with any other obligation which the Majority Lenders consider material
under a Finance Document; or |
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(ii) |
for the Agent, the Security Trustee or the Lenders to exercise or enforce any right under, or to enforce any Security Interest created by, a Finance Document; or |
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(j) |
any official consent necessary to enable the Owner to own, operate or charter its Ship or to enable the Borrower, any Security Party or any Approved Manager to comply with any provision which the Majority Lenders
consider material of a Finance Document or any Underlying Document is not granted, expires without being renewed, is revoked or becomes liable to revocation or any condition of such a consent is not fulfilled; or |
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(k) |
if the common units of the Borrower cease to be quoted on the Nasdaq National Market in New York or any other internationally recognised stock exchange acceptable to the Lenders and this was an unplanned event which
was not notified to the Agent first or if the whole of the issued share capital of the Ship is not wholly-owned by the Borrower; or |
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(l) |
it evidently appears to the Majority Lenders that, without their prior consent, a Change of Control has occurred; or |
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(m) |
any provision which the Majority Lenders consider material of a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable, or a Security Interest created by a Finance Document proves to have been or
becomes invalid or unenforceable or such a Security Interest proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, another Security Interest or any other third party claim or interest; or |
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(n) |
the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or |
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(o) |
the Borrower, any other Security Party or any Approved Manager or any other person (other than a Creditor Party) repudiates any of the Finance Documents to which the Borrower, that Security Party or Approved Manager
or person is a party or evidences an intention to do so; or |
|
(p) |
any other event occurs or any other circumstances arise or develop including, without limitation: |
|
(i) |
a change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of the Borrower, the Owner or any other Security Party; or |
|
(ii) |
any accident or other event involving any Ship or another vessel owned, chartered or operated by a Relevant Person; or |
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(iii) |
the threat or commencement of legal or administrative action involving the Borrower, a Ship, any Approved Manager (but in relation to an Approved Manager which is not member of the Group, only insofar it relates to a
Ship) or any Security Party; or |
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(iv) |
the withdrawal of any material license or governmental or regulatory approval in respect of the Ship, the Borrower, the Owner, any other Security Party or any Approved Manager or the Borrower's or any Security Party's
business (unless such withdrawal can be contested with the effect of suspension and is in fact so contested in good faith by the Borrower, that Security Party or that Approved Manager or solely in relation to the Approved Manager, a new Approved
Manager is appointed), |
which constitutes a Material Adverse Change.
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19.2 |
Actions following an Event of Default |
On, or at any time after, the occurrence of an Event of
Default:
|
(a) |
the Agent may, and if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, the Agent shall: |
|
(i) |
serve on the Borrower a notice stating that all or part of the Commitments and of the other obligations of each Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement are cancelled; and/or |
|
(ii) |
serve on the Borrower a notice stating that all or part of the Loan together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing under this Agreement are immediately due and payable or are due and payable on
demand; and/or |
|
(iii) |
take any other action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (i) or (ii), the Agent and/or the Lenders are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law;
and/or |
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(b) |
the Security Trustee may, and if so instructed by the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, the Security Trustee shall take any action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice
served under paragraph (a)(i) or (a)(ii), the Security Trustee, the Agent, the Mandated Lead Arranger and/or the Lenders are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law. |
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19.3 |
Termination of Commitments |
On the service of a notice under Clause 19.2(a)(i), the Commitments
and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement shall be cancelled.
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19.4 |
Acceleration of Loan |
On the service of a notice under Clause 19.2(a)(ii), all or, as the case
may be, the part of the Loan specified in the notice together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing from the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager under this
Agreement and every other Finance Document shall become immediately due and payable or, as the case may be, payable on
demand.
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19.5 |
Multiple notices; action without notice |
The Agent may serve notices under Clauses 19.2(a)(i)
or 19.2(a)(ii) simultaneously or on different dates and it and/or the Security Trustee may take any action referred to in Clause 19.2 if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of both or either of such
notices.
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19.6 |
Notification of Creditor Parties and Security Parties |
The Agent shall send to each Lender, the
Security Trustee, each Security Party and any Approved Manager a copy or the text of any notice which the Agent serves on the Borrower under Clause 19.2; but the notice shall become effective when it is served on the Borrower, and no failure or
delay by the Agent to send a copy or the text of the notice to any other person shall invalidate the notice or provide the Borrower, any Security Party or any Approved Manager with any form of claim or defence.
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19.7 |
Creditor Party's rights unimpaired |
Nothing in this Clause shall be taken to impair or restrict
the exercise of any right given to individual Lenders under a Finance Document or the general law; and, in particular, this Clause is without prejudice to Clause 3.1.
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19.8 |
Exclusion of Creditor Party liability |
No Creditor Party, and no receiver or manager appointed
by the Security Trustee, shall have any liability to the Borrower or a Security Party:
|
(a) |
for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of a Security Interest created by, a Finance Document or by any failure or delay to exercise such a right or to enforce such a Security Interest;
or |
|
(b) |
as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset comprised in such a Security Interest or for any reduction (however caused) in
the value of such an asset, |
except that this does not exempt a Creditor Party or a receiver or manager from liability for
losses shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty or the wilful misconduct of such Creditor Party's own officers and employees or (as the case may be) such receiver's or manager's own partners or employees.
In this Clause 19, a "Relevant Person" means the Borrower
and any Security Party.
In Clause 19.1(f) references to an event of default or a termination event
include any event, howsoever described, which is similar to an event of default in a facility agreement or a termination event in a finance lease; and in Clause 19.1(g) "petition" includes an application.
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20.1 |
Structuring and commitment fees |
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent:
|
(a) |
a non-refundable structuring fee in an amount equal to 0.75 per cent. of the amount actually drawn on the Drawdown Date, which shall be due and payable on the Drawdown Date; and |
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(b) |
a non-refundable commitment fee at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum on the undrawn or uncancelled amount of the Total Commitments, payable quarterly in arrears to the Agent for distribution among the Lenders pro rata
to their Commitments, during the period from (and including) the date of this Agreement to the earlier of (i) the Drawdown Date and (ii) the last day of the Availability Period (and on the last day of such period). |
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20.2 |
Costs of negotiation, preparation etc. |
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent on its demand the
amount of all reasonable and documented legal and other expenses incurred by the Agent or the Security Trustee in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution or registration of any Finance Document or any related document or with any
transaction contemplated by a Finance Document or a related document.
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20.3 |
Costs of variations, amendments, enforcement etc. |
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent, on the
Agent's demand, for the account of the Creditor Party concerned, the amount of all legal and other expenses (reasonable and documented other than in respect of paragraph (d) below) incurred by a Creditor Party in connection with:
|
(a) |
any amendment or supplement (or any proposal for such an amendment or supplement) requested (or, in the case of a proposal, made) by or on behalf of the Borrower and relating to a Finance Document or any other
Pertinent Document; |
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(b) |
any consent, waiver or suspension of rights by the Lenders, the Majority Lenders or the Creditor Party concerned or any proposal for any of the foregoing requested (or, in the case of a proposal, made) by or on behalf
of the Borrower under or in connection with a Finance Document or any other Pertinent Document; |
|
(c) |
the valuation of any security provided or offered under and pursuant to Clause 15 or any other matter relating to such security; |
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(d) |
any step taken by the Lender concerned with a view to the preservation, protection, exercise or enforcement of any rights or Security Interest created by a Finance Document or for any similar purpose including,
without limitation, any proceedings to recover or retain proceeds of enforcement or any other proceedings following enforcement proceedings until the date all outstanding indebtedness to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents and any other
Pertinent Document is repaid in full; |
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(e) |
any amendment or supplement (or any proposal for such an amendment or supplement) in connection with a Finance Document or any other Pertinent Document required as contemplated in Clause 27.4; or |
|
(f) |
any amendment or supplement as a result of (i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation or (ii) compliance with any law or regulation made
after the date of this Agreement. |
There shall be recoverable under paragraph (d) the full amount of all legal expenses,
whether or not such as would be allowed under rules of court or any taxation or other procedure carried out under such rules.
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20.4 |
RFR transition costs |
The Borrower shall on demand reimburse each of the Agent and the Security
Trustee for the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by each Creditor Party in connection with:
|
(a) |
the negotiation or entry into of any Reference Rate Supplement or Compounding Methodology Supplement; or |
|
(b) |
any amendment, waiver or consent relating to: |
|
(i) |
any Reference Rate Supplement or Compounding Methodology Supplement; or |
|
(ii) |
any change arising as a result of an amendment required pursuant to any of Clause 5.7 or 27.4, including without limitation any costs relating to amendments to the Finance Documents and/or any registration
requirements. |
The Borrower shall promptly pay any tax payable on or by reference to any
Finance Document, and shall, on the Agent's demand, fully indemnify each Creditor Party against any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses resulting from any failure or delay by the Borrower to pay such a tax.
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20.6 |
Certification of amounts |
A notice which is signed by two officers of a Creditor Party, which
states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 20 and which indicates (by specifying a detailed breakdown unless the Agent is unable to provide a detailed breakdown due to administrative reasons
and relevant supporting documentation on best effort basis) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.
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21.1 |
Indemnities regarding borrowing and repayment of Loan |
The Borrower shall fully indemnify the
Agent and each Lender on the Agent's demand and the Security Trustee on its demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are made or brought against or incurred by that Creditor Party, or which that Creditor Party
reasonably and with due diligence estimates that it will incur, as a result of or in connection with:
|
(a) |
the Loan not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender claiming the indemnity after the Drawdown Notice has been served in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement; |
|
(b) |
the receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan or an overdue sum otherwise than on the last day of an Interest Period or other relevant period; |
|
(c) |
any failure (for whatever reason) by the Borrower to make payment of any amount due under a Finance Document on the due date or, if so payable, on demand (after giving credit for any default interest paid by the
Borrower on the amount concerned under Clause 7) including, but not limited to, any costs and expenses of enforcing any Security Interests created by the Finance Documents and any claims, liabilities and losses which may be brought against, or
incurred by, a Creditor Party when enforcing any Security Interests created by the Finance Documents; and |
|
(d) |
the occurrence and/or continuance of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default and/or the acceleration of repayment of the Loan under Clause 19 (including, without limitation, any costs, expenses or
liabilities incurred for a Creditor Party in relation to any Insurances taken or arranged by that Creditor Party following the occurrence of an Event of Default in relation to port risks, new liability insurance or any other type of
insurance), |
and in respect of any tax (other than tax on its overall net income and a FATCA Deduction) for which a Creditor
Party is liable in connection with any amount paid or payable to that Creditor Party (whether for its own account or otherwise) under any Finance Document.
If a Lender (the "Notifying Lender") notifies the Agent that as a
consequence of receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan (a "Payment") on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable to the sum received or recovered the Notifying Lender has or will, with effect from a
specified date, incur Break Costs:
|
(a) |
the Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of a notice it receives from a Notifying Lender under this Clause 21.2; |
|
(b) |
the Borrower shall, within three Business Days of the Agent's demand, pay to the Agent for the account of the Notifying Lender the amount of such Break Costs; and |
|
(c) |
the Notifying Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, following a request by the Borrower, provide a certificate confirming the amount of the Notifying Lender's Break Costs for the Interest Period in which
they accrue, such certificate to be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive and binding on the Borrower. |
In this Clause
21.2, "Break Costs" means the amount specified as such in the Reference Rate Terms.
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21.3 |
Other breakage costs |
Without limiting its generality, Clause 21.1 covers any claim, expense,
liability or loss, including (without limitation):
|
(a) |
a loss of a prospective profit, incurred by a Lender in borrowing, liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired, contracted for or arranged to fund, effect or maintain all or any part of its
Contribution and/or any overdue amount (or an aggregate amount which includes its Contribution or any overdue amount) other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the gross negligence
or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Creditor Party concerned; and |
|
(b) |
any applicable legal fees. |
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21.4 |
Miscellaneous indemnities |
The Borrower shall fully indemnify each Creditor Party severally on
their respective demands, without prejudice to any of their other rights under any of the Finance Documents, in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which may be made or brought against or sustained or incurred by a Creditor
Party, in any country, as a result of or in connection with:
|
(a) |
any action taken, or omitted or neglected to be taken, under or in connection with any Finance Document by the Agent, the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party or by any receiver appointed under a Finance
Document; |
|
(b) |
investigating any event which the Creditor Party concerned reasonably believes constitutes an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default; |
|
(c) |
acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which the Creditor Party concerned reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; or |
|
(d) |
any other Pertinent Matter, |
other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are
shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty, gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Creditor Party concerned.
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21.5 |
Environmental Indemnity |
Without prejudice to the generality of Clauses 21.1 and 21.4, this
Clause 21.5 covers any claims, demands, proceedings, taxes, losses, liabilities or expenses of every kind which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, pollution or the protection of the environment,
the ISM Code or the ISPS Code or any Environmental Law.
If any sum due from the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved
Manager to a Creditor Party under a Finance Document or under any order, award or judgment relating to a Finance Document (a "Sum") has to be converted from the currency in which the Finance Document provided for the Sum to be paid
(the "Contractual Currency") into another currency (the "Payment Currency") for the purpose of:
|
(a) |
making, filing or lodging any claim or proof against the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or |
|
(b) |
obtaining an order, judgment or award from any court or other tribunal in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings; or |
|
(c) |
enforcing any such order, judgment or award, |
the Borrower shall as an independent obligation,
within three Business Days of demand, indemnify the Creditor Party to whom that Sum is due against any cost, loss or liability arising when the payment actually received by that Creditor Party is converted at the available rate of exchange back into
the Contractual Currency including any discrepancy between (A) the rate
of exchange actually used to convert the Sum from the Payment Currency into the Contractual Currency and (B) the available
rate of exchange.
In this Clause 21.6, the "available rate of exchange" means the rate at which the Creditor Party
concerned is able at the opening of business (London time) on the Business Day after it receives the Sum to purchase the Contractual Currency with the Payment Currency.
The Borrower waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency other than that in
which it is expressed to be payable.
If any Creditor Party receives any Sum in a currency other than the Contractual Currency, the Borrower
shall indemnify in full the Creditor Party concerned against any cost, loss or liability arising directly or indirectly from any conversion of such Sum to the Contractual Currency.
This Clause 21.6 creates a separate liability of the Borrower which is distinct from its other liabilities under the Finance Documents and which
shall not be merged in any judgment or order relating to those other liabilities.
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21.7 |
Certification of amounts |
A notice which is signed by two officers of a Creditor Party, which
states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 21 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due
shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.
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21.8 |
Sums deemed due to a Lender |
For the purposes of this Clause 21, a sum payable by the Borrower
to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender.
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22 |
No Set-Off or Tax Deduction |
All amounts due from the Borrower under a Finance Document shall be paid:
|
(a) |
without any form of set off, counter-claim, cross-claim or condition; and |
|
(b) |
free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which the Borrower is required by law to make. |
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22.2 |
Grossing-up for taxes |
If, at any time, the Borrower is required by law, regulation or
regulatory requirement to make a tax deduction from any payment due under a Finance Document:
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(a) |
the Borrower shall notify the Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement; |
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(b) |
the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that, after the making of such tax deduction, each Creditor Party receives on the due date for such payment (and retains
free from any liability relating to the tax deduction) a net |
amount which is equal to the full amount which it would have received had no such tax deduction been required to be made;
and
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(c) |
the Borrower shall pay the full amount of the tax required to be deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly in accordance with the relevant law, regulation or regulatory requirement, and in any event
before any fine or penalty arises. |
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22.3 |
Indemnity and evidence of payment of taxes |
The Borrower shall fully indemnify each Creditor
Party on the Agent's demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses incurred by any Creditor Party by reason of any failure of the Borrower to make any tax deduction or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due
date for such payment in accordance with Clause 22.2. Within 30 days after making any tax deduction, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent any receipts, certificates or other documentary evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the tax had been
paid to the appropriate taxation authority.
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22.4 |
Exclusion of tax on overall net income |
In this Agreement "tax deduction"
means any deduction or withholding from any payment due under a Finance Document for or on account of any present or future tax except:
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(a) |
tax on a Creditor Party's overall net income; and |
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(a) |
Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party: |
|
(i) |
confirm to that other Party whether it is: |
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(A) |
a FATCA Exempt Party; or |
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(B) |
not a FATCA Exempt Party; and |
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(ii) |
supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA;
and |
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(iii) |
supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with any other law,
regulation or exchange of information regime. |
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(b) |
If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party,
that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly. |
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(c) |
Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Creditor Party to do anything and sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any other Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion
constitute a breach of: |
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(i) |
any law or regulation; |
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(ii) |
any fiduciary duty; or |
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(iii) |
any duty of confidentiality. |
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(d) |
If a Party fails to confirm whether or not it is a FATCA Exempt Party or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii) of paragraph (a) above (including,
for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments under them) as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party until such time as the Party in question
provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information. |
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(e) |
If a Lender knows or has reason to know that the Borrower is a US Tax Obligor, or where the Agent reasonably believes that its obligations under FATCA require it, each Lender shall, within ten Business Days
of: |
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(i) |
where the Lender knows or has reason to know that the Borrower is a US Tax Obligor and the relevant Lender is a Party as at the date of this Agreement, the date of this Agreement; |
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(ii) |
where the Lender knows or has reason to know that the Borrower is a US Tax Obligor and the relevant Lender became a Party after the date of this Agreement, the date on which the relevant Transfer Certificate became
effective; or |
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(iii) |
the date of a request from the Agent, |
supply to the Agent:
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(iv) |
a withholding certificate on US Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 or Form W-9 (or any successor form) (as applicable); or |
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(v) |
any withholding statement and other documentation, authorisations and waivers as the Agent may require to certify or establish the status of such Lender under FATCA. |
The Agent shall provide any withholding certificate, withholding statement, documentation, authorisations and waivers it receives from a Lender
pursuant to this paragraph (e) to the Borrower, to the extent required for compliance with FATCA or any other law or regulation, and shall be entitled to rely on any such withholding certificate, withholding statement, documentation, authorisations
and waivers provided without further verification. The Agent shall not be liable for any action taken by it under or in connection with this paragraph (e).
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(f) |
Each Lender agrees that if any withholding certificate, withholding statement, documentation, authorisations and waivers provided to the Agent pursuant to paragraph (e) above is or becomes materially inaccurate or
incomplete, it shall promptly update such withholding certificate, withholding statement, documentation, authorisations and waivers or promptly notify the Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so. The Agent shall provide any such updated
withholding certificate, withholding statement, documentation, authorisations and waivers to the Borrower, to the extent required for compliance with FATCA or any other law or regulation. The Agent shall not be liable for any action taken by it
under or in connection with this paragraph (f). |
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(a) |
Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction as it reasonably determines it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall be required to increase any
payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. |
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(b) |
Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction), notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and,
in addition, shall notify the Borrower and the Agent and the Agent shall notify the other Creditor Parties. |
This Clause 22.4 applies if a Lender (the "Notifying Lender")
notifies the Agent that it has become, or will with effect from a specified date, become:
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(a) |
unlawful or prohibited as a result of the introduction of a new law, an amendment to an existing law or a change in the manner in which an existing law is or will be interpreted or applied; or |
|
(b) |
contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation, |
for the Notifying Lender to perform,
maintain or give effect to any of its obligations under this Agreement in the manner contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain the Loan.
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23.2 |
Notification of illegality |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower, the Security Parties,
the Security Trustee and the other Lenders of the notice under Clause 23.1 which the Agent receives from the Notifying Lender.
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23.3 |
Prepayment; termination of Commitment |
On the Agent notifying the Borrower under Clause 23.2,
the Notifying Xxxxxx's Commitment shall be immediately cancelled; and thereupon or, if later, on the date specified in the Notifying Lender's notice under Clause 23.1 as the date on which the notified event would become effective the Borrower shall
prepay the Notifying Lender's Contribution on the last day of the then current Interest Period in accordance with Clauses 8.11 and 8.12.
This Clause 24 applies if a Lender (the "Notifying Lender")
notifies the Agent that the Notifying Xxxxxx considers that as a result of:
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(1) |
the introduction or alteration after the date of this Agreement of a law or an alteration after the date of this Agreement in the manner in which a law is interpreted or applied (disregarding any effect which relates
to the application to payments under this Agreement of a tax on the Lender's overall net income); or |
|
(2) |
complying with any regulation (including any which relates to capital adequacy or liquidity controls or which affects the manner in which the Notifying Lender allocates capital resources to its obligations under this
Agreement) which is introduced, or altered, or the interpretation or application of which is altered, after the date of this Agreement; or |
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(3) |
the implementation or application of or compliance with the "International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework" published by the Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision in June 2004 in the form existing on the date of this Agreement (the "Basel II Accord") or any other law or regulation implementing the Basel II Accord or any of the approaches provided for and allowed to be used by
banks under or in connection with the Basel II Accord, in each case when compared to the cost of complying with such regulations as determined by the Agent (or parent company of it) on the date of this Agreement (whether such implementation,
application or compliance is by a government, regulator, supervisory authority, the Notifying Lender or its holding company); or |
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(4) |
the implementation or application of or compliance with Basel III or any law or regulation which implements or applies Basel III (regardless of the date on which it is enacted, adopted or issued and regardless of
whether any such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, the Notifying Lender or any of its affiliates), |
the Notifying Lender (or a parent company of it) has incurred or will incur an "increased cost".
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24.2 |
Meaning of "increased cost" |
In this Clause 24, "increased cost"
means, in relation to a Notifying Lender:
|
(a) |
an additional or increased cost incurred as a result of, or in connection with, the Notifying Lender having entered into, or being a party to, this Agreement or a Transfer Certificate, of funding or maintaining its
Commitment or Contribution or performing its obligations under this Agreement, or of having outstanding all or any part of its Contribution or other unpaid sums; |
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(b) |
a reduction in the amount of any payment to the Notifying Lender under this Agreement or in the effective return which such a payment represents to the Notifying Lender or on its capital; |
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(c) |
an additional or increased cost of funding all or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including the Notifying Lender's Contribution or (as the case may require) the
proportion of that cost attributable to the Contribution; or |
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(d) |
a liability to make a payment, or a return foregone, which is calculated by reference to any amounts received or receivable by the Notifying Lender under this Agreement, |
but not an item attributable to a change in the rate of tax on the overall net income of the Notifying Lender (or a parent company of it) or an
item covered by the indemnity for tax in Clause 21.1 or by Clause 22 or a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party.
For the purposes
of this Clause 24.2 the Notifying Lender may in good faith allocate or spread costs and/or losses among its assets and liabilities (or any class of its assets and liabilities) on such basis as it considers appropriate.
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24.3 |
Notification to Borrower of claim for increased costs |
The Agent shall promptly notify the
Borrower and the Security Parties of the notice which the Agent received from the Notifying Lender under Clause 24.1.
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24.4 |
Payment of increased costs |
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent within 5 Business Days after
the Agent's demand, for the account of the Notifying Lender the amounts which the Agent from time to time notifies the Borrower that the Notifying Xxxxxx has specified to be necessary to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost.
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24.5 |
Notice of prepayment |
If the Borrower is not willing to continue to compensate the Notifying
Lender for the increased cost under Clause 24.4 (Payment of increased costs), the Borrower may give the Agent not less than 14 days' notice of their intention to prepay the Notifying Xxxxxx's Contribution at the end of an Interest Period.
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24.6 |
Prepayment; termination of Commitment |
A notice under Clause 24.5 (Notice of prepayment)
shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Notifying Lender of the Borrower's notice of intended prepayment; and:
|
(1) |
on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Commitment of the Notifying Lender shall be cancelled; and |
|
(2) |
on the date specified in its notice of intended prepayment, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Notifying Lender's Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate
plus the Margin. |
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24.7 |
Application of prepayment |
Clause 8 (Repayment and Prepayment) shall apply in relation
to the prepayment.
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25.1 |
Application of credit balances |
Each Creditor Party may without prior notice to the Borrower
but with prior notice to the Agent:
|
(a) |
apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of the Borrower at any office in any country of that Creditor Party in or towards satisfaction of any sum
then due from the Borrower to that Creditor Party under any of the Finance Documents; and |
|
(i) |
break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of the Borrower; |
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(ii) |
convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars; and |
|
(iii) |
enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Creditor Party concerned considers appropriate. |
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25.2 |
Existing rights unaffected |
No Creditor Party shall be obliged to exercise any of its rights
under Clause 25.1; and those rights shall be without prejudice and in addition to any right of set-off, combination of accounts, charge, lien or other right or remedy to which a Creditor Party is entitled (whether under the general law or any
document).
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25.3 |
Sums deemed due to a Lender |
For the purposes of this Clause 24.3, a sum payable by the
Borrower to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to, or for the account of, a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender; and each Lender's proportion of a sum so payable for distribution to, or for the account of, the Lenders
shall be treated as a sum due to such Lender.
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25.4 |
No Security Interest |
This Clause 24.3 gives the Creditor Parties a contractual right of
set-off only, and does not create any equitable charge or other Security Interest over any credit balance of the Borrower.
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26 |
Transfers and Changes in Lending Offices |
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26.1 |
Transfer by Xxxxxxxx |
The Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights, liabilities or
obligations under any Finance Document.
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26.2 |
Transfer by a Lender |
Subject to Clause 26.4, a Lender (the "Transferor
Lender") may at any time cause:
|
(a) |
its rights in respect of all or part of its Contribution; or |
|
(b) |
its obligations in respect of all or part of its Commitment; or |
|
(c) |
a combination of (a) and (b); or |
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(d) |
all or part of its credit risk under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, |
to be
syndicated to or, (in the case of its rights) assigned, pledged or transferred to, or (in the case of its obligations) pledged or assumed by any other bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity, provided such other entity is
regularly engaged in, or established for the purpose of, making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (a "Transferee Lender") by delivering to the Agent a completed certificate in the form set out
in Schedule 4 with any modifications approved or required by the Agent (a "Transfer Certificate") executed by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender.
However any rights and obligations of the Transferor Lender in its capacity as Agent or Security Trustee will have to be dealt with separately
in accordance with the Agency and Trust Deed.
The prior consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or
conditioned) is required for a syndication or, (in the case of its rights) assignment, pledge or
transfer, or (in the case of its obligations) pledge or assumption pursuant to this Clause
26.2, unless:
|
(i) |
the Transferee Lender is another Lender or an affiliate or a company or financial institution which is in the same ownership or control as one of the Lenders; or |
|
(ii) |
an Event of Default has occurred at the relevant time. |
With respect to the Transferor Xxxxxx's
notice requesting the Borrower's consent under this Clause 26.2, such consent shall be deemed granted if the Borrower has failed to object to such request by written notice to the Transferor Lender within five Business Days from the Borrower's
receipt of the Transferor Xxxxxx's notice.
The Borrower shall not be liable for any costs or expenses of the Transferor Lender, the
Transferee Lender or any other party under or in connection with any assignment or other transfer pursuant to this Clause 26.2.
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26.3 |
Transfer Certificate, delivery and notification |
As soon as reasonably practicable after a
Transfer Certificate is delivered to the Agent, it shall (unless it has reason to believe that the Transfer Certificate may be defective):
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(a) |
sign the Transfer Certificate on behalf of itself, the Borrower, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and each of the other Lenders; |
|
(b) |
on behalf of the Transferee Lender, send to the Borrower and each Security Party letters or faxes notifying them of the Transfer Certificate and attaching a copy of it; and |
|
(c) |
send to the Transferee Lender copies of the letters or faxes sent under paragraph (b) above. |
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26.4 |
Effective Date of Transfer Certificate |
A Transfer Certificate becomes effective on the date,
if any, specified in the Transfer Certificate as its effective date, Provided that it is signed by the Agent under Clause 26.3 on or before that date.
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26.5 |
No transfer without Transfer Certificate |
Except as provided in Clause 26.17, no assignment or
transfer of any right or obligation of a Lender under any Finance Document is binding on, or effective in relation to, the Borrower, any Security Party, the Agent or the Security Trustee unless it is effected, evidenced or perfected by a Transfer
Certificate.
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26.6 |
Lender re-organisation; waiver of Transfer Certificate |
However, if a Lender enters into any
merger, de-merger or other reorganisation as a result of which all its rights or obligations vest in another person (the "successor"), the successor shall become a Lender with the same Commitment and Contribution as were held by the
predecessor Lender only upon receipt by the Agent of a notice to this effect and evidence that all rights and obligations have automatically and by operation of law vested in the successor by virtue of the merger, de-merger or other reorganisation,
without the need for the execution and delivery of a Transfer Certificate; the Agent shall in that event inform the Borrower and the Security Trustee accordingly.
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26.7 |
Effect of Transfer Certificate |
A Transfer Certificate takes effect in accordance with English
law as follows:
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(a) |
to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate, all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor Lender has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents are assigned to the Transferee
Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the Transferor Xxxxxx's title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower or any Security Party had against the Transferor Lender; |
|
(b) |
the Transferor Lender's Commitment is discharged to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate; |
|
(c) |
the Transferee Lender becomes a Lender with the Contribution previously held by the Transferor Lender and a Commitment of an amount specified in the Transfer Certificate; |
|
(d) |
the Transferee Lender becomes bound by all the provisions of the Finance Documents which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including those about pro-rata sharing and the exclusion of liability on the part of,
and the indemnification of, the Agent and the Security Trustee and, to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes bound by those provisions (other than those relating to exclusion of liability), the Transferor Lender ceases to be bound by
them; |
|
(e) |
any part of the Loan which the Transferee Lender advances after the Transfer Certificate's effective date ranks in point of priority and security in the same way as it would have ranked had it been advanced by the
transferor, assuming that any defects in the transferor's title and any rights or equities of the Borrower or any Security Party against the Transferor Lender had not existed; |
|
(f) |
the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to all the rights under the Finance Documents which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including but not limited to those relating to the Majority Lenders and those under
Clause 5.6 and Clause 20, and to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to such rights, the Transferor Lender ceases to be entitled to them; and |
|
(g) |
in respect of any breach of a warranty, undertaking, condition or other provision of a Finance Document or any misrepresentation made in or in connection with a Finance Document, the Transferee Lender shall be
entitled to recover damages by reference to the loss incurred by it as a result of the breach or misrepresentation, irrespective of whether the original Lender would have incurred a loss of that kind or amount. |
The rights and equities of the Borrower or any Security Party referred to above include, but are not limited to, any right of set off and any
other kind of cross-claim.
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26.8 |
Maintenance of register of Lenders |
During the Security Period the Agent shall maintain a
register in which it shall record the name, Commitment, Contribution and administrative details (including the lending office) from time to time of each Lender holding a Transfer Certificate and the effective date (in accordance with Clause 26.4) of
the Transfer Certificate; and the Agent shall make the register available for inspection by any Lender, the Security Trustee and the Borrower during normal banking hours, subject to receiving at least three Business Days' prior notice.
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26.9 |
Reliance on register of Lenders |
The entries on that register shall, in the absence of manifest
error, be conclusive in determining the identities of the Lenders and the amounts of their Commitments and Contributions and the effective dates of Transfer Certificates and may be relied upon by the Agent and the other parties to the Finance
Documents for all purposes relating to the Finance Documents.
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26.10 |
Authorisation of Agent to sign Transfer Certificates |
The Borrower, the Security Trustee and
each Lender irrevocably authorise the Agent to sign Transfer Certificates on its behalf. The Borrower and each Security Party irrevocably agrees to the transfer procedures set out in this Clause 26 and to the extent the cooperation of the Borrower
and/or any Security Party shall be required to effect any such transfer, the Borrower and such Security Party shall take all necessary steps to afford such cooperation Provided that this shall not result in any additional costs to the
Borrower or such Security Party.
In respect of any Transfer Certificate, the Agent shall be entitled to
recover a registration fee of $2,500 from the Transferor Lender or (at the Agent's option) the Transferee Lender.
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26.12 |
Sub-participation; subrogation assignment |
A Lender may sub-participate or include in a
securitisation or similar transaction all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with the Finance Documents without the Borrower's prior consent and without serving a notice thereon; the Lenders may assign without the
Borrower's prior consent and without serving a notice thereon all or any part of the rights referred to in the preceding sentence to an insurer or surety who has become subrogated to them.
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26.13 |
Sub-division, split, modification or re-tranching |
Any Lender may, in its sole discretion,
sub-divide, split, sever, modify or re-tranche its Contribution into one or more parts subject to the overall cost of its Contribution to the Borrower remaining unchanged, if such changes are necessary in order to achieve a successful execution of a
securitisation, syndication or any other capital market exit in respect of its Contribution (or any applicable part thereof).
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26.14 |
Xxxxxxxx's cooperation and confidentiality |
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(a) |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Owner and any other Security Party shall: |
|
(i) |
provide the Creditor Parties (or any of them) with all information deemed, reasonably, necessary by the Creditor Parties (or any of them) for the purposes of any transfer, syndication or sub-participation to be
effected pursuant to this Clause 26; and |
|
(ii) |
procure that the directors of the Borrower, officers of the Borrower's general partner, and the directors and officers of the Owner or any other Security Party are available to participate in any meeting with any
Transferee Lender or any rating agency at such times and places as the Creditor Parties may reasonably request on notice (to be served on the Borrower reasonably in advance) to the Borrower, the Owner or that Security Party. |
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(b) |
The Borrower shall not and shall ensure that no Security Party will publish any details regarding the Loan or any of the Finance Documents without the prior written consent of the Agent (excluding any specific
disclosure required to be made by the Borrower in compliance with any law or regulation applicable to it as a result of its listing on NASDAQ stock exchange). |
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26.15 |
Change of lending office |
A Lender may change its lending office by giving notice to the Agent
and the change shall become effective on the later of:
|
(a) |
the date on which the Agent receives the notice; and |
|
(b) |
the date, if any, specified in the notice as the date on which the change will come into effect. |
On receiving such a notice, the Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Security
Trustee; and, until the Agent receives such a notice, it shall be entitled to assume that a Lender is acting through the lending office of which the Agent last had notice.
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26.17 |
Security over Lenders' rights |
In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this
Clause 26, each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from the Borrower or any Security Party or any Approved Manager, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create a Security Interest in or over (whether by way of collateral or
otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation:
|
(a) |
any charge, assignment or other Security Interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and |
|
(b) |
in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender
as security for those obligations or securities, |
except that no such charge, assignment or Security Interest shall:
|
(i) |
release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security Interest for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents;
or |
|
(ii) |
require any payments to be made by the Borrower or any Security Party or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance
Documents. |
The Borrower shall, and the Borrower shall procure that each Security Party and
Approved Manager will, assist the Agent and/or any Lender in achieving a successful securitisation (or similar transaction) in respect of the Loan and the Finance Documents and such Security Party's and such Approved Manager's reasonable costs for
providing such assistance shall be met by the relevant Lender. The Borrower, if requested by the Agent, shall provide documentation evidencing the purchase price of the Ship when acquired by the Borrower.
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26.19 |
No additional costs |
If a Transferor Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights or
obligations under the Finance Documents and as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment or transfer occurs, the Borrower or a Security Party would be obliged to make a payment to the Transferee Lender under Clause 26.2 or under
that clause as incorporated by reference or in full in any other Finance Document, then the Transferee Lender is only entitled to receive payment under that clause to the same extent as the Transferor Lender would have been if the assignment or
transfer had not occurred.
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27 |
Variations and Waivers |
|
(a) |
Subject to Clause 27.2 any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Creditor Parties
and the Borrower. |
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(b) |
Any instructions given by the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Creditor Parties. |
|
(c) |
The Agent may effect, on behalf of any Creditor Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause. |
|
(a) |
An amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which relates to: |
|
(i) |
the definition of "Majority Lenders" or "Finance Documents" " or "RFR Replacement Event" in Clause 1.1; |
|
(ii) |
an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents; |
|
(iii) |
a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest fees, commission or other amount payable under any of the Finance Documents; |
|
(iv) |
an increase in or an extension of any Lender's Commitment; |
|
(v) |
any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders; or |
|
(vi) |
Clause 3 (Position of the Lenders), Clause 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, Clause 11.16, Clause 26 or Clause
27.4 or this Clause 27.2; |
|
(vii) |
the definitions of "Restricted Party", "Sanctions Authorities" or "Sanctions List" in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) or Clause 11.23; |
|
(viii) |
any release of any Security Interest, guarantee, indemnities or subordination arrangement created by any Finance Document; |
|
(ix) |
any change of the currency in which the Loan is provided or any amount is payable under any of the Finance Documents; |
|
(x) |
any change to the Replacement Reference Rate pursuant to Clause 27.4; |
|
(xi) |
an extension of the Availability Period in relation to the Loan; or |
|
(xii) |
a change in Clauses 16.4 or 22, |
may not be effected without the prior written consent of all
Lenders.
|
(b) |
An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent, a Mandated Lead Arranger or the Security Trustee may not be effected without the consent of the Agent, that Mandated Lead Arranger or the
Security Trustee, as the case may be. |
|
(c) |
The Borrower and a Creditor Party may amend or waive a term of a Fee Letter to which they are party. |
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27.3 |
Exclusion of other or implied variations |
Except for a document which satisfies the
requirements of Clauses 27.1 and 27.2, no document, and, subject to Clause 27.4, no act, course of conduct, failure or neglect to act, delay or acquiescence on the part of the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of
them) shall result in the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of them) being taken to have varied, waived, suspended or limited, or being precluded (permanently or temporarily) from enforcing, relying on or
exercising:
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(a) |
a provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; or |
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(b) |
an Event of Default; or |
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(c) |
a breach by the Borrower or a Security Party of an obligation under a Finance Document or the general law; or |
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(d) |
any right or remedy conferred by any Finance Document or by the general law, |
and there shall
not be implied into any Finance Document any term or condition requiring any such provision to be enforced, or such right or remedy to be exercised, within a certain or reasonable time.
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27.4 |
Changes to reference rates |
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(a) |
If a RFR Replacement Event has occurred in relation to the RFR, the Agent (acting on the instructions of all Lenders) shall be entitled to: |
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(i) |
replace the RFR with a Replacement Reference Rate; |
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(ii) |
adjust the pricing on the Replacement Reference Rate by the amendment of the Margin or otherwise, in each case at its discretion, to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic
value from one Party to another as a result of the application of that Replacement Reference Rate (and if any adjustment or method for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body,
the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation); and |
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(iii) |
amend this Agreement for the purpose of any of: |
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(A) |
providing for the use of a Replacement Reference Rate in place of the RFR; |
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(B) |
aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement Reference Rate; |
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(C) |
enabling that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Reference Rate to
be used for the purposes of this Agreement); |
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(D) |
implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Reference Rate; |
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(E) |
providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement Reference Rate; or |
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(F) |
adjusting the pricing in accordance with paragraph (ii) above. |
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(b) |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and each Creditor Party of any replacement of the RFR, any adjustment of pricing and any amendment of this Agreement made pursuant to paragraph (a) above, which shall take
effect immediately as from (and including) the date specified in such notification. |
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(c) |
If required by the Agent (acting on the instructions of all Lenders), the Borrower shall (and shall procure that each other Security Party and Approved Manager shall) enter into such supplemental, replacement or other
agreement in relation to any Finance Document as the Agent may specify to extend the effect of any of the amendments referred to in paragraph (a) above to such Finance Document. |
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(a) |
An amendment or waiver that relates to, or has the effect of, aligning the means of calculation of interest on the Loan under this Agreement to any recommendation of a Relevant Nominating Body which: |
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(i) |
relates to the use of the RFR on a compounded basis in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets; and |
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(ii) |
is issued on or after the date of this Agreement, |
may be made with the consent of the Agent
(acting on the instructions of the Lenders).
With respect to:
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(a) |
the replacement of the RFR with a Replacement Reference Rate in accordance with sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of Clause 27.4 (and the designation of such benchmark as permitted under sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of
the definition of "Replacement Reference Rate"); |
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(b) |
the adjustment of pricing in accordance with sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) Clause 27.4; |
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(c) |
any amendment of any Finance Document as contemplated in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of Clause 27.4; and |
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(d) |
any other amendment, variation, waiver, suspension or limit requested by a Borrower or any Security Party which requires the approval of all the Lenders or the Majority Lenders (as the case may
be), |
the Agent shall provide each Lender with written notice of such request accompanied by such detailed background
information as may be reasonably necessary (in the opinion of the Agent) to determine whether to approve such action. A Lender shall be deemed to have approved such action if such Lender fails to object to such action by written notice to the Agent
within 10 days of that Xxxxxx's receipt of the Agent's notice or such other time as the Agent may state in the relevant notice as being the time available for approval of such action.
Unless otherwise specifically provided, any notice under or in connection with any
Finance Document shall be given by letter or fax; and references in the Finance Documents to written notices, notices in writing and notices signed by particular persons shall be construed accordingly.
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28.2 |
Addresses for communications |
A notice by letter or fax shall be sent:
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(a) |
to the Borrower: |
c/o Capital-Executive Ship Management Corp. |
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0, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
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185 37 Piraeus |
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Greece |
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E-mail: x.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx |
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for the attention of: |
Capital Product Partners L.P./Chief Financial Officer |
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(b) |
to a Lender: |
At the address next to its name in Part A of Schedule 1 or (as the case may require) in the relevant Transfer
Certificate. |
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for the attention of: |
the Manager |
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(c) |
to the Agent and Security Trustee: |
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for general matters: |
Hamburg Commercial Bank AG |
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UB 25 Shipping |
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Shipping Clients International |
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Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 50 |
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20095 Hamburg |
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Germany |
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Fax No: x00 000 000 0000/Email: Xxxxxxxx.xxxxx@xxxx-xxxx.xxx |
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Attn: Xx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx/Xx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx |
for credit administrative matters: Hamburg Commercial Bank AG
Loan and Collateral Management
Shipping International
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 50
20095
Hamburg
Germany
Fax No: x00 00 0000 00000
or to such other address as the relevant Party may notify the Agent or, if the relevant Party is the Agent or the Security Trustee, the Borrower,
the Lenders and the Security Parties.
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28.3 |
Effective date of notices |
Subject to Clauses 28.4 and 28.5:
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(a) |
a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered; and |
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(b) |
a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, 2 hours after its transmission is completed. |
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28.4 |
Service outside business hours |
However, if under Clause 28.3 a notice would be deemed to be
served:
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(a) |
on a day which is not a business day in the place of receipt; or |
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(b) |
on such a business day, but after 5 p.m. local time, |
the notice shall (subject to Clause 28.5)
be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at 9 a.m. on the next day which is such a business day.
Clauses 28.3 and 28.4 do not apply if the recipient of a notice notifies the
sender within 1 hour after the time at which the notice would otherwise be deemed to be served that the notice has been received in a form which is illegible in a material respect.
A notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall not be invalid by
reason that its contents or the manner of serving it do not comply with the requirements of this Agreement or, where appropriate, any other Finance Document under which it is served if:
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(a) |
the failure to serve it in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or other Finance Document, as the case may be, has not caused any party to suffer any significant loss or prejudice; or |
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(b) |
in the case of incorrect and/or incomplete contents, it should have been reasonably clear to the party on which the notice was served what the correct or missing particulars should have been. |
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28.7 |
Electronic communication |
Any communication from the Agent or the other Creditor
Parties made by electronic means will be sent unsecured and without electronic signature, however, the Borrower may request the Agent and the other Creditor Parties at any time in writing to change the method of electronic communication from
unsecured to secured electronic mail communication.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges and accepts the risks associated with the use of
unsecured electronic mail communication including, without limitation, risk of delay, loss of data, confidentiality breach, forgery, falsification and malicious software. The Agent and the other Creditor Parties shall not be liable in any way for
any loss or damage or any other disadvantage suffered by the Borrower resulting from such unsecured electronic mail communication.
If the
Borrower or any Security Party wish to cease all electronic communication, they shall give written notice to the Agent and the other Creditor Parties accordingly after receipt of which notice the Parties shall cease all electronic communication.
For as long as electronic communication is an accepted form of communication, the Parties shall:
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(a) |
notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and |
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(b) |
notify each other of any change to their respective addresses or any other such information supplied to them. |
Any notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall be in
English.
In this Clause 0, "notice" includes any demand,
consent, authorisation, approval, instruction, waiver or other communication.
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29.1 |
Contractual recognition of bail-in |
Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document or
any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between the parties to a Finance Document, each Party acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any party to a Finance Document under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be subject
to Bail-In Action by the relevant Resolution Authority and acknowledges and accepts to be bound by the effect of:
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(a) |
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation): |
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(i) |
a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability; |
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(ii) |
a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and |
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(iii) |
a cancellation of any such liability; and |
a variation of any term of any Finance Document to
the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.
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30 |
Confidential Information |
Each Creditor Party agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential
and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by Clause 30.2 or 30.3 and to ensure that all Confidential Information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply to its own confidential information.
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30.2 |
Disclosure of Confidential Information |
Any Creditor Party may disclose:
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(a) |
to any of its affiliates and Related Funds and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and representatives such Confidential Information as that Creditor Party
shall consider appropriate if any person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this paragraph (a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be
price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of
confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information; |
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(i) |
to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Finance Documents or which succeeds (or which may potentially succeed)
it as Agent or Security Trustee and, in each case, to any of that person's affiliates, Related Funds, representatives and professional advisers; |
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(ii) |
with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made
by reference to, one or more Finance Documents and/or the Borrower and/or any Security Party and to any of that person's affiliates, Related Funds, representatives and professional advisers; |
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(iii) |
appointed by any Creditor Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b) above applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents
on its behalf; |
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(iv) |
who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b) above; |
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(v) |
to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory |
authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation;
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(vi) |
to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitrations, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes; |
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(vii) |
to whom or for whose benefit that Creditor Party charges, assigns or otherwise creates Security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 26.17 (Security over Lenders' rights); |
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(viii) |
who is a Party, a member of the Group or any related entity of the Borrower and/or any Security Party; |
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(ix) |
as a result of the registration of any Finance Document as contemplated by any Finance Document or any legal opinion obtained in connection with any Finance Document; or |
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(x) |
with the consent of the Borrower; |
in each case, such Confidential Information as that Creditor
Party shall consider appropriate if:
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(A) |
in relation to sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking except that there shall be no
requirement for a Confidentiality Undertaking if the recipient is a professional adviser and is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information; |
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(B) |
in relation to sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking or is otherwise bound by requirements of
confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information they receive and is informed that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information; |
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(C) |
in relation to sub-paragraphs (v), (vi) and (vii) of paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential
Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of that Creditor Party, it is not practicable so to do in the circumstances; |
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(c) |
to any person appointed by that Creditor Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b) above applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or more of the Finance
Documents including without limitation, in relation to the trading of participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services
referred to in this paragraph (c) if the service provider to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered in to a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With
Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Borrower and the relevant Creditor Party; |
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(d) |
to any rating agency (including its professional advisers) such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such rating agency to carry out its normal rating activities in relation to the
Finance Documents and/or the Borrower and/or any Security Party. |
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(e) |
Each Creditor Party is released from its respective obligations of secrecy and from banking confidentiality under any law or regulation applicable to it. This permission set out in paragraphs (a) and (d) of this
Clause 30.2 is given for the purposes of giving relief from banking secrecy and confidentiality requirements. It is not intended as and is no declaration of consent in accordance with the DS_GVO (EU Regulation 2016/679, General Data Protection
Regulation). |
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30.3 |
Disclosure to numbering service providers |
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(a) |
Any Creditor Party may disclose to any national or international numbering service provider appointed by that Creditor Party to provide identification numbering services in respect of this Agreement, the Loan and/or
the Borrower and/or any Security Party the following information: |
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(i) |
names of the Borrower and the Security Parties; |
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(ii) |
country of domicile of the Borrower and the Security Parties; |
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(iii) |
place of incorporation of the Borrower and the Security Parties; |
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(iv) |
date of this Agreement; |
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(vi) |
the names of the Agent and the Mandated Lead Arranger; |
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(vii) |
date of each amendment and restatement of this Agreement; |
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(viii) |
amount of Total Commitments; |
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(ix) |
currency of the Loan; |
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(xii) |
Final Repayment Date; |
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(xiii) |
changes to any of the information previously supplied pursuant to sub-paragraphs (i) to (xii) above; and |
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(xiv) |
such other information agreed between such Creditor Party and the Borrower, |
to enable such
numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering identification services.
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(b) |
The Parties acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the Loan and/or the Borrower and/or any Security Party by a numbering service provider and the information associated with
each such number may be disclosed to users of |
its services in accordance with the standard terms and conditions of that numbering service provider.
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(c) |
The Borrower represents, on behalf of itself and each Security Party, that none of the information set out in sub-paragraphs (i) to (xiv) of paragraph (a) above is, nor will at any time be, unpublished price-sensitive
information. |
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(d) |
The Agent shall notify the Borrower and the other Creditor Parties of: |
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(i) |
the name of any numbering service provider appointed by the Agent in respect of this Agreement, the Loan and/or the Borrower and/or any Security Party; and |
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(ii) |
the number or, as the case may be, numbers assigned to this Agreement, the Loan and/or the Borrower and/or any Security Party by such numbering service provider. |
This Clause 30 constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties in
relation to the obligations of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.
Each of the Creditor Parties acknowledges that some or all of the
Confidential Information is or may be price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and each of the
Creditor Parties undertakes not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.
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30.6 |
Notification of disclosure |
Each of the Creditor Parties agrees (to the extent permitted by law
and regulation) to inform the Borrower:
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(a) |
of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to sub-paragraph (v) of paragraph (b) of Clause 30.2 except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that
paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and |
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(b) |
upon becoming aware that Confidential Information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 30. |
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30.7 |
Continuing obligations |
The obligations in this Clause 30 are continuing and, in particular,
shall survive and remain binding on each Creditor Party for a period of 12 months from the earlier of:
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(a) |
the date on which all amounts payable by the Borrower under or in connection with this Agreement have been paid in full and all Commitments have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and |
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(b) |
the date on which such Creditor Party otherwise ceases to be a Creditor Party. |
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31.1 |
Rights cumulative, non-exclusive |
The rights and remedies which the Finance Documents give to
each Creditor Party are:
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(b) |
may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and |
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(c) |
shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so, be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law. |
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31.2 |
Severability of provisions |
If any provision of a Finance Document is or subsequently becomes
void, unenforceable or illegal, that shall not affect the validity, enforceability or legality of the other provisions of that Finance Document or of the provisions of any other Finance Document.
A Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts.
A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the
Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
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31.5 |
Benefit and binding effect |
The terms of this Agreement shall be binding upon, and shall enure
to the benefit of, the Parties hereto and their respective (including subsequent) successors and permitted assigns and transferees.
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31.6 |
Electronic Disclosure |
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(a) |
The Borrower and the Owner each hereby recognise as binding any relevant documents (whether signed or not) to fulfil the disclosure of the financial circumstances in accordance with Sec. 18 of the German Banking Act
(KWG) that were or are, after the date of this Agreement, submitted to Hamburg Commercial Bank AG electronically or on data carriers through the Borrower, any Security Party or any third party and declare such documents as complete and
correct. |
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(b) |
Any documents submitted to Hamburg Commercial Bank AG electronically or on data carriers in accordance with Sec. 18 of the German Banking Act (KWG) have the same legal significance as any signed documents in paper
form. |
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection
with it shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
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32.2 |
Exclusive English jurisdiction |
Subject to Clause 32.3, the courts of England shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to settle any Dispute.
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32.3 |
Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties |
Clause 32.2 is for the
exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties, each of which reserves the right:
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(a) |
to commence proceedings in relation to any Dispute in the courts of any country other than England and which have or claim jurisdiction to that Dispute; and |
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(b) |
to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing proceedings in England. |
The Borrower shall not commence any proceedings in any country other than England in relation to a Dispute.
The Borrower irrevocably appoints Curzon Maritime Ltd. at their office for the
time being, presently at 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx XX0 0XX, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx to act as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf any process or other document relating to any proceedings in the English courts which
are connected with a Dispute.
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32.5 |
Creditor Party rights unaffected |
Nothing in this Clause 32 shall exclude or limit any right
which any Creditor Party may have (whether under the law of any country, an international convention or otherwise) with regard to the bringing of proceedings, the service of process, the recognition or enforcement of a judgment or any similar or
related matter in any jurisdiction.
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32.6 |
Meaning of "proceedings" and "Dispute" |
In this Clause 32,
"proceedings" means proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure and a "Dispute" means any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a
dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement) or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.
THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
Schedule 1
Part A
Lenders and Original Commitments
Lender |
Lending Office |
Commitment (US Dollars) |
Hamburg Commercial Bank XX |
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 50
20095 Hamburg Germany |
105,000,000 |
Part B
Lenders and Contributions
Lender |
Lending Office |
Contribution (%) |
Hamburg Commercial Bank XX |
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 50
20095 Hamburg Germany |
100% |
Part C
Schedule 2
Drawdown Notice
To: Hamburg Commercial Bank XX
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 50
20095 Hamburg
Germany
Attention: Loans Administration
[l]
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1 |
We refer to the loan agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated [l] and made between (i) ourselves, as Borrower, (ii) the Lenders referred to therein, (iii) yourselves
as Mandated Lead Arranger and (iv) yourselves as Agent and Security Trustee in connection with a secured term loan facility of up to $105,000,000. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown
Notice. |
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2 |
We request to borrow the Loan as follows: |
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(a) |
Amount of the Loan: $[l]; |
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(c) |
Duration of the first Interest Period shall be [l] months; and |
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(d) |
Payment instructions: account in our name and numbered [l] with [l] of
[l]. |
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3 |
We represent and warrant that: |
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(a) |
the representations and warranties in Clause 10 of the Loan Agreement would remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this Drawdown Notice with reference to the circumstances now existing;
and |
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(b) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the Loan. |
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4 |
This Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders. |
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5 |
[We authorise you to deduct the commitment fee(s) payable pursuant to in Clause 20.1(b)]. |
_______________________
[Authorised Person]
for and on behalf of
CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P.
Schedule 3
Condition Precedent Documents
Part A
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(a) required before service of the Drawdown Notice.
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1 |
A duly executed original of: |
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(c) |
the Corporate Guarantee; |
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(d) |
the Agency and Trust Deed; |
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(e) |
any Subordination Agreement; |
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(f) |
any Subordinated Debt Security; and |
(and of each document required to be delivered under each of them).
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2 |
Copies of the certificate of incorporation and constitutional documents of the Borrower, the Owner, any other Security Party, any Approved Manager and any company registration documents in respect of the Borrower and
any Security Party (including, without limitation, any corporate register excerpts) required by the Agent and a list of all members of the Group (as included in the Borrower's annual audited financial statements). |
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3 |
Copies of resolutions of the directors of the Borrower and the directors of and shareholders of the Owner authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents to which each is a party and, in the case of the
Borrower, authorising named representatives to give the Drawdown Notice and other notices under this Agreement. |
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4 |
The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document is executed on behalf of the Borrower, the Owner and any other Security Party and if required any Approved Manager. |
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5 |
Copies of all consents which the Borrower or any Security Party requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Finance Document or any Underlying Document. |
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6 |
The originals of any mandates or other documents required in connection with the opening or operation of the Accounts. |
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7 |
Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 32 has accepted its appointment. |
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8 |
Copies of any Approved Charter and any related charter guarantee and of all documents signed or issued by the Borrower, the Owner or any party thereto (or any of them) under or in connection with such documents
together, with such documentary evidence as the Agent and |
its legal advisers may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution of all such documents by the parties
thereto.
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9 |
Documents establishing that the Ship is or will be managed by the Approved Manager(s) on terms acceptable to the Lenders. |
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10 |
The Original Financial Statements. |
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11 |
A declaration signed by an officer of the Borrower's general partner describing in reasonable detail and any Security Interest falling under paragraph (f) of the definition of "Permitted Security Interests"
existing, to the knowledge of the Borrower, at the date of this Agreement. |
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12 |
A copy of the Sale and Purchase Agreement and of all documents signed or issued by the parties thereto under or in connection with the Sale and Purchase Agreement. |
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13 |
Such documentary evidence as the Agent and its legal advisors may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution of the Sale and Purchase agreement by each of the parties thereto. |
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14 |
Any documents required by the Agent in respect of the Borrower, the Owner, any other Security Party and any Approved Manager (and their respective partners or shareholders, as applicable) to satisfy the Lenders'
"know your customer" and money laundering requirements including, without limitation, updated organisational charts, updated FATCA and CRS forms. |
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15 |
Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the laws of Liberia, the Xxxxxxxx Islands and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require. |
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16 |
If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent. |
Part B
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(b) required before the Drawdown Date:
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1 |
A duly executed original of each Mortgage, any Deed of Covenant, each General Assignment, and any Charterparty Assignment relating to any Assignable Charter (and of each document
required to be delivered under each of them), each in respect of the Ship. |
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2 |
A copy of the relevant invoice from the Builder to be provided by the Builder to the Owner pursuant to the Shipbuilding Contract. |
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3 |
Documentary evidence that: |
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(a) |
the issued shares of the Owner have been (or on the Delivery Date will be) unconditionally transferred by Capital Maritime & Trading Corp to, and received by the buyer (as such term is defined in the Sale and
Purchase Agreement) and that the contract price (as such term is defined in the Sale and Purchase Agreement) and all other sums due to Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. under the Sale and Purchase Agreement, have been paid in
full. |
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(b) |
the Ship has been unconditionally delivered by the Builder to, and accepted by, the Owner under the Shipbuilding Contract and that the full acquisition cost payable and all other sums due to the Builder under the
Shipbuilding Contract, other than the sums to be financed by the Loan, have been paid or will be paid simultaneously with the Loan to the Builder; |
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(c) |
the Ship is definitively and permanently registered in the name of the Owner under the Approved Flag in accordance with the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State; |
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(d) |
the Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Owner save as contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
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(e) |
the Ship maintains the class specified in Clause 14.3(b) with a first class classification society which is a member of IACS (other than the China Classification Society and the Russian Maritime Registry of Shipping)
as the Agent may approve free of all overdue recommendations and conditions of such classification society; |
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(f) |
the Mortgage relating to the Ship has been duly registered or recorded against the Ship as a valid first preferred or, as the case may be, priority mortgage in accordance with the laws of the applicable Approved Flag
State; |
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(g) |
the Ship is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with; and |
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(h) |
the Ship has been delivered to the relevant charterer in accordance with the terms of its Approved Charter. |
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4 |
In respect of the Approved Manager of the Ship: |
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(a) |
the Approved Manager's Undertaking relative to the Ship (and of each document required to be delivered under each of them); |
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(b) |
copies of the Approved Manager's Document of Compliance and of the Ship's Safety Management Certificate (together with any other details of the applicable safety management system which the Agent
requires); |
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(c) |
a copy of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials relating to the Ship; and |
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(d) |
a copy of the ISSC in respect of the Ship. |
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5 |
One valuation of the Ship prepared pursuant to Clause 15.3, stated to be for the purposes of this Agreement, which shows a value of the Ship in an amount which satisfies the condition set out in Clause
9.1(d). |
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6 |
A favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Agent on such matters relating to the insurances for the Ship as the Agent may require. |
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7 |
Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the law of each Approved Flag State, Liberia, Xxxxxxxx Islands and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may
require. |
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8 |
If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent. |
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9 |
Evidence satisfactory to the Agent of payment of all fees due and payable in accordance with the Finance Documents. |
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10 |
The most recent survey report or other comparable document in respect of the physical condition of the Ship. |
Part C
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.3 and the Borrower shall use its best endeavours to deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Agent no later than 30 Business Days after the Drawdown Date.
The duly executed xxxxxxxxx's acknowledgment to the assignment of the Approved Charter
pursuant to the Charterparty Assignment.
Each of the documents specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Part A shall be notarised or legalised by a
competent authority acceptable to the Agent and every other copy document delivered under this Schedule shall be certified as a true and up to date copy by a director or the secretary (or equivalent officer) of the Borrower.
Schedule 4
Transfer Certificate
The Transferor and the Transferee accept exclusive responsibility for ensuring that this Certificate and the transaction to which it relates comply with
all legal and regulatory requirements applicable to them respectively.
To: Hamburg Commercial Bank AG for itself and for and on behalf of the
Borrower, each Security Party, the Security Trustee and each Lender, as defined in the Loan Agreement referred to below.
[l]
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1 |
This Certificate relates to a Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated [l] and made between (1) Capital Product Partners L.P. (the "Borrower") as
Borrower, (2) the banks and financial institutions named therein as Lenders, (3) Hamburg Commercial Bank AG as Agent (4) Hamburg Commercial Bank AG as Mandated Lead Arranger and (5) Hamburg Commercial Bank AG as Security Trustee for a loan
facility of up to US$105,000,000. |
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2 |
In this Certificate, terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meanings and: |
"Relevant Parties" means the Agent, the Borrower, each Security Party, the Security Trustee and each Lender;
"Transferor" means [full name] of [lending office]; and
"Transferee" means [full name] of [lending office].
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3 |
The effective date of this Certificate is [l] Provided that this Certificate shall not come into effect unless it is signed by the Agent on or before that
date. |
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4 |
The Transferor assigns to the Transferee absolutely all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor has as Lender under or by virtue of the Loan Agreement and every other Finance Document
in relation to [l] per cent. of its Contribution, which percentage represents $[l]. |
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5 |
By virtue of this Certificate and Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement, the Transferor is discharged [entirely from its Commitment which amounts to $[l]] [from [l] per cent. of its Commitment, which percentage represents $[l]] and, subject to Clause 26.7 of the Loan Agreement, from all obligations connected therewith, the
Transferee acquires a Commitment of $[l]. |
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6 |
The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the Relevant Parties that the Transferee will observe and perform all the obligations under the Finance Documents which Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement
provides will become binding on it upon this Certificate taking effect. |
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7 |
The Agent, at the request of the Transferee (which request is hereby made) accepts, for the Agent itself and for and on behalf of every other Relevant Party, this Certificate as a Transfer Certificate taking effect in
accordance with Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement. |
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(a) |
warrants to the Transferee and each Relevant Party that: |
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(i) |
the Transferor has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which are in connection with this transaction; and |
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(ii) |
this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferor; |
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(b) |
warrants to the Transferee that the Transferor is absolutely entitled, free of encumbrances, to all the rights and interests covered by the assignment in paragraph 4 above; and |
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(c) |
undertakes with the Transferee that the Transferor will, at its own expense, execute any documents which the Transferee reasonably requests for perfecting in any relevant jurisdiction the Transferee's title under this
Certificate or for a similar purpose. |
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(a) |
confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement and each of the other Finance Documents; |
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(b) |
agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against either the Transferor, the Agent, the Mandated Lead Arranger, the Security Trustee or any Lender in the event that: |
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(i) |
any of the Finance Documents prove to be invalid or ineffective; |
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(ii) |
the Borrower or any Security Party fails to observe or perform its obligations, or to discharge its liabilities, under any of the Finance Documents; |
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(iii) |
it proves impossible to realise any asset covered by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document, or the proceeds of such assets are insufficient to discharge the liabilities of the Borrower or any Security
Party under the Finance Documents; |
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(c) |
agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against the Agent, the Mandated Lead Arranger, the Security Trustee or any Lender in the event that this Certificate proves to be invalid or
ineffective; |
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(d) |
warrants to the Transferor and each Relevant Party that: |
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(i) |
it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which it needs to take or obtain in connection with this transaction; and |
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(ii) |
this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferee; and |
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(e) |
confirms the accuracy of the administrative details set out below regarding the Transferee. |
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10 |
The Transferor and the Transferee each undertake with the Agent, the Mandated Lead Arranger and the Security Trustee severally, on demand, fully to indemnify the Agent and/or the Security Trustee and/or the Mandated
Lead Arranger in respect of any claim, proceeding, liability or expense (including all legal expenses) which they or either of them may incur in connection with this Certificate or any matter arising out of it, except such as are shown to have been
mainly and directly caused by the gross and culpable negligence or dishonesty of |
the Agent's, any Mandated Lead Arranger's or the Security Trustee's own officers or employees.
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11 |
The Transferee shall repay to the Transferor on demand so much of any sum paid by the Transferor under paragraph 10 as exceeds one-half of the amount demanded by the Agent, the Mandated Lead Arranger or the Security
Trustee in respect of a claim, proceeding, liability or expense which was not reasonably foreseeable at the date of this Certificate; but nothing in this paragraph shall affect the liability of each of the Transferor and the Transferee to the Agent,
the Mandated Lead Arranger or the Security Trustee for the full amount demanded by it. |
[Name of
Transferor] [Name
of Transferee]
By: By:
Date: Date:
Agent
Signed for itself and for and on behalf of itself
as Agent and for every other Relevant Party
Hamburg Commercial
Bank AG
By:
Date:
Administrative Details of
Transferee
Name of Transferee:
Lending
Office:
Contact Person
(Loan Administration
Department):
Telephone:
Fax:
Contact Person
(Credit Administration
Department):
Telephone:
Fax:
Account for payments:
Notes:
This Transfer Certificate alone may not be
sufficient to transfer a proportionate share of the Transferor's interest in the security constituted by the Finance Documents in the Transferor's or Transferee's jurisdiction. It is the responsibility of each Lender to ascertain whether any other
documents are required for this purpose.
Paragraph 4 deals with assignment of rights and can be used together with paragraph 5 if the parties have
agreed to a combination of assignment of rights and transfer of obligations.
Paragraph 5 deals with transfer of obligations and should be removed if
the parties have agreed to an assignment only.
Schedule 5
Power of Attorney
Know all men by these presents that PANORMOS CONTAINER CARRIER S.A. (the "Company"), a corporation incorporated in the Republic
of the Xxxxxxxx Islands and having its registered address at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, the Xxxxxxxx Islands irrevocably and by way of security appoints Hamburg Commercial Bank AG (the
"Attorney") of Gerhart-Hauptmann-Xxxxx 00, X-00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx its attorney, to act in the name of the Company and to exercise any right, entitlement or power of the Company in relation to
[l] (the "Classification Society") and/or to the classification records of any vessel owned, controlled or operated by the Company including, without limitation, such powers or entitlement
as the Company may have to inspect the class records and any files held by the Classification Society in relation to any such vessel and to require the Classification Society to provide to the Attorney or to any of its nominees any information,
document or file which the Attorney may request
Ratification of actions of attorney. For the avoidance of doubt and without limiting the
generality of the above, it is confirmed that the Company hereby ratifies any action which the Attorney takes or purports to take under this Power of Attorney and the Classification Society shall be entitled to rely hereon without further
enquiry.
Delegation. The Attorney may exercise its powers hereunder through any officer or through any nominee and/or may sub delegate to any
person or persons (including a Receiver and persons designated by him) all or any of the powers (including the discretions) conferred on the Attorney hereunder, and may do so on terms authorising successive sub delegations.
This Power of Attorney was executed by the Company as a Deed on [l].
EXECUTED as a DEED by )
[l] )
acting by )
its [President/Secretary )
Treasurer] )
in the presence of: )
Schedule 6
Form of Compliance Certificate
To: Hamburg Commercial Bank XX
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 50
D-20095 Hamburg
Germany
as Agent
[l] 20[l]
Dear Sirs,
We refer to a loan agreement dated [l] (the "Loan Agreement") and made between (amongst others) (i) Hamburg Commercial Bank AG as Agent and (ii) Capital Product Partners L.P. as Borrower in relation to a term loan facility of up
to $105,000,000.
Words and expressions defined in the Loan Agreement shall have the same meaning when used in this compliance certificate.
We enclose with this certificate a copy of the [unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Group for the 3-month period ended [31 March][30
June][30 September][31 December] 20[l]]/[the audited consolidated annual financial statements of the Group for the financial year ended 31 December 20[l]]. The
financial statements (i) have been prepared in accordance with all applicable laws and GAAP consistently applied, (ii) give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group at the date of the financial statements and of its profit for the
period to which the financial statements relate and (iii) fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Group.
The Borrower and
the Owner represent that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred as at the date of this certificate [except for the following matter or event [set out all material details of matter or event]]. In addition as of [l], the Borrower confirms compliance with the financial covenants set out in Clause 12.5 and the security cover ratio set out in Clause 15.1,
of the Loan Agreement for the [3-month period][Financial Year] ending on the date of this certificate.
We now certify that, on the basis of the
calculations appended to this Certificate, as at [l]:
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(a) |
the Leverage Ratio of the Borrower is less than 75 per cent.; |
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(b) |
the aggregate amount of immediately freely available and unencumbered bank or cash deposits held by the Borrower and the other members of the Group is $[l] (representing an
amount [equal to] [in excess of] the product of $500,000 and [l], being the number of Fleet Vessels as at the last day of the financial period to which the financial statements of the Borrower attached to
this certificate relate); |
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(c) |
the ratio of EBITDA to Net Interest Expense is no less than [l]:1; and |
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(d) |
the Security Cover Ratio is [l] per cent.. |
This certificate shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
______________________________
for and on behalf of
CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P.
Schedule 7
Reference Rate Terms
Currency: |
Dollars. |
Cost of funds as a fallback |
Cost of funds will apply as a fallback. |
Definitions |
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Additional Business Days: |
An RFR Banking Day. |
Break Costs: |
Any cost or amount which is incurred or suffered by a Lender to the extent that it is attributable to a payment by
the Borrower to the Agent of any amount of principal due or which would have become due under this Agreement prior to the date upon which such amount should have been repaid in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. |
Central Bank Rate: |
(a) The short-term interest rate target set by the US Federal Open Market Committee as
published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from time to time; or (b) if that target is not a single figure, the arithmetic mean of:
(i)
the upper bound of the short-term interest rate target range set by the US Federal Open Market Committee and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
and
(ii)
the lower bound of that target range. |
Central Bank Rate Adjustment: |
In relation to the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on any RFR Banking Day, the arithmetic mean
(calculated by the Agent or by any other Creditor Party which agrees to make the calculation in place of the Agent) of the Central Bank Rate Spreads for the five most immediately preceding RFR Banking Days for which the RFR is available. |
Central Bank Rate Spread: |
In relation to any RFR Banking Day, the difference (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) (calculated by the
Agent or by any other Creditor Party which agrees to make the calculation in place of the Agent) between: (i) the RFR for that RFR Banking Day and (ii) the Central Bank Rate prevailing at the close of business on that RFR Banking Day. |
Daily Rate: |
The "Daily Rate" for any RFR Banking Day is: |
|
(a)
the RFR for that RFR Banking Day; or |
|
(b)
if the RFR is not available for that RFR Banking Day, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: |
|
(i) the Central Bank Rate for that
RFR Banking Day; and
(ii)
the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment; or |
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(c) if paragraph (b) above applies but the Central Bank Rate for that RFR Banking
Day is not available, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of: (i) the most recent Central Bank Rate for a day which is no more than five
RFR Banking Days before that RFR Banking Day; and
(ii)
the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment, rounded, in either case, to five decimal places and if, in either case, that rate
is less than zero, the Daily Rate shall be deemed to be zero. |
Lookback Period: |
Five RFR Banking Days. |
Market Disruption Credit Adjustment Spread: |
Length of Interest Period Credit Adjustment Spread for USD ≤ 1
Month 0.11448% ˃ 1 Month and ≤ 3 Months 0.26161% ˃ 3 Months and ≤ 6 Months 0.42826% ˃ 6 Months and ≤ 12Months 0.71513% |
Market Disruption Rate |
The percentage rate per annum which is the
aggregate of:
(a)
the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for the Interest Period of the Loan; and (b) the applicable Market Disruption Credit Adjustment Spread. |
Relevant Market: |
The market for overnight cash borrowing collateralised by US Government securities. |
Reporting Day: |
The Business Day which follows the day which is the Lookback Period prior to the last day of the
Interest Period. |
RFR: |
The secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate). |
RFR Banking Day: |
Any day other than:
(a)
a Saturday or Sunday; and (b) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any
successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government securities. |
Reporting Time |
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Deadline to report market disruption in accordance with Clause 5.6 |
Close of business in London on the Reporting Day for the Loan. |
Deadline for Lenders to report their cost of funds in accordance with Clause
5.7 |
Close of business on the date falling 2 Business Days after the Reporting Day for the Loan or the
relevant part of the Loan (or, if earlier, on the date falling 2 Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of the Interest Period for the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan). |
Schedule 8
Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate
The "Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate" for any RFR Banking Day "i" during an Interest Period for the Loan or any
part of the Loan is the percentage rate per annum (without rounding, to the extent reasonably practicable for the Creditor Party performing the calculation, taking into account the capabilities of any software used for that purpose) calculated as
set out below:
where:
"UCCDRi" means the Unannualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate for that RFR Banking Day
"i";
"UCCDRi-1" means, in relation to that RFR Banking Day "i", the
Unannualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate for the immediately preceding RFR Banking Day (if any) during that Interest Period;
"dcc" means 360 or, in any case where market practice in the Relevant Market is to use a different number for quoting the
number of days in a year, that number;
"ni" means the number of calendar days from, and including, that RFR
Banking Day "i" up to, but excluding, the following RFR Banking Day; and
the "Unannualised Cumulative Compounded
Daily Rate" for any RFR Banking Day (the "Cumulated RFR Banking Day") during that Interest Period is the result of the below calculation (without rounding, to the extent reasonably practicable for the Creditor Party
performing the calculation, taking into account the capabilities of any software used for that purpose):
where:
"ACCDR" means the Annualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate for that Cumulated RFR Banking Day;
"tni" means the number of calendar days from, and including, the first day of the Cumulation Period to, but
excluding, the RFR Banking Day which immediately follows the last day of the Cumulation Period;
"Cumulation Period" means
the period from, and including, the first RFR Banking Day of that Interest Period to, and including, that Cumulated RFR Banking Day;
"dcc" has the meaning given to that term above; and
the "Annualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate" for that Cumulated RFR Banking Day is the percentage rate per annum (rounded to
five decimal places) calculated as set out below:
where:
"d0" means the number of RFR Banking Days in the Cumulation Period;
"Cumulation Period" has the meaning given to that term above;
"i" means a series of whole numbers from one to d0, each representing the relevant RFR Banking Day in chronological
order in the Cumulation Period;
"DailyRatei-LP" means, for any RFR Banking Day "i" in the
Cumulation Period, the Daily Rate for the RFR Banking Day which is the applicable Lookback Period prior to that RFR Banking Day "i";
"ni" means, for any RFR Banking Day "i" in the Cumulation Period, the number of calendar days from,
and including, that RFR Banking Day "i" up to, but excluding, the following RFR Banking Day;
"dcc" has the
meaning given to that term above; and
"tni" has the meaning given to that term above.
Schedule 9
Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate
The "Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate" for any Interest Period for the Loan or any part of the Loan is the percentage rate per annum
(rounded to the same number of decimal places as is specified in the definition of "Annualised Cumulative Compounded Daily Rate" in Schedule 8 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate)) calculated as set out below:
where:
"d0" means the number of RFR Banking Days during the Interest Period;
"i" means a series of whole numbers from one to d0, each representing the relevant RFR Banking Day in chronological order
during the Interest Period;
"DailyRatei-LP" means for any RFR Banking Day "i" during the Interest
Period, the Daily Rate for the RFR Banking Day which is the applicable Lookback Period prior to that RFR Banking Day "i";
"ni" means, for any RFR Banking Day "i", the number of calendar days from, and including, that RFR Banking
Day "i" up to, but excluding, the following RFR Banking Day;
"dcc" means 360 or, in any case where market practice
in the Relevant Market is to use a different number for quoting the number of days in a year, that number; and
"d" means the number
of calendar days during that Interest Period.
Execution Pages
BORROWER
SIGNED
by
)
as
attorney-in-fact )
for and on behalf
of )
CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS
L.P. )
in the presence
of: )
LENDERS
SIGNED
by )
)
for and on behalf
of )
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG
)
in the presence
of: )
MANDATED LEAD ARRANGER
SIGNED
by )
)
for and on behalf
of )
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG
)
in the presence
of: )
BOOKRUNNER
SIGNED
by )
for and on behalf
of )
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG
)
in the presence
of: )
AGENT
SIGNED
by )
for and on behalf
of )
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG
)
in the presence
of: )
SECURITY TRUSTEE
SIGNED
by )
for and on behalf
of )
HAMBURG COMMERCIAL BANK AG
)
in the presence
of: )