U.S. $1,075,000,000 THREE YEAR REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of November 3, 2009 Among KBR, INC. as Borrower, THE ISSUING BANKS NAMED HEREIN as Issuing Banks, THE BANKS NAMED HEREIN as Banks, CITIBANK, N.A. as Administrative Agent, BBVA COMPASS...
Exhibit
10.1
EXECUTION
COPY
U.S.
$1,075,000,000
THREE
YEAR REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as
of November 3, 2009
Among
as
Borrower,
THE
ISSUING BANKS NAMED HEREIN
as
Issuing Banks,
THE BANKS
NAMED HEREIN
as
Banks,
CITIBANK,
N.A.
as
Administrative Agent,
BBVA
COMPASS
Syndication
Agent,
THE ROYAL
BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC,
BANK OF
AMERICA, N.A. and
REGIONS
BANK
Co-Documentation
Agents
Co-Lead
Arrangers:
CITIGROUP
GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
and
RBS
SECURITIES INC.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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Page
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Article
I
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DEFINITIONS
AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
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Section
1.01
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Certain
Defined Terms
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1
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Section
1.02
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Computation
of Time Periods
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20
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Section
1.03
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Accounting
Terms; GAAP.
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20
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Section
1.04
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Miscellaneous
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20
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Section
1.05
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Ratings
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21
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Section
1.06
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Exchange
Rate.
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21
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Article
II
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AMOUNTS
AND TERMS OF THE REVOLVING CREDIT ADVANCES
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Section
2.01
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The
Revolving Credit Advances.
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21
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Section
2.02
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Making
the Revolving Credit Advances.
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23
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Section
2.03
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Issuance
of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit.
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24
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Section
2.04
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Fees.
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27
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Section
2.05
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Reduction
of Commitments.
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28
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Section
2.06
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Repayment
of Advances; Required Cash Collateral.
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28
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Section
2.07
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Interest
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30
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Section
2.08
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Additional
Interest on Eurodollar Rate Advances
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31
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Section
2.09
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Interest
Rate Determination.
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31
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Section
2.10
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Optional
Prepayments
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32
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Section
2.11
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Payments
and Computations.
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32
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Section
2.12
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Compensation
for Losses
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33
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Section
2.13
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Increased
Costs and Capital Requirements.
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34
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Section
2.14
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Taxes.
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35
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Section
2.15
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Sharing
of Payments, Etc.
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37
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Section
2.16
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Illegality
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37
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Section
2.17
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Conversion
of Advances
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38
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Section
2.18
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Replacement
of Bank
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38
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Section
2.19
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Evidence
of Indebtedness
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39
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Section
2.20
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Increase
in the Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments; Increase in Letter of
Credit Commitment.
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39
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Section
2.21
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Defaulting
Lenders.
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40
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Article
III
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CONDITIONS
OF LENDING
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Section
3.01
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Conditions
Precedent to Effectiveness
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43
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Section
3.02
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Conditions
Precedent to Each Revolving Credit Advance, Each Commitment Increase and
Each Issuance, Renewal, Amendment, Increase and Extension of Each Letter
of Credit
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44
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Section
3.03
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Determinations
Under Section
3.01
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45
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Article
IV
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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Section
4.01
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Representations
and Warranties of the Borrower
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45
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Article
V
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COVENANTS
OF THE BORROWER
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Section
5.01
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Affirmative
Covenants
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51
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Section
5.02
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Negative
Covenants
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55
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Section
5.03
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Financial
Covenants
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61
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Article
VI
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EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
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Section
6.01
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Events
of Default
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61
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Section
6.02
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Actions
in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default
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63
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Section
6.03
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Application
of Funds
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Article
VII
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THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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Section
7.01
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Appointment
and Authority
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64
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Section
7.02
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Duties
of Administrative Agent; Exculpatory Provisions.
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65
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Section
7.03
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Reliance
by Administrative Agent
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65
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Section
7.04
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Rights
as a Bank.
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66
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Section
7.05
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Bank
Credit Decision.
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67
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Section
7.06
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Delegation
of Duties
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68
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Section
7.07
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Resignation;
Replacement of Administrative Agent.
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68
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Section
7.08
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Co-Lead
Arrangers, Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent
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69
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Section
7.09
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Guarantee
Matters
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69
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Section
7.10
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Administrative
Agent May File Proofs of Claim
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69
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Article
VIII
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Section
8.01
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Amendments,
Etc.
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70
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Section
8.02
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Notices,
Etc.
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71
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Section
8.03
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No
Waiver; Remedies; Enforcement
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74
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Section
8.04
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Expenses
and Taxes; Compensation; Indemnification.
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74
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Section
8.05
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Right
of Set-Off
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75
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Section
8.06
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Limitation
and Adjustment of Interest.
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76
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Section
8.07
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Binding
Effect
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77
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Section
8.08
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Assignments
and Participations.
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77
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Section
8.09
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No
Liability of Issuing Banks
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80
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Section
8.10
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Counterparts;
Integration, Effectiveness; Electronic Execution.
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80
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Section
8.11
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Judgment.
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81
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Section
8.12
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Governing
Law
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81
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Section
8.13
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Jurisdiction;
Damages.
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81
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Section
8.14
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Confidentiality.
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82
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Section
8.15
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Patriot
Act Notice
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84
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Section
8.16
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Waiver
of Jury Trial
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84
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Section
8.17
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Certain
Matters with Respect to Existing Credit Agreement
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85
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule
I
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-
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Commitments
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Schedule
II
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Existing
Letters of Credit
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Schedule
III
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-
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Subsidiary
Guarantors
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Schedule
IV
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-
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Issuing
Bank Information
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Schedule
4.01(b)
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Loan
Parties, Subsidiaries and Project Finance Subsidiaries
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Schedule
5.02(a)(i)
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Existing
Liens
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Schedule
5.02(a)(viii)
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HSBC
Letters of Credit
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Schedule
5.02(b)(ii)
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Existing
Debt
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit
A
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Form
of Note
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Exhibit
B-1
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Form
of Notice of Revolving Credit Borrowing
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Exhibit
B-2
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Form
of Notice of Issuance and Application for Letter of
Credit
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Exhibit
C
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-
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Form
of Guarantee
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Exhibit
D
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Form
of Assignment and Acceptance
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iii
THREE
YEAR REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as
of November 3, 2009
KBR,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”),
the lenders party hereto, the Issuing Banks party hereto, and Citibank, N.A., a
national banking association (“Citibank”),
as Administrative Agent hereunder, agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section
1.01 Certain Defined
Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms “Borrower” and “Citibank”
shall have the meanings set forth above and the following terms shall have the
following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular
and plural forms of the terms defined):
“Administrative
Agent” means Citibank in its capacity as administrative agent and any
successor in such capacity pursuant to Section
7.07.
“Administrative
Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in the form approved
by the Administrative Agent.
“Advance”
means a Revolving Credit Advance under Section
2.01 or a Letter of Credit Advance under Section
2.03 and refers to a Base Rate Advance or a Eurodollar Rate Advance
(each, a “Type” of
Advance).
“Affected
Bank” has the meaning specified in Section
2.16.
“Affiliate”
means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly,
Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with such
Person.
“Agent’s
Account” means the account of the Administrative Agent maintained by the
Administrative Agent with Citibank at its office at 0 Xxxxx Xxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Account No. 00000000, Attention: KBR Account
Officer, or such other account as the Administrative Agent shall specify in
writing to the Banks.
“Agent
Parties” has the meaning specified in Section
8.02(f).
“Agreement”
means this Three Year Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof
among the Borrower, the Banks and the Administrative Agent, as amended from time
to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Applicable
Lending Office” means, with respect to each Bank, (i) in the case of a
Base Rate Advance, such Bank’s Domestic Lending Office, and (ii) in the case of
a Eurodollar Rate Advance, such Bank’s Eurodollar Lending Office.
“Applicable
Margin” means 3% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Advances and 2% per annum
for Base Rate Advances.
“Approved
Electronic Communications” has the meaning set forth in Section
8.02(c).
“Approved
Electronic Platform” has the meaning specified in Section
8.02(c).
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“Approved
Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Bank, (b)
an Affiliate of a Bank or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that
administers or manages a Bank.
“Assignment and
Acceptance” means an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by a Bank and
an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required
by Section
8.08), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the
form of Exhibit D
or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Assuming
Lender” has the meaning specified in Section
2.20.
“Available
Amount” of any Letter of Credit means, at any time, the Dollar Equivalent
of the maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit at the
time of such determination (assuming compliance at such time with all conditions
to drawing); provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that
by its terms or the terms of any L/C Related Document, provides for one or more
automatic increases in the maximum available amount thereof, the Available
Amount of such Letter of Credit shall, for all purposes other than the
calculation of fees under Section
2.04(b), be deemed to be the maximum amount available to be drawn under
such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not
such maximum available amount is in effect at such time.
“Banks”
means the Issuing Banks and the other banks and other financial institutions
party hereto from time to time as lenders, including each Eligible Assignee that
becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section
8.08(a), (b) and
(d).
“Base Rate”
means, for any day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum as shall be in effect
on such day, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the highest of
(a) the rate of interest announced publicly by Reference Bank in New York, New
York, from time to time, as Reference Bank’s base rate in effect for such day,
(b) the sum of ½ of 1% per annum plus the Federal Funds Rate
in effect for such day, and (c) the sum of the Eurodollar Rate for an Interest
Period of one month commencing on such day plus 1% per
annum.
“Base Rate
Advance” means an Advance which bears interest as provided in Section
2.07(a).
“Borrowing”
means a borrowing consisting of Advances of the same Type made on the same day
by the Banks pursuant to Section
2.01 and, if such Advances are Eurodollar Rate Advances, having Interest
Periods of the same duration.
“Business
Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or
authorized to close in New York City and, if the applicable Business Day relates
to any Eurodollar Rate Advance, on which dealings in Dollar deposits are carried
on in the London interbank market.
“Capitalized
Leases” means leases that should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as
capitalized leases.
“Capitalized/Operating
Leases” means leases that would have been classified as operating leases
under GAAP as in effect on the Effective Date but that are classified as
Capitalized Leases because of changes in GAAP that take effect after the
Effective Date.
“Cash
Collateralize” means, in respect of an obligation, provide and pledge (as
a first priority perfected security interest) cash collateral in Dollars, at a
location and pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and “Cash
Collateral” and “Cash
Collateralization” have corresponding meanings).
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“Cash
Equivalents” means
(a) direct
obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or by any agency
thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit
of the United States of America), in each case maturing within one year from the
date of acquisition thereof;
(b) marketable
direct obligations issued by any state of the United States 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 the
acquisition thereof, the highest rating obtainable from either S&P or
Xxxxx’x;
(c) commercial
paper maturing no more than one year from the date of creation thereof and
having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, a rating of at least A-1 from
S&P or at least P-1 from Xxxxx’x;
(d) certificates
of deposit or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year after such date and
issued or accepted by any Bank or by any commercial bank organized under the
laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or
any foreign country recognized by the United States that (a) is at least
“adequately capitalized” (as defined in the regulations of its primary Federal
banking regulator), (b) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) of
not less than $100,000,000 (or the Foreign Currency Equivalent thereof) and (c)
has outstanding debt which is rated “A” (or such similar equivalent rating) or
higher by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as
defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act);
(e) fully
collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for
securities described in clause (a)
above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria
described in clause
(d) above;
(f)
money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth
in Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 2a 7 under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Xxxxx’x and (iii) have
portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000; and
(g) substantially
similar investments denominated in foreign currencies (including similarly
capitalized foreign banks).
“CERCLIS”
means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
“Change in
Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of
the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or
treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the
administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental
Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental
Authority.
“Change of
Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) any Person or
two or more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired beneficial ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, of Voting
Interests of the Borrower (or other securities convertible into such Voting
Interests) representing 25% or more of the combined voting power of all Voting
Interests of the Borrower or (b) during any period of 24 consecutive
months, the Continuing Directors shall cease for any reason (other than death or
disability) to constitute a majority of the board of directors of the
Borrower.
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“Co-Lead
Arrangers” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and RBS Securities
Inc.
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor Federal
tax code, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder, in each
case as now or hereafter in effect, and any reference to any statutory provision
shall be deemed to be a reference to any successor provision or
provisions.
“Commercial Letter
of Credit” means a letter of credit qualifying as a “commercial letter of
credit” under 12 C.F.R. Part
3, Appendix A,
Section 3(b)(3)(i) or
any successor U.S. Comptroller of the Currency regulation.
“Commitment”
means a Revolving Credit Commitment or a Letter of Credit
Commitment.
“Commitment
Date” has the meaning specified in Section
2.20.
“Commitment
Fee” has the meaning specified in Section
2.04(a).
“Commitment
Increase” has the meaning specified in Section
2.20.
“Communications”
has the meaning specified in Section
8.02(b).
“Consolidated
Debt” means at any time the Indebtedness of the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated basis as of such time
excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries and Permitted Non-Recourse
Indebtedness.
“Consolidated
EBITDA” means, for any period, for the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries) on a consolidated basis,
an amount equal to the sum of (a) Consolidated Net Income Attributable to
Borrower for such period plus (b) the following to the
extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income Attributable to
Borrower: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges for such period, (ii) income tax
expenses, (iii) depreciation expense, (iv) amortization expense, (v) net
income attributable to noncontrolling interests, (vi) charges related to
restructuring, asset impairment or other extraordinary items or related to
non-cash estimate project losses (including non-extraordinary items), and (vii)
charges indemnified or required to be indemnified by Halliburton Company, minus (c) cash payments
related to restructuring, asset impairment or other extraordinary items or
related to non-cash estimate project losses (including non-extraordinary items)
to the extent previously included in the computation of Consolidated EBITDA
pursuant to clause (a)
of this definition (except to the extent indemnified or required to be
indemnified by Halliburton Company); provided, however, that with
respect to any Project Finance Subsidiary, any cash distribution made by such
Project Finance Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower
(other than any Project Finance Subsidiary) to the extent not previously
included in the equity and earnings of such Person shall be included for
purposes of calculation of Consolidated EBITDA. For the purposes of
determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period during which the purchase or
other acquisition of Equity Interests or other property or assets of any Person
is consummated, Consolidated EBITDA shall be adjusted in a manner consistent
with Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or
as reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in each case, to give
effect to the consummation of such purchase or acquisition on a pro forma basis
in accordance with GAAP, as if such purchase or acquisition occurred on the
first day of such period.
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“Consolidated
Interest Charges” means, for any period, for the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of all interest,
premium payments, fees, charges and related expenses in connection with borrowed
money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred
purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in
accordance with GAAP, and all fees paid in respect of letters of credit, surety
bonds and similar instruments.
“Consolidated Net
Income Attributable to Borrower” means, for any period, net income
attributable to the Borrower on a consolidated basis for that
period.
“Consolidated Net
Worth” means at any time the total consolidated Shareholders’ Equity of
the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries calculated on a consolidated
basis as of such time (excluding treasury stock), and, except as otherwise
provided in Section
1.03(a), determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Continuing
Directors” means, during any period, the directors of the Borrower on the
first date of such period, and each other director if, in each case, such other
director’s nomination for election to the board of directors of the Borrower is
recommended by at least a majority of the then Continuing
Directors.
“Control”
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the
ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling”
and “Controlled”
have meanings correlative thereto.
“Convert”,
“Conversion”
and “Converted”
each refers to a conversion of Revolving Credit Advances of one Type into
Revolving Credit Advances of the other Type pursuant to Section
2.09, Section
2.16 or Section
2.17.
“Customary
Permitted Liens” means, with respect to any Person, any of the following
Liens:
(a) Liens
with respect to the payment of taxes, assessments or governmental charges in
each case that are not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves or other
appropriate provisions are being maintained to the extent required by
GAAP;
(b) Liens
of landlords arising by statue or lease contracts entered into in the ordinary
course, inchoate, statutory or construction Liens and Liens of suppliers,
mechanics, carriers, materialmen, warehousemen, producers, operators or workmen
and other Liens imposed by law created in the ordinary course of business for
amounts not yet overdue for a period of more than 60 days or that are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which
adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are being maintained to the
extent required by GAAP;
(c) Liens,
pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with
workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other types of social security
benefits, other than Liens imposed by ERISA;
(d) encumbrances
arising by reason of zoning restrictions, easements, licenses, reservations,
covenants, rights-of-way, utility easements, building restrictions and other
similar encumbrances on the use of real property not materially detracting from
the value of such real property and not materially interfering with the ordinary
conduct of the business conducted at such real property;
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(e) encumbrances
arising under leases or subleases of real property that do not, individually or
in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of such real property or
materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business conducted at such
real property; and
(f)
financing statements with respect to a lessor’s rights in and to
personal property leased to such Person in the ordinary course of such Person’s
business.
“Default”
means any event or condition which with notice or lapse of time or both would,
unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“Defaulting
Lender” means, at any time, a Bank as to which the Administrative Agent
has notified the Borrower that (i) such Bank has failed for three or more
Business Days to comply with its obligations under this Agreement to make an
Advance and/or make a payment to the Issuing Bank in respect of a Letter of
Credit Advance (each a “funding
obligation”), (ii) such Bank has notified the Administrative Agent, or
has stated publicly, that it will not comply with any such funding obligation
hereunder, or has defaulted generally on its funding obligations under other
loan agreements, credit agreements or similar financing agreements, (iii) such
Bank has, for five or more Business Days, failed to confirm in writing to the
Administrative Agent, in response to a written request of the Administrative
Agent, that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder or (iv) a
Lender Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to such Bank
(provided that
neither the reallocation of funding obligations provided for in Section
2.21(a) as a result of a Bank’s being a Defaulting Lender nor the
performance by Non-Defaulting Lenders of such reallocated funding obligations
will by themselves cause the relevant Defaulting Lender to become a
Non-Defaulting Lender). Any determination that a Bank is a Defaulting
Lender under clauses (i)
through (iv) above
will be made by the Administrative Agent in good faith. The
Administrative Agent will promptly send to all parties hereto a copy of any
notice to the Borrower provided for in this definition.
“Documentation
Agent” means each of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Bank of America,
N.A. and Regions Bank, solely in its capacity as co-documentation agent under
this Agreement.
“Dollar
Equivalent” means, on any date, (i) in relation to an amount denominated
in a currency other than Dollars, the equivalent in Dollars determined by using
the Spot Rate (determined as of such date, if such date is a Revaluation Date,
or if such date is not a Revaluation Date, as of the most recent Revaluation
Date) and (ii) in relation to an amount denominated in Dollars, such
amount.
“Dollars”
and “$” means
lawful money of the United States of America.
“Domestic Lending
Office” means, with respect to any Bank, the office of such Bank
specified as its “Domestic Lending Office” in its Administrative Questionnaire
or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Bank, as
applicable, or such other office of such Bank as such Bank may from time to time
specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Domestic
Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary incorporated or organized under the laws
of a state of the United States or the District of Columbia.
“Effective
Date” has the meaning specified in Section
3.01.
“Eligible
Assignee” means (i) any Bank, (ii) any Affiliate of any Bank, (iii) an
Approved Fund, and (iv) with the consent of the Administrative Agent and each
Issuing Bank (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), and so long as
no Event of Default under Section
6.01(a) or Section
6.01(e) shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), any other Person (other than a
natural Person); provided, however, that no
(x) Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party or (y) Defaulting
Lender or Potential Defaulting Lender or any Person who, upon becoming a Bank
hereunder, would constitute a Defaulting Lender or Potential Defaulting Lender,
shall be an Eligible Assignee.
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“Environmental
Action” means any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim, notice of
non compliance or violation, notice of liability or potential liability,
investigation, proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating in any
way to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or Hazardous Material or
arising from alleged injury or threat to health, safety or the environment,
including (a) by any Governmental Authority for enforcement, cleanup, removal,
response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by any Governmental
Authority or third party for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost
recovery, compensation or injunctive relief.
“Environmental
Law” means any Federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, ordinance,
rule, regulation, code, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or judicial or
agency interpretation, policy or guidance relating to pollution or protection of
the environment, health, safety or natural resources, including those relating
to the use, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or
discharge of Hazardous Materials.
“Environmental
Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any
liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or
indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective
Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon
(a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use,
handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous
Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or
threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or
(e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to
which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the
foregoing.
“Environmental
Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or
other authorization required under any Environmental Law.
“Equity
Interests” means, with respect to any Person, shares of capital stock of
(or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, warrants, options or
other rights for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of shares of
capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person,
securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or
options for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of such shares
(or such other interests), and other ownership or profit interests in such
Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether
voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights
or other interests are authorized or otherwise existing on any date of
determination.
“ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time
to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued
thereunder.
“ERISA
Affiliate” means any Person that is a member of the Borrower’s controlled
group, or under common control with the Borrower, within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or
(o) of the Code.
“ERISA
Event” means (a) (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the
meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA,
with respect to any Plan unless the 30-day notice requirement with respect to
such event has been waived by the PBGC, or (ii) the requirements of subsection (1) of Section 4043(b) of ERISA
(without regard to subsection
(2) of such Section) are met with respect to a contributing sponsor, as
defined in Section
4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is
reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following 30
days; (b) the application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to a Plan;
(c) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to
terminate such Plan pursuant to Section 4041 or 4041A of
ERISA; (d) the cessation of operations that is treated as a withdrawal under
Section 4062(e) of
ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Single
Employer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it was a
substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA;
(f) (i) the incurrence by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability
with respect to the complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or (ii) the receipt by the Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate of notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization;
(g) the imposition of any liability upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate
under Title IV of ERISA other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent
under Section 4007 of
ERISA; or (h) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan
pursuant to Section
4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition described in
Section 4042 of ERISA
that constitutes grounds for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee
to administer, a Plan.
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“Eurocurrency
Liabilities” has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation D of the
Federal Reserve Board, as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar
Lending Office” means, with respect to any Bank, the office of such Bank
specified as its “Eurodollar Lending Office” specified in its Administrative
Questionnaire or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a
Bank, as applicable (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending
Office), or such other office of such Bank as such Bank may from time to time
specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Eurodollar
Rate” means, for any Interest Period for each Eurodollar Rate Advance
comprising part of the same Borrowing, the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) appearing on Reuters LIBOR01 Page (or any
successor page) as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in U.S.
dollars at 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days before the first day of
such Interest Period for a period equal to such Interest period (provided that, if for
any reason such rate is not available, the term “Eurodollar Rate” shall mean,
for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the
same Borrowing, an interest rate per annum (rounded upward to the nearest whole
multiple of 1/100 of 1% per annum, if such rate per annum is not such a
multiple) equal to the rate per annum at which deposits in Dollars are offered
by the principal office of Reference Bank in London, England to major banks in
the London interbank market at 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days before
the first day of such Interest Period in an amount substantially equal to
Reference Bank’s Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of such Borrowing and
for a period equal to such Interest Period).
“Eurodollar Rate
Advance” means an Advance which bears interest as provided in Section
2.07(b).
“Eurodollar Rate
Reserve Percentage” of any Bank for any Interest Period for all
Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same borrowing means the reserve
percentage applicable during such Interest Period (or if more than one such
percentage shall be so applicable, the daily average of such percentages for
those days in such Interest Period during which any such percentage shall be so
applicable) under regulations issued from time to time by the Federal Reserve
Board for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any emergency,
supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for such Bank with respect
to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities
having a term equal to such Interest Period.
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“Events of
Default” has the meaning specified in Section
6.01.
“Excluded
Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Bank and any
Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account
of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by
its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it
(in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
thereof) under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its
principal office is located or, in the case of any Bank, in which its Applicable
Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United
States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which
the Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an
assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section
2.18), any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such
Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or
designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s
failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply
with
Section 2.14(f), 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 the Borrower with
respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section
2.14(a).
“Existing Credit
Agreement” means that certain Five Year Revolving Credit Agreement dated
as of December 16, 2005 among KBR Holdings, LLC, as borrower, Citibank, N.A., as
paying agent and co-administrative agent, the other agents therein named, the
issuing banks named therein, and the lenders a party thereto, as
amended.
“Existing
Debt” has the meaning specified in Section
5.02(b)(ii).
“Existing Letters
of Credit” means each of the letters of credit issued under the Existing
Credit Agreement outstanding on the Effective Date that are described on Schedule
II hereto.
“Extended Letter
of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(b).
“FAS 13”
means Statement Number 13 issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board as
same may be amended or interpreted from time to time.
“FAS 167”
means Statement Number 167 issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board as
same may be amended or interpreted from time to time.
“Federal Funds
Rate” means, for any day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for
such day 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 that is a Business Day, the
average rate quoted to Reference Bank for such day on such transactions as
determined by the Administrative Agent.
“Federal Reserve
Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any
successor thereof.
“FIN 46R”
means FASB Interpretation No. 46 “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities”
published January 2003 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, as the same
may be amended or interpreted from time to time.
“Foreign
Currency” means any lawful currency (other than Dollars).
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“Foreign Currency
Equivalent” means at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in
Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Foreign Currency as
determined on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most
recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Foreign Currency with
Dollars.
“Foreign Currency
Letter of Credit” means a Letter of Credit denominated in a Foreign
Currency.
“Foreign Currency
Letter of Credit Contingency Amount” means, at any time, an amount equal
to 10% of the aggregate Available Amount of all Foreign Currency Letters of
Credit outstanding at such time.
“Foreign
Lender” means any Bank that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax
purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States of
America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to
constitute a single jurisdiction.
“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 of its
business.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of
America.
“Gap Cash
Collateral Amount” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Unused Revolving
Credit Commitment”.
“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, joint venture, joint stock company, or
limited liability company.
“Governmental
Authority” means the government of the United States of America or any
other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local,
and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank
or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory
or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including
any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central
Bank).
“Guarantee”
means the guarantee of the Subsidiary Guarantors substantially in the form of
Exhibit
C, together with each Guarantee Supplement delivered pursuant to Section
5.01(j), in each case as amended, amended and restated, modified or
otherwise supplemented.
“Guarantee
Supplement” has the meaning specified in Section
5.01(j).
“Guaranty
Obligation” means, as to any Person, any obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect
of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of another Person in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or
indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or
payment of) such Indebtedness (whether arising by virtue of partnership
arrangements, by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities
or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain equity or other financial statement
conditions or otherwise) or (b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any
other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof
or to protect such obligees against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in
part); provided, however, that the
term “Guaranty
Obligation” shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or
collection in the ordinary course of business.
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“Hazardous
Materials” means (a) petroleum or petroleum products, by-products or
breakdown products, radioactive materials, asbestos-containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gas and (b) any other chemicals, materials
or substances designated, classified or regulated as hazardous or toxic or as a
pollutant or contaminant under any Environmental Law.
“Hedging
Obligation” means an Obligation of the Borrower or a Subsidiary entered
into in the ordinary course of business pursuant to an interest rate swap, cap
or collar agreement, interest rate future or option contract, currency swap
agreement, currency future or option contract or other hedging
agreement.
“Increase
Date” has the meaning specified in Section
2.20.
“Increasing
Lender” has the meaning specified in Section
2.20.
“Indebtedness”
means, for any Person and without duplication, (a) all obligations of such
Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the
deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts
payable and other similar current obligations arising in the ordinary course of
business), (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures,
notes or other similar instruments, (d) all contingent and non-contingent
obligations of such Person in connection with letters of credit, bankers’
acceptances, bank guaranties, and similar instruments (including, in the case of
the Borrower, indemnification obligations of the Borrower to Halliburton
Company, in respect of letters of credit) and all non-contingent reimbursement
obligations in connection with surety bonds, (e) all obligations of such Person
under Capitalized Leases, (f)
all Guaranty Obligations of such Person with respect to the obligations of
another of a type described in clauses
(a) through (e) above,
(g) all indebtedness referred to in clauses
(a) through (e) above
of another Person secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has
an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on
property (including accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, even
though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such
Indebtedness (provided that, for
purposes of determining the amount of Indebtedness of the type described in this
clause, the amount of such Indebtedness shall be limited to the lesser of the
fair market value of such asset or the amount of such Indebtedness, and
(h) all Indebtedness referred to in clauses
(a) through (g) above
of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a
corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general
partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made
non-recourse to such Person; provided that as used
in the definition of “Consolidated
Debt” Indebtedness shall not include (i) contingent obligations
under letter of credit reimbursement agreements with respect to (A) fifty
percent (50%) of the face amount of any Performance Letters of Credit and
(B) one hundred percent (100%) of the face amount of any Commercial Letters
of Credit, in each case, so long as such letters of credit remain undrawn, (ii)
Hedging Obligations, (iii) contingent obligations with respect to surety bonds,
(iv) letters of credit, acceptances and bank guarantees to the extent
collateralized with cash and/or cash equivalents, and (v) Indebtedness in
respect of Capitalized/Operating Leases to the extent that such Indebtedness
does not exceed $500,000,000 at any time outstanding. For the
avoidance of doubt, in calculating the Consolidated Debt of the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries, where one letter of credit, acceptance or bank
guarantee is issued for the account of the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries
and which supports another letter of credit, acceptance or bank guarantee of the
Borrower or such Subsidiary, the related Indebtedness shall only be included
once.
“Indemnified
Party” has the meaning specified in Section
8.04(b).
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“Indemnified
Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Information
Memorandum” means the document in the form approved by the Borrower
concerning the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries which, at the Borrower’s
request and on its behalf, was prepared in relation to this transaction and
distributed by the Co-Lead Arrangers to selected financial institutions before
the date of this Agreement.
“Interest
Period” means, for each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of the
same Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate
Advance or the date of the Conversion of any Base Rate Advance into such
Eurodollar Rate Advance and ending on the last day of the period selected by the
Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, with respect to
Eurodollar Rate Advances, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of
the immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the
period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The
duration of each such Interest Period shall be one, two, three or six months
(or, as to any Interest Period, such other period as the Borrower and each of
the Banks may agree to for such Interest Period), in each case as the Borrower
may, upon notice received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M.
(New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such
Interest Period (or, as to any Interest Period, at such other time as the
Borrower and the Banks may agree to for such Interest Period), select; provided, however,
that:
(a) Interest
Periods commencing on the same date for Advances comprising part of the same
Borrowing shall be of the same duration;
(b) whenever
the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a
Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on
the next succeeding Business Day, provided that if such
extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next
following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on
the next preceding Business Day;
(c) any
Interest Period which begins on the last Business Day of the 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 end on the last Business Day of
the calendar month in which it would have ended if there were a numerically
corresponding day in such calendar month; and
(d) the
Borrower may not select an Interest Period for any Advance if the last day of
such Interest Period would be later than the date on which the Advances are then
payable in full or if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
at the time of selection.
“Investment”
in any Person means any loan or advance to such Person, any purchase or other
acquisition of any Equity Interests or Indebtedness or the assets comprising a
division or business unit or a substantial part or all of the business of such
Person, any capital contribution to such Person or any other direct or indirect
investment in such Person, including any acquisition by way of a merger or
consolidation (or similar transaction) and any arrangement pursuant to which the
investor incurs Indebtedness of the type referred to in clause (f)
or (g) of the
definition of “Indebtedness” in respect of such Person.
“Issuing
Bank” means each of (a) Citibank, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc,
Compass Bank, Bank of America, N.A., Regions Bank and National Bank of Kuwait,
S.A.K., New York Branch in their capacities as initial issuing banks, (b) any
other Bank that, by written agreement with the Borrower (and with the consent of
the Administrative Agent not to be unreasonably withheld), agrees to be an
Issuing Bank, and (c) any Eligible Assignee to which a Letter of Credit
Commitment has been assigned pursuant to Section
8.08 so long as each such Eligible Assignee expressly agrees to perform
in accordance with their terms all the obligations that by the terms of this
Agreement are required to be performed by it as an Issuing Bank and notifies the
Administrative Agent of its Applicable Lending Office and the amount of its
Letter of Credit Commitment (which information shall be recorded by the
Administrative Agent in the Register), for so long as such initial Issuing Bank
or Eligible Assignee, as the case may be, shall have a Letter of Credit
Commitment. An Issuing Bank may, with the prior consent of the
Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld), arrange for one or more Letters of
Credit to be issued by an Affiliate of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term
“Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate solely with respect to such
Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate; provided that such designation shall
not result in or grant to such Affiliate the status or rights of a Bank pursuant
to this Agreement.
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“Joint Venture”
means any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the
Borrower (including ownership through Subsidiaries) owns Equity Interests
representing less than 100% of the Equity Interests of such Person.
“Joint Venture
Debt” has the meaning specified in Section
5.02(a)(vi).
“JV
Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower (a) that directly holds
an Equity Interest in any Joint Venture and (b) that has no other material
assets.
“L/C Cash
Collateral Account” means the l/c cash collateral deposit account,
Account No. 00000000, with Citibank, as securities intermediary and
depository bank, at its office at Xxx Xxxxx Xxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
00000, in the name of the Borrower but under the sole control and dominion of
the Administrative Agent and subject to the terms of this
Agreement.
“L/C
Exposure” means, at any time and without duplication, the sum of (a) the
aggregate undrawn portion of all uncancelled and unexpired Letters of Credit
plus (b) the aggregate
unpaid reimbursement obligations of the Borrower in respect of drawings of
drafts under any Letter of Credit made by a Letter of Credit
beneficiary.
“L/C Related
Documents” has the meaning specified in Section
2.06(b)(iii)(A).
“Lender Insolvency
Event” means that (i) a Bank or its Parent Company is insolvent, or is
generally unable to pay its debts as they become due, or admits in writing its
inability to pay its debts as they become due, or makes a general assignment for
the benefit of its creditors, or (ii) such Bank or its Parent Company is the
subject of a bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation or similar
proceeding, or a receiver, trustee, conservator, intervenor or sequestrator or
the like has been appointed for such Bank or its Parent Company or such Bank or
its Parent Company has taken any action in furtherance of or indicating its
consent to or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment; provided, that a Bank
shall not become a Defaulting Lender solely as the result of the acquisition or
maintenance of an ownership interest in such Bank or its Parent Company or the
exercise of control over such Bank or its Parent Company by a Governmental
Authority or an instrumentality thereof.
“Letter of
Credit” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.01(b).
“Letter of Credit
Advance” means an Advance made by any Issuing Bank or any Bank pursuant
to Section
2.03(d).
“Letter of Credit
Commitment” of any Issuing Bank means, at any time, the amount set forth
(a) opposite such Issuing Bank’s name on Schedule I
under the heading “Letter of Credit Commitments”, (b) in the relevant
Assignment and Acceptance to which such Issuing Bank is a party or (c) in
such other agreement pursuant to which such Issuing Bank becomes an Issuing Bank
hereunder, in each case as such amount may be terminated, reduced or increased
pursuant to Section
2.05, Section
2.20, Section
6.01 or Section
8.08.
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“Letter of Credit
Fees” means fees payable pursuant to Section
2.04(b) or Section
2.04(c).
“Lien”
means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or
any other type of preferential arrangement, including the lien or retained
security title of a conditional vendor, a statutory deemed trust and any
easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property; provided, however, that for the
avoidance of doubt, the interest of a Person as owner or lessor under charters
or leases of property.
“Loan
Documents” means this Agreement, the Guarantee and the
Notes.
“Loan
Parties” means the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Material Adverse
Change” means a material adverse change in the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties, contingent
liabilities or material agreements of the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors
and their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties, contingent
liabilities or material agreements of the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors
and their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the rights and
remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Bank under any Loan Document or (c)
the ability of each of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor to perform its
Obligations under any Loan Document to which it is or is to be a
party.
“Material Domestic
Subsidiary” means, at any date, any wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiary of
the Borrower which is a Material Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Material
Subsidiary” means, as at any date of determination, KBR Holdings, LLC and
each other Subsidiary now existing or hereafter acquired or formed by the
Borrower generating more than 5% of total revenues for the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters. In
calculating total revenues and revenues attributable to interests in
Subsidiaries which interests are not owned by Borrower shall be
excluded.
“Maturity
Date” means the date that is the third anniversary of the Effective Date
provided, however, that if such
date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding
Business Day.
“Moody’s”
means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to its debt ratings
business.
“Multiemployer
Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to
make contributions or has any liability, or during the preceding five plan
years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Multiple Employer
Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of
ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate and at least one Person other than the Borrower and the ERISA
Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate could have liability under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA
in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
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“Non-Defaulting
Lender” means, at any time, a Bank that is not a Defaulting Lender or a
Potential Defaulting Lender.
“Note”
means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any Bank, in
substantially the form of Exhibit A
hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to such Bank
resulting from the Advances owing to such Bank.
“Notice of
Issuance and Application for Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified
in Section
2.03(a).
“Notice of
Revolving Credit Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section
2.02(a).
“NPL” means
the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
“Obligations”
means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties
of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to
any Advance or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those
acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now
existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after
the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any
proceeding under any the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other
liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of
creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization,
or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable
jurisdictions naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of
whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such
proceeding.
“Other
Taxes” means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any
other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any
payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution,
delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any
other Loan Document.
“Parent
Company” means, with respect to a Bank, the bank holding company (as
defined in Federal Reserve Board Regulation Y), if any, of such Bank, and/or any
Person owning, beneficially or of record, directly or indirectly, a majority of
the shares of such Bank.
“Participant”
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
8.08.
“Patriot
Act” shall mean the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub.
L. 107-56, signed into law October 26, 2001.
“PBGC”
means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor).
“Performance
Letter of Credit” means a letter of credit qualifying as a “performance
based standby letter of credit” under 12 C.F.R. Part 3, Appendix A,
Section 3(b)(2)(i) or any successor U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
regulation.
“Permitted
Non-Recourse Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Borrower, any
Subsidiary, or any Project Finance Subsidiary of the Borrower incurred in
connection with the acquisition or construction by the Borrower, such Subsidiary
or such Project Finance Subsidiary of any property with respect to which the
holders of such Indebtedness agree that they will look solely to the property so
acquired or constructed and securing such Indebtedness provided that neither
the Borrower nor any such Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary)
(i) provides any direct or indirect credit support, including any undertaking,
agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness or (ii) is otherwise
directly or indirectly liable for such Indebtedness; and provided further that
no default with respect to such Indebtedness would cause, or permit (after
notice or passage of time or otherwise), according to the terms thereof, any
holder (or any representative of any such holder) of any other Indebtedness
(other than Project Financing or Permitted Non-Recourse Indebtedness) of the
Borrower or such Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary and
Subsidiaries thereof) to declare a default on such other Indebtedness or cause
the payment, repurchase, redemption. defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement for value thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to any scheduled
principal payment, scheduled sinking fund or maturity.
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“Person”
means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint
venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.
“Plan”
means a Single Employer Plan, a Multiple Employer Plan or a Welfare
Plan.
“Platform”
has the meaning specified in Section
8.02(b).
“Potential
Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Bank (i) as to which the
Administrative Agent has notified the Borrower that an event of the kind
referred to in the definition of “Lender Insolvency Event” has
occurred and is continuing in respect of any subsidiary or financial institution
affiliate of such Bank, (ii) as to which the Administrative Agent or any Issuing
Bank has in good faith determined and notified the Borrower and, in the case of
any Issuing Bank, the Administrative Agent that such Bank or its Parent Company
or a subsidiary or financial institution affiliate thereof has notified the
Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, or has stated publicly, that it will
not comply with its funding obligations generally under other loan agreements,
credit agreements or other similar financing agreements or (iii) that has, or
whose Parent Company has, a non-investment grade rating from Moody’s or S&P
or another nationally recognized rating agency. Any determination
that a Bank is a Potential Defaulting Lender under any of clauses
(i) through (iii)
above will be made by the Administrative Agent or, in the case of clause
(ii), any Issuing Bank in good faith. The Administrative Agent
will promptly send to all parties hereto a copy of any notice to the Borrower
provided for in this definition.
“Pro Rata
Share” of any amount means, with respect to any Bank at any time, such
amount times a fraction the numerator of which is the amount of such Bank’s
Revolving Credit Commitment at such time (or, if the Commitments shall have been
terminated pursuant to Section
2.05 or Section
6.01, such Revolving Credit Commitment as in effect immediately prior to
such termination) and the denominator of which is the Revolving Credit Facility
at such time (or, if the Commitments shall have been terminated pursuant to
Section
2.05 or Section
6.01, the Revolving Credit Facility as in effect immediately prior to
such termination).
“Project Finance
Subsidiary” means (a) a Subsidiary of the Borrower designated as a
“Project Finance Subsidiary” by the Borrower by notice to the Administrative
Agent, and (b) any Person which is not a Subsidiary of the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries holds a
minority interest with respect to which the earnings of such Person are included
in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, provided that in the
case of (a) and
(b),
such Subsidiary or other Person is a special-purpose entity created solely to
(i) construct or acquire an asset or project that will be or is financed solely
with Project Financing for such asset or project and related equity investments
in, loans to, or capital contributions in, such Person that are not prohibited
hereby and/or (ii) own an interest in any such asset or
project. Schedule
4.01(b) identifies Project Finance Subsidiaries as of the Effective
Date.
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“Project
Financing” means Indebtedness and other Obligations that (a) are incurred
by a Project Finance Subsidiary, (b) are secured by a Lien of the type permitted
under Section
5.02(a)(v) and (c) constitute Permitted Non-Recourse Indebtedness
(other than recourse to the assets of, and Equity Interests in, any Project
Finance Subsidiary).
“Projections”
has the meaning specified in Section
4.01(m).
“Property”
or “asset” (in
each case, whether or not capitalized) means any interest in any kind of
property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or
intangible.
“Reference
Bank” means Citibank N.A., a national banking association, or such
substitute Reference Bank as may from time to time be appointed by the
Administrative Agent.
“Register”
has the meaning specified in Section
8.08(b).
“Regulation
U” means Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board, as the same is from
time to time in effect, and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder
or thereof.
“Related
Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and
the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person
and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Required
Banks” means, at any time, Banks having more than 50% of the sum of
(i) the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such time
and (ii) the Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such
time (calculated by reference to each Bank’s Pro Rata Share); provided however, in the event
that the sum of clauses (i)
and
(ii) above equals zero, “Required Banks” shall mean, at any time, Banks
having more than 50% of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Responsible
Officer” means each of the chairman and chief executive officer, the
president, the chief financial officer, the treasurer, the secretary or any vice
president (whether or not further described by other terms, such as, for
example, senior vice president or vice president-operations) of the Borrower or,
if any such office is vacant, any Person performing any of the functions of such
office.
“Revaluation
Date” means, with respect to any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, each
of the following: (i) each date of issuance (or, in the case of the Existing
Letters of Credit, the Effective Date), extension and renewal of any Letter of
Credit pursuant to Section
2.01(b), (ii) each date of an amendment of any Letter of Credit pursuant
to Section
2.01(b) having the effect of increasing the amount thereof, (iii) each
date of any Revolving Credit Advance pursuant to Section
2.01(a), (iv) each date of any payment by an Issuing Bank under any
Foreign Currency Letter of Credit pursuant to Section
2.06(b)(i), (v) the date of delivery of a monthly report pursuant to
Section
2.03(c)(ii) by an Issuing Bank and (vi) such additional dates as the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, the Required Banks may
reasonably request.
“Revolving Credit
Advance” means an Advance by a Bank to the Borrower pursuant to Section
2.01 and refers to a Base Rate Advance or a Eurodollar Rate
Advance.
“Revolving Credit
Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit
Advances of the same Type made by the Banks.
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“Revolving Credit
Commitment” means, with respect to any Bank at any time, the amount set
forth opposite such Bank’s name on Schedule I
hereto under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or, if such Bank has
entered into one or more Assignment and Acceptances, set forth for such Bank in
the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.08(b)
as such Bank’s “Revolving Credit Commitment”, as such amount may be
reduced, increased or terminated at or prior to such time pursuant to Section
2.05, Section
2.20 or Section
6.01.
“Revolving Credit
Exposure” means, with respect to any Bank at any time, the sum of the
outstanding principal amount of such Bank’s Revolving Credit Advances at such
time.
“Revolving Credit
Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Banks’
Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
“S&P”
means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service Group, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc. on the date hereof, or any successor to its debt ratings
business.
“Shareholders’
Equity” means, as of any date of determination, consolidated
shareholders’ equity of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of
that date determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Single Employer
Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA,
that (a) is maintained for employees of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate and
no Person other than the Borrower and the ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so
maintained and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate could
have liability under Section
4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be
terminated.
“Solvent”
means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a)
the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount
of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the
present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the
amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its
debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to,
and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such
Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such
Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage
in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute
an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities
at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts
and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can
reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
“Spot Rate”
means, for any Foreign Currency, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent
to be the quoted spot rate at which Reference Bank’s principal office in London
offers to exchange Dollars for such Foreign Currency at approximately 11:00 A.M.
(London time) on the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made;
provided that
the Administrative Agent may obtain such quoted spot rate from another financial
institution designated by the Administrative Agent if the Reference Bank’s
principal office in London does not have a spot exchange rate for such Foreign
Currency as of the date of determination.
“Subsidiary”
of any Person means any corporation (including a business trust), partnership,
joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other
entity of which more than 50% of the outstanding capital stock, securities or
other ownership interests having ordinary voting power to elect directors of
such corporation or, in the case of any other entity, others performing similar
functions (irrespective of whether or not at the time capital stock, securities
or other ownership interests of any other class or classes of such corporation
or such other entity shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any
contingency) is at the time directly or indirectly owned by such Person, by such
Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or by one or more other
Subsidiaries of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all
references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
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“Subsidiary
Guarantors” means the Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on Schedule
III hereto and each other Material Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower
that shall be required to execute and deliver a Guarantee Supplement pursuant to
Section
5.01(j) and each other Subsidiary which shall execute and deliver a
Guarantee Supplement in accordance with the procedures set forth for Material
Domestic Subsidiaries in Section
5.01(j); provided that (i)
within 10 Business Days after the date financial statements are delivered
pursuant to Section
5.01(d)(i) or (ii), as
the case may be, the Borrower shall cause additional Subsidiaries, if any are
required, to each duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a
Guarantee Supplement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, guaranteeing the other Loan Parties’ Obligations under the
Loan Documents such that the aggregate revenues of the Borrower and all
Subsidiary Guarantors shall not be less than 95% of the aggregate revenues of
the Borrower and the wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower for the
four-quarter period ending on the date of such financial statements and (ii)
within 60 days thereafter, deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request
of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, a signed copy of a favorable
opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Banks, of counsel for the
Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to (A) such
Guarantee Supplement being the legal, valid and binding obligations of each
additional Subsidiary Guarantor party thereto enforceable in accordance with its
terms and (B) such other matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
“Syndication
Agent” means Compass Bank, solely in its capacity as syndication agent
under this Agreement.
“Taxes”
means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions,
withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental
Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable
thereto.
“Termination
Date” means Maturity Date, or the earlier date of termination in whole of
the Commitments pursuant to Section
2.05 or Section
6.01.
“Type” has
the meaning specified in the definition of Advance.
“Unused Revolving
Credit Commitment” means, with respect to any Bank at any time,
(a) such Bank’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time minus (b) without
duplication, the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving
Credit Advances and Letter of Credit Advances made by such Bank and outstanding
at such time plus
(ii) such Bank’s Pro Rata Share of (A) the aggregate Available Amount
of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, (B) the aggregate
principal amount of all Letter of Credit Advances made by the Issuing Banks
pursuant to Section
2.03(d) and outstanding at such time, (C) the Foreign Currency
Letter of Credit Contingency Amount and (D) to the extent not funded with
Advances that remain outstanding at such time, the aggregate amount of any cash
collateral that has been pledged and remains pledged at such time pursuant to
Section
5.02(a)(ix) (the “Gap Cash
Collateral Amount”).
“Utilized
Commitment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.01(a).
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“Voting
Interests” means shares of capital stock issued by a corporation, or
equivalent Equity Interests in any other Person, the holders of which are
ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote to the election of
directors (or Persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the
right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such
contingency.
“Welfare
Plan” means an employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, that
is maintained for employees of any Loan Party or in respect of which any Loan
Party could have liability.
“Withdrawal
Liability” has the meaning specified in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of
ERISA.
Section
1.02 Computation of Time
Periods. In this Agreement in the computation of periods of
time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from”
means “from and
including” and the words “to” and
“until”
each means “to but
excluding”.
Section
1.03 Accounting Terms; GAAP.
(a) Except
as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial
nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to
time; provided
that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower
requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any
change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on
the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the
Borrower that the Required Banks request an amendment to any provision hereof
for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or
after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision
shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately
before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been
withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance
herewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any entity that is not a
Subsidiary but would be required to be consolidated in the financial statements
of the Borrower because of FIN 46R or FAS 167, (i) shall not be considered a
“Subsidiary” for
purposes of this Agreement and (ii) shall not be included in any computation of
any financial covenant herein.
(b) In
this Agreement, references to “pro forma compliance” shall
mean pro forma compliance as determined in accordance with GAAP for the
immediately preceding four fiscal quarters as of the date of determination and
as such methodology is reasonably approved by the Administrative
Agent.
Section
1.04 Miscellaneous. The
definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms
of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter
forms. The words “include,”
“includes”
and “including”
shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without
limitation.” The word “will”
shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” The
words “hereof”,
“herein”
and “hereunder”
and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and
Article, Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to Articles and Sections
of and Schedules and Exhibits to this Agreement, unless otherwise
specified. Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition
of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document shall be
construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from
time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any
restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein
or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be
construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, and (iii) any
reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions
consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to
any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or
regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.
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Section
1.05 Ratings. A rating, whether
public or private, by S&P or Xxxxx’x shall be deemed to be in effect on the
date of announcement or publication by S&P or Xxxxx’x, as the case may be,
of such rating or, in the absence of such announcement or publication, on the
effective date of such rating and will remain in effect until the announcement
or publication of, or (in the absence of such announcement or publication) the
effective date of, any change in such rating. In the event the
standards for any rating by Xxxxx’x or S&P are revised, or such rating is
designated differently (such as by changing letter designations to numerical
designations), then the references herein to such rating shall be deemed to
refer to the revised or redesignated rating for which the standards are closest
to, but not lower than, the standards at the date hereof for the rating which
has been revised or redesignated, all as determined by the Required Banks in
good faith. Long-term debt supported by a letter of credit, guarantee
or other similar credit enhancement mechanism shall not be considered as senior
unsecured long-term debt. If either Xxxxx’x or S&P has at any
time more than one rating applicable to senior unsecured long-term debt of any
Person, the lowest such rating shall be applicable for purposes
hereof. For example, if Xxxxx’x rates some senior unsecured long-term
debt of any Person Baa1 and other such debt of such Person Baa2, the senior
unsecured long-term debt of such Person shall be deemed to be rated Baa2 by
Xxxxx’x.
Section
1.06 Exchange
Rate.
(a) The
Spot Rates used in determining the Dollar Equivalent of Foreign Letters of
Credit and the Foreign Currency Equivalent shall be the Spot Rates determined as
of the most recent Revaluation Date. Except for purposes of financial
statements delivered by the Borrower hereunder or calculating financial
covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable
amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents
shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative
Agent.
(b) Whenever
in this Agreement in connection with the issuance, amendment or extension of a
Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount is
expressed in Dollars, but if such Letter of Credit is a Foreign Currency Letter
of Credit, such amount shall be the relevant Foreign Currency Equivalent of such
Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of such Foreign Currency, with 0.5 of
a unit being rounded upward), as determined by the Administrative
Agent.
ARTICLE
II
AMOUNTS
AND TERMS OF THE REVOLVING CREDIT ADVANCES
Section
2.01 The Revolving Credit
Advances.
(a) Each
Bank severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to
make Revolving Credit Advances in Dollars to the Borrower from time to time on
any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until the Termination
Date in an aggregate amount not to exceed such Bank’s Unused Revolving Credit
Commitment at such time; provided that
(i) no Revolving Credit Advance shall be required to be made, except as a
part of a Revolving Credit Borrowing that is in an aggregate amount not less
than $10,000,000 in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances and $5,000,000 in the
case of Base Rate Advances and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000,
(ii) each Revolving Credit Borrowing shall consist of Revolving Credit
Advances of the same Type made on the same day by the Banks ratably according to
their respective Revolving Credit Commitments, (iii) in the event there are
Foreign Currency Letters of Credit then outstanding, the Spot Rates used in
determining the Unused Revolving Credit Commitment shall be determined as of the
date of the Revolving Credit Advance, and after giving effect to such Revolving
Credit Advance, the sum of the aggregate L/C Exposure plus the Foreign Currency
Letter of Credit Contingency Amount plus the aggregate Revolving
Credit Exposure plus
the Gap Cash Collateral Amount (the sum of such amounts being herein referred to
as the “Utilized
Commitment Amount”) shall not exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit
Commitments. The acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of a
Revolving Credit Advance shall be deemed a representation that such Revolving
Credit Advance complies with the conditions set forth in clauses
(i), (ii) and
(iii) of
the preceding sentence. Within the limits of each Bank’s Unused
Revolving Credit Commitment in effect from time to time, the Borrower may
borrow, prepay pursuant to Section
2.10 and reborrow under this Section
2.01. The Borrower agrees to give a Notice of Revolving Credit
Borrowing in accordance with Section
2.02(a) as to each Revolving Credit Advance.
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(b) Letters of
Credit. Each Issuing Bank agrees, on the terms and conditions
hereinafter set forth, to issue letters of credit (collectively, together with
the Existing Letters of Credit, the “Letters of
Credit”, and each a “Letter of
Credit”) for the account of the Borrower (such issuance, and any funding
of a draw thereunder and any Letter of Credit Advance with respect thereto, to
be made by the Issuing Banks (including through such branches or Affiliates as
such Issuing Bank and the Borrower shall jointly agree) in reliance on the
agreements of the other Banks pursuant to Section
2.03) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the
Effective Date until 10 days prior to the Maturity Date in an aggregate
Available Amount (with respect to Foreign Currency Letters of Credit, calculated
by the applicable Issuing Bank using the Spot Rates determined as of the date of
such issuance, amendment or extension, as applicable) (i) for all Letters of
Credit issued by the Issuing Banks, not to exceed at any time the aggregate
Letter of Credit Commitments at such time minus the aggregate principal
amount of the Letter of Credit Advances outstanding at such time, (ii) for all
Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, not to exceed at any time the
Letter of Credit Commitment of such Issuing Bank at such time minus the aggregate principal
amount of the Letter of Credit Advances owed to such Issuing Bank outstanding at
such time and (iii) for each such Letter of Credit, not to exceed an amount
equal to the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments of the Banks at such
time. Each request by the Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a
Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation that the Letter of
Credit so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the provisos to
the preceding sentence.
No
Letters of Credit shall have expiration dates later than 10 Business Days prior
to the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if the
applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent each consent, in their sole
discretion, the expiration date (including any expiration date which may be
extended automatically under the terms of the Letters of Credit) of any Letter
of Credit may extend beyond the date referred to in this sentence (each such
Letter of Credit, together with any Letter of Credit outstanding on the
Effective Date with an expiration date beyond the Maturity Date, an “Extended Letter
of Credit”); provided, further, that, on or
prior to the date that is 95 days prior to the Maturity Date (or, if later, the
date of issuance of the applicable Extended Letter of Credit), the Borrower
shall provide cash collateral for each Extended Letter of Credit that is
outstanding or is issued after the date that is 95 days prior to the Maturity
Date in an amount equal to (x) if the Extended Letter of Credit is not a Foreign
Currency Letter of Credit, 102% of the face amount of such Extended Letter of
Credit or (y) if the Extended Letter of Credit is a Foreign Currency Letter of
Credit, 110% of the face amount of such Extended Letter of Credit; provided, further, that at no
time shall the aggregate amount of Extended Letters of Credit plus the unpaid principal
amount of Revolving Credit Advances exceed the sum of the Revolving Credit
Facility plus the
amount of cash collateral then held with respect to the Extended Letters of
Credit. The cash collateral specified in the foregoing sentence shall
be provided to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower by requesting a
Revolving Credit Advance pursuant to Section
2.01(a). If the Borrower shall fail to make such request, the
Administrative Agent may make such request on the Borrower’s
behalf. The Banks agree that they will make such Revolving Credit
Advance whether or not the applicable conditions precedent in Section
3.02 are then satisfied. Upon the furnishing by the Borrower
of such cash collateral on the ninety-fifth day prior to the Maturity Date to
the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall transfer to individual
cash collateral accounts established by each Issuing Bank which has issued an
Extended Letter of Credit the pro rata share of
such cash collateral allocable to such Issuing Bank. Simultaneous
with receipt of such cash collateral, such Extended Letters of Credit, shall for
all purposes cease to be Letters of Credit hereunder. Thereafter,
fees, costs and expenses, as well as terms for release of such cash collateral,
shall be as agreed from time to time between the Borrower and such Issuing Bank;
provided that
in the absence of such agreement between the Borrower and such Issuing Bank, the
terms of this Agreement shall, as between the Borrower and such Issuing Bank,
continue to govern the fees, costs and expenses payable in respect of such
Extended Letters of Credit. Within the limits referred to above, the
Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit under this Section
2.01(b), repay any Letter of Credit Advances resulting from drawings
thereunder pursuant to Section
2.03(d) and request the issuance of additional Letters of Credit under
this Section
2.01(b).
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Section
2.02 Making the Revolving Credit
Advances.
(a) Each
Revolving Credit Borrowing shall be made on notice (a “Notice of
Revolving Credit Borrowing”), given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York
City time) (i) on the date of a proposed Revolving Credit Borrowing comprised of
Base Rate Advances and (ii) on the third Business Day prior to the date of a
proposed Revolving Credit Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, by
the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Bank prompt
notice thereof, which notice may be by facsimile. Each Notice of
Revolving Credit Borrowing shall be by facsimile, confirmed immediately in
writing, in substantially the form of Exhibit
B-1, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Revolving
Credit Borrowing, (ii) Type of Revolving Credit Advances comprising such
Revolving Credit Borrowing, (iii) aggregate amount of such Revolving Credit
Borrowing, and (iv) if such Revolving Credit Borrowing is to be comprised of
Eurodollar Rate Advances, the initial Interest Period for each such Revolving
Credit Advance. In addition, in the event that any Foreign Currency
Letters of Credit are then outstanding, the Borrower shall also submit with such
Notice of Revolving Credit Borrowing, a certificate setting forth the Available
Amount of all outstanding Foreign Currency Letters of Credit and the amount of
the Unused Revolving Credit Commitment as of the date of such certificate using
the London closing mid rate published by Bloomberg (or any successor) on such
date (or, if such exchange rates are not available, the Spot Rates determined as
of such date). Each Bank shall, before 2:00 p.m. (New York City
time) on the date of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, make available for the
account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent at its
address referred to in Section
8.02, in same day funds, such Bank’s ratable portion of such Revolving
Credit Borrowing. After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such
funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article
III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the
Borrower at the Administrative Agent’s aforesaid address.
(b) Notwithstanding
any other provision in this Agreement, at no time shall there be more than ten
Revolving Credit Borrowings outstanding; provided that for
purposes of the limitation set forth in this sentence, all Revolving Credit
Borrowings consisting of Base Rate Advances shall constitute a single Revolving
Credit Borrowing.
(c) Each
Notice of Revolving Credit Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the
Borrower. In the case of any Revolving Credit Borrowing that the
related Notice of Revolving Credit Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of
Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Bank against any
loss, cost or expense incurred by such Bank as a result of any failure to
fulfill on or before the date specified in such Notice of Revolving Credit
Borrowing for such Revolving Credit Borrowing the applicable conditions set
forth in Article
III, including any loss (excluding loss of anticipated profits), cost or
expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or
other funds acquired by such Bank to fund the Revolving Credit Advance to be
made by such Bank as part of such Revolving Credit Borrowing when such Revolving
Credit Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such
date.
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(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Bank prior to the
proposed date of any Revolving Credit Borrowing that such Bank will not make
available to the Administrative Agent such Bank’s share of such Revolving Credit
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Bank has made such
share on such date in accordance with subsection
(a) of this Section
2.02 and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the
Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Bank has not in
fact made its share of the applicable Revolving Credit Borrowing available to
the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Bank and the Borrower severally
agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding
amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such
amount is made available to the Borrower to and including the date of payment to
the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of a payment to be made by such
Bank, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the
Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation and (ii) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the
interest rate applicable at the time to Revolving Credit Advances comprising
such Revolving Credit Borrowing. If the Borrower and such Bank shall
pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping
period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount
of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Bank
pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the
amount so paid shall constitute such Bank’s Revolving Credit Advance included in
such Revolving Credit Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be
without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Bank that shall
have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(e) The
failure of any Bank to make the Revolving Credit Advance to be made by it as
part of any Revolving Credit Borrowing shall not relieve any other Bank of its
obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Revolving Credit Advance on the date
of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, but no Bank shall be responsible for the
failure of any other Bank to make the Revolving Credit Advance to be made by
such other Bank on the date of any Revolving Credit Borrowing.
Section
2.03 Issuance of and Drawings and
Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit.
(a) Request for
Issuance. Each Letter of Credit shall be issued upon notice
and application, given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on at
least the third Business Day (or a later day, if acceptable to the relevant
Issuing Bank in its sole discretion, but in no event later than the first
Business Day) prior to the date of the proposed issuance of such Letter of
Credit, by the Borrower to any Issuing Bank, with a copy of such notice of
issuance and any certificate delivered pursuant to this Section
2.03(a) being delivered concurrently to the Administrative
Agent. Each of the Borrower and such Issuing Bank shall give to the
Administrative Agent prompt notice of such notice of issuance by telex or
facsimile. Each such notice of issuance of a Letter of Credit (a
“Notice of
Issuance and Application for Letter of Credit”) shall be by telephone,
confirmed immediately in writing, or telex or facsimile (or by electronic
communication if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable
Issuing Bank), in the form of Exhibit
B-2, specifying therein the requested (A) date of such issuance (which
shall be a Business Day), (B) Available Amount of such Letter of Credit, (C)
expiration date of such Letter of Credit, (D) name and address of the
Subsidiary on behalf of which such issuance of such Letter of Credit is
requested, if applicable, (E) name and address of the beneficiary of such Letter
of Credit, (F) form of such Letter of Credit and (G) the requested currency of
such Letter of Credit, if other than Dollars. In addition, in the
event that such Letter of Credit is a Foreign Currency Letter of Credit or any
Foreign Currency Letters of Credit are then outstanding, the Borrower shall also
submit with such Notice of Issuance and Application for Letter of Credit, a
certificate setting forth the Available Amount of all outstanding Foreign
Currency Letters of Credit and the amount of the Unused Revolving Credit
Commitment as of the date of such certificate using the London closing mid rate
published by Bloomberg (or any successor) on such date (or, if such exchange
rates are not available, the Spot Rates determined as of such
date). If the requested form of such Letter of Credit is acceptable
to such Issuing Bank in its reasonable discretion, such Issuing Bank will, upon
fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article
III, make such Letter of Credit available to the Borrower at its office
referred to in Section
8.02 or as otherwise agreed with the Borrower in connection with such
issuance; provided
that
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(i) each
Letter of Credit shall be denominated in Dollars or in a Foreign Currency, provided, however, no Issuing
Bank shall be obligated to issue any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, but each
Issuing Bank shall be permitted to do so in its sole discretion if requested by
the Borrower;
(ii) if
any Bank becomes, and during the period it remains, a Defaulting Lender or a
Potential Defaulting Lender, no Issuing Bank will be required to issue any
Letter of Credit or to amend any outstanding Letter of Credit to increase the
face amount thereof, alter the drawing terms thereunder or extend the expiry
date thereof, unless such Issuing Bank is satisfied that any exposure that would
result therefrom is eliminated or fully covered by the Commitments of the
Non-Defaulting Lenders or by Cash Collateralization or a combination thereof
satisfactory to the applicable Issuing Bank; and
(iii) no
Issuing Bank shall be required to issue any Letter of Credit if after giving
effect to such issuance the aggregate face amount of all outstanding Letters of
Credit issued under this Agreement by such Issuing Bank would exceed its Letter
of Credit Commitment, unless such Issuing Bank shall have otherwise
agreed.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no Issuing Bank shall issue any Letter of Credit after it has
received a notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Banks that a
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, until it receives a
subsequent notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Banks that such
Default or Event of Default has been cured or waived.
(b) Notice of Issuance,
Amendment or Extension of Letters of Credit. The Borrower and
each Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of any issuance
of, amendment to, or extension of, any Letter of Credit issued hereunder,
including, with respect to any Foreign Currency Letter of Credit, the Available
Amount of such Letter of Credit (calculated by the applicable Issuing Bank using
the Spot Rate determined as of the date of issuance, amendment or extension of
such Letter of Credit).
(c) Letter of Credit
Reports.
(i)
Each Issuing Bank shall furnish to the Administrative Agent on the fifth
Business Day of each calendar quarter a written report (A) summarizing issuance
and expiration dates of Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank during the
preceding calendar quarter and drawings during such calendar quarter under all
Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank and (B) setting forth the average
daily aggregate Available Amount during the preceding calendar quarter of all
Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank. The Administrative
Agent shall promptly deliver such report to the Banks and the Borrower by the
means provided for delivery of Communications pursuant to Section
8.02.
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(ii) Each
Issuing Bank with one or more outstanding Foreign Currency Letters of Credit
shall furnish to the Administrative Agent on the fifth Business Day of each
calendar month a written report setting forth the Available Amount of each
Foreign Currency Letter of Credit outstanding as of such date (calculated using
the Spot Rates determined as of such date).
(d) Drawing and
Reimbursement. The payment by any Issuing Bank of a draft
drawn under any Letter of Credit shall constitute for all purposes of this
Agreement the making by such Issuing Bank of a Letter of Credit Advance, which
shall be a Base Rate Advance, in the Dollar Equivalent amount of such draft (in
the case of Foreign Currency Letters of Credit, calculated by the applicable
Issuing Bank using the applicable Spot Rate determined as of the date of such
payment). Upon the issuance of a Letter of Credit by any Issuing Bank
under Section
2.03(a), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed, without further action by any
party hereto, to have sold to each Bank, and each Bank shall be deemed, without
further action by any party hereto, to have purchased from such Issuing Bank, a
participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount for each Bank equal to such
Bank’s Pro Rata Share of the Available Amount of such Letter of Credit,
effective upon the issuance of such Letter of Credit. In
consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Bank hereby absolutely
and unconditionally agrees to pay such Bank’s Pro Rata Share of each Letter of
Credit Advance made by such Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower
forthwith on the date due by making available for the account of its Applicable
Lending Office to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank
by deposit to the Agent’s Account, in same day funds, an amount equal to such
Bank’s Pro Rata Share of such Letter of Credit Advance. Each Bank
acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant
to this Section
2.03(d) in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and
shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence
and continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the termination of the
Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any off-set,
abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Upon any such
participation of a Bank of a portion of a Letter of Credit Advance, such Issuing
Bank represents and warrants to such other Bank that such Issuing Bank is the
legal and beneficial owner of such interest being assigned by it, free and clear
of any Liens, but makes no other representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to such Letter of Credit Advance, the Loan Documents
or the Borrower. If and to the extent that any Bank shall not have so
made the amount of such Letter of Credit Advance available to the Administrative
Agent, such Bank agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand
such amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such
Letter of Credit Advance is due until the date such amount is paid to the
Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate for its account or the account
of such Issuing Bank, as applicable. If such Bank shall pay to the
Administrative Agent such amount for the account of such Issuing Bank on any
Business Day, such amount so paid in respect of principal shall constitute a
Letter of Credit Advance made by such Bank on such Business Day for purposes of
this Agreement, and the outstanding principal amount of the Letter of Credit
Advance made by such Issuing Bank shall be reduced by such amount on such
Business Day.
(e) Failure to Make Letter of
Credit Advances. The failure of any Bank to make the Letter of
Credit Advance to be made by it on the date specified in Section
2.03(d) shall not relieve any other Bank of its obligation hereunder to
make its Letter of Credit Advance on such date, but no Bank shall be responsible
for the failure of any other Bank to make the Letter of Credit Advance to be
made by such other Bank on such date.
(f) Existing Letters of
Credit. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have
been issued pursuant to this Agreement, and from and after the Effective Date
shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions
hereof. The Borrower’s reimbursement obligations in respect of each
Existing Letter of Credit, and each Bank’s participation obligations in
connection therewith, shall be governed by the terms of this
Agreement.
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(g) Applicability of ISP and
UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable
Issuing Bank and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any
such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), (i) the rules of the
ISP shall apply to each Performance Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the
Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published
by the International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance, shall apply to
each Commercial Letter of Credit.
Section
2.04 Fees.
(a) Commitment
Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent
for the account of each Bank a commitment fee on the amount of such Bank’s
Unused Revolving Credit Commitment (determined without regard to any Foreign
Currency Letter of Credit Contingency Amount and without regard to any Gap Cash
Collateral Amount), payable quarterly in arrears (within three Business Days
after receipt from the Administrative Agent of an invoice therefor) for each
period ending on the last day of each March, June, September and December
hereafter, commencing December 31, 2009, and on the Termination Date, at a rate
per annum equal to 0.625% (the “Commitment
Fee”).
(b) Letter of Credit Fees,
Etc.
(i)
The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Bank
a commission, payable in arrears quarterly (within three Business Days after
receipt of an invoice therefor) for each period ending on the last day of each
March, June, September and December, commencing December 31, 2009, and on the
Termination Date, and thereafter on demand if any Letters of Credit remain
outstanding after the Termination Date, on such Bank’s Pro Rata Share of the
average daily aggregate Available Amount during such quarter of all Letters of
Credit then outstanding at a rate equal to the Applicable Margin on Eurodollar
Rate Advances in effect from time to time; provided, however, that with
respect to Performance Letters of Credit and Commercial Letters of Credit such
commission shall be equal to 50% of such Applicable Margin in effect from time
to time.
(ii) The
Borrower shall pay to each Issuing Bank, for its own account, (A) a fronting
fee, payable in arrears quarterly (within three Business Days after receipt of
an invoice therefor) for each period ending on the last day of each March, June,
September and December, commencing December 31, 2009 and on the Termination
Date, which shall accrue on the average daily amount of such Issuing Bank’s
Letter of Credit Commitment at the rate of 0.25% per annum, (B) an issuance fee
for each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank in an amount equal to
0.05% of the Available Amount of such Letter of Credit on the date of issuance
of such Letter of Credit, payable on such date and (C) such other customary
commissions and fees and other standard costs and charges in connection with the
issuance or administration of each Letter of Credit as the Borrower and Issuing
Bank shall agree.
(iii) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Letter of Credit Fees set forth in Section
2.04(b)(i) and clause (A)
of Section
2.04(b)(ii) shall accrue at a rate equal to the sum of the rate specified
in Section
2.04(b)(i) or Section
2.04(b)(ii)(A), as applicable, plus 2% (A) while an Event
of Default exists under Section
6.01(a) or upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section
6.01(e), and (B) at the request of the Required Banks, during the
existence of an Event of Default other than an Event of Default of the type
described in the preceding clause
(A).
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(c) Other
Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent,
the Co-Lead Arrangers, and the Banks such other fees as may be separately agreed
to in writing.
Section
2.05 Reduction of
Commitments.
(a) Revolving Credit
Commitment. The Borrower shall have the right, upon at least
three Business Days notice to the Administrative Agent and to an Issuing Bank,
to terminate in whole or reduce ratably in part the Unused Revolving Credit
Commitments; provided that each
partial reduction shall be in the minimum aggregate amount of $10,000,000 and in
an integral multiple of $5,000,000; provided further, that no such
termination or reduction shall be made pursuant to this Section
2.05(a), unless after giving effect thereto, the Revolving Credit
Facility equals or exceeds the aggregate Letter of Credit Commitments of the
Issuing Banks. Each reduction of the Unused Revolving Credit
Commitments shall be made ratably among the Banks in accordance with their
respective Pro Rata Shares, except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement. Any termination or reduction of any of the Commitments
under this Section 2.05(a)
shall be permanent.
(b) Letter of Credit
Commitment. The Borrower shall have the right upon at least
three (3) Business Days notice to the Administrative Agent and to an Issuing
Bank to reduce or terminate the Letter of Credit Commitment of such Issuing
Bank; provided
further that no
termination or reduction of the Letter of Credit Commitment of any Issuing Bank
shall be made pursuant to this Section
2.05(b), unless after giving effect thereto, the Letter of Credit
Commitment of such Issuing Bank equals or exceeds the sum of the Available
Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank plus the principal amount of
all outstanding Letter of Credit Advances relating to any Letter of Credit
issued by such Issuing Bank.
Section
2.06 Repayment of Advances;
Required Cash Collateral.
(a) Revolving Credit
Advances. The Borrower shall repay the principal amount of
each Revolving Credit Advance owing to each Bank on the Termination Date or on
such earlier date as may be applicable pursuant hereto.
(b) Letter of Credit
Advances.
(i)
Each Issuing Bank, shall, promptly following its receipt
thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment
under a Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank. Such Issuing
Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by
telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of (A) such demand for payment and
whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make a Letter of Credit Advance with
respect thereto and (B) in the case of a Foreign Currency Letter of Credit,
the Dollar Equivalent of the payment made by such Issuing Bank under the
applicable Letter of Credit (using a Spot Rate determined as of the date of such
payment); provided that any
failure to give or delay in giving any such notice shall not relieve the
Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Banks with
respect to any such Letter of Credit Advance.
(ii) The
Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Issuing
Bank and each other Bank that has made a Letter of Credit Advance on the earlier
of the third Business Day following the date on which such Letter of Credit
Advance is made and the Termination Date the outstanding principal amount of
each Letter of Credit Advance made by each of them.
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(iii) The
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and any other agreement or
instrument, in each case relating to any Letter of Credit, shall be
unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and such other agreement or instrument under all
circumstances, including the following circumstances (it being understood that
any such payment by the Borrower is without prejudice to, and does not
constitute a waiver of, any rights the Borrower might have or might acquire as a
result of the payment by any Issuing Bank of any draft or the reimbursement by
the Borrower thereof):
(A) any
lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document, any Letter of Credit or
any other agreement or instrument relating thereto (all of the foregoing being,
collectively, the “L/C Related
Documents”);
(B) any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all
or any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of any L/C Related Document
or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from all or any
of the L/C Related Documents;
(C) the
existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower may
have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of a Letter of Credit
(or any Persons for which any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be
acting), any Issuing Bank or any other Person, whether in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the L/C Related Documents or any unrelated
transaction;
(D) any
statement or any other document presented under a 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;
(E) any
payment by any Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a
draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter
of Credit; or any payment made by any Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit to
any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession,
assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other
representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such
Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under
any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar
debtor relief laws;
(F) any
exchange, release or non-perfection of any collateral, or any release or
amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any guarantee, for all or
any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of the L/C Related
Documents;
(G) any
adverse change in the relevant exchange rates of any relevant Foreign
Currencies; or
(H) any
other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, the Borrower or a
guarantor.
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(c) Required Payment and Cash
Collateral. If on any date the Utilized Commitment Amount as
of such date exceeds an amount equal to the aggregate Revolving Credit
Commitments on such date, the Borrower shall, within three Business Days
thereafter, (i) prepay Advances in an amount equal to such excess or (ii) if no
Advances are outstanding at such time, pay to the Administrative Agent in same
day funds at the Administrative Agent’s office, for deposit in the L/C Cash
Collateral Account, an amount equal to such excess, which amount shall be
released within three Business Days after request from the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent that the Utilized Commitment Amount as of such date no
longer exceeds an amount equal to the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments,
provided that
if a Default then exists, such amount shall not be released and shall be held as
collateral for the Obligations.
(d) L/C Cash Collateral
Account. The Borrower hereby grants to the Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of the Issuing Banks and the Banks, a security interest
in and Lien on the L/C Cash Collateral Account and all cash, deposit accounts
and all balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing, to secure the
Obligations of the Borrower in respect of Letters of Credit and the other
Obligations of the Borrower. Cash Collateral shall be maintained in
blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Citibank.
Section
2.07 Interest. The Borrower
shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance from the date
of such Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the
following rates per annum:
(a) During
such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at
all times to the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Margin,
payable quarterly in arrears on the last day of each March, June, September and
December and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in
full; provided
that the principal amount of Base Rate Advances shall bear interest, payable on
demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of the rate otherwise
payable thereon plus 2%
(A) while an Event of Default exists under Section
6.01(a) or upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section
6.01(e), and (B) at the request of the Required Banks, during the
existence of an Event of Default other than an Event of Default of the type
described in the preceding clause
(A).
(b) During
such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar Rate Advance, a rate per annum
equal at all times during each Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of
the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin,
payable in arrears on the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest
Period has a duration of more than three months, on each day that occurs during
such Interest Period every three months from the first day of such Interest
Period and on the date such Eurodollar Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid
in full; provided that the
principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances shall bear interest, payable on
demand, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Eurodollar Rate for such
Interest Period plus
the Applicable Margin plus 2% (A) while an Event of
Default exists under Section
6.01(a) or upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section
6.01(e), and (B) at the request of the Required Banks, during the
existence of an Event of Default other than an Event of Default of the type
described in the preceding clause (A).
(c) Upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default under Section
6.01(a), the Borrower shall pay simple interest, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, on the amount of any interest, fee or other amount (other than
principal of Advances which is covered by Section
2.07(a) and Section
2.07(b)) payable hereunder that is not paid when due, from the date such
amount shall be due until such amount shall be paid in full, payable in arrears
on the date such amount shall be paid in full and on demand, at a rate per annum
equal to the sum of the Base Rate in effect from time to time plus the Applicable Margin
plus 2%.
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Section
2.08 Additional Interest on Eurodollar Rate
Advances. So long as a Bank shall be required under
regulations of the Federal Reserve Board to maintain reserves with respect to
liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities,
Borrower shall pay to Bank additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of
each Advance of such Bank during such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar
Rate Advance, from the date of such Advance until such principal amount is paid
in full, at an interest rate per annum equal at all times to the remainder
obtained by subtracting (i) the Eurodollar Rate for the Interest Period then in
effect for such Eurodollar Rate Advance from (ii) the rate obtained by dividing
such Eurodollar Rate by a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate
Reserve Percentage of such Bank for such Interest Period, payable on each date
on which interest is payable on such Eurodollar Rate Advance. Such
additional interest shall be determined by such Bank and notified to the
Borrower through the Administrative Agent.
Section
2.09 Interest Rate
Determination.
(a) The
Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Banks of
the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes
of Section
2.07(b). Each such determination shall, absent clearly
demonstrable error, be final and conclusive and binding on all parties
hereto.
(b) If
the Administrative Agent is unable to determine the Eurodollar Rate for any
Eurodollar Rate Advances:
(i)
the Administrative Agent shall forthwith notify the Borrower and the Banks
that the interest rate cannot be determined for such Eurodollar Rate
Advances,
(ii) each
such Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then
existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance (or if such
Advance is then a Base Rate Advance, will continue as a Base Rate Advance),
and
(iii) the
obligation of the Banks to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to Convert Revolving
Credit Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Banks that the
circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
(c) If,
with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Required Banks notify the
Administrative Agent (A) that the Eurodollar Rate for any Interest Period for
such Advances will not adequately reflect the cost to such Required Banks of
making, funding or maintaining their respective Eurodollar Rate Advances for
such Interest Period or (B) that Dollar deposits for the relevant amounts and
Interest Period for their respective Advances are not available to them in the
London interbank market, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith so notify the
Borrower and the Banks, whereupon:
(i)
each Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then
existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance,
and
(ii) the
obligation of the Banks to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate
Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Borrower and the Banks that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer
exist.
(d) If
the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any
Eurodollar Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained in the
definition of “Interest
Period” in Section
1.01, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and
the Banks and such Revolving Credit Advances will automatically, on the last day
of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into Base Rate Advances
(or if such Advances are then Base Rate Advances, will continue as Base Rate
Advances).
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(e) On
the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar Rate
Advances comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by payment or prepayment or
otherwise, to less than $10,000,000, such Advances shall automatically Convert
into Base Rate Advances, and on and after such date the right of the Borrower to
Convert such Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall
terminate.
(f) Upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, (i) each
Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing
Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the
obligation of the Banks to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate
Advances shall be suspended.
Section
2.10 Optional Prepayments. The
Borrower shall have no right to prepay any principal amount of any Advance other
than as provided in this Section
2.10. The Borrower may, upon notice given to the
Administrative Agent before 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on at least the
first Business Day prior to the date of prepayment in the case of Base Rate
Advances or upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative
Agent in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances, in each case stating (a) the
proposed date (which shall be a Business Day), (b) the aggregate principal
amount of the prepayment, (c) the Type(s) of Advances to be prepaid and (d) if
Eurodollar Rate Advances are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such
Advances. Upon the giving of such notice, the Borrower shall, subject
to the terms thereof, prepay the outstanding principal amounts of the Advances
comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with
accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid;
provided, however, that (x)
each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount not less than
$10,000,000 in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances and $5,000,000 in the case
of Base Rate Advances and in integral multiples of $1,000,000, and after giving
effect thereto no Borrowing then outstanding shall have a principal amount of
less than $5,000,000; and (y) in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar
Rate Advance, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Banks in respect
thereof pursuant to Section
2.12.
Section
2.11 Payments and
Computations.
(a) All
payments made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for
any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. The Borrower shall
make each payment hereunder and under the Notes not later than 11:00 A.M. (New
York City time) on the day when due in Dollars to the Administrative Agent
(except that payments under Section
2.08 shall be paid directly to the Bank entitled thereto) at the Agent’s
Account, in same day funds. The Administrative Agent will promptly
thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the payment of
principal, interest, Commitment Fees or Letter of Credit Fees ratably (except
amounts payable pursuant to Section
2.13 or Section
2.14 and except that any Bank may receive less than its ratable share of
interest to the extent Section
2.21 or Section
8.06 is applicable to it) to the Banks for the account of their
respective Applicable Lending Offices, and like funds relating to the payment of
any other amount payable to any Bank to such Bank for the account of its
Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and
Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the Register
pursuant to Section
8.08(b), from and after the effective date specified in such Assignment
and Acceptance, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder and
under the Notes in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the Bank assignee
thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and Acceptance shall make all
appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods prior to such effective
date directly between themselves. At the time of each payment of any
principal of or interest on any Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, the
Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of the Borrowing to which such
payment shall apply. In the absence of such notice the Administrative
Agent may specify the Borrowing to which such payment shall apply.
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(b) All
computations of interest based on the Base Rate (except during such times as the
Base Rate is determined pursuant to clauses
(b) or (c) of the
definition thereof), of Commitment Fees and of Letter of Credit Fees shall be
made by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the Eurodollar Rate,
the Federal Funds Rate or, during such times as the Base Rate is determined
pursuant to clauses
(b) or (c) of the
definition thereof, the Base Rate shall be made by the Administrative Agent, and
all computations of interest pursuant to Section
2.08 shall be made by a Bank, on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each
case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the
last day) occurring in the period for which such interest or fees are
payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent (or in the
case of Section
2.08, by a Bank) of an interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and
binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(c) Whenever
any payment hereunder or under the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day
other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding
Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the
computation of payment of interest, Commitment Fees and Letter of Credit Fees,
as the case may be; provided, however, if such
extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate
Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be
made on the next preceding Business Day.
(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to
the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account
of the Banks or the Issuing Banks hereunder that the Borrower will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, distribute to the Banks or the Issuing Banks, as the case may be,
the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made
such payment, then each of Banks or the Issuing Banks, as the case may be,
severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the
amount so distributed to such Bank or Issuing Bank, with interest thereon, for
each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but
excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the
Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
Section
2.12 Compensation for Losses. If
any payment or purchase of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurodollar Rate
Advance is made other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such
Advance, as a result of a payment, purchase or Conversion pursuant to Section
2.09, Section
2.10, Section
2.16, Section
2.17 or Section
2.18, acceleration of the maturity of the Advances pursuant to Section
6.01 or for any other reason other than a payment by the Borrower under
Section
2.02(d), the Borrower shall, within 15 days after demand by any Bank
(with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank any amounts required to
compensate such Bank for any additional losses, costs or expenses which it may
reasonably incur as a result of such payment, purchase or Conversion, including
any loss (excluding loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense reasonably
incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds
acquired by any Bank to fund or maintain such Advance. A certificate
as to the amount of such additional losses, costs or expenses, submitted to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Bank, shall be conclusive and
binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
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Section
2.13 Increased Costs and Capital
Requirements.
(a) Increased Costs
Generally. If any Change in Law shall (i) impose, modify or
deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge
or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of,
or credit extended or participated in by, any Bank (except any reserve
requirement reflected in the Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage) or any Issuing
Bank; (ii) subject any Bank or any Issuing Bank to any tax of any kind
whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any
participation in a Letter of Credit, any Letter of Credit Advance, or any
Eurodollar Rate Advance made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments
to such Bank or Issuing Bank in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes covered by Section
2.14 and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded
Tax payable by such Bank or Issuing Bank); or (iii) impose on any Bank or any
Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense
affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Rate Advance made by such Bank or any
Letter of Credit, participation therein or Letter of Credit Advance; and the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Bank of
making or maintaining any Eurodollar Rate Advance (or of maintaining its
obligation to make any such Advance), or to increase the cost to such Bank or
Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit
(or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of
Credit) or Letter of Credit Advance, or to reduce the amount of any sum received
or receivable by such Bank or Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal,
interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Bank or Issuing Bank,
the Borrower will pay to such Bank or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Bank or Issuing Bank, as
the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction
suffered.
(b) Capital
Requirements. If any Change in Law affecting a Bank or Issuing
Bank or any lending office of a Bank or Issuing Bank or a Bank’s or Issuing
Bank’s Parent Company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have
the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Bank’s or Issuing Bank’s
capital or on the capital of such Bank’s or Issuing Bank’s Parent Company, if
any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Bank or the
Advances made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Bank, or
the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below that which
such Bank or Issuing Bank or such Bank’s or the Issuing Bank’s Parent Company
could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such
Bank’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Bank’s or the
Issuing Bank’s Parent Company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time
to time the Borrower will pay to such Bank or Issuing Bank, as the case may be,
such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Bank or Issuing Bank
or such Bank’s or Issuing Bank’s Parent Company for any such reduction
suffered.
(c) Certificates for
Reimbursement. A certificate of the applicable Bank or Issuing
Bank setting forth in the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Bank or
Issuing Bank or its Parent Company, as the case may be, as specified in Section
2.13(a) or Section
2.13(b) above and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent
manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Bank or Issuing Bank, as
the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days
after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in
Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Bank or any
Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Bank’s or Issuing Bank’s right to
demand such compensation, provided that the
Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Bank pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions
suffered more than three months prior to the date that such Bank notifies the
Borrower of the Change in Law or compliance requirement giving rise to such
increased costs or reductions and of such Bank’s intention to claim compensation
therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs
or reductions is retroactive, then the three-month period referred to above
shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect
thereof).
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(e) Designation of a Different
Lending Office. If any Bank requests compensation under this
Section
2.13, then such Bank shall use reasonable efforts to designate a
different lending office for funding or booking its Advances hereunder or to
assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches
or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Bank, such designation or assignment
(i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to this Section
2.13 in the future and (ii) would not subject such Bank to any
unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such
Bank. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by any Bank in connection with any such designation or
assignment.
Section
2.14 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of
Taxes. Any and all payments by the Borrower hereunder or under
any other Loan Documents shall be made, in accordance with Section
2.11, free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if the
Borrower shall be required by applicable law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes
(including any Other Taxes) from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall
be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions
(including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section)
the Administrative Agent, Bank or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, receives an
amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made,
(ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall timely
pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in
accordance with applicable law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by
the Borrower. Without limiting the provisions of Section
2.14(a) above, the Borrower shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the
relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Indemnification by the
Borrower. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative
Agent, each Bank and each Issuing Bank, within 10 days after demand therefor,
for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to
amounts payable under this Section) paid by the Administrative Agent, such Bank
or such Issuing Bank, 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 Governmental Authority. A certificate as to
the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Bank or
Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative
Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Bank or the Issuing Bank, shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Treatment of Certain
Refunds. If the Administrative Agent, a Bank or an Issuing
Bank determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any
Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with
respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section
2.14, it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but
only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by
the Borrower under this Section
2.14 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such
refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such
Bank or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and without interest (other than
any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such
refund), provided that the
Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Bank or such
Issuing Bank, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any
penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental
Authority) to the Administrative Agent, such Bank or such Issuing Bank in the
event the Administrative Agent, such Bank or such Issuing Bank is required to
repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section
2.14(d) shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent, any
Bank or any Issuing Bank to make available its tax returns (or any other
information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or
any other Person.
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(e) Evidence of
Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority,
the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a
certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing
such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of
such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(f) Status of
Banks. Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption
from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which
the Borrower is resident for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments hereunder or under any other
Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or reasonably
requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed
and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such
payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of
withholding. In addition, any Bank, if requested by the Borrower or
the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by
applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative
Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine
whether or not such Bank is subject to backup withholding or information
reporting requirements.
Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower is
resident for tax purposes in the United States of America, any Foreign Lender
shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of
copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which
such Foreign Lender becomes a Bank under this Agreement (and from time to time
thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, but
only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the
following is applicable:
(i)
duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming
eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States of
America is a party,
(ii) duly
completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,
(iii) in
the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for
portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code,
(x) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank”
within the meaning of section
881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower
within the meaning of section
881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation”
described in section
881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) duly completed copies of Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or
(iv) any
other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from
or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax duly completed together
with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to
permit the Borrower to determine the withholding or deduction required to be
made.
(g) Designation of a Different
Lending Office. If any Bank requires the Borrower to pay any
additional amount to such Bank or any Governmental Authority for the account of
such Bank pursuant to this Section
2.14, then such Bank shall use reasonable efforts to designate a
different lending office for funding or booking its Advances hereunder or to
assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches
or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Bank, such designation or assignment
(i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to this Section
2.14 in the future and (ii) would not subject such Bank to any
unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such
Bank. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by any Bank in connection with any such designation or
assignment.
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Section
2.15 Sharing of Payments,
Etc. If
any Bank shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise,
obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Advances
or other obligations hereunder (except amounts payable pursuant to Section
2.08, Section
2.13 or Section
2.14, and except that any Bank may receive less than its ratable share of
interest to the extent Section
8.06 is applicable to it and any Defaulting Lender may receive less than
its ratable share of interest, fees and other amounts payable to it under this
Agreement to the extent Section
2.21 is applicable to it) resulting in such Bank’s receiving payment of a
proportion of the aggregate amount of its Advances and accrued interest thereon
or other such obligations greater than its Pro Rata Share thereof as provided
herein, then the Bank receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the
Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value)
participations in the Advances and such other obligations of the other Banks, or
make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all
such payments shall be shared by the Banks ratably in accordance with the
aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective
Advances and other amounts owing them, provided that (i) if
any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment
giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the
purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and
(ii) the provisions of this Section
2.15 shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by the
Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement,
(B) any payment obtained by a Bank as consideration for the assignment of or
sale of a participation in any of its Advances to any assignee or Participant,
other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions
of this Section
2.15 shall apply), or (C) any collateral obtained by an Issuing Bank in
connection with arrangements made to address the risk with respect to an
Defaulting Lender or Potential Defaulting Lender. The Borrower
consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so
under applicable law, that any Bank acquiring a participation pursuant to the
foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set-off and
counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Bank were a
direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such
participation.
Section
2.16 Illegality. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, if any Bank (each an “Affected
Bank”) shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that the
introduction of or any Change in Law makes it unlawful, or any central bank or
other Governmental Authority asserts that it is unlawful, for any Bank, or its
Eurodollar Lending Office, to perform its obligations hereunder to make
Eurodollar Rate Advances or to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances
hereunder, (i) the obligation of the Affected Bank to make, or to Convert
Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall forthwith be suspended (and any
request by the Borrower for a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances
shall, as to each Affected Bank, be deemed a request for a Base Rate Advance to
be made on the same day as the Eurodollar Rate Advances of the Banks that are
not Affected Banks and such Base Rate Advance shall be considered as part of
such Borrowing) until the Affected Bank shall notify the Borrower, the Banks and
the Administrative Agent that the circumstances causing such suspension no
longer exist and (ii) forthwith after such notice from an Affected Bank to the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower, all Eurodollar Rate Advances of such
Affected Bank shall be deemed to be Converted to Base Rate Advances (but will
otherwise continue to be considered as a part of the respective Borrowings that
they were a part of prior to such Conversion); provided, however, that, before
making any such demand, such Bank agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent
with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a
different Eurodollar Lending Office if the making of such a designation would
allow such Bank or its Eurodollar Lending Office to continue to perform its
obligations to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or maintain
Eurodollar Rate Advances and would not, in the judgment of such Bank, be
otherwise materially disadvantageous to such Bank. In the event any
Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent of the occurrence of any circumstance
contemplated under this Section
2.16, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise have
been applied to repay the Eurodollar Rate Advances that would have been made by
such Bank or the Converted Eurodollar Rate Advances shall instead be applied to
repay the Base Rate Advances made by such Bank in lieu of such Eurodollar Rate
Advances or resulting from the Conversion of such Eurodollar Rate Advances and
shall be made at the time that payments on the Eurodollar Rate Advances of the
Banks that are not Affected Banks are made. Each Bank that has
delivered a notice of illegality pursuant to this Section
2.16 above agrees that it will notify the Borrower as soon as practicable
if the conditions giving rise to the illegality cease to exist.
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Section
2.17 Conversion of Advances. The
Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to the Administrative Agent
not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior
to the date of the proposed Conversion and subject to the provisions of Section
2.02(b), Section
2.09 and Section
2.16, Convert all Advances of one Type comprising the same Borrowing into
Advances of the other Type; provided, however, that (i) any
Conversion of any Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be made
on, and only on, the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate
Advances, except as provided in Section
2.16, and (ii) Advances comprising a Borrowing may not be Converted into
Eurodollar Rate Advances if the outstanding principal amount of such Borrowing
is less than $10,000,000 or if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date the related notice of Conversion would otherwise be given
pursuant to this Section
2.17. Each such notice of a Conversion shall, within the
restrictions specified above, specify (i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the
Advances to be Converted, and (iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate
Advances, the duration of the initial Interest Period for each such
Advance. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding
on the Borrower. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on the third Business Day prior to the last day of any Interest
Period for any Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower agrees to Convert all such
Advances into Base Rate Advances on the last day of such Interest
Period.
Section
2.18 Replacement of Bank. If any
Bank requests compensation under Section
2.13, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amounts to any
Bank or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Bank pursuant to Section
2.14, or if any Bank exercises its rights under Section
2.16, or if any Bank fails to execute and deliver a consent, amendment,
or waiver to this Agreement requested by the Borrower by the date specified by
the Borrower (or gives the Borrower written notice prior to such date of its
intention not to do so), or if any Bank is a Defaulting Lender, then the
Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Bank and the
Administrative Agent, require such Bank to assign and delegate, without recourse
(in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents
required by, Section
8.08), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement
and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations
(which assignee may be another Bank, if a Bank accepts such assignment), provided that, (i)
the Borrower shall have paid (or made arrangements for such payment) to the
Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section
8.08; (ii) such Bank shall have received payment of an amount equal to
the outstanding principal of its Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued
fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents (including any amounts under Section
2.12) from the assignee and/or the Borrower; (iii) in the case of any
such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section
2.13 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section
2.14, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or
payments thereafter; and (iv) such assignment does not conflict with applicable
law.
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Section
2.19 Evidence of
Indebtedness. Each Bank shall maintain in accordance with its
usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the
Borrower to such Bank resulting from each Advance owing to such Bank from time
to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to
such Bank from time to time hereunder. The Borrower agrees that upon
notice by any Bank to the Borrower (with a copy of such notice to the
Administrative Agent) to the effect that a Promissory Note or other evidence of
indebtedness is required or appropriate in order for such Bank to evidence
(whether for purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise) the Advances owing
to, or to be made by, such Bank, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver
to such Bank, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, a Note in substantially
the form of Exhibit A
hereto, payable to the order of such Bank in a principal amount equal to the
Revolving Credit Commitment of such Bank. All references to Notes in
the Loan Documents shall mean Notes, if any, to the extent issued
hereunder.
Section
2.20 Increase in the Aggregate
Revolving Credit Commitments; Increase in Letter of Credit
Commitment.
(a) The
Borrower may, at any time and from time to time prior to the Termination Date
but in any event not more than once in any 12 month period, by notice to the
Administrative Agent, elect to increase the aggregate amount of the Revolving
Credit Commitments by an amount of not less than $20,000,000 and in integral
multiples of $10,000,000 in excess thereof (each a “Commitment
Increase”) to be effective as of a date (the “Increase
Date”) as specified in the related notice to the Administrative Agent;
provided, however, that (i) in
no event shall the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments at any
time exceed $1,200,000,000 and (ii) on the date of any request by the Borrower
for a Commitment Increase and on the related Increase Date, the applicable
conditions set forth in Section
3.02 shall be satisfied.
(b) To
achieve the full amount of a requested increase, and subject to the approval of
the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank (which approvals shall not be
unreasonably withheld), the Borrower may (i) request that one or more Banks
increase their Revolving Credit Commitments, (ii) invite all Banks to
increase their respective Revolving Credit Commitment, and/or (iii) invite
additional Eligible Assignees to become Banks pursuant to a joinder agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
(c) In
the event that the Borrower has indicated its wish for the Commitment Increase
to be comprised in whole or in part from increases in the Revolving Credit
Commitments of the Banks, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
Banks of a request by the Borrower for a Commitment Increase, which notice shall
include (i) the proposed amount of such requested Commitment Increase, (ii) the
proposed Increase Date and (iii) the date by which Banks wishing to participate
in the Commitment Increase must commit to an increase in the amount of their
respective Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Commitment
Date”). No Bank shall be required to increase its Revolving
Credit Commitment, and may decide whether to do so in its sole
discretion. Each Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent within
the requested time period whether or not it agrees to increase its Revolving
Credit Commitment and, if so, in what amount. Any Bank not responding within the
requested time period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Revolving
Credit Commitment. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
Borrower of the Banks’ responses to each request made hereunder.
(d) Promptly
following each Commitment Date, the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Borrower of the amount by which each Bank and/or Eligible Assignee, as the case
may be, is willing to commit to the requested Commitment Increase, and the
Borrower will promptly notify the Administrative Agent of the Commitment
Increase that it wishes to allocate to such Bank (each an “Increasing
Lender”) or Eligible Assignee (each such Eligible Assignee, an “Assuming
Lender”), as the case may be; provided, however, that the
Revolving Credit Commitment of each such Eligible Assignee shall be in an amount
of $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess
thereof. The Borrower, at its discretion, may withdraw its request
for a Commitment Increase at any time prior to the Increase Date.
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(e) On
each Increase Date, each Assuming Lender shall become a Bank party to this
Agreement with a Revolving Credit Commitment, and the Revolving Credit
Commitment of each Increasing Lender shall be increased by, in each case, the
amount of the Commitment Increase allocated to it by the Borrower, with the
consent of each Issuing Bank; provided, however, that the
Administrative Agent shall have received on or before such Increase Date the
following, each dated such date:
(i)
a joinder agreement from each Assuming Lender, if any, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, duly
executed by such Eligible Assignee, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower;
and
(ii) confirmation
from each Increasing Lender of the increase in the amount of its Commitment in a
writing satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(f)
At any time, any Issuing Bank and the Borrower may agree to
increase the Letter of Credit Commitment of such Issuing Bank with the consent
of the Administrative Agent which shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
(g) Any
Bank may become an Issuing Bank by written agreement between such Bank and the
Borrower, subject to notice to and the consent of the Administrative Agent. The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Banks of the designation of any additional
Issuing Bank hereunder.
(h) On
each Increase Date, upon fulfillment of the conditions set forth in Section
2.20(e), at the time any Issuing Bank and the Borrower agree to increase
the Letter of Credit Commitment of such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section
2.20(f), and at the time any Bank becomes an Issuing Bank pursuant to
Section
2.20(g), the Administrative Agent shall notify the Banks (including each
Assuming Lender, if applicable) and the Borrower, on or before 1:00 P.M. (New
York City time) of the occurrence of the Commitment Increase to be effected on
the applicable Increase Date, the Letter of Credit Commitment increase and the
effective date thereof or any Bank becoming an Issuing Bank and the effective
date thereof, as the case may be, and, in each case shall record in the Register
the relevant information with respect to each Increasing Lender, each Assuming
Lender, each Letter of Credit Commitment increase or adjustment, as applicable,
and any addition of an Issuing Bank, as applicable, on such date. On
the last day of the first Interest Period ending after an Increase Date, the
Borrower shall make such Borrowings and prepayments as shall be necessary to
cause the outstanding Advances to be ratable with the revised Commitments
resulting from any non-ratable increase in the Commitments under this Section
2.20.
Section
2.21 Defaulting
Lenders.
(a) Reallocation of Defaulting
Lender Commitment, Etc. If a Bank becomes, and during the
period it remains, a Defaulting Lender, the following provisions shall apply
with respect to any outstanding L/C Exposure of such Defaulting
Lender:
(i) the
L/C Exposure of such Defaulting Lender will, subject to the limitations in
provisos (A) and
(B)
below, automatically be reallocated (effective on the day such Bank becomes a
Defaulting Lender) among the Non-Defaulting Lenders pro rata in
accordance with their respective Commitments; provided that (A) no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (B) the sum of each
Non-Defaulting Lender’s total Revolving Credit Exposure and its Pro Rata Share
of the L/C Exposure may not in any event exceed the Commitment of such
Non-Defaulting Lender as in effect at the time of such reallocation, and (C)
neither such reallocation nor any payment by a Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant
thereto will constitute a waiver or release of any claim the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks or any other Bank may have against such
Defaulting Lender or cause such Defaulting Lender to be a Non-Defaulting Lender;
and
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(ii) to
the extent that any portion (the “unreallocated
portion”) of the Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure cannot be so
reallocated, whether by reason of proviso (A) or
(B)
in clause
(i) above or otherwise, the Borrower will, not later than five Business
Days after demand by the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the
applicable Issuing Banks), (A) Cash Collateralize the obligations of the
Borrower to the applicable Issuing Banks in respect of such L/C Exposure in an
amount at least equal to the aggregate amount of the unreallocated portion of
such L/C Exposure or (B) make other arrangements satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, and to the applicable Issuing Banks in their sole
discretion to protect them against the risk of non-payment by such Defaulting
Lender.
(b) Defaulting Lender
Waterfall. Any amount paid by the Borrower for the account of
a Defaulting Lender under this Agreement (whether on account of principal,
interest, fees, indemnity payments or other amounts) shall, in lieu of being
paid or distributed to such Defaulting Lender, be applied by the Administrative
Agent, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to the making of payments from
time to time in the following order of priority: first to the payment
of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent under
this Agreement, second to the payment
of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the applicable Issuing Banks
(pro rata as to the
respective amounts owing to each of them) under this Agreement, third if requested by
an Issuing Bank, in the event and to the extent that the Borrower has not
satisfied its obligations under Section
2.21(a)(ii), held in a segregated non-interest bearing account for future
funding obligations of such Defaulting Lender in respect of any unreallocated
portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Exposure, fourth, if such
Defaulting Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment has not been terminated
pursuant to Section
2.21(f), to make any Revolving Credit Advance not made by such Defaulting
Lender to the extent such Revolving Credit Advance was not made by the
Non-Defaulting Lenders and fifth to such
Defaulting Lender or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise
direct.
(c) Cash Collateral
Call. If any Bank becomes, and during the period it remains, a
Defaulting Lender or a Potential Defaulting Lender, if any Letter of Credit is
at the time outstanding, the applicable Issuing Bank may (except, in the case of
a Defaulting Lender, to the extent the Commitments have been fully reallocated
pursuant to Section
2.21(a)), by notice to the Borrower and such Defaulting Lender or
Potential Defaulting Lender through the Administrative Agent, require the
Borrower to Cash Collateralize the obligations of the Borrower to such Issuing
Bank in respect of such Letter of Credit in amount at least equal to the
aggregate amount of the unreallocated obligations (contingent or otherwise) of
such Defaulting Lender or such Potential Defaulting Lender in respect thereof,
or to make other arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and to
such Issuing Bank in its sole discretion to protect it against the risk of
non-payment by such Defaulting Lender or Potential Defaulting
Lender.
(d) Right to Give Drawdown
Notices. In furtherance of the foregoing, if any Bank becomes,
and during the period it remains, a Defaulting Lender or a Potential Defaulting
Lender, each Issuing Bank is hereby authorized by the Borrower (which
authorization is irrevocable and coupled with an interest) to give, in its
discretion, through the Administrative Agent, Notices of Revolving Credit
Borrowing pursuant to Section
2.02 in such amounts and in such times as may be required to
(i) reimburse an unreimbursed drawing under any outstanding Letter of
Credit and/or (ii) Cash Collateralize the obligations of the Borrower in respect
of outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount at least equal to the aggregate
amount of the obligations (contingent or otherwise) of such Defaulting Lender or
Potential Defaulting Lender in respect of such Letter of Credit.
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(e) Fees. Anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, during such period as a Bank is a
Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender will not be entitled to any fees
accruing during such period pursuant to Section
2.04(a) (without prejudice to the rights of the Banks other than
Defaulting Lenders in respect of such fees). In the event and to the
extent that a portion of the L/C Exposure of such Defaulting Lender is
reallocated to the Non-Defaulting Lenders pursuant to Section
2.21(a), the fees that would have accrued for the benefit of such
Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section
2.04(a) will instead accrue for the benefit of and be payable to such
Non-Defaulting Lenders, pro rata in
accordance with their respective Commitments.
(f) Termination of Defaulting
Lender Commitment. The Borrower may terminate any Defaulting
Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment, and, if applicable, the unused
amount of any Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Commitment upon not less than
three Business Days’ prior notice to the Administrative Agent (which will
promptly notify the Banks thereof), and in such event the provisions of Section
2.21(b) will apply to all amounts thereafter paid by the Borrower for the
account of such Defaulting Lender under this Agreement (whether on account of
principal, interest, fees, indemnity or other amounts), provided that neither
such termination nor any other provision, or act taken by the Borrower,
hereunder will be deemed to be a waiver or release of any claim the Borrower,
the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks or any Bank may have against such
Defaulting Lender.
(g) Replacement of Defaulting
Lender. The Borrower may require a Defaulting Lender to assign
and delegate its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement in
accordance with Section
2.18.
(h) Cure. If
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the Issuing Banks agree in writing
in their discretion that a Bank that is a Defaulting Lender or a Potential
Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender or
Potential Defaulting Lender, as the case may be, the Administrative Agent will
so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in
such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include
arrangements with respect to any amounts then held in the segregated account
referred to in Section
2.21(b)), such Bank will, to the extent applicable, purchase such portion
of outstanding Advances of the other Banks and/or make such other adjustments as
the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Revolving
Credit Exposure and L/C Exposure of the Banks to be on a pro rata basis in
accordance with their respective Commitments, whereupon such Bank will cease to
be a Defaulting Lender or Potential Defaulting Lender and will be a
Non-Defaulting Lender (and the Revolving Credit Exposure and L/C Exposure of
each Bank will automatically be adjusted on a prospective basis to reflect the
foregoing); provided that no
adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments
made by or on behalf of the Borrower while such Bank was a Defaulting Lender;
and provided,
further, that
except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no
change hereunder from Defaulting Lender or Potential Defaulting Lender to
Non-Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any
party hereunder arising from such Bank’s having been a Defaulting Lender or
Potential Defaulting Lender.
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ARTICLE
III
CONDITIONS
OF LENDING
Section
3.01 Conditions Precedent to
Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective on and as
of the first date (the “Effective
Date”) on which the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts
of this Agreement duly executed by the Borrower and all of the Banks and the
following additional conditions precedent shall have been satisfied, except that
Section
2.04(a) shall become effective as of the first date on which the
Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Agreement duly
executed by the Borrower and all of the Banks:
(a) The
Borrower shall have notified the Administrative Agent in writing as to the
proposed Effective Date.
(b) The
Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the Effective Date the
following, each dated such day, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent and each Bank:
(i)
The Notes duly executed by the Borrower to the order of the
Banks to the extent requested by any Bank pursuant to Section
2.19.
(ii) The
Guarantee duly executed by each Subsidiary Guarantor.
(iii) Certified
copies of the resolutions of the Governing Body of each Loan Party approving
each Loan Document to which it is a party, and of all documents evidencing other
necessary corporate or organizational action and governmental approvals, if any,
with respect to each Loan Document.
(iv) A
copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction of
incorporation of each Loan Party, dated reasonably near the Effective Date
certifying (A) as to a true and correct copy of the charter or other formation
document, as the case may be, of such Loan Party and each amendment thereto on
file in such Secretary of State’s office and (B) that (1) such amendments
are the only amendments to such Loan Party’s charter on file in such Secretary’s
office, and (2) such Loan Party is duly organized and in good standing or
presently subsisting under the laws of the State of the jurisdiction of its
organization.
(v) A
certificate of each Loan Party signed on behalf of such Loan Party by its
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, dated the Effective Date (the statements
made in which certificate shall be true on and as of the Effective Date),
certifying as to (A) the absence of any amendments to the charter or other
formation document, as the case may be, of such Loan Party since the date of the
Secretary of State’s certificate referred to in Section
3.01(b)(iv), (B) a true and correct copy of the bylaws, limited liability
company agreement or partnership agreement, as the case may be, of such Loan
Party as in effect on the date on which the resolutions referred to in Section
3.01(b)(iii) were adopted and on the Effective Date, and (C) the due
organization and good standing or valid existence of such Loan Party as a
corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership organized under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and the absence of any
proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of such Loan Party.
(vi) A
certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party
certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such Loan Party
authorized to sign each Loan Document to which it is a party and the other
documents to be delivered by the Loan Parties hereunder.
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(vii) A
certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying (A) that
the conditions specified in Section
3.02(a) and Section
3.02(b) have been satisfied and (B) that there has been no event or
circumstance since December 31, 2008 that has had or could be reasonably
expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
(viii) A
favorable opinion of Xxxx Xxxx, Vice President–Legal, of the Borrower, in form
satisfactory to the Lenders.
(ix) A
favorable opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in form
satisfactory to the Lenders.
(c) Evidence
that the Commitments (as such term is defined in Existing Credit Agreement)
under the Existing Credit Agreement have been, or concurrently with the
Effective Date are being, terminated, that from and after the Effective Date all
Letters of Credit (as therein defined) then outstanding shall cease to be
treated as “Letters of Credit” for purposes of the Existing Credit Agreement and
shall instead be “Existing Letters of Credit” as herein defined, and all amounts
then due and outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement are being repaid in
full.
(d) All
accrued fees and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Co-Lead Arrangers
(including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the Co-Lead Arrangers
for which invoices have been submitted) shall have been paid.
(e) The
Borrower shall have paid all accrued fees and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
of the Administrative Agent (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel
for which invoices have been submitted).
(f) Any
other fees required to be paid by the Borrower on or before the Effective Date
shall have been paid.
Section
3.02 Conditions Precedent to Each Revolving Credit
Advance, Each Commitment Increase and Each Issuance, Renewal, Amendment,
Increase and Extension of Each Letter of Credit. The
obligation of each Bank to make an Advance (other than a Letter of Credit
Advance made by an Issuing Bank or a Revolving Credit Bank pursuant to Section
2.03(d)) (including the initial Revolving Credit Advance) and each
Issuing Bank to issue, renew, extend or amend Letters of Credit (including the
initial Letter of Credit), each Commitment Increase and each amendment of a
Letter of Credit that has the effect of increasing the Available Amount of such
Letter of Credit or extending the expiration date thereof shall be subject to
the conditions precedent that on the date of such Advance, such Commitment
Increase or such issuance, renewal, extension, amendment or increase of a Letter
of Credit, the following statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the
applicable Notice of Revolving Credit Borrowing, Notice of Issuance and
Application for Letter of Credit, request for amendment of any Letter of Credit,
request for a Commitment Increase, request for increase of a Letter of Credit or
extending the Expiration Date thereof and the acceptance by the Borrower of the
proceeds of such Advance or such Commitment Increase, such Letter of Credit or
of the renewal, amendment, increase or extension of such Letter of Credit shall
constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that on the date of
such Advance, such Commitment Increase or such issuance, renewal, amendment,
increase or extension of such Letter of Credit such statements are
true):
(a) the
representations and warranties contained in each Loan Document are correct on
and as of the date of such Revolving Credit Advance, Commitment Increase or such
issuance, renewal, amendment, increase or extension of a Letter of Credit
(except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically
refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of
such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section, the
representations and warranties contained in Section
4.01(f) and Section 4.01(g)
shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant
to clauses
(i) and (ii), as
applicable, of Section
5.01(d)) before and after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Advance,
Commitment Increase or such issuance, renewal, amendment, increase or extension
of a Letter of Credit and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as
though made on and as of such date;
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(b) no
event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or
such issuance or renewal or from the application of the proceeds therefrom,
which constitutes a Default or an Event of Default;
(c) there
exists no request or directive issued by any Governmental Authority, central
bank or comparable agency, injunction, stay, order, litigation or proceeding
purporting to affect or calling into question the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of any transaction
(including any Advance or proposed Advance or issuance, renewal, amendment,
increase or extension of a Letter of Credit or proposed Letter of Credit)
contemplated hereby; and
(d) the
Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the Issuing Bank shall have received a
Notice of Revolving Credit Borrowing or Notice of Issuance and Application for
Letter of Credit, as applicable, in accordance with the requirements
hereof.
The
acceptance of the benefits of each Revolving Credit Advance, each Commitment
Increase and each issuance, renewal, amendment, increase and extension of each
Letter of Credit shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower
to each of the Banks that each of the conditions specified in clauses
(a), (b) and
(c)
above have been satisfied on and as of the date of such
acceptance.
Section
3.03 Determinations Under Section
3.01. For purposes of determining compliance with the
conditions specified in Section
3.01, a Bank shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted
or to be satisfied with each document or other matter required thereunder to be
consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to such Persons unless
an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement shall have received notice from such Person prior
to the date that the Borrower, by notice to the Administrative Agent, designates
as the proposed Effective Date, specifying its objection thereto. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Banks and the Borrower of the
occurrence of the Effective Date, which notice shall be conclusive and
binding.
ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
Section
4.01 Representations and Warranties of the
Borrower. The Borrower represents and warrants as
follows:
(a) Each
Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries (i) is a corporation, limited liability
company or limited partnership duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (ii) is duly
qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation, company or limited
partnership in each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in
which the conduct of its business requires it to so qualify or be licensed and
(iii) has all requisite corporate, limited liability company or partnership (as
applicable) power and authority (including all permits, approvals, licenses or
other authorizations) to (A) own or lease and operate its properties and to
carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted and (B)
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which
it is a party, except in each case referred to in clauses (ii)
or (iii)(A)
for any failures to be so organized, existing, qualified to do business
or in good standing or to have such power and authority which could not
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
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(b) Set
forth on Schedule
4.01(b) hereto is a list of the Loan Parties and their direct
Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date, showing as of the Effective Date hereof
as to each such Person the jurisdiction of its organization, the number of
shares, membership interests or partnership interests (as applicable) of each
class of its Equity Interests authorized, and the number outstanding, on the
date hereof and the percentage of each such class of its Equity Interests owned
(directly or indirectly) by the applicable Loan Party. All of the
outstanding Equity Interests in each Subsidiary Guarantor have been validly
issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by the Borrower or one
or more of its Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens. As of the
date hereof, the copy of the charter of the Borrower and each Subsidiary
Guarantor and each amendment thereto provided pursuant to Section
3.01(b)(iv) is a true and correct copy of each such document, each of
which is valid and in full force and effect.
(c) The
execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to
which it is or is to be a party and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby (including each Revolving Credit Borrowing and
issuance or renewal of a Letter of Credit hereunder and the use of the proceeds
thereof) and the transactions contemplated thereby (i) are within such Loan
Party’s organizational power, (ii) have been duly authorized by all necessary
organizational action, and (iii) do not contravene (A) such Loan Party’s
certificate of organization, by-laws or other governing document, (B) any law,
rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction or decree applicable to such Loan
Party, or (C) any contractual restriction under any material agreements binding
on or affecting such Loan Party or any Subsidiary of such Loan Party or any
other contractual restriction the contravention of which would have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(d) No
authorization, approval, consent, license or other action by, and no notice to
or filing with, any Governmental Authority, and no material approval, consent,
license or other action by any other Person, is required for the due execution,
delivery and performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of each Loan
Document to which it is or is to be a party, or for the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including each Revolving Credit
Borrowing and issuance or renewal of a Letter of Credit hereunder and the use of
the proceeds thereof) and the transactions contemplated thereby, except
consents, authorizations, filings and notices which have been obtained or made
and are in full force and effect.
(e) This
Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will
have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party party thereto and
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of each Loan Party party thereto
enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with their respective terms,
except as such enforceability may be limited by any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar law affecting creditors’
rights generally.
(f) The
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as
at December 31, 2008, and the related consolidated statement of income,
consolidated Shareholders’ Equity and consolidated statement of cash flows of
the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended
(accompanied by an unqualified opinion of KPMG LLP, independent public
accountants) and the consolidated results of operations of the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, (i) have been
furnished to each Bank, (ii) were prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a
consistent basis, (iii) fairly present the financial condition of the Borrower
and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of
operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP applied on a
consistent bases, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (iv) show all
material indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the date thereof, including
liabilities for taxes, material commitments, and Indebtedness. Since
December 31, 2008 through the date hereof there has been no Material
Adverse Change.
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(g) The
unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries dated as at June 30, 2009, and the related consolidated statements
of income or operations, consolidated Shareholders’ Equity and cash flows for
the fiscal quarter ended on that date (i) have been furnished to each Bank, (ii)
were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period
covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (iii) fairly
present the financial condition of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the
period covered thereby.
(h) Each
Loan Party and its Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with the
requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, including
ERISA, Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits.
(i) As
of the Effective Date, each Loan Party is, individually and together with its
Subsidiaries, Solvent.
(j) (i)
There are no actions, suits, investigations, proceedings, claims or disputes
pending against or, to the Borrower’s knowledge threatened against or affecting,
the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective rights
or properties, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any court or by or
before any arbitrator or governmental department, commission, board, bureau,
agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, (A) that draws into question or
purports to affect any transaction contemplated by this Agreement or the
legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of the Borrower’s
Obligations, the Loan Documents or the rights and remedies of the Banks relating
to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or (B) other than as set
forth in (x) Forms 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and 10-Q for
the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2009 filed by the Borrower with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and (y) the Confidential Information Memorandum prepared in connection
with this Agreement, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, and
(ii) There
has been no material adverse change in the status of any matter described in
clause
(x) or (y) of the
above subsection
(j)(i) that could reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(k) Neither
the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is engaged in the business of extending credit
for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of
Regulation U). No proceeds of any Advance or any Letter of Credit
will be used in any manner that is not permitted by Section
5.02(i). Following the application of the proceeds of each
Borrowing or drawing under each Letter of Credit, not more than 25% of the value
of the assets (either of the Borrower only or of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) subject to the provisions of Section
5.02(a) or Section
5.02(e) or subject to any restriction contained in any agreement or
instrument between the Borrower and any Bank or any Affiliate of any Bank
relating to Indebtedness and within the scope of Section
6.01(d) will be margin stock.
(l)
No Loan Party is an “investment company”, or a company
“controlled” by an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
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(m) No
statement or information contained in this Agreement or any other document,
certificate or statement furnished to the Administrative Agent or the Banks by
or on behalf of any Loan Party for use in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (as modified or
supplemented by other information furnished) contains as of the date such
statement, information, document or certificate was so furnished any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light
of the circumstances under which they were made; provided, however, that, with
respect to any such information, exhibit or report consisting of statements,
estimates, pro forma financial information, forward-looking statements and
projections regarding the future performance of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (“Projections”),
no representation or warranty is made other than that such Projections have been
prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the
time.
(n) Other
than as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
(i) there are no strikes, lockouts or other material labor disputes or
grievances against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the
Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, and (ii) no significant unfair labor practice charges or
grievances are pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or to
the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against any of them before any Governmental
Authority. All payments due from the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement
have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(o) (i)
Each Loan Party and its ERISA Affiliates have operated and
administered each Plan in compliance with ERISA and all applicable laws except
for such instances of noncompliance as have not resulted in and could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) No
ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any
Plan that has resulted in or could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
(iii) No
Loan Party and no ERISA Affiliate has incurred or is reasonably expected to
incur any Withdrawal Liability to any Multiemployer Plan that has resulted in or
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(iv) No
Loan Party and no ERISA Affiliate has been notified by the sponsor of a
Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or has been
terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, and no such Multiemployer
Plan is reasonably expected to be in reorganization or to be terminated, within
the meaning of Title IV of ERISA to the extent such termination or
reorganization has resulted in or is reasonably expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(v) The
present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under each of the Plans of
the Borrower (other than Multiemployer Plans), determined as of the end of such
Plan’s most recently ended plan year on the basis of the actuarial assumptions
specified for funding purposes in such Plan’s most recent actuarial valuation
report, did not exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Plan as
of such determination date allocable to such benefit liabilities by more than
the amount disclosed in the Borrower’s financial statements for the year ended
December 31, 2008 and each Plan will be able to fulfill its benefit
obligations as they come due in accordance with the Plan documents and under
GAAP, except in each case where such excess or such inability could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The term
“benefit liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 4001 of ERISA and the
terms “current value” and “present value” have the meaning specified in Section 3 of
ERISA.
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(vi)
The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the other
Loan Documents and any related documents will not involve any transaction that
is subject to the prohibitions of Section 406 of ERISA or in
connection with which a tax could be imposed pursuant to Section 4975(c)(1)(A)-(D) of
the Code, except in each case where the imposition of such tax could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(vii) The
expected post-retirement benefit obligation (determined as of the last day of
the Borrower’s most recently ended fiscal year in accordance with Financial
Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 106, without regard to liabilities
attributable to continuation coverage mandated by Section 4980B of the Code) of
the Borrower is properly accounted for in accordance with GAAP in all material
respects in the Borrower’s financial statements most recently delivered pursuant
to Section
5.01(d)(ii) for the relevant year ended.
(p) (i)
Except where such event could not, individually or in the aggregate with
other similar events, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
the operations and properties of each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries
comply with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits, all
past non-compliance with such Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits has
been resolved without ongoing obligations or costs, and no circumstances exist
that could be reasonably expected to (A) form the basis of an Environmental
Action against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
properties or (B) cause any such property to be subject to any restrictions on
ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental
Law.
(ii) Except
where such event could not, individually or in the aggregate with other similar
events, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (A) none of
the properties currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries is listed or proposed for listing on the NPL or on the
CERCLIS or any analogous foreign, state or local list or is adjacent to any such
property; (B) there are no and never have been any underground or aboveground
storage tanks or any surface impoundments, septic tanks, pits, sumps or lagoons
in which Hazardous Materials are being or have been treated, stored or disposed
on any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries or, to the best of its knowledge, on any property formerly owned or
operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; (C) there is no asbestos
or asbestos-containing material on any property currently owned or operated by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; and (D) Hazardous Materials have
not been released, discharged or disposed of on any property currently or
formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(iii) All
Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or
transported to or from, any property currently or formerly owned or operated by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner not
reasonably expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(q) (i)
Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is party to any tax
sharing agreement other than that certain Tax Sharing Agreement dated as of
January 1, 2006 by and between Halliburton Company, KBR Holdings, LLC and
the Borrower.
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(ii) Each
Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries has filed, or caused to be filed, all
Federal, state and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed,
and has paid all material Federal, state and other taxes, assessments, fees and
other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties,
income or assets otherwise due and payable, except taxes that are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or
such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate
reserves. There is no proposed tax assessment against the Borrower or
any Subsidiary that would, if made, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(r) Each
Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries maintains, or the Borrower or a
Subsidiary of the Borrower maintains on behalf of such Loan Party or such
Subsidiary, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or
associations in such amounts and covering such risks as is usually carried by
companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in the
same general areas in which each Loan Party and such Subsidiary
operates.
(s) Each
Loan Party has (i) good and marketable title to (in the case of fee
interests in real property), (ii) valid leasehold interests in (in the case
of leasehold interests in real or personal property), or (iii) good title
to (in the case of all other personal property), all of their respective
properties and assets, in each case to the extent reasonably necessary to the
conduct of such Loan Party’s business.
(t) Neither
the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any laws relating to
terrorism or money laundering, including the Patriot Act, except to the extent
such violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(u) (i)
None of the proceeds of the Advances made, nor Letters of Credit issued,
under this Agreement will violate the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, or
any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury
Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) or any enabling
legislation or executive order relating thereto.
(ii) Neither
the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (A) is, or will become, a Person described or
designated in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List of the
Office of Foreign Assets Control or in Section 1 of the
Anti-Terrorism Order or (B) engages or will engage in any dealings or
transactions, or is or will be otherwise associated, with any such
Person. The Borrower and the Subsidiaries are in compliance, in all
material respects, with the Patriot Act.
(iii) None
of the proceeds of the Advances made, nor Letters of Credit issued, under this
Agreement will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any
governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political
party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official
capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper
advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of
1977, as amended, assuming in all cases that such Act applies to the Borrower or
any of the Subsidiaries.
(v) The
Borrower has disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Banks all agreements,
instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, in each
case, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
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ARTICLE
V
COVENANTS
OF THE BORROWER
Section
5.01 Affirmative Covenants. So
long as any Advance or any other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder or
under any other Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be
outstanding or any Bank shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will,
unless the Required Banks shall otherwise consent in writing:
(a) Compliance with Laws,
Etc. Comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply,
with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders (including ERISA,
Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits) except to the extent that failure
to so comply (in the aggregate for all such failures) could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Payment of Taxes and Other
Obligations, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of its
Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, their respective obligations and liabilities
before the same shall become delinquent, including (i) all Indebtedness, as and
when payable, subject to any subordination provisions; and (ii) all taxes,
assessments, charges and like levies levied or imposed upon it or upon its
income, profits or Property prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto,
and all lawful claims that, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon its
Property; provided that neither
the Borrower nor any Subsidiary shall be required to pay and discharge any such
tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim so long as the validity or amount thereof
shall be contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and Borrower or the
applicable Subsidiary shall have set aside on its books adequate reserves with
respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or if the failure to pay, discharge or
contest (in the aggregate for all such failures) could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) Reporting
Requirements. Furnish to the Administrative
Agent:
(i)
not later than 60 days after the end of each of the first three
quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, the consolidated balance sheet of
the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and
the consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the previous
fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, all in reasonable detail
and duly certified (subject to normal year-end adjustments) by a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower as having been prepared in accordance with GAAP and
fairly presenting the financial condition, results of operations, Shareholders’
Equity and the cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance
with GAAP together with (A) a certificate of said officer stating that no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature
thereof and the action that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with
respect thereto and (B) a schedule in form satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent of the computations used by the Borrower in determining compliance with
the covenants contained in Section
5.03, including a reconciliation in reasonable detail of the effect on
Consolidated EBITDA of non-cash estimated project losses (including
non-extraordinary items) and cash payments related thereto and the effect of
excluding entities excluded because of the last sentence of Section
1.03(a) with respect to FIN 46R, on the computation of compliance with
the covenants contained in Section
5.03;
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(ii) not
later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, copies of
the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and audited consolidated
statements of income, retained earnings and cash flows of the Borrower and its
consolidated Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, in each case accompanied by an
opinion as to such audit report of KPMG LLP or other independent public
accountants of recognized standing acceptable to the Required Banks certified in
a manner to which the Administrative Agent has not objected, together with a
certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (A) as to compliance with
the terms of this Agreement, (B) stating that no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing or, if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the
Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and (C) setting
forth in reasonable detail the calculations necessary to demonstrate compliance
with Section
5.03 and reconciling in reasonable detail the effect of excluding
entities excluded because of the last sentence of Section
1.03(a) with respect to FIN 46R, on the computation of compliance with
the covenants contained in Section
5.03;
(iii) as
soon as possible, and in any event within five days after any Responsible
Officer has obtained knowledge of the occurrence of any Default or Event of
Default, written notice thereof setting forth details of such Default or Event
of Default and the actions that the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with
respect thereto;
(iv) if
the Indebtedness of the Borrower becomes rated by Xxxxx’x or S&P, promptly
upon the Borrower obtaining knowledge thereof, notice of any withdrawal or
change or proposed withdrawal or change of the rating of any of the Borrower’s
Indebtedness by Xxxxx’x or S&P;
(v) promptly
after the sending or filing thereof, copies of all reports that the Borrower
sends to any of its holders of common stock;
(vi) promptly,
and in any event within 10 Business Days, after a Responsible Officer has
obtained knowledge of the commencement or occurrence thereof, notice of (A) any
action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding before any Governmental
Authority affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the type
described in Section 4.01(j)
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(B) any other matter that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect;
(vii) in
addition to any information, records, reports, notices, or other documents
required to be provided under subsections
(A) through (D) below,
any information provided by a Loan Party pursuant to this provision will include
a written statement setting forth details as to such ERISA Event and the action,
if any, that each Loan Party and its ERISA Affiliates propose to take with
respect thereto.
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(A) Within
10 Business Days after any Loan Party knows or has reason to know that any ERISA
Event has occurred which is reasonably likely to result in liability to the Loan
Party in excess of $25,000,000, a statement of a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, that such Loan
Party or ERISA Affiliate has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and
(II) on the date any records, documents or other information must be furnished
to the PBGC with respect to any Plan pursuant to ERISA, a copy of such records,
documents and information.
(B) Within
10 Business Days after receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate
from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, copies of each notice concerning (1)
the imposition of Withdrawal Liability by any such Multiemployer Plan, (2) the
reorganization or termination, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, of any
such Multiemployer Plan, if the amount of liability incurred, or that may be
incurred, by such Loan Party in connection with any event described in clause (1)
or (2) is
reasonably likely to be in excess of $25,000,000.
(C) Within
10 Business days after receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate,
copies of each notice from the PBGC of its intention to seek termination of any
Plan or of the appointment of a trustee thereunder, which in either case is
reasonably likely to result in liability to such Loan Party in excess of
$25,000,000.
(D) Within
10 Business Days of the occurrence of any event affecting any Plan which could
result in the incurrence by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate of any
liability incurred, or that may be incurred, by any Loan Party under any
post-retirement Welfare Plan that is reasonably likely to be in excess of
$25,000,000, copies of all notices related thereto.
(viii) such
other information as any Bank through the Administrative Agent may from time to
time reasonably request.
Information
required to be delivered pursuant to Section
5.01(d)(i) or Section
5.01(d)(ii) shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which
the Borrower provides notice to the Administrative Agent that such information
has been posted on the Borrower’s website on the Internet at
xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx or at another website
identified in such notice and accessible by the Banks without charge; provided that the
Borrower shall deliver paper copies of the information referred to in such
Sections to the Administrative Agent for distribution to (x) any Bank to which
the above referenced websites are for any reason not available if such Bank has
so notified the Borrower and (y) any Bank that has notified the Borrower that it
desires paper copies of all such information; provided further that the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Banks as provided in Section
8.02 of any materials delivered pursuant to this Section
5.01(d) (other than clause
(v)
hereof). Information required to be delivered pursuant to Section
5.01(d)(v) shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date when posted
on a website as provided in the preceding sentence.
(e) Inspections. At
any reasonable time and from time to time, in each case upon reasonable notice
to the Borrower and subject to any applicable restrictions or limitations on
access to any facility or information that is classified or restricted by
contract or by law, regulation or governmental guidelines, permit each Bank to
visit and inspect the properties of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary of
the Borrower, and to examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records
and books of account of the Borrower and its Material Subsidiaries and discuss
the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower and its Material Subsidiaries
with its and their officers and independent accountants provided, however, that advance
notice of any discussion with such independent public accountants shall be given
to the Borrower and the Borrower shall have the opportunity to be present at any
such discussion.
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(f)
Keeping of
Books. Keep proper books of record and account, in which full
and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets
and business of the Borrower and each Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP on a
consolidated basis.
(g) Maintenance of Properties,
Etc. Maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Material
Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, all of its material properties that are
used or useful in the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Material
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in good working order and condition, ordinary
wear and tear excepted.
(h) Maintenance of
Insurance. Maintain, and cause each of its Material
Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance
companies or associations in such amounts and covering such risks as is usually
carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties
in the same general areas in which the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary
operates; provided that the
Loan Parties shall be permitted to self-insure in such amounts and covering such
risks as is usual and customary among companies engaged in similar businesses
and owning similar properties in the same general areas in which the Borrower or
such Material Subsidiary operates.
(i)
Transactions with
Affiliates. Conduct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
conduct, all transactions with any Affiliate on terms that are fair and
reasonable and no less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, than it
would obtain in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an
Affiliate; provided, however, that the
foregoing restriction shall not apply to transactions in the ordinary course of
business between or among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or to other
transactions between or among the Borrower and its wholly-owned
Subsidiaries.
(j)
Covenant to Guarantee
Obligations. Upon the (i) formation or acquisition of any new
direct or indirect Material Domestic Subsidiary by any Loan Party or (ii) if a
Subsidiary of any Loan Party becomes a Material Domestic Subsidiary, at the
Borrower’s expense: (A) within 10 Business Days after such
formation or acquisition or in case of clause
(ii) above, within 10 days after the delivery of the financial statements
required by Section
5.01(d) for the fiscal quarter during which such Subsidiary becomes a
Material Domestic Subsidiary, cause each such Material Domestic Subsidiary to
duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a supplement to the
Guarantee, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, guaranteeing the other Loan Parties’ Obligations under the Loan Documents
(each a “Guarantee
Supplement”); (B) within 60 days after such request, formation or
acquisition, deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, a signed copy of a favorable
opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Banks, of counsel for the
Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to (1) such
Guarantee Supplement being the legal, valid and binding obligations of each
additional Subsidiary Guarantor party thereto enforceable in accordance with its
terms and (2) such other matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request; and (C) at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and
deliver, and cause each Loan Party and each such additional Subsidiary Guarantor
to execute and deliver, any and all further instruments and documents and take,
and cause each Loan Party and each such additional Subsidiary Guarantor to take,
all such other action as the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary
or desirable in obtaining the full benefits of the Guarantee. In
addition, the Borrower (i) shall comply with the requirements set forth in
the definition of “Subsidiary Guarantor” and (ii) may cause any other
Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Guarantor by delivering a Guarantee Supplement
to the Guarantee and within 60 days thereafter, deliver to the Administrative
Agent, upon the request of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, a
signed copy of a favorable opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and
the Banks, of counsel for the Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent as to (A) such Guarantee Supplement being the legal, valid
and binding obligations of each additional Subsidiary Guarantor party thereto
enforceable in accordance with its terms and (B) such other matters as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
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Section
5.02 Negative Covenants. So long
as any Advance or any other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder or under
any other Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be
outstanding or any Bank shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will
not, without the written consent of the Required Banks:
(a) Liens,
Etc. Create or suffer to exist, or permit any of its
Subsidiaries to create or suffer to exist, any Lien on or with respect to any of
its Properties whether now owned or hereafter acquired or assign, or permit any
of its Subsidiaries to assign, any accounts or other right to receive income,
except:
(i)
Liens on or with respect to any of the properties of the Borrower and any
of its Subsidiaries existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule
5.02(a)(i);
(ii) (A)
Liens upon or in property acquired (including acquisitions through merger or
consolidation) or constructed or improved by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries including general intangibles, proceeds and improvements,
accessories and upgrades thereto and created contemporaneously with, or within
12 months after, such acquisition or the completion of construction or
improvement, to secure Indebtedness (including Capitalized Leases) incurred to
finance the payment of all or a portion of the purchase price of such property
or the cost of construction or improvements thereon, as the case may be and (B)
Liens on property (including any unimproved portion of partially improved
property) of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries created within 12 months of
completion of construction of a new plant or plants on such property to secure
Indebtedness incurred to finance such construction (including Indebtedness
incurred to finance such construction if, in the opinion of the Borrower, such
property or such portion thereof was prior to such construction substantially
unimproved for the use intended by the Borrower); provided, however, no such Lien
shall extend to or cover any property other than the property being acquired,
constructed or improved (including any unimproved portion of a partially
improved property) including general intangibles, proceeds and improvements,
accessories and upgrades thereto;
(iii) Any
Lien existing on any property including general intangibles, proceeds and
improvements, accessories and upgrades thereto prior to the acquisition
(including acquisition through merger or consolidation) thereof by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries or existing on any property of any Person that
becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes
a Subsidiary, provided that such a
Lien is not created in contemplation or in connection with such acquisition or
such Person becoming a Subsidiary and no such Lien shall be extended to cover
property other than the asset being acquired including general intangibles
proceeds and improvements, accessories and upgrades thereto;
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(iv) Liens
to secure any extension, renewal, refunding or replacement (or successive
extensions, renewals, refinancing, refundings or replacements), in whole or in
part, of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien referred to in clauses
(ii)
and (iii);
provided that
(A) the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured thereby is no greater than
the outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness immediately before such
extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement and (B) such Lien
shall only extend to such assets as are already subject to a Lien in respect of
such Indebtedness;
(v) (A)
Liens on Equity Interests in (and assets of) any Project Finance Subsidiary, so
long as such Liens secure only Project Financing and (B) Liens on property
acquired or constructed with the proceeds of Permitted Non-Recourse Indebtedness
so long as such Liens secure only such Permitted Non-Recourse
Indebtedness;
(vi) (A)
Liens on Equity Interests in any Joint Venture and Liens on assets of a JV
Subsidiary to secure Joint Venture Debt of such Joint Venture. “Joint Venture Debt”
shall mean Indebtedness and other obligations of a JV Subsidiary or of a Joint
Venture owned by a JV Subsidiary as to which the creditors will not, pursuant to
the terms in the agreements governing such Indebtedness, have any recourse to
the Equity Interests in or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, other than
the assets of such JV Subsidiary and the assets of such Joint Venture, provided that neither
the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (other than such JV Subsidiary) (i) provides any
direct or indirect credit support, including any undertaking, agreement or
instrument that would constitute Indebtedness or (ii) is otherwise directly or
indirectly liable for such Indebtedness;
(vii) Customary
Permitted Liens;
(viii) Liens
on cash collateral securing reimbursement obligations in respect of (A) letters
of credit listed on Schedule
5.02(a)(viii) in the amounts and with the maturity dates set forth
therein and (B) letters of credit, acceptances and bank guarantees, provided that the
aggregate principal amount of obligations secured by Liens permitted by this
clause
(viii)(B) shall not exceed at any time in the aggregate the sum of (1)
$150,000,000 plus (2)
the aggregate amount of letters of credit which had been Extended Letters of
Credit but ceased to be Letters of Credit hereunder following being cash
collateralized as contemplated by Section
2.01(b) hereof;
(ix) in
addition to the Liens on cash collateral permitted by the preceding clause
(viii), in the event that the aggregate Letter of Credit Commitments at
any time are less than the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments at such time
(the “Gap
Amount”) and the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries obtain letters of
credit issued for its or their account in a face amount not to exceed the Gap
Amount, the Borrower shall be permitted to pledge cash collateral to secure such
letters of credit in an amount not to exceed an amount equal to the aggregate
Unused Revolving Credit Commitments at such time (calculated immediately prior
to giving effect to such cash collateral pledge), provided however, that to the
extent such cash collateral is not funded with Advances that remain outstanding
hereunder, the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments under this Agreement shall be
calculated as though the full amount of any such cash collateral were funded
through Advances that remain outstanding hereunder;
(x) Liens
securing obligations under surety bonds issued in the ordinary course of the
Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ business and indemnification agreements related
thereto on assets related to the work bonded by such surety bonds, including
equipment, property, contracts, distributions and accounts related thereto and
cash collateral required thereby;
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(xi) banker’s
Liens, Liens in favor of securities intermediaries, rights of setoff and other
similar Liens existing solely with respect to cash and Cash Equivalents on
deposit in one or more accounts maintained by the Borrower, in each case granted
in the ordinary course of business in favor of the bank or other securities
intermediary with which such an account is maintained, securing amounts owing to
such bank or other securities intermediary with respect to cash management and
operating account arrangements, including those involving pooled accounts and
netting arrangements; provided that in no case
shall any such Liens secure (either directly or indirectly) the repayment of any
Indebtedness other than customary liability for account overdrafts;
(xii) Liens
arising out of judgments, attachments or awards not resulting in an Event of
Default or Default under Section
6.01(f) or (h);
(xiii) Liens
consisting of Capitalized/Operating Leases;
(xiv) other
Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness that does not in the aggregate exceed at any
time outstanding $75,000,000.
(b) Indebtedness of
Subsidiaries. Permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist, any Indebtedness, except:
(i)
Indebtedness under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Indebtedness
of Subsidiaries outstanding on the Effective Date specified in Schedule
5.02(b)(ii) (“Existing
Debt”) and any refinancings, refundings, renewals, replacements or
extensions thereof; provided that the
aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness is not increased at the time
of any such refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension except by
an amount equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and
fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing,
refunding, renewal, replacement or extension;
(iii) Indebtedness
of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of any Loan Party or is merged or
consolidated into a Subsidiary of any Loan Party after the date hereof in
accordance with the terms of Section
5.02(d), which Indebtedness is existing at the time such Person becomes a
Subsidiary of such Loan Party or at the time of such merger or consolidation, as
the case may be (other than Indebtedness incurred solely in contemplation of
such Person becoming a Subsidiary of such Loan Party);
(iv) Indebtedness
owed to the Borrower or to other Subsidiaries;
(v) Reimbursement
obligations of a Subsidiary in respect of letters of credit, surety bonds,
acceptances and bank guarantees issued for the account of such Subsidiary in the
ordinary course of such Subsidiary’s business;
(vi) Indebtedness
in respect of (A) purchase money obligations and Capitalized Leases and
refinancings or renewals thereof secured by Liens of the type permitted by Section
5.02(a)(ii), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$200,000,000 at
any time outstanding, and (B) other Capitalized/Operating Leases;
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(vii) Obligations
in respect of worker’s compensation claims, self insurance obligations,
reimbursement obligations in respect of appeal bonds and obligations under
completion guaranties, in each case incurred by a Subsidiary in the ordinary
course of its business;
(viii) Indebtedness
in respect of any Project Financing and other Permitted Non-Recourse
Indebtedness; and
(ix) unsecured
Indebtedness not to exceed $100,000,000 in
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding.
(c) Change in Nature of
Business. Make any material change in the nature of the
business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as carried on at the date hereof,
taken as a whole.
(d) Mergers,
Etc. Merge or consolidate with or into, or convey, transfer,
lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of
transactions), all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or
hereafter acquired) to, any Person; provided, however,
that:
(i)
the Borrower may merge with a Person if (A) the Borrower is
the surviving corporation, and (B) after giving effect to such merger no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and all representations and warranties
shall be true and correct;
(ii) any
Subsidiary may merge with any one or more Subsidiaries, provided that if a
Subsidiary Guarantor (or a Subsidiary thereof) is a party to such transaction, a
Subsidiary Guarantor (or a Subsidiary thereof) shall be the continuing or
surviving Person, and if a Domestic Subsidiary is a party to such transaction, a
Domestic Subsidiary shall be the surviving or continuing Person;
and
(iii) any
Subsidiary may convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or a
substantial part of its assets to the Borrower or to another Subsidiary; provided, however, if the
transferor is a Subsidiary Guarantor (or a Subsidiary thereof), the transferee
shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor (or a Subsidiary thereof).
(e) Sales, Etc., of
Assets. Sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of (each, a
“Disposition”),
or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make any Disposition of, any assets,
except:
(i)
sales of inventory in the ordinary course of its business and the granting
of any option or other right to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire inventory
in the ordinary course of its business;
(ii) in
a transaction authorized by Section
5.02(d);
(iii) sales,
transfers or other dispositions of assets among the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries; provided, however no Subsidiary
Guarantor shall be permitted to transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, all or
substantially all of its assets to a foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower (as used
in this subsection
(iii), “foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary that is not a Domestic
Subsidiary);
(iv) goods,
equipment or other property that are, in the reasonable opinion of the Borrower
or such Subsidiary, obsolete or unproductive or utilized as trade-in for goods,
equipment or other property of at least comparable value;
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(v) in
order to resolve disputes that occur in the ordinary course of business,
Borrower and its Subsidiaries may discount or otherwise compromise for less than
the face value thereof, notes or accounts receivable;
(vi) licenses
or sublicenses by Borrower and its Subsidiaries of software, trademarks, patents
and other intellectual property and leases of real property interests in the
ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the
business of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vii)
transfers of condemned property to the respective
Governmental Authority that has condemned the same (whether by deed in lieu of
condemnation or otherwise), and transfers of properties that have been subject
to a casualty to the respective insurer of such property or its designee as part
of an insurance settlement;
(viii) sales,
transfers or other dispositions by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of
Equity Interests (and assets of) in Project Finance Subsidiaries and joint
venture interests held by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
(ix) dispositions
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of assets with an aggregate book
value not to exceed
$100,000,000 during
any fiscal year of the Borrower (plus any sales, transfers or other dispositions
the net cash proceeds of which are reinvested in equipment or other productive
assets within one year of such sale, transfer or other disposition);
and
(x) the
sale by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries of the Nigg, Scotland fabrication
yard.
(f) Investments in Other
Persons. Make or hold, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to
make or hold, any Investment in any Person, except:
(i)
Investments existing on the date hereof;
(ii) Investments
by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in their Subsidiaries (including, if as a
result of such Investment (A) a Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower) or
(B) a Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or conveys
substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Borrower or a
Subsidiary; provided that any
advances and guarantees by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in favor of their
respective Subsidiaries (other than Subsidiary Guarantors) shall be in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practices; and provided further that any such
merger is permitted by Section
5.02(d);
(iii) any
Investment in Cash Equivalents;
(iv) Investments
with the net cash proceeds from the sale of Equity Interests in the Borrower,
and any acquisition of assets solely in exchange for an issuance of Equity
Interests of the Borrower; and
(v) Investments
in (A) Allenby Connaught not to exceed an aggregate amount of $105,000,000,
(B) Egypt Basic Industries Company (EBIC) not to exceed an aggregate amount
of $22,500,000 and (C) other joint ventures and other minority interests
not to exceed $250,000,000,
in each case at any time outstanding
and in each case plus the net cash proceeds of
sales of Investments made pursuant to this Section
5.02(f)(v) and sales of other minority interests and dividends and
distributions (including repayment of loans and advances) received from Project
Finance Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures and from Investments made pursuant to
this Section
5.02(f)(v).
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For
purposes of this Section
5.02(f), the amount of an Investment shall be determined as of the date
of such Investment, and such amount shall be equal to the cash amount or the
fair market value of other property or asset invested.
(g) Restricted
Payments. Purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise
acquire for value any of its Equity Interests now or hereafter outstanding,
return any capital to its stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent
Persons thereof) as such, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do any of the
foregoing, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to purchase, redeem, retire,
defease or otherwise acquire for value any Equity Interests in the Borrower or
in a Subsidiary other than a wholly-owned Subsidiary, except that, so long as no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of
any action described below or would result therefrom:
(i)
Borrower may purchase any of its Equity Interests provided that the
aggregate purchase price paid from and after the Effective Date, when added to
the amount of dividends paid from and after the Effective Date (other than
dividends payable in Equity Interests), shall not exceed $400 million (such
amount, as decreased by any such dividends and/or purchases, the “Distribution
Cap”), provided that no such
purchases shall be made from the proceeds of a Borrowing
hereunder. In the event that the Borrower issues additional Equity
Interests in the form of common stock after the Borrower shall have paid any
such dividends and/or made any such purchases, the Distribution Cap shall be
replenished by (i) the amount of the net cash proceeds of the issuance of any
such Equity Interests and/or (ii) the amount of any portion of the purchase
price for an Investment permitted by Section
5.02(f)(ii) paid by the issuance of any such Equity Interests, so long
as, in the case of either of clauses
(i) and (ii), the
Distribution Cap does not exceed $400 million at any time; and
(ii) the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower may redeem, repurchase, retire or
otherwise acquire any of its Equity Interests in connection with a compensation
plan, program or practice, provided that the
aggregate price paid from and after the Effective Date for all such repurchased,
redeemed, acquired or retired Equity Interests shall not exceed $25 million in
any fiscal year of the Borrower.
(h) Accounting
Changes. Make or permit, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to
make or permit, any change in (i) accounting policies or reporting practices,
except as required or permitted by GAAP, or (ii) fiscal year.
(i)
Use of
Proceeds. Use the proceeds of any Advance or any Letter of
Credit for any purpose other than for working capital and general corporate
purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; or use any such proceeds (i) in a
manner which violates or results in a violation of any law or regulation, (ii)
to purchase or carry any margin stock (as defined in Regulation U),
(iii) to extend credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin
stock (as defined in Regulation U), or (iv) to pay dividends or repurchase
any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
(j)
Restrictive
Agreements. Enter into or be a party to, or permit any of its
Subsidiaries to enter into or be a party to, any agreement or other arrangement
that
(i)
prohibits or otherwise limits the ability (A) of the Borrower
or any Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its
property to secure the Obligations, (B) of any Subsidiary (other than a
Project Finance Subsidiary) to pay dividends or other distributions in respect
of its Equity Interests (whether in cash, securities or otherwise) to, or
transfer property to, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, or (C) of any
Subsidiary to repay loans or advances to the Borrower or any Subsidiary
Guarantor; provided that the
foregoing restrictions in this clause
(j)(i) shall not apply to restrictions and conditions (1) imposed by law
or by any Loan Document, (2) contained in agreements relating to the sale
of a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions
apply only to the Subsidiary that is to be sold, or (3) imposed by any agreement
relating to any Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted under Section
5.02(a) provided that such restrictions or conditions relate only to the
property covered by such Liens; and provided further that
the above clause
(j)(i)(A) shall not apply to customary provisions in leases and other
contracts restricting the assignment thereof; or
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(ii) requires
that if a Lien is granted to secure the Obligations, a Lien must also be granted
to secure the obligations of such Person under such agreement.
Section
5.03 Financial
Covenants. So long as any Advance or any other amount payable by the
Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any
Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Bank shall have any Commitment
hereunder, the Borrower:
(a) Consolidated Debt to
Consolidated EBITDA. Shall not permit, as of the last day of
any fiscal quarter, the ratio of Consolidated Debt to Consolidated EBITDA, for
the four fiscal quarters ending on such date, to be greater than 3.50 to
1.00.
(b) Consolidated Net
Worth. Shall maintain at all times a Consolidated Net Worth of
not less than the sum of (i) $2,000,000,000.00, plus (ii) an amount equal to
50% of the Consolidated Net Income earned in each fiscal quarter ending on or
after September 30, 2009 (with no deduction for a net loss in any such fiscal
quarter) plus (iii) an
amount equal to 100% of the aggregate increases in Shareholders’ Equity of the
Borrower after the date hereof by reason of the issuance and sale of Equity
Interests of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than issuances to the
Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary), including upon any conversion of debt
securities of the Borrower into such Equity Interests.
ARTICLE
VI
EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
Section
6.01 Events of Default. If any
of the following events (“Events of
Default”) shall occur and be continuing:
(a) (i)
The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Advance when the same
becomes due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or by acceleration
thereof or otherwise or (ii) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on
any Advance or any fees hereunder or other amount payable hereunder, or any Loan
Party shall fail to make any other payment under any Loan Document, in each case
under this clause
(ii), within three Business Days of when the same becomes due and
payable, whether at the due date thereof or by acceleration thereof or
otherwise; or
(b) Any
representation, warranty or certification made by any Loan Party (or any of its
Responsible Officers) herein pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document
or in any certificate or document furnished to any Bank pursuant to or in
connection with any Loan Document, or any representation or warranty deemed to
have been made by any Loan Party pursuant to Section
3.02, shall prove to have been incorrect or misleading in any material
respect when made or so deemed to have been made; or
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(c) (i)
The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement
contained in Section
2.21(a)(ii)(A), Section
5.01(b), (e), (i) or
(j),
Section
5.02 or Section 5.03
of this Agreement; or (ii) any Loan Party shall fail to perform or
observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement on its
part to be performed or observed (other than any term, covenant or agreement
covered by Section
6.01(a)) and, in each case under this clause
(ii), such failure shall remain unremedied for 30 days after notice
thereof shall have been given to such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent or
by any Bank; or
(d) (i)
Any Loan Party or any of its Material Subsidiaries shall fail to pay any
principal of, premium or interest on or any other amount payable in respect of
any Indebtedness of such Loan Party or such Material Subsidiary (as the case may
be) that is outstanding in a principal amount of at least $100,000,000 either
individually or in the aggregate for all such Loan Parties and Material
Subsidiaries (but excluding Indebtedness outstanding hereunder), when the same
becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment,
acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the
applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument
relating to such Indebtedness; or any other event shall occur or condition shall
exist under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Indebtedness and
shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such
agreement or instrument, if the effect of such event or condition is to
accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Indebtedness
or otherwise to cause, or to permit the holder thereof to cause, such
Indebtedness to mature; or any such Indebtedness shall become due prior to its
stated maturity (other than by a regularly-scheduled required payment and
mandatory prepayments from proceeds of asset sales, debt incurrence, excess cash
flow, equity issuances and insurance proceeds); provided that for the
avoidance of doubt the parties acknowledge and agree that any payment required
to be made under a guarantee described in the definition herein of Indebtedness
shall be due and payable at the time such payment is due and payable under the
terms of such guarantee (taking into account any applicable grace period) and
such payment shall not be deemed to have been accelerated or have become due as
a result of the obligation guaranteed having become due; or (ii) any Loan
Party or any of its Material Subsidiaries shall fail to pay when due any amount
owed in respect of any Hedging Obligation in an amount equal to or greater than
$100,000,000 either individually or in the aggregate for all such Loan Parties
and Material Subsidiaries; or
(e) Any
Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary of any Loan Party shall be adjudicated a
bankrupt or insolvent by a court of competent jurisdiction, or generally not pay
its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to
pay its debts generally, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against any Loan Party or
any such Material Subsidiary seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent,
or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment,
protection, relief or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the
entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee,
custodian or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its
Property and, in the case of any such proceeding instituted against it (but not
instituted by it), either such proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed
for a period of 90 days, or any of the actions sought in such proceeding
(including the entry of an order for relief against, or the appointment of a
receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for, it or for any
substantial part of its Property) shall occur; or such Loan Party or any such
Material Subsidiary shall take any corporate or organizational action to
authorize any of the actions set forth above in this subsection
(e); or
(f) One
or more final, non-appealable judgments or orders by a court of competent
jurisdiction for the payment of money in excess of $100,000,000 in the aggregate
(to the extent not covered by insurance available from a financially sound
insurer that has acknowledged coverage) shall be rendered against any Loan Party
or any Material Subsidiary of any Loan Party and either (i) enforcement
proceedings are commenced by a creditor upon such judgment or order or (ii) any
such judgment or order shall remain undischarged and unstayed for a period of 30
days; or
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(g) Any
judgment, writ, warrant of attachment or execution or similar process shall be
issued or levied against a substantial part of the property of any Loan Party or
any Material Subsidiary of any Loan Party and such judgment, writ, warrant of
attachment or execution or similar process shall not be released, stayed,
vacated or fully bonded within 30 days after its issue or levy; or
(h) Any
non monetary judgment or order by a court or Governmental Authority of competent
jurisdiction shall be rendered against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any
Loan Party that could reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect,
and either (i) enforcement proceedings are commenced by a creditor upon such
judgment or order or (ii) any such judgment or order shall remain undischarged
and unstayed for a period of 30 days; or
(i) Any
provision of any Loan Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Section
3.01 or 5.01(j)
shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against any
Loan Party party to it, or any such Loan Party shall so state in writing;
or
(j) A
Change of Control shall occur; or
(k) Any
Loan Party shall incur, or, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Banks,
shall be reasonably likely to incur liability in excess of $100,000,000 in the
aggregate as a result of the occurrence of an ERISA Event or the termination of
a Multiemployer Plan;
then, and
in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or may
with the consent, of the Required Banks, by notice to the Borrower, declare the
obligation of each Bank to make Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances
by an Issuing Bank or a Bank pursuant to Section
2.03(d)) and of each Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit to be
terminated, whereupon the same (and all of the Commitments) shall forthwith
terminate, (ii) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required
Banks, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Advances, all interest thereon and
all other amounts payable under this Agreement to be forthwith due and payable,
whereupon the Advances, all such interest and all such other amounts shall
become and be forthwith due and payable, and (iii) the obligation of the
Borrower to deposit Cash Collateral as described in Section
6.02 shall automatically be effective, in each case, without presentment,
demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or any
other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the
Borrower, and (iv) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the
Required Banks, exercise on behalf of itself and the Banks all rights and
remedies available to it and the Banks under the Loan Documents; provided, however, that in the
event of any actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the
Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code, (A) the Commitment of each Bank and the
obligation of each Bank to make Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances
by an Issuing Bank or a Bank pursuant to Section
2.03(d)) and of each Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit shall
automatically be terminated, and (B) the Advances, all interest thereon and all
other amounts payable under this Agreement shall automatically and immediately
become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest, notice of
intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration, or any other notice of any kind,
all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
Section
6.02 Actions in Respect of the Letters of Credit
upon Default. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Administrative Agent may, or shall at the request of the
Required Banks, irrespective of whether it is taking any of the actions
described in Section
6.01 or otherwise, make demand upon the Borrower to, and forthwith upon
such demand the Borrower will, pay to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the
Banks in same day funds at the Administrative Agent’s office designated in such
demand, for deposit in the L/C Cash Collateral Account, an amount equal to the
aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then
outstanding. If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that
any funds held in the L/C Cash Collateral Account are subject to any right or
claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent and the Banks or that
the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate Available Amount of
all Letters of Credit, the Borrower will, forthwith upon demand by the
Administrative Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be
deposited and held in the L/C Cash Collateral Account, an amount equal to the
excess of (a) such aggregate Available Amount over (b) the total
amount of funds, if any, then held in the L/C Cash Collateral Account that the
Administrative Agent determines to be free and clear of any such right and
claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are
on deposit in the L/C Cash Collateral Account, such funds shall be applied to
reimburse the relevant Issuing Bank or the Banks, as applicable, to the extent
permitted by applicable law. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash
Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired,
such remaining amount shall be applied to the other obligations, if any, in the
order set forth below.
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Section
6.03 Application of Funds. After
the exercise of remedies provided for in this Article VI
(or after the Advances have automatically become immediately due and payable as
set forth in the proviso to at the end of Section
6.01), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be
applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of that
portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other
amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the
Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article
II) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as
such;
Second, to payment of that
portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts
(other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees) payable to the Banks
and the Issuing Banks (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to
the respective Banks and Issuing Banks) and amounts payable under Article
II, ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described
in this clause Second
payable to them;
Third, to payment of that
portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit Fees
and interest on the Advances, Letter of Credit Advances and other Obligations
arising under the Loan Documents, ratably among the Banks and the Issuing Banks
in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third
payable to them;
Fourth, to payment of that
portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Advances and
Letter of Credit Advances, ratably among the Banks and the Issuing Banks in
proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth
held by them;
Fifth, to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Issuing Banks, to Cash Collateralize that portion
of L/C Exposure comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit;
and
Last, the balance, if any,
after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the
Borrower or as otherwise required by applicable law.
ARTICLE
VII
THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Section
7.01 Appointment and
Authority. Each of the Banks and the Issuing Banks hereby
irrevocably appoints Citibank to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative
Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are
delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together
with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of
the Administrative Agent, the Banks and the Issuing Banks, and neither the
Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary
of any such provisions.
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Section
7.02 Duties of Administrative
Agent; Exculpatory Provisions.
(a) The
Administrative Agent’s duties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are
solely ministerial and administrative in nature and the Administrative Agent
shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein
and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any
discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, but shall be required
to act or refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or
refraining from acting) upon the written direction of the Required Banks (or
such other number or percentage of the Banks as shall be expressly provided for
herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent
shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of
its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates to
liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable
law.
(b) The
Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it
(i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Banks (or such other
number or percentage of the Banks as shall be necessary, or as the
Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the
circumstances as provided in Section
6.01, Section
6.02 and Section
8.01) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful
misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have
knowledge of any Default or the event or events that give or may give rise to
any Default unless and until the Borrower or any Bank shall have given notice to
the Administrative Agent describing such Default and such event or
events.
(c) Neither
the Administrative Agent nor any member of the Agent’s Group shall be
responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement,
warranty or representation or other information made or supplied in or in
connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or the Information
Memorandum, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document
delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith or the
adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of the information contained therein,
(iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other
terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any
Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this
Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or
document or the perfection or priority of any Lien or security interest created
or purported to be created hereunder or thereunder or (v) the satisfaction of
any condition set forth in Article
III or elsewhere herein, other than (but subject to the foregoing clause
(ii)) to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to
the Administrative Agent.
(d) Nothing
in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall require the Administrative
Agent or any of its Related Parties to carry out any “know your customer” or
other checks in relation to any person on behalf of any Bank and each Bank
confirms to the Administrative Agent that it is solely responsible for any such
checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in
relation to such checks made by the Administrative Agent or any of its Related
Parties.
Section
7.03 Reliance by Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely
upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request,
certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing
(including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other
distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or
otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative
Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and
believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any
liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any
condition hereunder to the making of an Advance, or the issuance of a Letter of
Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Bank or
Issuing Bank, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is
satisfactory to such Bank or Issuing Bank unless the Administrative Agent shall
have received notice to the contrary from such Bank or Issuing Bank prior to the
making of such Advance or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. The
Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the
Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall
not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the
advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
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Section
7.04 Rights as a Bank.
(a) The
Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights
and powers in its capacity as a Bank as any other Bank and may exercise the same
as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Bank” or “Banks”
shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise
requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in
its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept
deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other
advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not
the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to
the Banks.
(b) Each
Bank understands that the Person serving as Administrative Agent, acting in its
individual capacity, and its Affiliates (collectively, the “Agent’s
Group”) are engaged in a wide range of financial services and businesses
(including investment management, financing, securities trading, corporate and
investment banking and research) (such services and businesses are collectively
referred to in this Section
7.04(b) as “Activities”)
and may engage in the Activities with or on behalf of one or more of the Loan
Parties or their respective Affiliates. The Agent’s Group may, in
undertaking the Activities, engage in trading in financial products or undertake
other investment businesses for its own account or on behalf of others
(including the Loan Parties and their Affiliates and including holding, for its
own account or on behalf of others, equity, debt and similar positions in the
Borrower, another Loan Party or their respective Affiliates), including trading
in or holding long, short or derivative positions in securities, loans or other
financial products of one or more of the Loan Parties or their
Affiliates. Each Bank understands and agrees that in engaging in the
Activities, the Agent’s Group may receive or otherwise obtain information
concerning the Loan Parties or their Affiliates (including information
concerning the ability of the Loan Parties to perform their respective
Obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents) which information may
not be available to the Banks that are not members of the Agent’s
Group. None of the Administrative Agent nor any member of the Agent’s
Group shall have any duty to disclose to any Bank or use on behalf of the Banks,
and shall not be liable for the failure to so disclose or use, any information
about or derived from the Activities or otherwise (including any information
concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other
condition or creditworthiness of any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan
Party) or to account for any revenue or profits obtained in connection with the
Activities, except that the Administrative Agent shall deliver or otherwise make
available to each Bank such documents as are expressly required by any Loan
Document to be transmitted by the Administrative Agent to the
Banks.
(c) Each
Bank further understands that there may be situations where members of the
Agent’s Group or their respective customers (including the Loan Parties and
their Affiliates) either now have or may in the future have interests or take
actions that may conflict with the interests of any one or more of the Banks
(including the interests of the Banks hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents). Each Bank agrees that no member of the Agent’s Group is
or shall be required to restrict its activities as a result of the Person
serving as Administrative Agent being a member of the Agent’s Group, and that
each member of the Agent’s Group may undertake any Activities without further
consultation with or notification to any Bank. None of (i) this
Agreement nor any other Loan Document, (ii) the receipt by the Agent’s Group of
information (including Information (as such term is used in Section
8.15)) concerning the Loan Parties or their Affiliates (including
information concerning the ability of the Loan Parties to perform their
respective Obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents) nor (iii)
any other matter shall give rise to any fiduciary, equitable or contractual
duties (including without limitation any duty of trust or confidence) owing by
the Administrative Agent or any member of the Agent’s Group to any Bank
including any such duty that would prevent or restrict the Agent’s Group from
acting on behalf of customers (including the Loan Parties or their Affiliates)
or for its own account.
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Section
7.05 Bank Credit
Decision.
(a) Each
Bank and Issuing Bank confirms to the Administrative Agent, each other Bank and
Issuing Bank and each of their respective Related Parties that it (i) possesses
(individually or through its Related Parties) such knowledge and experience in
financial and business matters that it is capable, without reliance on the
Administrative Agent, any other Bank, any other Issuing Bank or any of their
respective Related Parties, of evaluating the merits and risks (including tax,
legal, regulatory, credit, accounting and other financial matters) of (A)
entering into this Agreement, (B) making Advances and other extensions of credit
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (C) in taking or not taking
actions hereunder and thereunder, (ii) is financially able to bear such risks
and (iii) has determined that entering into this Agreement and making
Advances and other extensions of credit hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents is suitable and appropriate for it.
(b) Each
Bank and Issuing Bank acknowledges that (i) it is solely responsible for making
its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in
connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) that it has,
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other
Bank or any of their respective Related Parties, made its own appraisal and
investigation of all risks associated with, and its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into, this Agreement based on such documents and information,
as it has deemed appropriate and (iii) it will, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Bank or any of their
respective Related Parties continue to be solely responsible for making its own
appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with,
and its own credit analysis and decision to take or not take action under, this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents based on such documents and information
as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, which may include, in each
case:
(i)
the financial condition, status and capitalization of the Borrower and
each other Loan Party;
(ii) the
legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of this Agreement
and each other Loan Document and any other agreement, arrangement or document
entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with
any Loan Document;
(iii) determining
compliance or non-compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of an
Advance, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit and the form and substance of all
evidence delivered in connection with establishing the satisfaction of each such
condition;
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(iv) the
adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of the Information Memorandum and any
other information delivered by the Administrative Agent, any other Bank or by
any of their respective Related Parties under or in connection with this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or
executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Loan
Document.
Section
7.06 Delegation of Duties. The
Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its
rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any
one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The
Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its
duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related
Parties. Each such sub-agent and the Related Parties of the
Administrative Agent and each such sub-agent shall be entitled to the benefits
of all provisions of this Article
VII and Section 8.04
(as though such sub-agents were the “Administrative Agent” under the Loan
Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
Section
7.07 Resignation; Replacement of
Administrative Agent.
(a) Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of
its resignation to the Banks, the Issuing Banks and the
Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the
Required Banks shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to
appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States,
or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United
States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the
Required Banks and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the
retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring
Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Banks and the Issuing Banks, appoint a
successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above provided that if the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Banks that no qualifying
Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless
become effective in accordance with such notice and (i) the retiring
Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any
collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Banks or
the Issuing Bank under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative
Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a
successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (ii) all payments,
communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the
Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Bank and Issuing Bank
directly, until such time as the Required Banks appoint a successor
Administrative Agent as provided for above in this paragraph. Upon
the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder,
such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights,
powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent,
and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties
and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already
discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section
7.07(a)). The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor
Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor
unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such
successor. After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and
Section
8.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring
Administrative Agent, its sub agents and their respective Related Parties in
respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the
retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.
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(b) Issuing
Bank. If a Bank becomes, and during the period it remains, a
Defaulting Lender or a Potential Defaulting Lender any Issuing Bank may, upon
prior written notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, resign as an
Issuing Bank effective at the close of business New York time on a date
specified in such notice (which date may not be less than five Business Days
after the date of such notice); provided that such
resignation by the Issuing Bank will have no effect on the validity or
enforceability of any Letter of Credit then outstanding or on the obligations of
the Borrower or any Bank under this Agreement with respect to any such
outstanding Letter of Credit or otherwise to the applicable Issuing
Bank.
(c) Replacement of
Administrative Agent. Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, if at any time the Required Banks determine that the Person
serving as Administrative Agent is (without taking into account any provision in
the definition of “Defaulting
Lender” or “Potential
Defaulting Lender” requiring notice from the Administrative Agent or any
other party) a Defaulting Lender or a Potential Defaulting Lender, the Required
Banks (determined after giving effect to Section
8.01) may by notice to the Borrower and such Person remove such Person as
Administrative Agent and, in consultation with the Borrower, appoint a
replacement Administrative Agent hereunder. Such removal will, to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be effective on the earlier of (i)
the date a replacement Administrative Agent is appointed and (ii) the date 30
Business Days after the giving of such notice by the Required Banks (regardless
of whether a replacement Administrative Agent has been appointed).
Section
7.08 Co-Lead Arrangers, Syndication Agent,
Documentation Agent. Anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, no Co-Lead Arranger, Syndication Agent or Documentation Agent
listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or
responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except
in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Bank or an
Issuing Bank hereunder.
Section
7.09 Guarantee Matters. Each of
the Banks (including in its capacity as an Issuing Bank or a potential Issuing
Bank, as applicable) irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, to release
a Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee if such Person
ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted
hereunder. Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the
Required Banks will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to
release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee
pursuant to this Section
7.09. In each case as specified in this Section
7.09, the Administrative Agent will, at the Borrower’s expense, execute
and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may
reasonably request to release such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations
under the Guarantee, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan
Documents and this Section
7.09.
Section
7.10 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of
Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership,
insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment,
composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of
any Advance shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration
or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have
made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to
file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing
and unpaid in respect of the Advances and all other Obligations that are owing
and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Banks, the Issuing Banks and the Administrative
Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Banks and the Administrative Agent and their
respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Banks and the
Administrative Agent under Section
2.04 and Section
8.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
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(b) to
collect and receive any monies 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
Bank and each Issuing Bank to make such payments to the Administrative Agent
and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of
such payments directly to the Banks or the Issuing Banks, as the case may be, to
pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents
and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Section
2.04 and Section
8.04.
Nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Bank and any Issuing
Bank any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Bank or Issuing Bank or to
authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Bank
in any such proceeding.
ARTICLE
VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
8.01 Amendments, Etc.
(a) No
amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, nor consent to any
departure by the Loan Party therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless
the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Banks, and then such
waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall: (i) waive any of the conditions
specified in Section 3.01(b)
of this Agreement without the written consent of each Bank; (ii) increase
the Commitment of any Bank or subject any Bank to any additional obligations
without the written consent of such Bank; (iii) reduce the principal of, or
interest on, the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder,
without the written consent of each Bank to whom such amount is payable; provided, however, that only
the consent of the Required Banks shall be necessary to amend the default rate
of interest payable pursuant to Section
2.07(a), Section
2.07(b) or Section
2.07(c) hereof or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest
or Letter of Credit Fees at the default rate specified in Section
2.04 or Section
2.07(c), as applicable; (iv) postpone any date fixed for any payment of
principal of, or interest on, the Advances or any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder without the written consent of each Bank to whom such amount is
payable; (v) amend the definition of “Required Banks” without the written
consent of each Bank; (vi) amend Section
2.15 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of
the payments required thereby or this Section
8.01 of this Agreement without the written consent of each Bank; or (vii)
except as provided in Section
8.01(b) and to the extent the release of any Subsidiary Guarantor from
its obligations under the Guarantee is permitted pursuant to Section
7.09 (in which in each such case such release may be made by the
Administrative Agent acting alone), release all or substantially all of the
value of the Guarantee without the written consent of each Bank; and provided, further, that (x) no
amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the
Administrative Agent in addition to the Banks required above to take such
action, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this
Agreement or any of the Notes and (y) no amendment, waiver or consent
shall, unless in writing and signed by each Issuing Bank in addition to the
Banks required above to take such action, affect the rights or obligations of
the Issuing Banks under this Agreement.
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(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any guarantee of a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Guarantee shall
be terminated from time to time as necessary to effect the sale, merger or
consolidation of any Subsidiary Guarantor permitted by this Agreement and the
Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver all release and termination
documents reasonably requested in connection therewith.
(c) Anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, during such period as a Bank is a
Defaulting Lender, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the
Commitment and the outstanding Revolving Credit Advances or other extensions of
credit of such Bank hereunder will not be taken into account in determining
whether the Required Banks or all of the Banks, as required, have approved any
amendment or waiver hereunder (and the definition of “Required Banks” will
automatically be deemed modified accordingly for the duration of such period);
provided, that
any such amendment or waiver that would increase or extend the term of the
Commitment of such Defaulting Lender, extend the date fixed for the payment of
principal or interest owing to such Defaulting Lender hereunder, reduce the
principal amount of any obligation owing to such Defaulting Lender, reduce the
amount of or the rate or amount of interest on any amount owing to such
Defaulting Lender or of any fee payable to such Defaulting Lender hereunder,
alter the payment application provisions of Section
2.21(b) in a manner adverse to such Defaulting Lender or alter the terms
of this proviso, will require the consent of such Defaulting
Lender.
Section
8.02 Notices,
Etc.
(a) All
notices, demands, requests, consents and other communications provided for in
this Agreement shall be given in writing, or by any telecommunication device
capable of creating a written record (including electronic mail), and addressed
to the party to be notified as follows:
(i)
if to the Borrower or any other Loan Party,
000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail
Address: Xxxxxx.Xxxxxxx0@xxx.xxx
Attention: Treasurer
(ii) if
to the Administrative Agent,
Xxx Xxxxx
Xxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail
Address: xxxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
Attention: Bank
Loan Syndications Department
with a
copy to:
0000 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxx 00000
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail
Address: xxx.xxxxx@xxxx.xxx
Attention: Xxx
Xxxxx, Managing Director
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(iii) if
to any Issuing Bank listed on the signature pages hereof, to it at the address
specified opposite its name on Schedule
IV hereto or as on file with the Administrative Agent,
(iv) if
to any other Issuing Bank, to the address specified in the agreement pursuant to
which it becomes an Issuing Bank,
(v) if
to any other Bank, to it at its address (or telecopier number) set forth in its
Administrative Questionnaire.
or at
such other address as shall be notified in writing (x) in the case of the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent, to the other parties and (y) in the
case of all other parties, to the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
(b) All
notices, demands, requests, consents and other communications described in Section
8.02(a) shall be effective (i) if delivered by hand, including any
overnight courier service, upon personal delivery, (ii) if delivered by
mail, when deposited in the mails, (iii) if delivered by posting to an
Approved Electronic Platform, an Internet website or a similar telecommunication
device requiring that a user have prior access to such Approved Electronic
Platform, website or other device (to the extent permitted by Section
8.02(a); to
be delivered thereunder), when such notice, demand, request, consent and other
communication shall have been made generally available on such Approved
Electronic Platform, Internet website or similar device to the class of Person
being notified (regardless of whether any such Person must accomplish, and
whether or not any such Person shall have accomplished, any action prior to
obtaining access to such items, including registration, disclosure of contact
information, compliance with a standard user agreement or undertaking a duty of
confidentiality) and such Person has been notified in respect of such posting
that a communication has been posted to the Approved Electronic
Platform and (iv) if delivered by electronic mail or any other
telecommunications device, when transmitted to an electronic mail address (or by
another means of electronic delivery) as provided in Section
8.02(a); provided, however,
that notices and communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article
II or Article
VII) shall not be effective until received by the Administrative
Agent.
(c) The
Borrower hereby agrees that it will provide to the Administrative Agent all
information, documents and other materials that it is obligated to furnish, or
otherwise chooses to furnish, to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Loan
Documents, including all notices, requests, financial statements, financial and
other reports, certificates and other information materials, but excluding
1. any request for or other communication that relates to a request for a
new, or a conversion of an existing, borrowing, letter of credit or other
extension of credit (including any election of an interest rate or interest
period relating thereto), 2. any notice pursuant to Section
2.10 and any other notice that relates to the payment of any principal or
other amount due under the Credit Agreement prior to the scheduled date
therefor, 3. any notice of any Default or Event of Default, 4. any notice,
information and other material required to be delivered to satisfy any condition
precedent to the effectiveness of the Credit Agreement and/or any borrowing or
other extension of credit hereunder (all such non-excluded communications being
referred to herein, collectively as “Communications”)
by transmitting the Communications in an electronic/soft medium in a format
acceptable to the Administrative Agent to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx or such
other electronic email address (or similar means of electronic delivery) as the
Administrative Agent may notify to the Borrower. In addition, the
Borrower agrees to continue to provide the Communications to the Administrative
Agent in such other manner as may be specified in the Loan Documents but only to
the extent requested by the Administrative Agent. The Borrower and
the Banks agree that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated
to, make the Communications and the other notices and information described in
clauses
(A) through (D)
above (collectively, the “Approved
Electronic Communications”) available to the Banks by posting the
Approved Electronic Communications on Intralinks, DebtDomain or a substantially
similar electronic system chosen by the Administrative Agent to be its
electronic transmission system (the “Approved
Electronic Platform”); provided that the
foregoing provisions of this sentence shall not apply to notices to any Bank or
Issuing Bank described in clauses
(A) and (B) above
in this subsection
(c) if such Bank or Issuing Bank has notified the Administrative Agent
that it is incapable of receiving such notices via the Approved Electronic
Platform. THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND THE APPROVED
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS
AVAILABLE”. THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE
ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, OR THE
ADEQUACY OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY
FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OR THE
APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM
VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY THE AGENT PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH
THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC
PLATFORM. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OF ITS
AFFILIATES OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
ADVISORS OR REPRESENTATIVES (COLLECTIVELY, “AGENT
PARTIES”) HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO THE BORROWER, ANY BANK OR ANY OTHER
PERSON OR ENTITY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT,
CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF THE BORROWER’S OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT’S TRANSMISSION OF COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE INTERNET, EXCEPT TO THE
EXTENT THE LIABILITY OF ANY AGENT PARTY IS FOUND IN A FINAL NON-APPEALABLE
JUDGMENT BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO HAVE RESULTED PRIMARILY FROM
SUCH AGENT PARTY’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT.
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(d) Although
the Approved Electronic Platform and its primary web portal are secured with
generally-applicable security procedures and policies implemented or modified by
the Administrative Agent from time to time (including, as of the Effective Date,
a dual firewall and a User ID/Password Authorization System) and the Approved
Electronic Platform is secured through a single-user-per-deal authorization
method whereby each user may access the Approved Electronic Platform only on a
deal-by-deal basis, each of the Banks and the Borrower, on behalf of itself and
each other Loan Party, acknowledges and agrees that the distribution of material
through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure and that there are
confidentiality and other risks associated with such distribution. In
consideration for the convenience and other benefits afforded by such
distribution and for the other consideration provided hereunder, the receipt and
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each of the Banks and the Borrower,
on behalf of itself and each other Loan Party, hereby approves distribution of
the Approved Electronic Communications through the Approved Electronic Platform
and understands and assumes the risks of such distribution.
(e) Nothing
herein shall prejudice the right of the Administrative Agent or any Bank to give
any notice or other communication to any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan
Document in any other manner specified in such Loan Document.
(f)
Each of the Banks and the Borrower, on behalf of
itself and each other Loan Party, agree that the Administrative Agent may, but
(except as may be required by applicable law) shall not be obligated to, store
the Approved Electronic Communications on the Approved Electronic Platform in
accordance with the Administrative Agent’s generally-applicable document
retention procedures and policies.
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Section
8.03 No Waiver; Remedies;
Enforcement. No failure on the part of any Bank or the
Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right
hereunder or under any Note shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by
law.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the
authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively
in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement
shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in
accordance with Article VI
for the benefit of all Banks and Issuing Banks; provided, however,
that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from
exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit
(solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other
Loan Documents, (b) each Issuing Bank from exercising the rights and remedies
that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as an Issuing Bank) hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents, (c) any Bank from exercising setoff rights
in accordance with Section
8.05 (subject to the terms of Section
2.15), or (d) any Bank from filing proofs of claim or appearing and
filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative
to any Loan Party under any Debtor Relief Law; and provided, further, that if at
any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Banks shall have the rights
otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article VI
and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses
(b),
(c) and (d) of the
preceding proviso and subject to Section
2.15, any Bank may, with the consent of the Required Banks, enforce any
rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required
Banks.
Section
8.04 Expenses and Taxes;
Compensation;
Indemnification.
(a) The
Borrower agrees to pay on demand (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
(including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of the Administrative Agent
and its Affiliates in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and
administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments,
modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof, (ii) all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by each Issuing Bank in connection
with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or
any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses
incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Bank or any Issuing Bank (including
the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent,
any Bank or any Issuing Bank) in connection with the enforcement or protection
of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection
with Advances made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such
out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or
negotiations in respect of such Advances or Letters of Credit.
(b) The
Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent, the
Banks, the Co-Lead Arrangers and their respective directors, officers,
employees, affiliates, advisors, attorneys and agents (each, an “Indemnified
Party”) from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities
and expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel) for which any of them may
become liable or which may be incurred by or asserted against any of the
Indemnified Parties in connection with or arising out of (i) any Loan Document
or any other document or instrument delivered in connection herewith or the
actual or proposed use of the proceeds of any Advance or Letter of Credit or any
of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any actual or alleged
presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or
operated by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any Environmental Liability
related in any way to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or (iii) any
investigation, litigation, or proceeding, whether or not any of the Indemnified
Parties is a party thereto, related to or in connection with any of the
foregoing or any Loan Document, including any transaction in which any proceeds
of any Advance or Letter of Credit are applied, including in each of the foregoing
cases, any such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense resulting from the
negligence of any Indemnified Party, but excluding any such claim,
damage, loss, liability or expense (A) sought to be recovered by any Indemnified
Party to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is found in a
final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified
Party or (B) results from a dispute solely between or among Indemnified
Parties which does not arise, directly or indirectly, from any act or omission
of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or from any circumstance
constituting a Default or Event of Default; provided however, that the
foregoing clause (B)
shall not limit the Borrower’s obligation to indemnify and hold harmless the
Administrative Agent in its capacity as such.
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(c) To
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert,
and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnified Party, 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, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument
contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any
Advance or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. No
Indemnified Party 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 this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the
transactions contemplated hereby.
(d) To
the extent that the Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount
required under Section
8.04(a) or Section
8.04(b) to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent
thereof), any Issuing Bank or any Related Party of any of the foregoing but
without affecting the Borrower’s obligation to pay such amounts, each Bank
severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), any
Issuing Bank or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Bank’s Pro Rata
Share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or
indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the
unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related
expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the
Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or any Issuing Bank in its capacity
as such, or against any such Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for
the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Issuing Bank in
connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Banks under
this Section
8.04(d) are subject to the provisions of Section
2.02(e) and Section
2.03(e).
(e) All
amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after demand
therefor.
(f) Without
prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Borrower hereunder, all
obligations of the Borrower under Section
2.13, Section
2.14 and this Section
8.04 shall survive the termination of the Commitments and this Agreement
and the payment in full of all amounts hereunder and under the
Notes.
Section
8.05 Right of Set-Off. If an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Bank and each
Issuing Bank, and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at
any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other
obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Bank, Issuing Bank
or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any
other Loan Party against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower or such
Loan Party now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document to such Bank or such Issuing Bank, irrespective of whether or no such
Bank or such Issuing Bank shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Borrower or such Loan
Party may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such
Bank or such Issuing Bank different from the branch or office holding such
deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Bank,
each Issuing Bank and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in
addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that
such Bank, Issuing Bank or their respective Affiliates may have. Each
Bank and the Issuing Bank agrees to notify the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure
to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and
application.
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Section
8.06 Limitation and Adjustment of
Interest.
(a) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth herein, in any other Loan Document or in any
other document or instrument, no provision of any of the Loan Documents or any
other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
is intended or shall be construed to require the payment or permit the
collection of interest in excess of the maximum non-usurious rate permitted by
applicable law. Accordingly, if the transactions with any Bank
contemplated hereby would be usurious under applicable law, if any, then, in
that event, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Note payable to such
Bank, this Agreement or any other document or instrument, it is agreed as
follows: (i) the aggregate of all consideration which constitutes interest under
applicable law that is contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received by
such Bank under any Note payable to such Bank, this Agreement or any other
document or instrument shall under no circumstances exceed the maximum amount
allowed by such applicable law, and any excess shall be canceled automatically
and, if theretofore paid, shall, at the option of such Bank, be credited by such
Bank on the principal amount of the indebtedness owed to such Bank by the
Borrower or refunded by such Bank to the Borrower, and (ii) in the event that
the maturity of any Note payable to such Bank is accelerated or in the event of
any required or permitted prepayment, then such consideration that constitutes
interest under law applicable to such Bank may never include more than the
maximum amount allowed by such applicable law and excess interest, if any, to
such Bank provided for in this Agreement or otherwise shall be canceled
automatically as of the date of such acceleration or prepayment and, if
theretofore paid, shall, at the option of such Bank, be credited by such Bank on
the principal amount of the indebtedness owed to such Bank by the Borrower or
refunded by such Bank to the Borrower. In determining whether or not
the interest contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received by any Bank
exceeds the maximum non-usurious rate permitted by applicable law, such
determination shall be made, to the extent that doing so does not result in a
violation of applicable law, by amortizing, prorating, allocating and spreading,
in equal parts during the period of the full stated term of the loans hereunder,
all interest at any time contracted for, taken, charged, received or reserved by
such Bank in connection with such loans.
(b) In
the event that at any time the interest rate applicable to any Advance made by
any Bank would exceed the maximum non-usurious rate allowed by applicable law,
the rate of interest to accrue on the Advances by such Bank shall be limited to
the maximum non-usurious rate allowed by applicable law, but shall accrue, to
the extent permitted by law, on the principal amount of the Advances made by
such Bank from time to time outstanding, if any, at the maximum non-usurious
rate allowed by applicable law until the total amount of interest accrued on the
Advances made by such Bank equals the amount of interest which would have
accrued if the interest rates applicable to the Advances pursuant to Article II
had at all times been in effect. In the event that upon the final
payment of the Advances made by any Bank and termination of the Commitment of
such Bank, the total amount of interest paid to such Bank hereunder and under
the Notes is less than the total amount of interest which would have accrued if
the interest rates applicable to such Advances pursuant to Article II
had at all times been in effect, then the Borrower agrees to pay to such Bank,
to the extent permitted by law, an amount equal to the excess of (a) the lesser
of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on such Advances if the
maximum non-usurious rate allowed by applicable law had at all times been in
effect or (ii) the amount of interest which would have accrued on such Advances
if the interest rates applicable to such Advances pursuant to Article II
had at all times been in effect over (b) the amount of interest otherwise
accrued on such Advances in accordance with this Agreement.
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Section
8.07 Binding Effect. This
Agreement shall become effective as provided in Section
3.01 hereof and thereafter the provisions of this Agreement shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent and each Bank and their respective successors and assigns permitted
hereby, except that the Borrower may not assign any of its rights or obligations
hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each
of the Banks and no Bank may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or
obligations hereunder except (a) to an assignee in accordance with the
provisions of Section
8.08(a), (b) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of
Section
8.08(b) or (c) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest
subject to the restrictions of Section
8.08(f) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party
hereto shall be null and void). 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, Participants
to the extent provided in Section
8.08(d) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related
Parties of each of the Administrative Agent and the Banks) any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this
Agreement.
Section
8.08 Assignments and
Participations.
(a) Assignments by
Banks. Any Bank may at any time assign to one or more
assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Advances at the time owing
to it); provided that any
such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) Minimum
Amounts.
(A) in
the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Bank’s
Commitment and the Advances at the time owing to it or in the case of an
assignment to a Bank, an Affiliate of a Bank or an Approved Fund, no minimum
amount need be assigned; and
(B) in
any case not described in subsection
(a)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which
for this purpose includes Advances outstanding thereunder) of, if the applicable
Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the
Advances of the assigning Bank subject to each such assignment (determined as of
the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment is
delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the
Assignment and Acceptance, as of the Trade Date) shall be in increments of
$1,000,000 and shall not be less than $10,000,000, in respect of a term
facility, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of
Default exists under Section
6.01(a) or Section
6.01(e) has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower otherwise consents
(each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
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(ii) Proportionate
Amounts. Each partial assignment shall be made as an
assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Bank’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Advance or the Commitment
assigned.
(iii) Required
Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment
except to the extent required by paragraph
(a)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:
(A) the
consent of the Borrower (such consent not to unreasonably withheld or delayed)
shall be required unless (x) an Event of Default exists under Section
6.01(a) or Section
6.01(e) at the time of such assignment or (y) such assignment is to a
Bank, an Affiliate of a Bank or an Approved Fund; provided that the
Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it
shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent with five
Business Days after having received notice thereof.
(B) the
consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments in respect of any
Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Bank with a
Commitment in respect of such facility, an Affiliate of such Bank or an Approved
Fund with respect to such Bank ; and
(C) the
consent of each Issuing Bank (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) shall be required for any assignment that increases the obligation of
the assignee to make Letter of Credit Advances or otherwise participate in
exposure under one or more Letters of Credit (whether or not then
outstanding).
(iv) Assignment and
Acceptance. The parties to each assignment shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, together with
a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, and the assignee, if it is not a
Bank, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative
Questionnaire.
(v) No Assignment to
Borrower. No such assignment shall be made to the Borrower or
any of the Borrower’s Affiliates of Subsidiaries.
(vi) No Assignment to Natural
Persons. No such assignment shall be made to a natural
Person.
Subject
to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section
8.08(b), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment
and Acceptance, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and,
to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, have
the rights and obligations of a Bank under this Agreement, and the assigning
Bank thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment
and Acceptance, be released from is obligations under this Agreement (and, in
the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all of the assigning Bank’s
rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Bank shall cease to be a party
thereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section
2.12, Section
2.13, Section
2.14 and Section
8.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the
effective date of such assignment. Any assignment or transfer by a
Bank of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with
this paragraph shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such
Bank of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section
8.08(c).
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(b) The
Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section
8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted
by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Banks
and the Commitment of, and the principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances
owing to, each Bank from time to time (the “Register”). The
entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Banks may
treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Bank hereunder for
all purposes of this Agreement. Upon its receipt of an Assignment and
Acceptance executed and delivered to it in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Acceptance
and record such assignment in the Register. The Register shall be
available for inspection by the Borrower or any Bank, at any reasonable time and
from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(c) Participations. Any
Bank may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural
Person or the Borrower or any of its Affiliates) (each a “Participant”)
in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and the
Notes held by it); provided that (i)
such Bank’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such
Bank shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the
performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent
and the Banks and the Issuing Bank shall continue to deal solely and directly
with such Bank in connection with such Bank’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement, and (iv) the terms of any such participation shall not restrict such
Bank’s ability to make any amendment or waiver of this Agreement or any Note or
such Bank’s ability to consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom
without the approval of the Participant; provided that such
participation may provide that such Bank will not, without the consent of the
Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the
first proviso in Section
8.01(a) that affects such Participant. Subject to Section
8.08(d), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to
the benefits of Section
2.12, Section
2.13 and Section
2.14 to the same extent as if it were a Bank and had acquired its
interest by assignment pursuant to Section
8.08(a). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also
shall be entitled to the benefits of Section
8.05 as though it were a Bank, provided such Participant agrees to be
subject to Section
2.15 as though it were a Bank.
(d) Limitations upon Participant
Rights. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any
greater payment under Section
2.13 and Section
2.14 than the applicable Bank 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 the Borrower’s prior written
consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a
Bank shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section
2.14 unless the Borrower is notified if the participation sold to such
Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to
comply with Section
2.14(f) as though it were a Bank.
(e) Each
Issuing Bank may assign to an Eligible Assignee all of its rights and
obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any
time; provided,
however, that
(i) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and (ii) the parties
to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent,
for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance,
together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500.
(f) Any
Bank may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed
assignment or participation pursuant to this Section
8.08, disclose to the assignee or Participant or proposed assignee or
Participant, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
furnished to such Bank by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries; provided that, prior
to any such disclosure, the assignee or Participant or proposed assignee or
Participant shall agree to comply with Section
8.14.
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(g) Certain
Pledges. Any Bank may at any time pledge or assign a security
interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure
obligations of such Bank, including any pledge or assignment to secure
obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that not
such pledge or assignment shall release such Bank from any of its obligations
hereunder or substitute any such pledge or assignee for such Bank as a party
hereto.
Section
8.09 No Liability of Issuing
Banks. The Borrower assumes all risks of the acts or omissions
of any beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit with respect to its use
of such Letter of Credit. Neither any Issuing Bank nor any of its
officers or directors shall be liable or responsible for: (a) the use that may
be made of any Letter of Credit or any acts or omissions of any beneficiary or
transferee in connection therewith; (b) the validity, sufficiency or
genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents
should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or
forged; (c) payment by such Issuing Bank against presentation of documents
that do not comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit, including failure of
any documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to the Letter of
Credit; or (d) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or failing to
make payment under any Letter of Credit, except that the Borrower shall have a
claim against such Issuing Bank, and such Issuing Bank shall be liable to the
Borrower, to the extent of any direct, but not consequential, damages suffered
by the Borrower that the Borrower proves were caused by (i) such Issuing
Bank’s willful misconduct or gross negligence as determined in a final,
non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction in determining
whether documents presented under any Letter of Credit comply with the terms of
the Letter of Credit or (ii) such Issuing Bank’s willful failure to make
lawful payment under a Letter of Credit after the presentation to it of a draft
and certificates strictly complying with the terms and conditions of the Letter
of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing,
such Issuing Bank may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order,
without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or
information to the contrary.
Section
8.10 Counterparts; Integration,
Effectiveness; Electronic Execution.
(a) Counterparts; Integration;
Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts
(and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a
single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and any
separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative
Agent, constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject
matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings,
oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.
(b) Delivery
of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement, any other Loan
Document and any documents executed in connection therewith by facsimile or
other electronic means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart.
(c) Electronic Execution of
Assignments. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and
words of like import in any Assignment and Acceptance shall be deemed to include
electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of
which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a
manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as
the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law,
including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act,
the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar
state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
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Section
8.11 Judgment.
(a) If
for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a
sum due hereunder in Dollars into another currency, the parties hereto agree, to
the fullest extent that they may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange
used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the
Administrative Agent could purchase Dollars with such other currency at
Reference Bank’s principal office in London at 11:00 A.M. (London time) on the
Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given.
(b) If
for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a
sum due hereunder in a Foreign Currency into Dollars, the parties agree to the
fullest extent that they may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used
shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the
Administrative Agent could purchase such Foreign Currency with Dollars at
Reference Agent’s principal office in London at 11:00 A.M. (London time) on the
Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given.
(c) The
obligation of the Borrower in respect of any sum due from it in any currency
(the “Primary
Currency”) to any Bank or the Administrative Agent hereunder shall,
notwithstanding any judgment in any other currency, be discharged only to the
extent that on the Business Day following receipt by such Bank or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be), of any sum adjudged to be so due in
such other currency, such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be)
may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the applicable Primary
Currency with such other currency; if the amount of the applicable Primary
Currency so purchased is less than such sum due to such Bank or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) in the applicable Primary Currency,
the Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such
judgment, to indemnify such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may
be) against such loss, and if the amount of the applicable Primary Currency so
purchased exceeds such sum due to any Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the
case may be) in the applicable Primary Currency, such Bank or the Administrative
Agent (as the case may be) agrees to remit to the Borrower such
excess.
Section
8.12 Governing Law. This
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Section
8.13 Jurisdiction;
Damages.
(a) To
the fullest extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, each of the
parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and
its Property, to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any New York state court or
federal court sitting in New York City, and any appellate court from any appeal
thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Agreement, or any other Loan Document, or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant hereto or in connection herewith or for recognition or
enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in any such court;
(b) Each
of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the defense of an inconvenient forum
to the maintenance of such action or proceeding arising out of or relating to
this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in Section
8.13(a) and any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying
of venue of any action or proceeding in any such court.
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(c) Each
party hereto irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided
for notices in Section
8.02. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any
party hereto to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable
law.
(d) Each
of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or
proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by
suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
(e) Nothing
herein shall affect the right that any party hereto may otherwise have to bring
any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement, any of the Notes or any
other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
in the courts of any other jurisdiction. Each of the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Banks hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, any
right it may have to claim or recover in any action or proceeding referred to in
this Section
8.13 any exemplary or punitive damages. The Borrower hereby
further irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent it may effectively do so under
applicable law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any action or
proceeding referred to in this Section
8.13 any special or consequential damages.
Section
8.14 Confidentiality.
(a) Each
of the Administrative Agent and each of the Banks agrees to maintain the
confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information
may be disclosed (i) to its Related Parties (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), (ii) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority
purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory
authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners),
(iii) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any
subpoena or similar legal process, (iv) to any other party hereto,
(v) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any
other Loan Document, any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder or any
litigation or proceeding to which the Administrative Agent or any Bank or any of
its respective Affiliates may be a party, (vi) subject to an agreement
containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to
(A) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or
Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement,
(B) any actual or prospective party (or its managers, administrators,
trustees, partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and other
representatives) surety, reinsurer, guarantor or credit liquidity enhancer (or
their advisors) to or in connection with any swap, derivative or other similar
transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to the Obligations
or to the Borrower and its obligations or to this Agreement or payments
hereunder, (C) to any rating agency when required by it, (D) the CUSIP Service
Bureau or any similar organization, (vii) with the consent of the Borrower
or (viii) to the extent such Information (A) becomes publicly
available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (B) becomes
available to the Administrative Agent, any Bank or any of their respective
Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than a Loan
Party.
For
purposes of this Section, “Information”
means all information received from a Loan Party or any of its respective
Subsidiaries relating to a Loan Party or any of its respective Subsidiaries or
any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is
available to the Administrative Agent or any Bank on a nonconfidential basis
prior to disclosure by any Loan Party or any of its respective Subsidiaries,
provided that,
in the case of information received from a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries
after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of
delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the
confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered
to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the
same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such
Person would accord to its own confidential information.
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(b) Treatment of
Information. ii) Certain of the Banks may enter
into this Agreement and take or not take action hereunder or under the other
Loan Documents on the basis of information that does not contain material
non-public information with respect to any of the Loan Parties or their
securities (“Restricting
Information”). Other Banks may enter into this Agreement and
take or not take action hereunder or under the other Loan Documents on the basis
of information that may contain Restricting Information. Each Bank
acknowledges that United States federal and state securities laws prohibit any
person from purchasing or selling securities on the basis of material,
non-public information concerning the issuer of such securities or, subject to
certain limited exceptions, from communicating such information to any other
Person. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its Related
Parties shall, by making any Communications (including Restricting Information)
available to a Bank, by participating in any conversations or other interactions
with a Bank or otherwise, make or be deemed to make any statement with regard to
or otherwise warrant that any such information or Communication does or does not
contain Restricting Information nor shall the Administrative Agent or any of its
Related Parties be responsible or liable in any way for any decision a Bank may
make to limit or to not limit its access to Restricting
Information. In particular, none of the Administrative Agent nor any
of its Related Parties (A) shall have, and the Administrative Agent, on behalf
of itself and each of its Related Parties, hereby disclaims, any duty to
ascertain or inquire as to whether or not a Bank has or has not limited its
access to Restricting Information, such Bank’s policies or procedures regarding
the safeguarding of material, nonpublic information or such Bank’s compliance
with applicable laws related thereto or (B) shall have, or incur, any liability
to any Loan Party or Bank or any of their respective Related Parties arising out
of or relating to the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties
providing or not providing Restricting Information to any Bank.
(ii) Each
Loan Party agrees that (A) all Communications it provides to the Administrative
Agent intended for delivery to the Banks whether by posting to the Approved
Electronic Platform or otherwise shall be clearly and conspicuously marked
“PUBLIC” if such Communications do not contain Restricting Information which, at
a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the
first page thereof, (B) by marking Communications “PUBLIC,” each Loan Party
shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent and the Banks to
treat such Communications as either publicly available information or not
material information (although, in this latter case, such Communications may
contain sensitive business information and, therefore, remain subject to the
confidentiality undertakings of this Section) with respect to such Loan Party or
its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws,
(C) all Communications marked “PUBLIC” may be delivered to all Banks and may be
made available through a portion of the Approved Electronic Platform designated
“Public Side Information,” and (D) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to
treat any Communications that are not marked “PUBLIC” as Restricting Information
and may post such Communications to a portion of the Approved Electronic
Platform not designated “Public Side Information.” Neither the
Administrative Agent nor any of its Affiliates shall be responsible for any
statement or other designation by a Loan Party regarding whether a Communication
contains or does not contain material non-public information with respect to any
of the Loan Parties or their securities nor shall the Administrative Agent or
any of its Affiliates incur any liability to any Loan Party, any Bank or any
other Person for any action taken by the Administrative Agent or any of its
Affiliates based upon such statement or designation, including any action as a
result of which Restricting Information is provided to a Bank that may decide
not to take access to Restricting Information. Nothing in this subsection (b)
shall modify or limit a Bank’s obligations under Section
8.14(a) with regard to Communications and the maintenance of the
confidentiality of or other treatment of Information.
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(c) Each
Bank acknowledges that circumstances may arise that require it to refer to
Communications that might contain Restricting
Information. Accordingly, each Bank agrees that it will nominate at
least one designee to receive Communications (including Restricting Information)
on its behalf and identify such designee (including such designee’s contact
information) on such Bank’s Administrative Questionnaire. Each Bank
agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time of such Bank’s
designee’s e-mail address to which notice of the availability of Restricting
Information may be sent by electronic transmission.
(d) Each
Bank acknowledges that Communications delivered hereunder and under the other
Loan Documents may contain Restricting Information and that such Communications
are available to all Banks generally. Each Bank that elects not to
take access to Restricting Information does so voluntarily and, by such
election, acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent and other Banks
may have access to Restricting Information that is not available to such
electing Bank. None of the Administrative Agent nor any Bank with
access to Restricting Information shall have any duty to disclose such
Restricting Information to such electing Bank or to use such Restricting
Information on behalf of such electing Bank, and shall not be liable for the
failure to so disclose or use, such Restricting Information.
(e) The
provisions of the foregoing subsections of this Section are designed to assist
the Administrative Agent, the Banks and the Loan Parties, in complying with
their respective contractual obligations and applicable law in circumstances
where certain Banks express a desire not to receive Restricting Information
notwithstanding that certain Communications hereunder or under the other Loan
Documents or other information provided to the Banks hereunder or thereunder may
contain Restricting Information. Neither the Administrative Agent nor
any of its Related Parties warrants or makes any other statement with respect to
the adequacy of such provisions to achieve such purpose nor does the
Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties warrant or make any other
statement to the effect that a Loan Party’s or Bank’s adherence to such
provisions will be sufficient to ensure compliance by such Loan Party or Bank
with its contractual obligations or its duties under applicable law in respect
of Restricting Information and each of the Banks and each Loan Party assumes the
risks associated therewith.
Section
8.15 Patriot Act Notice. Each
Bank and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Bank)
hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot
Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the
Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and
other information that will allow such Bank or the Administrative Agent, as
applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Patriot
Act. The Borrower shall provide, to the extent commercially
reasonable in light of applicable restrictions or limitations under contract or
law, regulation or governmental guidelines, such information and take such
actions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Banks in
order to assist the Administrative Agent and the Banks in maintaining compliance
with the Patriot Act.
Section
8.16 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH
PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED
ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A)
CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS
REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE
EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND
(B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO
ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS,
THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
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Section
8.17 Certain Matters with Respect to Existing
Credit Agreement. Each Bank which is a “Bank” under the Existing
Credit Agreement, in its capacity as a Bank as defined in the Existing Credit
Agreement and if applicable in its capacity as an “Issuing Bank” as defined in
the Existing Credit Agreement, (a) waives the requirement in Section 2.05 of the Existing
Credit Agreement that the Borrower provide prior notice of termination of Unused
Revolving Credit Commitments as therein defined, and (b) agrees that from
and after the Effective Date, the Existing Letters of Credit shall cease to be
“Letters of Credit” issued pursuant to the Existing Credit
Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by
their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above
written.
BORROWER:
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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CITIBANK,
N.A., as Administrative Agent and as a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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CITIBANK,
N.A., as an Issuing Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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THE
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC,
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as
an Issuing Bank and as an Issuing Bank and a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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COMPASS
BANK,
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as
an Issuing Bank and a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A.,
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as
an Issuing Bank and a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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REGIONS
BANK,
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as
an Issuing Bank and a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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NATIONAL
BANK OF KUWAIT, S.A.K., GRAND CAYMAN BRANCH,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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NATIONAL
BANK OF KUWAIT, S.A.K., NEW YORK BRANCH,
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as
an Issuing Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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SUMITOMO
MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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THE
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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AUSTRALIA
AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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ING
BANK N.V.,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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UBS
LOAN FINANCE LLC,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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LLOYDS
TSB BANK PLC,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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STANDARD
CHARTERED BANK,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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XXXXX
FARGO BANK, N.A.,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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ABU
DHABI INTERNATIONAL BANK INC.,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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BARCLAYS
BANK PLC,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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COMERICA
BANK,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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FIFTH
THIRD BANK,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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STATE
STREET BANK,
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as
a Bank
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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