FIRST LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF JUNE 15, 2007 AMONG INTRALINKS, INC., as Borrower, TA INDIGO HOLDING CORPORATION, as Guarantor, THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN, as Lenders, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Administrative...
FIRST
LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT
DATED
AS OF JUNE 15, 2007
AMONG
INTRALINKS,
INC.,
as
Borrower,
TA
INDIGO HOLDING CORPORATION,
as
Guarantor,
THE
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED HEREIN,
as
Lenders,
and
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
as
Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent,
and
Syndication Agent,
and
ING
CAPITAL LLC,
as
Documentation Agent,
and
DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.
and
CREDIT
SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP
00
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
(000)
000-0000
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Page
SECTION
1.
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DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Certain
Defined Terms.
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1
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1.2
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Accounting
Terms; Utilization of GAAP for Purposes of Calculations Under Agreement;
Financial Determinations.
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31
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1.3
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Other
Definitional Provisions and Rules of Construction.
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32
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SECTION
2.
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AMOUNTS
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS AND LOANS
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32
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2.1
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Commitments;
Making of Loans; the Register; Optional Notes.
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32
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2.2
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Interest
on the Loans.
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38
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2.3
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Fees.
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41
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2.4
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Repayments,
Prepayments and Reductions of Revolving Loan Commitment Amount; General
Provisions Regarding
Payments;
Application of Proceeds of Collateral and Payments Under
Guaranty.
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41
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2.5
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Use
of Proceeds.
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47
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2.6
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Special
Provisions Governing Eurodollar Rate Loans.
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47
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2.7
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Increased
Costs; Taxes; Capital Adequacy.
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49
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2.8
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Statement
of Lenders; Obligation of Lenders and Issuing Lenders to
Mitigate.
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53
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2.9
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Replacement
of a Lender.
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53
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SECTION
3.
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LETTERS
OF CREDIT
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54
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3.1
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Issuance
of Letters of Credit and Lenders’ Purchase of Participations
Therein.
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54
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3.2
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Letter
of Credit Fees.
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56
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3.3
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Drawings
and Reimbursement of Amounts Paid Under Letters of Credit.
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57
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3.4
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Obligations
Absolute.
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59
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3.5
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Nature
of Issuing Lenders’ Duties.
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60
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SECTION
4.
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CONDITIONS
TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
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61
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4.1
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Conditions
to the Initial Credit Extensions.
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61
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4.2
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Conditions
to All Loans.
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64
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4.3
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Conditions
to Letters of Credit.
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65
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SECTION
5.
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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65
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5.1
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Organization,
Powers, Corporate Structure, Qualification, Good Standing, Business and
Subsidiaries.
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65
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5.2
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Authorization
of Borrowing, Etc.
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66
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5.3
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Financial
Condition.
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67
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5.4
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No
Material Adverse Change.
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67
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5.5
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Title
to Properties; Liens; Real Property; Intellectual
Property.
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67
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5.6
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Litigation;
Adverse Facts.
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68
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5.7
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Payment
of Taxes.
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68
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5.8
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Governmental
Regulation.
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69
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5.9
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Securities
Activities.
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69
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5.10
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Employee
Benefit Plans.
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69
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5.11
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Certain
Fees.
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70
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Page
5.12
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Environmental
Compliance.
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70
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5.13
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Employee
Matters.
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70
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5.14
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Solvency.
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70
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5.15
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Matters
Relating to Collateral.
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70
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5.16
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Disclosure.
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71
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5.17
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Related
Agreements.
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71
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5.18
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Insurance.
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71
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5.19
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Use
of Proceeds.
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72
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SECTION
6.
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COMPANY’S
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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72
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6.1
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Financial
Statements and Other Reports.
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72
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6.2
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Existence,
Etc.
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75
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6.3
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Payment
of Taxes and Claims; Tax.
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75
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6.4
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Maintenance
of Properties; Insurance; Application of Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds.
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76
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6.5
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Inspection
Rights; Lender Meeting.
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77
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6.6
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Compliance
with Laws, Etc.
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77
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6.7
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Environmental
Matters.
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77
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6.8
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Execution
of Guaranty and Personal Property Collateral Documents After the Closing
Date.
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79
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6.9
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Matters
Relating to Additional Real Property Collateral.
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79
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6.10
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Interest
Rate Protection.
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81
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6.11
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Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts.
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81
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6.12
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Ratings.
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82
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6.13
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Employee
Benefits.
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82
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6.14
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Post-Closing
Collateral Matters.
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82
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SECTION
7.
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COMPANY’S
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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82
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7.1
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Indebtedness.
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83
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7.2
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Liens
and Related Matters.
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85
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7.3
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Investments;
Acquisitions.
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87
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7.4
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Restricted
Junior Payments.
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89
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7.5
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Financial
Covenant—Maximum Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage
Ratio.
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90
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7.6
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Restriction
on Fundamental Changes; Asset Sales.
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90
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7.7
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Consolidated
Capital Expenditures.
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92
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7.8
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Transactions
with Shareholders and Affiliates.
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92
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7.9
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Conduct
of Business.
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93
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7.10
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Amendments
or Waivers of Certain Agreements; Amendment and Prepayment of
Second
Lien
Credit Agreement.
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93
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7.11
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Fiscal
Year.
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94
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7.12
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Ownership
of Subsidiaries.
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94
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7.13
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Sale
and Leaseback Transactions.
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94
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SECTION
8.
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EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
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95
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8.1
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Failure
to Make Payments When Due.
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95
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8.2
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Default
in Other Agreements.
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95
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8.3
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Breach
of Certain Covenants.
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95
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Page
8.4
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Breach
of Warranty.
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95
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8.5
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Other
Defaults Under Loan Documents.
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96
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8.6
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Involuntary
Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, Etc.
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96
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8.7
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Voluntary
Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, Etc.
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96
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8.8
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Judgments
and Attachments.
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96
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8.9
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Dissolution.
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97
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8.10
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Employee
Benefit Plans.
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97
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8.11
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Change
in Control.
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97
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8.12
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Invalidity
of Loan Documents; Failure of Security; Repudiation of
Obligations.
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97
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SECTION
9.
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ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT
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98
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9.1
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Appointment.
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98
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9.2
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Powers
and Duties; General Immunity.
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99
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9.3
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Independent
Investigation by Lenders; No Responsibility for Appraisal of
Creditworthiness.
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101
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9.4
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Right
to Indemnity.
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101
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9.5
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Resignation
of Agents; Successor Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Swing Line
Lender.
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101
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9.6
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Collateral
Documents; Guaranty and Intercreditor Agreement.
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102
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9.7
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Duties
of Other Agents.
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103
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9.8
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Administrative
Agent May File Proofs of Claim.
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103
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SECTION
10.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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104
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10.1
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Successors
and Assigns; Assignments and Participations in Loans and Letters of
Credit.
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104
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10.2
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Expenses.
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108
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10.3
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Indemnity.
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109
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10.4
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Set-Off.
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110
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10.5
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Ratable
Sharing.
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110
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10.6
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Amendments
and Waivers.
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111
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10.7
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Independence
of Covenants.
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113
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10.8
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Notices;
Effectiveness of Signatures.
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113
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10.9
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Survival
of Representations, Warranties and Agreements.
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114
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10.10
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Failure
or Indulgence Not Waiver; Remedies Cumulative.
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114
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10.11
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Marshalling;
Payments Set Aside.
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114
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10.12
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Severability.
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114
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10.13
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Obligations
Several; Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights; Damage
Waiver.
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114
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10.14
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Release
of Security Interest or Guaranty.
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115
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10.15
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Applicable
Law.
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115
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10.16
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Construction
of Agreement; Nature of Relationship.
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116
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10.17
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Consent
to Jurisdiction and Service of Process.
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116
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10.18
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Waiver
of Jury Trial.
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116
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10.19
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Confidentiality.
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117
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10.20
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness.
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118
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10.21
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USA
Patriot Act.
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118
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EXHIBITS
I
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FORM
OF NOTICE OF BORROWING
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II
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FORM
OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION/CONTINUATION
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III
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FORM
OF REQUEST FOR ISSUANCE
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IV
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FORM
OF NOTICE OF PREPAYMENT
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V
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FORM
OF TERM NOTE
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VI
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FORM
OF REVOLVING NOTE
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VII
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FORM
OF SWING LINE NOTE
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VIII
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FORM
OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
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IX
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FORM
OF OPINION OF COMPANY COUNSEL
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X
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FORM
OF ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
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XI
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FORM
OF SOLVENCY CERTIFICATE
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XII
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FORM
OF FIRST LIEN GUARANTY
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XIII
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FORM
OF FIRST LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT
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XIV
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FORM
OF INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
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XV
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FORM
OF PREFERRED STOCK CERTIFICATE OF
DESIGNATIONS
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SCHEDULES
A
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EXISTING
INDEBTEDNESS TO BE REPAID
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B
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TRANSACTION
COSTS
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2.1
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LOAN
COMMITMENTS
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4.1
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FOREIGN
COUNSEL
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5.1
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ORGANIZATIONAL
CHART; SUBSIDIARIES OF COMPANY
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5.3
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FINANCIAL
CONDITION
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5.5B
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REAL
PROPERTY
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5.7A
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PAYMENT
OF TAXES
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5.18
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INSURANCE
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7.1
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CERTAIN
EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS
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7.2
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CERTAIN
EXISTING LIENS
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7.3
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CERTAIN
EXISTING INVESTMENTS
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7.8
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TRANSACTIONS
WITH
AFFILIATES
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INTRALINKS, INC.
FIRST LIEN CREDIT
AGREEMENT
This
FIRST LIEN CREDIT
AGREEMENT is dated as of June 15, 2007 and entered into by and among
INTRALINKS, INC., a
Delaware corporation (prior to the Merger, the “Target” and, after the Merger,
“Company”), TA INDIGO HOLDING CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation (“Holdings”), each lender from
time to time party hereto (each individually referred to herein as a “Lender” and collectively as
“Lenders”), DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
and CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES
(USA) LLC, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS (“DB”),
as administrative agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) and as
collateral agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) and as
syndication agent, and ING Capital LLC, as documentation agent.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to and in
connection with the Merger Agreement (with such term and each other capitalized
term used in these recitals having the meaning assigned thereto in
subsection 1.1), on the Closing Date Merger Sub will be merged with and
into the Target with the Target continuing as the surviving corporation of the
Acquisition and a wholly owned Subsidiary of Holdings; and
WHEREAS, Lenders have agreed
to extend certain credit facilities to Company, the proceeds of which will be
used (i) together with the proceeds of loans under the Second Lien Credit
Agreement, the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement and the Equity
Contributions, to fund the Acquisition Financing Requirements, and (ii) to
provide financing for working capital and other general corporate purposes of
Company and its Subsidiaries following the Closing Date.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained,
Company, Holdings, Lenders, Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent agree as
follows:
Section
1. DEFINITIONS
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1.1
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Certain Defined
Terms.
|
The
following terms used in this Agreement shall have the following
meanings:
“Acquisition” means the Merger
and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement to occur
substantially concurrently with the Merger.
“Acquisition Financing
Requirements” means the aggregate of all amounts necessary (i) to
finance the payment of the consideration payable under the Merger Agreement
in respect of Target’s Capital Stock that has been converted into the right to
receive cash pursuant to the Merger Agreement and (ii) to refinance all
Existing Indebtedness to Be Repaid, and (iii) to pay Transaction
Costs.
“Administrative Agent” has the
meaning assigned to that term in the introduction to this Agreement and also
means and includes any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to
subsection 9.5A.
“Affected Lenders” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 2.6C.
“Affected Loans” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 2.6C.
“Affiliate,” as applied to any
Person, means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled
by, or under common control with, that Person. For the purposes of
this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms
“controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as applied to
any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct
or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or
otherwise.
“Affiliated Funds” means Funds
that are administered or managed by (i) a single entity or (ii) an
Affiliate of such entity.
“Agents” means Administrative
Agent and Collateral Agent.
“Aggregate Amounts Due” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.5.
“Agreement” means this First
Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June 15, 2007.
“Approved Fund” means a Fund
that is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of
a Lender or (iii) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers
or manages a Lender.
“Arrangers” has the meaning
assigned to that term in the introduction to this Agreement.
“Asset Sale” means the sale by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person (other than (x) in the
case of any sale by Company or any Guarantor, a sale to Company or a Guarantor
or (y) in the case of any sale by any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, a sale
to another Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor) of (i) any of the stock of
any of Company’s Subsidiaries (including any issuance of stock by such
Subsidiaries) to a Person other than Company or a Guarantor;
(ii) substantially all of the assets of any division or line of business of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (iii) any other assets (whether
tangible or intangible) of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including by way
of merger or consolidation and including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction
(other than (a) inventory or services sold in the ordinary course of
business, (b) Cash or Cash Equivalents, (c) sales, assignments,
transfers or dispositions of accounts in the ordinary course of business for
purposes of compromise or collection, (d) any other assets to the extent that
the aggregate value of such assets sold in any single transaction or related
series of transactions is equal to $1,500,000 or less, (e) the making of
Investments permitted by subsection 7.3 and (f) sales and other
dispositions of assets permitted by subsection 7.6 (other than clause (iv)
thereof)).
“Assignment Agreement” means an
Assignment and Assumption in substantially the form of Exhibit X annexed
hereto.
“Attributable Indebtedness”
shall mean, when used with respect to any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, as at
the time of determination, the present value (discounted at a rate equivalent to
Company’s then-current weighted average cost of funds for borrowed money as at
the time of determination, compounded on a semi-annual basis) of the total
obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the
lease included in any such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
“Bankruptcy Code” means
Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now and
hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.
“Base Rate” means, at any time,
the higher of (i) the Prime Rate or (ii) the rate which is 1/2 of 1%
in excess of the Federal Funds Effective Rate. Any change in the Base
Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall
be effective on the effective date of such change. Administrative
Agent will give notice promptly to Company and the Lenders of changes in the
Base Rate; provided that the
failure to give such notice shall not affect the Base Rate in effect after such
change.
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“Base Rate Loans” means Loans
bearing interest at rates determined by reference to the Base Rate as provided
in subsection 2.2A.
“Base Rate Margin” means the
margin over the Base Rate used in determining the rate of interest of Base Rate
Loans pursuant to subsection 2.2A.
“Business Day” means
(i) for all purposes other than as covered by clause (ii) below, any
day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day which is a legal holiday under the
laws of the State of New York or is a day on which banking institutions located
in such state are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to
close, and (ii) with respect to all notices, determinations, fundings and
payments in connection with the Eurodollar Rate or any Eurodollar Rate Loans,
any day that is a Business Day described in clause (i) above and that is
also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the London
interbank market.
“Capital Lease,” as applied to
any Person, means any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by
that Person as lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is accounted for as a
capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Capital Stock” means the
capital stock of or other equity interests in a Person.
“Cash” means money, currency or
a credit balance in a Deposit Account.
“Cash Equivalents” means, as at
any date of determination, (i) marketable securities (a) issued or
directly and unconditionally guaranteed as to interest and principal by the
United States or (b) issued by any agency of the United States the
obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United
States, in each case maturing within one year after such date;
(ii) marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States
of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public
instrumentality thereof, in each case maturing within one year after such date
and having, at the time of acquisition thereof, the highest rating obtainable
from either Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group (“S&P”) or Xxxxx’x Investors
Service Inc. (“Moody’s”);
(iii) commercial paper maturing no more than one year from the date of
creation thereof and having, at the time of acquisition thereof, a rating of at
least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody’s; (iv) time deposits,
certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year after
such date and issued or accepted by any Lender or former Lender or by any
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
state thereof or the District of Columbia that has capital, surplus and
undivided profits of not less than $100,000,000; (v) shares of any money
market mutual fund that (a) has investment guidelines that require at least
95% of its assets to be invested continuously in the types of investments
referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, (b) has net assets of
not less than $500,000,000, and (c) has the highest rating obtainable from
either S&P or Moody’s; and (vi) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, short
term investments believed in good faith by Company to be of comparable credit
quality and tenure to those described in clauses (i) through (v)
above.
“Certificate of Merger” means
the Certificate of Merger dated as of the Closing Date, in the form delivered to
Administrative Agent as such certificate may be amended from time to time
thereafter to the extent permitted under subsection 7.10.
“CFC” has the meaning assigned
to that term in subsection 6.8B.
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“Change in Control”
means:
(i)prior to the consummation of an IPO,
the Permitted Holders shall cease to beneficially own and control issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock of Holdings constituting a majority of the
voting power of the Capital Stock of Holdings with the power to vote to elect
the members of the Governing Body of Holdings;
(ii)the occurrence of any “Change in
Control” as defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement or the Holdings Senior
PIK Credit Agreement;
(iii)at any time after the consummation of
an IPO, (A) (I) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in
Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), excluding the Permitted
Holders, shall become the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of Capital
Stock of Holdings with more than thirty-five percent (35%) of the voting power
of all outstanding Capital Stock of Holdings with the power to vote generally on
matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of Holdings and (II) the
Permitted Holders shall beneficially own and control Capital Stock of Holdings
with a lesser percentage of the voting power of all outstanding Capital Stock of
Holdings or (B) the occurrence of a change in the composition of the
Governing Body of Holdings such that a majority of the members of any such
Governing Body are not Continuing Members; or
(iv)at any time, all of the capital stock
of Company ceasing to be directly or indirectly owned by Holdings.
As used
herein, the term “beneficially own” or “beneficial ownership” shall have the
meaning assigned to those terms in the Exchange Act and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Change in Law” means the
occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the
following: (i) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule,
regulation, treaty or order, (ii) any change in any law, rule, regulation
or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any
Government Authority, (iii) any determination of a court or other
Government Authority having the effect of a change in law, rule, regulation or
treaty or (iv) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or
directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Government
Authority.
“Class,” as applied to Lenders,
means each of the following two classes of Lenders: (i) Lenders
having Revolving Loan Exposure, (ii) Lenders having Term Loan Exposure
related to the Term Loans.
“Closing Date” means the date
on which the initial Loans are made.
“Collateral” means,
collectively, all of the real, personal and mixed property in which Liens are
purported to be granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents as security for the
Obligations.
“Collateral Account” has the
meaning assigned to that term in the Security Agreement.
“Collateral Agent” means DB, in
its capacity as collateral agent for Secured Parties pursuant to the Collateral
Documents, and also means and includes any successor Collateral Agent appointed
pursuant to subsection 9.5A.
“Collateral Documents” means
the Security Agreement, the Foreign Pledge Agreements, the Mortgages, the
Control Agreements and all other instruments or documents delivered by any Loan
Party pursuant to this Agreement or any other agreements or documents from time
to time in order to grant to Collateral Agent, on behalf of Secured Parties, a
Lien on any real, personal or mixed property of that Loan Party as security for
the Obligations.
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“Commercial Letter of Credit”
means any letter of credit or similar instrument issued for the purpose of
providing the primary payment mechanism in connection with the purchase of any
materials, goods or services by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of business of Company or such Subsidiary.
“Commitments” means the
Revolving Loan Commitments and the Term Loan Commitments,
collectively.
“Communications” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.8.
“Company” has the meaning
assigned to that term in the introduction to this Agreement.
“Compliance Certificate” means
a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit VIII
annexed hereto.
“Confidential Information
Memorandum” means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated May 2007
and any supplement thereto relating to the credit facilities evidenced by this
Agreement provided by Company to the Arrangers for distribution to potential
Lenders.
“Consolidated Capital
Expenditures” means, for any period, the sum of the aggregate of all
expenditures (whether paid in cash or other consideration or accrued as a
liability and including that portion of Capital Leases which is capitalized on
the consolidated balance sheet of Company and its Subsidiaries) by Company and
its Subsidiaries during that period that, in conformity with GAAP, are included
in “additions to property, plant or equipment” or comparable items reflected in
the consolidated statement of cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries, but
excluding:
(a) capitalized
interest,
(b) expenditures
that are accounted for as capital expenditures of such Person and that actually
are paid for by a third party (excluding any Loan Party or any of their
Subsidiaries) and for which neither any Loan Party nor any Subsidiary has
provided or is required to provide or incur, directly or indirectly, any
consideration or obligation to such third party or any other Person (whether
before, during or after such period), and
(c) any
expenditure made (i) with Net Asset Sale Proceeds not required to be applied to
repay Loans, (ii) to restore, replace or rebuild property following any damage,
loss, destruction or condemnation of such property with Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds not required to be applied to repay the Loans,
(iii) to the extent constituting any portion of a Permitted Acquisition or (iv)
to the extent made as part of the Acquisition.
For
purposes of this definition, the purchase price of equipment that is purchased
simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment or with insurance
proceeds shall be included in Consolidated Capital Expenditures only to the
extent of the gross amount of such purchase price less the credit granted by the
seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time or the
amount of such proceeds, as the case may be.
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“Consolidated Cash Interest
Expense” means, for any period, Consolidated Interest Expense for such
period, excluding any
interest expense not payable in Cash (including amortization of discount and
amortization of debt issuance costs).
“Consolidated Current Assets”
means, as at any date of determination, the total assets of Company and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis which may properly be classified as current
assets in conformity with GAAP, excluding Cash and
Cash Equivalents.
“Consolidated Current
Liabilities” means, as at any date of determination, the total
liabilities of Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis which may
properly be classified as current liabilities in conformity with GAAP, excluding the current
portions of each of Funded Debt and Capital Leases.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means,
for any period, the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period of
(i) Consolidated Net Income, (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense,
(iii) provisions for taxes based on income, (iv) total depreciation
expense, (v) total amortization expense, (vi) other noncash items (other
than any such noncash item to the extent it represents an accrual of or reserve
for cash expenditures in any future period), including any noncash charges for
(a) goodwill write offs and write downs, (b) employee compensation plans and
expense recorded from grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock
options, restricted stock or other rights to officers, directors, employees or
contractors, and (c) purchase accounting adjustments (including the impact of
adjusting deferred revenues), (vii) any extraordinary charges or losses
determined in accordance with GAAP and any unusual or nonrecurring charges,
(viii) Transaction Costs and costs and expenses incurred in connection with
Permitted Acquisitions, the transactions contemplated by the Merger Documents,
(ix) any non-cash loss attributable to the xxxx-to-market movement in the
valuation of Hedge Agreements or other derivative instruments (to the extent the
cash impact resulting from such loss has not been realized) pursuant to
Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 133, “Accounting for
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities,” (x) losses from and cost and
expenses incurred in respect of any sale or other disposition of property
(including but not limited to Asset Sales) permitted by the terms of this
Agreement, (xi) non-recurring charges resulting from severance, integration and
other adjustments (including restructuring charges) made as a result of (a) the
Acquisition or (b) any sale or other disposition of property permitted by the
terms of this Agreement, (xii) any losses from the early extinguishment of
Indebtedness or Hedge Agreements, (xiii) any impairment charge or asset
write-off pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No.
142—“Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets” or Financial Accounting Standards
Board Statement No. 144—“Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived
Assets” and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to Financial
Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 141—“Business Combinations,” (xiv)
non-recurring charges resulting from the relocation of the chief executive
offices of Company in an amount not to exceed $2.0 million in the aggregate,
(xv) to the extent covered by insurance proceeds, losses in connections with
casualty events, but only, in the case of clauses (ii) through (xv), to the
extent deducted in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, less noncash items
added in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income (other than any such noncash
item to the extent it will result in the receipt of cash payments in any future
period) and extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring gains, all of the foregoing
as determined on a consolidated basis for Holdings and its Subsidiaries in
conformity with GAAP.
“Consolidated Excess Cash Flow”
means, for any period, an amount (if positive) equal to (i) the sum,
without duplication, of the amounts for such period of (a) Consolidated
EBITDA, (b) the Consolidated Working Capital Adjustment and (c)
extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring cash gains deducted from Consolidated
EBITDA minus
(ii) the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period of
(a) scheduled repayments of Consolidated Total Debt (excluding (x)
repayments of Revolving Loans except to the extent the Revolving Loan Commitment
Amount is permanently reduced in connection with such repayments and (y) any
such repayments out of the proceeds of refinancing Indebtedness), (b) internally
generated funds of Company and its Subsidiaries used to make Consolidated
Capital Expenditures (and any amounts that would be included as Consolidated
Capital Expenditures but for the operation of clause (c)(ii) of the
definition thereof (except, in the case of such clause (c)(ii), to the extent
made out of Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds)), (c) Consolidated Cash
Interest Expense, (d) current taxes based on income of Company and its
Subsidiaries and paid in cash with respect to such period, (e) internally
generated funds of Company and its Subsidiaries used during such period to
finance Permitted Acquisitions and Investments permitted by subsections
7.3(vii), (viii) (to the extent such amounts have not already been deducted in
calculating Consolidated Net Income) and (xi)(b)(x), (f) any other amount
paid from internally generated funds of Company and its Subsidiaries during such
period which was added back to Consolidated Net Income in determining
Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clauses (vii), (viii), (x), (xi) and (xiv) of
the definition of Consolidated EBITDA, (g) any amount applied to make Restricted
Junior Payments permitted by subsection 7.4 (other than clauses (i), (iii),
(vii) and (viii) thereof) and (h) any cash security deposits made in respect of
leases for office space.
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“Consolidated Interest Expense”
means, for any period, total interest expense (including that portion
attributable to Capital Leases in accordance with GAAP, Attributable
Indebtedness and capitalized interest) of Company and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of Company and
its Subsidiaries, including all commissions, discounts and other fees and
charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance
financing, net costs under Interest Rate Agreements and amounts referred to in
subsection 2.3A payable to Administrative Agent and Lenders that are
considered interest expense in accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, Consolidated Interest Expense prior to the first anniversary of
the Closing Date shall be deemed to be actual Consolidated Interest Expense for
the period from the Closing Date to the end of the period for which Consolidated
Interest Expense is being determined multiplied by a
fraction the numerator of which is 365 and the denominator of which is the
number of days from the Closing Date until the last day of such
period.
“Consolidated Leverage Ratio”
means, as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, the ratio of
(i) Consolidated Total Debt as at such date to (ii) Consolidated
EBITDA for the consecutive four Fiscal Quarters ending on such
date.
“Consolidated Net Income”
means, for any period, the net income (or loss) of Company and its Subsidiaries
on a consolidated basis for such period taken as a single accounting period
determined in conformity with GAAP; provided that there
shall be excluded (i) the income (or loss) of any Person (other than a
Subsidiary of Company), except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other
distributions actually paid to Company or any of its Subsidiaries by such Person
during such period, (ii) except as contemplated by subsection 1.2, the
income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary
of Company or is merged into or consolidated with Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or that Person’s assets are acquired by Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (iii) the income of any Subsidiary of Company to the extent
that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that
Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms
of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute,
rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary, (iv) any
after-tax gains or losses attributable to asset sales outside the ordinary
course of business or returned surplus assets of any Pension Plan, and
(v) (to the extent not included in clauses (i) through
(iv) above) any net extraordinary gains or net noncash extraordinary
losses.
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“Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage
Ratio” means, as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, the ratio of
(i) Consolidated Total Senior Secured Debt as at such date to
(ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the consecutive four Fiscal Quarters ending on
such date.
“Consolidated Total Debt”
means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate stated balance sheet
amount of all Indebtedness of Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Total Senior Secured
Debt” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate stated
balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, secured by a Lien at
such date.
“Consolidated Working Capital”
means, as at any date of determination, the excess (or deficit) of Consolidated
Current Assets over Consolidated Current Liabilities.
“Consolidated Working Capital
Adjustment” means, for any period on a consolidated basis, the amount
(which may be a negative number) by which Consolidated Working Capital as of the
beginning of such period exceeds (or is less than) Consolidated Working Capital
as of the end of such period, exclusive of any increase as a result of Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds that have been invested pursuant to subsection
2.4B(iii); provided that, in
each case such amounts shall be increased or decreased by any noncash purchase
accounting adjustment contemplated by clause (vi)(c) of the definition of
Consolidated EBITDA.
“Continuing Member” means, as
of any date of determination, any member of the Governing Body of Holdings who
was (i) (x) a member of such Governing Body on the Closing Date or
(y) nominated for election or elected to such Governing Body with the
affirmative vote of a majority of the members who were either members of such
Governing Body on the Closing Date or whose nomination or election was
previously so approved or (ii) appointed by the Permitted Holders.
“Contractual Obligation,” as
applied to any Person, means any provision of any Security issued by that Person
or of any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, contract, undertaking,
agreement or other instrument to which that Person is a party or by which it or
any of its properties is bound or to which it or any of its properties is
subject.
“Control Agreement” means an
agreement, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Administrative Agent
and executed by the financial institutions or securities intermediary at which a
Deposit Account or a Securities Account, as the case may be, is maintained,
pursuant to which such financial institution or securities intermediary confirms
and acknowledges Collateral Agent’s security interest in such account, and
agrees that the financial institution or securities intermediary, as the case
may be, will comply with entitlement orders or instructions originated by
Collateral Agent as to disposition of funds in such account, without further
consent by Company or the applicable Guarantor.
“Currency Agreement” means any
foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option
contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement to which
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party.
“DB” has the meaning assigned
to that term in the introduction to this Agreement.
“Deposit Account” means a
demand, time, savings, passbook or similar account maintained with a Person
engaged in the business of banking, including a savings bank, savings and loan
association, credit union or trust company.
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“Designated Noncash
Consideration” means the fair market value of noncash consideration
received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale
that is so designated as Designated Noncash Consideration pursuant to an
Officer’s Certificate of Company delivered to Administrative Agent at or prior
to the time of such Asset Sale, setting forth the basis of such
valuation.
“Dollars” and the sign “$” each mean the lawful money
of the United States of America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any
Subsidiary of Company that is incorporated or organized under the laws of the
United States of America, any state thereof or the District of
Columbia.
“Eligible Assignee” means
(i) any Lender, any Affiliate of any Lender and any Approved Fund of any
Lender; and (ii) (a) a commercial bank organized under the laws of the
United States or any state thereof; (b) a savings and loan association or
savings bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof;
(c) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country or a
political subdivision thereof; provided that
(1) such bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the United
States or (2) such bank is organized under the laws of a country that is a
member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or a
political subdivision of such country; and (d) any other entity that is an
“accredited investor” (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act) that
extends credit or buys loans in the ordinary course including insurance
companies, mutual funds, lease financing companies and financing companies;
provided that
neither Company nor any Affiliate of Company shall be an Eligible
Assignee.
“Employee Benefit Plan” means
any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (i) which is
currently maintained or contributed to by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their respective ERISA Affiliates; (ii) with respect to plans subject to
Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 302 of ERISA, which was at
any time during the last six years maintained, contributed to or terminated by
Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates, including
any Person which was at such time an ERISA Affiliate of Company; or (iii) with
respect to which there is any potential or outstanding liability of Company, its
Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates.
“Environmental Claim” means any
investigation, notice, notice of violation, claim, action, suit, proceeding,
demand, abatement order or other order or directive, by any Government Authority
or any other Person with respect to any Real Property Asset, arising
(i) pursuant to or in connection with any actual or alleged violation of
any Environmental Law, (ii) in connection with any actual or alleged
Hazardous Materials Activity, or (iii) in connection with any actual or
alleged liability under any Environmental Law.
“Environmental Laws” means the
common law and any and all current or future statutes, ordinances, orders,
rules, regulations, judgments, Governmental Authorizations, or any other
requirements of any Government Authority relating to (i) environmental
matters, including those relating to any Hazardous Materials Activity, or
(ii) occupational safety and health or the protection of the environment or
human health (to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials),
applicable to Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Facility.
“Equity Contributions” means,
collectively, (a) the contribution by the Investors of an aggregate amount of
cash which, when taken together with rollover equity of the Rho Entities and
certain other existing shareholders of Company, will be in an aggregate amount
of not less than $175,500,000 to Holdings and (b) the further
contribution to Company of such cash contribution proceeds.
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“ERISA” means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any
successor thereto.
“ERISA Affiliate,” as applied
to any Person, means (i) any corporation that is a member of a controlled
group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Internal
Revenue Code of which that Person is a member; (ii) any trade or business
(whether or not incorporated) that is a member of a group of trades or
businesses under common control within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the
Internal Revenue Code of which that Person is a member; and (iii) any
member of an affiliated service group within the meaning of Section 414(m)
or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of which that Person, any corporation
described in clause (i) above or any trade or business described in clause
(ii) above is a member. Any former ERISA Affiliate of a Person
or any of its Subsidiaries shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate of
such Person or such Subsidiary within the meaning of this definition with
respect to the period such entity was an ERISA Affiliate of such Person or such
Subsidiary and with respect to liabilities arising after such period for which
such Person or such Subsidiary could be liable under the Internal Revenue Code
or ERISA.
“ERISA Event” means (i) a
“reportable event” within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA and the
regulations issued thereunder with respect to any Pension Plan (excluding those
for which the provision for 30-day notice to the PBGC has been waived by
regulation); (ii) the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of
Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to any Pension Plan
(whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code); (iii) the failure to make by its due date a required contribution
under Section 412(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (or Section 430(j) of the
Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Pension Protection Act of 2006) with
respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to
any Multiemployer Plan; (iv) the filing pursuant to Section 412 of the
Internal Revenue Code of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding
standard with respect to any Pension Plan; (v) the provision by the
administrator of any Pension Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a
notice of intent to terminate such plan in a distress termination described in
Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (vi) the withdrawal by Company, any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan
or Multiemployer Plan or the termination of any such Pension Plan resulting in
liability under Title IV of ERISA; (vii) the institution by the PBGC
of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of any event or
condition which might constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or
the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (viii) the
imposition of liability on Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or
by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (ix) the
withdrawal of Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA
Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Sections
4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan, or the receipt by Company,
any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of notice
from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency pursuant
to Section 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to terminate or has
terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA; (x) the assertion of a
material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Employee
Benefit Plan other than a Multiemployer Plan or the assets thereof, or against
Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in
connection with any Employee Benefit Plan; (xi) receipt from the Internal
Revenue Service of notice of the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other
Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code) to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Pension Plan to qualify
for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code;
or (xii) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n)
of the Internal Revenue Code or pursuant to ERISA with respect to any Pension
Plan.
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“Eurodollar Rate” means, for
any Interest Rate Determination Date, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan
for any Interest Period, the rate per annum obtained by dividing (i) the
rate per annum determined by Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) on the date that is two Business Days prior to the beginning of
such Interest Period by reference to the British Bankers’ Association Interest
Settlement Rate for deposits in Dollars (as set forth by any service selected by
Administrative Agent which has been nominated by the British Bankers’
Association as an authorized information vendor for the purpose of displaying
such rates) for a period equal to such Interest Period; provided that, to the
extent that an interest rate is not ascertainable pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this definition, the “Eurodollar Rate” shall be the interest rate
per annum determined by Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per
annum at which deposits in Dollars are offered for such Interest Period to major
banks in the London interbank market in London, England at approximately 11:00
a.m. (London time) on the date that is two Business Days prior to the beginning
of such Interest Period by (ii) a
percentage equal to 100% minus the stated
maximum rate of all reserve requirements (including any marginal, emergency,
supplemental, special or other reserves) applicable on such Interest Rate
Determination Date to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect
of “Eurocurrency liabilities” as defined in Regulation D (or any successor
category of liabilities under Regulation D). Each determination by
Administrative Agent pursuant to this definition shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.
“Eurodollar Rate Loans” means
Loans bearing interest at rates determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate
as provided in subsection 2.2A.
“Eurodollar Rate Margin” means the margin over
the Eurodollar Rate used in determining the rate of interest of Eurodollar Rate
Loans pursuant to subsection 2.2A.
“Event of Default” means each
of the events set forth in Section 8.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, and any successor
statute.
“Exchange Rate” means when an
amount denominated in a currency other than Dollars is to be determined with
respect to any Letter of Credit, the nominal rate of exchange of Administrative
Agent in the New York foreign exchange market for the sale of such currency in
exchange for Dollars at 12:00 noon (New York time) one Business Day prior to
such date, expressed as a number of units of such currency per one
Dollar.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with
respect to Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any
payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of Company hereunder,
(i) Taxes that are imposed on the overall net income (however denominated)
and franchise Taxes imposed in lieu thereof by a jurisdiction (or any political
subdivision thereof) as a result of such recipient being organized or
incorporated or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender,
maintaining its applicable lending office in, or otherwise doing business in,
such jurisdiction (other than a business arising or deemed to arise solely out
of any of the transactions contemplated by any Loan Document), (ii) any
branch profits Taxes imposed on a recipient by a jurisdiction described in
clause (i), and (iii) in the case of a Foreign Lender, any U.S. federal
withholding Tax that (x) is imposed on amounts payable to a Foreign Lender
(other than an assignee pursuant to a request of Company under
subsection 2.9) at the time such Lender becomes a party hereto (or
designates a new lending office) except to the extent that such Foreign Lender
(or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new
lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from Company with
respect to such withholding tax pursuant to subsection 2.7B or (y) is
attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with its obligations
under subsection 2.7B(iv).
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“Existing Indebtedness to Be
Repaid” means all Indebtedness listed on Schedule
A.
“Facilities” means any and all
real property (including all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located
thereon) now, hereafter or heretofore owned, leased, operated or used by Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective predecessors or
Affiliates.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate”
means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate equal for each day during
such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal
funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day,
for the next preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the
average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by
Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing
selected by Administrative Agent.
“Fee Letter” means the fee
letter agreement dated April 27, 2007 among Holdings, DB and Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc.
“Financial Plan” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 6.1(xi).
“First Priority” means, with
respect to any Lien purported to be created in any Collateral pursuant to any
Collateral Document, that (i) such Lien is perfected and has priority over
any other Lien on such Collateral (other than Liens permitted pursuant to
clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (viii)) of subsection 7.2A) and
(ii) such Lien is the only Lien (other than Liens permitted pursuant to
subsection 7.2A) to which such Collateral is subject.
“Fiscal Quarter” means a fiscal
quarter of any Fiscal Year.
“Fiscal Year” means the fiscal
year of Holdings and its Subsidiaries ending on December 31 of each
calendar year. For purposes of this Agreement, any particular Fiscal
Year shall be designated by reference to the calendar year in which such Fiscal
Year ends.
“Flood Hazard Property” means a
Mortgaged Property, the improvements on which are located in an area designated
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having special flood or mud slide
hazards.
“Foreign Lender” means any
Lender that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of
Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Foreign Plan” means any
employee benefit plan maintained by Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is
mandated or governed by any law, rule or regulation of any Government Authority
other than the United States, any state thereof or any other political
subdivision thereof.
“Foreign Pledge Agreement”
means each pledge agreement or similar instrument governed by the laws of a
country other than the United States, executed on the Closing Date or from time
to time thereafter in accordance with subsection 6.8 by Company or any
Guarantor that owns Capital Stock of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries organized
in such country, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative
Agent.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any
Subsidiary of Company that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
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“Fund” means any Person (other
than a natural Person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing,
holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of
credit in the ordinary course.
“Funded Debt,” as applied to
any Person, means all Indebtedness of that Person (including any current
portions thereof) which by its terms or by the terms of any instrument or
agreement relating thereto matures more than one year from, or is directly
renewable or extendable at the option of that Person to a date more than one
year from (including an option of that Person under a revolving credit or
similar agreement obligating the lender or lenders to extend credit over a
period of one year or more from), the date of the creation thereof.
“Funding and Payment Account”
means the account specified in the payment instructions appearing below
Administrative Agent’s signature herein or the account designated as such in any
other written notice delivered by Administrative Agent to Company and each
Lender.
“Funding and Payment Office”
means the office of Administrative Agent located at 000 Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxxxx 00000, or such other office of Administrative Agent as may from time
to time hereafter be designated as such in a written notice delivered by
Administrative Agent to Company and each Lender.
“Funding Date” means the date
of funding of a Loan.
“GAAP” means, subject to the
limitations on the application thereof set forth in subsection 1.2,
generally accepted accounting principles set forth in opinions and
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as
may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, in each
case as the same are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of
determination.
“Governing Body” means the
board of directors or other body having the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of a Person that is a corporation,
partnership, trust or limited liability company.
“Government Authority” means
the government of the United States or any other nation, or any state, regional
or local political subdivision or department thereof, and any other governmental
or regulatory agency, authority, body, commission, central bank, board, bureau,
organ, court, instrumentality or other entity exercising executive, legislative,
judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or
pertaining to government, in each case whether federal, state, local or foreign
(including supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European
Central Bank).
“Governmental Authorization”
means any permit, license, registration, authorization, plan, directive,
accreditation, consent, order or consent decree of or from, or notice to, any
Government Authority.
“Governmental Real Property Disclosure
Requirements” means any Requirement of Law of any Government Authority
requiring notification of the buyer, lessee, mortgagee, assignee or other
transferee of any Real Property Asset, facility, establishment or business, or
notification, registration or filing to or with any Government Authority, in
connection with the sale, lease, mortgage, assignment or other transfer
(including any transfer of control) of any Real Property Asset, facility,
establishment or business, of the actual or threatened presence or Release in or
into the environment, or the use, disposal or handling of Hazardous Material on,
at, under or near the Real Property Asset, facility, establishment or business
to be sold, leased, mortgaged, assigned or transferred.
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“Granting Lender” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.1B(iii).
“Guarantor” means Holdings and
any Domestic Subsidiary of Company that executes and delivers a counterpart of
the Guaranty from time to time after the Closing Date pursuant to
subsection 6.8.
“Guaranty” means the First Lien
Guaranty executed and delivered by Holdings on the Closing Date and to be
executed and delivered by additional Domestic Subsidiaries of Company from time
to time thereafter in accordance with subsection 6.8, substantially in the
form of Exhibit
XII annexed hereto.
“Hazardous Materials”
means: (i) any chemical, material or substance defined as or
included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous wastes,”
“hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous waste,” “acutely hazardous waste,”
“radioactive waste,” “biohazardous waste,” “pollutant,” “toxic pollutant,”
“contaminant,” “restricted hazardous waste,” “infectious waste,” “toxic
substances,” or any other term intended to define, list or classify substances
by reason of properties harmful to health, safety or the indoor or outdoor
environment (including harmful properties such as ignitability, corrosivity,
reactivity, carcinogenicity, toxicity, reproductive toxicity, “TCLP toxicity” or
“EP toxicity” or words of similar import under any applicable Environmental
Laws); (ii) any oil, petroleum, petroleum fraction or petroleum derived
substance; (iii) any drilling fluids, produced waters and other wastes
associated with the exploration, development or production of crude oil, natural
gas or geothermal resources; (iv) any flammable substances or explosives;
(v) any radioactive materials; (vi) any asbestos-containing materials;
(vii) urea formaldehyde foam insulation; (viii) electrical equipment
which contains any oil or dielectric fluid containing polychlorinated biphenyls;
(ix) pesticides; and (x) any other chemical, material or substance,
exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated under any Environmental
Law.
“Hazardous Materials Activity”
means any activity, event or occurrence involving any Hazardous Materials that
is regulated by or can give rise to liability under any Environmental Law,
including the use, manufacture, possession, storage, holding, presence,
existence, location, Release, threatened Release, discharge, placement,
generation, transportation, processing, construction, treatment, abatement,
removal, remediation, disposal, disposition or handling of any Hazardous
Materials, and any corrective action or response action with respect to any of
the foregoing.
“Hedge Agreement” means an
Interest Rate Agreement or a Currency Agreement designed to hedge against
fluctuations in interest rates or currency values, respectively.
“Holdings” has the meaning
assigned to that term in the introduction to this Agreement.
“Holdings Senior PIK Credit
Agreement” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by
and among Holdings, the lenders and other parties thereto, as such agreement may
be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time
thereafter to the extent permitted under subsection 7.10C, and any other
agreement relating to permitted Refinancing Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness.
“Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness” means all Obligations
(as that term is defined in the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement) of
Holdings under the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement.
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“Immaterial Subsidiary” means,
at any date of determination, any Subsidiary designated as such in writing by
Company that (i) contributed 2.5% or less of Consolidated EBITDA of Company for
the period of four Fiscal Quarters most recently ended more than forty-five (45)
days prior to the date of determination and (ii) had consolidated assets
representing 2.5% or less of Total Assets on the last day of the most recent
Fiscal Quarter ended more than forty-five (45) days prior to the date of
determination; provided that for
purposes of subsections 8.6, 8.7 and 8.8 only, in determining whether an Event
of Default has occurred with respect to a Material Subsidiary, if all
Subsidiaries that are individually “Immaterial Subsidiaries” as to which a
condition specified in any such subsection applies have (i) an aggregate
contribution to Consolidated EBITDA of Company in excess of 10% of Consolidated
EBITDA of Company for the period of four Fiscal Quarters most recently ended
more than forty-five (45) days prior to the date of determination or (ii)
aggregate consolidated assets representing 10% or more or more of Total Assets
on the last day of the most recent Fiscal Quarter ended more than forty-five
(45) days prior to the date of determination, then, in either case, such
condition shall be deemed to exist with respect to a Material
Subsidiary.
“Indebtedness,” as applied to
any Person, means, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness for borrowed
money, (ii) that portion of obligations with respect to Capital Leases that
is properly classified as a liability on a balance sheet in conformity with
GAAP, (iii) notes payable and drafts accepted representing extensions of
credit whether or not representing obligations for borrowed money, (iv) any
obligation owed for all or any part of the deferred purchase price of property
or services (excluding any such obligations incurred under ERISA), which
purchase price is (a) due more than six months from the date of incurrence
of the obligation in respect thereof or (b) evidenced by a note or similar
written instrument (excluding in each case trade accounts payable and accrued
obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business), (v) Synthetic
Lease Obligations, (vi) all reimbursement obligations of such Person under
letters of credit, (vii) all indebtedness secured by any Lien on any
property or asset owned or held by that Person regardless of whether the
indebtedness secured thereby shall have been assumed by that Person or is
nonrecourse to the credit of that Person, (viii) all Attributable
Indebtedness of such Person, (ix) all obligations of such Person under Hedge
Agreements, and (x) any guarantee of such Person in respect of obligations
of the kind referred to in clauses (i) through (ix) above. Any
Capital Stock of Holdings or Company constituting Specified Equity shall not be
deemed to be Indebtedness. The amount of any Indebtedness that is
only recourse to specific assets of Holdings, Company and/or its Subsidiaries
(and not to Holdings, Company or any of its Subsidiaries generally) shall be
deemed to be equal to the lesser of (x) the principal amount of such
Indebtedness and (y) the fair market value of the assets of Holdings,
Company and/or its Subsidiaries to which such Indebtedness has
recourse.
“Indemnified Liabilities” has
the meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.3.
“Indemnified Taxes” means, with
respect to Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of a payment
to be made by or on account of any obligation of Company hereunder, Taxes other
than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnitees” has the meaning
assigned to that term in subsection 10.3.
“Insurance Policies” means the
insurance policies and coverages required to be maintained by each Loan Party
which is an owner of Mortgaged Property with respect to the applicable Mortgaged
Property pursuant to subsection 6.4 and all renewals and extensions
thereof.
“Insurance Requirements” means,
collectively, all provisions of the Insurance Policies, all requirements of the
issuer of any of the Insurance Policies and all orders, rules, regulations and
any other requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters (or any other
body exercising similar functions) binding upon each Loan Party which is an
owner of Mortgaged Property and applicable to the Mortgaged Property or any use
or condition thereof.
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“Intellectual Property” means
all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications (excluding
any intent-to-use trademark applications), trade names, copyrights, copyright
applications, technology, software, proprietary know-how and proprietary
processes used in the conduct of the business of the Loan Parties and their
Subsidiaries.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means the Intercreditor
Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among Collateral Agent and
Second Lien Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit XIV annexed
hereto, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time in accordance with its terms.
“Interest Payment Date” means
(i) with respect to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each of
March, June, September and December of each year, commencing on the first such
date to occur after the Closing Date, and (ii) with respect to any
Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such
Loan; provided
that, in the case of each Interest Period of longer than three months, “Interest
Payment Date” shall also include each date that is three months, or a multiple
thereof, after the commencement of such Interest Period.
“Interest Period” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 2.2B.
“Interest Rate Agreement” means
any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate
collar agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement to which Holdings,
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party.
“Interest Rate Determination
Date,” with respect to any Interest Period, means the second Business Day
prior to the first day of such Interest Period.
“Internal Revenue Code” means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to the date hereof and from time
to time hereafter, and any successor statute.
“Investment” means (i) any
direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries of, or of a beneficial interest in, any Securities of any other
Person (including any Subsidiary of Company), (ii) any direct or indirect
loan, advance (other than loans and advances to employees for moving,
entertainment and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in
the ordinary course of business) or capital contribution by Holdings or any or
its Subsidiaries to any other Person, including all indebtedness and accounts
receivable from that other Person that are not current assets or did not arise
from sales to that other Person in the ordinary course of business, (iii)
Interest Rate Agreements or Currency Agreements not constituting Hedge
Agreements or (iv) any guarantee by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any
obligations of any other Person (including obligations of Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries). The amount of any Investment shall be the original
cost of such Investment plus the cost of all
additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value,
or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment (other
than adjustments for the repayment of, or the refund of capital with respect to,
the original principal amount of any such Investment).
“Investors” means the TA
Entities and other investors reasonably satisfactory to Administrative
Agent.
“IP Collateral” means,
collectively, the Intellectual Property that constitutes Collateral under the
Security Agreement.
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“IP Filing Office” means the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or
any successor or substitute office in the United States in which filings are
necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of Administrative Agent, desirable in
order to create or perfect Liens on, or evidence the interest of Collateral
Agent and Secured Parties in, any IP Collateral.
“IPO” means the issuance by Holdings of its common
Capital Stock in an underwritten primary public offering (other than a public
offering pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8) pursuant to an
effective registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission in accordance with the Securities Act
(whether alone or in connection with a secondary public offering).
“Issuing Lender,” with respect
to any Letter of Credit, means the Revolving Lender (or an Affiliate of such
Revolving Lender selected by such Revolving Lender (including, with respect to
any Commercial Letter of Credit, DB or Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch)) that
agrees or is otherwise obligated to issue such Letter of Credit, determined as
provided in subsection 3.1B(ii).
“Joint Venture” means a joint
venture, partnership or other similar arrangement, whether in corporate,
partnership or other legal form.
“Lender” and “Lenders” means the Persons
identified as “Lenders” and listed on the signature pages of this Agreement,
together with their successors and permitted assigns pursuant to
subsection 10.1, and the term “Lenders” shall include Swing Line Lender
unless the context otherwise requires; provided that the
term “Lenders,” when used in the context of a particular Commitment, shall mean
Lenders having that Commitment.
“Letter of Credit” or “Letters of Credit” means
Commercial Letters of Credit and Standby Letters of Credit issued or to be
issued by Issuing Lenders for the account of Company pursuant to
subsection 3.1.
“Letter of Credit Usage” means,
as at any date of determination, the sum of (i) the maximum aggregate
amount which is or at any time thereafter may become available for drawing under
all Letters of Credit then outstanding plus (ii) the
aggregate amount of all drawings under Letters of Credit honored by Issuing
Lenders and not theretofore reimbursed out of the proceeds of Revolving Loans
pursuant to subsection 3.3B or otherwise reimbursed by
Company.
“Lien” means any lien,
mortgage, pledge, assignment (only for the purposes of creating a security
interest), security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement or any lease in the nature
thereof) and, solely in the case of securities, any option, trust or other
preferential arrangement having the practical effect of any of the
foregoing.
“Loan” or “Loans” means one or more of
the loans made by Lenders to Company pursuant to
subsection 2.1A.
“Loan Documents” means this
Agreement, the Notes, the Letters of Credit (and any applications for, or
reimbursement agreements or other documents or certificates executed by Company
in favor of an Issuing Lender relating to, the Letters of Credit), the
Intercreditor Agreement, the Guaranty, the Collateral Documents and the Fee
Letter.
“Loan Party” means each of
Company, Holdings and each other Guarantor from time to time, and “Loan Parties” means all such
Persons, collectively.
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“Margin Stock” has the meaning
assigned to that term in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System as in effect from time to time.
“Material Acquisition” means
the Acquisition and any other acquisition of property or series of related
acquisitions of property that (a) constitutes assets comprising all or
substantially all of an operating unit of a business or constitutes all or
substantially all of the common stock of a Person and (b) involves the
payment of consideration by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in excess of
$250,000.
“Material Adverse Effect” means
(i) a material adverse effect upon the business, operations, properties,
assets or financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole
or (ii) the material impairment of the ability of any Loan Party to
perform, or of Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or Secured Parties to
enforce, the Obligations or its rights and remedies under the Loan
Documents.
“Material Disposition” means
any disposition of property or series of related dispositions of property that
yields gross proceeds to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of
$250,000.
“Material Subsidiary”
means any
Subsidiary of Company that is not an Immaterial Subsidiary.
“Maximum Consolidated Capital
Expenditures Amount” has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 7.7.
“Merger” means the merger of
Merger Sub with and into Target in accordance with the terms of the Merger
Agreement and the Certificate of Merger, with Target being the surviving
corporation.
“Merger Agreement” means that
certain Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among Target, Holdings, Merger Sub,
the stockholder representative party thereto and the guarantor party thereto,
dated April 27, 2007, as amended through the date hereof.
“Merger Documents” means the
Merger Agreement and the Certificate of Merger.
“Merger MAC” means, when used
in connection with Company, any change, event, circumstance, condition or effect
that (a) is, individually or in the aggregate, materially adverse in relation to
the condition (financial or otherwise), business, operations, or results of
operations of Company and its Subsidiary, taken as a whole, or (b) impacts
Company’s ability to perform its obligations under the Merger Agreement in a
timely manner, except to the extent that any such change, event, condition or
effect results from (i) actions by Company or its Subsidiary in accordance with
the terms of the Merger Agreement or taken at the direction or request of
another party to the Merger Agreement; (ii) the announcement, pursuant to the
terms of Section 11.2 of the Merger Agreement, of the actual or prospective
consummation of the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the
Merger Agreement, including, but not limited to, any employee attrition, impact
on revenues and relationship with suppliers and customers; (iii) changes in
general economic conditions of the United States or foreign economies,
currencies or securities or financial markets; (iv) changes generally
affecting the industry in which Company or its Subsidiary operates (except to the extent that such changes
have a disproportionate effect on Company or its Subsidiary); (v) acts of God, earthquakes,
hostilities, acts of sabotage or terrorism or military actions or any escalation
or material worsening of any such hostilities, acts of sabotage or terrorism or
military actions (except to the
extent that such changes, events or conditions have a disproportionate
effect on Company or its
Subsidiary); or (vi)
changes in Applicable Laws (as defined in the Merger Agreement) or accounting
rules.
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“Merger Sub” means TA Indigo
Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned Subsidiary of
Holdings.
“Mortgage” means a security
instrument (whether designated as a deed of trust or a mortgage or by any
similar title) executed and delivered by any Loan Party in such form as may be
approved by Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, in each case with
such changes thereto as may be necessary or appropriate in Administrative
Agent’s or its local counsel’s judgment to conform such instrument to applicable
local laws or customary local mortgage or deed of trust
practices. “Mortgages” means all such
instruments collectively.
“Mortgaged Property” and
“Mortgaged Properties”
have the meanings assigned to such terms in subsection 6.9A.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any
Employee Benefit Plan that is a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37)
of ERISA.
“Net Asset Sale Proceeds,” with
respect to any Asset Sale, means Cash payments (including any Cash received by
way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or
otherwise, but only as and when so received) actually received by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale, net of any bona fide direct costs
incurred in connection with such Asset Sale, including (i) income taxes
reasonably estimated to be actually payable as a result of any gain recognized
in connection with such Asset Sale, (ii) sale, use or other transactional
expenses paid or payable as a result of such Asset Sale, (iii) payment of
the outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and interest on
any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) that is (a) secured by a Lien on
the stock or assets in question and (b) actually paid at the time of receipt of
such cash payment to a Person that is not an Affiliate of any Loan Party,
(iv) amounts provided as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) associated with such Asset Sale (including
reserves for indemnities), (v) payment of unassumed liabilities relating to the
assets sold or otherwise disposed of pursuant to such Asset Sale made within 90
days of such Asset Sale, and (vi) attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment
banking fees, and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees actually
incurred in connection therewith. Net Asset Sale Proceeds shall not
include any Cash payments held in escrow until such time as such amounts are
released from escrow.
“Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds” means any Cash payments or proceeds actually received by
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (i) under any casualty insurance policy
in respect of a covered loss thereunder in respect of any tangible property or
(ii) as a result of the taking of any assets of Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries by any Person pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation
or otherwise, or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such
power under threat of such a taking, in each case net of any actual and
reasonable documented costs incurred by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in
connection with the collection, adjustment or settlement of any claims of
Holdings or such Subsidiary in respect thereof, including (a) income taxes
reasonably estimated to be actually payable as a result of any gain recognized
in connection with such loss, taking, condemnation or sale, (b) sales, use
or other transactional taxes paid or payable as a result of such loss, taking,
condemnation or sale, (c) payment of the outstanding principal amount of,
premium or penalty, if any, and interest on any Indebtedness (other than the
Loans) that is (x) secured by a Lien on the assets in question and
(y) actually paid at the time of receipt of such cash payment to a Person
that is not an Affiliate of any Loan Party, (d) any amounts provided as a
reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities (contingent or
otherwise) associated with such loss, taking, condemnation or sale (including
reserves for indemnities), (e) payment of reimbursed liabilities relating to
such loss, taking or condemnation and (f) attorneys’ fees, consultant fees
and other customary fees actually incurred in connection therewith.
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“Net Securities Proceeds” means
the cash proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other costs
and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith, including legal fees and
expenses) from the incurrence of Indebtedness by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 2.9.
“Notes” means one or more of
the Term Notes, Revolving Notes or Swing Line Notes or any combination
thereof.
“Notice of Borrowing” means a
notice substantially in the form of Exhibit I
annexed hereto.
“Notice of
Conversion/Continuation” means a notice substantially in the form of
Exhibit II
annexed hereto.
“Notice of Prepayment” means a notice
substantially in the form of Exhibit IV
annexed hereto.
“Obligations” means
(a) obligations of Company and the other Loan Parties from time to time
arising under or in respect of the due and punctual payment of (i) the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing
during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar
proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on
the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or
more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each payment required to
be made by Company and the other Loan Parties under this Agreement in respect of
any Letter of Credit, when and as due, including payments in respect of interest
thereon and obligations to provide cash collateral, and (iii) all other
monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether
primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary
obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or
allowable in such proceeding), of Company and the other Loan Parties under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents and under any Hedge Agreement entered
into with any Swap Counterparty, and (b) the due and punctual performance
of all covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of Company and the
other Loan Parties under or pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.
“OFAC” has the meaning assigned
to that term in subsection 10.1(G).
“Officer” of any Person means
the president, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer,
controller, general partner (if an individual) and managing member (if an
individual) of such Person.
“Officer’s Certificate,” as
applied to any Person that is a corporation, partnership, trust or limited
liability company, means a certificate executed on behalf of such Person by one
or more Officers of such Person or one or more Officers of a general partner or
a managing member if such general partner or managing member is a corporation,
partnership, trust or limited liability company.
“Organizational Documents”
means the documents (including Bylaws, if applicable) pursuant to which a Person
that is a corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company is
organized.
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“Other Taxes” means all present
or future stamp or documentary taxes or any excise, property or similar taxes,
charges, fees, expenses or levies arising from any payment made hereunder or
under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, registration or
enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document and any interest, penalties or additions to tax related
thereto.
“Participant” means a purchaser
of a participation in the rights and obligations under this Agreement pursuant
to subsection 10.1C.
“Participant Register” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.1C(2).
“Patriot Act” means the Uniting
and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept
and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L.
107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)).
“PBGC” means the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.
“Pension Plan” means any
Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is covered by
Title IV of ERISA or is subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code
or Section 302 of ERISA, and, for purposes of subsection 8.10, any Foreign
Plan.
“Permitted Acquisition” means
any transaction or series of related transactions for the direct or indirect (a)
acquisition of all or substantially all of the property of any Person, or of any
business or division of any Person; (b) acquisition of a majority of the Capital
Stock of any Person, and otherwise causing such Person to become a Subsidiary of
such Person; or (c) merger or consolidation or any other combination with any
Person, if each of the following conditions is met:
(i)the board of directors of the Person
to be acquired shall not have indicated publicly its opposition to the
consummation of such acquisition (which opposition has not been publicly
withdrawn);
(ii)all transactions in connection
therewith shall be consummated in accordance with all applicable Requirements of
Law;
(iii)any Person or assets or division as
acquired in accordance herewith shall be in the same business or lines of
business, or in a business or in lines of business substantially similar,
related or incidental to such business or lines of business, in which Company
and/or its Subsidiaries are engaged as of the Closing Date;
(iv)if the purchase price exceeds
$1,000,000, at least 10 Business Days prior to the proposed date of consummation
of the transaction, Company shall have delivered to Administrative Agent an
Officers’ Certificate certifying that (A) such transaction complies with this
definition (which, unless Administrative Agent shall otherwise agree, shall have
attached thereto reasonably detailed backup data and calculations showing such
compliance), and (B) such transaction would not reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect; and
(v)except in the case of a Permitted
Acquisition for which the purchase price does not exceed $1,000,000, subject to
confidentiality arrangements, Company shall have delivered to Administrative
Agent any information reasonably requested by Administrative Agent (but only to
the extent consistent with confidentiality obligations of Company).
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“Permitted Encumbrances” means
the following types of Liens (excluding any such Lien imposed pursuant to
Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Internal Revenue Code or by
ERISA):
(i)Liens for taxes, assessments or
governmental charges or claims the payment of which is not, at the time,
required by subsection 6.3;
(ii)statutory Liens of landlords, Liens
of collecting banks under the UCC on items in the course of collection,
statutory Liens of banks, statutory Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics,
repairmen, workmen and materialmen, and other Liens imposed by law, in each case
incurred in the ordinary course of business (a) for amounts not yet overdue
by more than 30 days or (b) for amounts that are overdue by more than 30
days and are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, so long
as in the case of this clause (b), (1) such reserves or other
appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been
made for any such contested amounts, and (2) in the case of a Lien with
respect to any material portion of the Collateral, such contest proceedings
conclusively operate to stay the sale of any material portion of the Collateral
on account of such Lien;
(iii)(a) pledges and deposits made in the
ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation,
unemployment insurance and other types of social security, or to secure the
performance of statutory obligations, bids, leases, government contracts, trade
contracts, and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the
payment of borrowed money), so long as no foreclosure, sale or similar
proceedings have been commenced with respect to any portion of the Collateral on
account thereof and (b) pledges and deposits in respect of letters of credit or
bank guarantees that have been posted to support payment of the items set forth
in clause (a) of this clause (iii);
(iv)any attachment or judgment Lien not
constituting an Event of Default under subsection 8.8;
(v)licenses, leases or subleases granted
to other Persons that do not violate any applicable terms of the Collateral
Documents and do not interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct
of the business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or result in a material
diminution in the value of any Collateral as security for the
Obligations;
(vi)easements, rights-of-way,
restrictions, encroachments and other minor defects or irregularities in title,
in each case which do not and will not interfere in any material respect with
the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or
result in a material diminution in the value of any Collateral as security for
the Obligations;
(vii)any (a) interest or title of a
lessor or sublessor under any lease not prohibited by this Agreement,
(b) Lien or restriction that the interest or title of such lessor or
sublessor may be subject to, or (c) subordination of the interest of the
lessee or sublessee under such lease to any Lien or restriction referred to in
the preceding clause (b);
(viii)Liens arising from filing UCC
financing statements (and the precautionary grants of security interests)
relating solely to leases not prohibited by this Agreement;
(ix)Liens in favor of customs and revenue
authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in
connection with the importation of goods;
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(x)any zoning or similar law or right
reserved to or vested in any Government Authority to control or regulate the use
of any real property;
(xi)Liens granted pursuant to the Loan
Documents;
(xii)Liens securing obligations (other
than obligations representing Indebtedness for borrowed money) under operating,
reciprocal easement or similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
business of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise binding upon
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries by virtue of its interests in real property
subject to such agreements;
(xiii)bankers’ or brokers’ Liens, rights of
set-off and other similar Liens existing solely with respect to Cash and Cash
Equivalents or investment property on deposit in one or more accounts maintained
by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (including any restriction on the use of
such Cash and Cash Equivalents or investment property), in each case granted in
the ordinary course of business in favor of the bank or banks or brokers with
which such accounts are maintained, securing amounts owing to such bank or banks
or brokers with respect to cash management and operating account arrangements
and brokerage or commodities accounts, including those involving pooled accounts
and netting arrangements;
(xiv)Liens (i) of a collection bank
arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in the
course of collection or (ii) in favor of a banking institution arising as a
matter of law encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) and which
are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry;
and
(xv)with respect to each Mortgaged
Property, Permitted
Encumbrances other than those described in clauses (iii), (ix), (xiii) and
(xiv).
“Permitted Holders” means the
TA Entities and the Rho Entities.
“Person” means and includes
natural persons, corporations, limited partnerships, general partnerships,
limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint stock
companies, Joint Ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust
companies, land trusts, business trusts or other organizations, whether or not
legal entities, and Government Authorities.
“Potential Event of Default”
means a condition or event that, after notice or lapse of time or both, would
constitute an Event of Default.
“Premises” shall have the
meaning assigned thereto in the applicable Mortgage.
“Pricing Certificate” means an
Officer’s Certificate of Company certifying the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as
at the last day of any Fiscal Quarter and setting forth the calculation of such
Consolidated Leverage Ratio in reasonable detail.
“Prime Rate” means the rate
that DB announces from time to time as its prime lending rate, as in effect from
time to time. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not
necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any
customer. DB or any other Lender may make commercial loans or other
loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate.
“Proceedings” means any action,
suit, proceeding (whether administrative, judicial or otherwise), governmental
investigation or arbitration.
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“Pro Forma Basis” means, with respect to
compliance with any test or covenant hereunder, compliance with such test or
covenant after giving effect to (a) any Material Acquisition, (b) any Material
Disposition or (c) any incurrence of Indebtedness (including pro forma
adjustments arising out of events which are directly attributable to the
Material Acquisition, Material Disposition or incurrence of Indebtedness
(including the use of proceeds thereof), are factually supportable and are
expected to have a continuing impact, in each case as determined on a basis
consistent with Article 11 of Regulation S-X of the Securities Act, as
interpreted by the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission) using, for
purposes of determining such compliance, the historical financial statements of
all entities or assets so acquired or sold (to the extent available) and the
consolidated financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries, which shall
be reformulated as if such Material Acquisition or Material Disposition, and all
other Material Acquisitions or Material Dispositions that have been consummated
during the period, and any Indebtedness or other liabilities to be incurred or
repaid in connection therewith had been consummated and incurred or repaid at
the beginning of such period (and assuming that such Indebtedness to be incurred
bears interest during any portion of the applicable measurement period prior to
the relevant acquisition at the weighted average of the interest rates
applicable to outstanding Loans incurred during such period).
“Pro Forma Compliance” means, at any date of
determination, that the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries shall be in pro
forma compliance with the covenant set forth in subsection 7.5 (whether or not
any Revolving Loans or Swing Line Loans are outstanding or Letters of Credit are
outstanding and not cash collateralized in full) as of the last day of the most
recently completed Fiscal Quarter (computed on the basis of (a) balance sheet
amounts as of such date and (b) income statement amounts for the most recently
completed period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters for which financial
statements shall have been delivered to Administrative Agent and calculated on a
Pro Forma Basis in respect of the event giving rise to such
determination).
“Pro Rata Share” means (i) (a)
with respect to any borrowings under the Term Loan Commitments, the percentage
obtained by dividing (x) the Term
Loan Commitment of any Lender by (y) the Term Loan Commitments of all
Lenders and (b) with respect to any payments under the Term Loans, the
percentage obtained by dividing (x) the Term
Loans of such Lender by (y) the Term Loans of all Lenders, (ii) with
respect to all payments, computations and other matters relating to the
Revolving Loan Commitment or the Revolving Loans of any Lender or any Letters of
Credit issued or participations therein deemed purchased by any Lender or any
assignments of any Swing Line Loans deemed purchased by any Lender, the
percentage obtained by dividing (x) the
Revolving Loan Exposure of that Lender by (y) the
aggregate Revolving Loan Exposure of all Lenders, and (iii) for all other
purposes with respect to each Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the
sum of the Term Loan Exposure of that Lender plus the Revolving
Loan Exposure of that Lender by (y) the sum
of the aggregate Term Loan Exposure of all Lenders plus the aggregate
Revolving Loan Exposure of all Lenders, in any such case as the applicable
percentage may be adjusted by assignments permitted pursuant to
subsection 10.1. The initial Pro Rata Share of each Lender for
purposes of each of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of the preceding sentence is set
forth opposite the name of that Lender in the Register.
“Real Property Asset” means, at
any time of determination, any and all right, title and interest (including any
fee, leasehold or other estate) then owned, leased, operated or otherwise used
by any Loan Party (other than any Foreign Subsidiary) in any real
property.
“Reference Period” means any
period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters.
“Refinanced Term Loans” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.6C.
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“Refinancing Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness” has the meaning assigned to that term in subsection
7.1(viii).
“Refinancing Second Lien
Indebtedness” has the meaning assigned to that term in subsection
7.1(vii).
“Refunded Swing Line Loans” has
the meaning assigned to that term in subsection 2.1A(iii)(b).
“Register” has the meaning
assigned to that term in subsection 2.1D.
“Regulation D” means
Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in
effect from time to time.
“Reimbursement Date” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 3.3B.
“Related Agreements” means the
Second Lien Credit Agreement and the Holdings Senior PIK Credit
Agreement.
“Related Parties” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 9.1A.
“Release” means any spilling,
emitting, leaking, pumping, pouring, injecting, escaping, disposing,
discharging, dumping or leaching of Hazardous Materials into the indoor or
outdoor environment (including the abandonment or disposal of any barrels,
containers or other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous Materials),
including the movement of any Hazardous Materials through the air, soil, surface
water or groundwater.
“Replacement Term Loans” has
the meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.6C.
“Request for Issuance” means a
request substantially in the form of Exhibit III
annexed hereto.
“Requirements of Law” means,
collectively, any and all requirements of any Government Authority including any
and all laws, judgments, orders, decrees, ordinances, rules, regulations,
statutes or case law.
“Requisite Class Lenders”
means, at any time of determination, (i) for Lenders having Revolving Loan
Exposure, Lenders having or holding more than 50% of the aggregate Revolving
Loan Exposure of all Lenders, and (ii) for Lenders having Term Loan
Exposure, Lenders having or holding more than 50% of the aggregate Term Loan
Exposure of all Lenders.
“Requisite Lenders” means, at
any time of determination, Lenders having or holding more than 50% of the sum of
the aggregate Term Loan Exposure of all Lenders plus the aggregate
Revolving Loan Exposure of all Lenders.
“Restricted Junior Payment”
means (i) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on
account of any shares of any class of stock of Holdings or Company now or
hereafter outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in shares of stock
constituting Specified Equity, (ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking
fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or
indirect, of any shares of any class of stock of Holdings or Company now or
hereafter outstanding, (iii) any payment made to retire, or to obtain the
surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire
shares of any class of stock of Holdings or Company now or hereafter
outstanding, and (iv) any prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including
in-substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect
to, any Subordinated Indebtedness.
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“Revolving Lender” means a
Lender that has a Revolving Loan Commitment and/or that has an outstanding
Revolving Loan.
“Revolving Loan Commitment”
means, for each Lender, such Lender’s commitment, if any, to make Revolving
Loans to Company pursuant to subsection 2.1A(ii) in an amount not to exceed the
amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name under the caption “Revolving Loan
Commitment” on Schedule 2.1, as the
same may be adjusted to give effect to any assignment of such Revolving Loan
Commitment pursuant to subsection 10.1B or any reduction of the Revolving Loan
Commitments pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and “Revolving Loan Commitments”
means such commitments of all Lenders in the aggregate. The aggregate
amount of the Revolving Loan Commitments on the Closing Date is
$15,000,000.
“Revolving Loan Commitment
Amount” means, at any date, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loan
Commitments of all Revolving Lenders.
“Revolving Loan Commitment Termination
Date” means June 15, 2013.
“Revolving Loan Exposure,” with
respect to any Revolving Lender, means, as of any date of determination,
(i) prior to the termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the amount
of that Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment, and (ii) after the termination
of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the sum of (a) the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of the Revolving Loans of that Lender plus (b) in the
event that Lender is an Issuing Lender, the aggregate Letter of Credit Usage in
respect of all Letters of Credit issued by that Lender (in each case net of any
participations purchased by other Lenders in such Letters of Credit or in any
unreimbursed drawings thereunder) plus (c) the
aggregate amount of all participations purchased by that Lender in any
outstanding Letters of Credit or any unreimbursed drawings under any Letters of
Credit plus
(d) in the case of Swing Line Lender, the aggregate outstanding principal
amount of all Swing Line Loans (net of any assignments thereof deemed purchased
by other Revolving Lenders) plus (e) the
aggregate amount of all assignments deemed purchased by that Lender in any
outstanding Swing Line Loans.
“Revolving Loans” means the
Loans made by Revolving Lenders to Company pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(ii).
“Revolving Notes” means any
promissory notes of Company issued pursuant to subsection 2.1E to evidence
the Revolving Loans of any Revolving Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit VI
annexed hereto.
“Rho Entities” means,
collectively, Rho Capital Partners, its Affiliates (other than its portfolio
companies) and any investment funds advised or managed by any of the
foregoing.
“Sale and Leaseback
Transaction” has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 7.13.
“Second Lien Administrative
Agent” means
DB, as administrative agent under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, and any
successor administrative agent thereunder.
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“Second Lien Collateral
Agent” means
DB, as collateral agent under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, and any
successor collateral agent thereunder.
“Second Lien Credit Agreement”
means the Second Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and
among Holdings, Company, the lenders party thereto, Second Lien Administrative
Agent and Second Lien Collateral Agent, as such agreement may be amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time thereafter to the
extent permitted under subsection 7.10B, and any other agreement relating to
permitted Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness.
“Second Lien Indebtedness” means all Obligations
(as that term is defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement) of Holdings and
its Subsidiaries under the Second Lien Credit Agreement.
“Secured Parties” means,
collectively, Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, each other Agent, the
Lenders and each Swap Counterparty.
“Securities” means any stock,
shares, partnership interests, voting trust certificates, certificates of
interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement or arrangement,
options, warrants, bonds, debentures, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness,
secured or unsecured, convertible, subordinated, certificated or uncertificated,
or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as “securities” or
any certificates of interest, shares or participations in temporary or interim
certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to,
purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing.
“Securities Account” means an
account to which a financial asset is or may be credited in accordance with an
agreement under which the Person maintaining the account undertakes to treat the
Person for whom the account is maintained as entitled to exercise the rights
that comprise the financial asset.
“Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, and any successor
statute.
“Securitization” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 10.19.
“Security Agreement” means the
First Lien Security Agreement executed and delivered on the Closing Date,
substantially in the form of Exhibit XIII annexed
hereto.
“Solvent,” with respect to any
Person on a consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries, means that as of the date
of determination both (i) (a) the then fair saleable value of the property
of such Person is (1) greater than the total amount of liabilities
(including contingent liabilities) of such Person and (2) not less than the
amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities on such Person’s
then existing debts as they become absolute and due considering all financing
alternatives and potential asset sales reasonably available to such Person;
(b) such Person’s capital is not unreasonably small in relation to its
business or any contemplated or undertaken transaction; and (c) such Person
does not intend to incur, or believe (nor should it reasonably believe) that it
will incur, debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due; and
(ii) such Person is “solvent” within the meaning given that term and
similar terms under applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and
conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the amount of any
contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light
of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the
amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured
liability.
“SPC” has the meaning assigned
to that term in subsection 10.1B(iii).
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“Specified Equity” means any
equity security (i) having no mandatory redemption, repurchase or similar
requirements (including at the option of the holders thereof) prior to
91 days after the last stated maturity date of the Loans, the Second Lien
Indebtedness and the Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness (unless such equity
security by its terms provides that such equity security shall not be required
to be repurchased unless permitted by this Agreement or unless the Loans, the
Second Lien Indebtedness or the Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness, as the case
may be, has been repaid in full at least 91 days prior to the date of such
required repurchase), and (ii) upon which all dividends or distributions (if
any) required to be paid shall, prior to 91 days after the last maturity
date of the Loans, the Second Lien Indebtedness and the Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness, at the option of the issuer, be payable solely in additional
shares of such equity security (or other equity securities meeting the
conditions specified in clauses (i) and (ii)).
“Specified Equity Amount”
means, at any time (the “Reference Time”), an amount
equal to:
(a) the
net proceeds from any issuance of Specified Equity by Holdings from and
including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and
including the Reference Time that are contributed to the common equity capital
of Company, minus
(b) the
sum, without duplication, of:
(i) the
aggregate amount of Investments made pursuant to subsection 7.3(xi)(b)(y)
following the Closing Date and prior to the Reference Time; and
(ii) the
aggregate amount of Consolidated Capital Expenditures made pursuant to the
second proviso of subsection 7.7 following the Closing Date and prior to the
Reference Time.
“Specified
Representations” means the
representations and warranties contained in subsections 5.1A(i), 5.2A, 5.2D,
5.8, 5.9, 5.15 and 5.19 hereof.
“Standby Letter of Credit”
means any letter of credit or similar instrument other than a Commercial Letter
of Credit.
“Subject Lender” has the
meaning assigned to that term in subsection 2.9.
“Subordinated Indebtedness”
means any Indebtedness of any Loan Party incurred from time to time and
contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations.
“Subsidiary” with respect to
any Person, means any corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability
company, association, Joint Venture or other business entity of which more than
50% of the total voting power of shares of stock or other ownership interests
entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the
election of the members of the Governing Body is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other
Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means
any Guarantor other than Holdings.
“Supplemental Collateral Agent”
and “Supplemental Collateral
Agents” each has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 9.1B.
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“Survey” means a survey of any
Mortgaged Property (and all improvements thereon) which is (a) (i) prepared
by a surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys in the jurisdiction where
such Mortgaged Property is located, (ii) dated (or redated) not earlier
than twelve months prior to the date of delivery thereof unless there shall have
occurred within twelve months prior to such date of delivery any exterior
construction on the site of such Mortgaged Property or any easement, right of
way or other interest in the Mortgaged Property has been granted or become
effective through operation of law or otherwise with respect to such Mortgaged
Property which, in either case, can be depicted on a survey, in which events, as
applicable, such survey shall be dated (or redated) after the completion of such
construction or if such construction shall not have been completed as of such
date of delivery, not earlier than 20 days prior to such date of delivery,
or after the grant or effectiveness of any such easement, right of way or other
interest in the Mortgaged Property, (iii) certified by the surveyor (in a
manner reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent) to Administrative Agent,
Collateral Agent and the Title Company, (iv) complying in all respects with
the minimum detail requirements of the American Land Title Association as such
requirements are in effect on the date of preparation of such survey and
(v) sufficient for the Title Company to remove all standard survey
exceptions from the title insurance policy (or commitment) relating to such
Mortgaged Property and issue endorsements of the type required by subsection 6.9
or (b) otherwise reasonably acceptable to Collateral Agent.
“Swap Counterparty” means any
Person that was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender on the Closing Date and
that has entered into a Hedge Agreement with Company or one of its Subsidiaries
or any other Person that was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time
that it entered into a Hedge Agreement with Holdings, Company or one of its
Subsidiaries.
“Swing Line Funding and Payment
Office” means the office of Swing Line Lender located at 000 Xxxxx Xxx,
Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000 or such other offices of Swing Line Lender as may
from time to time be hereafter designated as such in a written notice delivered
by Swing Line Lender to Company and each other Lender.
“Swing Line Lender” means DB,
or any Person serving as a successor Administrative Agent hereunder, in its
capacity as Swing Line Lender hereunder.
“Swing Line Loan Commitment”
means the commitment of Swing Line Lender to make Swing Line Loans to Company
pursuant to subsection 2.1A(iii).
“Swing Line Loans” means the
Loans made by Swing Line Lender to Company pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(iii).
“Swing Line Note” means any
promissory note of Company issued pursuant to subsection 2.1E to evidence
the Swing Line Loans of Swing Line Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit VII annexed
hereto.
“Synthetic Lease Obligation”
means the monetary obligation of a Person under (i) a so-called synthetic,
off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (ii) an agreement for the use
or possession of property creating obligations that do not appear on the balance
sheet of such Person but which, upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such
Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without
regard to accounting treatment).
“TA Entities” means, collectively,
TA Associates, its Affiliates (other than its portfolio companies) and any
investment funds advised or managed by any of the foregoing.
“Target” has the meaning
assigned to that term in the introduction to this Agreement.
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“Tax” or “Taxes” means any present or
future tax, levy, impost, duty, fee, assessment, deduction, withholding or other
charge of any nature and whatever called, imposed by any Government Authority
including any interest, penalties, additions to tax and any similar liabilities
with respect thereto.
“Term Loan Commitment” means,
for each Lender, such Lender’s commitment, if any, to make a Term Loan to
Company pursuant to subsection 2.1A(i) in an amount not to exceed the amount set
forth opposite such Lender’s name under the caption “Term Loan Commitment” on
Schedule 2.1,
and “Term Loan
Commitments” means such commitments of all Lenders in the
aggregate. The aggregate amount of the Term Loan Commitments on the
Closing Date is $135,000,000.
“Term Loan Exposure” with
respect to any Lender, means, as of any date of determination, the sum of (i)
such Lender’s Term Loan Commitments at such time and (ii) without
duplication, the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans held by such Lender
at such time.
“Term Loan Maturity Date” means
June 15, 2014.
“Term Loans” means the Loans
made by Lenders to Company pursuant to subsection 2.1A(i).
“Term Notes” means any
promissory notes of Company issued pursuant to subsection 2.1E to evidence
the Term Loans of any Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit V annexed
hereto.
“Title Company” means one or
more title insurance companies reasonably satisfactory to Administrative
Agent.
“Title Policy” has the meaning
assigned to that term in subsection 6.9.
“Total Assets” means the total
amount of all assets of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, as determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP as determined from the most recent
balance sheet of Holdings.
“Total Utilization of Revolving Loan
Commitments” means, as at any date of determination, the sum of
(i) the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans plus (ii) the
aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Swing Line Loans plus (iii) the
Letter of Credit Usage.
“Transaction Costs” means the
fees, costs and expenses payable by Holdings and Company (x) on or prior to the
Closing Date or (y) to the extent of the types and not in excess of the amounts
set forth on Schedule
B, within nine months following the Closing Date, in each case, in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, the Related
Agreements, the Merger Agreement and the Equity Contributions.
“UCC” means the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.
“Unasserted Obligations” means,
at any time, Obligations for taxes, costs, indemnifications, reimbursements,
damages and other liabilities (except for (i) the principal of and interest
on, and fees relating to, any Indebtedness and (ii) contingent
reimbursement obligations in respect of amounts that may be drawn under Letters
of Credit) in respect of which no claim or demand for payment has been made (or,
in the case of Obligations for indemnification, no notice for indemnification
has been issued by the Indemnitee) at such time.
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“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” of
any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person, all of the Capital Stock of which
(other than directors’ qualifying shares or nominee or other similar shares
required pursuant to applicable law, including requirements of foreign
ownership) is owned by such Person or another Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such
Person.
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1.2
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Accounting Terms;
Utilization of GAAP for Purposes of Calculations Under Agreement;
Financial Determinations.
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A. Except
as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, all accounting terms not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in conformity
with GAAP. Financial statements and other information required to be
delivered by Company to Lenders pursuant to clauses (ii), (iii) and (xii)
of subsection 6.1 shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP as in effect at
the time of such preparation. Calculations in connection with the
definitions, covenants and other provisions of this Agreement shall utilize GAAP
as in effect on the date of determination, applied in a manner consistent with
that used in preparing the financial statements referred to in
subsection 5.3. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect
the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan
Document, and Company, Administrative Agent or Requisite Lenders shall so
request, Administrative Agent, Lenders and Company shall negotiate in good faith
to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in
light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of Requisite Lenders);
provided that,
until so amended,(i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in
accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) Company shall provide
to Administrative Agent and Lenders reconciliation statements between
calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to
such change in GAAP.
B. As
of any date of determination, for purposes of determining the Consolidated
Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio (and any
financial calculations required to be made or included within such ratios), the
calculation of such ratios and other financial calculations shall include or
exclude, as the case may be, the effect of any Material Acquisitions and
Material Dispositions by Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the
terms hereof (including through mergers or consolidations) occurring as of or
prior to such date of determination, as determined by Company on a pro forma basis in
accordance with GAAP, which determination may include one-time adjustments or
reductions in costs, if any, directly attributable to any such Material
Disposition or Material Acquisition, as the case may be, in each case calculated
in accordance with Regulation S-X of the Securities Act and any successor
statute (and, additionally, calculated to give effect to actions taken or to be
taken by Company and its Subsidiaries within six months after the date of such
Material Acquisition or Material Disposition and based on Company’s good faith
estimates of the impact of such actions; provided that
(i) such actions have been disclosed in writing to Administrative Agent
pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate and (ii) such actions are actually taken no
later than six months following the date of such Material Acquisition or
Material Disposition), giving effect to any such Material Acquisition or
Material Disposition as if it had occurred on the first day of such Reference
Period.
C. For
purposes of subsection 7.1, subsection 7.2 and subsection 7.3, in determining
the amount of any Indebtedness, obligation secured by a Lien or Investment,
respectively, that is outstanding in any currency other than Dollars, the amount
of such Indebtedness, obligation or Investments (and the amount of all other
Indebtedness, obligations secured by Liens and Investments) shall be calculated
based on the date of incurrence, granting or making thereof, and Company and its
Subsidiaries shall not be deemed to have violated any covenant set forth in
Section 7 solely as a result of currency fluctuations occurring after the date
any Indebtedness is incurred, Lien is granted or Investment is made if such
action was permitted on the date taken.
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1.3
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Other Definitional
Provisions and Rules of
Construction.
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A. Any
of the terms defined herein may, unless the context otherwise requires, be used
in the singular or the plural, depending on the reference.
B. References
to “Sections” and “subsections” shall be to Sections and subsections,
respectively, of this Agreement unless otherwise specifically
provided. Section and subsection headings in this Agreement are
included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a
part of this Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive
effect.
C. The
use in any of the Loan Documents of the word “include” or “including,” when
following any general statement, term or matter, shall not be construed to limit
such statement, term or matter to the specific items or matters set forth
immediately following such word or to similar items or matters, whether or not
non-limiting language (such as “without limitation” or “but not limited to” or
words of similar import) is used with reference thereto, but rather shall be
deemed to refer to all other items or matters that fall within the broadest
possible scope of such general statement, term or matter.
D. Unless
otherwise expressly provided herein, references to Organizational Documents,
Contractual Obligations (including the Loan Documents) and other agreements
shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions,
supplements and other modifications thereto.
E. When
the performance of any covenant (other than covenants measuring financial
performance), duty or obligation is required on a day which is not a Business
Day, the date of such performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding
Business Day and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing
fees.
F. Any
provision of this Agreement requiring Company or any of its Subsidiaries to use
“commercially reasonable efforts” (or any substantially similar standard) to
achieve an objective shall in no event be construed to require Company or any of
its Subsidiaries to pay any consent fees or to surrender any material
contractual rights to achieve such objective.
Section
2. AMOUNTS
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS AND LOANS
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2.1
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Commitments; Making of
Loans; the Register; Optional
Notes.
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A. Commitments. Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties of Company herein set forth, each Lender hereby
severally agrees to make the Loans as described in subsections 2.1A(i) and
2.1A(ii), and Swing Line Lender hereby agrees to make the Swing Line Loans as
described in subsection 2.1A(iii).
(i) Term
Loans. Each Lender that has a Term Loan Commitment severally
agrees to lend to Company on the Closing Date an amount equal to its Pro Rata
Share of the aggregate amount of the Term Loan Commitments to be used for the
purposes identified in subsection 2.5A. Each Lender’s Term Loan
Commitment shall expire immediately and without further action on the Closing
Date at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) if the Term Loans are not made on or
before that date. Company may make only one borrowing under the Term
Loan Commitments. Amounts borrowed under this subsection 2.1A(i)
and subsequently repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
(ii) Revolving
Loans. Each Revolving Lender severally agrees, subject to the
limitations set forth below with respect to the maximum amount of Revolving
Loans permitted to be outstanding from time to time, to lend to Company from
time to time during the period from but excluding the Closing Date to but
excluding the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date an aggregate amount not
exceeding its Pro Rata Share of the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loan
Commitments to be used for the purposes identified in subsection
2.5B. Each Revolving Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment shall expire
on the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date and all Revolving Loans and
all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Revolving Loans and the
Revolving Loan Commitments shall be paid in full no later than that
date. Amounts borrowed under this subsection 2.1A(ii) may be repaid
and reborrowed to but excluding the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination
Date.
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Anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the Revolving Loans
and the Revolving Loan Commitments shall be subject to the limitation that in no
event shall the Total Utilization of Revolving Loan Commitments at any time
exceed the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount then in effect.
(iii) Swing Line
Loans.
(a) General
Provisions. Swing Line Lender hereby agrees, subject to the
limitations set forth in the last paragraph of subsection 2.1A(ii) and set
forth below with respect to the maximum amount of Swing Line Loans permitted to
be outstanding from time to time, to make a portion of the Revolving Loan
Commitments available to Company from time to time during the period from the
Closing Date to but excluding the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date by
making Swing Line Loans to Company in an aggregate amount not exceeding the
amount of the Swing Line Loan Commitment to be used for the purposes identified
in subsection 2.5B, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans,
when aggregated with Swing Line Lender’s outstanding Revolving Loans and Swing
Line Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Letter of Credit Usage then in effect, may
exceed Swing Line Lender’s Revolving Loan Commitment. The original
amount of the Swing Line Loan Commitment is $3,000,000; provided that any
reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount made pursuant to
subsection 2.4 that reduces the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount to an
amount less than the then current amount of the Swing Line Loan Commitment shall
result in an automatic corresponding reduction of the amount of the Swing Line
Loan Commitment to the amount of the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount, as so
reduced, without any further action on the part of Company, Administrative Agent
or Swing Line Lender. The Swing Line Loan Commitment shall expire on
the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date and all Swing Line Loans and all
other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Swing Line Loans shall be paid
in full no later than that date. Amounts borrowed under this
subsection 2.1A(iii) may be repaid and reborrowed to but excluding the
Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date.
(b) Swing Line Loan Prepayment
with Proceeds of Revolving Loans. With respect to any Swing
Line Loans that have not been voluntarily prepaid by Company pursuant to
subsection 2.4B(i), Swing Line Lender may, at any time in its sole and
absolute discretion (and, no later than the tenth day following the borrowing of
any Swing Line Loan if such Swing Line Loan has not been repaid on or prior to
such date, shall), deliver to Administrative Agent (with a copy to Company), no
later than 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the first Business Day in
advance of the proposed Funding Date, a notice requesting Revolving Lenders to
make Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans on such Funding Date in an amount
equal to the amount of such Swing Line Loans (the “Refunded Swing Line Loans”)
outstanding on the date such notice is given. Company hereby
authorizes the giving of any such notice and the making of any such Revolving
Loans. Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, (1) the proceeds of such Revolving Loans made by Revolving
Lenders other than Swing Line Lender shall be immediately delivered by
Administrative Agent to Swing Line Lender (and not to Company) and applied to
repay a corresponding portion of the Refunded Swing Line Loans and (2) on
the day such Revolving Loans are made, Swing Line Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the
Refunded Swing Line Loans shall be deemed to be paid with the proceeds of a
Revolving Loan made by Swing Line Lender, and such portion of the Swing Line
Loans deemed to be so paid shall no longer be outstanding as Swing Line Loans
and shall no longer be due under the Swing Line Note, if any, of Swing Line
Lender but shall instead constitute part of Swing Line Lender’s outstanding
Revolving Loans and shall be due under the Revolving Note, if any, of Swing Line
Lender. Company hereby authorizes Administrative Agent and Swing Line
Lender to charge Company’s accounts with Administrative Agent and Swing Line
Lender (up to the amount available in each such account) in order to immediately
pay Swing Line Lender the amount of the Refunded Swing Line Loans to the extent
the proceeds of such Revolving Loans made by Revolving Lenders, including the
Revolving Loan deemed to be made by Swing Line Lender, are not sufficient to
repay in full the Refunded Swing Line Loans. If any portion of any
such amount paid (or deemed to be paid) to Swing Line Lender should be recovered
by or on behalf of Company from Swing Line Lender in any bankruptcy proceeding,
in any assignment for the benefit of creditors or otherwise, the loss of the
amount so recovered shall be ratably shared among all Lenders in the manner
contemplated by subsection 10.5.
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(c) Swing Line Loan
Assignments. On the Funding Date of each Swing Line Loan, each
Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby agrees to, purchase an
assignment of such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to its Pro Rata
Share. If for any reason (1) Revolving Loans are not made upon the
request of Swing Line Lender as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph
in an amount sufficient to repay any amounts owed to Swing Line Lender in
respect of such Swing Line Loan or (2) the Revolving Loan Commitments are
terminated at a time when such Swing Line Loan is outstanding, upon notice from
Swing Line Lender as provided below, each Revolving Lender shall fund the
purchase of such assignment in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share
(calculated, in the case of the foregoing clause (2), immediately prior to such
termination of the Revolving Loan Commitments) of the unpaid amount of such
Swing Line Loans together with accrued interest thereon. Upon one
Business Day’s notice from Swing Line Lender to Administrative Agent who shall
promptly notify the Revolving Lenders, each Revolving Lender shall deliver to
Administrative Agent for the benefit of Swing Line Lender such amount in same
day funds at the Funding and Payment Account. Without limiting the
effect of the deemed assignment described in the preceding sentence, in order to
further evidence such assignment (and without prejudice to the effectiveness of
the assignment provisions set forth above), each Revolving Lender agrees to
enter into an Assignment Agreement at the request of Swing Line Lender in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to Swing Line Lender. In the
event any Revolving Lender fails to make available to Swing Line Lender any
amount as provided in this paragraph, Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to
recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender together with interest
thereon at the rate customarily used by Swing Line Lender for the correction of
errors among banks for three Business Days and thereafter at the Base
Rate. In the event Swing Line Lender receives a payment of any amount
with respect to which other Revolving Lenders have funded the purchase of
assignments as provided in this paragraph, Swing Line Lender shall promptly
remit such payment to Administrative Agent for distribution to each such other
Revolving Lender of its Pro Rata Share of such payment.
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(d) Revolving Lenders’
Obligations. Anything contained herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans for
the purpose of repaying any Refunded Swing Line Loans pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(iii)(b) and each Revolving Lender’s obligation to purchase
an assignment of any unpaid Swing Line Loans pursuant to the immediately
preceding paragraph shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be
affected by any circumstance, including (1) any set-off, counterclaim,
recoupment, defense or other right which such Revolving Lender may have against
Swing Line Lender, Company or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(2) the occurrence or continuation of an Event of Default or a Potential
Event of Default; (3) any adverse change in the business, operations,
properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of Company
or any of its Subsidiaries; (4) any breach of this Agreement or any other
Loan Document by any party thereto; or (5) any other circumstance,
happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing;
provided that
such obligations of each Revolving Lender are subject to the condition that
(x) Swing Line Lender believed in good faith that all conditions under
Section 4 to the making of the applicable Refunded Swing Line Loans or
other unpaid Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, were satisfied at the time
such Refunded Swing Line Loans or unpaid Swing Line Loans were made or
(y) the satisfaction of any such condition not satisfied had been waived in
accordance with subsection 10.6 prior to or at the time such Refunded Swing
Line Loans or other unpaid Swing Line Loans were made.
B. Borrowing
Mechanics. Term Loans or Revolving Loans made as Base Rate
Loans on any Funding Date (other than Revolving Loans made pursuant to a request
by Swing Line Lender pursuant to subsection 2.1A(iii) or Revolving Loans made
pursuant to subsection 3.3B) shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of
$1,000,000 and multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount. Term
Loans or Revolving Loans made on any Funding Date as Eurodollar Rate Loans with
a particular Interest Period shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of
$1,000,000 and multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount. Swing
Line Loans made on any Funding Date shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of
$500,000 and multiples of $100,000 in excess of that amount. Whenever
Company desires that Lenders make Term Loans or Revolving Loans, it shall
deliver to Administrative Agent a duly executed Notice of Borrowing no later
than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) at least three Business Days in advance of
the proposed Funding Date (in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Loan) or at least
one Business Day in advance of the proposed Funding Date (in the case of a Base
Rate Loan). Whenever Company desires that Swing Line Lender make a
Swing Line Loan, it shall deliver to Swing Line Lender at the Swing Line Funding
and Payment Office a duly executed Notice of Borrowing no later than 12:00 Noon
(New York City time) on the proposed Funding Date. Term Loans or
Revolving Loans may be continued as or converted into Base Rate Loans and
Eurodollar Rate Loans in the manner provided in subsection 2.2D. In
lieu of delivering a Notice of Borrowing, Company may give Administrative Agent
(or in the case of Swing Line Loans, Swing Line Lender and Administrative Agent)
telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed borrowing under this
subsection 2.1B; provided that such
notice shall be promptly confirmed in writing by delivery of a duly executed
Notice of Borrowing to Administrative Agent (or Swing Line Lender and
Administrative Agent in the case of Swing Line Loans) on or before the
applicable Funding Date.
Neither
Administrative Agent nor any Lender (including Swing Line Lender) shall incur
any liability to Company in acting upon any telephonic notice referred to above
that Administrative Agent (or Swing Line Lender and Administrative Agent, as
applicable) believes in good faith to have been given by an Officer or other
person authorized to borrow on behalf of Company or for otherwise acting in good
faith under this subsection 2.1B or under subsection 2.2D. Upon
funding of Loans by Lenders, and upon conversion or continuation of the
applicable basis for determining the interest rate with respect to any Loans
pursuant to subsection 2.2D, in each case in accordance with this Agreement,
pursuant to any such telephonic notice, Company shall have effected Loans or a
conversion or continuation, as the case may be, hereunder.
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Company
shall notify Administrative Agent (or, in the case of Swing Line Loans, Swing
Line Lender and Administrative Agent) prior to the funding of any Loans in the
event that any of the matters to which Company is required to certify in the
applicable Notice of Borrowing is no longer true and correct as of the
applicable Funding Date, and the acceptance by Company of the proceeds of any
Loans shall constitute a re-certification by Company, as of the applicable
Funding Date, as to the matters to which Company is required to certify in the
applicable Notice of Borrowing.
Except as
otherwise provided in subsections 2.6B, 2.6C and 2.6G, a Notice of Borrowing for
a Eurodollar Rate Loan (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof) shall be
irrevocable and Company shall be bound to make a borrowing in accordance
therewith.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this subsection 2.1B, no Eurodollar Rate Loans with
an Interest Period longer than one month may be made and no Base Rate Loan may
be converted into a Eurodollar Rate Loan with an Interest Period longer than one
month until the earlier of the 90th day after the Closing Date and the date
specified by Administrative Agent to Company on which the primary syndication of
the Loans has been completed, with the first such Interest Period to begin not
sooner than three Business Days (nor later than five Business Days) after the
Closing Date and with any subsequent Interest Periods to begin on the last day
of the prior one-month Interest Period theretofore in effect.
C. Disbursement of
Funds. All Term Loans and Revolving Loans under this Agreement
shall be made by Lenders simultaneously and proportionately to their respective
Pro Rata Shares, it being understood that neither Administrative Agent nor any
Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other Lender in that other
Lender’s obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder nor shall the amount of
the Commitment of any Lender to make the particular type of Loan requested or
Pro Rata Share of any Lender be increased or decreased as a result of a default
by any other Lender in that other Lender’s obligation to make a Loan requested
hereunder. Promptly after receipt by Administrative Agent of a Notice
of Borrowing pursuant to subsection 2.1B (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof),
Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender for that type of Loan (other than
Swing Line Lender, in the case of a Swing Line Loan) of the proposed
borrowing. Each such Lender (other than Swing Line Lender) shall make
the amount of its Loan available to Administrative Agent at the Funding and
Payment Office not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the
applicable Funding Date, in same day funds in Dollars. Swing Line
Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available directly to Company as
provided below. Except as provided in subsection 2.1A(iii) or
subsection 3.3B with respect to Revolving Loans used to repay Refunded Swing
Line Loans or to reimburse any Issuing Lender for the amount of a drawing under
a Letter of Credit issued by it, upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions
precedent specified in subsections 4.1 (in the case of Loans made on the Closing
Date) and 4.2 (in the case of all Loans), Administrative Agent or Swing Line
Lender, as the case may be, shall make the proceeds of such Loans available to
Company on the applicable Funding Date by causing an amount of same day funds in
Dollars, equal to the proceeds of all such Loans received by Administrative
Agent from Lenders or to be disbursed by Swing Line Lender, as applicable, to be
credited to the account designated by Company in the applicable Notice of
Borrowing.
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Unless
Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to a Funding
Date for any Loans that such Lender does not intend to make available to
Administrative Agent the amount of such Lender’s Loan requested on such Funding
Date, Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount
available to Administrative Agent on such Funding Date and Administrative Agent
may, in its sole discretion, but shall not be obligated to, make available to
Company a corresponding amount on such Funding Date. If such
corresponding amount is not in fact made available to Administrative Agent by
such Lender, Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such
corresponding amount on demand from such Lender together with interest thereon,
for each day from such Funding Date until the date such amount is paid to
Administrative Agent, at the customary rate set by Administrative Agent for the
correction of errors among banks for three Business Days and thereafter at the
Base Rate. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount
forthwith upon Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, Administrative Agent
shall promptly notify Company and Company shall immediately pay such
corresponding amount to Administrative Agent together with interest thereon, for
each day from such Funding Date until the date such amount is paid to
Administrative Agent, at the rate payable under this Agreement for Base Rate
Loans. Nothing in this subsection 2.1C shall be deemed to relieve any
Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice
any rights that Company may have against any Lender as a result of any default
by such Lender hereunder.
D. The
Register. Administrative Agent, acting for these purposes
solely as an agent of Company (it being acknowledged that Administrative Agent,
in such capacity, and its officers, directors, employees, agent and affiliates
shall constitute Indemnitees under subsection 10.3), shall maintain (and make
available for inspection by Company, Guarantors and Lenders upon reasonable
prior notice at reasonable times, provided that a
Lender shall only be entitled to inspect its own entry in the Register and not
that of any other Lender) at its address referred to in subsection 10.8 a copy
of each Assignment Agreement delivered to it and accepted by it as provided in
subsection 10.1B(ii) and a register for the recordation of, and shall record,
the names and addresses of Lenders and the respective amounts of the Term Loan
Commitment, Revolving Loan Commitment, Swing Line Loan Commitment, Term Loans,
Revolving Loans and Swing Line Loans of each Lender from time to time (the
“Register”). Company,
Administrative Agent and Lenders shall, absent manifest error, deem and treat
the Persons listed as Lenders in the Register as the holders and owners of the
corresponding Commitments and Loans listed therein for all purposes hereof,
notwithstanding notice to the contrary; all amounts owed with respect to any
Commitment or Loan shall be owed to the Lender listed in the Register as the
owner thereof; and any request, authority or consent of any Person who, at the
time of making such request or giving such authority or consent, is listed in
the Register as a Lender shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent
holder, assignee or transferee of the corresponding Commitments or
Loans. Each Lender shall record on its internal records the amount of
its Loans and Commitments and each payment in respect hereof, and any such
recordation shall be prima facie evidence of the matters recorded, subject to
the entries in the Register, which shall, absent manifest error, govern in the
event of any inconsistency with any Lender’s records. Failure to make
any recordation in the Register or in any Lender’s records, or any error in such
recordation, shall not affect any Loans or Commitments or any Obligations in
respect of any Loans.
E. Optional Notes. If
so requested by any Lender by written notice to Company (with a copy to
Administrative Agent) at least two Business Days prior to the Closing Date or at
any time thereafter, Company shall execute and deliver to such Lender (and/or,
if applicable and if so specified in such notice, to any Person who is an
assignee of such Lender pursuant to subsection 10.1) on the Closing Date
(or, if such notice is delivered after the second Business Day preceding the
Closing Date, promptly after Company’s receipt of such notice) a promissory note
or promissory notes to evidence such Lender’s Term Loan, Revolving Loans or
Swing Line Loans, substantially in the form of Exhibit V, Exhibit VI or Exhibit VII annexed
hereto, respectively, with appropriate insertions.
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2.2
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Interest on the
Loans.
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A. Rate of
Interest. Subject to the provisions of subsections 2.6 and
2.7, each Term Loan and each Revolving Loan shall bear interest on the unpaid
principal amount thereof from the date made to, but excluding, maturity (whether
by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate determined by reference to the Base Rate
or the Eurodollar Rate. Subject to the provisions of
subsection 2.7, each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the unpaid
principal amount thereof from the date made but excluding maturity (whether by
acceleration or otherwise) at a rate determined by reference to the Base
Rate. The applicable basis for determining the rate of interest with
respect to any Term Loan or any Revolving Loan shall be selected by Company
initially at the time a Notice of Borrowing is given with respect to such Loan
pursuant to subsection 2.1B (subject to the last sentence of
subsection 2.1B), and the basis for determining the interest rate with
respect to any Term Loan or any Revolving Loan may be changed from time to time
pursuant to subsection 2.2D (subject to the last sentence of
subsection 2.1B). If on any day a Term Loan or Revolving Loan is
outstanding with respect to which notice has not been delivered to
Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement specifying
the applicable basis for determining the rate of interest, then for that day
that Loan shall bear interest determined by reference to the Base
Rate.
(i) Subject to
the provisions of subsections 2.2E, 2.2G and 2.7, the Term Loans shall bear
interest through maturity as follows:
(a) if a Base
Rate Loan, then at the sum of the Base Rate plus 1.75% per annum;
or
(b) if a
Eurodollar Rate Loan, then at the sum of the Eurodollar Rate plus 2.75% per
annum.
(ii) Subject to
the provisions of subsections 2.2E, 2.2G and 2.7, the Revolving Loans shall bear
interest through maturity as follows:
(a) if
a Base Rate Loan, then at the sum of the Base Rate plus the Base Rate Margin set
forth in the table below opposite the applicable Consolidated Leverage Ratio for
the four Fiscal Quarter period for which the applicable Pricing Certificate has
been delivered pursuant to subsection 6.1(iv); or
(b) if
a Eurodollar Rate Loan, then at the sum of the Eurodollar Rate plus the
Eurodollar Rate Margin set forth in the table below opposite the applicable
Consolidated Leverage Ratio for the four Fiscal Quarter period for which the
applicable Pricing Certificate has been delivered pursuant to
subsection 6.1(iv):
Consolidated
Leverage
Ratio
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Base
Rate
Margin
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Eurodollar
Rate
Margin
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Greater
than or equal to:
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5.00:1.00
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1.75%
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2.75%
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Greater
than or equal to:
but
less than:
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3.50:1.00
5.00:1.00
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1.50%
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2.50%
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Less
than:
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3.50:1.00
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1.25%
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2.25%
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provided that (I)
until the delivery of the Pricing Certificate for the first complete Fiscal
Quarter ending after the Closing Date or (II) if a Potential Event of Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the applicable margin
for Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans shall be 1.75% per annum and for
Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be 2.75% per
annum.
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(iii) Upon delivery of
the Pricing Certificate by Company to Administrative Agent pursuant to
subsection 6.1(iv), the Base Rate Margin and the Eurodollar Rate Margin for
Revolving Loans shall automatically be adjusted in accordance with such Pricing
Certificate, such adjustment to become effective on the first succeeding
Business Day following the receipt by Administrative Agent of such Pricing
Certificate (subject to the provisions of the foregoing clause (ii)); provided that
(x) if a Potential Event of Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the applicable margin for Revolving Loans shall be the
maximum margin for the relevant Loan set forth above, (y) if at any time a
Pricing Certificate is not delivered at the time required pursuant to
subsection 6.1(iv), from the time such Pricing Certificate was required to
be delivered until the first Business Day succeeding delivery of such Pricing
Certificate, the applicable margins for Revolving Loans shall be the maximum
margin for the relevant Loan set forth above or (z) if for any period of time,
the Base Rate Margin and Eurodollar Rate Margin are reduced to a level below the
highest level set forth above as a result of an inaccuracy contained in any
Pricing Certificate, then promptly following the date on which such inaccuracy
is determined to have existed, Company shall pay the additional amount of
interest that would have accrued during such period had such inaccuracy not been
included in such Pricing Certificate.
(iv) Subject to the
provisions of subsections 2.2E, 2.2G and 2.7, the Swing Line Loans shall bear
interest through maturity at the sum of the Base Rate plus the applicable
Base Rate Margin for Revolving Loans.
B. Interest
Periods. In connection with each Eurodollar Rate Loan, Company
may, pursuant to the applicable Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, as the case may be, select an interest period (each an
“Interest Period”) to be
applicable to such Loan, which Interest Period shall be, at Company’s option,
either a one (or less than one month if permitted by Administrative Agent in its
sole discretion), two, three or six month period or, to the extent available to
all Lenders of the applicable Class, a nine or twelve month period; provided
that:
(i) the initial
Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Loan shall commence on the Funding Date
in respect of such Loan, in the case of a Loan initially made as a Eurodollar
Rate Loan, or on the date specified in the applicable Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, in the case of a Loan converted to a Eurodollar Rate
Loan;
(ii) in the case
of immediately successive Interest Periods applicable to a Eurodollar Rate Loan
continued as such pursuant to a Notice of Conversion/Continuation, each
successive Interest Period shall commence on the day on which the next preceding
Interest Period expires;
(iii) if an
Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day, such
Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day; provided that, if any
Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day but
is a day of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in such month,
such Interest Period shall expire on the next preceding Business
Day;
(iv) any Interest
Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for
which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end
of such Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (v) of this
subsection 2.2B, end on the last Business Day of a calendar
month;
(v) no Interest
Period with respect to any portion of the Term Loans shall extend beyond the
Term Loan Maturity Date, and no Interest Period with respect to any portion of
the Revolving Loans shall extend beyond the Revolving Loan Commitment
Termination Date;
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(vi) there shall
be no more than 12 Interest Periods outstanding at any time; and
(vii) in the event
Company fails to specify an Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Loan in the
applicable Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation, Company
shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month.
C. Interest
Payments. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2.2E,
interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on and to each Interest
Payment Date applicable to that Loan, upon any prepayment of that Loan (to the
extent accrued on the amount being prepaid) and at maturity (including final
maturity); provided that, in the
event any Swing Line Loans or any Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans are
prepaid pursuant to subsection 2.4B(i), interest accrued on such Loans through
the date of such prepayment shall be payable on the next succeeding Interest
Payment Date applicable to Base Rate Loans (or, if earlier, at final
maturity).
D. Conversion or
Continuation. Subject to the provisions of
subsection 2.6, Company shall have the option (i) to convert at any
time all or any part of its outstanding Term Loans or Revolving Loans equal to
$1,000,000 and
multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount from Loans bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to one basis to Loans bearing interest at a rate
determined by reference to an alternative basis or (ii) upon the expiration
of any Interest Period applicable to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, to continue all or
any portion of such Loan equal to $1,000,000 and multiples of $500,000 in excess
of that amount as a Eurodollar Rate Loan; provided, however, that a
Eurodollar Rate Loan may only be converted into a Base Rate Loan on the
expiration date of an Interest Period applicable thereto.
Company
shall deliver a duly executed Notice of Conversion/Continuation to
Administrative Agent no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least one
Business Day in advance of the proposed conversion date (in the case of a
conversion to a Base Rate Loan) and at least three Business Days in advance of
the proposed conversion/continuation date (in the case of a conversion to, or a
continuation of, a Eurodollar Rate Loan). In lieu of delivering a
Notice of Conversion/Continuation, Company may give Administrative Agent
telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed conversion/continuation
under this subsection 2.2D; provided that such
notice shall be promptly confirmed in writing by delivery of a duly executed
Notice of Conversion/Continuation to Administrative Agent on or before the
proposed conversion/continuation date. Administrative Agent shall
notify each Lender of any Loan subject to a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation.
Except as
otherwise provided in subsections 2.6B, 2.6C and 2.6G, a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation for conversion to, or continuation of, a Eurodollar Rate
Loan (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof) shall be irrevocable and Company
shall be bound to effect a conversion or continuation in accordance
therewith.
E. Default Rate. If
all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or any interest
payable thereon or other amounts owing under this Agreement shall not be paid
when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), any
such overdue principal and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any
overdue interest or such other amount, shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the
greater of (i) the rate for Base Rate Loans described in subsection 2.2A plus 2% or
(ii) (x) in the case of overdue principal, the rate that would otherwise be
applicable to such Loans pursuant to subsection 2.2A plus 2% or
(y) in the case of any overdue interest or such other amount, the rate
determined pursuant to clause (x) in each case from the date of such non-payment
to the date on which such amount is paid in full (after as well as before
judgment).
F. Computation of
Interest. Interest on the Loans shall be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year, in each case for the actual number of days elapsed in the
period during which it accrues; provided that, in the
case of interest on Base Rate Loans, interest shall be computed based on the
number of days elapsed in a year of 365 or 366 days, as
appropriate. In computing interest on any Loan, the date of the
making of such Loan or the first day of an Interest Period applicable to such
Loan or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted from a Eurodollar Rate
Loan, the date of conversion of such Eurodollar Rate Loan to such Base Rate
Loan, as the case may be, shall be included, and the date of payment of such
Loan or the expiration date of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or,
with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the
date of conversion of such Base Rate Loan to such Eurodollar Rate Loan, as the
case may be, shall be excluded; provided that if a
Loan is repaid on the same day on which it is made, one day’s interest shall be
paid on that Loan.
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G. Maximum
Rate. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
subsection 2.2, in no event shall the rate of interest payable by Company
with respect to any Loan exceed the maximum rate of interest permitted to be
charged under applicable law.
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2.3
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Fees.
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A. Revolving Commitment
Fees. Company agrees to pay to Administrative Agent, for
distribution to each Revolving Lender in proportion to that Lender’s Pro Rata
Share, commitment fees for the period from and including the Closing Date to and
excluding the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date equal to the average of
the daily excess of the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount over the sum of (i) the
aggregate principal amount of outstanding Revolving Loans (plus any outstanding
Swing Line Loans) plus (ii) the Letter of Credit Usage multiplied by 0.50%
per annum, such commitment fees to be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year
and the actual number of days elapsed and to be payable quarterly in arrears on
the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December of each year,
commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the
Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date.
B. Other Fees. Company
agrees to pay to Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and the Arrangers such
fees in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between Company and
Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and the Arrangers,
respectively.
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2.4
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Repayments,
Prepayments and Reductions of Revolving Loan Commitment Amount; General
Provisions Regarding Payments; Application of Proceeds of Collateral and
Payments Under Guaranty.
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A. Scheduled Payments of Term
Loans. Company shall make principal payments on the Term Loans
in installments on the last day of each Fiscal Quarter, beginning with the
Fiscal Quarter ending September 30, 2007, in an amount equal to such Lender’s
Term Loan Percentage multiplied by (i) 0.25% in the case of the first 27
installments and (ii) 93.25% in the case of the final installment; provided that the
scheduled installments of principal of the Term Loans set forth above shall be
reduced in connection with any voluntary or mandatory prepayments of the Term
Loans in accordance with subsection 2.4B(iv); and provided, further, that the
Term Loans and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Term Loans
shall be paid in full no later than the Term Loan Maturity Date, and the final
installment payable by Company in respect of the Term Loans on such date shall
be in an amount sufficient to repay all amounts owing by Company under this
Agreement with respect to the Term Loans.
B. Prepayments and Reductions in
Revolving Loan Commitment Amount.
(i) Voluntary
Prepayments. Company may, upon written or telephonic notice to
Administrative Agent on or prior to 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the date
of prepayment, which notice, if telephonic, shall be promptly confirmed in
writing, at any time and from time to time, prepay any Swing Line Loan on any
Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $500,000 and
multiples of $100,000 in excess of that amount. Company may, upon not
less than one Business Day’s prior written or telephonic notice, in the case of
Base Rate Loans, and three Business Days’ prior written or telephonic notice, in
the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, in each case given to Administrative Agent by
1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date required and, if given by telephone,
promptly confirmed in writing to Administrative Agent, who will promptly notify
each Lender whose Loans are to be prepaid of such prepayment, at any time and
from time to time prepay the Term Loans or Revolving Loans on any Business Day
in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and multiples
of $500,000 in excess of that amount. All written notices delivered
pursuant to this subsection 2.4B(i) shall be in the form of a Notice of
Prepayment and all notices whether written or telephonic delivered pursuant to
this subsection 2.4B(i) shall be irrevocable, and once given as aforesaid, the
principal amount of the Loans specified in such notice shall become due and
payable on the prepayment date specified therein; provided that if
notice is given in connection with the refinancing of the Loans with the
proceeds of Indebtedness (other than the Loans) or in connection with a
transaction that would result in a Change in Control and, in either case, such
transaction does not close, such notice shall be revocable and the amounts
specified therein shall not be due and payable except for any amounts payable as
a result thereof pursuant to subsection 2.6D. Any such voluntary
prepayment shall be applied as specified in subsection 2.4B(iv).
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(ii) Voluntary Reductions of
Revolving Loan Commitments. Company may, upon not less than
three Business Days’ prior written or telephonic notice confirmed in writing to
Administrative Agent, or upon such lesser number of days’ prior written or
telephonic notice, as determined by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion,
at any time and from time to time, terminate in whole or permanently reduce in
part, without premium or penalty, the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount in an
amount up to the amount by which the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount exceeds
the Total Utilization of Revolving Loan Commitments at the time of such proposed
termination or reduction; provided that any
such partial reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount shall be in an
aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and multiples of $500,000 in excess of
that amount. The Notice of Prepayment shall designate the date (which
shall be a Business Day) of such termination or reduction and the amount of any
partial reduction, and such termination or reduction shall be effective on the
date specified in Company’s notice and shall reduce the amount of the Revolving
Loan Commitment of each Revolving Lender proportionately to its Pro Rata
Share. Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Revolving
Lender of such notice. Any such voluntary reduction of the Revolving
Loan Commitment Amount shall be applied as specified in subsection
2.4B(iv). All written notices delivered pursuant to this subsection
2.4B(ii) shall be in the form of a Notice of Prepayment, all notices, whether
written or telephonic, delivered pursuant to this subsection 2.4B(ii) shall be
irrevocable unless delivered in connection with a refinancing or a transaction
that would result in a Change in Control and Company shall be bound to the
termination or reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitments referenced in such
notice.
(iii) Mandatory
Prepayments. The Loans shall be prepaid in the amounts and
under the circumstances (including the giving of the Notice of Prepayment and
Officer’s Certificate required by subsection 2.4B(iii)(e)), set forth below, all
such prepayments to be applied as set forth below or as more specifically
provided in subsection 2.4B(iv) and subsection 2.4D:
(a) Prepayments from Net Asset
Sale Proceeds. No later than the fifth Business Day after the
date of receipt by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any Net Asset Sale
Proceeds in respect of any Asset Sale, Company shall (1) prepay the Loans at par
in an aggregate amount equal to such Net Asset Sale Proceeds less the amount
reinvested pursuant to clause (2) below or (2) so long as no Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, reinvest within 365 days of such date of
receipt all or a portion of such Net Asset Sale Proceeds in equipment or other
assets used in the business of any of the Loan Parties. In addition,
Company shall, no later than 365 days after any Loan Party’s receipt of such Net
Asset Sale Proceeds that have not theretofore been applied to the Obligations or
that have not been so reinvested as provided above, make an additional
prepayment of the Loans in the full amount of all such Net Asset Sale Proceeds;
provided that,
if Company shall have contractually committed to reinvest any Net Asset Sale
Proceeds during such 365 day period, Company shall have until the later of (x)
365 days from the date of receipt of Net Asset Sale Proceeds and (y) 180 days
from the date of such contractual commitment, to reinvest such Net Asset Sale
Proceeds and Company shall make an additional prepayment of Loans, with any Net
Asset Sale Proceeds not reinvested as of such date.
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(b) Prepayments from Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds. No later than the fifth
Business Day following the date of receipt by Administrative Agent or by
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds
that are required to be applied to prepay the Loans pursuant to the provisions
of subsection 6.4C, Company shall (1) prepay the Loans at par in an
aggregate amount equal to the amount of such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds
less the amount reinvested pursuant to clause (2) below or (2) so long as
no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, reinvest within 365
days of such date of receipt such Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds in equipment or other assets used in the business of any of the Loan
Parties. In addition, Company shall, no later than 365 days after any
Loan Party’s or Subsidiary’s receipt of such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds
that have not theretofore been applied to the Obligations or that have not been
so reinvested as provided above, make an additional prepayment of the Loans in
the full amount of all such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds;
provided that,
if Company shall have contractually committed to reinvest any Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds during such 365 day period, Company shall have
until the later of (x) 365 days from the date of receipt of Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds and (y) 180 days from the date of such
contractual commitment to reinvest such Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds and Company shall make an
additional prepayment of Loans with any Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds not
reinvested as of such date.
(c) Prepayments Due to Issuance
of Indebtedness. No later than the third Business Day after
the date of receipt of the Net Securities Proceeds from the issuance of any
Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date,
other than Indebtedness permitted pursuant to subsection 7.1, Company shall
prepay the Loans at par in an aggregate amount equal to such Net Securities
Proceeds.
(d) Prepayments from
Consolidated Excess Cash Flow. In the event that there shall
be Consolidated Excess Cash Flow for any Fiscal Year (commencing with Fiscal
Year 2008), Company shall, no later than 105 days after the end of such Fiscal
Year, prepay the Loans at par in an aggregate amount equal to 50% of such
Consolidated Excess Cash Flow; provided that, so
long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, for any
Fiscal Year in which the Consolidated Leverage Ratio (determined by reference to
the Compliance Certificate for such Fiscal Year delivered pursuant to subsection
6.1(iv) calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio) shall be less than
4.50:1.00 but greater than or equal to 3.25:1.00, Company shall only be required
to make the prepayments otherwise required hereby in an amount equal to 25% of
such Consolidated Excess Cash Flow, and during any period in which the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall be less than 3.25:1.00, Company shall no
longer be required to make the prepayments otherwise required by this subsection
2.4B(iii)(d). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the amount of Loans
required to be repaid pursuant to this clause (d) for any Fiscal Year shall be
reduced on a dollar for dollar basis by the amount of optional prepayments of
Loans made pursuant to this subsection 2.4B during such Fiscal Year (or, without
duplication of any amount which would reduce the amount of Loans required to be
repaid pursuant to this clause (d) for the next Fiscal Year, any prepayments of
Loans made pursuant to this subsection 2.4B following the last day of such
Fiscal Year and prior to that date of required prepayment pursuant to this
clause (d) for such Fiscal Year).
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(e) Calculations of Net Proceeds
Amounts; Additional Prepayments Based on Subsequent
Calculations. Company shall provide Administrative Agent with
not less than one Business Day’s prior written notice by delivery of a Notice of
Prepayment or prior telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing by the
delivery of a Notice of Prepayment, of any prepayment of the Loans pursuant to
subsections 2.4B(iii)(a)-(d). Such written or telephonic notice shall
be irrevocable and Company shall be bound to make the mandatory prepayment
referenced in such notice on the date indicated in such notice; provided that if
notice is given in connection with the refinancing of the Loans with the
proceeds of Indebtedness (other than the Loans) or in connection with a
transaction that would result in a Change in Control and, in either case, such
transaction does not close, such notice shall be revocable (without penalty) and
the amounts specified therein shall not be due and
payable. Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of
such prepayment and of the amount of the prepayment proposed to be applied to
such Lender’s Loans. Concurrently with any prepayment of the Loans
pursuant to subsections 2.4B(iii)(a)-(d), Company shall deliver to
Administrative Agent an Officer’s Certificate demonstrating the calculation of
the amount of the applicable Net Asset Sale Proceeds, Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds, Net Securities Proceeds, or Consolidated Excess Cash Flow, as the case
may be, that gave rise to such prepayment. In the event that Company
shall subsequently determine that the actual amount was greater than the amount
set forth in such Officer’s Certificate, Company shall promptly make an
additional prepayment of the Loans in an amount equal to the applicable
percentage of such excess amount and Company shall concurrently therewith
deliver to Administrative Agent an Officer’s Certificate demonstrating the
derivation of the additional amount resulting in such excess.
(f) Prepayments Due to
Reductions of Revolving Loan Commitment Amount. Company shall
from time to time prepay first the Swing Line
Loans and second the Revolving
Loans (and, after prepaying all Revolving Loans, cash collateralize any
outstanding Letters of Credit by depositing the requisite amount in the
Collateral Account) (x) in full, upon the occurrence of a Potential Event
of Default or Event of Default arising from a breach of subsection 7.5 and (y)
to the extent necessary so that the Total Utilization of Revolving Loan
Commitments shall not at any time exceed the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount
then in effect. At such time as the Total Utilization of Revolving
Loan Commitments shall be equal to or less than the Revolving Loan Commitment
Amount or upon compliance with subsection 7.5, if no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, to the extent any cash collateral was provided by
Company and has not been applied to any Obligations as provided in the Security
Agreement, such amount may, promptly at the request of Company, be released to
Company.
(iv) Application of
Prepayments.
(a) Application of Voluntary
Prepayments. Any voluntary prepayments pursuant to subsection
2.4B(i) shall be applied as specified by Company in the applicable Notice of
Prepayment; provided that all
such voluntary prepayments shall, irrespective of any application specified by
Company, be applied in the following priority to repay any amounts owing to (i)
first, Swing
Line Lender due to the failure of any Revolving Lender to (A) fund a Revolving
Loan for the purpose of repaying any Refunded Swing Line Loan pursuant to
subsection 2.1A(iii)(b) or (B) purchase an assignment of an unpaid Swing Line
Loan pursuant to subsection 2.1A(iii)(c), and (ii) second, Issuing
Lenders due to the failure of any Revolving Lender to (A) fund a Revolving Loan
for the purpose of repaying any unreimbursed amounts of a drawing under a Letter
of Credit pursuant to subsection 3.3B or (B) fund a participation in any such
unreimbursed Letter of Credit drawing pursuant to subsection 3.3C; provided, further, that in the
event Company fails to specify the Loans to which any such prepayment shall be
applied, and funds remain after being applied in accordance with this subsection
2.4B(iv)(a), such prepayment shall be applied first to repay
outstanding Term Loans to the full extent thereof, second to repay
outstanding Swing Line Loans to the full extent thereof, and third to repay
outstanding Revolving Loans to the full extent thereof. Any voluntary
prepayments of the Term Loans pursuant to subsection 2.4B(i) shall be applied to
reduce the scheduled installments of principal of the Term Loans set forth in
subsection 2.4A on a pro rata basis (in accordance with the respective
outstanding principal amounts thereof) to each scheduled installment of
principal of the Term Loans set forth in subsection 2.4A that is
unpaid at the time of such prepayment.
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(b) Application of Mandatory
Prepayments of Type of Loans and the Scheduled Installments of Principal
Thereof. Except as provided in subsection 2.4D, any amount
required to be applied as a mandatory prepayment of the Loans pursuant to
subsections 2.4B(iii)(a)-(e) shall be applied first to prepay the
Term Loans to the full extent thereof, second (but only if a
Potential Event of Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing at the time of such prepayment obligation) (but without any permanent
reduction in commitment), to the extent of any remaining portion of such amount,
to prepay the Swing Line Loans to the full extent thereof, and third, to the extent
of any remaining portion of such amount, to prepay the Revolving Loans to the
full extent thereof (but without any permanent reduction in
commitment). Any mandatory prepayments of the Term Loans pursuant to
subsection 2.4B(iii) shall be applied to reduce the scheduled
installments of principal of the Term Loans set forth in subsection 2.4A on
a pro rata basis (in accordance with the respective outstanding principal
amounts thereof) to each scheduled installment of principal of the Term Loans
set forth in subsection 2.4A that is unpaid at the time of such
prepayment.
(c) Application of Prepayments
to Base Rate Loans and Eurodollar Rate Loans. Considering Term
Loans and Revolving Loans being prepaid separately, any prepayment thereof shall
be applied first to Base Rate Loans to the full extent thereof before
application to Eurodollar Rate Loans, in each case in a manner that minimizes
the amount of any payments required to be made by Company pursuant to
subsection 2.6D.
(v) All amounts
prepaid pursuant to this subsection 2.4 shall be made without premium or
penalty, except for any amounts payable pursuant to subsection
2.6D.
C. General Provisions Regarding
Payments.
(i) Manner and Time of
Payment. All payments by Company of principal, interest, fees
and other Obligations shall be made in Dollars in same day funds, without
defense, set-off or counterclaim, free of any restriction or condition, and
delivered to Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time)
on the date due at the Funding and Payment Account for the account of Lenders;
funds received by Administrative Agent after that time on such due date shall be
deemed to have been paid by Company on the next succeeding Business
Day. Company hereby authorizes Administrative Agent to charge its
accounts with Administrative Agent in order to cause timely payment to be made
to Administrative Agent of all principal, interest, fees and expenses due
hereunder (subject to sufficient funds being available in its accounts for that
purpose).
(ii) Application of Payments to
Principal and Interest. All payments in respect of the
principal amount of any Loan shall include payment of accrued interest on the
principal amount being repaid or prepaid, and all such payments shall be applied
to the payment of interest before application to principal.
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(iii) Apportionment of
Payments. Aggregate principal and interest payments (including
prepayments) in respect of Term Loans and Revolving Loans shall be apportioned
among all outstanding Loans to which such payments relate, in each case
proportionately to Lenders’ respective Pro Rata Shares; provided that all
payments in respect of Revolving Loans shall first be applied in the following
priority to repay any amounts owing to (i) first, Swing Line
Lender due to the failure of any Revolving Lender to (A) fund a Revolving Loan
for the purpose of repaying any Refunded Swing Line Loan pursuant to subsection
2.1A(iii)(b) or (B) purchase an assignment of an unpaid Swing Line Loan pursuant
to subsection 2.1A(iii)(c), and (ii) second, Issuing
Lenders due to the failure of any Revolving Lender to (A) fund a Revolving Loan
for the purpose of repaying any unreimbursed amounts of a drawing under a Letter
of Credit pursuant to subsection 3.3B or (B) fund a participation in any such
unreimbursed Letter of Credit drawing pursuant to subsection
3.3C. Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute to each Lender,
at the account specified in the payment instructions delivered to Administrative
Agent by such Lender, its Pro Rata Share of all such payments received by
Administrative Agent and the commitment fees and Letter of Credit fees of such
Lender, if any, when received by Administrative Agent pursuant to subsections
2.3 and 3.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
subsection 2.4C(iii), if, pursuant to the provisions of subsection 2.6C, any
Notice of Conversion/Continuation is withdrawn as to any Affected Lender or if
any Affected Lender makes Base Rate Loans in lieu of its Pro Rata Share of any
Eurodollar Rate Loans, Administrative Agent shall give effect thereto in
apportioning interest payments received thereafter.
(iv) Payments on Business
Days. Whenever any payment to be made hereunder shall be
stated to be due on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment shall be made
on the next preceding Business Day.
D. Application of Proceeds of Collateral
and Payments After Event of Default. Upon the occurrence and
during the continuation of an Event of Default, if requested by Requisite
Lenders, or upon acceleration of the Obligations pursuant to Section 8,
(a) all payments received by Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent,
whether from Company or any Guarantor or otherwise, and (b) all proceeds
received by Collateral Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from, or
other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral under any Collateral
Document shall be applied in full by Collateral Agent in the following order of
priority:
(i) to the
payment of all costs and expenses of such sale, collection or other realization,
all other reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses, liabilities and
advances made or incurred by Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent in
connection therewith, and all amounts for which Administrative Agent and
Collateral Agent are entitled to compensation (including the fees described in
subsection 2.3), reimbursement and indemnification under any Loan Document
and all advances made by Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent thereunder
for the account of the applicable Loan Party, and to the payment of all
reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses paid or incurred by
Administrative Agent in connection with the Loan Documents in its capacity as
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, all in accordance with subsections
9.4, 10.2 and 10.3 and the other terms of this Agreement and the Loan
Documents;
(ii) thereafter,
pro rata to the payment of all other Obligations and obligations of Loan Parties
under any Hedge Agreement between a Loan Party and a Swap Counterparty for the
ratable benefit of the holders thereof (subject to the provisions of
subsection 2.4C(ii) hereof) and to cash collateralize any outstanding
Letters of Credit that have not been fully cash collateralized;
(iii) thereafter,
to Second Lien Collateral Agent, in accordance with the terms of the
Intercreditor Agreement; and
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(iv) thereafter,
to the payment to or upon the order of such Loan Party or to whosoever may be
lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction
may direct.
If any
Letter of Credit which has been cash collateralized subsequently expires or is
returned to the Issuing Lender partially or fully undrawn, any cash collateral
held with respect to the undrawn portion of such Letter of Credit shall be
returned to Administrative Agent and applied in the order specified
above.
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2.5
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Use of
Proceeds.
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A. Term Loans. The
proceeds of the Term Loans shall be applied by Company to fund in part the
Acquisition Financing Requirements.
B. Revolving Loans; Swing Line
Loans. No Revolving Loans will be available to Company on the
Closing Date to fund the Acquisition Financing Requirements. After
the Closing Date, the proceeds of any Revolving Loans and any Swing Line Loans
shall be applied by Company for working capital, Permitted Acquisitions, capital
expenditures (in accordance with subsection 7.7) and other general corporate
purposes, which may include the making of intercompany loans to any of Company’s
Subsidiaries permitted by subsection 7.1, for their own general corporate
purposes.
C. Margin
Regulations. No portion of the proceeds of any borrowing under
this Agreement shall be used by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any manner
that would cause the borrowing or the application of such proceeds to violate
Regulation U, Regulation T or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board, in each case as in
effect on the date or dates of such borrowing and such use of
proceeds.
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2.6
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Special Provisions
Governing Eurodollar Rate
Loans.
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Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the following provisions
shall govern with respect to Eurodollar Rate Loans as to the matters
covered:
A. Determination of Applicable Interest
Rate. On each Interest Rate Determination Date, Administrative
Agent shall determine in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (which
determination shall, absent manifest error, be conclusive and binding upon all
parties) the interest rate that shall apply to the Eurodollar Rate Loans for
which an interest rate is then being determined for the applicable Interest
Period and shall promptly give notice thereof (in writing or by telephone
confirmed in writing) to Company and each applicable Lender.
B. Inability To Determine Applicable
Interest Rate. In the event that Administrative Agent shall
reasonably have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding
upon all parties hereto), on any Interest Rate Determination Date, that by
reason of circumstances affecting the London interbank market adequate and fair
means do not exist for ascertaining the interest rate applicable to such Loans
on the basis provided for in the definition of Eurodollar Rate, Administrative
Agent shall on such date give notice (by telefacsimile or by telephone confirmed
in writing) to Company and each Lender of such determination, whereupon (i) no
Loans may be made as, or converted to, Eurodollar Rate Loans until such time as
Administrative Agent notifies Company and Lenders that the circumstances giving
rise to such notice no longer exist and (ii) any Notice of Borrowing or Notice
of Conversion/Continuation given by Company with respect to the Loans in respect
of which such determination was made shall be deemed to be for a Base Rate
Loan.
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C. Illegality or Impracticability of
Eurodollar Rate Loans. In the event that on any date
(i) any Lender shall have determined (which determination shall be
conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto but shall be made only after
consultation with Company and Administrative Agent) that the making, maintaining
or continuation of its Eurodollar Rate Loans has become unlawful as a result of
compliance by such Lender in good faith with any law, treaty, governmental rule,
regulation, guideline or order (or would conflict with any such treaty,
governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order not having the force of law
that would be complied with generally by similarly situated banks acting
reasonably even though the failure to comply therewith would not be unlawful) or
(ii) Administrative Agent is advised by the Requisite Lenders or the
Requisite Class Lenders that as a result of circumstances arising after the
Closing Date the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately
and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (the “Affected Lenders”) of making
or maintaining their Loans included in such borrowing for such Interest Period,
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each other Lender of the receipt of
such notice. Thereafter (a) the obligation of the Affected Lender to
make Loans as, or to convert Loans to, Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended
until such notice shall be withdrawn by the Affected Lender, (b) to the extent
such determination by the Affected Lender relates to a Eurodollar Rate Loan then
being requested by Company pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing or a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, the Affected Lender shall make such Loan as (or convert
such Loan to, as the case may be) a Base Rate Loan, (c) the Affected Lender’s
obligation to maintain its outstanding Eurodollar Rate Loans (the “Affected Loans”) shall be
terminated at the earlier to occur of the expiration of the Interest Period then
in effect with respect to the Affected Loans or when required by law, and (d)
the Affected Loans shall automatically convert into Base Rate Loans on the date
of such termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a
determination by an Affected Lender as described above relates to a Eurodollar
Rate Loan then being requested by Company pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing or a
Notice of Conversion/Continuation, Company shall have the option, subject to the
provisions of subsection 2.6D, to rescind such Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion/Continuation as to all Lenders by giving notice (by telefacsimile or
by telephone confirmed in writing) to Administrative Agent of such rescission on
the date on which the Affected Lender gives notice of its determination as
described above. Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
other Lender of the receipt of such notice. Except as provided in the
second immediately preceding sentence, nothing in this subsection 2.6C shall
affect the obligation of any Lender other than an Affected Lender to make or
maintain Loans as, or to convert Loans to, Eurodollar Rate Loans in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement.
D. Compensation for Breakage or
Non-Commencement of Interest Periods. Company shall compensate
each Lender, upon written request by that Lender pursuant to subsection 2.8, for
all reasonable losses, expenses and liabilities (including any interest paid by
that Lender to lenders of funds borrowed by it to make or carry its Eurodollar
Rate Loans and any loss, expense or liability sustained by that Lender in
connection with the liquidation or re-employment of such funds but excluding any
loss of anticipated profits) which that Lender has actually
sustained: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by that
Lender) a borrowing of any Eurodollar Rate Loan does not occur on a date
specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or a telephonic request therefor, or
a conversion to or continuation of any Eurodollar Rate Loan does not occur on a
date specified therefor in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation or a telephonic
request therefor, (ii) if any prepayment or other principal payment or any
conversion of any of its Eurodollar Rate Loans (including any prepayment or
conversion occasioned by the circumstances described in subsection 2.6C) occurs
on a date prior to the last day of an Interest Period applicable to that Loan,
(iii) if any prepayment of any of its Eurodollar Rate Loans is not made on any
date specified in a Notice of Prepayment given by Company or (iv) as a
consequence of any other default by Company in the repayment of its Eurodollar
Rate Loans when required by the terms of this Agreement.
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E. Booking of Eurodollar Rate
Loans. Any Lender may make, carry or transfer Eurodollar Rate
Loans at, to or for the account of any of its branch offices or the office of an
Affiliate of that Lender.
F. Assumptions Concerning Funding of
Eurodollar Rate Loans. Calculation of all amounts payable to a
Lender under this subsection 2.6 and under subsection 2.7A shall be
made as though that Lender had funded each of its Eurodollar Rate Loans through
the purchase of a Eurodollar deposit bearing interest at the rate obtained
pursuant to clause (i) of the definition of Eurodollar Rate in an amount
equal to the amount of such Eurodollar Rate Loan and having a maturity
comparable to the relevant Interest Period, whether or not its Eurodollar Rate
Loans had been funded in such manner.
G. Eurodollar Rate Loans After Event of
Default. After the occurrence of and during the continuation
of an Event of Default, at the election of Administrative Agent or the Requisite
Lenders, (i) Company may not elect to have a Loan be made or maintained as,
or converted to, a Eurodollar Rate Loan after the expiration of any Interest
Period then in effect for that Loan and (ii) subject to the provisions of
subsection 2.6D, any Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion/Continuation given by Company with respect to a requested borrowing
or conversion/continuation that has not yet occurred shall be deemed to be for a
Base Rate Loan or, if the conditions to making a Loan set forth in
subsection 4.2 cannot then be satisfied, to be rescinded by
Company.
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2.7
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Increased Costs;
Taxes; Capital Adequacy.
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A. Compensation for Increased
Costs. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2.7B (which
shall be controlling with respect to the matters covered thereby), in the event
that any Lender (including any Issuing Lender) shall determine (which
determination shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding
upon all parties hereto) that any Change in Law:
(i) subjects such
Lender to any additional tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any of its obligations hereunder or
thereunder (including with respect to issuing or maintaining any Letters of
Credit or purchasing or maintaining any participations therein or maintaining
any Commitment hereunder) or any payments to such Lender of principal, interest,
fees or any other amount payable hereunder or thereunder (except for the
imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such
Lender);
(ii) imposes,
modifies or holds applicable, in the opinion of such Lender, any material
reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar
requirement against assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for
the account of, or advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any
other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender (other than any such
reserve or other requirements with respect to Eurodollar Rate Loans that are
reflected in the definition of Eurodollar Rate); or
(iii) imposes any other
condition (other than with respect to Taxes) on or affecting such Lender or its
obligations hereunder or the London interbank market;
and the
result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of
agreeing to make, making or maintaining its Loans or Commitments or agreeing to
issue, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or agreeing to purchase,
purchasing or maintaining any participation therein or to reduce any amount
received or receivable by such Lender with respect thereto; then, in any such
case, Company shall promptly pay to such Lender (without duplication of amounts
payable to such Lender under subsection 2.7B), upon receipt of the statement
referred to in subsection 2.8A, such additional amount or amounts (in the form
of an increased rate of, or a different method of calculating, interest or
otherwise as such Lender in its sole discretion shall determine) as may be
necessary to compensate such Lender on an after-tax basis for any such increased
cost or reduction in amounts received or receivable
hereunder. Company shall not be required to compensate a Lender
pursuant to this subsection 2.7A for any increased cost or reduction in respect
of a period occurring more than nine months prior to the date on which such
Lender notifies Company of such Change in Law and such Lender’s intention to
claim compensation therefor, except, if the Change in Law giving rise to such
increased cost or reduction is retroactive, no such time limitation shall apply
so long as such Lender requests compensation within nine months from the date on
which the applicable Government Authority informed such Lender of such Change in
Law.
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B. Taxes.
(i) Payments To Be Free and
Clear. Except as otherwise required by law, any and all
payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under this
Agreement and any other Loan Documents shall be made free and clear of, and
without any deduction or withholding on account of, any Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes.
(ii) Grossing-up of
Payments. If a Loan Party is required by law to make any
deduction or withholding on account of any Tax from any sum paid or payable by a
Loan Party to Administrative Agent or any Lender under any of the Loan
Documents:
(a) the
applicable Loan Party shall notify Administrative Agent of any such requirement
or any change in any such requirement as soon as the applicable Loan Party
becomes aware of it;
(b) the
applicable Loan Party shall make such deductions or withholdings and timely pay
any such amount deducted to the relevant Government Authority when such amount
is due, in accordance with applicable law;
(c)
in the case of any Indemnified Tax or other Tax, the sum payable by the
applicable Loan Party shall be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that,
after making the required deductions or withholdings (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this subsection 2.7B),
Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, receives on the due
date an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or
withholding been required or made; and
(d) within
30 days or, if not possible, as soon as reasonably practicable after any payment
of any Indemnified Tax or Other Tax, Company shall deliver to Administrative
Agent the original or a certified copy of an official receipt issued by the
relevant Government Authority evidencing such payment or other document
reasonably satisfactory to the other affected parties to evidence the payment
and its remittance to the relevant Government Authority.
(iii) Indemnification by
Company. Company shall indemnify Administrative Agent and each
Lender, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including for the full amount of any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to
amounts payable under this subsection 2.7B) payable by Administrative Agent
or such Lender, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable
expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto whether or not such
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted
by the relevant Government Authority. A certificate as to the amount
of such payment or liability, including a copy of the receipt or other
reasonably satisfactory evidence of its demand, delivered to Company by a Lender
(with a copy to Administrative Agent), or by Administrative Agent on its own
behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
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(iv) Tax Status of
Lenders. Unless not legally entitled to do so:
(a) any
Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding
of any Indemnified Tax under the laws of the United States, or any treaty to
which the United States is a party, with respect to payments hereunder or under
any other Loan Document shall deliver to Company (with a copy to Administrative
Agent), on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender
under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter if reasonably requested
by Company or Administrative Agent), such properly completed and duly executed
forms or other documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such
payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of
withholding;
(b) without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Foreign Lender shall deliver to
Company and Administrative Agent (in such number of original copies as shall be
requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender
becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter if
reasonably requested by Company or Administrative Agent), whichever of the
following is applicable:
(1) properly
completed and duly executed original copies of Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to
which the United States is a party,
(2) properly
completed and duly executed original copies of Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8ECI,
(3) in
the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for
“portfolio interest” under Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue Code,
(a) a duly executed certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is
not (i) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the
Internal Revenue Code, (ii) a ten-percent shareholder, within the meaning
of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code, of Company or (iii) a
controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Internal
Revenue Code and (b) properly completed and duly executed original copies of
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or
(4) properly
completed and duly executed original copies of any other form prescribed by
applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S.
federal withholding tax, together with such supplementary documentation as may
be prescribed by applicable law to permit Company and Administrative Agent to
determine the withholding or deduction required to be made, if any;
(c) without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Foreign Lender that does not act
or ceases to act for its own account with respect to any portion of any sums
paid or payable to such Lender under any of the Loan Documents (for example, in
the case of a typical participation by such Lender) shall deliver to
Administrative Agent and Company (in such number of original copies as shall be
requested by the recipient), on or prior to the date such Foreign Lender becomes
a Lender, or on such later date when such Foreign Lender ceases to act for its
own account with respect to any portion of any such sums paid or payable (and
from time to time thereafter, if reasonably requested by Company or
Administrative Agent):
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(1) any
duly executed and properly completed original copies of the forms and statements
required to be provided by such Foreign Lender under clause (c) of
this subsection 2.7B(iv), to establish the portion of any such sums paid or
payable with respect to which such Lender acts for its own account and may be
entitled to an exemption from or a reduction of U.S. federal withholding tax,
and
(2) original
copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY (or any successor forms)
properly completed and duly executed by such Foreign Lender, together with
information, if any, such Foreign Lender chooses to transmit with such form, and
any other certificate or statement of exemption required under the Internal
Revenue Code or the regulations thereunder, to establish that such Foreign
Lender is not acting for its own account with respect to a portion of any such
sums payable to such Foreign Lender and to establish that such remaining portion
may be received without deduction for, or at a reduced rate of, U.S. federal
withholding tax;
(d) without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, any Lender that is not a Foreign
Lender and has not otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of
Company and Administrative Agent that it is an exempt recipient (as defined in
Section 6049(b)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and the United States
Treasury Regulations thereunder) shall deliver to Company and Administrative
Agent (in such number of copies as shall be reasonably requested by the
recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under
this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter as prescribed by applicable law
or upon the reasonable request of Company or Administrative Agent), duly
executed and properly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service
Form W-9; and
(e) without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Lender hereby agrees, from time
to time after the initial delivery by such Lender of such forms, whenever a
lapse in time or change in such Lender’s circumstances renders such forms,
certificates or other evidence so delivered obsolete or inaccurate, that such
Lender shall promptly (1) deliver to Administrative Agent and Company two
original copies of renewals, amendments or additional or successor forms,
properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, together with any other
certificate or statement of exemption required in order to confirm or establish
such Lender’s status or that such Lender is entitled to an exemption from or
reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax with respect to payments to such
Lender under the Loan Documents and, if applicable, that such Lender does not
act for its own account with respect to any portion of such payment, or
(2) notify Administrative Agent and Company of its inability to deliver any
such forms, certificates or other evidence.
(v) Payment of Other Taxes by
Company. Without limiting the other provisions of this
subsection 2.7B, Company shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant
Government Authorities in accordance with applicable law.
C. Capital Adequacy
Adjustment. If any Lender shall have determined in good faith
that any Change in Law regarding capital adequacy has or would have the effect
of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation
controlling such Lender as a consequence of, or with reference to, such Lender’s
Loans or Commitments or Letters of Credit or participations therein or other
obligations hereunder with respect to the Loans or the Letters of Credit to a
level below that which such Lender or such controlling corporation could have
achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration the policies of
such Lender or such controlling corporation with regard to capital adequacy),
then from time to time, promptly (but in any case) within 10 Business Days after
receipt by Company from such Lender of the statement referred to in subsection
2.8A, Company shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or such controlling corporation on an after-tax basis for
such reduction.
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2.8
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Statement of Lenders;
Obligation of Lenders and Issuing Lenders to
Mitigate.
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A. Statements. Each
Lender claiming compensation or reimbursement pursuant to subsection 2.6D,
2.7A, 2.7C or 2.8B shall deliver to Company (with a copy to Administrative
Agent) a written statement setting forth in reasonable detail amounts actually
incurred that form the basis of the calculation of such compensation or
reimbursement but such Lender shall not be required to disclose any confidential
or proprietary information therein, which statement shall be conclusive and
binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest error.
B. Mitigation. Each
Lender and Issuing Lender agrees that, as promptly as practicable after the
officer of such Lender or Issuing Lender responsible for administering the Loans
or Letters of Credit of such Lender or Issuing Lender, as the case may be,
becomes aware of the occurrence of an event or the existence of a condition that
would cause such Lender to become an Affected Lender or that would entitle such
Lender or Issuing Lender to receive payments under subsection 2.7, it will
use reasonable efforts to make, issue, fund or maintain the Commitments of such
Lender or the Loans or Letters of Credit of such Lender or Issuing Lender
through another lending office or letter of credit office of such Lender or
Issuing Lender, if (i) as a result thereof the circumstances which would
cause such Lender to be an Affected Lender would cease to exist or the
additional amounts which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender
or Issuing Lender pursuant to subsection 2.7 would be materially reduced,
and (ii) as determined by such Lender or Issuing Lender in its reasonable
discretion, such action would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or
Issuing Lender; provided that such
Lender or Issuing Lender will not be obligated to utilize such other lending or
letter of credit office pursuant to this subsection 2.8B unless Company
agrees to pay all reasonable incremental expenses incurred by such Lender or
Issuing Lender as a result of utilizing such other lending or letter of credit
office as described above.
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2.9
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Replacement of a
Lender.
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If
Company receives a statement of amounts due pursuant to subsection 2.8A from a
Lender, a Revolving Lender defaults in its obligations to fund a Revolving Loan
pursuant to this Agreement, a Lender (a “Non-Consenting Lender”)
refuses to consent to an amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement
that, pursuant to subsection 10.6, requires consent of 100% of the Lenders or
100% of the Lenders with Obligations directly affected and which receives the
consent of Requisite Lenders or a Lender becomes an Affected Lender (any such
Lender, a “Subject
Lender”), so long as (i) no Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing and Company has obtained a commitment from another Lender or an
Eligible Assignee to purchase at par the Subject Lender’s Loans and assume the
Subject Lender’s Commitments and all other obligations of the Subject Lender
hereunder, (ii) such Lender is not an Issuing Lender with respect to any Letters
of Credit outstanding (unless all such Letters of Credit are terminated or
arrangements acceptable to such Issuing Lender (such as a “back-to-back” letter
of credit) are made) and (iii) if applicable, the Subject Lender is unwilling to
withdraw the notice delivered to Company pursuant to subsection 2.8A and/or is
unwilling to consent to such amendment, modification or waiver, and/or is
unwilling to remedy its default upon five Business Days’ prior written notice to
the Subject Lender and Administrative Agent, Company may either (x) with the
consent of the Requisite Lenders, pay in full all outstanding principal,
interest, fees and other amounts owed to any Non-Consenting Lender and terminate
the Commitment of such Non-Consenting Lender or (y) require the Subject Lender
to assign all of its Loans and Commitments to such other Lender, Lenders,
Eligible Assignee or Eligible Assignees pursuant to the provisions of subsection
10.1B; provided
that, prior to or concurrently with such replacement, (1) the Subject Lender
shall have received payment in full of all principal, interest, fees and other
amounts (including all amounts under subsections 2.6D, 2.7 and/or 2.8B (if
applicable)) through such date of replacement and a release from its obligations
under the Loan Documents, (2) the processing fee required to be paid by
subsection 10.1B(i) shall have been paid to Administrative Agent by Company or
such assignee, (3) all of the requirements for such assignment contained in
subsection 10.1B, including the consent of Administrative Agent (not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed) (if required) and the receipt by
Administrative Agent of an Assignment Agreement executed by the assignee
(Administrative Agent being hereby authorized to execute any Assignment
Agreement on behalf of a Subject Lender relating to the assignment of Loans
and/or Commitments of such subject Lender) and other supporting documents, have
been fulfilled, and (4) in the event such Subject Lender is a Non-Consenting
Lender, each assignee shall consent, at the time of such assignment, to each
matter in respect of which such Subject Lender was a Non-Consenting Lender and
Company also requires each other Subject Lender that is a Non-Consenting Lender
to assign its Loans and Commitments. For the avoidance of doubt, if a
Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender solely because it refused to consent to an
amendment, modification or waiver that required the consent of 100% of Lenders
with Obligations directly affected thereby (which amendment, modification or
waiver did not accordingly require the consent of 100% of all Lenders), the
Loans and Commitments of such Non-Consenting Lender that are subject to the
assignments required by this subsection 2.9 shall include only those Loans and
Commitments that constitute the Obligations directly affected by the amendment,
modification or waiver to which such Non-Consenting Lender refused to provide
its consent. A Lender that has assigned its Loans and Commitments
pursuant to this subsection 2.9 shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of
subsections 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 with respect to the periods during which such
Person was a Lender.
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Section
3. LETTERS
OF CREDIT
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3.1
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Issuance of Letters of
Credit and Lenders’ Purchase of Participations
Therein.
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A. Letters of
Credit. Company may request, in accordance with the provisions
of this subsection 3.1, from time to time during the period from the
Closing Date to but excluding the 10th day prior to the Revolving Loan
Commitment Termination Date, that one or more Revolving Lenders issue Letters of
Credit payable on a sight basis for the account of Company for the general
corporate purposes of Company or a Subsidiary of Company. Subject to
the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties of Company herein set forth, DB shall, and any
one or more Revolving Lenders may, but (except as provided in
subsection 3.1B(ii)) shall not be obligated to, issue such Letters of
Credit in accordance with the provisions of this subsection 3.1; provided that Company
shall not request that any Revolving Lender issue (and no Revolving Lender shall
issue):
(i) any Letter of
Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, the Total Utilization of
Revolving Loan Commitments would exceed the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount
then in effect;
(ii) any Letter of
Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, the Letter of Credit Usage
would exceed $3,000,000;
(iii) any Standby Letter
of Credit having an expiration date later than the earlier of (a) ten days
prior to the Revolving Loan Commitment Termination Date and (b) the date
which is one year from the date of issuance of such Standby Letter of Credit;
provided that
the immediately preceding clause (b) shall not prevent any Issuing Lender
from agreeing that a Standby Letter of Credit will automatically be extended for
one or more successive periods not to exceed one year each unless such Issuing
Lender elects not to extend for any such additional period; and provided, further, that such
Issuing Lender shall elect not to extend such Standby Letter of Credit if it has
knowledge that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and has not
been waived in accordance with subsection 10.6) at the time such Issuing
Lender must elect whether or not to allow such extension;
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(iv) any Standby Letter
of Credit issued for the purpose of supporting trade payables; or
(v) any Commercial
Letter of Credit having an expiration date (a) later than the earlier of
(1) the date which is 10 Business Days prior to the Revolving Loan Commitment
Termination Date and (2) the date which is 180 days from the date of
issuance of such Commercial Letter of Credit or (b) that is otherwise
unacceptable to the applicable Issuing Lender in its reasonable
discretion.
B. Mechanics of
Issuance.
(i) Request for
Issuance. Whenever Company desires the issuance of a Letter of
Credit, it shall deliver to Administrative Agent a Request for Issuance no later
than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) at least three Business Days (in the case
of Standby Letters of Credit) or five Business Days (in the case of Commercial
Letters of Credit), or in each case such shorter period as may be agreed to by
the Issuing Lender in any particular instance, in advance of the proposed date
of issuance. The Issuing Lender, in its reasonable discretion, may
require changes in the text of the proposed Letter of Credit or any documents
described in or attached to the Request for Issuance. In furtherance
of the provisions of subsection 10.8, and not in limitation thereof, Company may
submit Requests for Issuance by telefacsimile and Administrative Agent and
Issuing Lenders may rely and act upon any such Request for Issuance without
receiving an original signed copy thereof. No Letter of Credit shall
require payment against a conforming demand for payment to be made thereunder on
the same business day (under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the office of
the Issuing Lender to which such demand for payment is required to be presented
is located) on which such demand for payment is presented if such presentation
is made after 10:00 A.M. (in the time zone of such office of the Issuing Lender)
on such business day.
Company
shall notify the applicable Issuing Lender (and Administrative Agent, if
Administrative Agent is not such Issuing Lender) prior to the issuance of any
Letter of Credit in the event that any of the matters to which Company is
required to certify in the applicable Request for Issuance is no longer true and
correct as of the proposed date of issuance of such Letter of Credit, and upon
the issuance of any Letter of Credit Company shall be deemed to have
re-certified, as of the date of such issuance, as to the matters to which
Company is required to certify in the applicable Request for
Issuance.
(ii) Determination of Issuing
Lender. Upon receipt by Administrative Agent of a Request for
Issuance pursuant to subsection 3.1B(i) requesting the issuance of a Letter of
Credit, in the event Administrative Agent elects to issue such Letter of Credit,
Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify Company, and Administrative Agent
shall be the Issuing Lender with respect thereto. In the event that
Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, elects not to issue such Letter of
Credit, Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify Company, whereupon Company
may request any other Revolving Lender to issue such Letter of Credit by
delivering to such Revolving Lender a copy of the applicable Request for
Issuance. Any Revolving Lender so requested to issue such Letter of
Credit shall promptly notify Company and Administrative Agent whether or not, in
its sole discretion, it has elected to issue such Letter of Credit, and any such
Revolving Lender that so elects to issue such Letter of Credit shall be the
Issuing Lender with respect thereto. In the event that all other
Revolving Lenders shall have declined to issue such Letter of Credit,
notwithstanding the prior election of Administrative Agent not to issue such
Letter of Credit, Administrative Agent shall be obligated to issue such Letter
of Credit and shall be the Issuing Lender with respect thereto, notwithstanding
the fact that the Letter of Credit Usage with respect to such Letter of Credit
and with respect to all other Letters of Credit issued by Administrative Agent,
when aggregated with Administrative Agent’s outstanding Revolving Loans and
Swing Line Loans, may exceed the amount of Administrative Agent’s Revolving Loan
Commitment then in effect.
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(iii) Issuance of Letter of
Credit. Upon satisfaction or waiver (in accordance with
subsection 10.6) of the conditions set forth in subsection 4.3, the Issuing
Lender shall issue the requested Letter of Credit in accordance with the Issuing
Lender’s standard operating procedures.
(iv) Notification to Revolving
Lenders. Upon the issuance of or amendment to any Standby
Letter of Credit, the applicable Issuing Lender shall promptly notify
Administrative Agent and Company of such issuance or amendment in
writing. Upon receipt of such notice (or, if Administrative Agent is
the Issuing Lender, together with such notice), Administrative Agent shall
notify each Revolving Lender in writing of such issuance or amendment and the
amount of such Revolving Lender’s respective participation in such Standby
Letter of Credit or amendment, and, if so requested by a Revolving Lender,
Administrative Agent shall provide such Lender with a copy of such Letter of
Credit or amendment. In the case of Commercial Letters of Credit, in
the event that Issuing Lender is other than Administrative Agent, such Issuing
Lender will send by facsimile transmission to Administrative Agent, promptly
upon the first Business Day of each week, a report of its daily aggregate
maximum amount available for drawing under Commercial Letters of Credit for the
previous week. Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving
Lender in writing on a quarterly basis of the contents thereof.
C. Revolving Lenders’ Purchase of
Participations in Letters of Credit. Immediately upon the
issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and
hereby agrees to, have irrevocably purchased from the Issuing Lender a
participation in such Letter of Credit and any drawings honored thereunder in an
amount equal to such Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the maximum amount
that is or at any time may become available to be drawn thereunder
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3.2
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Letter of Credit
Fees.
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Company
agrees to pay the following amounts with respect to Letters of Credit issued
hereunder:
(i) with respect
to each Letter of Credit, (a) a fronting fee, payable directly to the
applicable Issuing Lender for its own account, equal to the greater of (X) $500
per annum and (Y) 0.125% per annum of the daily amount available to be
drawn under such Letter of Credit and (b) a letter of credit fee, payable
to Administrative Agent for the account of Issuing Lenders, equal to the
applicable Eurodollar Rate Margin for Revolving Loans plus, upon the
application of increased rates of interest pursuant to subsection 2.2E, 2% per
annum, multiplied by the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit, each such fronting fee or letter of credit fee to be payable in arrears
on and to (but excluding) the last Business Day of each of March, June,
September and December of each year and computed on the basis of a 360-day year
for the actual number of days elapsed; and
(ii) with respect
to the issuance, amendment or transfer of each Letter of Credit and each payment
of a drawing made thereunder (without duplication of the fees payable under
clause (i) above), documentary and processing charges payable directly to the
applicable Issuing Lender for its own account in accordance with such Issuing
Lender’s standard schedule for such charges in effect at the time of such
issuance, amendment, transfer or payment, as the case may be.
For
purposes of calculating any fees payable under clause (i) of this subsection
3.2, (1) the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit
shall be determined as of the close of business on any date of determination and
(2) any amount described in such clauses which is denominated in a currency
other than Dollars shall be valued based on the applicable Exchange Rate for
such currency as of the applicable date of determination (such date to be
determined at the discretion of Administration Agent and/or the applicable
Issuing Lender). Promptly upon receipt by Administrative Agent of any
amount described in clause (i)(b) of this subsection 3.2, Administrative Agent
shall distribute to each Issuing Lender its Pro Rata Share of such
amount.
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3.3
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Drawings and
Reimbursement of Amounts Paid Under Letters of
Credit.
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A. Responsibility of Issuing Lender with
Respect to Drawings. In determining whether to honor any
drawing under any Letter of Credit by the beneficiary thereof, the Issuing
Lender shall be responsible only to examine the documents delivered under such
Letter of Credit with reasonable care so as to ascertain whether they appear on
their face to be in accordance with the terms and conditions of such Letter of
Credit.
B. Reimbursement by Company of Amounts
Paid Under Letters of Credit. In the event an Issuing Lender
has determined to honor a drawing under a Letter of Credit issued by it, such
Issuing Lender shall immediately notify Company and Administrative Agent, and
Company shall reimburse such Issuing Lender on or before the Business Day
immediately following the receipt of such notice (the “Reimbursement Date”) in an
amount in Dollars (which amount, in the case of a payment under a Letter of
Credit which is denominated in a currency other than Dollars, shall be
calculated by reference to the applicable Exchange Rate thereof) or, at the
option of such Issuing Lender, in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in
a currency other than Dollars, in such other currency and in same day funds
equal to the amount of such payment; provided that,
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding,
(i) unless Company shall have notified Administrative Agent and such
Issuing Lender prior to 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the date such drawing
is honored that Company intends to reimburse such Issuing Lender for the amount
of such payment with funds other than the proceeds of Revolving Loans, Company
shall be deemed to have given a timely Notice of Borrowing to Administrative
Agent requesting Revolving Lenders to make Revolving Loans that are Base Rate
Loans on the Reimbursement Date in an amount in Dollars (which amount, in the
case of a payment under a Letter of Credit which is denominated in a currency
other than Dollars, shall be calculated by reference to the applicable Exchange
Rate thereof) equal to the amount of such payment and (ii) subject to
satisfaction or waiver of the conditions specified in subsection 4.2B,
Revolving Lenders shall, on the Reimbursement Date, make Revolving Loans that
are Base Rate Loans in the amount of such payment, the proceeds of which shall
be applied directly by Administrative Agent to reimburse such Issuing Lender for
the amount of such payment; and provided, further, that if for
any reason proceeds of Revolving Loans are not received by such Issuing Lender
on the Reimbursement Date in an amount equal to the amount of such payment,
Company shall reimburse such Issuing Lender, on demand, in an amount in same day
funds equal to the excess of the amount of such payment over the aggregate
amount of such Revolving Loans, if any, which are so
received. Nothing in this subsection 3.3B shall be deemed to
relieve any Revolving Lender from its obligation to make Revolving Loans on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and Company shall retain any
and all rights it may have against any Revolving Lender resulting from the
failure of such Revolving Lender to make such Revolving Loans under this
subsection 3.3B.
C. Payment by Lenders of Unreimbursed
Amounts Paid Under Letters of Credit.
(i) Payment by Revolving
Lenders. In the event that Company shall fail for any reason
to reimburse any Issuing Lender as provided in subsection 3.3B in an amount
(calculated, in the case of a payment under a Letter of Credit denominated in a
currency other than Dollars, by reference to the applicable Exchange Rate
thereof) equal to the amount of any payment by such Issuing Lender under a
Letter of Credit issued by it, such Issuing Lender shall promptly notify
Administrative Agent, who shall notify each other Revolving Lender of the
unreimbursed amount of such honored drawing and of such other Revolving Lender’s
respective participation therein based on such Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata
Share. Each Revolving Lender (other than such Issuing Lender) shall
make available to Administrative Agent an amount equal to its respective
participation, in Dollars and in same day funds, at the Funding and Payment
Account, not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the first Business
Day after the date notified by Administrative Agent, and Administrative Agent
shall make available to such Issuing Lender in Dollars in same day funds, at the
office of such Issuing Lender on such Business Day, the aggregate amount of the
participation payments so received by Administrative Agent. In the
event that any Revolving Lender fails to make available to Administrative Agent
on such Business Day the amount of such Revolving Lender’s participation in such
Letter of Credit as provided in this subsection 3.3C, such Issuing Lender shall
be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender together
with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate. Nothing in
this subsection 3.3C shall be deemed to prejudice the right of Administrative
Agent to recover, for the benefit of Revolving Lenders, from any Issuing Lender
any amounts made available to such Issuing Lender pursuant to this
subsection 3.3C in the event that it is determined by the final
non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction that the payment
with respect to a Letter of Credit by such Issuing Lender in respect of which
such participation payments were made by Revolving Lenders constituted gross
negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Issuing
Lender.
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(ii) Distribution to Lenders of
Reimbursements Received from Company. In the event any Issuing
Lender shall have been reimbursed by other Revolving Lenders pursuant to
subsection 3.3C(i) for all or any portion of any payment by such Issuing Lender
under a Letter of Credit issued by it, and Administrative Agent or such Issuing
Lender thereafter receives any payments from Company in reimbursement of such
payment under the Letter of Credit, to the extent any such payment is received
by such Issuing Lender, it shall promptly distribute such payment to
Administrative Agent, and Administrative Agent shall distribute to each other
Revolving Lender that has paid all amounts payable by it under subsection
3.3C(i) with respect to such payment such Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of
all payments subsequently received by Administrative Agent or by such Issuing
Lender from Company. Any such distribution shall be made to a
Revolving Lender at the account specified in subsection 2.4C(iii).
D. Interest on Amounts Paid Under
Letters of Credit.
(i) Payment of Interest by
Company. Company agrees to pay to Administrative Agent, with
respect to payments under any Letters of Credit issued by any Issuing Lender,
interest on the amount paid by such Issuing Lender in respect of each such
payment from the date a drawing is honored to but excluding the date such amount
is reimbursed by Company (including any such reimbursement out of the proceeds
of Revolving Loans pursuant to subsection 3.3B) at a rate equal to (a) for
the period from the date such drawing is honored to but excluding the
Reimbursement Date, the rate then in effect under this Agreement with respect to
Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans and (b) thereafter, a rate which
is 2% per annum in excess of the rate of interest otherwise payable under this
Agreement with respect to Revolving Loans that are Base Rate
Loans. Interest payable pursuant to this subsection 3.3D(i) shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual number of days elapsed in
the period during which it accrues and shall be payable on demand or, if no
demand is made, on the date on which the related drawing under a Letter of
Credit is reimbursed in full.
(ii) Distribution of Interest
Payments by Administrative Agent. Promptly upon receipt by
Administrative Agent of any payment of interest pursuant to subsection 3.3D(i)
with respect to a payment under a Letter of Credit, (a) Administrative
Agent shall distribute to (x) each Revolving Lender (including the
Revolving Lender that paid such drawing), out of the interest received by
Administrative Agent in respect of the period from the date such drawing is
honored to but excluding the date on which the applicable Issuing Lender is
reimbursed for the amount of such payment (including any such reimbursement out
of the proceeds of Revolving Loans pursuant to subsection 3.3B), the amount that
such Revolving Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the
letter of credit fee that would have been payable in respect of such Letter of
Credit for such period pursuant to subsection 3.2 if no drawing had been honored
under such Letter of Credit and (y) such Issuing Lender the amount, if any,
remaining after payment of the amounts applied pursuant to the immediately
preceding clause (x), and (b) in the event such Issuing Lender shall have
been reimbursed by other Revolving Lenders pursuant to subsection 3.3C(i) for
all or any portion of such payment, Administrative Agent shall distribute to
each Revolving Lender (including such Issuing Lender) that has paid all amounts
payable by it under subsection 3.3C(i) with respect to such payment such
Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any interest received by Administrative
Agent in respect of that portion of such payment so made by Revolving Lenders
for the period from the date on which such Issuing Lender was so reimbursed to
but excluding the date on which such portion of such payment is reimbursed by
Company. Any such distribution shall be made to a Revolving Lender at
the account specified in subsection 2.4C(iii).
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E. Cash
Collateralization. If Administrative Agent notifies Company at
any time that the Letter of Credit Usage at such time exceeds 100% of the
sublimit for Letters of Credit specified in subsection 3.1A(ii), then,
within five Business Days after receipt of such notice, Company shall deposit in
the Collateral Account established pursuant to the Security Agreement an amount
equal to the amount by which the Letter of Credit Usage exceeds such sublimit,
which amount shall constitute Collateral and be subject to the provisions of the
Security Agreement. At such time as the Letter of Credit Usage shall
be equal to or less than such sublimit, if no Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, such amount may, at the request of Company, be released to
Company.
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3.4
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Obligations
Absolute.
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The
obligation of Company to reimburse each Issuing Lender for payments under the
Letters of Credit issued by it and to repay any Revolving Loans made by
Revolving Lenders pursuant to subsection 3.3B and the obligations of
Revolving Lenders under subsection 3.3C(i) shall be unconditional and
irrevocable and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including any of the following
circumstances:
(i) any lack of
validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit;
(ii) the existence
of any claim, set-off, defense or other right which Company or any Lender may
have at any time against a beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit
(or any Persons for whom any such transferee may be acting), any Issuing Lender
or other Revolving Lender or any other Person or, in the case of a Revolving
Lender, against Company, whether in connection with this Agreement, the
transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transaction (including any
underlying transaction between Company or one of its Subsidiaries and the
beneficiary for which any Letter of Credit was procured);
(iii) any draft or other
document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent,
invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or
inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) payment by the
applicable Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit against presentation of a
draft or other document which does not substantially comply with the terms of
such Letter of Credit;
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(v) any adverse
change in the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or
otherwise) or prospects of Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vi) any breach of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document by any party thereto;
(vii) any other
circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing; or
(viii) the fact that an
Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing;
provided, in each
case, that payment by the applicable Issuing Lender under the applicable Letter
of Credit shall not have constituted gross negligence or willful misconduct of
such Issuing Lender under the circumstances in question (as determined by a
final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction).
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3.5
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Nature of Issuing
Lenders’ Duties.
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As
between Company and any Issuing Lender, Company assumes all risks of the acts
and omissions of, or misuse of the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing
Lender by, the respective beneficiaries of such Letters of Credit. In
furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, such Issuing Lender shall
not be responsible for: (i) the form, validity, sufficiency,
accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in
connection with the application for and issuance of any such Letter of Credit,
even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid,
insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged; (ii) the validity or
sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to
transfer or assign any such Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits
thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be
invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) failure of the beneficiary of
any such Letter of Credit to comply fully with any conditions required in order
to draw upon such Letter of Credit; (iv) errors, omissions, interruptions
or delays in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable,
telegraph, telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher; (v) errors
in interpretation of technical terms; (vi) any loss or delay in the
transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing
under any such Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; (vii) the
misapplication by the beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit of the proceeds
of any drawing under such Letter of Credit; or (viii) any consequences
arising from causes beyond the control of such Issuing Lender, including any act
or omission by a Government Authority, and none of the above shall affect or
impair, or prevent the vesting of, any of such Issuing Lender’s rights or powers
hereunder.
In
furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific provisions set
forth in the first paragraph of this subsection 3.5, any action taken or
omitted by any Issuing Lender under or in connection with the Letters of Credit
issued by it or any documents and certificates delivered thereunder, if taken or
omitted in good faith, shall not put such Issuing Lender under any resulting
liability to Company.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this subsection 3.5, Company shall
retain any and all rights it may have against any Issuing Lender for any
liability arising solely out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of
such Issuing Lender, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court
of competent jurisdiction.
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Section
4.
CONDITIONS TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
The
obligations of Lenders to make Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit
hereunder are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following
conditions.
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4.1
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Conditions to the
Initial Credit Extensions.
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The
obligations of Lenders to make the Term Loans on the Closing Date are, in
addition to the conditions precedent specified in subsection 4.2, subject
to prior or concurrent satisfaction or waiver of the following
conditions:
A. Loan Party
Documents. On or before the Closing Date, Company shall, and
shall cause each other Loan Party to, deliver to Administrative Agent the
following with respect to Company or such Loan Party, as the case may be, each,
unless otherwise noted, dated the Closing Date:
(i) Copies of the
Organizational Documents of such Person, certified by the Secretary of State of
its jurisdiction of organization or, if such document is of a type that may not
be so certified, certified by the secretary or similar Officer of the applicable
Loan Party, together with a good standing certificate from the Secretary of
State of its jurisdiction of organization, dated a recent date prior to the
Closing Date;
(ii) Resolutions
of the Governing Body of such Person approving and authorizing the execution,
delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, certified
as of the Closing Date by the secretary or similar officer of such Person as
being in full force and effect without modification or amendment;
(iii) Signature and incumbency
certificates of the Officers of such Person executing the Loan Documents to
which it is a party; and
(iv) Executed Loan
Documents to which such Person is to be a party on the Closing
Date.
B. Fees. Company shall
have paid to Administrative Agent the fees payable on the Closing Date referred
to in subsection 2.3.
C. Performance of
Agreements. Company shall have delivered to Administrative
Agent an Officer’s Certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Administrative Agent, to the effect that Company shall have performed in all
material respects all agreements and satisfied all conditions which this
Agreement provides shall be performed or satisfied by it on or before the
Closing Date.
D. Financial Statements;
Projections. Each Arranger and the Lenders shall have received
(1) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income and
cash flows of Target and its Subsidiaries (which (x) need not include any
information or notes not required by GAAP to be included in interim financial
statements and (y) are subject to normal year-end adjustments) for each Fiscal
Quarter of Target ended after December 31, 2006 and at least 45 days prior to
the Closing Date; (2) interim consolidated balance sheets and related
statements of income and cash flows of Target for each month ended after any
Fiscal Quarter ended after December 31, 2006 for which unaudited financial
statements are required to be delivered pursuant to clause (1) above and at
least 30 days prior to the Closing Date; (3) pro forma consolidated balance
sheets and related statements of income of Holdings and its Subsidiaries
(including Target) for the Fiscal Year ended 2006 and for any quarters ended
thereafter for which unaudited financial statements are required to be delivered
pursuant to clause (1) above, in each case prepared as if the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement had been consummated on the last day of the
respective period (in the case of balance sheets) or on the first day of the
respective period (in the case of income statements) covered thereby; and (4)
detailed projected consolidated financial statements of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries for the eight Fiscal Years ended after the Closing Date, which
projections shall (x) reflect the forecasted consolidated financial condition of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries (and, applicable, of Company and its
Subsidiaries), after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the related financing thereof and (y) be prepared and approved by
Target.
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X. Xxxxxxxx of Counsel to Loan
Parties. Lenders shall have received copies of one or more
written opinions of Xxxxxxx Procter LLP, counsel for the domestic Loan Parties,
dated as of the Closing Date and setting forth substantially the matters in the
opinions designated in Exhibit IX
annexed hereto (this Agreement constituting a written request by Company to such
counsel to deliver such opinions to Lenders) and one or more written opinions of
foreign counsel in the jurisdictions set forth on Schedule 4.1 in form
reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent.
F. Solvency
Certificates. On the Closing Date, Administrative Agent and
Lenders shall have received an Officer’s Certificate from the chief financial
officer of Company dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit XI
annexed hereto.
G. Evidence of
Insurance. Administrative Agent shall have received a
certificate from Company’s insurance broker or other evidence reasonably
satisfactory to it of Company’s insurance.
H. Equity Contributions and
Commitments. Holdings shall have received directly or
indirectly from the Investors the full amount of the Equity
Contributions. The preferred stock certificate of designations
substantially in the form of Exhibit XV annexed
hereto shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been amended or
otherwise modified.
I. Security Interests in Personal and
Mixed Property. Company shall have caused the following
actions to be taken:
(i) Stock Certificates and
Instruments. Delivery to Collateral Agent of
(a) certificates, if any (which certificates shall be accompanied by
irrevocable undated stock powers, duly endorsed in blank), representing all
certificated Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement and, to
the extent required to be delivered thereunder, any Foreign Pledge Agreement and
(b) all promissory notes or other instruments (duly endorsed, where
appropriate) evidencing any Collateral and required to be delivered under the
Security Agreement;
(ii) Lien Searches and UCC
Termination Statements. Delivery to Administrative Agent of
(a) the results of UCC financing statements and fixture filings and
judgment and tax lien filings required by Administrative Agent and (b) duly
completed UCC termination statements requested by Administrative
Agent;
(iii) UCC Financing
Statements. Delivery to Administrative Agent of duly completed
UCC financing statements in appropriate form with respect to each Loan
Party;
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(iv) Intellectual Property
Filings, etc. Delivery to Administrative Agent of all
documents or instruments to be filed with any IP Filing Office requested by
Administrative Agent in order to create or perfect Liens in respect of any IP
Collateral, together with releases duly executed (if necessary) of security
interests by all applicable Persons for filing in all applicable jurisdictions
as may be requested by Administrative Agent in order to terminate any effective
filings in any IP Filing Office in respect of any IP Collateral;
and
(v) Security Agreement
Documents. Delivery to Administrative Agent of all other
documents required to be delivered pursuant to the Security
Agreement.
J. Matters Relating to Existing
Indebtedness of Company and Its Subsidiaries. On the Closing
Date substantially concurrent with the borrowing of the initial Term Loans
hereunder, Holdings, Company and its Subsidiaries shall have (a) repaid in full
all Existing Indebtedness to Be Repaid, (b) terminated any commitments to lend
or make other extensions of credit thereunder and (c) delivered to
Administrative Agent all documents or instruments reasonably requested by
Administrative Agent in order to release all Liens securing Indebtedness or
other obligations of Company and its Subsidiaries thereunder. The
terms and conditions of any Indebtedness remaining outstanding after the Closing
Date shall be reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent.
K. Related Agreements and Merger
Documents. Administrative Agent shall have received (or there
shall be arrangements satisfactory for Administrative Agent to receive) a fully
executed or conformed copy of each Related Agreement and each Merger Document
and any documents executed in connection therewith requested by Administrative
Agent, and each Related Agreement and Merger Document shall be in full force and
effect and no provision thereof shall have been altered, amended or otherwise
changed or supplemented or any condition therein waived or consent therein given
if such alteration, amendment, change, supplement, waiver or consent would be
adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect, in any such
case without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent (such consent not
to be unreasonably withheld).
L. Consummation
of Acquisition and Merger.
(i) Since
December 31, 2006, there shall have not occurred any event, condition or
circumstance that, either individually or in the aggregate, has had, or would
reasonably be expected to have, a Merger MAC;
(ii) On the Closing
Date, the Merger shall have become effective in accordance with the terms of the
Merger Agreement, the Certificate of Merger and the laws of the State of
Delaware; and
(iii) Administrative
Agent shall have received an Officer’s Certificate of Company to the effect set
forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above.
M. Second Lien Credit Agreement and
Intercreditor Agreement. Concurrently with the initial
borrowings hereunder, the Second Lien Credit Agreement and the Intercreditor
Agreement shall be fully executed and delivered, and not less than $65,000,000
shall be borrowed under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, to be applied, along
with the proceeds of the Loans hereunder and the Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness, to fund the Acquisition Financing Requirements.
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N. Holdings Senior PIK Loan Credit
Agreement. Concurrently with the initial borrowings hereunder,
the Holdings Senior PIK Loan Credit Agreement shall be fully executed and
delivered, and not less than $75,000,000 shall be borrowed under the Holdings
Senior PIK Credit Agreement in cash, to be applied, along with the proceeds of
the Loans hereunder and the Second Lien Indebtedness, to fund the Acquisition
Financing Requirements.
O. Patriot Act
Compliance. Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have
received all documentation and other information reasonably requested by them
under the applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and
regulations, including the Patriot Act.
P. Margin
Regulations. All extensions of credit pursuant to this
Agreement (and all guaranties thereof and security therefor), as well as the
other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the consummation thereof,
shall be in compliance with all applicable requirements of law, including
Regulations T, U and X of the Federal Reserve Board.
Q. Ratings. Company
shall have used commercially reasonably efforts to obtain from each of S&P
and Xxxxx’x monitored public ratings (of any level) for the Loans and the Second
Lien Indebtedness and the Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness and Company’s and
Holdings’ corporate credit.
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4.2
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Conditions to All
Loans.
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The
obligation of each Lender to make its Loans on each Funding Date is subject to
the following further conditions precedent:
A. Administrative
Agent shall have received before that Funding Date, in accordance with the
provisions of subsection 2.1B, a duly executed Notice of Borrowing, in each case
signed by a duly authorized Officer of Company.
B. As
of that Funding Date:
(i) if the
Funding Date is the Funding Date of the initial Loans, (a) the Specified
Representations shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that
any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or
“Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as
of that Funding Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that date,
except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to
an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have
been true and correct in all material respects (except that any representation
and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect”
shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of such earlier date and
(b) the representations made by or with respect to the Target in the Merger
Agreement that are material to the interests of the Lenders are true and correct
in all material respects (except that any representation and warranty that is
qualified as to “materiality” or “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall be true
and correct in all respects) as of the date of the Merger Agreement (except to
the extent such representations and warranties speak as of an earlier date, in
which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct
in all material respects (except that any representation and warranty that is
qualified as to “materiality” or “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall be true
and correct in all respects) on and as of such earlier date) and as of the
Closing Date, as though made on and as of the Closing Date;
(ii) if the
Funding Date is the Funding Date of Loans other than the initial Loans, the
representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Loan Documents
shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that any
representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or “Material
Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of that
Funding Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that date, except to
the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier
date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and
correct in all material respects (except that any representation and warranty
that is qualified as to “materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect” shall be true
and correct in all respects) on and as of such earlier date; and
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(iii) no
event shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the
consummation of the borrowing contemplated by such Notice of Borrowing that
would constitute an Event of Default or a Potential Event of
Default.
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4.3
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Conditions to Letters
of Credit.
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The
issuance of any Letter of Credit hereunder (whether or not the applicable
Issuing Lender is obligated to issue such Letter of Credit) is subject to the
following conditions precedent:
A. On
or before the date of issuance of the initial Letter of Credit pursuant to this
Agreement, the initial Loans shall have been made and the conditions to the
initial Loans set forth in subsection 4.1 shall have been satisfied or
waived.
B. On
or before the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit, Administrative Agent
shall have received, in accordance with the provisions of
subsection 3.1B(i), an originally executed Request for Issuance (or a
facsimile copy thereof) in each case signed by a duly authorized Officer of
Company, together with all other information specified in
subsection 3.1B(i) and such other documents or information as the
applicable Issuing Lender may reasonably require in connection with the issuance
of such Letter of Credit.
C. On
the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit, all conditions precedent
described in subsection 4.2B shall be satisfied to the same extent as if
the issuance of such Letter of Credit were the making of a Loan and the date of
issuance of such Letter of Credit were a Funding Date.
Section
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
In order
to induce Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans, to induce
Issuing Lenders to issue Letters of Credit and to induce Revolving Lenders to
purchase participations therein, each of Holdings and Company represent and
warrant to each Lender:
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5.1
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Organization, Powers,
Corporate Structure, Qualification, Good Standing, Business and
Subsidiaries.
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A. Organization, Powers and Corporate
Structure. (i) Each of Company and Holdings is a corporation
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
State of Delaware. Company and Holdings have all requisite power and
authority to own and operate their respective properties and to carry on their
business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, except to the extent
the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect. Company and Holdings have all requisite corporate
power and authority to enter into the Loan Documents and the Related Agreements
to which they are a party and to carry out the transactions contemplated
thereby. (ii) As of the Closing Date, the corporate organizational
structure of Holdings, Company and their Subsidiaries after giving effect to the
Merger is set forth on Schedule
5.1.
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B. Qualification and Good
Standing. Holdings and Company are qualified to do business
and in good standing in every jurisdiction wherever necessary to carry out their
business and operations, except in jurisdictions where the failure to be so
qualified or in good standing has not had and could not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
C. Conduct of
Business. Holdings, Company and their Subsidiaries are engaged
only in the businesses permitted to be engaged in pursuant to
subsection 7.9.
D. Subsidiaries. All
of the Subsidiaries of Company and their jurisdictions of organization are
identified in Schedule 5.1
annexed hereto, as said Schedule 5.1 may be
supplemented from time to time pursuant to the provisions of
subsection 6.1(xii). The Capital Stock of each of the
Subsidiaries of Company identified in Schedule 5.1
annexed hereto (as so supplemented) is duly authorized, validly issued and does
not constitute Margin Stock. No material assessment with respect to
any Capital Stock owned by any Loan Party is outstanding that has not been
disclosed to Administrative Agent. Each of the Subsidiaries of
Company identified in Schedule 5.1
annexed hereto (as so supplemented) is a corporation, partnership, trust or
limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of organization set forth therein,
has all requisite power and authority to own and operate its properties and to
carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, and is
qualified to do business and in good standing in every jurisdiction where its
assets are located and wherever necessary to carry out its business and
operations, in each case except where failure to be so qualified or in good
standing or a lack of such power and authority has not had and could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 5.1
annexed hereto (as so supplemented) correctly sets forth the ownership interest
of Company and each of its Subsidiaries in each of the Subsidiaries of Company
identified therein.
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5.2
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Authorization of
Borrowing, Etc.
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A. Authorization of
Borrowing. The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents and the Related Agreements have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate, partnership or limited liability action on the part of each Loan
Party that is a party thereto.
B. No Conflict. The
execution, delivery and performance by Loan Parties of the Loan Documents and
the Related Agreements to which they are parties and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and the Related Agreements do
not and will not (i) violate any provision of any law or any governmental
rule or regulation applicable to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, any
Contractual Obligations or the Organizational Documents of Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries or any order, judgment or decree of any court or other
Government Authority binding on Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries,
(ii) conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute (with due notice or
lapse of time or both) a default under any Contractual Obligation of Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) result in or require the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of Holdings or any
of its Subsidiaries (other than any Liens created under any of the Loan
Documents in favor of Collateral Agent on behalf of Secured Parties and Liens
created pursuant to the Second Lien Credit Agreement securing Second Lien
Indebtedness), or (iv) require any approval of stockholders or any approval
or consent of any Person under any Contractual Obligation of Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries, except for such approvals or consents which will be obtained
on or before the Closing Date and except, in the case of clauses (i) through
(iv), to the extent such violation, conflict, Lien or failure to obtain such
approval or consent could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
C. Governmental
Consents. The execution, delivery and performance by Loan
Parties of the Loan Documents and the Related Agreements to which they are
parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents and the Related Agreements do not and will not require any
Governmental Authorization, except as have been obtained or where the failure to
obtain could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
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D. Binding
Obligation. Each of the Loan Documents and the Related
Agreements has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is a
party thereto and is the legally valid and binding obligation of such Person,
enforceable against such Person in accordance with its respective terms, except
as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable
principles relating to enforceability.
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5.3
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Financial
Condition.
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Company
has heretofore delivered to Lenders, at Lenders’ request, (i) the unaudited
consolidated balance sheet of Company and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year
ended 2006 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income,
stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for such
Fiscal Year, (ii) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of Company and its
Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Quarters ended March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31, 2006, and the related unaudited consolidated statements of
income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for
each such Fiscal Quarter, and (iii) the other financial statements and
information described in subsection 4.1D. All such statements
consisting of historical financial information were prepared in conformity with
GAAP and fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position (on a
consolidated basis) of the entities described in such financial statements as at
the respective dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows (on a
consolidated basis) of the entities described therein for each of the periods
then ended, subject, in the case of any such unaudited financial statements, to
changes resulting from audit and normal year-end adjustments. Except
as described on Schedule 5.3, as of
the Closing Date, Company and its Subsidiaries have no material liabilities or
monetary obligations which are not described on the latest of such historical
financial statements.
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5.4
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No Material Adverse
Change.
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Since the
later of December 31, 2006 and the last day of the most recent Fiscal Year for
which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to subsection 6.1(iii),
no event or change has occurred that has resulted in or would reasonably be
expected to result in either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
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5.5
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Title to Properties;
Liens; Real Property; Intellectual
Property.
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A. Title to Properties;
Liens. Holdings and its Subsidiaries (i) have good,
sufficient and legal title to (in the case of fee interests in real property),
(ii) have valid leasehold interests in (in the case of leasehold interests
in real or personal property), or (iii) own or have rights in (in the case
of all other personal property), all of their respective material properties and
assets, except for Permitted Encumbrances or other defects therein which do not
have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as permitted by this
Agreement, all such properties and assets useful in business are free and clear
of Liens other than Permitted Encumbrances.
B. Real Property. As
of the Closing Date, Schedule 5.5B annexed
hereto contains a true, accurate and complete list of (i) all fee interests
in any Real Property Assets and (ii) all leases, subleases or assignments
of leases (together with all amendments, modifications, supplements, renewals or
extensions of any thereof) affecting each Real Property Asset, regardless of
whether a Loan Party is the landlord or tenant (whether directly or as an
assignee or successor in interest) under such lease, sublease or
assignment. Except as specified in Schedule 5.5B
annexed hereto as of the Closing Date, each agreement listed in clause (ii) of
the immediately preceding sentence is in full force and effect and neither
Holdings nor Company has knowledge of any monetary or material non-monetary
default that has occurred and is continuing thereunder, and each such agreement
constitutes the legally valid and binding obligation of each applicable Loan
Party, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except
as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally
or by equitable principles.
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C. Intellectual
Property. As of the Closing Date, Holdings and its
Subsidiaries own or have the right to use all Intellectual Property used in the
conduct of their business as currently conducted, except where the failure to
own or have such right to use in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No claim has been asserted in
writing and is pending by any Person against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries
challenging or questioning the use of any such Intellectual Property or the
validity of any such Intellectual Property, except for such claims that in the
aggregate could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. To the knowledge of Holdings or Company, the use of such
Intellectual Property by Holdings and its Subsidiaries does not infringe on the
rights of any Person, except for such infringements that, in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect
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5.6
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Litigation; Adverse
Facts.
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There are
no Proceedings (whether or not purportedly on behalf of Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries) at law or in equity, or before or by any court or other Government
Authority (including any Environmental Claims) that are pending or, to the
knowledge of Holdings or Company, threatened against or affecting Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or Company, any
property of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries and that, individually or in the
aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) is in
violation of any applicable laws (including Environmental Laws) that,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) is subject to or in default with respect
to any final judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, rules or regulations of any
court or other Government Authority that, individually or in the aggregate,
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
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5.7
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Payment of
Taxes.
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A. Except
as specified in Schedule 5.7A annexed
hereto, as of the Closing Date (i) all Tax returns of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries required to be filed by any of them have been timely filed, and all
Taxes shown on such Tax returns to be due and payable and all other Taxes that
are due and payable by Holdings and its Subsidiaries have been timely paid, and
Holdings and its Subsidiaries have made adequate provisions in accordance with
GAAP for taxes not yet due and payable, except for those failures to do any of
the foregoing which could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the
aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) there are no proposed Tax
assessments against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be
expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect;
and (iii) Holdings and its Subsidiaries have complied with all their withholding
Tax obligations, except for those failures to do so which could not reasonably
be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
B. Neither
Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries has ever been a party to any understanding
or arrangement constituting a “tax shelter” within the meaning of Section
6662(d)(2)(C)(iii) of the Internal Revenue Code or within the meaning of Section
6111(c) or Section 6111(d) of the Internal Revenue Code as in effect immediately
prior to the enactment of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, or has ever
“participated” in a “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Treasury
Regulation Section 1.6011-4, except as could not reasonably be expected,
individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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5.8
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Governmental
Regulation.
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Neither
Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to regulation under the
Investment Company Act of 1940 or under any other federal or state statute or
regulation which may render all or any portion of the Obligations
unenforceable.
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5.9
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Securities
Activities.
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Neither
Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its
important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock.
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5.10
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Employee Benefit
Plans.
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A. Holdings,
each of its Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates are in
compliance with all applicable provisions and requirements of ERISA and the
regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to each
Employee Benefit Plan, and have performed all their obligations under each
Employee Benefit Plan, except in each case for failures which could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each
Employee Benefit Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code has received a determination letter from the Internal
Revenue Service that the plan is so qualified, and to Holdings’ and Company’s
knowledge the plan has not been operated in any way that would result in the
plan no longer being so qualified, except in each case where failures could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
B. No
ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken
together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably
expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
C. The
accumulated postretirement benefit obligation of health and welfare benefits for
retired and former employees of Holdings, its Subsidiaries and any of their
ERISA Affiliates, as defined by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106,
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
D. As
of the most recent valuation date for any Pension Plan, the amount of unfunded
benefit liabilities (as defined in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA), individually
or in the aggregate for all Pension Plans (excluding for purposes of such
computation any Pension Plans with respect to which assets exceed benefit
liabilities), could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
E. As
of the Closing Date neither Holdings, its Subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA
Affiliates contribute to, or within the past six years has been obligated to
contribute to, any Multiemployer Plan. Neither Holdings, its
Subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has any potential liability for
withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan within the meaning of Section 4203 of ERISA
that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
F. Except
as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, as
of the date hereof, Holdings and its Subsidiaries have made full payment when
due of all required contributions to any Foreign Plan.
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5.11
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Certain
Fees.
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No
broker’s or finder’s fee or commission will be payable with respect to this
Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby.
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5.12
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Environmental
Compliance.
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(i) Neither
Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any of their respective Facilities or
operations is subject to any outstanding written order, consent decree or
settlement agreement with any Person relating to (a) any Environmental Law,
(b) any Environmental Claim, or (c) any Hazardous Materials Activity
that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) Neither
Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any letter or request for
information under Section 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. § 9604) or any comparable state
law that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect;
(iii) There are and, to
Holdings’ or Company’s knowledge, have been no conditions, occurrences, or
Hazardous Materials Activities that could reasonably be expected to form the
basis of an Environmental Claim against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries
that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect;
(iv) Neither Holdings
nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to Holdings’ or Company’s knowledge, any
predecessor of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries has filed any notice under
any Environmental Law indicating material Hazardous Materials treatment activity
at any Facility that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect; and
(v) Compliance
with all current Environmental Laws would not, individually or in the aggregate,
be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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5.13
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Employee
Matters.
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There is
no strike or work stoppage in existence or, to the knowledge of Holdings or
Company, threatened involving Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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5.14
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Solvency.
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Holdings
and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis are and, upon the incurrence of any
Obligations by any Loan Party on any date on which this representation is made,
will be, Solvent.
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5.15
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Matters Relating to
Collateral.
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A. Governmental
Authorizations. No authorization, approval or other action by,
and no notice to or filing with, any Government Authority is required for either
(i) the pledge or grant by any Loan Party of the Liens purported to be
created in favor of Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
pursuant to any of the Collateral Documents or (ii) the exercise by
Collateral Agent of any rights or remedies in respect of any Collateral (whether
specifically granted or created pursuant to any of the Collateral Documents or
created or provided for by applicable law), except for filings or recordings
contemplated by the Collateral Documents, as may be required, in connection with
the disposition of any Collateral, by laws generally affecting the offering and
sale of securities and foreclosure of mortgages of real property and the
realization of rights to and remedies under security interests.
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B. Margin
Regulations. The pledge of the Collateral pursuant to the
Collateral Documents does not violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
C. Mortgages. Each
Mortgage, if any, is effective to create, in favor of Collateral Agent, for its
benefit and the benefit of the Secured Parties, legal, valid and enforceable
First Priority Liens on, and security interests in, all of the Loan Parties’
right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged Properties thereunder and the
proceeds thereof and such Mortgage constitutes a fully perfected First Priority
Lien on, and First Priority security interest in, all right, title and interest
of the Loan Parties in such Mortgaged Property and the proceeds
thereof.
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5.16
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Disclosure.
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No
representation or warranty made by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in the
Confidential Information Memorandum, in any Loan Document or in any other
document, certificate or written statement furnished to Lenders by Holdings or
any of it Subsidiaries, or on behalf of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries by
any of their agents, for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, when taken as a whole, and excluding any projected financial
information or general industry data, contains any untrue statement of a
material fact or omits to state a material fact (known to Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries, in the case of any document not furnished by it) necessary in
order to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light
of the circumstances in which the same were made. Any projections and
pro forma financial information contained in such materials are based upon good
faith estimates and assumptions believed by Company to be reasonable at the time
made, it being recognized by Lenders that such projections as to future events
are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or
periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected
results.
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5.17
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Related
Agreements.
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A. Delivery. Company
has delivered to Administrative Agent complete and correct copies of the Second
Lien Credit Agreement and the Holdings Senior PIK Loan Credit Agreement, all
exhibits and schedules thereto as of the date hereof, and all “Loan Documents”
as defined therein.
B. Representations and
Warranties. Except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth
herein or in the schedules hereto, and subject to the qualifications set forth
therein, each of the representations and warranties given by any Loan Party in
the Second Lien Credit Agreement or the Holdings Senior PIK Loan Credit
Agreement is true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date
(or as of any earlier date to which such representation and warranty
specifically relates).
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5.18
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Insurance.
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Schedule 5.18
sets forth a true, complete and correct description of all insurance maintained
by Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date. All
insurance maintained by Holdings and its Subsidiaries is in full force and
effect, all premiums have been duly paid, neither Holdings nor any of its
Subsidiaries has received notice of violation or cancellation thereof, the
Premises, and the use, occupancy and operation thereof, comply in all material
respects with all Insurance Requirements, and there exists no material default
under any Insurance Requirement. Each of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries has insurance in such amounts and covering such risks and
liabilities as are customary for companies of a similar size engaged in similar
businesses in similar locations.
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5.19
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Use of
Proceeds.
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A. Term Loans. The
proceeds of the Term Loans shall be applied by Company to fund in part the
Acquisition Financing Requirements.
B. Revolving Loans; Swing Line
Loans. No Revolving Loans will be available to Company on the
Closing Date to fund the Acquisition Financing Requirements. After
the Closing Date, the proceeds of any Revolving Loans and any Swing Line Loans
shall be applied by Company for working capital, Permitted Acquisitions, capital
expenditures and other general corporate purposes, which may include the making
of intercompany loans to any of Company’s Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, in
accordance with subsection 7.1(iii), for their own general corporate
purposes.
Section
6. COMPANY’S AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
Holdings
and Company covenant and agree that, so long as any of the Commitments hereunder
shall remain in effect and until payment in full of all of the Loans and other
Obligations (other than Unasserted Obligations) and the cancellation or
expiration of all Letters of Credit, unless Requisite Lenders shall otherwise
give prior written consent, Holdings and Company shall perform, and shall cause
each of their Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this
Section 6.
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6.1
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Financial Statements
and Other Reports.
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Holdings
will maintain, and will cause its Subsidiaries to maintain, a system of
accounting established and administered in accordance with sound business
practices to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with
GAAP. Company will deliver (which delivery, subject to subsection
10.8, may be made electronically) to Administrative Agent (which Administrative
Agent shall promptly distribute to the Lenders):
(i) Events of Default,
etc.: promptly upon any Officer of Company obtaining knowledge
(a) of any condition or event that constitutes an Event of Default or
Potential Event of Default, or becoming aware that any Lender has given any
notice (other than to Administrative Agent) or taken any other action with
respect to a claimed Event of Default or Potential Event of Default,
(b) that any Person has given any notice to Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries or taken any other action with respect to a claimed default or
event or condition of the type referred to in subsection 8.2, or
(c) of the occurrence of any event or change that has caused or evidences,
either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, an Officer’s
Certificate specifying the nature and period of existence of such condition,
event or change, or specifying the notice given or action taken by any such
Person and the nature of such claimed Event of Default, Potential Event of
Default, default, event or condition, and what action Company has taken, is
taking and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(ii) Quarterly
Financials: as soon as available and in any event within 45
days after the end of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters, (a) the
consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of
such Fiscal Quarter and the related consolidated statements of income,
stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such
Fiscal Quarter and for the period from the beginning of the then current Fiscal
Year to the end of such Fiscal Quarter, setting forth in each case in
comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the
previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding figures from the Financial Plan for
the current Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and certified by the chief
financial officer of Company that they fairly present, in all material respects,
the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the dates
indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the
periods indicated, subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end
adjustments, and (b) a written analysis or narrative report describing the
operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in form reasonably satisfactory to
Administrative Agent and for the period from the beginning of the then current
Fiscal Year to the end of such Fiscal Quarter;
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(iii) Year-End
Financials: as soon as available but in any event no later
than 105 days after the end of such Fiscal Year, (a) the consolidated
balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year
and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash
flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in
each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the previous Fiscal
Year and the corresponding figures from the Financial Plan for the Fiscal Year
covered by such financial statements, all in reasonable detail and certified by
the chief financial officer of Company that they fairly present, in all material
respects, the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the
dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the
periods indicated, (b) a written analysis or narrative report describing
the operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in form reasonably satisfactory
to Administrative Agent, and (c) in the case of such consolidated financial
statements, a report thereon of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent
certified public accountants of recognized national standing selected by
Holdings, which report shall be unqualified, shall express no doubts,
assumptions or qualifications concerning the ability of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries to continue as a going concern, and shall state that such
consolidated financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the
consolidated financial position of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the dates
indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the
periods indicated in conformity with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with
prior years (except as otherwise disclosed in such financial statements) and
that the examination by such accountants in connection with such consolidated
financial statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted
auditing standards;
(iv) Pricing and Compliance
Certificates: together with each delivery of financial
statements pursuant to subdivisions (ii) and (iii) above, (a) an
Officer’s Certificate of Company stating that the signers have reviewed the
terms of this Agreement and have made, or caused to be made under their
supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and condition of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by such
financial statements and that such review has not disclosed the existence during
or at the end of such accounting period, and that the signers do not have
knowledge of the existence as at the date of such Officer’s Certificate, of any
condition or event that constitutes an Event of Default or Potential Event of
Default, or, if any such condition or event existed or exists, specifying the
nature and period of existence thereof and what action Company has taken, is
taking and proposes to take with respect thereto; and (b) a Compliance
Certificate demonstrating in reasonable detail compliance during and at the end
of the applicable accounting periods with the restrictions contained in
Section 7; in addition, on or before the 45th day following the end of each
Fiscal Quarter, a Pricing Certificate demonstrating in reasonable detail the
calculation of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of the four-Fiscal
Quarter period then ended;
(v) Accountants’
Certification: together with each delivery of consolidated
financial statements pursuant to subdivision (iii) above, a written
statement by the independent certified public accountants giving the report
thereon (a) stating that their audit examination has included a review of
the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as they relate to
accounting matters, (b) stating whether, in connection with their audit
examination, any condition or event that constitutes an Event of Default or
Potential Event of Default under subsections 7.5 or 7.7, insofar as such Event
of Default or Potential Event of Default relates to accounting matters, has come
to their attention and, if such a condition or event has come to their
attention, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof; provided that such
accountants shall not be liable by reason of any failure to obtain knowledge of
any such Event of Default or Potential Event of Default that would not be
disclosed in the normal course of their audit examination and such statements
may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines, and
(c) stating that based on their audit examination nothing has come to their
attention that causes them to believe either or both that the information
contained in the certificates delivered therewith pursuant to subdivision
(iv) above is not correct or that the matters set forth in the Compliance
Certificates delivered therewith pursuant to clause (b) of subdivision
(iv) above for the applicable Fiscal Year are not stated in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement;
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(vi) Accountants’
Reports: promptly upon receipt thereof (unless restricted by
applicable professional standards), copies of all final reports submitted to
Holdings or its Subsidiaries by independent certified public accountants in
connection with each material, interim or special audit of the financial
statements of Holdings and its Subsidiaries made by such accountants, including
any final comment letter submitted by such accountants to management in
connection with their annual audit;
(vii) SEC Filings and Press
Releases: At any time after consummation of an IPO, promptly
upon their becoming available, copies of (a) all financial statements,
reports, notices and proxy statements sent or made available generally by
Holdings to its security holders or by any Subsidiary of Holdings to its
security holders other than Holdings or another Subsidiary of Holdings,
(b) all regular and periodic reports and all registration statements (other
than on Form S-8 or a similar form) and prospectuses, if any, filed by Holdings
or any of its Subsidiaries with any securities exchange or with the Securities
and Exchange Commission or any governmental or private regulatory authority, and
(c) all press releases and other statements made available generally by
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to the public concerning material
developments in the business of Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(viii) Litigation or Other
Proceedings: promptly upon any Officer of Company obtaining
knowledge of (1) the institution of, or written threat of, any Proceeding
against or affecting Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or any property of
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries not previously disclosed in writing by
Holdings to Lenders or (2) any material development in any Proceeding that, in
any case:
(x) if adversely
determined, has a reasonable possibility after giving effect to the coverage and
policy limits of insurance policies issued to Holdings and its Subsidiaries of
giving rise to a Material Adverse Effect; or
(y) seeks
to enjoin or otherwise prevent the consummation of, or to recover any damages or
obtain relief as a result of, the Acquisition, the making of the Loans
hereunder, under the Second Lien Credit Agreement or the Holdings Senior PIK
Credit Agreement, or the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby;
written
notice thereof together with such other information as may be reasonably
available to Company to enable Lenders and their counsel to evaluate such
matters;
(ix) ERISA
Events: Promptly upon (and in no case later than five Business
Days after becoming aware of) the occurrence of or forthcoming occurrence of any
ERISA Event that, alone, or together with any other ERISA Events, could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, a written notice
specifying the nature thereof, what action Company, any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their respective ERISA Affiliates has taken, is taking or proposes to
take with respect thereto and, when known, any action taken or threatened by the
Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or the PBGC with respect
thereto;
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(x) ERISA
Notices: with reasonable promptness, copies of such documents
or governmental reports or filings relating to any Employee Benefit Plan as
Administrative Agent shall reasonably request;
(xi) Financial
Plans: as soon as practicable and in any event no later than
45 days after the beginning of each Fiscal Year, a consolidated plan and
financial forecast for such Fiscal Year (the “Financial Plan” for such
Fiscal Year), including (a) a forecasted consolidated balance sheet and
forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year and (b) forecasted consolidated statements of
income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for each Fiscal Quarter
of such Fiscal Year, together with an explanation of the assumptions on which
such forecasts are based;
(xii) New
Subsidiaries: promptly upon any Person becoming a Subsidiary
of Company, a written notice setting forth with respect to such Person
(a) the date on which such Person became a Subsidiary of Company and
(b) all of the data required to be set forth in Schedule 5.1 annexed
hereto with respect to all Subsidiaries of Company (it being understood that
such written notice shall be deemed to supplement Schedule 5.1 annexed
hereto for all purposes of this Agreement);
(xiii) Related
Agreements: promptly upon execution and delivery thereof,
copies of any material amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification
to or waiver of the Second Lien Credit Agreement or collateral documents related
thereto or the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement, in each case entered into
after the date hereof;
(xiv) Patriot Act, etc.:
with reasonable promptness, information to confirm compliance with the
representations contained in subsection 5.16 reasonably requested by
Administrative Agent;
(xv) Other
Information: with reasonable promptness, such other
information and data with respect to Company or any of its Subsidiaries as from
time to time may be reasonably requested by Administrative Agent;
and
(xvi) Net Asset Sale Proceeds and
Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds: at the time of delivery
of the financial statements referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, a brief
description of any event giving rise to the receipt of Net Asset Sale Proceeds
or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds by Company, Holdings or their
Subsidiaries and a statement describing the general proposed application of such
proceeds.
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6.2
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Existence,
Etc.
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Except as
permitted under subsection 7.6, Holdings will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect its
existence in the jurisdiction of organization specified on Schedule 5.1 and all
rights and franchises to its business; provided, however, that neither
Company, Holdings nor any of their Subsidiaries shall be required to preserve
any such right or franchise where the failure to do so could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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6.3
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Payment of Taxes and
Claims; Tax.
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Except to
the extent failure to do so could not reasonably be expected, individually or in
the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, Company and Holdings will, and
will cause each of their Subsidiaries to, (a) timely pay all Taxes that
have become due and payable; provided that no such
Tax need be paid if it is being contested in good faith, so long as
(i) such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be
required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor and (ii) in
the case of such a Tax which has or may become a Lien against any of the
Collateral, such proceedings conclusively operate to stay the sale of any
portion of the Collateral to satisfy such charge or claim, and (b) timely
file all of its Tax returns.
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6.4
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Maintenance of
Properties; Insurance; Application of Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds.
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A. Maintenance of
Properties. Except to the extent failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material
Adverse Effect, Company and Holdings will, and will cause each of their
Subsidiaries to, maintain or cause to be maintained in good repair, working
order and condition, ordinary wear and tear and casualty or condemnation events
excepted, all properties used or useful in the business of Company, Holdings and
their Subsidiaries and from time to time will make or cause to be made all
appropriate repairs, renewals and replacements thereof in the ordinary course of
business. Except to the extent failure to do so could not reasonably
be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse
Effect, Company and Holdings will, and will cause each of their Subsidiaries to,
maintain the registrations and applications for registrations of the
Intellectual Property owned by Company, Holdings or their
Subsidiaries.
B. Insurance. Company
and Holdings will maintain or cause to be maintained, with financially sound and
reputable insurers, such business interruption, public liability insurance,
third party property damage insurance and casualty insurance with respect to
liabilities, losses or damage in respect of the assets, properties and
businesses of Company, Holdings and their Subsidiaries as may customarily be
carried or maintained under similar circumstances by corporations of established
reputation engaged in similar businesses, in each case in such amounts (giving
effect to self-insurance), with such deductibles, covering such risks and
otherwise on such terms and conditions as shall be customary for corporations
similarly situated in the industry and taking into account, with respect to Real
Property Assets, whether such assets are owned or leased. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, Company and Holdings will maintain or
cause to be maintained (i) flood insurance with respect to each Flood
Hazard Property that is located in a community that participates in the National
Flood Insurance Program, in each case in compliance with any applicable
regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and
(ii) replacement value casualty insurance on the Collateral under such
policies of insurance, with such insurance companies, in such amounts, with such
deductibles, and covering such risks as shall be customary for corporations
similarly situated in the industry. Each such policy of insurance
shall (a) name Collateral Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties as an
additional insured thereunder as its interests may appear and (b) in the
case of each business interruption and casualty insurance policy, contain a loss
payable clause or endorsement, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to
Collateral Agent, that names Collateral Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties
as the loss payee thereunder for any covered loss and provides for at least 30
days’ prior written notice to Collateral Agent of any modification or
cancellation of such policy. In connection with the renewal of each
such policy of insurance, Company promptly shall deliver to Collateral Agent a
certificate from Company’s insurance broker or other evidence satisfactory to
Collateral Agent that Collateral Agent on behalf of Secured Parties has been
named as additional insured and/or loss payee thereunder.
C. Application of Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds. Upon receipt by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries or by Collateral Agent as loss payee of any Net
Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds:
(i) so long as no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Collateral Agent, if it
received such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, shall deliver them to
Company, and Company or Holdings shall, or shall cause one or more of their
Subsidiaries to, apply any such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds to reinvest
in assets in accordance with subsection 2.4B, and to the extent not so applied
within the time periods set forth in subsection 2.4B, if such Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds not so applied exceed $1,500,000, to prepay the
Loans as provided in subsection 2.4B; and
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(ii) if at any
time an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Collateral
Agent, if it holds such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, is hereby
authorized by Company to, and Company or Holdings, if it or one of their
Subsidiaries holds such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, shall, apply such
Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds to prepay the Loans as provided in
subsection 2.4B and subsection 2.4D.
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6.5
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Inspection Rights;
Lender Meeting.
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A. Inspection
Rights. Company and Holdings shall, and shall cause each of
their Subsidiaries to, permit any authorized representatives designated by any
Secured Party (on a coordinated basis) to visit and inspect any of the
properties of Company, Holdings or of any of their Subsidiaries, to inspect,
copy and take extracts from its and their financial and accounting records, and
to discuss its and their affairs, finances and accounts with its and their
officers and independent public accountants (provided that Company
may, if it so chooses, be present at or participate in any such discussion), all
upon reasonable notice and at such reasonable times during normal business hours
up to one time per year or at any time or from time to time following the
occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default.
B. Lender
Meeting. Company will, upon the request of Administrative
Agent or Requisite Lenders, participate in a meeting of Administrative Agent and
Lenders once during each Fiscal Year by conference call at such time as may be
agreed to by Company and Administrative Agent (it being understood that,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Company
shall not be required to reimburse any Lender for its cost of attending any such
meeting).
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6.6
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Compliance with Laws,
Etc.
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Company
and Holdings shall comply, and shall cause each of their Subsidiaries to comply,
with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of
any Government Authority (including all Environmental Laws), noncompliance with
which could reasonably be expected to result in, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
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6.7
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Environmental
Matters.
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A. Environmental
Disclosure. Company will deliver to Administrative Agent and
Lenders:
(i) Environmental Audits and
Reports. As soon as practicable following receipt thereof,
copies of all final environmental audits, investigations, analyses and reports
of any kind or character, whether prepared by personnel of Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries or by independent consultants, Government Authorities or any
other Persons, with respect to significant environmental matters at any Facility
that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect or with respect to any Environmental Claims that,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) Notice of Certain Releases,
Remedial Actions, Etc. Promptly upon the occurrence thereof,
written notice describing in reasonable detail (a) any material Release
required to be reported to any Government Authority under any applicable
Environmental Laws, (b) any remedial action taken by Company or any other
Person in response to (1) any Hazardous Materials Activities the existence
of which could reasonably be expected to result in one or more Environmental
Claims having, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, or
(2) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) the
discovery by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of any occurrence or condition
on any real property adjoining or in the vicinity of any Facility that could
cause such Facility or any part thereof to be subject to any material
restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, transferability or use thereof under
any Environmental Laws.
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(iii) Written Communications
Regarding Environmental Claims, Releases, Etc. As soon as
practicable following the sending or receipt thereof by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries, a copy of any and all written communications with respect to
(a) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (b) any
material Release required to be reported to any Government
Authority.
(iv) Notice of Certain Proposed
Actions Having Environmental Impact. Prompt written notice
describing in reasonable detail (a) any proposed acquisition of stock,
assets, or property by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably
be expected to (1) cause Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to incur an
Environmental Claim that would reasonably be expected to result in, individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or (2) cause Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries to be unable to maintain in full force and effect all material
Governmental Authorizations required under any Environmental Laws for their
respective operations and (b) any proposed action to be taken by Holdings
or any of its Subsidiaries to commence manufacturing or other industrial
operations or to modify current operations in a manner that could reasonably be
expected to subject Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to any additional
obligations or requirements under any Environmental Laws that could reasonably
be expected to result in, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
B. Company’s
Actions Regarding Hazardous Materials Activities, Environmental Claims and
Violations of Environmental Laws.
(i) Remedial
Actions Relating to Hazardous Materials Activities. Company and
Holdings shall, in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, promptly
undertake, and shall cause each of their Subsidiaries promptly to undertake, any
and all investigations, studies, sampling, testing, abatement, cleanup, removal,
remediation or other response actions necessary to remove, remediate, clean up
or xxxxx any Hazardous Materials Activity on, under or about any Facility that
is in violation of any Environmental Laws which violation could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or that presents a risk arising from
an Environmental Claim that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, provided, however, that Company
shall not be precluded from contesting in good faith any such alleged violation
of Environmental Law or Environmental Claim.
(ii) Actions with
Respect to Environmental Claims and Violations of Environmental
Laws. Company and Holdings shall promptly take, and shall cause each
of their Subsidiaries promptly to take, any and all actions necessary to
(i) cure any material violation of applicable Environmental Laws by
Holdings or its Subsidiaries and (ii) make an appropriate response to any
Environmental Claim against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries and discharge
any obligations it may have to any Person thereunder where failure to do so
could reasonably be expected to result in, individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect, provided, however, that Company
shall not be precluded from contesting in good faith any such alleged violation
of Environmental Law or Environmental Claim.
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6.8
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Execution of Guaranty
and Personal Property Collateral Documents After the Closing
Date.
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A. Execution of Guaranty and Personal
Property Collateral Documents. In the event that any Person
becomes a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (other than any Foreign Subsidiary) of Company
after the date hereof, Company will promptly (and, in any event, within 30 days)
notify Administrative Agent of that fact and cause such Subsidiary to execute
and deliver to Administrative Agent a counterpart of the Guaranty and Security
Agreement and promptly thereafter (and, in any event, within 45 days unless
Administrative Agent shall have consented to a longer period in its sole
discretion) take all actions to perfect Collateral Agent’s security interest in
all assets of such Person pledged under the Security Agreement to the extent
required thereby. In addition, as provided in the Security Agreement,
Company shall, or shall cause each Guarantor that owns the Capital Stock of such
Person to, execute and deliver to Administrative Agent a supplement to the
Security Agreement and to deliver to Collateral Agent all certificates
representing such Capital Stock of such Person (accompanied by irrevocable
undated stock powers, duly endorsed in blank) and pledged debt
instruments.
B. Foreign
Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection
6.8A, no Capital Stock of (i) a Foreign Subsidiary that is a “controlled
foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Internal
Revenue Code (a “CFC”)
or (ii) a Domestic or Foreign Subsidiary which stock is owned directly or
indirectly by a CFC shall be required to be pledged pursuant to the provisions
of any Security Document; provided that Capital
Stock of a CFC which stock is not owned directly or indirectly by another CFC
may be pledged as long as the aggregate amount of such CFC’s Capital Stock so
pledged does not exceed (a) voting Capital Stock possessing 65% of the
aggregate voting power of all of such CFC’s Capital Stock and (b) 100% of
such CFC’s non-voting Capital Stock.
C. Subsidiary Organizational Documents,
Legal Opinions, Etc. At the time a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of
Company (other than a Foreign Subsidiary) becomes a Material Subsidiary, Company
shall deliver to Administrative Agent (i) certified copies of such
Subsidiary’s Organizational Documents, together with, if such Subsidiary is a
Domestic Subsidiary, a good standing certificate from the Secretary of State of
the jurisdiction of its organization, each to be dated a recent date prior to
their delivery to Administrative Agent, (ii) a certificate executed by the
secretary or similar officer of such Subsidiary as to (a) the fact that the
attached resolutions of the Governing Body of such Subsidiary approving and
authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of such Loan Documents are
in full force and effect and have not been modified or amended and (b) the
incumbency and signatures of the officers of such Subsidiary executing such Loan
Documents, and (iii) if requested by Administrative Agent, a favorable
opinion of counsel to such Subsidiary, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Administrative Agent and its counsel, as to (a) valid
existence and good standing of such Subsidiary, (b) the due authorization,
execution and delivery by such Subsidiary of such Loan Documents, (c) the
enforceability of such Loan Documents against such Subsidiary and (d) such
other matters (including matters relating to the creation and perfection of
Liens in any Collateral pursuant to such Loan Documents) as Administrative Agent
may reasonably request, all of the foregoing to be reasonably satisfactory in
form and substance to Administrative Agent and its counsel.
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6.9
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Matters Relating to
Additional Real Property
Collateral.
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A. Mortgages,
Etc. From and after the Closing Date, in the event that
(i) Company or any Guarantor acquires any fee ownership interest in real
property, together with any Improvements thereon with a value in excess of
$3,500,000 or
(ii) at the time any Person becomes a Guarantor, such Person owns or holds
any fee ownership interest in real property with a value in excess of
$3,500,000, in the case of clause (ii) above excluding any such Real
Property Asset the encumbering of which requires the consent of any
then-existing senior lienholder, where Company and its Subsidiaries have
attempted in good faith, but are unable, to obtain such senior lienholder’s
consent (any such non-excluded Real Property Asset described in the foregoing
clause (i) or (ii) being a “Mortgaged Property” and all
such non-excluded Real Property Assets, collectively, the “Mortgaged Properties”),
Company or such Guarantor shall deliver to Administrative Agent, as soon as
practicable after such Person acquires such Mortgaged Property or becomes a
Guarantor (and, in any event, within 30 days of the acquisition thereof and such
Person becoming a Guarantor), as the case may be, a fully executed and notarized
Mortgage (a “Mortgage”),
in proper form for recording in all appropriate offices in all applicable
jurisdictions, encumbering the ownership interest of such Loan Party in such
Mortgaged Property; and Administrative Agent shall have received from Company or
such applicable Guarantor:
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(i) Opinions of Local
Counsel. If requested by Agent, an opinion of counsel (which
counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent) in each state
in which a Mortgaged Property is located with respect to the enforceability of
the form(s) of Mortgages to be recorded in such state and such other matters as
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, in each case in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent;
(ii) Consents,
Etc. With respect to each Mortgaged Property, such consents,
approvals, amendments, supplements, estoppels, tenant subordination agreements
or other instruments as shall reasonably be deemed necessary by Administrative
Agent in order for the owner or holder of the fee ownership interest
constituting such Mortgaged Property to grant the Lien contemplated by the
Mortgage with respect to such Mortgaged Property;
(iii) Title
Insurance. If requested by Agent, with respect to each
Mortgage, a policy of title insurance (or marked-up title insurance commitment
having the effect of a policy of title insurance) insuring the Lien of such
Mortgage as a valid First Priority mortgage Lien on the Mortgaged Property and
fixtures described therein in the amount equal to not less than 110% of the fair
market value of such Mortgaged Property and fixtures, which policy (or such
marked-up commitment) (each, a “Title Policy”) shall
(A) be issued by the Title Company, (B) contain a “tie-in” or
“cluster” endorsement, if available under applicable law (i.e., policies which insure
against losses regardless of location or allocated value of the insured property
up to a stated maximum coverage amount), (C) have been supplemented by such
endorsements as shall be reasonably requested by Collateral Agent and available
in the jurisdiction in which the Mortgaged Property is located (including
endorsements on matters relating to usury, first loss, last dollar, zoning,
contiguity, revolving credit, doing business, non-imputation, public road
access, survey, variable rate, environmental lien, subdivision, mortgage
recording tax, separate tax lot, revolving credit, and so-called comprehensive
coverage over covenants and restrictions), and (D) contain no exceptions to
title other than Permitted Encumbrances and other exceptions reasonably
acceptable to Administrative Agent;
(iv) With respect
to each Mortgaged Property, such affidavits, certificates, information
(including financial data) and instruments of indemnification (including a
so-called “gap” indemnification) as shall be required to induce the Title
Company to issue the Title Policy/ies and endorsements contemplated
above;
(v) Evidence
reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent of payment by Company of all Title
Policy premiums, search and examination charges, escrow charges and related
charges, mortgage recording taxes, fees, charges, costs and expenses required
for the recording of the Mortgages and issuance of the Title Policies referred
to above;
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(vi) with respect
to each Mortgaged Property, copies of all leases in which Company or any of its
Subsidiaries holds the lessor’s interest or other agreements relating to
possessory interests, if any;
(vii) with respect
to each Mortgaged Property, evidence reasonably acceptable to Administrative
Agent that each Loan Party shall have made all notifications, registrations and
filings, to the extent required by, and in accordance with, all Governmental
Real Property Disclosure Requirements applicable to the granting of a Mortgage
with respect to the Mortgaged Property;
(viii) Matters Relating to Flood
Hazard Properties. (a) Evidence, which may be in the form of a
completed Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard
Determination, as to whether (1) any Mortgaged Property is a Flood Hazard
Property and (2) the community in which any such Flood Hazard Property is
located is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program, (b) if there
are any such Flood Hazard Properties, such Loan Party’s written acknowledgement
of receipt of written notification from Administrative Agent (1) as to the
existence of each such Flood Hazard Property and (2) as to whether the community
in which each such Flood Hazard Property is located is participating in the
National Flood Insurance Program, and (c) in the event any such Flood Hazard
Property is located in a community that participates in the National Flood
Insurance Program, evidence that Company has obtained flood insurance in respect
of such Flood Hazard Property to the extent required under the applicable
regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;
and
(ix) Surveys with
respect to each Mortgaged Property.
B.
Real Estate
Appraisals. Company shall, and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, permit an independent real estate appraiser satisfactory to
Administrative Agent, upon reasonable notice during Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ normal business hours, to visit and inspect any Mortgaged Property
for the purpose of preparing an appraisal of such Mortgaged Property if required
in order for Administrative Agent or Lenders to comply with any applicable laws
and regulations (in each case to the extent required under such laws and
regulations as determined by Administrative Agent).
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6.10
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Interest Rate
Protection.
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Within 90 days after the Closing Date,
Company shall enter into one or more Interest Rate Agreements in an aggregate
notional principal amount, together with the aggregate principal amount of the
then outstanding term loans under the Second Lien Credit Agreement bearing
interest at a fixed rate, of not less than 50% of the sum of the aggregate
principal amounts of the then outstanding Term Loans and the term loans under
the Second Lien Credit Agreement, for a term of at least 3 years from the Closing Date, each such
Interest Rate Agreement to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Administrative Agent. Company shall maintain in effect each such
Interest Rate Agreement during its
term.
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6.11
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Deposit Accounts and
Securities Accounts.
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From and
after 75 days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Collateral Agent may
agree), (i) Company shall not permit its Domestic Subsidiaries’ Deposit Accounts
and Securities Accounts at any time to have a principal balance in excess of
$1,000,000 in the aggregate (excluding zero balance accounts and any accounts
used solely for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit
payments and any account subject to a Lien permitted by subsection 7.2A(ix))
unless Company or such Domestic Subsidiary, as the case may be, has
(i) executed and delivered to Collateral Agent a Control Agreement, and
(ii) taken all other steps necessary or, in the opinion of Collateral
Agent, desirable to ensure that Collateral Agent has a perfected security
interest in such accounts; provided that, if
Company or such Domestic Subsidiary is unable to obtain a Control Agreement from
the financial institution at which the Deposit Account or Securities Account is
maintained, Company shall, or shall cause such Domestic Subsidiary to, transfer
all amounts in the applicable account to an account maintained at a financial
institution from which Company or such Domestic Subsidiary has obtained a
Control Agreement and (ii) Company shall not permit the aggregate amount on
deposit in all Deposit Accounts of Company and of its Domestic Subsidiaries
(other than Deposit Accounts maintained with Administrative Agent or subject to
a Control Agreement and any zero balance accounts and any accounts used solely
for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments and any
account subject to a Lien permitted by subsection 7.2A(ix)) at any time to
exceed $1,000,000.
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6.12
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Ratings.
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Company
and Holdings shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Loans under
this Agreement and the Second Lien Indebtedness and the Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness and Company’s and Holdings’ corporate credit to continue to be
publicly rated by each of Xxxxx’x and S&P (but not to maintain a specific
rating).
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6.13
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Employee
Benefits.
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Holdings
and each of its Subsidiaries shall comply in all material respects with the
applicable provisions of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code and shall furnish
to Administrative Agent (x) as soon as possible after, and in any event
within five days after any Officer of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate
of any Loan Party knows or has reason to know that, any ERISA Event has occurred
that, alone or together with any other ERISA Event could reasonably be expected
to result in liability of the Loan Parties or any of their ERISA Affiliates in
an aggregate amount exceeding $1,000,000 or the imposition of a Lien, a
statement of an Officer of such Loan Party setting forth details as to such
ERISA Event and the action, if any, that the Loan Parties propose to take with
respect thereto, and (y) upon request by Administrative Agent, copies of
(i) each Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the annual report (Form
5500 Series) filed by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate with the Internal
Revenue Service with respect to each Pension Plan; (ii) the most recent
actuarial valuation report for each Pension Plan; (iii) all notices
received by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan
sponsor or any governmental agency concerning an ERISA Event; and (iv) such
other documents or governmental reports or filings relating to any Pension Plan
(or employee benefit plan sponsored or contributed to by any Loan Party) as
Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.
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6.14
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Post-Closing
Collateral Matters.
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To the
extent such item has not been delivered as of the Closing Date, Company shall
deliver to Administrative Agent
within 10 Business Days after the Closing Date (or such later date as
Administrative Agent may agree), a
share mortgage with the Collateral Agent pledging Capital Stock of Company’s
direct, wholly owned Subsidiary IntraLinks, Ltd. possessing 65% of the aggregate
voting power of all of such company’s stock and 100% of such company’s non-voting stock
and a related written opinion or opinions of foreign counsel in form reasonably
satisfactory to Administrative Agent.
Section
7. COMPANY’S NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
Holdings
and Company covenant and agree that, so long as any of the Commitments hereunder
shall remain in effect and until payment in full of all of the Loans and other
Obligations (other than Unasserted Obligations) and the cancellation or
expiration of all Letters of Credit, unless Requisite Lenders shall otherwise
give prior written consent, Holdings and Company shall perform, and shall cause
each of their Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this
Section 7.
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7.1
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Indebtedness.
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Holdings
and Company shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or guaranty, or otherwise become
or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Indebtedness,
except:
(i) Holdings and
its Subsidiaries may become and remain liable with respect to the
Obligations;
(ii) Company and
its Subsidiaries may become and remain liable with respect to Indebtedness
including purchase money obligations (including obligations in respect of
mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar
financings) (x) in respect of Capital Leases or (y) incurred to finance the
acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, and
modifications, extensions, renewals, refundings, replacements and extensions of
any such Indebtedness that do not increase the outstanding principal amount
thereof; provided that (A) in
the case of clause (y), such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within
210 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or
improvement and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by
this subsection 7.1(ii) shall not exceed $7,500,000 at any time
outstanding;
(iii) (A) Company may
become and remain liable with respect to Indebtedness to any Subsidiary
Guarantor, and any Subsidiary Guarantor may become and remain liable with
respect to Indebtedness to Company or any other Subsidiary Guarantor; provided that
(a) a security interest in all such intercompany Indebtedness shall have
been granted to Collateral Agent for the benefit of Lenders and (b) if such
intercompany Indebtedness is evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument,
such promissory note or instrument shall have been pledged to Administrative
Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement, and (B) any Subsidiary that is not a
Subsidiary Guarantor may become and remain liable with respect to Indebtedness
to any other Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor;
(iv) Company and its
Subsidiaries may remain liable with respect to Indebtedness described in Schedule 7.1
annexed hereto and become and remain liable with respect to any modifications,
refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof or in the case of any
Indebtedness of a Foreign Subsidiary, any replacement or substitute therefor
(without increasing, or shortening the maturity of, the principal amount thereof
(except by an amount equal to the accreted value, if applicable, and a
reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses
reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing,
refunding, renewal, extension, replacement or substitution and by an amount
equal to any existing commitments unutilized) or changing the obligors
thereunder), in each case other than Existing Indebtedness to Be
Repaid;
(v) any Person
that becomes a Subsidiary of Company as a result of a Permitted Acquisition may
remain liable with respect to Indebtedness existing on the date of such
acquisition and become and remain liable with respect to any modifications,
refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof (without increasing, or
shortening the maturity of, the principal amount thereof (except by an amount
equal to the accreted value, if applicable, and a reasonable premium or other
reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection
with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension and by an
amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized) or changing the obligors
thereunder); provided that such
Indebtedness is not created in anticipation of such acquisition and no more than
$7,500,000 of Indebtedness shall have been incurred in reliance on this
subsection 7.1(v) since the Closing Date;
(vi) current and
future Foreign Subsidiaries that do not conduct, transact or otherwise engage in
any business or operations other than the provision of services to or on behalf
of Company and its Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness to Company and the
Subsidiary Guarantors in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
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(vii) the Loan
Parties may become and remain liable with respect to Second Lien Indebtedness
pursuant to the Second Lien Credit Agreement and, subject to the limitations set
forth in subsection 7.10 and the Intercreditor Agreement, Indebtedness incurred
to refinance, extend, renew, restructure or replace, or in exchange for, such
Second Lien Indebtedness, in whole or in part (“Refinancing Second Lien
Indebtedness”), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$65,000,000 plus any amounts of
accreted or amortized original issue discount or any amounts of interest paid in
the form of additional Second Lien Indebtedness and a reasonable premium or
other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in
connection with any Second Lien Indebtedness or Refinancing Second Lien
Indebtedness being refinanced, extended, renewed, restructured or exchanged;
provided that
(i) except as permitted by clause (iv) below, such Refinancing Second Lien
Indebtedness is unsecured, (ii) the non-economic terms and conditions of
such Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness are not less favorable in the
aggregate to Holdings and its Subsidiaries and to the Agents and the Lenders
than the terms and conditions of Indebtedness then outstanding under the Second
Lien Credit Agreement, (iii) the final maturity and the average life to
maturity of such Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness is at least equal to that
of the Indebtedness then outstanding under the Second Lien Credit Agreement,
(iv) if such Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness is secured, the holders
thereof, or a duly authorized agent on their behalf, agree in writing to be
bound by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement to the same extent as the
lenders and agents under the Second Lien Credit Agreement and (v) the amount of
any Second Lien Indebtedness permitted by this clause (vii) shall be reduced on
a dollar for dollar basis by the amount of prepayments of Second Lien
Indebtedness other than with the proceeds of additional Indebtedness permitted
under this clause (vii);
(viii) Holdings may
become and remain liable with respect to Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness
pursuant to the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement and, subject to the
limitations set forth in subsection 7.10, Indebtedness incurred to refinance,
extend, renew, restructure or replace, or in exchange for, such Holdings Senior
PIK Indebtedness, in whole or in part (“Refinancing Holdings Senior PIK
Indebtedness”), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$75,000,000 plus any amounts of
accreted or amortized original issue discount or any amounts of interest paid in
the form of additional Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness and a reasonable premium
or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in
connection with any Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness or any Holdings Refinancing
Senior PIK Indebtedness being refinanced, extended, renewed, restructured or
exchanged; provided that
(i) such Refinancing Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness is unsecured,
(ii) the non-economic terms and conditions of such Refinancing Holdings
Senior PIK Indebtedness are not less favorable in the aggregate to Holdings and
its Subsidiaries and to the Agents and the Lenders than the terms and conditions
of Indebtedness then outstanding under the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement,
(iii) the final maturity and the average life to maturity of such
Refinancing Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness is at least equal to that of the
Indebtedness then outstanding under the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement and
(iv) the amount of any Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness permitted by this clause
(viii) shall be reduced on a dollar for dollar basis by the amount of
prepayments of Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness other than with the proceeds of
additional Indebtedness permitted under this clause (viii);
(ix) Company and
its Subsidiaries may become and remain liable with respect to other Indebtedness
in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time
outstanding; provided that the
aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not
Subsidiary Guarantors incurred pursuant to this clause (ix) shall not exceed
$2,500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;
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(x) Company
and the Subsidiary Guarantors may become and remain liable with respect to (x)
Indebtedness, in respect of performance bonds, surety bonds, appeal bonds,
completion guarantees or like instruments or with respect to workers’
compensation claims, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business
and (y) letters of credit supporting obligations described in subclause
(ix);
(xi) the Loan
Parties may become and remain liable with respect to Indebtedness under Hedge
Agreements required under subsection 6.10 or otherwise entered into in the
ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;
(xii) Company and
its Subsidiaries may become and remain liable with respect to customary
indemnification and purchase price adjustment obligations incurred in connection
with Asset Sales or other sales of assets;
(xiii) (x) Company and the
Subsidiary Guarantors may become and remain liable with respect to guarantee
obligations in respect of any Indebtedness of Company or any Subsidiary
Guarantor permitted by subsection 7.1, (y) Company and the Subsidiary
Guarantors may become and remain liable with respect to guarantee obligations in
respect of any Foreign Subsidiary to the extent permitted by subsection 7.1(vi)
and (z) any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor may become and remain liable with
respect to guarantee obligations in respect of any Indebtedness of any
Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor permitted by subsection 7.1; and
(xiv) Company and its
Subsidiaries may become and remain liable for Indebtedness in respect of netting
services, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case in
connection with cash management and deposit accounts in the ordinary course of
business.
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7.2
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Liens and Related
Matters.
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A. Prohibition on
Liens. Holdings and Company shall not, and shall not permit
any of their Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or
permit to exist any Lien on or with respect to any property or asset of any kind
(including any document or instrument in respect of goods or accounts
receivable) of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom, except:
(i) Permitted
Encumbrances;
(ii) Liens
securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to subsection 7.1(ii); provided that (x)
such Liens attach at all times only to the assets so financed except for
accessions to the property that is affixed or incorporated into the property
covered by such Lien or financed with the proceeds of such Indebtedness and the
proceeds and the products thereof and (y) that individual financings of
equipment provided by one lender may be cross collateralized to other financings
of equipment provided by such lender;
(iii) Liens on
assets of a Person that becomes a direct or indirect Subsidiary of Company or
that are acquired by Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the date of this
Agreement in a Permitted Acquisition, provided, however, that such
Liens (x) exist at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or at the time such
assets are acquired, (y) attach only to specific assets acquired in such
Permitted Acquisition (and the proceeds or products thereof) and (z) were
not created in anticipation of such acquisition and, in any event, do not in the
aggregate secure Indebtedness in excess of $3,000,000 at any
time;
(iv) Liens
described in Schedule 7.2
annexed hereto and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof;
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(v) subject to
the Intercreditor Agreement, Liens securing the Second Lien Indebtedness and
Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness permitted under subsection
7.1(vii);
(vi) other Liens
securing obligations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,500,000 at any time
outstanding;
(vii) Liens on assets of
Foreign Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries otherwise
permitted under subsection 7.1;
(viii) Liens in favor of
Company or a Guarantor securing Indebtedness permitted under subsection
7.1(iii);
(ix) Liens
arising out of any conditional sale, title retention, consignment or other
similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent such Liens do
not attach to any assets other than the goods subject to such arrangements and
the proceeds thereof;
(x) Liens
incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the purchase or
shipping of goods or assets, which Liens or in the favor of the seller or
shipper of such goods or assets and only attach to such goods or assets (or the
proceeds thereof); and
(xi) Liens (A)(x)
on advances of Cash and Cash Equivalents in favor of the seller of any property
to be acquired in an Investment permitted pursuant to section 7.3 to be applied
against the purchase price for such Investment and (y) consisting of an
agreement to dispose of any property in an asset sale or disposition permitted
under section 7.3 and (B) consisting of xxxxxxx money deposits of Cash and Cash
Equivalents made by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any
letter of intent or purchase agreement in connection with any Investment
permitted pursuant to section 7.3.
B.
No Further Negative
Pledges. Holdings and the Company shall not, and shall not
permit any of their Subsidiaries to enter into any agreement prohibiting the
creation or assumption of any Lien upon any of its material properties or
assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure Indebtedness under
any senior credit facility, including this Agreement, other than (i) this
Agreement, the Second Lien Credit Agreement, the Holdings Senior PIK Credit
Agreement, or any agreement prohibiting only the creation of Liens securing
Subordinated Indebtedness, (ii) any agreement evidencing Indebtedness secured by
Liens permitted by subsections 7.2A(ii), (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii) and (viii) as
to the assets securing such Indebtedness, (iii) agreements that are customary
restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses or permits so long as such
restrictions relate to the property subject thereto, (iv) agreements that
are customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease
governing a leasehold interest, (v) agreements that are customary
provisions restricting assignment or transfer of any contract entered into in
the ordinary course of business and (vi) any agreement evidencing an asset
sale, as to the assets being sold.
C.
No Restrictions on Subsidiary
Distributions to Company or Other Subsidiaries. Holdings and
Company will not, and will not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, create or
otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual
encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any such Subsidiary to
(i) pay dividends or make any other distributions on any of such
Subsidiary’s Capital Stock owned by Company or any other Subsidiary of Company,
(ii) repay or prepay any Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to Holdings
or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii) make loans or advances to Holdings or any
of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) transfer any of its property or assets to
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, except (a) as provided in this
Agreement, the Second Lien Credit Agreement, the Holdings Senior PIK Credit
Agreement, and any Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness and any Refinancing
Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness to the extent permitted by subsections 7.1(vii)
and (viii), respectively, (b) as to transfers of assets, as may be provided
in an agreement with respect to a sale of such assets, (c) encumbrances or
restrictions existing under or by reason of agreements binding on a Subsidiary
at the time such Subsidiary first becomes a Subsidiary of Company, so long as
such agreements were not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a
Subsidiary of Company, (d) encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by
reason of agreements that are customary provisions in joint venture agreements
and other similar agreements applicable to Joint Ventures permitted under
subsection 7.3 and applicable solely to such Joint Venture, (e) encumbrances or
restrictions existing under or by reason of agreements that are customary
restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses or permits so long as such
restrictions relate to the property subject thereto, (f) encumbrances or
restrictions existing under or by reason of agreements that are customary
provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a
leasehold interest, (g) encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by
reason of agreements that are customary provisions restricting assignment or
transfer of any contract entered into in the ordinary course of business, (h) as
to Foreign Subsidiaries, restrictions which do not have a material adverse
effect on the ability of Company to repay the Obligations when due and which are
contained in the Organizational Documents of any such Foreign Subsidiary (but
only to the extent required by Requirements of Law) or in agreements relating to
Indebtedness permitted under clauses (iv) and (vi) of subsection 7.1 and
(i) encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of any
agreements governing any purchase money Liens or obligations under Capital
Leases otherwise permitted hereby (in which case, any prohibition or limitation
shall only be effective against the property financed thereby; provided that
individual agreements governing purchase money Liens or obligations under
Capital Leases provided by a Person (or its Affiliates) may be
cross-collateralized to other such agreements governing purchase money Liens or
obligations under Capital Leases provided by such Person (or its
Affiliates)).
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7.3
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Investments;
Acquisitions.
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Holdings
and Company shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, make or own any Investment in any Person, including any
Joint Venture, or acquire, by purchase or otherwise, all or substantially all
the business, property or fixed assets of, or Capital Stock of, any Person, or
any division or line of business of any Person except:
(i)
Holdings and its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments in Cash and Cash
Equivalents;
(ii) the
Guarantors may make and own Investments in Company and in other Guarantors that
are Subsidiaries of Company, and Subsidiaries of Company that are not Guarantors
may make and own Investments in other Subsidiaries of Company;
(iii) Holdings and
its Subsidiaries may make intercompany loans, guarantees and advances to the
extent permitted under subsection 7.1;
(iv) Holdings and
its Subsidiaries may consummate the Merger and make related Investments in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement;
(v) Company
and its Subsidiaries may make Consolidated Capital Expenditures permitted by
subsection 7.7;
(vi) Company and
its Subsidiaries may continue to own the Investments owned by them and described
in Schedule 7.3
annexed hereto, including any modification, replacement, renewal or extension
thereof which does not increase the amount thereof;
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(vii) Company and its
Subsidiaries may
make Permitted Acquisitions; provided that
(a) no Potential Event of Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing at the time such acquisition occurs or after giving effect
thereto, (b) Company shall be in Pro Forma Compliance after giving effect
thereto, (c) Company and Holdings shall, and shall cause their Subsidiaries
to, comply with the requirements of subsections 6.8 and 6.9 with respect to each
such acquisition that results in a Person becoming a Subsidiary and (d) the
aggregate fair market value of all direct and indirect Investments in Persons
that do not become Guarantors resulting from all such acquisitions shall not
exceed in the aggregate $2,500,000;
(viii) Company and the
Subsidiary Guarantors may make Investments consistent with past practice for the
purposes of reimbursing payroll, rent, insurance and other ordinary course
operating expenses of current and future Foreign Subsidiaries that do not
conduct, transact or otherwise engage in any business or operations other than
the provision of services to or on behalf of Company and its
Subsidiaries;
(ix)
Holdings and Company may acquire and hold obligations of one or more officers or
other employees of Holdings or its Subsidiaries in connection with such
officers’ or employees’ acquisition of shares of its Capital Stock, so long as
no cash is actually advanced by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to such
officers or employees in connection with the acquisition of any such
obligations;
(x)
Company and its Subsidiaries may receive and hold promissory notes and other
noncash consideration received in connection with any Asset Sale permitted by
subsection 7.6;
(xi)
Company and its Subsidiaries (a) may make and own other Investments through
the issuance of Specified Equity and (b) may make and own other Investments in
an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time (x) $5,000,000 plus (y) the
Specified Equity Amount;
(xii)
Company and its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments in connection with the
workout, bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts
and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary course
of business;
(xiii) Company and
its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments consisting of lease, utility and
other deposits or advances in the ordinary course of business;
(xiv) Company and
its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments consisting of extensions of credit
in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant
of trade credit in the ordinary course of business;
(xv) Holdings and
its Subsidiaries may enter into Hedge Agreements as permitted under subsection
7.1(xi);
(xvi) Company and
its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments in the ordinary course of business
consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit;
(xvii) Holdings and its
Subsidiaries may make and own Investments consisting of advances of payroll
payments to employees in the ordinary course of business; and
(xviii) Company and its
Subsidiaries may make advances in the form of a cash deposit or prepayment of
expenses to vendors, suppliers and trade creditors so long as such deposits are
made and such expenses are incurred in the ordinary course of business of
Company or such Subsidiary.
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7.4
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Restricted Junior
Payments.
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Holdings
and Company shall not, and with respect to clause (iv) of the definition of
Restricted Junior Payment shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart any sum for any
Restricted Junior Payment; provided that (in the
case of clauses (i), (iii), (vii) and (viii) below so long as no Event of
Default or Potential Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or
would result therefrom):
(i) Company
and its Subsidiaries may make regularly scheduled payments of interest in
respect of any Subordinated Indebtedness in accordance with the terms of, and
only to the extent required by, and subject to the subordination provisions
contained in, the indenture or other agreement pursuant to which such
Subordinated Indebtedness was issued, as such indenture or other agreement may
be amended from time to time to the extent permitted under this
Agreement;
(ii) any
Subsidiary of Holdings may make Restricted Junior Payments to Holdings in an
aggregate amount not in excess of $2,500,000 in any Fiscal Year (i) to fund
any redemption or repurchase of Capital Stock that is required pursuant to the
terms of any “qualified stock bonus plan” under Section 401(a) of the Internal
Revenue Code that complies in all material respects with the applicable
provisions of Sections 404, 409 and 415 of the Internal Revenue Code and
(ii) to repurchase the Capital Stock of Holdings from directors, employees
or members of management of Holdings or any Subsidiary (or their estate, family
members, spouse and/or former spouse);
(iii) Company
and its Subsidiaries may make any payment or prepayment of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on, or redeem, purchase, retire, defease (including
in-substance or legal defeasance), create a sinking fund or make a similar
payment with respect to, Subordinated Indebtedness of Company and its
Subsidiaries with the proceeds of any refinancing Indebtedness of Company and
its Subsidiaries permitted by subsection 7.1 so long as such refinancing
Indebtedness is Subordinated Indebtedness of Company and its Subsidiaries and
subordinated to at least the same extent as the Subordinated Indebtedness being
refinanced;
(iv) Holdings
and Company may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions
payable solely in Specified Equity of such Person;
(v) any
Subsidiary of Holdings may make Restricted Junior Payments to
Holdings:
(a) the
proceeds of which will be used to pay the tax liability for the relevant
jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated tax
returns filed by Holdings (that include Company and or any of its Subsidiaries)
to the extent such tax liability does not exceed the lesser of (a) the taxes
that would have been payable by Company and its Subsidiaries as a stand-alone
group to the extent that any such taxes are not paid or to be paid directly by
Company or its Subsidiaries or (b) the actual tax liability of the Holdings
consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated group to the extent paid or to be
paid by Holdings; and
(b) the
proceeds of which shall be used by Holdings to pay its operating expenses
incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs
and expenses (including, without limitation, administrative, legal, accounting
and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and
customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate
amount not to exceed $100,000 in any Fiscal Year plus any reasonable
and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of Holdings
attributable to the ownership or operations of Company and its
Subsidiaries;
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(vi) Holdings
may make Restricted Junior Payments consisting of repurchases of Capital Stock
of Holdings deemed to occur upon the non-cash exercise of stock options and
warrants;
(vii) Company
may make Restricted Junior Payments after the Closing Date equal to 50% of the
Consolidated Net Income of Company and its Subsidiaries for the period (taken as
one accounting period) commencing with the Fiscal Quarter ending September 30,
2007 and ending on the date of Holdings’ most recently ended Fiscal Quarter for
which financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to subsections
6.1(ii) or (iii) are available at the time of such Restricted Junior Payment;
provided that
the aggregate amount of such Restricted Junior Payments for any such Fiscal Year
shall not exceed $2,000,000; and
(viii) Holdings
and Company may make other Restricted Junior Payments after the Closing Date
equal to $7,500,000.
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7.5
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Financial
Covenant—Maximum Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage
Ratio.
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If any
Revolving Loans or Swing Line Loans are outstanding as of the last day of such
Fiscal Quarter, Holdings and Company shall not permit the Consolidated Senior
Secured Leverage Ratio to be greater than: 7.00:1.00 as of the last day of the
fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2007; 6.75:1.00 as of the last day of the
fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2007; and 6.50:1.00 as of the last day of
each Fiscal Quarter ending thereafter.
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7.6
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Restriction on
Fundamental Changes; Asset
Sales.
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Holdings
and Company shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, enter
into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or liquidate, wind up or
dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or convey, sell,
lease or sublease (as lessor or sublessor), transfer or otherwise dispose of, in
one transaction or a series of transactions, all or any part of its business,
property or assets (including its notes or receivables and Capital Stock of a
Subsidiary of Company, whether newly issued or outstanding), whether now owned
or hereafter acquired, except:
(i) any
Subsidiary of Company may be merged with or into Company or any Subsidiary
Guarantor, or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved, or all or any part of its
business, property or assets may be conveyed, sold, leased, transferred or
otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, to
Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor; provided that, in the
case of such a merger, Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the
continuing or surviving Person;
(ii) Company and
its Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of inventory in the ordinary
course of business;
(iii) Company and its
Subsidiaries may dispose of obsolete, worn out or surplus assets or of assets no
longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Company and its
Subsidiaries, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or may otherwise
sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose or exchange assets to the extent not
constituting Asset Sales;
(iv) Company and
its Subsidiaries may make Asset Sales of assets having a fair market value not
in excess of $1,500,000; provided that
(a) the consideration received for such assets shall be in an amount at
least equal to the fair market value thereof determined in good faith by the
board of director of Company (or any Officer of Company delegated authority to
make such determinations by such board of directors); (b) the consideration
received shall be at least 75% cash; provided that for
purposes of this subclause (b) any Designated Noncash Consideration in an amount
not to exceed $500,000 (provided that for
purposes of this proviso any Designated Noncash Consideration which has
subsequently been sold for, or otherwise converted to cash, shall not be counted
against such limitation to the extent of the cash received) shall be deemed to
be cash; and (c) after giving effect to such Asset Sale, Company shall be in Pro
Forma Compliance;
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(v) in order to
resolve disputes that occur in the ordinary course of business, Company and its
Subsidiaries may discount or otherwise compromise or sell for less than the face
value thereof, notes or accounts receivable;
(vi) Company or
any of its Subsidiaries may sell or dispose of shares of Capital Stock of any of
its Subsidiary in order to qualify members of the Governing Body of such
Subsidiary if required by applicable law;
(vii) the Merger
may occur in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Merger
Agreement;
(viii) any Person may be
merged with or into Company or any of its Subsidiaries if the acquisition of the
Capital Stock of such Person by Company or such Subsidiary would have been
permitted pursuant to subsection 7.3; provided that (a) in
the case of Company, Company shall be the continuing or surviving Person, (b) in
the case of a Subsidiary of Company, if such Subsidiary is not the surviving or
continuing Person, the surviving Person becomes a Subsidiary of Company and
complies with the provisions of subsection 6.8 and (c) no Potential Event of
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing after giving
effect thereto;
(ix) any Foreign
Subsidiary of Company may be merged with or into any other Foreign Subsidiary of
Company, or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved, or all or any part of its
business, property or assets may be conveyed, sold, leased, transferred or
otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, to any
other Foreign Subsidiary of Company;
(x)
Company or any of its Subsidiaries may lease, sublease, license or sublicense
property (and surrender and terminate leases and other occupancy agreements) in
the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the
business of Company and its Subsidiaries or materially adversely affect the
Collateral taken as a whole;
(xi) Company
or any of its Subsidiaries may abandon Intellectual Property which, in the
reasonable good faith determination of Company or such Subsidiary, is
uneconomical, negligible, obsolete or otherwise not material in the conduct of
the business of Company or such Subsidiary;
(xii) Company or
any of its Subsidiaries may dispose of any asset subject to any settlement of or
payment in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any
condemnation proceeding; provided that the Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds received by Company or such Subsidiary shall be
applied as required by subsection 2.4(B)(iii)(b);
(xiii) Company or
any of its Subsidiaries may dispose of Investments in Joint Ventures, to the
extent required by, or made pursuant to buy/sell arrangements between the joint
venture parties in, joint venture agreements and similar binding
arrangements;
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(xiv) Company or
any of its Subsidiaries may sell or otherwise dispose of property to the extent
that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of
similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such sale or other
disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement
property; and
(xv) Holdings,
Company and its Subsidiaries may make Investments permitted by subsection 7.3,
incur Liens permitted by subsection 7.2 and make Restricted Junior Payments
permitted by subsection 7.4.
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7.7
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Consolidated Capital
Expenditures.
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Holdings
and Company shall not, and shall not permit their Subsidiaries to, make or incur
Consolidated Capital Expenditures, in any Fiscal Year (or portion of a Fiscal
Year set forth below), except that Company and its Subsidiaries may make capital
expenditures in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount set forth below
opposite such Fiscal Year (the “Maximum Consolidated Capital
Expenditures Amount”):
Fiscal
Year
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Maximum
Consolidated Capital
Expenditures
Amount
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Portion
of Fiscal Year 2007 occurring following the Closing Date
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$8,000,000
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2008
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$16,000,000
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2009
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$16,000,000
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2010
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$16,000,000
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2011
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$16,000,000
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2012
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$16,000,000
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2013
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$16,000,000
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Portion
of Fiscal Year 2014 occurring prior to the Term Loan Maturity
Date
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$16,000,000
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provided that the
Maximum Consolidated Capital Expenditures Amount for any Fiscal Year shall be
increased by an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Maximum Consolidated
Capital Expenditures Amount for the previous Fiscal Year (without giving effect
to any adjustment in accordance with this proviso) over the actual amount of
Consolidated Capital Expenditures for such previous Fiscal Year (with Capital
Expenditures in any Fiscal Year being deemed to have been made first from any
amount carried forward from the preceding Fiscal Year) and may be further
increased at the option of Company by an amount equal to 25% of the Maximum
Consolidated Capital Expenditures Amount for the succeeding Fiscal Year; provided, further, that in
addition to the amounts set forth above, Company and its Subsidiaries may make
Consolidated Capital Expenditures up to the Specified Equity
Amount. Any usage of the succeeding Fiscal Year’s Maximum
Consolidated Capital Expenditures Amount shall be deducted from the Maximum
Consolidated Capital Expenditures Amount available for such succeeding Fiscal
Year.
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7.8
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Transactions with
Shareholders and Affiliates.
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Holdings
and Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly
or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including the
purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any
service) with any holder of 10% or more of any class of equity Securities of
Holdings or with any Affiliate of Company or Holdings or of any such holder, on
terms that are less favorable to Company or that Subsidiary, as the case may be,
than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not such a
holder or Affiliate; provided that the
foregoing restriction shall not apply to (i) any transaction among Company
and its Subsidiaries or among its Subsidiaries, (ii) reasonable and
customary fees paid to members of the Governing Bodies of Holdings and its
Subsidiaries, (iii) Restricted Junior Payments permitted by subsection 7.4,
(iv) employment and severance arrangements between Holdings and its Subsidiaries
and their respective officers and employees in the ordinary course of business,
(v) the payment of customary fees and reasonable out of pocket costs to, and
indemnities provided on behalf of, directors, managers, consultants, officers
and employees of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business, (vi) the payment of fees, expenses, indemnities or other payments
pursuant to agreements in existence on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.8 or any
amendment thereto to the extent such an amendment is not adverse to the Lenders
in any material respect, any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards
or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of,
employment arrangements, equity purchase agreements, deferred compensation
agreements, stock options and stock ownership plans or similar employee benefit
plans approved by the board of directors of Holdings or Company (or similar
governing body)), (vii) loans and advances to employees for entertainment and
travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in the ordinary
course of business, (viii) the existence of, or the performance by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, the Merger
Documents, (ix) the transactions contemplated by the Merger Documents (including
payment of the Transaction Costs), (x) entering into the tax sharing agreements
or arrangements approved by the board of directors of Holdings or Company (or
similar governing body) and the payment of all fees and expenses related
thereto, and (xi) any contribution to the capital of Holdings or
Company.
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7.9
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Conduct of
Business.
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A. Conduct of Business of Company and
Its Subsidiaries. From and after the Closing Date, Company
shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any
business other than the businesses engaged in by Company and its Subsidiaries on
the Closing Date and any business or line of businesses substantially similar,
related or incidental thereto.
B. Conduct of Business of
Holdings. Notwithstanding the foregoing in this
Section 7, from and after the Closing Date, Holdings shall not conduct,
transact or otherwise engage in any business or operations or incur Indebtedness
or consensual Liens other than (i) its ownership of the Capital Stock of
Company, (ii) the maintenance of its legal existence, (iii) the performance of
the Loan Documents, the Second Lien Credit Agreement and related documents, the
Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement and related agreements and the Merger
Documents, (iv) the taking of any action permitted by the terms of this
Agreement, or (v) as required by law.
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7.10
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Amendments or Waivers
of Certain Agreements; Amendment and Prepayment of Second Lien Credit
Agreement.
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A. Amendments or Waivers of Certain
Agreements. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will
agree to any material amendment to, or waive any of its material rights under,
any Organizational Document, any Merger Document or any agreement evidencing or
governing any Subordinated Indebtedness after the Closing Date if such amendment
or waiver is adverse to the interests of the Lenders without in each case
obtaining the prior written consent of Requisite Lenders to such amendment or
waiver.
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B. Amendment and Prepayment of Second
Lien Credit Agreement. Company shall not, and shall not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, amend the Second Lien Credit Agreement or any Loan
Document (as such term is defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement) or
otherwise change the terms of the Second Lien Indebtedness, if the effect of
such amendment or change is to change (to earlier dates) any dates upon which
payments of principal or interest are due thereon, change any event of default
(other than to eliminate any such event of default or increase any grace period
related thereto (it being understood that any change to the covenants that
otherwise complies with this subsection 7.10B shall not be deemed to be an
amendment to the events of default applicable thereto), add any financial
maintenance covenant, change the prepayment provisions thereof in a manner not
adverse to the lenders under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, or change any
collateral therefor (other than in accordance with the provisions of the
Intercreditor Agreement), or if the effect of such amendment or change, together
with all other amendments or changes made, is to increase materially the
obligations of the obligor thereunder or to confer any additional rights on the
holders of such Second Lien Indebtedness (or Second Lien Administrative Agent or
any other agent on their behalf) that would be adverse to Company or
Lenders. Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary, to
make any prepayment prior to the scheduled date due of Indebtedness under the
Second Lien Credit Agreement other than with the proceeds of Refinancing Second
Lien Indebtedness or with the consent of the Requisite Class Lenders of Term
Loans.
C. Amendment and Prepayment of Holdings
Senior PIK Credit Agreement. Holdings shall not amend the
Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement or any Loan Document (as such term is
defined in the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement) or otherwise change the
terms of Holdings Senior PIK Indebtedness, if the effect of such amendment or
change is to change (to earlier dates) any dates upon which payments of
principal or interest are due thereon, change any event of default (other than
to eliminate any such event of default or increase any grace period related
thereto (it being understood that any change to the covenants that otherwise
complies with this subsection 7.10C shall not be deemed to be an amendment to
the events of default applicable thereto), add any financial maintenance
covenant, change the prepayment provisions thereof in a manner not adverse to
the lenders under the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement, or if the effect of
such amendment or change, together with all other amendments or changes made, is
to increase materially the obligations of the obligor thereunder or to confer
any additional rights on the holders of such Holdings Senior PIK Loans that
would be adverse to Holdings or Lenders. Holdings shall not make any
prepayment prior to the scheduled date due of Indebtedness under the Holdings
Senior PIK Credit Agreement other than with the proceeds of Refinancing Holdings
Senior PIK Indebtedness.
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7.11
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Fiscal
Year.
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Holdings
shall not change its Fiscal Year-end from December 31.
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7.12
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Ownership of
Subsidiaries.
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Holdings
and Company shall not permit any Domestic Subsidiary to be a non-Wholly Owned
Subsidiary, except as a result of or in connection with a dissolution,
liquidation, merger, consolidation or disposition of a Subsidiary permitted by
subsection 7.6 or an Investment in any Person permitted under subsection
7.3 in which such Domestic Subsidiary ceases to be a Subsidiary, so long as, to
the extent such Person is a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary, the Capital Stock in
such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary held by a Loan Party shall be pledged as part
of the Collateral.
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7.13
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Sale and Leaseback
Transactions.
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Enter
into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any person whereby it shall
sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such
property or other property which it intends to use for substantially the same
purpose or purposes as the property being sold or transferred (a “Sale and Leaseback
Transaction”) unless (i) the sale of such property is permitted by
subsection 7.6 and (ii) any Liens arising in connection with its use
of such property are permitted by subsection 7.2.
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Section
8.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
If any of
the following conditions or events (“Events of Default”) shall
occur:
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8.1
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Failure to Make
Payments When Due.
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Failure
by Company to pay any installment of principal of any Loan when due, whether at
stated maturity, by acceleration, by notice of voluntary prepayment, by
mandatory prepayment or otherwise; failure by Company to pay when due any amount
payable to an Issuing Lender in reimbursement of any drawing under a Letter of
Credit; or failure by Company to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any
other amount due under this Agreement within five Business Days after the date
due; or
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8.2
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Default in Other
Agreements.
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(i) Failure of
any Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries to pay when due any principal of or
interest on or any other amount payable in respect of one or more items of
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness referred to in subsection 8.1) or
amounts due in respect of the early termination of Hedge Agreements in an
individual principal amount of $3,500,000 or more or with an aggregate principal
amount of $3,500,000 or more, in each case beyond the end of any grace period
provided therefor; or
(ii) Breach or
default by any Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries with respect to any other
material term of (a) one or more items of Indebtedness in the individual or
aggregate principal amounts referred to in clause (i) above or (b) any
loan agreement, mortgage, indenture or other agreement relating to such item(s)
of Indebtedness in the individual or aggregate amounts referred to in clause (i)
above, if the effect of such breach or default is to cause, or to permit the
holder or holders of that Indebtedness (or a trustee on behalf of such holder or
holders) to cause, that Indebtedness or Contingent Obligation(s) to become or be
declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity or the stated maturity of
any underlying obligation, as the case may be; or
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8.3
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Breach of Certain
Covenants.
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Failure
of Holdings or Company (in the case of subsection 6.2 solely with respect to
Holdings, Company or any Material Subsidiary) to perform or comply with any term
or condition contained in subsection 2.5, 6.1(i) or 6.2 (in the case of
subsection 6.2 solely with respect to Holdings, Company or any Material
Subsidiary) or Section 7 of this Agreement; provided that any
Event of Default under subsection 7.5 shall not constitute an Event of Default
with respect to any Term Loans until the earlier of (x) the date that is 30 days
after the date such Event of Default arises with respect to the Revolving Loans
and (y) the date on which the Administrative Agent or the Revolving Lenders
exercise any remedies with respect to the Revolving Loans in accordance with
this Section 8; provided, further, that any
Event of Default under subsection 7.5 may be waived, amended or otherwise
modified from time to time by the Requisite Class Lenders of Revolving Loans
pursuant to subsection 10.6A(c); or
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8.4
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Breach of
Warranty.
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Any
representation, warranty, certification or other statement made by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries in any Loan Document or in any statement or certificate
at any time given by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in writing pursuant
hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall be false in any
material respect on the date as of which made; or
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8.5
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Other Defaults Under
Loan Documents.
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Any Loan
Party shall default in the performance of or compliance with any term contained
in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, other than any such term
referred to in any other subsection of this Section 8, and such
default shall not have been remedied or waived within 30 days after receipt by
Company of notice from Administrative Agent or any Lender of such default;
or
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8.6
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Involuntary
Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver,
Etc.
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(i) A court
having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or order for relief in
respect of Holdings, Company or any of their Material Subsidiaries in an
involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect, which decree
or order is not stayed; or any other similar relief shall be granted under any
applicable federal or state law; or
(ii) An
involuntary case shall be commenced against Holdings, Company or any of their
Material Subsidiaries under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect; or a decree or
order of a court having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, sequestrator, trustee, custodian or other officer having
similar powers over Holdings, Company or any of their Material Subsidiaries, or
over all or a substantial part of its property, shall have been entered; or
there shall have occurred the involuntary appointment of an interim receiver,
trustee or other custodian of Holdings, Company or any of their Material
Subsidiaries for all or a substantial part of its property; or a warrant of
attachment, execution or similar process shall have been issued against any
substantial part of the property of Holdings, Company or any of their Material
Subsidiaries, and any such event described in this clause (ii) shall
continue for 60 days unless dismissed, bonded or discharged; or
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8.7
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Voluntary Bankruptcy;
Appointment of Receiver,
Etc.
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(i) Holdings,
Company or any of their Material Subsidiaries shall have an order for relief
entered with respect to it or commence a voluntary case under the Bankruptcy
Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case, or to the conversion of an involuntary case to a voluntary
case, under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking
possession by a receiver, trustee or other custodian for all or a substantial
part of its property; or Holdings, Company or any of their Material Subsidiaries
shall make any assignment for the benefit of creditors; or
(ii) Holdings,
Company or any of their Material Subsidiaries shall be unable, or shall fail
generally, or shall admit in writing its inability, to pay its debts as such
debts become due; or the Governing Body of Holdings, Company or any of their
Material Subsidiaries (or any committee thereof) shall adopt any resolution or
otherwise authorize any action to approve any of the actions referred to in
clause (i) above or this clause (ii); or
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8.8
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Judgments and
Attachments.
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Any final
non-appealable money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment or similar process
involving (i) in any individual case an amount in excess of $3,500,000 or
(ii) in the aggregate at any time an amount in excess of $3,500,000, in
either case to the extent not adequately covered by insurance as to which a
solvent and unaffiliated insurance company has not denied coverage, shall be
entered or filed against Holdings, Company or any of their Material Subsidiaries
or any of their respective assets and shall remain unpaid, undischarged,
unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period of 60 days; or
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8.9
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Dissolution.
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Any
order, judgment or decree shall be entered against Holdings, Company or any of
their Material Subsidiaries decreeing the dissolution or split up of Holdings,
Company or that Material Subsidiary and such order shall remain undischarged or
unstayed for a period in excess of 30 days; or
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8.10
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Employee Benefit
Plans.
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There
shall occur one or more ERISA Events or similar events in respect of any Foreign
Plans, that individually or in the aggregate could reasonably be expected to
result in a liability of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective ERISA Affiliates in excess of $3,500,000 during the term of this
Agreement; or there shall exist, as of any valuation date for a Pension Plan, an
amount of unfunded benefit liabilities (as defined in Section 4001(a)(18) of
ERISA), individually or in the aggregate for all Pension Plans which could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and there has
been a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the
Internal Revenue Code or the failure to make by its due date a required
installment under Section 412(m) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to
any such Pension Plan; or
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8.11
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Change in
Control.
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A Change
in Control shall have occurred; or
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8.12
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Invalidity of Loan
Documents; Failure of Security; Repudiation of
Obligations.
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At any
time after the execution and delivery thereof, (i) any Loan Document or any
provision thereof, for any reason other than the satisfaction in full of all
Obligations, shall cease to be in full force and effect (other than in
accordance with its terms) or shall be declared to be null and void, (ii)
Collateral Agent shall not have or shall cease to have a valid and perfected
First Priority Lien in any Collateral purported to be covered by the Collateral
Documents having a fair market value, individually or in the aggregate,
exceeding $3,500,000, in each case for any reason other than the failure of
Administrative Agent or any Lender to take any action within its control, or
(iii) any Loan Party shall contest the validity or enforceability of any
Loan Document or any provision thereof or the validity, perfection or priority
of any Lien on any Collateral purported to be covered by the Collateral
Documents having a fair market value, individually or in the aggregate,
exceeding $3,500,000, in writing or deny in writing that it has any further
liability, including with respect to future advances by Lenders, under any Loan
Document or any provision thereof to which it is a party; or
THEN (i) upon the
occurrence of any Event of Default described in subsection 8.6 or 8.7 with
respect to Company, each of (a) the unpaid principal amount of and accrued
interest on the Loans, (b) an amount equal to the maximum amount that may
at any time be drawn under all Letters of Credit then outstanding (whether or
not any beneficiary under any such Letter of Credit shall have presented, or
shall be entitled at such time to present, the drafts or other documents or
certificates required to draw under such Letter of Credit), and (c) all
other Obligations shall automatically become immediately due and payable,
without presentment, demand, protest or other requirements of any kind, all of
which are hereby expressly waived by Company, and the obligation of each Lender
to make any Loan, the obligation of Administrative Agent to issue any Letter of
Credit and the right of any Lender to issue any Letter of Credit hereunder shall
thereupon terminate, and (ii) upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of any other Event of Default, Administrative Agent shall, upon the
written request or with the written consent of Requisite Lenders, by written
notice to Company, declare all or any portion of the amounts described in
clauses (a) through (c) above to be, and the same shall forthwith
become, immediately due and payable, and the obligation of each Lender to make
any Loan, the obligation of Administrative Agent to issue any Letter of Credit
and the right of any Lender to issue any Letter of Credit hereunder shall
thereupon terminate; provided that, during
any period in which an Event of Default described in subsection 8.3 arising
solely from a breach of subsection 7.5 exists solely with respect to the
Revolving Loans, Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Requisite
Revolving Lenders, shall take such actions only with respect to the Revolving
Loans; provided, further, that the
foregoing shall not affect in any way the obligations of Revolving Lenders under
subsection 3.3C(i) or the obligations of Revolving Lenders to purchase
assignments of any unpaid Swing Line Loans as provided in
subsection 2.1A(iii). Any amounts described in clause (b) above,
when received by Administrative Agent, shall be held by Administrative Agent
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and shall
be applied as herein and therein provided.
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Section
9.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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9.1
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Appointment.
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A. Appointment of Administrative Agent
and Collateral Agent. DB is hereby appointed Administrative
Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and DB
hereby accepts such appointment (references to Administrative Agent in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to include Administrative
Agent in the capacity of Collateral Agent). Each Lender (including
any Lender in its capacity as a counterparty to a Hedge Agreement with Company
or one of its Subsidiaries) hereby authorizes Administrative Agent to act as its
agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. DB agrees to act upon the express conditions contained in
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as applicable. The
provisions of this Section 9 are solely for the benefit of Agents and
Lenders and no Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any
of the provisions thereof. In performing its functions and duties
under this Agreement, Administrative Agent (other than as provided in subsection
2.1D) shall act solely as an agent of Lenders and does not assume and shall not
be deemed to have assumed any obligation towards or relationship of agency or
trust with or for any Loan Party.
Administrative
Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact appointed by
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion. Administrative Agent and
any such sub-agent may perform any and all of the duties of Administrative Agent
and exercise the rights and powers of Administrative Agent by or through their
respective Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents
and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates (“Related
Parties”). The exculpatory provisions of this Section 9 shall
apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of Administrative Agent
and any such sub-agent.
B. Appointment of Supplemental
Collateral Agents. It is the purpose of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents that there shall be no violation of any law of any
jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or
associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such
jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and in particular in case of the
enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, or in case Administrative Agent deems
that by reason of any present or future law of any jurisdiction it may not
exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the
other Loan Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or
necessary in connection therewith, it may be necessary that Administrative Agent
appoint an additional individual or institution as a separate trustee,
co-trustee, collateral agent or collateral co-agent (any such additional
individual or institution being referred to herein individually as a “Supplemental Collateral Agent”
and collectively as “Supplemental Collateral
Agents”).
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In the
event that Administrative Agent appoints a Supplemental Collateral Agent with
respect to any Collateral, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or
duty expressed or intended by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents
to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to Administrative Agent with respect
to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such Supplemental
Collateral Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such
Supplemental Collateral Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges
with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such
Collateral, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan Documents
and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental
Collateral Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either Administrative Agent
or such Supplemental Collateral Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this
Section 9 and of subsections 10.2 and 10.3 that refer to Administrative Agent
shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Collateral Agent and all
references therein to Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be references to
Administrative Agent and/or such Supplemental Collateral Agent, as the context
may require.
Should
any instrument in writing from any Loan Party be required by any Supplemental
Collateral Agent so appointed by Administrative Agent for more fully and
certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such rights, powers, privileges
and duties, Company shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute,
acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by
Administrative Agent. In case any Supplemental Collateral Agent, or a
successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed,
all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Collateral
Agent, to the extent permitted by law, shall vest in and be exercised by
Administrative Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Collateral
Agent.
C. Control. Each
Lender and Administrative Agent hereby appoint each other Lender as agent for
the purpose of perfecting Administrative Agent’s security interest in assets
that, in accordance with the UCC, can be perfected by possession or
control.
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9.2
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Powers and Duties;
General Immunity.
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X. Xxxxxx; Duties
Specified. Each Lender irrevocably authorizes Administrative
Agent to take such action on such Lender’s behalf and to exercise such powers,
rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents as are
specifically delegated or granted to Administrative Agent by the terms hereof
and thereof, together with such powers, rights and remedies as are reasonably
incidental thereto. Administrative Agent shall have only those duties
and responsibilities that are expressly specified in this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents. Administrative Agent may exercise such powers,
rights and remedies and perform such duties by or through its agents or
employees. Administrative Agent shall not have, by reason of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, a fiduciary relationship in
respect of any Lender or Company; and nothing in this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so
construed as to impose upon Administrative Agent any obligations in respect of
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents except as expressly set forth
herein or therein.
B. No Responsibility for Certain
Matters. No Agent shall be responsible to any Lender for the
execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, collectibility
or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for any
representations, warranties, recitals or statements made herein or therein or
made in any written or oral statements or in any financial or other statements,
instruments, reports or certificates or any other documents furnished or made by
such Agent to Lenders or by or on behalf of Company to such Agent or any Lender
in connection with the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby
or for the financial condition or business affairs of Company or any other
Person liable for the payment of any Obligations, nor shall such Agent be
required to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of
the terms, conditions, provisions, covenants or agreements contained in any of
the Loan Documents or as to the use of the proceeds of the Loans or the use of
the Letters of Credit or as to the existence or possible existence of any Event
of Default or Potential Event of Default. Anything contained in this
Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, Administrative Agent shall not have
any liability arising from confirmations of the amount of outstanding Loans or
the Letter of Credit Usage or the component amounts thereof.
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C. Exculpatory
Provisions. No Agent or any of its officers, directors,
employees or agents shall be liable to Lenders for any action taken or omitted
by such Agent under or in connection with any of the Loan Documents except to
the extent caused by such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as
determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction). An Agent shall be entitled to refrain from any
discretionary act or the taking of any discretionary action (including the
failure to take an action) in connection with this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents or from the exercise of any discretionary power, discretion or
authority vested in it hereunder or thereunder unless and until such Agent shall
have received instructions in respect thereof from Requisite Lenders (or such
other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions under
subsection 10.6) and, upon receipt of such instructions from Requisite
Lenders (or such other Lenders, as the case may be), such Agent shall be
entitled to act or (where so instructed) refrain from acting, or to exercise
such power, discretion or authority, in accordance with such instructions; provided that no
Agent shall be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion
of its counsel, may expose such Agent to liability or that is contrary to any
Loan Document or applicable law. Without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing, (i) each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be
fully protected in relying, upon any communication (including any electronic
message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution), instrument
or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been
signed or sent by the proper person or persons, and shall be entitled to rely
and shall be protected in relying on opinions and judgments of attorneys (who
may be attorneys for Company and its Subsidiaries), accountants, experts and
other professional advisors selected by it; and (ii) no Lender shall have
any right of action whatsoever against an Agent as a result of such Agent acting
or (where so instructed) refraining from acting under this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents in accordance with the instructions of Requisite
Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions
under subsection 10.6).
D. Agents Entitled to Act as
Lender. The agency hereby created shall in no way impair or
affect any of the rights and powers of, or impose any duties or obligations
upon, an Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender hereunder. With
respect to its participation in the Loans and the Letters of Credit, an Agent
shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and may
exercise the same as though it were not performing the duties and functions
delegated to it hereunder, and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” or any similar
term shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include each Agent
in its individual capacity. An Agent and its Affiliates may accept
deposits from, lend money to, acquire equity interests in and generally engage
in any kind of commercial banking, investment banking, trust, financial advisory
or other business with Company or any of its Affiliates as if it were not
performing the duties specified herein, and may accept fees and other
consideration from Company for services in connection with this Agreement and
otherwise without having to account for the same to Lenders.
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9.3
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Independent
Investigation by Lenders; No Responsibility for Appraisal of
Creditworthiness.
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Each
Lender agrees that it has made its own independent investigation of the
financial condition and affairs of Company and its Subsidiaries in connection
with the making of the Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder and
that it has made and shall continue to make its own appraisal of the
creditworthiness of Company and its Subsidiaries. No Agent shall have
any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to make
any such investigation or any such appraisal on behalf of Lenders or to provide
any Lender with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether
coming into its possession before the making of the Loans or at any time or
times thereafter, and no Agent shall have any responsibility with respect to the
accuracy of or the completeness of any information provided to
Lenders.
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9.4
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Right to
Indemnity.
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Each
Lender, in proportion to its Pro Rata Share, severally agrees to indemnify each
Agent and its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys, professional
advisors and Affiliates to the extent that any such Person shall not have been
reimbursed by Company (and without limiting Company’s obligation to do so), for
and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including counsel fees and
disbursements and fees and disbursements of any financial advisor engaged by
Agents) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed
on, incurred by or asserted against an Agent or such other Person in exercising
the powers, rights and remedies of an Agent or performing duties of an Agent
hereunder or under the other Loan Documents or otherwise in its capacity as
Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents; provided that no
Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
of an Agent resulting solely from such Agent’s gross negligence, willful
misconduct or breach of obligations as determined by a final non-appealable
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. If any indemnity
furnished to an Agent or any other such Person for any purpose shall, in the
opinion of such Agent, be insufficient or become impaired, such Agent may call
for additional indemnity and cease, or not commence, to do the acts indemnified
against until such additional indemnity is furnished.
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9.5
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Resignation of Agents;
Successor Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Swing Line
Lender.
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A. Resignation; Successor Administrative
Agent or Collateral Agent. Any Agent may resign at any time by
giving 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to Lenders and
Company. Upon any such notice of resignation by Administrative Agent
or Collateral Agent, Requisite Lenders shall have the right, upon ten Business
Days’ notice to Company, to appoint a successor Agent; provided that in the
case of a successor Administrative Agent, Company shall have consented thereto
(which consent shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing). If no such successor shall have been so appointed by
Requisite Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after
the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, the retiring Agent may, on
behalf of Lenders, appoint a successor Agent. If such Agent shall
notify Lenders and Company that no Person has accepted such appointment as
successor Agent, such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in
accordance with such Agent’s notice and (i) the retiring Agent shall be
discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents, except that
any Collateral held by Collateral Agent will continue to be held by it until a
Person shall have accepted the appointment of successor Collateral Agent, and
(ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made
by, to or through such Agent shall instead be made by, to or through each Lender
directly, until such time as Requisite Lenders appoint a successor Agent in
accordance with this subsection 9.5A. Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, that successor Agent shall
thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges
and duties of the retiring Agent and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from
its duties and obligations under this Agreement (if not already discharged as
set forth above). After any retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder,
the provisions of this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any
actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was an Agent under this
Agreement.
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B. Successor Swing Line
Lender. Any resignation of Administrative Agent pursuant to
subsection 9.5A shall also constitute the resignation of DB or its successor as
Swing Line Lender, and any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to
subsection 9.5A shall, upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the
successor Swing Line Lender for all purposes hereunder. In such event
(i) Company shall prepay any outstanding Swing Line Loans made by the retiring
Administrative Agent in its capacity as Swing Line Lender, (ii) upon such
prepayment, the retiring Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender shall
surrender any Swing Line Note held by it to Company for cancellation, and (iii)
if so requested by the successor Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender in
accordance with subsection 2.1E, Company shall issue a Swing Line Note to the
successor Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender substantially in the form
of Exhibit VII
annexed hereto, in the amount of the Swing Line Loan Commitment then in effect
and with other appropriate insertions.
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9.6
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Collateral Documents;
Guaranty and Intercreditor
Agreement.
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Each
Lender (which term shall include, for purposes of this subsection 9.6, any Swap
Counterparty) hereby further authorizes Administrative Agent and Collateral
Agent, on behalf of and for the benefit of Lenders, to enter into each
Collateral Document as secured party and the Intercreditor Agreement, and to be
the agent for and representative of Lenders under each Guaranty. Each
Lender agrees to be bound by the terms of each Collateral Document, the
Intercreditor Agreement and the Guaranty; provided that
Collateral Agent shall not (i) enter into or consent to any material amendment,
modification, termination or waiver of any provision contained in any Collateral
Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Guaranty or (ii) release any
Collateral (except as otherwise expressly permitted or required pursuant to the
terms of this Agreement or the applicable Collateral Document), in each case
without the prior consent of Requisite Lenders (or, if required pursuant to
subsection 10.6, all Lenders); provided further, however, that,
without further written consent or authorization from Lenders, Collateral Agent
may execute any documents or instruments necessary to (a) release any Lien
encumbering any item of Collateral that is the subject of a sale or other
disposition of assets permitted by this Agreement or to which Requisite Lenders
(or such greater number of Lenders as may be required pursuant to subsection
10.6) have otherwise consented, (b) release any Guarantor from the Guaranty
if the Capital Stock of such Guarantor is sold to any Person (other than an
Affiliate of Company) such that it no longer constitutes a Subsidiary pursuant
to a sale or other disposition permitted hereunder or to which Requisite Lenders
have (or such greater number of Lenders as may be required by subsection 10.6)
otherwise consented, (c) subordinate the Liens of Collateral Agent, on
behalf of Lenders, to any Liens permitted by clauses (ii) and (iii) of
subsection 7.2A or (d) release any Lien encumbering any Collateral that is the
subject of any Restricted Junior Payment or Investment permitted by this
Agreement or to which Requisite Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as
may be required by subsection 10.6) have otherwise consented; provided that, in the
case of a sale of such item of Collateral or stock referred to in subdivision
(a) or (b), the requirements of subsection 10.14 are
satisfied. Further, each Lender acknowledges that certain rights and
remedies under the Loan Documents are subject to the terms of the Intercreditor
Agreement. Anything contained in any of the Loan Documents to the
contrary notwithstanding, Company, Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and
each Lender hereby agree that (1) no Lender shall have any right individually to
realize upon any of the Collateral under any Collateral Document or to enforce
any Guaranty or the Intercreditor Agreement, it being understood and agreed that
all powers, rights and remedies under the Collateral Documents, the
Intercreditor Agreement and the Guaranty may be exercised solely by
Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent for the benefit of Lenders in
accordance with the terms thereof, and (2) in the event of a foreclosure by
Collateral Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale,
Administrative Agent or any Lender may be the purchaser of any or all of such
Collateral at any such sale and Administrative Agent, as agent for and
representative of Lenders (but not any Lender or Lenders in its or their
respective individual capacities unless Requisite Lenders shall otherwise agree
in writing) shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement
or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold
at any such public sale, to use and apply any of the Obligations as a credit on
account of the purchase price for any Collateral payable by Administrative Agent
at such sale.
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9.7
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Duties of Other
Agents.
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To the
extent that any Lender is identified in this Agreement as a co-agent,
documentation agent or syndication agent, such Lender shall not have any right,
power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other
than those applicable to all Lenders as such. Without limiting the
foregoing, none of such Lenders shall have or be deemed to have a fiduciary
relationship with any Lender.
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9.8
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Administrative Agent
May File Proofs of Claim.
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In case
of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to any Loan Party, Administrative Agent (irrespective of
whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on Company) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise
(i) to file and
prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in
respect of the Loans and any other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to
file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of Lenders and Agents (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of Lenders and Agents and
their agents and counsel and all other amounts due Lenders and Agents under
subsections 2.3, 10.2 and 10.3) allowed in such judicial proceeding,
and
(ii) to collect
and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims and to distribute the same;
and any
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Lender to make such payments to Administrative Agent and, in the event that
Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to
Lenders, to pay to Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of Agents and their agents
and counsel, and any other amounts due Agents under subsections 2.3, 10.2 and
10.3.
Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize Administrative Agent to authorize
or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations
or the rights of any Lenders or to authorize Administrative Agent to vote in
respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
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Section
10. MISCELLANEOUS
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10.1
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Successors and
Assigns; Assignments and Participations in Loans and Letters of
Credit.
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A. General. This
Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective
successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and
the successors and assigns of Lenders (it being understood that Lenders’ rights
of assignment are subject to the further provisions of this
subsection 10.1). Neither Company’s rights nor obligations
hereunder nor any interest therein may be assigned or delegated by Company
without the prior written consent of all Lenders (and any attempted assignment
or transfer by Company without such consent shall be null and
void). No sale, assignment or transfer or participation of any Letter
of Credit or any participation therein may be made separately from a sale,
assignment, transfer or participation of a corresponding interest in the
Revolving Loan Commitment and the Revolving Loans of the Revolving Lender
effecting such sale, assignment, transfer or participation. Anything
contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as provided in
subsection 2.1A(iii) and subsection 10.5, the Swing Line Loan
Commitment and the Swing Line Loans of Swing Line Lender may not be sold,
assigned or transferred as described below to any Person other than a successor
Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender to the extent contemplated by
subsection 9.5. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied,
shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto,
their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby and, to the extent
expressly contemplated hereby, the Affiliates of each of Administrative Agent
and Lenders and Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under
or by reason of this Agreement.
B. Assignments.
(i) Amounts and Terms of
Assignments. Any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible
Assignees all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement;
provided that
(a), except (1) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount
of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement or
(2) in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or
an Approved Fund of a Lender, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loan
Exposure or Term Loan Exposure, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender and
the assignee subject to each such assignment shall not be less than $1,000,000
(aggregating concurrent assignments to or by two or more Affiliated Funds for
the purposes of determining such minimum amount), unless each of Administrative
Agent and, so long as no Event of Default under subsection 8.1, 8.6 or 8.7 has
occurred and is continuing, Company otherwise consents (each such consent not to
be unreasonably withheld or delayed), (b) each partial assignment shall be
made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s
rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or
Commitments assigned, and any assignment of all or any portion of a Revolving
Loan Commitment, Revolving Loan or Letter of Credit participation shall be made
only as an assignment of the same proportionate part of the assigning Lender’s
Revolving Loan Commitment, Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit participations,
(c) the parties to each assignment shall (A) electronically execute and
deliver to Administrative Agent an Assignment Agreement via an electronic
settlement system acceptable to Administrative Agent or (B) manually execute and
deliver to Administrative Agent an Assignment Agreement, together with a
processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (unless the assignee is an Affiliate or
an Approved Fund of the assignor, in which case no fee shall be required, and
provided that
only one such processing and recordation fee shall be required in connection
with concurrent assignments to or by two or more Affiliated Funds), and the
Eligible Assignee, if it shall not already be a party to this Agreement, shall
deliver to Administrative Agent information reasonably requested by
Administrative Agent, including an administrative questionnaire and such forms,
certificates or other evidence, if any, with respect to United States federal
income Tax withholding matters as the assignee under such Assignment Agreement
may be required to deliver to Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection
2.7B(iv) and with respect to information requested under the Patriot Act, and
(d) (1) Administrative Agent, (2) with respect to assignments of Revolving
Loans and Revolving Loan Commitments, any Issuing Lender and Swing Line Lender
and (3) if no Event of Default (relating to any Event of Default described
in subsection 8.1, 8.6 or 8.7) has occurred and is continuing, Company, shall
have consented (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld) or denied
consent thereto, which consent or denial shall be made by Company promptly (and
in any case within five Business Days after the date written notice thereof has
been delivered by the assigning Lender (through Administrative Agent)); provided that no
consent of Company shall be required (I) in the case of any assignment to a
Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender or any Approved Fund of a Lender and
(II) in connection with any assignment relating to the primary allocation
or syndication of the Loans and Commitments by DB to Persons that are either
organized under the laws of the United States or are qualified to do business in
one or more states of the United States so long as such assignment is made in
consultation with Company; provided, further, that no
consent of Administrative Agent shall be required in the case of any assignment
of Term Loans to a Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender or any Approved Fund of a
Lender.
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Upon
acceptance and recording by Administrative Agent pursuant to clause (ii) below,
from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment Agreement,
(y) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such
Assignment Agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender
hereunder and shall be deemed to have made all of the agreements of a Lender
contained in the Loan Documents arising out of or otherwise related to such
rights and obligations and (z) the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to
the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it
pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, relinquish its rights (other than any
rights which survive the termination of this Agreement under subsection 10.9B)
and be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of
an Assignment Agreement covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to
be a party hereto; provided that,
anything contained in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary notwithstanding,
if such Lender is an Issuing Lender such Lender shall continue to have all
rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender until the cancellation or expiration
of any Letters of Credit issued by it and the reimbursement of any amounts drawn
thereunder). The assigning Lender shall, upon the effectiveness of
such assignment or as promptly thereafter as practicable, surrender its Notes,
if any, to Administrative Agent for cancellation, and thereupon new Notes shall,
if so requested by the assignee and/or the assigning Lender in accordance with
subsection 2.1E, be issued to the assignee and/or to the assigning Lender,
substantially in the form of Exhibit V or Exhibit VI annexed
hereto, as the case may be, with appropriate insertions, to reflect the amounts
of the new Commitments and/or outstanding Revolving Loans and/or outstanding
Term Loans, as the case may be, of the assignee and/or the assigning
Lender. Other than as provided in subsection 2.1A(iii) and subsection
10.5, any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this
Agreement that does not comply with this subsection 10.1B shall be treated for
purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such
rights and obligations in accordance with subsection 10.1C.
(ii) Acceptance by Administrative
Agent; Recordation in Register. Upon its receipt of an
Assignment Agreement executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee
representing that it is an Eligible Assignee, together with the processing and
recordation fee referred to in subsection 10.1B(i) and any forms, certificates
or other evidence with respect to United States federal income Tax withholding
matters that such assignee may be required to deliver to Administrative Agent
pursuant to subsection 2.7B(iv), Administrative Agent shall, if Administrative
Agent and Company have consented to the assignment evidenced thereby (in each
case to the extent such consent is required pursuant to subsection 10.1B(i)),
(a) accept such Assignment Agreement by executing a counterpart thereof as
provided therein (which acceptance shall evidence any required consent of
Administrative Agent to such assignment) and (b) record the information
contained therein in the Register. Administrative Agent shall
maintain a copy of each Assignment Agreement delivered to and accepted by it as
provided in this clause (ii). No assignment shall be effective for
purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as
provided in this clause (ii).
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(iii) Special Purpose Funding
Vehicles. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, any Lender (a “Granting
Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”), identified as such in
writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to Administrative Agent and
Company, the option to provide to Company all or any part of any Loan that such
Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to Company pursuant to this
Agreement; provided that (i)
nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to make any Loan, and
(ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide
all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make
such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof. Nothing in this clause (iv)
shall relieve the Granting Lender from its obligations under the Loan Documents
except to the extent any such obligation is fully performed by the
SPC. The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the
Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were
made by such Granting Lender. Each party hereto hereby agrees that no
SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this
Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the Granting
Lender). In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby
agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that,
prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all
outstanding commercial paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will
not institute against, or join any other person in instituting against, such SPC
any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceedings under the laws of the United States or any state
thereof. In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this subsection 10.1B(iii), any SPC may (i) with notice to,
but without the prior written consent of, Company and Administrative Agent and
without paying any processing fee therefor, assign all or a portion of its
interests in any Loans to the Granting Lender or to any financial institutions
(consented to by Company and Administrative Agent) providing liquidity and/or
credit support to or for the account of such SPC to support the funding or
maintenance of Loans and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any
non-public information relating to its Loans to any rating agency, commercial
paper dealer or provider of any surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity
enhancement to such SPC. Company agrees that each SPC shall be
entitled to the benefits of subsection 2.7 (subject to the requirements and
limitations of that subsection) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and
had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to this
subsection 10.1B. A SPC shall not be entitled to receive any
greater payment under subsection 2.7 than the applicable Lender would have been
entitled to receive with respect to the interest granted to such SPC unless the
grant of the interest to such SPC is made with Company’s prior written
consent. This subsection 10.1B(iii) may not be amended without the
written consent of the SPC.
C. Participations.
(1) Any
Lender may, without the consent of, or notice to, Company or Administrative
Agent, sell participations to one or more Persons (other than a natural Person
or Company or any of its Affiliates) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights
and/or obligations under this Agreement; provided that
(i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged,
(ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties
hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) Company,
Administrative Agent and Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with
such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender
sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole
right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or
waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such
agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the
consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver
directly affecting (i) an extension of the scheduled final maturity date of
any Loan allocated to such participation, (ii) a reduction of the principal
amount of or the rate of interest payable on any Loan allocated to such
participation or (iii) an increase in the Commitment allocated to such
participation. Subject to the further provisions of this
subsection 10.1C, Company agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to
the benefits of subsections 2.6D and 2.7 (subject to the requirements and
limitations of those subsections treating such Participant as if it were a
Lender for such purposes) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had
acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to
subsection 10.1B. To the extent permitted by law, each
Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of subsection 10.4 as
though it were a Lender, provided such
Participant agrees to be subject to subsection 10.5 as though it were a
Lender. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater
payment under subsections 2.6D and 2.7 than the applicable Lender would have
been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such
Participant unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made
with Company’s prior written consent.
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(2) Each
Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a
non-fiduciary agent of Company, maintain a register on which it enters the name
and address of each participant and the principal amounts of each participant’s
interest in the Loans held by it (the “Participant
Register”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be
conclusive, absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose
name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such Loan or other
obligation hereunder as the owner thereof for all purposes of this Agreement
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. Any such Participant
Register shall be available for inspection by Administrative Agent at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
D. Pledges and
Assignments. Any Lender may, without the consent of Company or
Administrative Agent, at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or
any portion of its Loans, and the other Obligations owed to such Lender, to
secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure
obligations to any Federal Reserve Bank and, in the case of any Lender that is a
Fund, any pledge or assignment to any holders of obligations owed, or securities
issued by such Lender, including to any trustee for, or any other representative
of, such holders; provided that
(i) no Lender shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder as a
result of any such assignment or pledge and (ii) in no event shall any
assignee or pledgee be considered to be a “Lender” or be entitled to require the
assigning Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder.
E. Information. Each
Lender may furnish any information concerning Company and its Subsidiaries in
the possession of that Lender from time to time to assignees and participants
(including prospective assignees and participants), subject to
subsection 10.19.
F. Agreements of
Lenders. Each Lender listed on the signature pages hereof
hereby agrees, and each Lender that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an
Assignment Agreement shall be deemed to agree, (i) that it is an Eligible
Assignee described in clause (ii) of the definition thereof; (ii) that it
has experience and expertise in the making of or purchasing loans such as the
Loans; and (iii) that it will make or purchase its Loans for its own
account in the ordinary course and without a view to distribution of such Loans
within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or other federal
securities laws (it being understood that, subject to the provisions of this
subsection 10.1, the disposition of such Loans or any interests therein shall at
all times remain within its exclusive control). Each Lender that
becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment Agreement shall also be deemed
to represent that such Assignment Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of such Lender, enforceable against such Lender in accordance
with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws
affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of
equity.
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G. Ineligible
Assignees. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other
provision of this Agreement, no Lender will assign its rights and obligations
under this Agreement, or sell participations in its rights and/or obligations
under this Agreement, to any Person who is (i) listed on the Specially
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by the U.S. Department
of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) and/or on any other
similar list maintained by OFAC pursuant to any authorizing statute, executive
order or regulation or (ii) either (A) included within the term “designated
national” as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515
or (B) designated under Section 1(a), 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) of Executive Order No.
13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (published September 25, 2001) or similarly designated
under any related enabling legislation or any other similar executive
orders.
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10.2
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Expenses.
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Whether
or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, Company agrees
to pay promptly: (i) all reasonable costs and expenses of
Administrative Agent, including reasonable outside attorney’s fees in connection
with the negotiation, preparation and execution of the Loan Documents and any
consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications thereto; (ii) all
reasonable costs and expenses of furnishing all opinions by counsel for Company
(including any opinions reasonably requested by Agents or Lenders as to any
legal matters arising hereunder) and of Company’s performance of and compliance
with all agreements and conditions on its part to be performed or complied with
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents including with respect to
confirming compliance with environmental, insurance and solvency requirements;
(iii) all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of outside counsel to
Administrative Agent in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution
and administration of the Loan Documents and any consents, amendments, waivers
or other modifications thereto and any other documents or matters requested by
Company; (iv) all costs and expenses of creating and perfecting Liens in
favor of Collateral Agent on behalf of Lenders pursuant to any Collateral
Document, including filing and recording fees, expenses and taxes, stamp or
documentary taxes, search fees, title insurance premiums, and reasonable fees,
expenses and disbursements of counsel to Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent
and of counsel providing any opinions that Administrative Agent, Collateral
Agent or Requisite Lenders may reasonably request in respect of the Collateral
Documents or the Liens created pursuant thereto (but without duplication of
amounts otherwise payable under subsection 2.7 and excluding Excluded Taxes);
(v) all costs and expenses (including the reasonable fees, expenses and
disbursements of any auditors, accountants or appraisers and any environmental
or other outside consultants, advisors and agents retained by Administrative
Agent or its counsel) of obtaining and reviewing any appraisals and any
environmental audits or reports provided for under subsection 6.9;
(vi) all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Administrative Agent or
Collateral Agent in connection with the custody or preservation of any of the
Collateral; (vii) all other reasonable costs and expenses incurred by
Administrative Agent in connection with the syndication of the Commitments;
(viii) all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
fees, costs and expenses of outside accountants, advisors and consultants,
incurred by Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and its counsel relating to
efforts to (a) during the continuance of any Event of Default evaluate or
assess any Loan Party, its business or financial condition and (b) protect,
evaluate, assess or dispose of any of the Collateral pursuant to the terms of
the Loan Documents; and (ix) all costs and expenses, including outside
attorneys’ fees, fees, costs and expenses of accountants, advisors and
consultants and costs of settlement, incurred by Administrative Agent,
Collateral Agent and Lenders (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of
one law firm for Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Lenders,
collectively, unless more than one counsel is required due to actual or
potential conflicts of interest in the reasonable judgment of such persons, plus
any local counsel or foreign counsel) in enforcing any Obligations of or in
collecting any payments due from any Loan Party hereunder or under the other
Loan Documents (including in connection with the sale of, collection from, or
other realization upon any of the Collateral or the enforcement of the Loan
Documents) or in connection with any refinancing or restructuring of the credit
arrangements provided under this Agreement in the nature of a “work-out” or
pursuant to any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings.
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10.3
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Indemnity.
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In
addition to the payment of expenses pursuant to subsection 10.2, whether or not
the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, Company agrees to
defend (subject to Indemnitees’ selection of counsel), indemnify, pay and hold
harmless Agents and Lenders (including Issuing Lenders), and the officers,
directors, trustees, employees, agents, advisors and Affiliates of Agents and
Lenders (collectively, the “Indemnitees”), from and
against any and all Indemnified Liabilities (as hereinafter defined); provided that Company
shall not have any obligation to any Indemnitee hereunder with respect to any
Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities arise solely
from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or breach of obligations of that
Indemnitee as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction.
As used
herein, “Indemnified
Liabilities” means, collectively, any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages (including natural resource damages), penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, claims (including Environmental Claims), costs (including the
costs of any investigation, study, sampling, testing, abatement, cleanup,
removal, remediation or other response action necessary to remove, remediate,
clean up or xxxxx any Hazardous Materials Activity), expenses and disbursements
of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the reasonable fees and
disbursements of one law firm for the Lenders, unless more than one counsel is
required due to actual or potential conflicts of interest in the reasonable
judgment of an Indemnitee, plus any local counsel or foreign counsel) for
Indemnitees in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial
proceeding commenced or threatened by any Person, whether or not any such
Indemnitee shall be designated as a party or a potential party thereto, and any
fees or expenses incurred by Indemnitees in enforcing this indemnity), whether
direct, indirect or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or
foreign laws, statutes, rules or regulations (including securities and
commercial laws, statutes, rules or regulations and Environmental Laws), on
common law or equitable cause or on contract or otherwise, that may be imposed
on, incurred by, or asserted against any such Indemnitee, in any manner relating
to or arising out of (i) this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or the Related
Agreements or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including
Lenders’ agreement to make the Loans hereunder or the use or intended use of the
proceeds thereof or the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder or the use or
intended use of any thereof, the failure of an Issuing Lender to honor a drawing
under a Letter of Credit as a result of any act or omission, whether rightful or
wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de facto Government Authority or
any enforcement of any of the Loan Documents (including any sale of, collection
from, or other realization upon any of the Collateral or the enforcement of the
Guaranty)), (ii) the representations of any Loan Party contained in the
commitment letter delivered by any Lender to Company with respect thereto, or
(iii) any Environmental Claim or any Hazardous Materials Activity relating to or
arising from, directly or indirectly, any past or present activity, operation,
land ownership, or practice of Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that
“Indemnified Liabilities” shall exclude Excluded Taxes payable with respect to
any Tax claim under subsection 2.7 and shall be without duplication of amounts
payable under subsection 2.7.
To the
extent that the undertakings to defend, indemnify, pay and hold harmless set
forth in this subsection 10.3 may be unenforceable in whole or in part because
they are violative of any law or public policy, Company shall contribute the
maximum portion that it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable law to
the payment and satisfaction of all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by
Indemnitees or any of them.
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10.4
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Set-Off.
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In
addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by
way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of any Event of Default each of Lenders and their Affiliates is
hereby authorized by Company at any time or from time to time, without notice to
Company or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived,
to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or
special, time or demand, provisional or final, including Indebtedness evidenced
by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured, but not including
trust accounts) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by that
Lender or any Affiliate of that Lender to or for the credit or the account of
Company and each other Loan Party against and on account of the Obligations of
any Loan Party to that Lender (or any Affiliate of that Lender) or to any other
Lender (or any Affiliate of any other Lender) under this Agreement, the Letters
of Credit and participations therein and the other Loan Documents, including all
claims of any nature or description arising out of or connected with this
Agreement, the Letters of Credit and participations therein or any other Loan
Document, irrespective of whether or not (i) that Lender shall have made
any demand hereunder or (ii) the principal of or the interest on the Loans
or any amounts in respect of the Letters of Credit or any other amounts due
hereunder shall have become due and payable pursuant to Section 8 and
although said obligations and liabilities, or any of them, may be contingent or
unmatured.
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10.5
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Ratable
Sharing.
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Lenders
hereby agree among themselves that if any of them shall, whether by voluntary or
mandatory payment (other than a payment or prepayment of Loans made and applied
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), by realization upon security,
through the exercise of any right of set-off or banker’s lien, by counterclaim
or cross action or by the enforcement of any right under the Loan Documents or
otherwise, or as adequate protection of a deposit treated as cash collateral
under the Bankruptcy Code, receive payment or reduction of a proportion of the
aggregate amount of principal, interest, amounts payable in respect of Letters
of Credit, fees and other amounts then due and owing to that Lender hereunder or
under the other Loan Documents (collectively, the “Aggregate Amounts Due” to such
Lender) that is greater than the proportion received by any other Lender in
respect of the Aggregate Amounts Due to such other Lender, then the Lender
receiving such proportionately greater payment shall, unless such
proportionately greater payment is required by the terms of this Agreement,
(i) notify Administrative Agent and each other Lender of the receipt of
such payment and (ii) apply a portion of such payment to purchase
assignments (which it shall be deemed to have purchased from each seller of an
assignment simultaneously upon the receipt by such seller of its portion of such
payment) of the Aggregate Amounts Due to the other Lenders so that all such
recoveries of Aggregate Amounts Due shall be shared by all Lenders in proportion
to the Aggregate Amounts Due to them; provided that
(a) if all or part of such proportionately greater payment received by such
purchasing Lender is thereafter recovered from such Lender upon the bankruptcy
or reorganization of Company or otherwise, those purchases shall be rescinded
and the purchase prices paid for such assignments shall be returned to such
purchasing Lender ratably to the extent of such recovery, but without interest,
and (b) the foregoing provisions shall not apply to (1) any payment made by
Company pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement
or (2) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment
(other than an assignment pursuant to this subsection 10.5) of or the sale
of a participation in any of its Obligations to any Eligible Assignee or
Participant pursuant to subsection 10.1B. Company expressly
consents to the foregoing arrangement and agrees that any purchaser of an
assignment so purchased may exercise any and all rights of a Lender as to such
assignment as fully as if that Lender had complied with the provisions of
subsection 10.1B with respect to such assignment. In order to
further evidence such assignment (and without prejudice to the effectiveness of
the assignment provisions set forth above), each purchasing Lender and each
selling Lender agree to enter into an Assignment Agreement at the request of a
selling Lender or a purchasing Lender, as the case may be, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to each such Lender.
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10.6
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Amendments and
Waivers.
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A. No
amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement or of the Notes, and no consent to any departure by Company therefrom,
shall in any event be effective without the written concurrence of Requisite
Lenders; provided that no such
amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent shall, without the
consent of:
(a) each
Lender with Obligations directly affected (whose consent shall be sufficient for
any such amendment, modification, termination or waiver without the consent of
Requisite Lenders) (1) reduce or forgive the principal amount of any Loan, (2)
postpone the scheduled final maturity date of any Loan, or postpone the date or
reduce or forgive the amount of any scheduled payment (but not prepayment) of
principal of any Loan, (3) postpone the date or reduce the amount of any
scheduled reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount, (4) postpone the
date on which any interest or any fees are payable, (5) decrease the interest
rate borne by any Loan (other than any waiver of any increase in the interest
rate applicable to any of the Loans pursuant to subsection 2.2E, but
including, for the purpose of being a change in the interest rate, any change in
the numerical levels of any financial ratio used in determining any interest
rate), decrease the amount of any fees payable hereunder (other than any waiver
of any increase in the fees applicable to Letters of Credit pursuant to
subsection 3.2 following an Event of Default), or change in any manner
provisions herein relating to whether the interest rate borne by any Loan is
payable in cash or in kind, (6) reduce the amount or postpone the due date of
any amount payable in respect of any Letter of Credit, (7) extend the
expiration date of any Letter of Credit beyond the Revolving Loan Commitment
Termination Date, (8) extend the Revolving Commitment Termination Date, (9)
change in any manner the obligations of Revolving Lenders relating to the
purchase of participations in Letters of Credit or (10) increase the
maximum duration of Interest Periods permitted hereunder;
(b) each
Lender adversely affected thereby, (1) change in any manner the definition
of “Class” or the definition of “Pro Rata Share” or the definition of “Requisite
Class Lenders” or the definition of “Requisite Lenders” (except for any changes
resulting solely from an increase in the aggregate amount of the Commitments or
Loans of any Class approved by Requisite Lenders), (2) change in any manner any
provision of this Agreement that, by its terms, expressly requires the approval
or concurrence of all Lenders or all affected Lenders, (3) release any Lien
granted in favor of Collateral Agent with respect to all or substantially all of
the Collateral or release all or substantially all of the Guarantors from their
obligations under the Guaranty, in each case other than in accordance with the
terms of the Loan Documents, or (4) change in any manner or waive the provisions
contained in subsection 2.4B(iv)(b), subsection 2.4D, subsection 8.1,
subsection 10.5 or this subsection 10.6; or
(c) the
Requisite Class Lenders of Revolving Loans (whose consent shall be sufficient
for any amendment, modification or waiver without any further action, including
consent of the Requisite Lenders), amend, modify or waive the provisions of
subsection 7.5.
B. In
addition, no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision
(i) of any Note shall be effective without the written concurrence of the
Lender which is the holder of that Note, (ii) of
subsection 2.1A(iii) or of any other provision of this Agreement
relating to the Swing Line Loan Commitment or the Swing Line Loans shall be
effective without the written concurrence of Swing Line Lender, (iii) of
Section 3 shall be effective without the written concurrence of Administrative
Agent and, with respect to the purchase of participations in Letters of Credit,
without the written concurrence of each Issuing Lender that has issued an
outstanding Letter of Credit or has not been reimbursed for a payment under a
Letter of Credit, (iv) of Section 9 or of any other provision of this
Agreement which, by its terms, expressly requires the approval or concurrence of
an Agent shall be effective without the written concurrence of such Agent,
(v) of subsection 2.4 that alters the application of any mandatory or
voluntary prepayment as between Classes without the written concurrence of
Requisite Class Lenders of each Class that is being allocated a lesser amount of
any such prepayment as a result thereof, provided that
Requisite Lenders may waive, in whole or in part, any mandatory prepayment and
Requisite Lenders (in addition to each Lender that thereby increases its
Commitment) may increase the aggregate amount of the Commitments, in each case
so long as the application, as between Classes, of any portion of such
prepayment which is still required to be made is not altered; (vi) that
increases the amount of a Commitment of a Lender shall be effective without the
consent of such Lender; and (vii) that increases the maximum amount of Letters
of Credit shall be effective without the consent of Revolving Lenders
constituting Requisite Class Lenders.
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C. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the
written consent of the Requisite Lenders, Administrative Agent and Company (a)
to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit
the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the
accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and the
Revolving Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (b) to
include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any
determination of the Requisite Lenders.
In
addition, notwithstanding the foregoing this Agreement may be amended with the
written consent of Administrative Agent, Company and the Lenders providing the
relevant Replacement Term Loans (as defined below) to permit the refinancing of
all outstanding Term Loans (“Refinanced Term Loans”), with
a replacement term loan tranche denominated in Dollars (“Replacement Term Loans”);
provided that
(a) the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans, shall not
exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Refinanced Term Loans, (b) the
Base Rate Margin and Eurodollar Rate Margin for such Replacement Term Loans
shall not be higher than such Margin for such Refinanced Term Loans, (c) the
weighted average life to maturity of such Replacement Term Loans, shall not be
shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of such Refinanced Term
Loans, at the time of such refinancing (except to the extent of nominal
amortization for periods where amortization has been eliminated as a result of
prepayment of the applicable Term Loans) and (d) all other terms applicable to
such Replacement Term Loans, shall be substantially identical to, or less
favorable to the Lenders providing such Replacement Term Loans, than, those
applicable to such Refinanced Term Loans, except to the extent necessary to
provide for covenants and other terms applicable to any period after the latest
final maturity of the Term Loans in effect immediately prior to such
refinancing.
D. Administrative
Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, with the concurrence of any Lender,
execute amendments, modifications, waivers or consents on behalf of that
Lender. Any waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific
instance and for the specific purpose for which it was given. No
notice to or demand on Company in any case shall entitle Company to any other or
further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances. Any
amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent effected in accordance
with this subsection 10.6 shall be binding upon each Lender at the time
outstanding, each future Lender and, if signed by Company, on
Company.
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10.7
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Independence of
Covenants.
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All
covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular
action or condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it
would be permitted by an exception to, or would otherwise be within the
limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of an Event of
Default or Potential Event of Default if such action is taken or condition
exists.
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10.8
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Notices; Effectiveness
of Signatures.
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Unless
otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other communication herein
required or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally
served, or sent by telefacsimile or United States mail or courier service and
shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier
service, upon receipt of telefacsimile in complete and legible form, or three
Business Days after depositing it in the United States mail with postage prepaid
and properly addressed; provided that notices
to Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Swing Line Lender and any Issuing
Lender shall not be effective until received. For the purposes
hereof, the address of each party hereto shall be as set forth under such
party’s name on the signature pages hereof or (i) as to Company,
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, such other address as shall be
designated by such Person in a written notice delivered to the other parties
hereto and (ii) as to each other party, such other address as shall be
designated by such party in a written notice delivered to Administrative
Agent.
Electronic
mail and Internet and intranet websites may be used to distribute routine
communications, such as financial statements and other information as provided
in subsection 6.1. Administrative Agent or Company may, in its
discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by
electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that
approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications. Company hereby agrees, unless directed otherwise by
Administrative Agent or unless the electronic mail address referred to below has
not been provided by Administrative Agent to Company, that it will, or will
cause its Subsidiaries to, provide to Administrative Agent all information,
documents and other materials that it is obligated to furnish to Administrative
Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents, or to the Lenders under subsection 6.1,
including all notices, requests, financial statements, financial and other
reports, certificates and other information materials, but excluding any such
communication that (a) is or relates to a Notice of Borrowing, a Notice of
Conversion/ Continuation or a Notice of Prepayment, (b) relates to the payment
of any principal or other amount due under this Agreement prior to the scheduled
date therefor, (c) provides notice of any Potential Event of Default or Event of
Default under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or (d) is required to be
delivered to satisfy any condition precedent to the effectiveness of this
Agreement and/or the Loans (all such non-excluded communications being referred
to herein collectively as “Communications”), by
transmitting the Communications in an electronic/soft medium that is properly
identified in a format acceptable to Administrative Agent to
xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xx.xxx (or at such other electronic mail address as directed by
Administrative Agent). In addition, Company agrees, and agrees to
cause its Subsidiaries, to continue to provide the Communications to
Administrative Agent or the Lenders, as the case may be, in the manner specified
in the Loan Documents but only to the extent requested by Administrative
Agent.
Company
further agrees that Administrative Agent may make the Communications available
to the Lenders by posting the Communications on IntraLinks or a substantially
similar electronic transmission system.
Loan
Documents and notices under the Loan Documents may be transmitted and/or signed
by telefacsimile and by signatures delivered in “PDF” format by electronic
mail. The effectiveness of any such documents and signatures shall,
subject to applicable law, have the same force and effect as an original copy
with manual signatures and shall be binding on all Loan Parties, Agents and
Lenders. Administrative Agent may also require that any such
documents and signature be confirmed by a manually-signed copy thereof; provided, however, that the
failure to request or deliver any such manually-signed copy shall not affect the
effectiveness of any facsimile document or signature.
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10.9
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Survival of
Representations, Warranties and
Agreements.
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A. All
representations, warranties and agreements made herein shall survive the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans and the
issuance of the Letters of Credit hereunder.
B. Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement or implied by law to the contrary, the agreements of
Company set forth in subsections 2.6D, 2.7, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.15, 10.16,
10.17 and 10.18 and the agreements of Lenders set forth in subsections 9.2C,
9.4, 10.5, 10.15, 10.16 and 10.18 shall survive the payment of the Loans, the
cancellation or expiration of the Letters of Credit and the reimbursement of any
amounts drawn thereunder, and the termination of this Agreement.
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Failure or Indulgence
Not Waiver; Remedies
Cumulative.
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No
failure or delay on the part of an Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any
power, right or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall
impair such power, right or privilege or be construed to be a waiver of any
default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
such power, right or privilege preclude other or further exercise thereof or of
any other power, right or privilege. All rights and remedies existing
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are cumulative to, and not
exclusive of, any rights or remedies otherwise available.
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Marshalling; Payments
Set Aside.
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Neither
any Agent nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in
favor of Company or any other party or against or in payment of any or all of
the Obligations. To the extent that Company makes a payment or
payments to Administrative Agent or Lenders (or to Administrative Agent for the
benefit of Lenders), or Agents or Lenders enforce any security interests or
exercise their rights of setoff, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of
such enforcement or setoff or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated,
declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside and/or required to be
repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party under any bankruptcy law, any
other state or federal law, common law or any equitable cause, then, to the
extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to
be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor or related thereto,
shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment or
payments had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not
occurred.
10.12
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Severability.
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In case
any provision in or obligation under this Agreement or the Notes shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such
provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
10.13
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Obligations Several;
Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights; Damage
Waiver.
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The
obligations of Lenders hereunder are several and no Lender shall be responsible
for the obligations or Commitments of any other Lender
hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other Loan Document,
and no action taken by Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to
constitute Lenders, or Lenders and Company, as a partnership, an association, a
Joint Venture or any other kind of entity. The amounts payable at any
time hereunder to each Lender shall be a separate and independent debt, and,
subject to subsection 9.6, each Lender shall be entitled to protect and
enforce its rights arising out of this Agreement and it shall not be necessary
for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for
such purpose.
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To the
extent permitted by law, Company shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim
against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect,
consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages)
arising out of, in connection with or as a result of this Agreement (including
subsection 2.1C hereof), any other Loan Document, any transaction
contemplated by the Loan Documents, any Loan or the use of proceeds
thereof. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from
the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials
distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information
transmission systems in connection with the Loan Documents or the transactions
contemplated thereby.
10.14
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Release of Security
Interest or Guaranty.
|
Upon the
proposed sale or other disposition of any Collateral with an aggregate value in
excess of $500,000 in any single transaction or related series of transactions
to any Person that is permitted by this Agreement or to which Requisite Lenders
(or such greater number of Lenders as may be required pursuant to subsection
10.6) have otherwise consented, or the sale or other disposition of the Capital
Stock with an aggregate value in excess of $500,000 in any single transaction or
related series of transactions of a Guarantor such that such Guarantor ceases to
be a Subsidiary to any Person that is permitted by this Agreement or to which
Requisite Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be required pursuant
to subsection 10.6) have otherwise consented (in each case other than sales or
dispositions of inventory and services in the ordinary course of business), such
Loan Party shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate (i) stating that the
Collateral or the Capital Stock subject to such disposition is being sold or
otherwise disposed of in compliance with the terms hereof and
(ii) specifying the Collateral or Capital Stock being sold or otherwise
disposed of in the proposed transaction. Upon the receipt of such
Officer’s Certificate, Administrative Agent shall, at such Loan Party’s expense,
so long as Administrative Agent (a) has no reason to believe that the facts
stated in such Officer’s Certificate are not true and correct and (b), if the
sale or other disposition of such item of Collateral or Capital Stock
constitutes an Asset Sale, shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that
arrangements satisfactory to it have been made for delivery of the Net Asset
Sale Proceeds if and as required by subsection 2.4, promptly execute and
deliver such releases of its security interest in such Collateral or such
Guaranty, as may be reasonably requested by such Loan Party.
10.15
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Applicable
Law.
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THIS
AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS (EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH
IN ANY SUCH LOAN DOCUMENT) AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
(INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE
APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW.
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10.16
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Construction of
Agreement; Nature of
Relationship.
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Each of
the parties hereto acknowledges that (i) it has been represented by counsel
in the negotiation and documentation of the terms of this Agreement,
(ii) it has had full and fair opportunity to review and revise the terms of
this Agreement, (iii) this Agreement has been drafted jointly by all of the
parties hereto, and (iv) neither Administrative Agent nor any Lender or
other Agent has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to Company arising out
of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and
the relationship between Administrative Agent, the other Agents and Lenders, on
one hand, and Company, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is
solely that of debtor and creditor. Accordingly, each of the parties
hereto acknowledges and agrees that the terms of this Agreement shall not be
construed against or in favor of another party.
10.17
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Consent to
Jurisdiction and Service of
Process.
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ALL
JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST COMPANY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR ANY OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER AND
THEREUNDER, MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION IN XXX XXXXX, XXXXXX XXX XXXX XX XXX XXXX. BY EXECUTING
AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, COMPANY, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS
PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY
(I)
ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH
COURTS;
(II)
WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON
CONVENIENS;
(III)AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN
ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED
MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO COMPANY AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SUBSECTION 10.8;
(IV)AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN
CLAUSE (III) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER COMPANY IN
ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND
BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT;
(V)
AGREES THAT LENDERS RETAIN THE
RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST COMPANY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION;
AND
(VI)AGREES THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SUBSECTION 10.17 RELATING TO JURISDICTION AND VENUE SHALL BE BINDING AND
ENFORCEABLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS
LAW SECTION 5-1402 OR OTHERWISE.
10.18
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Waiver of Jury
Trial.
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EACH
OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO
A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS
AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM
RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS LOAN TRANSACTION OR THE LENDER/COMPANY
RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS
INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY
COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING
CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND
STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS
A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS
ALREADY RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH
WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE
DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT
HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND
VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL
COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE
MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER
SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SUBSECTION 10.18 AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE
PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS,
RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENTS OR TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS OR AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE LOANS
MADE HEREUNDER. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE
FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.
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10.19
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Confidentiality.
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Each
Lender shall hold all non-public information obtained pursuant to the
requirements of this Agreement or any other Loan Documents in accordance with
such Lender’s customary procedures for handling confidential information of this
nature, it being understood and agreed by Company that in any event a Lender may
make disclosures (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers,
trustees, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other
advisors in connection with the transactions hereunder (it being understood that
the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential
nature of such information and instructed to keep such information
confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any Government Authority,
(c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any
subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this
Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or
any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or the enforcement of
rights hereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions
substantially the same as those of this subsection 10.19, to (i) any
Eligible Assignee of or participant in, or any prospective Eligible Assignee of
or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (ii)
any pledgee pursuant to subsection 10.1D or (iii) any direct or indirect
contractual counterparty or prospective counterparty (or such contractual
counterparty’s or prospective counterparty’s professional advisor) to any credit
derivative transaction relating to obligations of Company, (g) with the
consent of Company, (h) to the extent such information (i) becomes
publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this
subsection 10.19 or (ii) becomes available to Administrative Agent or
any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than Holdings or any
of its Subsidiaries, (i) to the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners or any other similar organization or any nationally recognized
rating agency that requires access to information about a Lender’s or its
Affiliates’ investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect
to such Lender or its Affiliates and that no written or oral communications from
counsel to an Agent and no information that is or is designated as privileged or
as attorney work product may be disclosed to any Person unless such Person is a
Lender or a Participant hereunder, (j) to a Person that is an investor or
prospective investor in a Securitization (as defined below) that agrees that its
access to information regarding Company and the Loans is solely for purposes of
evaluating an investment in such Securitization (as defined below), or (k) to a
Person that is a trustee, collateral manager, servicer, noteholder or secured
party in a Securitization (as defined below) in connection with the
administration, servicing and reporting on the assets serving as collateral for
such Securitization; provided that, unless
specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, each Lender shall
notify Company of any request by any Government Authority or representative
thereof (other than any such request in connection with any examination of the
financial condition of such Lender by such Government Authority) for disclosure
of any such non-public information prior to disclosure of such information; and,
provided, further, that in no
event shall any Lender be obligated or required to return any materials
furnished by Company or any of its Subsidiaries. In addition,
(i) Administrative Agent and Lenders may disclose the existence of this
Agreement and information about this Agreement in customary marketing materials
and to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry
and service providers to Administrative Agent and Lenders, and
(ii) Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates may place customary
“tombstone” advertisements relating hereto in publications (including
publications circulated or otherwise made available in electronic form) of its
choice at its own expense, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) including
information such as the identity and titles of the parties hereto, the types and
amounts of the facilities provided herein and other general information relating
hereto, but not the express terms and conditions of the covenants and other
agreements contained herein. For purposes hereof, “Securitization” means a public
or private offering by a Lender or any of its Affiliates or their respective
successors and assigns, of securities which represent an interest in, or which
are collateralized, in whole or in part, by the Loans and the Loan
Documents.
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10.20
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness.
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This
Agreement and any amendments, waivers, consents or supplements hereto or in
connection herewith may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts
together shall constitute but one and the same instrument; signature pages may
be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single
counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to the same
document. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of
a counterpart hereof by each of the parties hereto.
Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, information required to be treated as
confidential by reason of the foregoing shall not include, and Administrative
Agent and each Lender may disclose to any and all Persons, without limitation of
any kind, any information with respect to United States federal income tax
treatment and United States federal income tax structure of the transactions
contemplated hereby and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other
tax analyses) that are provided to Administrative Agent or such Lender relating
to such tax treatment and tax structure.
10.21
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USA Patriot
Act.
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Each
Lender hereby notifies Company that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot
Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies
Loan Parties, which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party
and other information that will allow such Lender to identify such Loan Party in
accordance with the Patriot Act.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by
their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written
above.
COMPANY:
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INTRALINKS,
INC.
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Title:
Senior Vice President and Secretary
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Notice
Address:
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IntraLinks,
Inc.
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0000
Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
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Attention:
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Xxxx
Xxxxx, Esq.
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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with
a copy to:
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Xxxxxxx
Procter LLP
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Exchange
Place
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00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Attention:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq.
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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First Lien
Credit Agreement
HOLDINGS:
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TA
INDIGO HOLDING CORPORATION
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx X.
Xxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
Senior Vice President
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Notice
Address:
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TA
Indigo Holding Corporation
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c/o
TA Associates
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Tower
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000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Attention:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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and
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TA
Indigo Holding Corporation
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c/o
Rho Capital Partners
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Carnegie
Hall Tower
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000
Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
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Attention:
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Skip
Besthoff
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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with
a copy to:
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Xxxxxxx
Procter LLP
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Exchange
Place
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00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Attention:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq.
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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First Lien
Credit Agreement
AGENTS
AND SWING LINE LENDER:
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DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS, individually
and as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Swing Line
Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx
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Name:
Xxxx X’Xxxxx
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Title:
Vice President
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
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Notice
Address for Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent (to be used for all
notices other than notices from Company pursuant to Sections 2 and
3):
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00
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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M.S.
NYC60-0208
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
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Attention:
|
Xxxx
X’Xxxxx
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||
Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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Notice
Address for Administrative Agent and Swing Line Lender (to be used solely
for notices from Company pursuant to Section 2):
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000
Xxxxx Xxx
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Xxxxxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
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Attention:
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Xxx
Xxxxxx, Deal Administration
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
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First Lien
Credit Agreement
ISSUING
LENDERS:
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DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
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AMERICAS,
as an Issuing Lender for Commercial Letters of Credit
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx
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Name:
Xxxx X’Xxxxx
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Title:
Vice President
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
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Notice
Address:
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00
Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
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Attention:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Trade and Risk Services
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Telephone:
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(000)
000-0000
|
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Facsimile:
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(000)
000-0000
|
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DEUTSCHE
BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as
an Issuing Lender for Standby Letters of Credit
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx
|
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Name:
Xxxx X’Xxxxx
|
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Title:
Vice President
|
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxxx
|
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Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
|
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Notice
Address:
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00
Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
|
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Attention:
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Everardus
(Xxx) Rozing, Standby Letters of Credit
|
||
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
||
Facsimile:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
First Lien
Credit Agreement
LENDERS:
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DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
|
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AMERICAS,
as a Lender
|
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By:
|
/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx
|
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Name:
Xxxx X’Xxxxx
|
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Title:
Vice President
|
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By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxxx
|
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Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
|
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Title:
Director
|
|||
Notice
Address:
|
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000
Xxxxx Xxx
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Xxxxxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
|
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Attention:
|
Xxx
Xxxxxx, Deal Administration
|
||
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
||
Facsimile:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
||
CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS
BRANCH,
|
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as
a Lender
|
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By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xx
|
||
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xx
|
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Title:
Director
|
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By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
|
||
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
|
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Title:
Associate
|
|||
Notice
Address:
|
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Eleven
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
|
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Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
|
|||
Attention:
|
Xxx
Xxxxxxx
|
||
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
||
Facsimile:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
First Lien
Credit Agreement
ING CAPITAL
LLC,
|
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as
a Lender
|
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By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
|
||
Name:
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
|
|||
Title:
Director
|
|||
Notice
Address:
|
|||
0000
Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
|
|||
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
|
|||
Attention:
|
Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx
|
||
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
||
Facsimile:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
First Lien
Credit Agreement
EXHIBIT
I
[FORM
OF] NOTICE OF BORROWING
DATED: ____________
Pursuant
to that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June
[ ], 2007, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
through the date hereof (said First Lien Credit Agreement, as so amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified, being the “Credit Agreement”, the terms
defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein
defined), by and among IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), TA Indigo Holding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), the financial
institutions listed therein as Lenders (“Lenders”), Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint Lead Arrangers
and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas (“DB”), as administrative agent
for Lenders (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral
agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) and as syndication
agent, and ING Capital LLC, as documentation agent, this represents Company’s
request to borrow as follows:
1.
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Date of
borrowing: _______________, ____
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2.
|
Amount of
borrowing: $___________________
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3.
|
Lender(s):
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[ ]
a.
|
Lenders,
in accordance with their applicable Pro Rata Shares
|
||
[ ]
b.
|
Swing
Line Lender
|
||
4.
|
Type of
Loans:
|
||
[ ]
a.
|
Term
Loans
|
||
[ ]
b.
|
Revolving
Loans
|
||
[ ]
c.
|
Swing
Line Loan
|
||
5.
|
Interest rate
option:
|
||
[ ]
a.
|
Base
Rate Loan(s)
|
||
[ ]
b.
|
Eurodollar
Rate Loans with an initial Interest Period of ____________
month(s)
|
The
proceeds of such Loans are to be deposited in Company’s account at
_________________.
I-1
Notice of
Borrowing
The
undersigned officer, to the best of his or her knowledge, certifies on behalf of
Company that:
(i)The [Specified Representations]1 [representations and
warranties] contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are
true and correct in all material respects (except that any representation and
warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect”
shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date hereof to the
same extent as though made on and as of the date hereof, except to the extent
such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in
which case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all
material respects on and as of such earlier date;
(ii)[the representations made by or with
respect to the Target in the Merger Agreement that are material to the interests
of the Lenders are true and correct in all material respects (except that any
representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or “Company
Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the
date of the Merger Agreement (except to the extent such representations and
warranties speak as of an earlier date, in which case such representations and
warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (except
that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or
“Company Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects) on
and as of such earlier date) and as of the Closing Date, as though made on and
as of the Closing Date] 2; and
(iii)No event has occurred and is
continuing or would result from the consummation of the borrowing contemplated
hereby that would constitute an Event of Default or a Potential Event of
Default.
TA INDIGO HOLDING
CORPORATION
|
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By:
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Name:
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Title:]
3
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I-2
Notice of
Borrowing
INTRALINKS,
INC.
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By:
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Name:
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||
Title:] 4
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I-3
Notice of
Borrowing
EXHIBIT
II
[FORM
OF] NOTICE OF CONVERSION/CONTINUATION
DATED: ____________
Pursuant
to that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of
June [ ], 2007, as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified to the date hereof (said First Lien Credit Agreement, as so
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, being the “Credit Agreement”, the terms
defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein
defined), by and among IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), TA Indigo Holding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the financial institutions listed therein
as Lenders, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas (“DB”), as administrative agent
for Lenders (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral
agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) and as syndication
agent, and ING Capital LLC, as documentation agent, this represents Company’s
request to convert or continue Loans as follows:
1.
|
Date
of conversion/continuation: _______________,
____
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||
2.
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Amount
of Loans being
converted/continued: $___________________
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3.
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Type
of Loans being converted/continued:
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[ ]
a.
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Term
Loans
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||
[ ]
b.
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Revolving
Loans
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4.
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Nature
of conversion/continuation:
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||
[ ]
a.
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Conversion
of Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans
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||
[ ]
b.
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Conversion
of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans
|
||
[ ]
c.
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Continuation
of Eurodollar Rate Loans as such
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||
5.
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If
Loans are being continued as or converted to Eurodollar Rate Loans, the
duration of the new Interest Period that commences on the
conversion/continuation date: _______________
month(s)
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In the
case of a conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, the
undersigned officer, to the best of his or her knowledge, certifies on behalf of
the Company that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the
Credit Agreement.
.
II-1
Notice of
Conversion/Continuation
INTRALINKS,
INC.
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By:
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||
Name:
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Title:
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I-2
Notice of
Borrowing
EXHIBIT
III
[FORM
OF] REQUEST FOR ISSUANCE
DATED: ____________
Pursuant
to that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June
[ ], 2007, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified to
the date hereof (said First Lien Credit Agreement, as so amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified, being the “Credit Agreement”, the terms
defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein
defined), by and among IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), TA Indigo Holding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the financial institutions listed therein
as Lenders, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas (“DB”), as administrative agent
for Lenders (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral
agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) and as syndication
agent, and ING Capital LLC, as documentation agent, this represents Company’s
request for the issuance of a Letter of Credit by Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas as follows:
1.
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Issuing Lender: [Administrative Agent] | ||
[_________________________________]
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2.
|
Date of issuance of
Letter of Credit: ________________,
________
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||
3.
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Type of Letter of
Credit:
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||
[ ]
a.
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Commercial
Letter of Credit
|
||
[ ]
b.
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Standby
Letter of Credit
|
||
4.
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Face amount of Letter
of Credit: $________________________
|
||
5.
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Expiration date of
Letter of Credit: ________________,
________
|
||
6.
|
Currency in which
Letter of Credit is to be
denominated: _____________
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||
7.
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Name and address of
beneficiary:
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___________________________________________
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___________________________________________
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___________________________________________
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___________________________________________
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8.
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Attached
hereto is:
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||
[ ]
|
the
verbatim text of such proposed Letter of Credit
|
||
[ ]
|
a
description of the proposed terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit,
including a precise description of any documents to be presented by the
beneficiary which, if presented by the beneficiary prior to the expiration
date of such Letter of Credit, would require the Issuing Lender to make
payment under such Letter of
Credit.
|
III-1
Request
for Issuance
The
undersigned officer, to the best of his or her knowledge, certifies on behalf of
the Company that:
(i)The representations and warranties
contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and
correct in all material respects (except that any representation and warranty
that is qualified as to “materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect” shall be true
and correct in all respects) on and as of the date hereof to the same extent as
though made on and as of the date hereof, except to the extent such
representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which
case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all material
respects on and as of such earlier date; and
(ii)No event has occurred and is
continuing or would result from the issuance of the Letter of Credit
contemplated hereby that would constitute an Event of Default or a Potential
Event of Default.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
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By:
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||
Name:
|
||
Title:
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III-2
Request
for Issuance
EXHIBIT
IV
[FORM
OF] NOTICE OF PREPAYMENT
DATED: ____________
Pursuant
to that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June [ ],
2007, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified to the date hereof (said
First Lien Credit Agreement, as so amended, supplemented or otherwise modified,
being the “Credit
Agreement”, the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein
being used herein as therein defined), by and among IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“Company”),
TA Indigo Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), the financial
institutions listed therein as Lenders (“Lenders”), Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint Lead Arrangers
and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas (“DB”), as administrative agent
for Lenders (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral
agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) and as syndication
agent, and ING Capital LLC, as documentation agent, this represents Company’s
notice of prepayment as follows:
1.
|
Date of
Notice: ________________, ________
|
||
2.
|
Type of
Prepayment/Reduction/Termination:
|
||
[ ]
a.
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Voluntary
prepayment of:
|
||
[ ]
i.
|
Swing
Line Loan
|
||
[ ]
ii.
|
Term
Loan
|
||
[ ]
iii.
|
Revolving
Loan
|
||
[ ]
b.
|
Voluntary
reduction/termination of Revolving Loan Commitments
|
||
[ ]
c.
|
Mandatory
prepayment of Term Loans and/or reduction of Revolving Loan Commitment
Amount (specify the circumstance requiring said prepayment and/or
reduction by checking the appropriate box below):
|
||
[ ]
i.
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Receipt
of Net Asset Sale Proceeds that will not be reinvested
|
||
[ ]
ii.
|
Receipt
of Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds that will not be
reinvested
|
||
[ ]
iii.
|
Receipt
of Net Securities Proceeds from the issuance of Indebtedness of Holdings
or any of its Subsidiaries
|
||
[ ]
iv.
|
Consolidated
Excess Cash
Flow
|
IV-1
Notice of
Prepayment
3.
|
Amount of
Prepayment/Reduction of Revolving Loan Commitment Amount (as
applicable):
|
|
[ ]
a.
|
Voluntary/mandatory
prepayment:1 $___________
|
|
[ ]
b.
|
Reduction/termination
of Revolving Loan Commitment Amount:2 $__________
|
|
4.
|
If
applicable, specify desired application of voluntary prepayment:3
|
|
5.
|
Date
of prepayment or date reduction/termination of Revolving Loan Commitment
Amount will take effect: __________,
________
|
|
6.
|
Attached
hereto is (if applicable) a calculation of the amount of the applicable
Net Asset Sale Proceeds, Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, Net
Securities Proceeds, or Consolidated Excess Cash Flow, as the case may be,
that gave rise to a mandatory prepayment.
|
|
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned authorized officer of Company has executed this
notice as of the date set forth above.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
|
||
By:
|
||
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
2This
option should be selected only if a termination or reduction of the Revolving
Loan Commitment Amount is the subject of this notice.
3Irrespective
of any application specified by Company, voluntary prepayments shall first be
applied as specified in subsection 2.4B(iv)(a) of the Credit
Agreement.
IV-2
Notice of
Prepayment
EXHIBIT
V-1
[FORM
OF] TERM NOTE
INTRALINKS,
INC.
$_____________________1
|
______________________2
|
[________],
2007
|
FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, INTRALINKS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), promises to pay to
__________________3
(“Payee”) or its
registered assigns the principal amount of _________________4
($[________________________]). The principal amount of this Note
shall be payable on the dates and in the amounts specified in the below
referenced Credit Agreement; provided that the
last such installment shall be in an amount sufficient to repay the entire
unpaid principal balance of this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid
interest thereon.
Company
also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof, until paid
in full, at the rates and at the times which shall be determined in accordance
with the provisions of that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June
[ ], 2007 by and among Company, TA Indigo Holding Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, the financial institutions listed therein as Lenders,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint
Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank Trust
Company Americas, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders
and as Syndication Agent, and ING Capital LLC, as Documentation Agent (said
First Lien Credit Agreement, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, being the “Credit Agreement”, the terms defined
therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein
defined).
This Note
is one of Company’s “Term Notes” and is issued pursuant to and entitled to the
benefits of the Credit Agreement, to which reference is hereby made for a more
complete statement of the terms and conditions under which the Term Loan
evidenced hereby was made and is to be repaid.
All
payments of principal and interest in respect of this Note shall be made in
lawful money of the United States of America in same day funds at the Funding
and Payment Office or at such other place as shall be designated in writing for
such purpose in accordance with the terms of the Credit
Agreement. Unless and until an Assignment Agreement effecting the
assignment or transfer of this Note shall have been accepted by Administrative
Agent and recorded in the Register as provided in the Credit Agreement, Company
and Administrative Agent shall be entitled to deem and treat Payee as the owner
and holder of this Note and the Loan evidenced hereby. Payee hereby
agrees, by its acceptance hereof, that before disposing of this Note or any part
hereof it will make a notation hereon of all principal payments previously made
hereunder and of the date to which interest hereon has been paid; provided, however, that the
failure to make a notation of any payment made on this Note shall not limit or
otherwise affect the obligations of Company hereunder with respect to payments
of principal of or interest on this Note.
Whenever
any payment on this Note shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and
such extension of time shall be included in the computation of the payment of
interest on this Note.
This Note
is subject to mandatory prepayment as provided in the Credit Agreement and to
prepayment at the option of Company as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
THIS
NOTE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREUNDER SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL
OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW. THIS NOTE
INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE, AND COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREBY AGREE TO BE SUBJECT TO,
THE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN SUBSECTION 10.17 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
Upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the unpaid balance of the principal amount of
this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, may become, or
may be declared to be, due and payable in the manner, upon the conditions and
with the effect provided in the Credit Agreement.
The terms
of this Note are subject to amendment only in the manner provided in the Credit
Agreement.
This Note
is subject to restrictions on transfer or assignment as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
No
reference herein to the Credit Agreement and no provision of this Note or the
Credit Agreement shall alter or impair the obligations of Company, which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the place, at the respective times, and in the currency prescribed herein and in
the Credit Agreement.
Company
promises to pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees,
all as provided in the Credit Agreement, incurred in the collection and
enforcement of this Note. [Company and any endorsers of this Note
hereby consent to renewals and extensions of time at or after the maturity
hereof, without notice,] and hereby waive diligence, presentment, protest,
demand and [notice of every kind and,] to the full extent permitted by law, the
right to plead any statute of limitations as a defense to any demand
hereunder.
V-2
Term
Note
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, Company has caused this Note to be duly executed and delivered
by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date and at the place first
written above.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
|
||
By:
|
||
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
V-3
Term
Note
EXHIBIT
VI
[FORM
OF] REVOLVING NOTE
INTRALINKS,
INC.
$_____________________1
|
______________________2
|
[________],
2007
|
FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, INTRALINKS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), promises to pay to
________________3
(“Payee”) or its
registered assigns, the lesser of (x) _______________________4 ($[____________________])
and (y) the unpaid principal amount of all advances made by Payee to
Company as Revolving Loans under the Credit Agreement referred to
below. The principal amount of this Note shall be payable on the
dates and in the amounts specified in the Credit Agreement.
Company
also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof, until paid
in full, at the rates and at the times which shall be determined in accordance
with the provisions of that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June
[ ], 2007 by and among Company, TA Indigo Holding Company, a Delaware
corporation, the financial institutions listed therein as Lenders, Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint Lead Arrangers
and Joint Bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative
Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders and as Syndication Agent, and ING
Capital LLC, as Documentation Agent (said First Lien Credit Agreement, as it may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, being the
“Credit Agreement”, the
terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as
therein defined).
This Note
is one of Company’s “Revolving Notes” and is issued pursuant to and entitled to
the benefits of the Credit Agreement, to which reference is hereby made for a
more complete statement of the terms and conditions under which the Revolving
Loans evidenced hereby were made and are to be repaid.
All
payments of principal and interest in respect of this Note shall be made in
lawful money of the United States of America in same day funds at the Funding
and Payment Office or at such other place as shall be designated in writing for
such purpose in accordance with the terms of the Credit
Agreement. Unless and until an Assignment Agreement effecting the
assignment or transfer of this Note shall have been accepted by Administrative
Agent and recorded in the Register as provided in the Credit Agreement, Company
and Administrative Agent shall be entitled to deem and treat Payee as the owner
and holder of this Note and the Loans evidenced hereby. Payee hereby
agrees, by its acceptance hereof, that before disposing of this Note or any part
hereof it will make a notation hereon of all principal payments previously made
hereunder and of the date to which interest hereon has been paid; provided, however, that the
failure to make a notation of any payment made on this Note shall not limit or
otherwise affect the obligations of Company hereunder with respect to payments
of principal of or interest on this Note.
VI-1
Revolving
Note
Whenever
any payment on this Note shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and
such extension of time shall be included in the computation of the payment of
interest on this Note.
This Note
is subject to mandatory prepayment as provided in the Credit Agreement and to
prepayment at the option of Company as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
THIS
NOTE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREUNDER SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL
OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW. THIS NOTE
INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE, AND COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREBY AGREE TO BE SUBJECT TO,
THE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN SUBSECTION 10.17 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
Upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the unpaid balance of the principal amount of
this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, may become, or
may be declared to be, due and payable in the manner, upon the conditions and
with the effect provided in the Credit Agreement.
The terms
of this Note are subject to amendment only in the manner provided in the Credit
Agreement.
This Note
is subject to restrictions on transfer or assignment as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
No
reference herein to the Credit Agreement and no provision of this Note or the
Credit Agreement shall alter or impair the obligations of Company, which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the place, at the respective times, and in the currency prescribed herein and in
the Credit Agreement.
Company
promises to pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees,
all as provided in the Credit Agreement, incurred in the collection and
enforcement of this Note. Company and any endorsers of this Note
hereby consent to renewals and extensions of time at or after the maturity
hereof, without notice, and hereby waive diligence, presentment, protest, demand
and notice of every kind and, to the full extent permitted by law, the right to
plead any statute of limitations as a defense to any demand
hereunder.
VI-2
Revolving
Note
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, Company has caused this Note to be duly executed and delivered
by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date and at the place first
written above.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
|
||
By:
|
||
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
VI-3
Revolving
Note
TRANSACTIONS
ON
REVOLVING
NOTE
Date
|
Type
of Loan Made
This
Date
|
Amount
of
Loan
Made
This
Date
|
Amount
of
Principal
Paid
This
Date
|
Outstanding
Principal
Balance
This
Date
|
Notation
Made
By
|
|||||
VI-4
Revolving
Note
EXHIBIT
VII
[FORM
OF] SWING LINE NOTE
INTRALINKS,
INC.
$_____________________1
|
______________________2
|
[________],
2007
|
FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, INTRALINKS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), promises to pay to
_______________________ (“Payee”) or its registered
assigns, the lesser of (x) _______________________3
($[____________________1]) and
(y) the unpaid principal amount of all advances made by Payee to Company as
Swing Line Loans under the Credit Agreement referred to below. The
principal amount of this Note shall be payable on the dates and in the amounts
specified in the Credit Agreement.
Company
also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof, until paid
in full, at the rates and at the times which shall be determined in accordance
with the provisions of that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June
[ ], 2007 by and among Company, TA Indigo Holding Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, the financial institutions listed therein as Lenders,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint
Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as
Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders and as Syndication
Agent, and ING Capital LLC, as Documentation Agent (said First Lien Credit
Agreement, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, being the “Credit
Agreement”, the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein
being used herein as therein defined).
This Note
is Company’s “Swing Line Note” and is issued pursuant to and entitled to the
benefits of the Credit Agreement, to which reference is hereby made for a more
complete statement of the terms and conditions under which the Swing Line Loans
evidenced hereby were made and are to be repaid.
All
payments of principal and interest in respect of this Note shall be made in
lawful money of the United States of America in same day funds at the Funding
and Payment Office or at such other place as shall be designated in writing for
such purpose in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement.
VII-1
Swing
Line Note
Whenever
any payment on this Note shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and
such extension of time shall be included in the computation of the payment of
interest on this Note.
This Note
is subject to mandatory prepayment as provided in the Credit Agreement and to
prepayment at the option of Company as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
THIS
NOTE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREUNDER SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL
OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW. THIS NOTE
INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE, AND COMPANY AND PAYEE HEREBY AGREE TO BE SUBJECT TO,
THE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN SUBSECTION 10.17 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
Upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the unpaid balance of the principal amount of
this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, may become, or
may be declared to be, due and payable in the manner, upon the conditions and
with the effect provided in the Credit Agreement.
The terms
of this Note are subject to amendment only in the manner provided in the Credit
Agreement.
This Note
is subject to restrictions on transfer or assignment as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
No
reference herein to the Credit Agreement and no provision of this Note or the
Credit Agreement shall alter or impair the obligations of Company, which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the place, at the respective times, and in the currency prescribed herein and in
the Credit Agreement.
Company
promises to pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees,
all as provided in the Credit Agreement, incurred in the collection and
enforcement of this Note. Company and any endorsers of this Note
hereby consent to renewals and extensions of time at or after the maturity
hereof, without notice, and hereby waive diligence, presentment, protest, demand
and notice of every kind and, to the full extent permitted by law, the right to
plead any statute of limitations as a defense to any demand
hereunder.
VII-2
Swing
Line Note
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, Company has caused this Note to be duly executed and delivered
by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date and at the place first
written above.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
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||
By:
|
||
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
VII-3
Swing
Line Note
TRANSACTIONS
ON
SWING
LINE NOTE
Date
|
Amount
of
Loan
Made
This
Date
|
Amount
of
Principal
Paid
This
Date
|
Outstanding
Principal
Balance
This
Date
|
Notation
Made
By
|
||||
VII-4
Swing
Line Note
EXHIBIT
VIII
[FORM
OF] COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
DATED: ____________
THE
UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFY THAT:
(1) We
are the duly elected [Title] and [Title] of IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“Company”);
(2) We
have reviewed the terms of that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of
June [ ], 2007 as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified to the
date hereof (said First Lien Credit Agreement, as so amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified, being the “Credit Agreement”, the terms
defined therein and not otherwise defined in this Certificate (including
Attachment No. 1 annexed hereto and made a part hereof) being used in this
Certificate as therein defined), by and among Company, TA Indigo Holding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the financial institutions listed therein
as Lenders, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for
Lenders and as Syndication Agent, and ING Capital LLC, as Documentation Agent,
and the terms of the other Loan Documents, and we have made, or have caused to
be made under our supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions
and condition of Company and its Subsidiaries during the accounting period
covered by the attached financial statements; and
(3) The
examination described in paragraph (2) above did not disclose, and we have no
knowledge of, the existence of any condition or event which constitutes an Event
of Default or Potential Event of Default during or at the end of the accounting
period covered by the attached financial statements or as of the date of this
Certificate[, except as set forth below].
[Set
forth [below] [in a separate attachment to this Certificate] are all exceptions
to paragraph (3) above listing, in detail, the nature of the condition or event,
the period during which it has existed and the action which Company has taken,
is taking, or proposes to take with respect to each such condition or
event: ___________________________________________].
VIII-1
Compliance
Certificate
The
foregoing certifications, together with the computations set forth in Attachment
No. 1 annexed hereto and made a part hereof and the financial statements
delivered with this Certificate in support hereof, are made and delivered on the
date as first written above, pursuant to subsection 6.1(iv) of the Credit
Agreement.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
|
||
By:
|
||
Name:
|
||
Title:
|
VIII-2
Compliance
Certificate
ATTACHMENT
NO. 1
TO
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
This
Attachment No. 1 is attached to and made a part of a Compliance Certificate
dated as of ____________, ____ and pertains to the period from ____________,
____ to ____________, ____. Subsection references herein relate to
subsections of the Credit Agreement.1
A.
|
Maximum Consolidated Senior
Secured Leverage Ratio (as of ___________, ____)
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1. Consolidated
Total Senior Secured Debt:
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$_____________
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2. Consolidated
EBITDA for the consecutive four fiscal quarters ending on
________________:
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$_____________
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3. Maximum
Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio (1):(2):
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____:1.00
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4. Maximum
ratio permitted under subsection 7.5:
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[ ]2:1.00
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B.
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Consolidated
Capital Expenditures3
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1. Consolidated
Capital Expenditures for Fiscal Year of ____:
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$_____________
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2. Consolidated
Capital Expenditures for prior Fiscal Year:
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$_____________
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3. Maximum
amount of Consolidated Capital Expenditures permitted under subsection 7.7
for prior Fiscal Year
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$_____________
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4. Excess
of permitted amount of Maximum Consolidated Capital Expenditures for prior
Fiscal Year over
Consolidated
Capital Expenditures in prior Fiscal Year (3-2):
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$_____________
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5. Maximum
amount of Consolidated Capital Expenditures permitted under subsection 7.7
for Fiscal Year without
regard
to carryover amount or amount brought forward from succeeding Fiscal
Year:
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$_____________
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6. Amount
of permitted Consolidated Capital Expenditures for Fiscal Year that was
previously elected to be applied
to
the maximum amount of Consolidated Capital Expenditures permitted under
subsection 7.7 for prior Fiscal Year
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$_____________
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7. Specified
Equity Amount
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$_____________
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8. Maximum
permitted for Holdings and its Subsidiaries under subsection 7.7
(4+5-6+7):
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$_____________
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1
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In
the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this
Compliance Certificate and the Credit Agreement, the provisions of the
Credit Agreement shall control.
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2 | 7.00 for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2007, 6.75 for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2007, and 6.50 for each Fiscal Quarter thereafter. |
3 | Required at Fiscal Year-end only. |
VIII-3
Compliance
Certificate
C.
|
Consolidated Excess Cash
Flow (for the Fiscal Year ended _________)4
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1. Consolidated
EBITDA:
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$_____________
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2. Consolidated
Working Capital Adjustment:
|
$_____________
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3. Extraordinary,
unusual or nonrecurring cash gains deducted from Consolidated
EBITDA
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$_____________
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4. Scheduled
repayments of Consolidated Total Debt (excluding (x) repayments of
Revolving Loans except to the
extent the Revolving Loan Commitment Amount is permanently reduced in
connection with such repayments
and (y) any such repayment out of the proceeds of refinancing
Indebtedness)
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$_____________
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5. Internally
generated funds of Company and its Subsidiaries used to make Consolidated
Capital Expenditures
(and any amounts that would be included as Consolidated Capital
Expenditures but for the operation of
clause
(c)(ii) of the definition thereof (except in the case of clause (c)(ii),
to the extent made out of Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds)):
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$_____________
|
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6. Consolidated
Cash Interest Expense:
|
$_____________
|
|
7. Current
taxes based on income of Company and its Subsidiaries and paid in cash
with respect to such period:
|
$_____________
|
|
8. Internally
generated funds of Company and its Subsidiaries used during such period to
finance Permitted
Acquisitions and Investments permitted by subsections 7.3(vii) and
(viii)(to the extent such amounts have
not already been deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income) or
(xi)(b)(x):
|
$_____________
|
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9. Any
other amount paid from internally generated funds of Company and its
Subsidiaries during such
period
which was added back to Consolidated Net Income in determining
Consolidated EBITDA
pursuant
to clauses (vii), (viii), (x), (xi) and (xiv) of the definition of
Consolidated EBITDA:
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$_____________
|
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10. Any
amount applied to make Restricted Junior Payments pursuant to subsection
7.4
(other than clauses (i), (iii), (vii) and (viii)
thereof):
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$_____________
|
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11.
Any cash security deposits made in respect of leases for office
space:
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$_____________
|
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12.
Consolidated Excess Cash Flow
((1+2+3)-(4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11)):
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$_____________
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VIII-4
Compliance
Certificate
EXHIBIT
IX
FORM
OF OPINION OF COMPANY COUNSEL
IX-1
Opinion
of Company Counsel
EXHIBIT
X
[FORM
OF ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT]
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
DATED: ____________
This
Assignment and Assumption (this “Assignment and Assumption”) is
dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and
between [the] [each]1
Assignor identified in item 1 below ([the] [each, an] “Assignor”) and [the]
[each]2 Assignee
identified in item 2 below ([the] [each, an] “Assignee”). [It is
understood and agreed that the rights and obligations of [the Assignors] [the
Assignees]3 hereunder
are several and not joint.]4 Capitalized
terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the
Credit Agreement identified below (as amended, restated, supplemented or
modified, the “Credit
Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by [the]
[each] Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in
Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by
reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth
herein in full.
For an
agreed consideration, [the] [each] Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns
to [the Assignee] [the respective Assignees], and [the] [each] Assignee hereby
irrevocably purchases and assumes from [the Assignor] [the respective
Assignors], subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions
and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the
Administrative Agent as contemplated below (i) all of [the Assignor’s] [the
respective Assignors’] rights and obligations in [its capacity as a Lender]
[their respective capacities as Lenders] under the Credit Agreement and any
other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related
to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such
outstanding rights and obligations of [the Assignor] [the respective Assignors]
under the respective facilities identified below (including without limitation
any letters of credit, guarantees, and swingline loans included in such
facilities) and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable
law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of [the Assignor
(in its capacity as a Lender)] [the respective Assignors (in their respective
capacities as Lenders)] against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising
under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or
instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby
or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not
limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims
and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations
sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold
and assigned by [the] [any] Assignor to [the] [any] Assignee pursuant to clauses
(i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as [the] [an] “Assigned
Interest”). Each such sale and assignment is without recourse
to [the] [any] Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and
Assumption, without representation or warranty by [the] [any]
Assignor.
1
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For
bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the
Assignor(s), if the assignment is from a single Assignor, choose the first
bracketed language. If the assignment is from multiple
Assignors, choose the second bracketed
language.
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X-1
Assignment
Agreement
1.
|
Assignor[s]:
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________________________________
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________________________________
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2.
|
Assignee[s]:
|
________________________________
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________________________________
|
||
[for
each Assignee, indicate [Affiliate] [Approved Fund] of [identify
Lender]]
|
||
3.
|
Borrower(s):
|
________________________________
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4.
|
Administrative
Agent: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as the
administrative agent under the Credit Agreement
|
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5.
|
Credit
Agreement: The First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June [
], 2007, among IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), TA Indigo
Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the Lenders parties thereto,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas, as Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for Lenders and
as Syndication Agent, and ING Capital LLC, as Documentation Agent, and the
other agents parties
thereto
|
X-2
Assignment
Agreement
6.
|
Assigned
Interest[s]:
|
Assignor[s]5
|
Assignee[s]6
|
Facility
As
signed7
|
Aggregate
Amount
of
Commit-
ment/
Loans
for
all
Lenders8
|
Amount
of
Commit-
ment/
Loans
Assigned8
|
Percentage
Assigned
of
Commit-
ment/
Loans9
|
CUSIP
Number
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
||||
$
|
$
|
%
|
||||
$
|
$
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%
|
[7.
|
Trade
Date: ________________________________]10
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Effective
Date: _____________ ___, 20___ [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE
REGISTER THEREFOR.]
7 Fill in the
appropriate terminology for the types of facilities under the Credit Agreement
that are being assigned under this Assignment
(e.g.
“Revolving Loan Commitment”, “Term Loan Commitment”, etc.).
8 Amount to be
adjusted by the counterparties to take into account any payments or prepayments
made between the Trade Date and the Effective Date.
9 Set forth, to at
least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders
thereunder.
10
|
To
be completed if the Assignor(s) and the Assignee(s) intend that the
minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade
Date.
|
X-3
Assignment
Agreement
The terms
set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:
ASSIGNOR[S]11
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[NAME
OF ASSIGNOR]
|
||
By:
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||
Title:
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||
[NAME
OF ASSIGNOR]
|
||
By:
|
||
Title:
|
||
ASSIGNEE[S]12
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||
[NAME
OF ASSIGNEE]
|
||
By:
|
||
Title:
|
||
[NAME
OF ASSIGNEE]
|
||
By:
|
||
Title:
|
X-4
Assignment
Agreement
Consented
to and Accepted:
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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||
Title:
|
||
By:
|
||
Title:
|
||
[Consented
to:]13
[NAME OF
RELEVANT PARTY]
By:
|
||
Title:
|
||
X-5
Assignment
Agreement
ANNEX
1
STANDARD
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
1. Representations and
Warranties.
1.1 Assignor[s]. [The]
[Each] Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and
beneficial owner of [the] [the relevant] Assigned Interest, (ii) [the] [such]
Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse
claim and (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action
necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no
responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document,
(ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency
or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial
condition of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other
Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document or (iv) the performance or
observance by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other
Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan
Document.
1.2. Assignee[s]. [The]
[Each] Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and
authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this
Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby
and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all the
requirements of an Eligible Assignee under the Credit Agreement (subject to such
consents, if any, as may be required under the Credit Agreement), (iii) from and
after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit
Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of [the] [the relevant]
Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it is
sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type
represented by the Assigned Interest and either it, or the person exercising
discretion in making its decision to acquire the Assigned Interest, is
experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the
Credit Agreement (and has received or has been accorded the opportunity to
receive copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to
subsection 6.1 thereof, as applicable), the Intercreditor Agreement and such
other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to
purchase [the] [such] Assigned Interest, (vi) it has, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to
purchase [the] [such] Assigned Interest, and (vii) if it is a Foreign Lender,
attached to the Assignment and Assumption is any documentation required to be
delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed
and executed by [the] [such] Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will,
independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, [the] [any]
Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it
shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in
taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, (ii) it will perform in
accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the
Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender and (iii) it will
be bound by the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
2. Payments. From
and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments
in respect of [the] [each] Assigned Interest (including payments of principal,
interest, fees and other amounts) to [the] [the relevant] Assignor for amounts
which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to [the] [the
relevant] Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective
Date.
X-ANNEX
1-1
Assignment
Agreement
3. General
Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding
upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective
successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be
executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one
instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page
of this Assignment and Assumption by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of
a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and
Assumption. THIS ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS
AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE
CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE
APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW.
X-ANNEX
1-2
Assignment
Agreement
EXHIBIT
XI
[FORM
OF] SOLVENCY CERTIFICATE
_________
, 20 __
This
SOLVENCY CERTIFICATE
(this “Certificate”) is
delivered in connection with that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as
of June [ ], 2007 (the “Credit Agreement”) by and
among IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), TA Indigo Holding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), the financial
institutions referred to therein as Lenders (“Lenders”), Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint Lead Arrangers
and Joint Bookrunners (the “Arrangers”), Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas (“DB”), as administrative agent
for Lenders (in such capacity, “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral
agent for Lenders (in such capacity, “Collateral Agent”) and as syndication
agent, and ING Capital LLC, as documentation agent. Capitalized terms
used herein without definition have the same meanings as in the Credit
Agreement.
This
Certificate is being delivered pursuant to subsection 4.1F of the Credit
Agreement. The undersigned is the Chief Financial Officer of Company
and hereby further certifies as of the date hereof, in [his] [her] capacity as
an officer of Company, and not individually, as follows:
1. I
have responsibility for (a) the management of the financial affairs of
Company and the preparation of financial statements of Company, and (b)
reviewing the financial and other aspects of the transactions contemplated by
the Credit Agreement.
2. I
have carefully prepared and/or reviewed the contents of this Certificate and
have conferred with counsel for Company for the purpose of discussing the
meaning of any provisions hereof that I desired to have clarified.
3. In
preparation for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit
Agreement, I have prepared and/or reviewed a pro forma balance sheet as at
__________, 2007 and pro forma income projections and pro forma cash flow
projections for each fiscal year during the term of the Credit Agreement for
Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, in each case after giving
effect to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit
Agreement and the Related Agreements, including the Merger Agreement and the
Certificate of Merger. The pro forma balance sheet, pro forma income
projections and pro forma cash flow projections are based upon good faith
estimates and assumptions believed by Company to be reasonable at the time made,
it being recognized by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that such
projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual
results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ
from the projected results.
4. Based
upon the foregoing and upon the best of my knowledge after due diligence, I have
concluded as follows:
a. the
“fair saleable value” of the property of Company and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis is both (A) greater than the total amount of liabilities
(including contingent liabilities) of Company and its Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, and (B) not less than the amount that will be required to
pay the probable liabilities on Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ then existing
debts as they become absolute and due considering all financing alternatives and
potential asset sales reasonably available to Company and its
Subsidiaries.
XI-1
Solvency
Certificate
b. Company
and its Subsidiaries do not intend to incur, or believe (nor do they reasonably
believe) that they will incur, debts beyond their ability to pay such debts as
they become due.
c. Company
and its Subsidiaries do not have an unreasonably small amount of capital in
relation to their business or any contemplated or undertaken
transaction.
In
computing the amount of such contingent liabilities as of the date hereof, such
liabilities have been computed at the amount that, in the light of all the facts
and circumstances existing as of the date hereof, represents the amount that can
reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
I
understand that Administrative Agent and Lenders are relying on this Certificate
in extending credit to Company pursuant to the Credit Agreement.
This
certificate is being executed and delivered by the undersigned in [his/her]
capacity as an officer of Company and no personal liability will attach to
[him/her] in connection with the execution and delivery of this
Certificate.
XI-2
Solvency
Certificate
The
undersigned has executed this Certificate, in [his] [her] capacity as an officer
of Company and not individually, as of the date first written
above.
INTRALINKS,
INC.
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By:
|
||
Name:
|
||
Title:
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XI-3
Solvency
Certificate
EXHIBIT
XII
[FORM
OF] FIRST LIEN GUARANTY
This
FIRST LIEN GUARANTY
(this “Guaranty”) is
entered into as of June [ ], 2007 (as of and upon effectiveness of
the Merger (as defined in the Credit Agreement referenced below)) by the
undersigned (each a “Guarantor”, and together with
any future Subsidiaries of Company that become a party hereto pursuant to
Section 15 hereof, being collectively referred to herein as the “Guarantors”) in favor of and
for the benefit of DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as agent for and representative of (in such
capacity herein called “Guarantied Party”) the
financial institutions (“Lenders”) party to the Credit
Agreement referred to below and any Swap Counterparties (as hereinafter
defined), and in favor of and for the benefit of the other Beneficiaries (as
hereinafter defined).
RECITALS
A. IntraLinks,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), has entered into
that certain First Lien Credit Agreement dated as of June [ ], 2007
with TA Indigo Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Lenders, Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as Joint Lead
Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent for Lenders and as Syndication Agent,
and ING Capital LLC, as Documentation Agent (said First Lien Credit Agreement,
as it may hereafter be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, being the “Credit
Agreement”; capitalized terms defined therein and not otherwise defined
herein being used herein as therein defined).
B. Company
and its Subsidiaries may from time to time enter, or may from time to time have
entered, into one or more Hedge Agreements (collectively, the “Lender Swap Agreements”) with
one or more Persons that are Lenders or Affiliates of Lenders at the time such
Lender Swap Agreements are entered into (in such capacity, collectively, “Swap Counterparties”) in
accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement, and it is desired that the
obligations of Company under the Lender Swap Agreements, including without
limitation the obligation of Company to make payments thereunder in the event of
early termination thereof, together with all obligations of Company under the
Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, be guarantied
hereunder.
C. Guarantied
Party, Lenders and each Swap Counterparty for which Guarantied Party has
received the notice required by Section 18 hereof are sometimes referred to
herein as “Beneficiaries”.
D. A
portion of the proceeds of the Loans may be advanced to other Guarantors that
are Subsidiaries of Company, and thus the Guarantied Obligations (as hereinafter
defined) are being incurred for and will inure to the benefit of Guarantors
(which benefits are hereby acknowledged).
E. It
is a condition precedent to the making of the initial Loans under the Credit
Agreement that Company’s obligations thereunder be guarantied by
Guarantors.
F. Guarantors
are willing irrevocably and unconditionally to guaranty such obligations of
Company.
NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the
foregoing and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency
of which are hereby acknowledged, and in order to induce Lenders and Guarantied
Party to enter into the Credit Agreement and to make Loans and other extensions
of credit thereunder and to induce Swap Counterparties to enter into the Lender
Swap Agreements, Guarantors hereby agree as follows:
XII-1
Guaranty
1. Guaranty.
(a) Guarantors
jointly and severally irrevocably and unconditionally guaranty, as primary
obligors and not merely as sureties, the due and punctual payment in full of all
Guarantied Obligations (as hereinafter defined) when the same shall become due,
whether at stated maturity, by acceleration, demand or otherwise (including
amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under
Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code). The term “Guarantied Obligations” is
used herein in its most comprehensive sense and includes any and all Obligations
of Company and all obligations of Company or any Subsidiary under Lender Swap
Agreements, now or hereafter made, incurred or created, whether absolute or
contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, whether due or not due, and however
arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, the Lender Swap
Agreements, this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents, including those arising
under successive borrowing transactions under the Credit Agreement which shall
either continue such obligations of Company or from time to time renew them
after they have been satisfied.
Each
Guarantor acknowledges that a portion of the Loans may be advanced to it, that
Letters of Credit may be issued for the benefit of its business and that the
Guarantied Obligations are being incurred for and will inure to its
benefit.
Any
interest on any portion of the Guarantied Obligations that accrues after the
commencement of any proceeding, voluntary or involuntary, involving the
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, reorganization, liquidation or arrangement
of Company (or, if interest on any portion of the Guarantied Obligations ceases
to accrue by operation of law by reason of the commencement of said proceeding,
such interest as would have accrued on such portion of the Guarantied
Obligations if said proceeding had not been commenced) shall be included in the
Guarantied Obligations because it is the intention of each Guarantor and
Guarantied Party that the Guarantied Obligations should be determined without
regard to any rule of law or order that may relieve Company of any portion of
such Guarantied Obligations.
In the
event that all or any portion of the Guarantied Obligations is paid by Company,
the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall continue and remain in full
force and effect or be reinstated, as the case may be, in the event that all or
any part of such payment(s) is rescinded or recovered directly or indirectly
from Guarantied Party or any other Beneficiary as a preference, fraudulent
transfer or otherwise, and any such payments that are so rescinded or recovered
shall constitute Guarantied Obligations.
Subject
to the other provisions of this Section 1, upon the failure of Company to pay
any of the Guarantied Obligations when and as the same shall become due, each
Guarantor will upon demand pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to Guarantied
Party for the ratable benefit of Beneficiaries, an amount equal to the aggregate
of the unpaid Guarantied Obligations.
(b) Anything
contained in this Guaranty to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of
each Guarantor under this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents shall be limited
to a maximum aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render
its obligations hereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or
conveyance under Section 548 of Title 11 of the United States Code or any
applicable provisions of comparable state law (collectively, the “Fraudulent Transfer Laws”), in
each case after giving effect to all other liabilities of such Guarantor,
contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under the Fraudulent Transfer Laws
(specifically excluding, however, any liabilities of such Guarantor (x) in
respect of intercompany indebtedness to Company or other affiliates of Company
to the extent that such indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to
the amount paid by such Guarantor hereunder and (y) under any guaranty of
Subordinated Indebtedness which guaranty contains a limitation as to maximum
amount similar to that set forth in this Section 1(b), pursuant to which the
liability of such Guarantor hereunder is included in the liabilities taken into
account in determining such maximum amount) and after giving effect as assets to
the value (as determined under the applicable provisions of the Fraudulent
Transfer Laws) of any rights to subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or
contribution of such Guarantor pursuant to applicable law or pursuant to the
terms of any agreement.
XII-2
Guaranty
(c) Each
Guarantor under this Guaranty, and each guarantor under other guaranties, if
any, relating to the Credit Agreement (the “Related Guaranties”) that
contain a contribution provision similar to that set forth in this Section 1(c),
together desire to allocate among themselves (collectively, the “Contributing Guarantors”), in
a fair and equitable manner, their obligations arising under this Guaranty and
the Related Guaranties. Accordingly, in the event any payment or
distribution is made on any date by a Guarantor under this Guaranty or a
guarantor under a Related Guaranty, each such Guarantor or such other guarantor
shall be entitled to a contribution from each of the other Contributing
Guarantors in the maximum amount permitted by law so as to maximize the
aggregate amount of the Guarantied Obligations paid to
Beneficiaries.
2. Guaranty Absolute; Continuing
Guaranty. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are
irrevocable, absolute, independent and unconditional and shall not be affected
by any circumstance which constitutes a legal or equitable discharge of a
guarantor or surety other than payment in full of the Guarantied
Obligations. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the
generality thereof, each Guarantor agrees that: (a) this
Guaranty is a guaranty of payment when due and not of collectibility;
(b) Guarantied Party may enforce this Guaranty upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default under the Credit Agreement or the
occurrence of an early termination date or similar event under any Lender Swap
Agreements notwithstanding the existence of any dispute between Company and any
Beneficiary with respect to the existence of such event; (c) the
obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are independent of the obligations of
Company under the Loan Documents or the Lender Swap Agreements and the
obligations of any other guarantor of obligations of Company and a separate
action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor whether
or not any action is brought against Company or any of such other guarantors and
whether or not Company is joined in any such action or actions; and (d) a
payment of a portion, but not all, of the Guarantied Obligations by one or more
Guarantors shall in no way limit, affect, modify or abridge the liability of
such or any other Guarantor for any portion of the Guarantied Obligations that
has not been paid. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall
be binding upon each Guarantor and its successors and assigns, and each
Guarantor irrevocably waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future
transactions giving rise to any Guarantied Obligations.
3. Actions by
Beneficiaries. Any Beneficiary may from time to time, without
notice or demand and without affecting the validity or enforceability of this
Guaranty or giving rise to any limitation, impairment or discharge of any
Guarantor’s liability hereunder, (a) renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise
change the time, place, manner or terms of payment of the Guarantied
Obligations, (b) settle, compromise, release or discharge, or accept or
refuse any offer of performance with respect to, or substitutions for, the
Guarantied Obligations or any agreement relating thereto and/or subordinate the
payment of the same to the payment of any other obligations, (c) request
and accept other guaranties of the Guarantied Obligations and take and hold
security for the payment of this Guaranty or the Guarantied Obligations,
(d) release, exchange, compromise, subordinate or modify, with or without
consideration, any security for payment of the Guarantied Obligations, any other
guaranties of the Guarantied Obligations, or any other obligation of any Person
with respect to the Guarantied Obligations, (e) enforce and apply any
security now or hereafter held by or for the benefit of any Beneficiary in
respect of this Guaranty or the Guarantied Obligations and direct the order or
manner of sale thereof, or exercise any other right or remedy that Guarantied
Party or the other Beneficiaries, or any of them, may have against any such
security, as Guarantied Party in its discretion may determine consistent with
the Credit Agreement, the Lender Swap Agreements and any applicable security
agreement, including foreclosure on any such security pursuant to one or more
judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is
commercially reasonable, and (f) exercise any other rights available to
Guarantied Party or the other Beneficiaries, or any of them, under the Loan
Documents or the Lender Swap Agreements.
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4. No Discharge. This
Guaranty and the obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall be valid and
enforceable and shall not be subject to any limitation, impairment or discharge
for any reason (other than payment in full of the Guarantied Obligations),
including without limitation the occurrence of any of the following, whether or
not any Guarantor shall have had notice or knowledge of any of
them: (a) any failure to assert or enforce or agreement not to
assert or enforce, or the stay or enjoining, by order of court, by operation of
law or otherwise, of the exercise or enforcement of, any claim or demand or any
right, power or remedy with respect to the Guarantied Obligations or any
agreement relating thereto, or with respect to any other guaranty of or security
for the payment of the Guarantied Obligations, (b) any waiver or
modification of, or any consent to departure from, any of the terms or
provisions of the Credit Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents, the Lender
Swap Agreements or any agreement or instrument executed pursuant thereto, or of
any other guaranty or security for the Guarantied Obligations, (c) the
Guarantied Obligations, or any agreement relating thereto, at any time being
found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect, (d) the
application of payments received from any source to the payment of indebtedness
other than the Guarantied Obligations, even though Guarantied Party or the other
Beneficiaries, or any of them, might have elected to apply such payment to any
part or all of the Guarantied Obligations, (e) any failure to perfect or
continue perfection of a security interest in any collateral which secures any
of the Guarantied Obligations, (f) any defenses, set-offs or counterclaims
which Company may assert against Guarantied Party or any Beneficiary in respect
of the Guarantied Obligations, including but not limited to failure of
consideration, breach of warranty, payment, statute of frauds, statute of
limitations, accord and satisfaction and usury, and (g) any other act or
thing or omission, or delay to do any other act or thing, which may or might in
any manner or to any extent vary the risk of a Guarantor as an obligor in
respect of the Guarantied Obligations.
5. Waivers. Each
Guarantor waives, for the benefit of Beneficiaries: (a) any
right to require Guarantied Party or the other Beneficiaries, as a condition of
payment or performance by such Guarantor, to (i) proceed against Company,
any other guarantor of the Guarantied Obligations or any other Person,
(ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from Company, any other
guarantor of the Guarantied Obligations or any other Person, (iii) proceed
against or have resort to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the
books of any Beneficiary in favor of Company or any other Person, or
(iv) pursue any other remedy in the power of any Beneficiary;
(b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or
any disability or other defense of Company including, without limitation, any
defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the unenforceability
of the Guarantied Obligations or any agreement or instrument relating thereto or
by reason of the cessation of the liability of Company from any cause other than
payment in full of the Guarantied Obligations; (c) any defense based upon
any statute or rule of law which provides that the obligation of a surety must
be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of
the principal; (d) any defense based upon Guarantied Party’s or any other
Beneficiary’s errors or omissions in the administration of the Guarantied
Obligations, except behavior that amounts to bad faith; (e) (i) any
principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, that are or might be in
conflict with the terms of this Guaranty and any legal or equitable discharge of
such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, (ii) the benefit of any statute of
limitations affecting such Guarantor’s liability hereunder or the enforcement
hereof, (iii) any rights to set-offs, recoupments and counterclaims, and
(iv) promptness, diligence and any requirement that any Beneficiary protect,
secure, perfect or insure any Lien or any property subject thereto;
(f) notices, demands, presentments, protests, notices of protest, notices
of dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, including acceptance of this
Guaranty, notices of default under the Credit Agreement, notices of default or
early termination under any Lender Swap Agreement or any agreement or instrument
related thereto, notices of any renewal, extension or modification of the
Guarantied Obligations or any agreement related thereto, notices of any
extension of credit to Company and notices of any of the matters referred to in
Sections 3 and 4 and any right to consent to any thereof; and (g) to the
fullest extent permitted by law, any defenses or benefits that may be derived
from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate guarantors or
sureties, or which may conflict with the terms of this Guaranty.
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6. Guarantors’ Rights of Subrogation,
Contribution, Etc.; Subordination of Other Obligations. Until
the Guarantied Obligations (other than Unasserted Obligations and obligations
under the Lender Swap Agreements) shall have been paid in full and the
Commitments shall have terminated, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or
been cancelled (or the reimbursement Obligations in respect thereof have been
secured with cash collateral or letters of credit in a manner reasonably
satisfactory to Secured Party) and the Lender Swap Agreements have been paid in
full (or the obligations thereunder have been secured by a collateral
arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Swap Counterparty), each
Guarantor shall withhold exercise of (a) any claim, right or remedy, direct
or indirect, that such Guarantor now has or may hereafter have against Company
or any of its assets in connection with this Guaranty or the performance by such
Guarantor of its obligations hereunder, in each case whether such claim, right
or remedy arises in equity, under contract, by statute, under common law or
otherwise and including without limitation (i) any right of subrogation,
reimbursement or indemnification that such Guarantor now has or may hereafter
have against Company, (ii) any right to enforce, or to participate in, any
claim, right or remedy that any Beneficiary now has or may hereafter have
against Company, and (iii) any benefit of, and any right to participate in,
any collateral or security now or hereafter held by any Beneficiary and
(b) any right of contribution such Guarantor now has or may hereafter have
against any other guarantor of any of the Guarantied
Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that, to the extent the
agreement to withhold the exercise of its rights of subrogation, reimbursement,
indemnification and contribution as set forth herein is found by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any rights of
subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification such Guarantor may have against
Company or against any collateral or security, and any rights of contribution
such Guarantor may have against any such other guarantor, shall be junior and
subordinate to any rights Guarantied Party or the other Beneficiaries may have
against Company, to all right, title and interest Guarantied Party or the other
Beneficiaries may have in any such collateral or security, and to any right
Guarantied Party or the other Beneficiaries may have against such other
guarantor.
Any
indebtedness of Company now or hereafter held by any Guarantor is subordinated
in right of payment to the Guarantied Obligations, and any such indebtedness of
Company to a Guarantor collected or received by such Guarantor after an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, and any amount paid to a Guarantor on
account of any subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution
rights referred to in the preceding paragraph when all Guarantied Obligations
have not been paid in full, shall be held in trust for Guarantied Party on
behalf of Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over to Guarantied Party for
the benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied against the Guarantied
Obligations.
7. Expenses. Guarantors
jointly and severally agree to pay, or cause to be paid, on demand, and to save
Guarantied Party and the other Beneficiaries harmless against liability for,
(i) all costs and expenses, including outside attorneys’ fees, fees, costs
and expenses of accountants, advisors and consultants and costs of settlement,
incurred by Guarantied Party or any other Beneficiary in connection with
enforcing any Obligations of or in collecting any payments due from any Loan
Party under this Guaranty and (ii) any and all costs and expenses (including
those arising from rights of indemnification) required to be paid by Guarantors
under the provisions of any other Loan Document.
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8. Financial Condition of
Company. No Beneficiary shall have any obligation, and each
Guarantor waives any duty on the part of any Beneficiary, to disclose or discuss
with such Guarantor its assessment, or such Guarantor’s assessment, of the
financial condition of Company or any matter or fact relating to the business,
operations or condition of Company. Each Guarantor has adequate means
to obtain information from Company on a continuing basis concerning the
financial condition of Company and its ability to perform its obligations under
the Loan Documents and the Lender Swap Agreements, and each Guarantor assumes
the responsibility for being and keeping informed of the financial condition of
Company and of all circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the
Guarantied Obligations.
9. Representations and
Warranties. Each Guarantor makes, for the benefit of
Beneficiaries, each of the representations and warranties made in the Credit
Agreement by Company as to such Guarantor, its assets, financial condition,
operations, organization, legal status, business and the Loan Documents to which
it is a party.
10. Covenants. Each
Guarantor agrees that, so long as any part of the Guarantied Obligations (other
than Unasserted Obligations and obligations under the Lender Swap Agreements)
shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding (unless the
reimbursement Obligations in respect thereof have been secured with cash
collateral or letters of credit in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Secured
Party), any Lender shall have any Commitment or any Swap Counterparty shall have
any obligation under any Lender Swap Agreement (unless the obligations
thereunder have been secured by a collateral arrangement reasonably satisfactory
to the Swap Counterparty), such Guarantor will, unless Requisite Obligees (as
such term is defined in Section 17(a)) shall otherwise consent in writing,
perform or observe, and cause its Subsidiaries to perform or observe, all of the
terms, covenants and agreements that the Loan Documents state that Company is to
cause a Guarantor and such Subsidiaries to perform or observe.
11. Set Off. In
addition to any other rights any Beneficiary may have under law or in equity, if
any amount shall at any time be due and owing by a Guarantor to any Beneficiary
under this Guaranty, such Beneficiary is authorized at any time or from time to
time while an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, without
notice (any such notice being expressly waived), to set off and to appropriate
and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including but not limited
to indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or
unmatured) and any other indebtedness of such Beneficiary owing to a Guarantor
and any other property of such Guarantor held by a Beneficiary to or for the
credit or the account of such Guarantor against and on account of the Guarantied
Obligations and liabilities of such Guarantor to any Beneficiary under this
Guaranty.
12. Discharge of Guaranty Upon Sale of
Guarantor. If any Guarantor or any of its successors in
interest under this Guaranty shall be sold or otherwise shall cease to be a
Subsidiary in a transaction not prohibited by the Credit Agreement or otherwise
consented to by Requisite Obligees (as such term is defined in
Section 17(a)), such Guarantor or such successor in interest, as the case
may be, Guarantied Party shall, at the request of such Guarantor, execute and
deliver documents or instruments necessary to evidence the release and discharge
of such Guarantor from this Guaranty as provided in subsection 10.14 of the
Credit Agreement.
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13. Amendments and
Waivers. No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of
any provision of this Guaranty, and no consent to any departure by any Guarantor
therefrom, shall in any event be effective without the written concurrence of
Guarantied Party and, in the case of any such amendment or modification,
Guarantors. Any such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it was
given.
14. Miscellaneous. It
is not necessary for Beneficiaries to inquire into the capacity or powers of any
Guarantor or Company or the officers, directors or any agents acting or
purporting to act on behalf of any of them.
The
rights, powers and remedies given to Beneficiaries by this Guaranty are
cumulative and shall be in addition to and independent of all rights, powers and
remedies given to Beneficiaries by virtue of any statute or rule of law or in
any of the Loan Documents or the Lender Swap Agreements or any agreement between
one or more Guarantors and one or more Beneficiaries or between Company and one
or more Beneficiaries. Any forbearance or failure to exercise, and
any delay by any Beneficiary in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder
shall not impair any such right, power or remedy or be construed to be a waiver
thereof, nor shall it preclude the further exercise of any such right, power or
remedy.
In case
any provision in or obligation under this Guaranty shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in
any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
THIS
GUARANTY AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF GUARANTORS, GUARANTIED PARTY AND THE
OTHER BENEFICIARIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
(INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THAT
WOULD REQUIRE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW.
This
Guaranty shall inure to the benefit of Beneficiaries and their respective
successors and assigns.
ALL
JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY GUARANTOR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO
THIS GUARANTY MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS
GUARANTY EACH GUARANTOR ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS
PROPERTIES, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE
AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND IRREVOCABLY
AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
GUARANTY. Each Guarantor agrees that service of all process in any
such proceeding in any such court may be made by registered or certified mail,
return receipt requested, to such Guarantor at its address set forth below its
signature hereto, such service being acknowledged by such Guarantor to be
sufficient for personal jurisdiction in any action against such Guarantor in any
such court and to be otherwise effective and binding service in every
respect. Nothing herein shall affect the right to serve process in
any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right of Guarantied Party
or any Beneficiary to bring proceedings against such Guarantor in the courts of
any other jurisdiction.
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EACH GUARANTOR AND, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE
OF THE BENEFITS HEREOF, GUARANTIED PARTY EACH AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE
RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT
OF THIS GUARANTY. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE
ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT
RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION
CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND
STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH GUARANTOR AND, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE BENEFITS HEREOF,
GUARANTIED PARTY EACH (I) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL
INDUCEMENT FOR SUCH GUARANTOR AND GUARANTIED PARTY TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS
RELATIONSHIP, THAT SUCH GUARANTOR AND GUARANTIED PARTY HAVE ALREADY RELIED ON
THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS GUARANTY OR ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS THEREOF, AS
THE CASE MAY BE, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN THEIR
RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS, AND (II) FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT EACH
HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT EACH KNOWINGLY AND
VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL
COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE
MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING, AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY
SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS OF THIS
GUARANTY. In the event of litigation, this Guaranty may be
filed as a written consent to a trial by the court.
15. Additional
Guarantors. The initial Guarantor(s) hereunder shall be such
of the Subsidiaries of Company as are signatories hereto on the date
hereof. From time to time subsequent to the date hereof, Subsidiaries
of Company may become parties hereto, as additional Guarantors (each an “Additional Guarantor”) as
required under subsection 6.8 of the Credit Agreement, by executing a
counterpart of this Guaranty. A form of such a counterpart is
attached as Exhibit A. Upon
delivery of any such counterpart to Guarantied Party, notice of which is hereby
waived by Guarantors, each such Additional Guarantor shall be a Guarantor and
shall be as fully a party hereto as if such Additional Guarantor were an
original signatory hereof. Each Guarantor expressly agrees that its
obligations arising hereunder shall not be affected or diminished by the
addition or release of any other Guarantor hereunder, nor by any election of the
Guarantied Party not to cause any Subsidiary of Company to become an Additional
Guarantor hereunder. This Guaranty shall be fully effective as to any
Guarantor that is or becomes a party hereto regardless of whether any other
Person becomes or fails to become or ceases to be a Guarantor
hereunder.
16. Counterparts;
Effectiveness. This Guaranty may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each
of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original for
all purposes; but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and
the same instrument. This Guaranty shall become effective as to each
Guarantor upon the execution of a counterpart hereof by such Guarantor (whether
or not a counterpart hereof shall have been executed by any other Guarantor) and
receipt by the Guaranteed Party of written or telephonic notification of such
execution and authorization of delivery thereof.
17. Guarantied Party as
Agent.
(a) Guarantied
Party has been appointed to act as Guarantied Party hereunder by
Lenders. Guarantied Party shall be obligated, and shall have the
right hereunder, to make demands, to give notices, to exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights, and to take or refrain from taking any action, solely in
accordance with this Guaranty and the Credit Agreement; provided that
Guarantied Party shall exercise, or refrain from exercising, any remedies under
or with respect to this Guaranty in accordance with the instructions of
(i) Requisite Lenders, or (ii) after payment in full of all
Obligations under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents (other than
Unasserted Obligations and obligations under the Lender Swap Agreements), the
cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit (or the securing of
reimbursement Obligations in respect thereof with cash collateral or letters of
credit in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Secured Party) and the termination
of the Commitments, the holders of a majority of (A) the aggregate notional
amount under all Lender Swap Agreements (including Lender Swap Agreements that
have been terminated) or (B) if all Lender Swap Agreements have been
terminated in accordance with their terms, the aggregate amount then due and
payable (exclusive of expenses and similar payments but including any early
termination payments then due) under such Lender Swap Agreements (Requisite
Lenders or, if applicable, such holders being referred to herein as “Requisite
Obligees”).
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(b) Guarantied
Party shall at all times be the same Person that is Administrative Agent under
the Credit Agreement. Written notice of resignation by Administrative
Agent pursuant to subsection 9.5 of the Credit Agreement shall also constitute
notice of resignation as Guarantied Party under this Guaranty; and appointment
of a successor Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection 9.5 of the Credit
Agreement shall also constitute appointment of a successor Guarantied Party
under this Guaranty. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as
Administrative Agent under subsection 9.5 of the Credit Agreement by a successor
Administrative Agent, that successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties
of the retiring Guarantied Party under this Guaranty, and the retiring
Guarantied Party under this Guaranty shall promptly (i) transfer to such
successor Guarantied Party all sums held hereunder, together with all records
and other documents necessary or appropriate in connection with the performance
of the duties of the successor Guarantied Party under this Guaranty, and
(ii) take such other actions as may be necessary or appropriate in
connection with the assignment to such successor Guarantied Party of the rights
created hereunder, whereupon such retiring Guarantied Party shall be discharged
from its duties and obligations under this Guaranty. After any
retiring Guarantied Party’s resignation hereunder as Guarantied Party, the
provisions of this Guaranty shall inure to its benefits as to any actions taken
or omitted to be taken by it under this Guaranty while it was Guarantied Party
hereunder.
18. Notice of Lender Swap
Agreements. Guarantied Party shall not be deemed to have any
duty whatsoever with respect to any Swap Counterparty until it shall have
received written notice in form and substance satisfactory to Guarantied Party
from Company, a Guarantor or the Swap Counterparty as to the existence and terms
of the applicable Lender Swap Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each
Guarantor, solely for the purposes of the waiver of the right to jury trial
contained in Section 14, and Guarantied Party have caused this Guaranty to be
duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized as of the date first written above.
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upon the effectiveness of the Merger, each of the undersigned hereby
acknowledges and agrees to assume the rights and obligations of a Guarantor as
set forth herein and that all references herein to Guarantor shall thereupon
deemed to be references to each of the undersigned.
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EXHIBIT
A
[FORM
OF] COUNTERPART FOR ADDITIONAL GUARANTORS
This
COUNTERPART (this “Counterpart”), dated _______,
20__, is delivered pursuant to Section 15 of the Guaranty referred to
below. The undersigned hereby agrees that this Counterpart may be
attached to the First Lien Guaranty, dated as of June [ ], 2007 (as
it may be from time to time amended, modified or supplemented, the “Guaranty”; capitalized terms
used herein not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
therein), among the Guarantors named therein and Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas, as Guarantied Party. The undersigned, by executing and
delivering this Counterpart, hereby becomes an Additional Guarantor under the
Guaranty in accordance with Section 15 thereof and agrees to be bound by all of
the terms thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned has caused this Counterpart to be duly executed and delivered by its
officer thereunto duly authorized as of ______________, 20__.
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Subsidiary
Guaranty
EXHIBIT
XIII
[FORM
OF] FIRST LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT
[To
be distributed separately]
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Security
Agreement
EXHIBIT
XIV
[FORM OF ]
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
[To
be distributed separately]
XV-1
EXHIBIT
XVI
[FORM
OF] PREFERRED STOCK CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS
[To
be distributed separately]
XVI-1
AMENDMENT
NO. 1 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
Amendment
No. 1, dated as of May 14, 2010 (this “Amendment”), to the
First Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2007 (as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”),
among IntraLinks Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”),
IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), each
lender from time to time party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and
individually, a “Lender”), Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”) and the other agents and arrangers named
therein. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit
Agreement.
W I T N E
S S E T H:
WHEREAS, subsection 10.6(a) of
the Credit Agreement permits the Borrower and the Requisite Lenders to enter
into amendments to and waive any provision of the Credit Agreement;
and
WHEREAS,
the Requisite Lenders and the Borrower desire to amend the Credit Agreement on
the terms set forth herein.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and covenants contained herein and
for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound
hereby, agree as follows:
Section
1.
Amendments
(a)
Subsection 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the
following definitions in alphabetical order:
““Amendment No. 1” means
Amendment No. 1 to this Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2010.”
““First Amendment to the Second Lien
Credit Agreement” means Amendment No. 1 to the Second Lien Credit
Agreement, dated as of May 14, 2010, substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit A to
Amendment No. 1.”
““Qualifying IPO” means the
first IPO following the Amendment Effective Date resulting in aggregate gross
proceeds to Holdings of not less than $125,000,000; provided that such
IPO shall have been consummated on or prior to December 31, 2010.”
““Qualifying IPO Holdings
Prepayment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.15.”
““Qualifying IPO Second Lien
Prepayment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.15.”
““Specified Accounts” means the
accounts listed on Schedule 1 to Amendment No. 1.”
(b)
The definition of Base Rate in subsection 1.1 of the Credit Agreement shall,
upon the consummation of the Qualifying IPO, be replaced in its entirety with
the following:
““Base Rate” means, at any time,
the highest of (i) the Prime Rate (ii) the rate which is 1/2 of 1% in
excess of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (iii) the Eurodollar Rate for an
Interest Period of one month beginning on the day on which such time falls (or
if such time falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the immediately
Preceding Business Day) plus 1.0% per annum. Any change in the Base
Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall
be effective on the effective date of such change. Administrative
Agent will give notice promptly to Company and the Lenders of changes in the
Base Rate; provided that (a) the
failure to give such notice shall not affect the Base Rate in effect after such
change and (b) the Base Rate shall be deemed to never be less than 2.5% per
annum.”.
(c)
The following shall be added immediately prior to the second
sentence of “Eurodollar Rate” in subsection 1.1 of the Credit
Agreement: “Notwithstanding the foregoing, from and after the
consummation of the Qualifying IPO, the Eurodollar Rate shall be deemed to never
be less than 1.5% per annum.”
(d)
The definition of “Net Securities Proceeds” in subsection 1.1 of the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing such definition in its entirety
with the following:
““Net Securities Proceeds” means
(x) the cash proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other
costs and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith, including legal
fees and expenses) from the incurrence of Indebtedness by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries and (y) the cash proceeds to Holdings from the issuance of Capital
Stock by Holdings (net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other fees,
costs and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith, including legal
fees and expenses).”
(e)
The definition of Specified Equity Amount in subsection
1.1 of the Credit Agreement shall be amended to add the following parenthetical
phrase immediately after the word “Holdings” appears therein:
“(other
than from the Qualifying IPO)”.
(f)
Upon the consummation of the Qualifying IPO, subsection
2.2(A)(i) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing such subsection
in its entirety with the following:
“(i) Subject
to the provisions of subsections 2.2E, 2.2G and 2.7, the Loans shall bear
interest through maturity as follows:
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(a) if
a Base Rate Loan, then at the sum of the Base Rate plus 3.50% per annum
(the “Base Rate
Margin”); provided that at any time
that the corporate credit rating of the Borrower is B1 (stable) or higher from
Xxxxx’x and at least B+ (stable) from S&P, the Base Rate Margin shall be
3.25% per annum; and
(b) if
a Eurodollar Rate Loan, then at the sum of the Eurodollar Rate plus 4.50% per annum
(the “Eurodollar Rate
Margin”); provided that at any time
that the corporate credit rating of the Borrower is B1 (stable) or higher from
Xxxxx’x and at least B+ (stable) from S&P, the Eurodollar Rate Margin shall
be 4.25% per annum.
(g)
Subsections 2.2(A)(ii) and (iii) of the Credit Agreement will be
deleted.
(h)
Upon the consummation of the Qualifying IPO, the following language
shall be deleted from the end of Section 6.1(iv):
“in
addition, on or before the 45th day following the end of each Fiscal Quarter, a
Pricing Certificate demonstrating in reasonable detail the calculation of the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of the four-Fiscal Quarter period then
ended;”
(i)
A new Section 6.15 shall be added to the Credit Agreement
which shall read as follows:
6.15
Use of
Proceeds of Qualifying IPO. The Net Securities Proceeds of the
Qualifying IPO shall be used, upon the consummation of the Qualifying IPO, (x)
to voluntarily prepay all interest, principal, premium and other amounts
outstanding under the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement at a prepayment price
not to exceed the price set forth in subsection 2.4B(i) thereof as such
provision is in effect on the Amendment Effective Date (the “Qualifying IPO Holdings
Prepayment”), (y) to the extent that Net Securities Proceeds of the
Qualifying IPO remain after the prepayment in immediately preceding clause (x),
to voluntarily prepay amounts outstanding under the Second Lien Credit Agreement
at a prepayment not to exceed the price set forth in subsection 2.4B(ii) thereof
as such provision is in effect on the Amendment Effective Date (the “Qualifying IPO Second Lien
Prepayment”) and (z) to the extent that Net Securities Proceeds of the
Qualifying IPO remain after the prepayment referred to in immediately preceding
clause (y), for general corporate purposes.
(j)
Subsection 7.7 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by,
upon the consummation of the Qualifying IPO, changing the references to
“$16,000,000” appearing in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth rows of
such table to “$21,000,000”.
(k)
The first sentence of subsection 7.10(B) of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by:
(x)
replacing the text “any dates upon which payments of principal or
interest are due thereon” set forth in the first sentence thereof with the text
“any dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due thereon (other
than to the extent necessary to require that the Qualifying IPO Second Lien
Indebtedness Prepayment be made upon the occurrence of the Qualifying IPO)”;
and
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(y)
replacing the text “change the prepayment provisions
thereof in a manner not adverse to the lenders under the Second Lien Credit
Agreement” with the text “change the prepayment provisions thereof (other than
to the extent necessary to require that the Qualifying IPO Second Lien
Indebtedness Prepayment be made upon the occurrence of the Qualifying IPO) in a
manner not adverse to the lenders under the Second Lien Credit
Agreement”.
(l)
The second sentence of subsection 7.10(B) of the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing such sentence in its entirety
with the following:
“Company
shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary, to make any prepayment prior to
the scheduled date due of Indebtedness under the Second Lien Credit Agreement
other than with the proceeds of Refinancing Second Lien Indebtedness or with the
consent of the Requisite Class Lenders of Term Loans (except for the Qualifying
IPO Second Lien Indebtedness Prepayment); provided that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall be permitted to pay any
consenting lender under the Second Lien Credit Agreement a consent fee with
respect to the First Amendment to the Second Lien Credit Agreement not greater
than the product of (x) the Fee Percentage (as defined in Amendment No. 1) and
(y) the aggregate principal amount of such lender’s loans under the Second Lien
Credit Agreement.”.
(m)
The second sentence of subsection 7.10(C) of the Credit Agreement is
hereby amended by replacing such sentence in its entirety with the
following:
“Holdings
shall not make any prepayment prior to the scheduled date due of Indebtedness
under the Holdings Senior PIK Credit Agreement other than the Qualifying IPO
Holdings Prepayment”.
(n)
Subsection 8.3 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following
text immediately prior to the words “or Section 7 of this
Agreement”:
“,
subsection 6.15”.
Section
2. Waiver
In
reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in
Section 4 below and subject to the conditions to effectiveness set forth in
Section 3 below, the Requisite Lenders hereby agree to waive any Default or
Event of Default that may be existing or continuing solely as a result of the
failure by Company and its Subsidiaries to enter into Control Agreement(s) over
the Specified Accounts (a “Control Agreement Default”);
provided that
such waiver shall be automatically revoked without any requirement of notice or
further action by any Lender or any Agent, and such Control Agreement Default
shall be deemed to have remained continuously in existence as if such waiver had
never been granted unless Borrower has come into full compliance with Section
6.11 (without giving effect to such waiver) on or prior to the 30th day
following the Amendment Effective Date (as such date may be extended from time
to time in the discretion of the Administrative Agent) and certified the same to
the Administrative Agent in an Officer’s Certificate on or prior to such
day. As an additional condition to such waiver, except for purposes
of calculating the fee pursuant to Section 2.3A of the Credit Agreement, the
Revolving Commitments shall be deemed reduced by $1,000,000 until the date of
such full compliance and receipt of such Officer’s Certificate.
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The
foregoing is a limited waiver and shall not be deemed to constitute a waiver of
any Event of Default (other than, subject to the foregoing, the Control
Agreement Default) or any future breach of the Credit Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby reserve their rights under
the Loan Documents and applicable law in respect of such other Events of Default
and future breaches.
Section
3. Conditions
Precedent to the Effectiveness of this Amendment
This
Amendment (including the waiver set forth above in Section 2) shall become
effective as of the date when, and only when, each of the following conditions
precedent shall have been (or are or will be substantially concurrently
therewith) satisfied, as evidenced by written confirmation of satisfaction from
the Administrative Agent (the “Amendment Effective
Date”):
(a)
the Administrative Agent shall have received this Amendment,
duly executed by the Borrower, Holdings and a number of Lenders sufficient to
constitute the Requisite Lenders;
(b)
the Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent
shall have entered into the First Amendment to the Intercreditor
Agreement;
(c)
the Administrative Agent shall have received an Officer’s Certificate of the
Borrower certifying that after giving effect to the waiver referred to in
Section 2 (x) the representations and warranties in Section 4 shall be true and
correct as of the Amendment Effective Date and (y) no default shall have
occurred and be continuing under the Second Lien Credit Agreement;
(d)
the Borrower shall have paid all fees and, to the
extent invoices have been delivered to the Borrower at least one (1) Business
Day prior to such date, expenses payable to the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders referred to under Section 5 hereof; and
(e)
the First Amendment to the Second Lien Credit Agreement shall have become,
or shall simultaneously become, effective.
Section
4. Representations
and Warranties
On and as
of the Amendment Effective Date, after giving effect to this Amendment and the
First Amendment to the Second Lien Credit Agreement, the Borrower hereby
represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender as
follows:
(a)
The execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment has
been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership or limited
liability action on the part of the Borrower. This Amendment is the
legally valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against such
Person in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting
creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to
enforceability;
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(b)
the representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement
and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material
respects (except that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to
“materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all
respects) on and as of the Amendment Effective Date to the same extent as though
made on and as of that date, except to the extent such representations and
warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such
representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material
respects (except that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to
“materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all
respects) on and as of such earlier date;
(c)
after giving effect to the amendments, consents and waivers set forth
herein and in the First Amendment to the Second Lien Credit Agreement, no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Credit
Agreement or the Second Lien Credit Agreement; and
(d)
As of the Amendment Effective Date, no more than an aggregate of the
United States dollar equivalent of $1,600,000 is in the Specified Accounts (the
Specified Account
Amount”). Other than with respect to the Specified Accounts
containing no more than an aggregate of the Specified Account Amount, Company is
in compliance with Section 6.11 in all respects as of the Amendment Effective
Date.
Section
5. Fees
and Expenses
(a)
On the Amendment Effective Date, each Lender which shall have duly executed and
delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent this Amendment on or
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on May 13, 2010 shall be paid a fee by
Borrower equal to 0.25% (the “Fee Percentage”) multiplied by
the sum of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Term Loans and the
Revolving Loan Commitment (whether drawn or undrawn) of such Lender as of the
Amendment Effective Date as set forth on the Register maintained by the
Administrative Agent.
(b)
The Borrower agrees to pay all reasonable
fees and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with this
Amendment (including the reasonable, documented fees of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx &
Xxxxxxx llp), whether or not the Amendment Effective Date occurs.
Section
6. Consent
to First Amendment to Intercreditor Agreement and First Amendment to the Second
Lien Credit Agreement
(a)
Pursuant to clause (i) of the first proviso to subsection 9.6 of the
Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to
Amendment No. 1 to the Intercreditor Agreement set forth on Exhibit B
hereto.
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(b)
The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the terms of
the First Amendment to the Second Lien Credit Agreement as in effect on the date
hereof and the performance by the Loan Parties of the transactions contemplated
thereby; provided that the Borrower complies with the terms of the First
Amendment to the Second Lien Credit Agreement.
Section
7. Reference
to and Effect on the Loan Documents
(a)
Except as specifically amended above, all of the terms and provisions of the
Credit Agreement and all other Loan Documents are and shall remain in full force
and effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed.
(b)
The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as
a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Lenders, Holdings, the Borrower or
the Administrative Agent under any of the Loan Documents, nor constitute a
waiver of any other provision of any of the Loan Documents or for any
purpose.
(c)
Each of the Loan Documents, including the Credit Agreement, and any and all
other agreements, documents or instruments now or hereafter executed and/or
delivered pursuant to the terms hereof or pursuant to the terms of the Credit
Agreement as amended hereby, are hereby amended so that any reference in such
Loan Documents to the Credit Agreement, whether direct or indirect, shall mean a
reference to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.
(d)
This Amendment is a Loan Document. For the
avoidance of doubt, the indemnification provisions set forth in subsection 10.3
of the Credit Agreement shall apply to this Amendment.
Section
8. Execution
in Counterparts
This
Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts
together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery
of an executed counterpart by telecopy or other electronic transmission shall be
effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this
Amendment.
Section
9. Governing
Law
THIS
AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS
OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW.
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Section
10. Headings
Section
headings herein are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall
not constitute a part hereof for any other purpose or be given any substantive
effect.
Section
11. Notices
All
communications and notices hereunder shall be given as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
Section
12. Severability
The
illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this Amendment or any
instrument or agreement required hereunder shall not in any way affect or impair
the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Amendment or
any instrument or agreement required hereunder.
Section
13. Successors
The terms
of this Amendment shall be binding upon, and shall inure to the benefit of, the
parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
Section
14. Waiver
of Jury Trial
EACH
OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AMENDMENT HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO
A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS
AMENDMENT OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS
AMENDMENT. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE
ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT
RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS,
TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY
CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL
INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO THIS AMENDMENT, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS
WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AMENDMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON
THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO
FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL
COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS
FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS
IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING
(OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO SECTION 13 AND
EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY
SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS
AMENDMENT. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THIS AMENDMENT MAY BE FILED AS
A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.
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[SIGNATURE
PAGES FOLLOW]
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In Witness
Whereof, the
parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective
officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first written
above.
as Holdings
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Secretary | |||
INTRALINKS, INC., as Borrower | |||
By:
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Title: Secretary |
[Amendment to IntraLinks
Credit Agreement Signature Page]
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS,
as Administrative Agent
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxx X’Xxxxx | |||
Title: Director | |||
By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Title: Director |
[Amendment
to IntraLinks Credit Agreement Signature Page]
Schedule
1
Specified
Accounts attached
Exhibit
A
Amendment
No. 1 to the Second Lien Credit Agreement
Exhibit
B
Amendment
No. 1 to the Intercreditor Agreement
AMENDMENT
NO. 2 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
Amendment
No. 2, dated as of November 24, 2010 (this “Amendment”), to the
First Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2007 (as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”),
among IntraLinks Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”),
IntraLinks, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), each
lender from time to time party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and
individually, a “Lender”), Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative
Agent”) and the other agents and arrangers named
therein. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit
Agreement.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
subsection 10.6(a) of the Credit Agreement permits the Borrower and the
Requisite Lenders to enter into amendments to and waive any provision of the
Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS,
the Requisite Lenders and the Borrower desire to amend the Credit Agreement on
the terms set forth herein.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and covenants contained herein and
for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound
hereby, agree as follows:
Section
1. Amendments
(a) Subsection
1.1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the following
definitions in alphabetical order:
““Amendment No. 2” means
Amendment No. 2 to this Agreement, dated as of November 24, 2010.”
““Follow On Equity Offering”
means a public offering of common stock of Holdings that is consummated on or
prior to June 30, 2011.
““Follow On Equity Offering Second Lien
Prepayment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.16.”
““Second Amendment Effective
Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Amendment No.
2.
(b) The
definition of Specified Equity Amount in subsection 1.1 of the Credit Agreement
shall be amended to add the following immediately after the words “Qualifying
IPO” appear therein:
“or, to
the extent used to make the Follow On Second Lien Prepayment, the Follow On
Equity Offering”.
(c) A
new Section 6.16 shall be added to the Credit Agreement which shall read as
follows:
6.16 Use of
Proceeds of Follow On Equity Offering. The gross proceeds of
the Follow On Equity Offering shall be used, upon the consummation of the Follow
On Equity Offering, (x) to voluntarily prepay amounts outstanding under the
Second Lien Credit Agreement at a prepayment price not to exceed the price set
forth in subsection 2.4B(ii) thereof as such provision is in effect on the
Second Amendment Effective Date (the “Follow On Second Lien
Prepayment”) and (y) to the extent that the gross proceeds of the Follow
On Equity Offering remain after the prepayment referred to in immediately
preceding clause (y), first, to pay for the fees and expenses relating thereto
and second, for general corporate purposes, including permitted
Investments.
(d) A
third sentence shall be added to subsection 7.10(B) of the Credit Agreement,
which shall read as follows:
“Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the foregoing shall not prevent the making of the Follow On
Second Lien Prepayment.”
Section
2. Conditions
Precedent to the Effectiveness of this Amendment
This
Amendment shall become effective as of the date when, and only when, each of the
following conditions precedent shall have been (or are or will be substantially
concurrently therewith) satisfied, as evidenced by written confirmation of
satisfaction from the Administrative Agent (the “Second Amendment Effective
Date”):
(a) the
Administrative Agent shall have received this Amendment, duly executed by the
Borrower, Holdings and a number of Lenders sufficient to constitute the
Requisite Lenders;
(b)
the Administrative Agent shall have received an Officer’s Certificate of the
Borrower certifying that the representations and warranties in Section 3 shall
be true and correct as of the Second Amendment Effective Date and (y) no default
shall have occurred and be continuing under the Second Lien Credit Agreement;
and
(c) the
Borrower shall have paid all amounts under Section 4;
provided
that the Second Amendment Effective Date shall not occur unless the Borrower
shall have delivered its signature page hereto no later than the first Business
Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent of the signature pages hereto
by the Requisite Lenders.
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Section
3. Representations
and Warranties
On and as
of the Second Amendment Effective Date, after giving effect to this Second
Amendment, the Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative
Agent and each Lender as follows:
(a) The
execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment has been duly authorized
by all necessary corporate, partnership or limited liability action on the part
of the Borrower. This Amendment is the legally valid and binding
obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against such Person in accordance with
its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally
or by equitable principles relating to enforceability;
(b) the
representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement and in the
other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (except
that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or
“Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as
of the Second Amendment Effective Date to the same extent as though made on and
as of that date, except to the extent such representations and warranties
specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and
warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (except
that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality” or
“Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as
of such earlier date;
(c) no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Credit
Agreement or the Second Lien Credit Agreement; and
Section
4. Fees
and Expenses
(a) On
the Second Amendment Effective Date, each Lender which shall have duly executed
and delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent this Amendment on or
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 23, 2010 shall be paid a fee
by Borrower equal to 0.10% (the “Fee Percentage”) multiplied by
the sum of the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Term Loans and the
Revolving Loan Commitment (whether drawn or undrawn) of such Lender as of the
Second Amendment Effective Date as set forth on the Register maintained by the
Administrative Agent.
(b) The
Borrower agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent in connection with this Amendment (including the
reasonable, documented fees of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx llp),
whether or not the Second Amendment Effective Date occurs. On the
Second Amendment Effective Date, the Borrower further agrees to pay those fees
agreed to separately agreed to between the Administrative Agent and any
Affiliate thereof and the Borrower with respect to this Amendment.
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Section
5. Reference
to and Effect on the Loan Documents
(a) Except
as specifically amended above, all of the terms and provisions of the Credit
Agreement and all other Loan Documents are and shall remain in full force and
effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed.
(b) The
execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as a
waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Lenders, Holdings, the Borrower or
the Administrative Agent under any of the Loan Documents, nor constitute a
waiver of any other provision of any of the Loan Documents or for any
purpose.
(c) Each
of the Loan Documents, including the Credit Agreement, and any and all other
agreements, documents or instruments now or hereafter executed and/or delivered
pursuant to the terms hereof or pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement as
amended hereby, are hereby amended so that any reference in such Loan Documents
to the Credit Agreement, whether direct or indirect, shall mean a reference to
the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.
(d) This
Amendment is a Loan Document. For the avoidance of doubt, the
indemnification provisions set forth in subsection 10.3 of the Credit Agreement
shall apply to this Amendment.
Section
6. Execution
in Counterparts
This
Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts
together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery
of an executed counterpart by telecopy or other electronic transmission shall be
effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this
Amendment.
Section
7. Governing
Law
THIS
AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS
OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD REQUIRE APPLICATION OF ANOTHER LAW.
Section
8. Headings
Section
headings herein are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall
not constitute a part hereof for any other purpose or be given any substantive
effect.
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Section
9. Notices
All
communications and notices hereunder shall be given as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
Section
10. Severability
The
illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this Amendment or any
instrument or agreement required hereunder shall not in any way affect or impair
the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Amendment or
any instrument or agreement required hereunder.
Section
11. Successors
The terms
of this Amendment shall be binding upon, and shall inure to the benefit of, the
parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
Section
12. Waiver of
Jury Trial
EACH
OF THE PARTIES TO THIS AMENDMENT HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO
A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS
AMENDMENT OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS
AMENDMENT. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE
ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT
RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS,
TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY
CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL
INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO THIS AMENDMENT, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS
WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AMENDMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON
THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO
FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL
COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS
FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS
IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING
(OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO SECTION 12 AND
EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY
SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS
AMENDMENT. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THIS AMENDMENT MAY BE FILED AS
A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.
[SIGNATURE
PAGES FOLLOW]
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In Witness
Whereof, the
parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective
officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first written
above.
as
Holdings
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Title:
Chief Financial Officer
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INTRALINKS,
INC., as Borrower
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Title:
Chief Financial
Officer
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[Amendment
to IntraLinks Credit Agreement Signature Page]
DEUTSCHE
BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS,
as Administrative Agent
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X’Xxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Title:
Director
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FEINGOLD
O’KEEFFE CAPITAL, LLC
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As
Collateral Manager for
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Xxxxx
Street CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx X’Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
X’Xxxx
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Title:
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PM
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[If
a second signature is required]
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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FEINGOLD
O’KEEFFE CAPITAL, LLC
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As
Collateral Manager for
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Lime
Street CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx X’Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
X’Xxxx
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Title:
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PM
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[If
a second signature is required]
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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FEINGOLD
O’KEEFFE CAPITAL, LLC
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As
Collateral Manager for
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Xxxxxxx
Place CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx X’Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
X’Xxxx
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Title:
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PM
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[If
a second signature is required]
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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ING
CAPITAL LLC,
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as
a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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ORIX
Finance Corp.,
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as
a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Title:
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Sr.
Managing Director
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[If
a second signature is required]
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By:
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N/A
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Name:
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Title:
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Knightsbridge CLO 2007-1
LIMITED, as Lender
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By:
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ACKB
LLC,
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as
investment manager
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By:
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Xxx
Xxxx Asset Management, L.P.,
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its
Managing Member
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx Cascade
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Name:
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Xxxx
Cascade
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Title:
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Duly
Authorized Signatory
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Knightsbridge CLO 2008-1
LIMITED, as Lender
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By:
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ACKB
LLC,
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as
investment manager
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By:
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Xxx
Xxxx Asset Management, L.P.,
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its
Managing Member
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx Cascade
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Name:
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Xxxx
Cascade
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Title:
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Duly
Authorized Signatory
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2003-I
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2004-I
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2004-II
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2005-I
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2005-II
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2005-III
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2006-I
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2006-II
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BABSON
CLO LTD. 2007-I
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BABSON
CREDIT STRATEGIES CLO, LTD.
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BABSON
MID-MARKET CLO LTD. 2007-II
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BABSON
LOAN OPPORTUNITY CLO, LTD.
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LOAN
STRATEGIES FUNDING LLC
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SAPPHIRE VALLEY CDO I,
LTD., as Lenders
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By: Babson
Capital Management LLC as Collateral Manager
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
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Title:
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Director
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BABSON
CAPITAL LOAN PARTNERS I, L.P.
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OLYMPIC PARK LTD., as
Lenders
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By:
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Babson
Capital Management LLC as Investment Manager
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx |
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
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Title:
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Director
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CREDIT SUISSE
AG,
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Cayman
Islands Branch
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxx
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Title:
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Director
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Associate
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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx X’Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X’Xxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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[If
a second signature is required]
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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DEXTERA,
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as
a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Authorized
Signatory
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[If
a second signature is required]
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By:
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N/A
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Name:
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Title:
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LMP
Corporate Loan Fund, Inc.
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By:
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Citi
Alternative Investments LLC,
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as
a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxx
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Title:
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VP
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CCA
EAGLE LOAN MASTER FUND LTD.
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By:
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Citigroup
Alternative Investments LLC, as Investment manager for and on behalf of
CCA EAGLE LOAN MASTER FUND LTD., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxx
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Title:
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VP
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REGATTA
FUNDING LTD.
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By:
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Citi
Alternative Investments LLC,
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attorney-in-fact,
as a Lender
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxx
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Title:
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VP
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Seal
Rock Offshore Funding, L.L.C.
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as
a Lender
|
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By:
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
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Title:
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Managing
Member
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