AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
Execution Copy
Exhibit 10.3
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
This Amendment No. 3 (this “Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement, dated as of February 7, 2006 (as heretofore amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Credit Agreement”), and entered into by and among RATHGIBSON, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Borrower”); RGCH HOLDINGS CORP., a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), as one of the guarantors; GREENVILLE TUBE COMPANY, a Delaware corporation (“Greenville Tube”), as one of the guarantors; the financial institutions who are or hereafter become parties to the Credit Agreement as Lenders (as hereinafter defined) and GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (in its individual capacity “GE Capital”), as agent (in such capacity, the “Agent”), is dated as of December 13, 2007 and entered into by and among Borrower, the other Credit Parties signatory hereto, the Lenders signatory hereto and Agent.
R E C I T A L S:
WHEREAS, Borrower has requested that the Requisite Lenders agree to amend the Credit Agreement as set forth below; and
WHEREAS, Agent and the Lenders whose signatures appear below are willing to agree to such request and enter into this Amendment upon the terms and conditions provided herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof the Credit Parties, the Lenders whose signatures appear below and Agent agree as follows:
Section 1.
DEFINITIONS
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Defined Terms. Unless otherwise provided all capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Credit Agreement.
Section 2.
AMENDMENTS
2.1
Amendments. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3, the Credit Agreement is amended as follows:
(a)
Section 8.2(h)(i) of the Credit Agreement is amended by adding the following text immediately following clause (y) thereof: “or (z) consisting of machinery, equipment and other property set forth on Schedule I hereto (the “Greenville Tube Equipment”) upon receipt by Agent of a representation from Borrower that such release is required in order to permit the substantially concurrent consummation of the Greenville Tube Equipment Financing Transaction and that such consummation is permitted by Sections 3.1(b)(v) and 3.2 hereof.”
(b)
Annex A of the Credit Agreement is amended by adding the following new definition in its alphabetical place:
“ ‘Greenville Tube Equipment Financing Transaction ’ means the financing, through the issuance by the City of Clarksville, Arkansas (the “ Issuer ”) of its Industrial Development Revenue Bond (Greenville Tube Company Project), Series 2007 (the “ Bond ”) and the lending of the proceeds of the Bond to Greenville Tube pursuant to a Loan Agreement dated as of December 1, 2007 by and among the Issuer, GE Government Finance, Inc. and Greenville Tube, of the acquisition and installation of various machinery, equipment and other property to be used in the manufacture of stainless steel tubing by Greenville Tube.”
(c)
The definition of “Permitted Encumbrances” in Annex A to the Credit Agreement is amended by (i) deleting the word “and” appearing at the end of clause (xviii) thereof; (ii) replacing the period appearing at the end of clause (xix) thereof with the text “; and”; and (iii) adding the following new clause (xx) immediately following clause (xix) thereof:
“(xx)
Liens on the property of any Credit Party securing Indebtedness permitted hereunder in reliance upon Section 3.1(b)(v); provided, however, that (i) such Liens exist prior to the acquisition of, or attach substantially simultaneously with, or within 90 days after, the acquisition, repair, improvement or construction of, such property financed, whether directly or through Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, by such Indebtedness and (ii) such Liens do not extend to any property of any Credit Party other than the property (and proceeds thereof) acquired or built, or the improvements or repairs, financed, whether directly or through Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, by such Indebtedness.”
(d)
The Credit Agreement is amended by attaching as Schedule I thereto the schedule attached hereto as Schedule 1.
Section 3.
CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS
The amendments contained in Section 2.1 shall become effective on the date (the “Effective Date”) that the following conditions have been satisfied in full or waived by the Requisite Lenders:
(a)
Agent shall have received one or more counterparts of this Amendment No. 3 executed and delivered by the Credit Parties, the Requisite Lenders and Agent.
(b)
There shall be no continuing Default or Event of Default and the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the Effective Date or such other specific date as of which any such representation or warranty is by its terms made.
Section 4.
LIMITATION ON SCOPE
Except as expressly amended hereby, the Loan Documents shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their respective terms. The amendments set forth herein shall be limited precisely as provided for herein and shall not be deemed to be waivers of, amendments of, consents to or modifications of any term or provision of the Loan Documents or any other document or instrument referred to therein or of any transaction or further or future action on the part of any Credit Party requiring the consent of Agent or Lenders except to the extent specifically provided for herein. Agent and Lenders have not and shall not be
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deemed to have waived any of their respective rights and remedies against any Credit Party for any existing or future Defaults or Events of Default.
Section 5.
MISCELLANEOUS
(a)
Greenville Tube hereby represents and warrants that the release of any Lien granted to or held by Agent in the Greenville Tube Equipment is required in order to permit the substantially concurrent consummation of the Greenville Tube Equipment Financing Transaction and that such consummation is permitted by Sections 3.1(b)(v) and 3.2 of the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby.
(b)
Each Credit Party hereby represents and warrants as follows:
(i)
this Amendment No. 3 has been duly authorized and executed by such Credit Party and the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment No. 3 is the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Credit Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as (1) such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting the rights of creditors in general and (2) the availability of equitable remedies may be limited by equitable principles of general applicability; and
(ii)
such Credit Party repeats and restates the representations and warranties of such Credit Party contained in the Credit Agreement as of the Effective Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties relate to a specific date; provided that references to the “Credit Agreement” or “this Agreement” in such representations and warranties shall be deemed to be references to the Credit Agreement as amended pursuant to this Amendment No. 3.
(c)
This Amendment No. 3 is being delivered in the State of New York.
(d)
Each Credit Party hereby ratifies and confirms that the Credit Agreement as amended hereby remains in full force and effect.
(e)
Each Credit Party agrees that all Loan Documents, as amended hereby or otherwise amended in connection herewith, remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the execution and delivery of this Amendment No. 3 and that nothing contained in this Amendment No. 3 shall constitute a defense to the enforcement of any Loan Document.
(f)
This Amendment No. 3 may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all of which counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument.
(g)
All references in the Loan Documents to the “Credit Agreement” and in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement,” “hereof,” “herein” or the like shall mean and refer to the Credit Agreement as amended by this Amendment No. 3 (as well as by all subsequent amendments, restatements, modifications and supplements thereto).
(h)
This Amendment is a “Loan Document” and each of the following provisions of the Credit Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by this reference with the same effect as though set forth in its entirety herein, mutatis mutandis, and as if “this Agreement” in any such provision read “this Amendment No. 3”: Section 9.6 (Severability), Section 9.9 (Applicable Law), Section 9.14 (Consent to Jurisdiction) and Section 9.15 (Waiver of Jury Trial).
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Execution Copy
Witness the due execution hereof by the respective duly authorized officers of the undersigned of this Amendment No. 3 to the Credit Agreement as of the date first written above.
RATHGIBSON, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: CFO
RGCH HOLDINGS CORP.
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: CFO
GREENVILLE TUBE COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: CFO
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION,
as Agent, L/C Issuer, and Lender
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Duly Authorized Signatory
Amendment No. 3 to Credit Agreement
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CONSENT AND REAFFIRMATION
The undersigned (each, a “Guarantor”) hereby (i) acknowledges receipt of a copy of the foregoing Amendment No. 3; (ii) consents to Borrower’s execution and delivery thereof and approves and consents to the transactions contemplated thereby; (iii) agrees to be bound thereby; and (iv) affirms that nothing contained therein shall modify or diminish in any respect whatsoever its obligations under its Guaranty and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party and reaffirms that such Guaranty is and shall continue to remain in full force and effect. This acknowledgement by such Guarantor is made and delivered to induce Agent and Lenders to enter into Amendment No. 3, and such Guarantor acknowledges that Agent and Lenders would not enter into Amendment No. 3 in the absence of the acknowledgements contained herein. Although such Guarantor has been informed of the matters set forth herein and has acknowledged and agreed to same, such Guarantor understands that Agent and Lenders have no obligation to inform such Guarantor of such matters in the future or to seek such Guarantor’s acknowledgment or agreement to future amendments or waivers, and nothing herein shall create such a duty. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Amendment No. 3 to which this Consent is attached or in the Credit Agreement referred to therein, as applicable.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Consent and Reaffirmation on and as of the date of Amendment No. 3.
RGCH HOLDINGS CORP.
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: CFO
GREENVILLE TUBE COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: CFO
Consent and Reaffirmation
