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FIVE-YEAR COMPETITIVE ADVANCE AND
REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 10, 1995
among
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC.
THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN
and
CHEMICAL BANK, as Administrative Agent
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. DEFINITIONS
1.01. Defined Terms .......................................................... 1
1.02. Terms Generally ........................................................ 15
II. THE CREDITS
2.01. Commitments............................................................. 15
2.02. Loans .................................................................. 16
2.03. Competitive Bid Procedure .............................................. 17
2.04. Standby and Local Currency Borrowing Procedure.......................... 19
2.05. Conversion and Continuation of Standby Loans............................ 20
2.06. Fees ................................................................... 21
2.07. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt ................................... 21
2.08. Interest on Loans ...................................................... 22
2.09. Default Interest ....................................................... 22
2.10. Alternate Rate of Interest ............................................. 23
2.11. Termination and Reduction of Commitments................................ 23
2.12. Prepayment ............................................................. 24
2.13. Reserve Requirements; Change in Circumstances........................... 24
2.14. Change in Legality ..................................................... 25
2.15. Indemnity .............................................................. 26
2.16. Pro Rata Treatment ..................................................... 26
2.17. Sharing of Setoffs ..................................................... 27
2.18. Payments ............................................................... 27
2.19. Taxes .................................................................. 28
2.20. Duty to Mitigate; Assignment of Commitments
Under Certain Circumstances........................................... 30
2.21. Terms of Local Currency Facilities...................................... 31
2.22. Currency Fluctuations, Etc.............................................. 32
2.23. Letters of Credit....................................................... 34
III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.01. Organization; Powers ................................................... 37
3.02. Authorization .......................................................... 37
3.03. Enforceability ......................................................... 37
3.04. Governmental Approvals ................................................. 37
3.05. Financial Statements ................................................... 38
3.06. Litigation; Compliance with Laws........................................ 38
3.07. Federal Reserve Regulations............................................. 38
3.08. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding Company Act.............. 39
3.09. Use of Proceeds......................................................... 39
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3.10. Full Disclosure; No Material Misstatements ............................. 39
3.11. Taxes .................................................................. 39
3.12. Employee Pension Benefit Plans ......................................... 39
3.13. Distribution ........................................................... 39
IV. CONDITIONS OF LENDING
4.01. All Extensions of Credit................................................ 40
4.02. Effective Date.......................................................... 40
4.03. First Borrowing by Each Borrowing Subsidiary............................ 41
V. COVENANTS
5.01. Existence............................................................... 41
5.02. Business and Properties . .............................................. 41
5.03. Financial Statements, Reports, Etc...................................... 42
5.04. Insurance . . . . ..................................................... 42
5.05. Obligations and Taxes .................................................. 42
5.06. Litigation and Other Notices ........................................... 43
5.07. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and Inspections............... 43
5.08. Use of Proceeds......................................................... 43
5.09. Consolidations, Mergers, and Sales of Assets............................ 43
5.10. Limitations on Liens ................................................... 43
5.11. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.......................... 45
5.12. Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Interest Expense.................... 46
VI. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.............................................................. 46
VII. GUARANTEE...................................................................... 48
VIII. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT ...................................................... 49
IX. MISCELLANEOUS
9.01. Notices................................................................. 51
9.02. Survival of Agreement .................................................. 52
9.03. Binding Effect ......................................................... 52
9.04. Successors and Assigns ................................................. 52
9.05. Expenses; Indemnity .................................................... 54
9.06. Applicable Law ......................................................... 55
9.07. Waivers; Amendment ..................................................... 55
9.08. Entire Agreement ....................................................... 56
9.09. Severability ........................................................... 56
9.10. Counterparts ........................................................... 56
9.11. Headings ............................................................... 56
9.12. Right of Setoff ........................................................ 56
9.13. Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process............................. 56
9.14. Waiver of Jury Trial ................................................... 57
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9.15. Addition of Borrowing Subsidiaries...................................... 57
9.16. Conversion of Currencies................................................ 57
9.17 Execution............................................................... 58
EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
Exhibit A-1 Form of Competitive Bid Request
Exhibit A-2 Form of Notice of Competitive Bid Request
Exhibit A-3 Form of Competitive Bid
Exhibit A-4 Form of Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter
Exhibit A-5 Form of Standby Borrowing Request
Exhibit B Administrative Questionnaire
Exhibit C Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit D Form of Opinion of Counsel for ITT Industries, Inc.
Exhibit E Form of Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement
Exhibit F Form of Issuing Bank Agreement
Exhibit G Form of Local Currency Addendum
Exhibit H Form of Letter Agreement
Schedule 2.01 Commitments
Schedule 3.13 Assumptions
Schedule 5.10 Existing Liens
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FIVE-YEAR COMPETITIVE ADVANCE AND REVOLVING
CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT (as it may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified, the "Agreement")
dated as of November 10, 1995, among ITT INDUSTRIES,
INC., an Indiana corporation (the "Company"), each
Borrowing Subsidiary party hereto, the lenders listed
in Schedule 2.01 (together with their permitted
assigns, the "Lenders"), Chemical Bank, as issuing
bank (in such capacity, the initial "Issuing Bank")
and CHEMICAL BANK, a New York banking corporation, as
administrative agent for the Lenders (in such
capacity, the "Administrative Agent").
The Lenders have been requested to extend credit to the
Borrowers (such term and each other capitalized term used but not otherwise
defined herein having the meaning assigned to it in Article I) to enable them
to borrow on a standby revolving credit basis on and after the date hereof and
at any time and from time to time prior to the Maturity Date a principal amount
not in excess of $1,500,000,000 at any time outstanding. The Lenders have also
been requested to provide procedures pursuant to which the Borrowers may invite
the Lenders to bid on an uncommitted basis on short-term borrowings by the
Borrowers and issuances of letters of credit for the Borrowers. The proceeds
of such borrowings are to be used for the repurchase or repayment of
indebtedness and certain other payments to be made in connection with the
Distribution, as well as for working capital and other general corporate
purposes. The letters of credit shall support payment obligations incurred in
the ordinary course of business by the Borrowers. The Lenders are willing to
extend credit on the terms and subject to the conditions herein set forth.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings specified below:
"ABR Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.
"ABR Loan" shall mean any ABR Standby Loan .
"ABR Standby Loan" shall mean any Standby Loan bearing
interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.
"Administrative Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.06(b).
"Administrative Questionnaire" shall mean an Administrative
Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
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"Affiliate" shall mean, when used with respect to a specified
person, another person that directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by
or is under common control with the person specified.
"Aggregate Credit Exposure" shall mean the aggregate amount of
the Lenders' Credit Exposures.
"Agreement Currency" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 9.16(b).
"Alternate Base Rate" shall mean, for any day, a rate per
annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the
greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds
Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. For purposes hereof,
"Prime Rate" shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from
time to time by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate in effect at its
principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be
effective on the date such change is publicly announced as effective. "Federal
Funds Effective Rate" shall mean, for any day, the weighted average of the
rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as released on the next
succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such
rate is not so released for any day which is a Business Day, the arithmetic
average (rounded upwards to the next 1/100th of 1%), as determined by the
Administrative Agent, of the quotations for the day of such transactions
received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of
recognized standing selected by it. If for any reason the Administrative Agent
shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest
error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any
reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to
obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms thereof, the
Alternate Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause (b) of the
first sentence of this definition until the circumstances giving rise to such
inability no longer exist. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a
change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective
on the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds
Effective Rate, respectively.
"Applicable Percentage" shall mean on any date, with respect
to Eurocurrency Loans or with respect to the Facility Fee, as the case may be,
the applicable percentage set forth below under the caption "Eurocurrency
Spread" or "Facility Fee Percentage", as the case may be, based upon the
Ratings in effect on such date:
Category 1 Eurocurrency Spread Facility Fee Percentage
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AA- or higher by D&P; .115% .060%
AA- or higher by Fitch;
Aa3 or higher by Xxxxx'x;
AA- or higher by S&P
Category 2
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A+ or A by D&P; .130% .070%
A+ or A by Fitch;
A1 or A2 by Xxxxx'x;
A+ or A by S&P
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Category 3
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A- by D&P; .170% .080%
A- by Fitch;
A3 by Xxxxx'x;
A- by S&P
Category 4
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BBB+ by D&P; .205% .095%
BBB+ by Fitch;
Baa1 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB+ by S&P
Category 5
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BBB by D&P; .225% .125%
BBB by Fitch;
Baa2 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB by S&P
Category 6
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BBB- or lower by D&P; .250% .150%
BBB- or lower by Fitch;
Baa3 or lower by Xxxxx'x;
BBB- or lower by S&P
For purposes of the foregoing; (i) if the Ratings shall fall within different
Categories, then (A) if all the Ratings fall within two adjacent Categories,
the Applicable Percentage will be determined by reference to the superior (or
numerically lower) of such Categories unless one or more of the Ratings shall
fall within Category 6, in which case the Applicable Percentage shall be
determined by reference to Category 6, and (B) if the Ratings fall within more
than two Categories or within two Categories that are not adjacent, then one
Rating from each of the highest Category and the lowest Category in which
Ratings shall fall shall be excluded and the Applicable Percentage shall be
determined by reference to the superior (or numerically lower) of the remaining
Ratings unless one or both of such Ratings shall fall within Category 6, in
which case the Applicable Percentage shall be determined by reference to
Category 6, (ii) if only two Ratings exist, the Applicable Percentage shall be
based upon the lower (numerically higher) of the available Ratings, (iii) if
only one Rating exists, the Applicable Percentage will be based upon the lower
(numerically higher) of Category 5 and the Category corresponding to the
available Rating, (iv) if no Ratings exist, the Applicable Percentage shall be
based upon Category 6, and (v) if any Rating shall be changed (other than as a
result of a change in the rating system of the applicable Rating Agency), such
change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the
Rating Agency making such change. Each such change in the Applicable
Percentage shall apply to all outstanding Eurocurrency Loans and to L/C
Participation Fees and Facility Fees accruing during the period commencing on
the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding
the effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of any Rating
Agency shall change, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to amend
the references to specific ratings in this definition to reflect such changed
rating system.
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"Applicable Share" of any Lender at any time shall mean the
percentage of the Total Commitment represented by such Lender's Commitment. If
the Commitments shall be terminated pursuant to Article VI, the Applicable
Shares of the Lenders shall, subject only to assignments pursuant to Section
9.04, be based upon the Commitments in effect immediately prior to such
termination.
"Assignment and Acceptance" shall mean an assignment and
acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee in the form of Exhibit C.
"Available Commitment" shall mean, as to any Lender at any
time, an amount equal to such Lender's Commitment at such time minus the
aggregate of all such Lender's Local Currency Loans (Dollar Equivalent)
outstanding at such time.
"Board" shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System of the United States.
"Board of Directors" shall mean the Board of Directors of a
Borrower or any duly authorized committee thereof.
"Borrower" shall mean the Company or any Borrowing Subsidiary.
"Borrowing" shall mean a group of Loans of a single Type made
by the Lenders (or, in the case of a Competitive Borrowing, by the Lender or
Lenders whose Competitive Bids have been accepted pursuant to Section 2.03) on
a single date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
"Borrowing Date" shall mean any date on which a Borrowing is
made hereunder.
"Borrowing Subsidiary" shall mean any Subsidiary which shall
have executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent for distribution to
each Lender a Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement.
"Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement" shall mean an agreement, in
the form of Exhibit E hereto, duly executed by the Company and a Subsidiary.
"Business Day" shall mean any day (other than a day which is a
Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in the State of New York) on which banks are
open for business in New York City; provided, however, that, when used in
connection with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term "Business Day" shall also exclude
any day on which banks are not open for dealings in deposits in the applicable
currency in the London interbank market, and, when used in connection with
determining any date on which any amount is to be paid or made available in a
Local Currency, the term "Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which
commercial banks and foreign exchange markets are not open for business in the
principal financial center in the country of such Local Currency.
"Calculation Date" shall mean the last Business Day of each
calendar week.
"Capitalized Lease-Back Obligation" shall mean with respect to
a Principal Property, at any date as of which the same is to be determined, the
total net rental obligations of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary under a
lease of such Principal Property, entered into as part of an arrangement to
which the provisions of Section 5.11 are applicable (or would have been
applicable had such Restricted Subsidiary been a Restricted Subsidiary at the
time it entered into such lease), discounted to the date of computation at the
rate of interest per annum implicit in the lease (determined in accordance with
GAAP). The amount of the net rental obligation for any calendar year under any
lease shall be
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the sum of the rental and other payments required to be paid in such calendar
year by the lessee thereunder, not including, however, any amounts required to
be paid by such lessee (whether or not therein designated as rental or
additional rental) on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes,
assessments, water rates and similar charges.
A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred if (a)
any person or group of persons shall have acquired beneficial ownership of more
than 30% of the outstanding Voting Shares of the Company (within the meaning of
Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and
regulations thereunder), or (b) during any period of 12 consecutive months,
commencing after the Effective Date, individuals who on the first day of such
period were directors of the Company (together with any replacement or
additional directors who were nominated or elected by a majority of directors
then in office) cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Company.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the
same may be amended from time to time.
"Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the
commitment of such Lender hereunder as set forth as of the Effective Date in
Schedule 2.01 under the heading "Commitment" or in an Assignment and Acceptance
delivered by such Lender under Section 9.04 as such Lender's Commitment may be
permanently terminated or reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.11 or
pursuant to one or more assignments under Section 9.04. The Commitment of each
Lender shall automatically and permanently terminate on the Maturity Date if
not terminated earlier pursuant to the terms hereof.
"Competitive Bid" shall mean an offer by a Lender to make a
Competitive Loan pursuant to Section 2.03.
"Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter" shall mean a
notification made by a Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03(d) in the form of
Exhibit A-4.
"Competitive Bid Rate" shall mean, as to any Competitive Bid,
(i) in the case of a Eurocurrency Loan, the Margin, and (ii) in the case of a
Fixed Rate Loan, the fixed rate of interest offered by the Lender making such
Competitive Bid.
"Competitive Bid Request" shall mean a request made pursuant
to Section 2.03(a) in the form of Exhibit A-1.
"Competitive Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing consisting of a
Competitive Loan or concurrent Competitive Loans from the Lender or Lenders
whose Competitive Bids for such Borrowing have been accepted under the bidding
procedure described in Section 2.03.
"Competitive Loan" shall mean a Loan made pursuant to the
bidding procedure described in Section 2.03. Each Competitive Loan shall be a
Eurocurrency Competitive Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan.
"Competitive Loan Exposure" shall mean, with respect to any
Lender at any time, the sum of the aggregate principal amount of all
outstanding Competitive Loans made by such Lender.
"Consolidated EBITDA" shall mean, for any period, the sum of
(a) Consolidated Net Income, (b) provisions for taxes based on income, (c)
Consolidated Interest Expense, (d) total
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depreciation expense and (e) total amortization expense, all of the foregoing as
determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and the Subsidiaries in
accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" shall mean, for any period,
the gross interest expense of the Company and the Subsidiaries for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Net Income" shall mean, for any period, net
income or loss of the Company and the Subsidiaries for such period determined
on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" shall mean the total of all
assets appearing on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries, prepared in accordance with GAAP (and as of a date not
more than 90 days prior to the date as of which Consolidated Net Tangible
Assets are to be determined), less the sum of the following items as shown on
said consolidated balance sheet:
(i) the book amount of all segregated intangible assets,
including such items as good will, trademarks, trademark rights, trade
names, trade name rights, copyrights, patents, patent rights and
licenses and unamortized debt discount and expense less unamortized
debt premium;
(ii) all depreciation, valuation and other reserves;
(iii) current liabilities;
(iv) any minority interest in the shares of stock (other than
Preferred Stock) and surplus of Restricted Subsidiaries of the
Company;
(v) the investment of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Company;
(vi) the total indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries incurred in any manner to finance or recover the cost to
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of any physical property,
real or personal, which prior to or simultaneously with the creation
of such indebtedness shall have been leased by the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary to the United States of America or a department
or agency thereof at an aggregate rental, payable during that portion
of the initial term of such lease (without giving effect to any
options of renewal or extension) which shall be unexpired at the date
of the creation of such indebtedness, sufficient (taken together with
any amounts required to be paid by the lessee to the lessor upon any
termination of such lease) to pay in full at the stated maturity date
or dates thereof the principal of and the interest on such
indebtedness;
(vii) deferred income and deferred liabilities; and
(viii) other items deductible under GAAP.
"Credit Exposure" shall mean, with respect to any Lender at
any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Loans
of such Lender, plus the aggregate amount at such time of such Lender's L/C
Exposure.
"D&P" shall mean Duff & Xxxxxx Credit Rating Co. or any of its
successors.
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"Default" shall mean any event or condition which upon notice,
lapse of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.
"Distribution" shall mean the consummation of the transactions
described in the Proxy Statement.
"Dollars" or "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States
of America.
"Dollar Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Dollar
Loans.
"Dollar Equivalent" shall mean, on any date of determination,
with respect to any amount in any Local Currency, the equivalent in Dollars of
such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent using the Exchange Rate
with respect to such Local Currency then in effect as determined pursuant to
Section 2.22(a).
"Dollar Facility Excess" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 2.22(d).
"Dollar Facility Overage" shall mean an amount equal to the
excess of (a) the Total Commitment over (b) the aggregate amount of all Local
Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amounts (determined, if applicable, after
giving effect to any reduction therein made pursuant to Section 2.22(c)).
"Dollar Loan" shall mean any Loan denominated in Dollars.
"Dollar Standby Credit Excess" shall have the meaning assigned
to such term in Section 2.22(c).
"Dollar Standby Credit Overage" shall mean, with respect to
any Lender, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) such Lender's
Commitment over (b) the aggregate Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing
Amounts of such Lender with respect to all Local Currency Addenda to which such
Lender or any of its Affiliates is a party.
"Dollar Standby Extensions of Credit" shall mean, with respect
to any Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans
made by such Lender then outstanding.
"Effective Date" shall mean the first date on or after
November 10, 1995, on which the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 are
satisfied.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to time.
"ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any trade or business (whether or
not incorporated) that, together with the Company, is treated as a single
employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code, or, solely for purposes of
Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single
employer under Section 414 of the Code.
"ERISA Event" shall mean (a) any "reportable event", as
defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, with
respect to a Plan; (b) the adoption of any amendment to a Plan that would
require the provision of security pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) of the Code or
Section 307 of ERISA; (c) the existence with respect to any Plan of an
"accumulated funding
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deficiency" (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA),
whether or not waived; (d) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or
Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding
standard with respect to any Plan; (e) the incurrence of any liability under
Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan or the withdrawal
or partial withdrawal of the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates from any
Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) the receipt by the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to the
intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer
any Plan; (g) the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice
that Withdrawal Liability is being imposed or a determination that a
Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization,
within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA; and (h) the occurrence of a
"prohibited transaction" with respect to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a "disqualified person" (within the meaning of Section 4975) of
the Code, or with respect to which the Company or any such Subsidiary could
otherwise be liable.
"Eurocurrency Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurocurrency Loans.
"Eurocurrency Competitive Loan" shall mean any Competitive
Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.
"Eurocurrency Loan" shall mean any Eurocurrency Competitive
Loan, Eurocurrency Standby Loan or Eurocurrency Local Currency Loan.
"Eurocurrency Local Currency Loan" shall mean any Local
Currency Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO
Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II.
"Eurocurrency Standby Loan" shall mean any Standby Loan
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Article VI.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended.
"Exchange Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Local Currency
on a particular date, the rate at which such Local Currency may be exchanged
into Dollars, as set forth on such date on the Reuters currency page more
particularly described in the Local Currency Addendum for Loans to be made in
such Local Currency. In the event that such rate does not appear on any
Reuters currency page, the Exchange Rate with respect to such Local Currency
shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for
displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and
the Company or, in the absence of such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall
instead be the Administrative Agent's spot rate of exchange in the London
interbank market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of
such Local Currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 A.M., local
time, at such date for the purchase of Dollars with such Local Currency, for
delivery two Business Days later; provided, however, that if at the time of any
such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the
Administrative Agent may use any reasonable method it deems applicable to
determine such rate, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
"Existing Credit Facilities" shall mean the 364-Day
Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of
February 24, 1995 and the Five-Year Competitive
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Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of February 24,
1995, among Old ITT, certain lenders and Chemical Bank, as Administrative
Agent.
"Facility A Credit Agreement" shall mean the $1,500,000,000
364-Day Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated the
date hereof among the parties hereto, as such agreement may be amended,
supplemented or modified from time to time.
"Facility Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.06(a).
"Fair Value", when used with respect to property, shall mean
the fair value as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the
Company.
"Fees" shall mean the Facility Fee, the Administrative Fees,
the L/C Participation Fees and the Issuing Bank Fees.
"Financial Officer" of any corporation shall mean the chief
financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, associate or
assistant treasurer or director of treasury services of such corporation.
"Fitch" shall mean Fitch Investors Service, Inc. or any of its
successors.
"Fixed Rate Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Fixed Rate Loans.
"Fixed Rate Loan" shall mean any Competitive Loan bearing
interest at a fixed percentage rate per annum (the "Fixed Rate") (expressed in
the form of a decimal to no more than four decimal places) specified by the
Lender making such Loan in its Competitive Bid.
"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles,
applied on a consistent basis.
"Governmental Authority" shall mean any Federal, state, local
or foreign court or governmental agency, authority, instrumentality or
regulatory body.
"Guaranteed Obligations" shall mean the principal of and
interest on the Loans made to, and all other obligations, monetary or otherwise
(including fee and reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit)
of, the Borrowing Subsidiaries hereunder or under any Local Currency Addendum.
"Indebtedness" of any person shall mean all indebtedness
representing money borrowed or the deferred purchase price of property (other
than trade accounts payable) or any capitalized lease obligation, which in any
case is created, assumed, incurred or guaranteed in any manner by such
corporation or for which such corporation is responsible or liable (whether by
agreement to purchase indebtedness of, or to supply funds to or invest in,
others or otherwise).
"Interest Payment Date" shall mean (a) with respect to any
Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable thereto, (b) with respect
to a Eurocurrency Loan with an Interest Period of more than three months'
duration or a Fixed Rate Loan with an Interest Period of more than 90 days'
duration, each day that would have been an Interest Payment Date for such Loan
had successive Interest Periods of three months' duration or 90 days' duration,
as the case may be, been applicable to such Loan and, in addition, the date of
any prepayment of each Loan or conversion of such Loan to a
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Loan of a different Type and (c) with respect to any Local Currency Loan, such
days as shall be specified in the applicable Local Currency Addendum.
"Interest Period" shall mean (a) as to any Eurocurrency
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing or on the last
day of the immediately preceding Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing,
as the case may be, and ending on the numerically corresponding day (or, if
there is no numerically corresponding day, on the last day) in the calendar
month that is 1, 2, 3 or 6 months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect, (b) as
to any ABR Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing or on
the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period applicable to such
Borrowing, as the case may be, and ending on the earliest of (i) the next
succeeding March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31, (ii) the Maturity
Date, and (iii) the date such Borrowing is converted to a Borrowing of a
different Type in accordance with Section 2.05 or repaid or prepaid in
accordance with Section 2.07 or Section 2.12, (c) as to any Fixed Rate
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on
the date specified in the Competitive Bids in which the offers to make the
Fixed Rate Loans comprising such Borrowing were extended, which shall not be
earlier than seven days after the date of such Borrowing or later than 360 days
after the date of such Borrowing and (d) as to any Local Currency Borrowing,
such periods as shall be specified in the applicable Local Currency Addendum;
provided, however, that if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a
Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding
Business Day unless, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans only, such next
succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case
such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day. Interest
shall accrue from and including the first day of an Interest Period to but
excluding the last day of such Interest Period.
"Issuing Bank" shall mean Chemical Bank and any other Lender
that may become an Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.23(i) or 2.23(j).
"Issuing Bank Agreement" shall mean an agreement in
substantially the form of Exhibit F.
"Issuing Bank Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.06(c).
"Judgment Currency" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 9.16(b).
"L/C Commitment" shall mean, with respect to any Issuing Bank,
the Commitment of such Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit pursuant to
Section 2.23.
"L/C Disbursement" shall mean a payment or disbursement made
by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
"L/C Exposure" shall mean at any time the sum of (a) the
aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus
(b) the aggregate principal amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet
been reimbursed at such time. The L/C Exposure of any Lender at any time shall
mean its Applicable Share of the aggregate L/C Exposure at such time.
"L/C Participation Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.06(c).
"Letter of Credit" shall mean any letter of credit issued
pursuant to Section 2.23.
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"LIBO Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurocurrency
Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards,
if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the rate at which dollar
deposits or deposits in the applicable Local Currency approximately equal in
principal amount to (i) in the case of a Standby Borrowing that is a
Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Administrative Agent's portion of such Eurocurrency
Borrowing, (ii) in the case of a Competitive Borrowing, a principal amount that
would have been the Administrative Agent's portion of such Competitive
Borrowing had such Competitive Borrowing been a Standby Borrowing and (iii) in
the case of a Local Currency Borrowing, such Borrowing, and for a maturity
comparable to such Interest Period, are offered to the principal London office
of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London
interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days
prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.
"Lien" shall mean, with respect to any property or asset, any
mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, security interest charge or other
encumbrance on, of or in such property or asset.
"Loan" shall mean a Competitive Loan, a Local Currency Loan or
a Standby Loan, whether made as a Eurocurrency Loan, an ABR Loan or a Fixed
Rate Loan, as permitted hereby.
"Loan Documents" shall mean this Agreement, the Letters of
Credit, the Borrowing Subsidiary Agreements, any Issuing Bank Agreements, the
Local Currency Addenda and promissory, if any, issued pursuant to Section
9.04(i).
"Local Currency" shall mean any currency other than Dollars as
to which an Exchange Rate may be calculated.
"Local Currency Addendum" shall mean a local currency addendum
between a Borrower and one or more Local Currency Lenders, substantially in the
form of Exhibit G, and the documentation referred to therein, to the extent not
inconsistent with this Agreement.
"Local Currency Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Local Currency Loans.
"Local Currency Credit Event" shall mean each Borrowing under a
Local Currency Addendum.
"Local Currency Equivalent" shall mean, on any date of
determination, with respect to any amount in Dollars, the equivalent in the
relevant Local Currency of such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent
using the Exchange Rate with respect to such Local Currency then in effect as
determined pursuant to Section 2.22(a).
"Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount" shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(b).
"Local Currency Lender" shall mean any Lender (or any
Affiliate, branch or agency thereof) party to a Local Currency Addendum. In
the event any agency or Affiliate of a Lender shall be party to a Local
Currency Addendum, such agency, branch or Affiliate shall, to the extent of any
commitment extended and any Loans made by it, have all the rights of such
Lender hereunder; provided, that such Lender shall continue to the exclusion of
such agency or Affiliate to have all the voting and consensual rights vested in
it by the terms hereof.
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"Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amount" shall have
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.21(b).
"Local Currency Loan" shall mean any Loan, denominated in a
currency other than Dollars, made to a Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b) and
a Local Currency Addendum.
"Local Currency Loans (Dollar Equivalent)" shall mean the
Dollar Equivalent of the relevant Local Currency Loans.
"Local Currency Standby Borrowing" shall mean any Standby
Borrowing comprised of Local Currency Loans.
"Margin" shall mean, as to any Eurocurrency Competitive Loan,
the margin (expressed as a percentage rate per annum in the form of a decimal
to no more than four decimal places) to be added to or subtracted from the LIBO
Rate in order to determine the interest rate applicable to such Loan, as
specified in the Competitive Bid relating to such Loan.
"Margin Regulations" shall mean Regulations G, T, U and X of
the Board as from time to time in effect, and all official rulings and
interpretations thereunder or thereof.
"Margin Stock" shall have the meaning given such term under
Regulation U of the Board.
"Material Adverse Effect" shall mean a materially adverse
effect on the business, assets, operations or condition, financial or
otherwise, of the Company and Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"Maturity Date" shall mean the fifth anniversary of the date
hereof.
"Moody's" shall mean Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. or any of
its successors.
"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a multiemployer plan as
defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate (other than one considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to
subsection (m) or (o) of Code Section 414) is making or accruing an obligation
to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made
or accrued an obligation to make contributions.
"Notice of Competitive Bid Request" shall mean a notification
made pursuant to Section 2.03(a) in the form of Exhibit A-2.
"Old ITT" shall mean ITT Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
referred to and defined in ERISA.
"person" shall mean any natural person, corporation, limited
liability company, business trust, joint venture, association, company,
partnership or government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Plan" shall mean any employee pension benefit plan (other
than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or
Section 412 of the Code or Section 307 of
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ERISA, and in respect of which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if
such plans were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be)
an "employer" as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
"Preferred Stock" shall mean any capital stock entitled by its
terms to a preference (a) as to dividends or (b) upon a distribution of assets.
"Principal Property" shall mean any single manufacturing or
processing facility owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary having a
gross book value in excess of 2% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, except
any such facility or portion thereof which the board of directors of the
Company by resolution declares is not of material importance to the total
business conducted by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as an
entirety.
"Proxy Statement" shall mean the Proxy Statement of Old ITT
dated August 30, 1995 and filed with the SEC under the Exchange Act.
"Rating Agencies" shall mean D&P, Fitch, Moody's and S&P.
"Ratings" shall mean the ratings from time to time established
by the Rating Agencies for senior, unsecured, non-credit-enhanced long-term
debt of the Company.
"Register" shall have the meaning given such term in Section
9.04(d).
"Regulation D" shall mean Regulation D of the Board as from
time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder
or thereof.
"Reportable Event" shall mean any reportable event as defined
in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a
Plan (other than a Plan maintained by an ERISA Affiliate that is considered an
ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Code Section 414).
"Required Lenders" shall mean, at any time, Lenders having
Commitments representing at least 66-2/3% of the Total Commitment or, for
purposes of acceleration pursuant to clause (ii) of Article VI, Lenders holding
Loans and L/C Exposures representing at least 66-2/3% of the aggregate
principal amount of the Loans outstanding and L/C Exposures. For purposes of
determining the Required Lenders, any amounts denominated in a Local Currency
shall be translated into Dollars at the Exchange Rates in effect on the first
Reset Date to occur in each calendar month.
"Reset Date" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.22(a).
"Responsible Officer" of any corporation shall mean any
executive officer or Financial Officer of such corporation and any other
officer or similar official thereof responsible for the administration of the
obligations of such corporation in respect of this Agreement.
"Restricted Subsidiary" shall mean any Subsidiary other than an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"S&P" shall mean Standard and Poor's Ratings Services, a
division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. or any of its successors.
"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"Standby Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Standby Loans from each of the Lenders.
"Standby Borrowing Request" shall mean a request made pursuant
to Section 2.04 in the form of Exhibit A-5.
"Standby Credit Exposure" shall mean, with respect to any
Lender at any time, the sum of the aggregate principal amount at such time of
all outstanding Standby Loans of such Lender and the aggregate Dollar
Equivalent of the principal amount of all outstanding Local Currency Loans of
such Lender (and each agency, branch or Affiliate of such Lender acting as a
Local Currency Lender).
"Standby Loans" shall mean the revolving loans made pursuant
to Section 2.04(a). Each Standby Loan shall be in Dollars and shall be a
Eurocurrency Standby Loan or an ABR Loan.
"subsidiary" shall mean, with respect to any person (the
"parent"), any corporation, association or other business entity of which
securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the
ordinary voting power are, at the time as of which any determination is being
made, owned or controlled by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the
parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
"Subsidiary" shall mean a subsidiary of the Company.
"Total Commitment" shall mean, at any time, the aggregate
amount of Commitments of all the Lenders, as in effect at such time.
"Transactions" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.02.
"Type", when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing, shall
refer to the Rate by reference to which interest on such Loan or on the Loans
comprising such Borrowing is determined and the currency in which such Loan or
the Loans comprising such Borrowing are denominated. For purposes hereof,
"Rate" shall include the LIBO Rate, the Alternate Base Rate and the Fixed Rate,
and currency shall include Dollars and any Local Currency permitted hereunder.
"Unrestricted Subsidiary" shall mean (a) any Subsidiary which
has been designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by resolution of the board of
directors of the Company (which resolution has been communicated in a notice
delivered by the Company to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the
Lenders) as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, other than any such Subsidiary as to
which such a designation has been rescinded by resolution of said board of
directors and not thereafter, or after some subsequent such rescission,
restored by resolution of said board, or (b) any Subsidiary 50% or less of the
Voting Shares of which is owned directly by the Company and/or one or more
Restricted Subsidiaries. A Subsidiary may not be designated as (or otherwise
permitted to become) an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless, immediately after such
Subsidiary becomes an Unrestricted Subsidiary, such Subsidiary would not own
any capital stock of, or hold any indebtedness of, any Restricted Subsidiary.
A designation as an Unrestricted Subsidiary may not be rescinded (or an
Unrestricted Subsidiary otherwise permitted to become a Restricted Subsidiary)
unless such Subsidiary (i) is not a party to any lease which it would have been
prohibited by this Agreement from entering into had it been a Restricted
Subsidiary at the time it entered into such lease, unless (x) such Subsidiary
had not been a Restricted Subsidiary prior to its entering into such lease, or
(y) the property subject to such lease shall be owned by the Company and/or one
or more Subsidiaries, or (z) such Subsidiary would not be prohibited by this
Agreement from entering into such lease immediately after it becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary, and (ii) does not have outstanding upon any of its
property any mortgage, pledge
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or other lien which it would be prohibited by this Agreement from creating,
suffering to be created, or assuming, immediately after it becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary.
"Voting Shares" shall mean, as to a particular corporation or
other person, outstanding shares of stock or other equity interests of any
class of such person entitled to vote in the election of directors, or
otherwise to participate in the direction of the management and policies, of
such person, excluding shares or interests entitled so to vote or participate
only upon the happening of some contingency.
SECTION 1.02. Terms Generally. The definitions in Section
1.01 shall apply equally to both 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". All references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits
and Schedules shall be deemed references to Articles and Sections of, and
Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise
require. 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, however, that for purposes of
determining compliance with any covenant set forth in Article V, such terms
shall be construed in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof
applied on a basis consistent with the application used in preparing the
Company's audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.05.
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and
conditions and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set
forth, each Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Standby Loans to
the Borrowers, at any time and from time to time on and after the date hereof
and until the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the
Commitment of such Lender.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions and relying upon the
representations and warranties set forth herein and in the applicable Local
Currency Addendum, each Local Currency Lender agrees, severally and not
jointly, to make Local Currency Loans to the Borrowers at any time and from
time to time on and after the execution of the applicable Local Currency
Addendum and until earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the
Commitment (or the commitment under such Local Currency Addendum) of such Local
Currency Lender.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Agreement, in no event may Standby Loans or Local Currency Loans be
borrowed under this Article II if, after giving effect thereto (and to any
concurrent repayment or prepayment of Loans), (i) the sum of the aggregate
Standby Credit Exposures, the aggregate Competitive Loan Exposures and the
aggregate L/C Exposures would exceed the Total Commitment then in effect, (ii)
the sum of the Standby Credit Exposure and the L/C Exposure of any Lender would
exceed such Lender's Commitment or (iii) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Local Currency Loans of any Local Currency
Lender denominated in a specified Local Currency would exceed the applicable
Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount or any Local Currency Lender
Maximum Borrowing Amount.
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Within the foregoing limits, the Borrowers may borrow, pay or
prepay and reborrow Standby Loans and Local Currency Loans hereunder, on and
after the Effective Date and prior to the Maturity Date, subject to the terms,
conditions and limitations set forth herein.
SECTION 2.02. Loans. (a) Each Standby Loan shall be made as
part of a Borrowing consisting of Standby Loans made by the Lenders ratably in
accordance with their respective Available Commitments; provided, however, that
the failure of any Lender to make any Standby Loan shall not in itself relieve
any other Lender of its obligation to lend hereunder (it being understood,
however, that no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other
Lender to make any Loan required to be made by such other Lender). Each Local
Currency Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Local Currency
Loans made by the Local Currency Lenders ratably in accordance with the
applicable Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amounts, provided, however,
that the failure of any Local Currency Lender to make any Local Currency Loan
shall not in itself relieve any other Local Currency Lender of its obligation
to lend hereunder (it being understood, however, that no Local Currency Lender
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Local Currency Lender to make
any Local Currency Loan required to be made by such other Local Currency
Lender). Each Competitive Loan shall be made in accordance with the procedures
set forth in Section 2.03. The Loans comprising any Borrowing shall be (i) in
the case of Competitive Loans, in an aggregate principal amount which is an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000, (ii) in the case
of Standby Loans, in an aggregate principal amount which is an integral
multiple of $5,000,000 and not less than $20,000,000 (or an aggregate principal
amount equal to the remaining balance of the Available Commitments) and (iii)
in the case of Local Currency Loans, in an aggregate principal amount which
complies with the requirements set forth in the applicable Local Currency
Addendum. All Standby Loans and Competitive Loans made pursuant to this
Article II shall be denominated in Dollars.
(b) Each Competitive Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of
Eurocurrency Competitive Loans or Fixed Rate Loans, and each Standby Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Eurocurrency Standby Loans or ABR Loans, as the
Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.04, as applicable. Each
Lender may at its option make any Eurocurrency Loan by causing any domestic or
foreign branch, agency or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided
that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the
Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time. For
purposes of the foregoing, Loans having different Interest Periods, regardless
of whether they commence on the same date, shall be considered separate Loans.
(c) Subject to Section 2.05 and, in the case of any Local
Currency Loan, to any alternative procedures set forth in the applicable Local
Currency Addendum, each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder
on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
the Administrative Agent in New York, New York, not later than 12:00 noon, New
York City time, and the Administrative Agent shall by 2:00 p.m., New York City
time, credit the amounts so received to the account or accounts specified from
time to time in one or more notices delivered by the Company to the
Administrative Agent or, if a Borrowing shall not occur on such date because
any condition precedent herein specified shall not have been met, return the
amounts so received to the respective Lenders. Competitive Loans shall be made
by the Lender or Lenders whose Competitive Bids therefor are accepted pursuant
to Section 2.03 in the amounts so accepted. Standby Loans and Local Currency
Loans shall be made by the Lenders and the Local Currency Lenders, as
applicable, pro rata in accordance with Section 2.16. Unless the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date
(or, in the case of ABR Borrowings, on the date) of any Borrowing that such
Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's
portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender
has made such
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portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in
accordance with this paragraph (c) and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance
upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a
corresponding amount in the required currency. If and to the extent that such
Lender shall not have made such portion available to the Administrative Agent,
such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay to the Administrative
Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest
thereon in such currency, for each day from the date such amount is made
available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate
applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the
case of such Lender, a rate determined by the Administrative Agent to represent
its cost of overnight funds. If such Lender shall repay to the Administrative
Agent such corresponding amount, such amount shall constitute such Lender's Loan
as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement.
(d) Each Competitive Loan shall be a Eurocurrency
Competitive Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan. Each Standby Loan shall be a
Eurocurrency Standby Loan or an ABR Standby Loan. Each Local Currency Loan
shall be a Eurocurrency Local Currency Loan or shall bear interest at a rate
specified in the applicable Loan Currency Addendum.
(e) If any Issuing Bank shall not have received from a
Borrower the payment required to be made by Section 2.23(e) within two hours
after such Borrower shall have received notice from such Issuing Bank that
payment of a draft presented under any Letter of Credit will be made, or, if
the Borrower shall have received such notice later than 10:00 a.m., New York
City time, on any Business Day, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time,
on the immediately following Business Day, as provided in Section 2.23(e), such
Issuing Bank will promptly notify the Administrative Agent of the L/C
Disbursement and the Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of
such L/C Disbursement and its Applicable Share thereof. Each Lender shall pay
by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent not
later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on such date (or, if such Lender
shall have received such notice later than 12:00 (noon), New York City time, on
any day, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the immediately
following Business Day), an amount equal to such Lender's Applicable Share of
such L/C Disbursement (it being understood that such amount shall be deemed to
constitute an ABR Loan of such Lender and shall bear interest as provided
herein), and the Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the Issuing Bank any
amounts so received by it from the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will
promptly pay to the Issuing Bank any amounts received by it from the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.23(e) prior to the time that any Lender makes any payment
pursuant to this paragraph 2.02(e); any such amounts received by the
Administrative Agent thereafter will be promptly remitted by the Administrative
Agent to the Lenders that shall have made such payments and to the Issuing
Bank, as their interests may appear. If any Lender shall not have made its
Applicable Share of such L/C Disbursement available to the Administrative Agent
as provided above, such Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to pay
interest on such amount, for each day from and including the date such amount
is required to be paid in accordance with this paragraph to but excluding the
date such amount is paid, to the Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of the
Borrowers, a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable to Loans
pursuant to Section 2.08, and (ii) in the case of such Lender, for the first
such day, the Federal Funds Effective Rate, and for each day thereafter, the
Alternate Base Rate.
SECTION 2.03. Competitive Bid Procedure. (a) In order to
request Competitive Bids, a Borrower (the "Applicable Borrower") shall hand
deliver or telecopy to the Administrative Agent a duly completed Competitive
Bid Request in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto, to be received by the
Administrative Agent (i) in the case of a Eurocurrency Competitive Loan, not
later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, four Business Days before a proposed
Competitive Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later
than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, one
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Business Day before a proposed Competitive Borrowing. No ABR Loan shall be
requested in, or made pursuant to, a Competitive Bid Request. A Competitive Bid
Request that does not conform substantially to the format of Exhibit A-1 may be
rejected in the Administrative Agent's sole discretion, and the Administrative
Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of such rejection by telecopy. Each
Competitive Bid Request shall refer to this Agreement and specify (w) whether
the Borrowing then being requested is to be a Eurocurrency Borrowing or a Fixed
Rate Borrowing, (x) the date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day)
and the aggregate principal amount thereof which shall be in a minimum principal
amount of $10,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $5,000,000 and (y) the
Interest Period with respect thereto (which may not end after the Maturity
Date). Promptly after its receipt of a Competitive Bid Request that is not
rejected as aforesaid, the Administrative Agent shall telecopy to the Lenders a
Notice of Competitive Bid Request inviting the Lenders to bid, on the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, to make Competitive Loans.
(b) Each Lender invited to bid may, in its sole discretion,
make one or more Competitive Bids to the Applicable Borrower responsive to such
Borrower's Competitive Bid Request. Each Competitive Bid by a Lender must be
received by the Administrative Agent by telecopy, in the form of Exhibit A-3
hereto, (i) in the case of a Eurocurrency Competitive Loan, not later than 9:30
a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before a proposed Competitive
Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 9:30
a.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing. A
Lender may submit multiple bids to the Administrative Agent. Competitive Bids
that do not conform substantially to the format of Exhibit A-3 may be rejected
by the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Lender making such nonconforming bid of such rejection as soon as practicable.
Each Competitive Bid shall refer to this Agreement and specify (x) the
principal amount (which shall be in a minimum principal amount of $5,000,000
and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and which may equal the entire
principal amount of the Competitive Borrowing requested) of the Competitive
Loan or Loans that the Lender is willing to make, (y) the Competitive Bid Rate
or Rates at which the Lender is prepared to make the Competitive Loan or Loans
and (z) the Interest Period and the last day thereof. If any Lender invited to
bid shall elect not to make a Competitive Bid, such Lender shall so notify the
Administrative Agent by telecopy (I) in the case of Eurocurrency Competitive
Loans, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before
a proposed Competitive Borrowing, and (II) in the case of Fixed Rate Loans, not
later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed Competitive
Borrowing; provided, however, that failure by any Lender to give such notice
shall not cause such Lender to be obligated to make any Competitive Loan as
part of such Competitive Borrowing. A Competitive Bid submitted by a Lender
pursuant to this paragraph (b) shall be irrevocable.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall as promptly as practicable
notify the Borrower, by telecopy, of all the Competitive Bids made, the
Competitive Bid Rate and the principal amount of each Competitive Loan in
respect of which a Competitive Bid was made and the identity of the Lender that
made each bid. The Administrative Agent shall send a copy of all Competitive
Bids to the Borrower for its records as soon as practicable after completion of
the bidding process set forth in this Section 2.03.
(d) The Borrower may in its sole and absolute discretion,
subject only to the provisions of this paragraph (d), accept or reject any
Competitive Bid referred to in paragraph (c) above. The Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent by telephone, confirmed by telecopy in the form of a
Competitive Bid Accept/Reject Letter, whether and to what extent it has decided
to accept or reject any of or all the bids referred to in paragraph (c) above
not more than one hour after it shall have been notified of such bids by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to such paragraph (c); provided, however, that
(i) the failure of the Borrower to give such notice shall be deemed to be a
rejection of all the bids referred to in paragraph (c) above, (ii) the Borrower
shall not accept a bid made at a particular
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Competitive Bid Rate if it has decided to reject a bid made at a lower
Competitive Bid Rate, (iii) the aggregate amount of the Competitive Bids
accepted by the Borrower shall not exceed the principal amount specified in the
Competitive Bid Request, (iv) if the Borrower shall accept a bid or bids made at
a particular Competitive Bid Rate but the amount of such bid or bids shall cause
the total amount of bids to be accepted to exceed the amount specified in the
Competitive Bid Request, then the Borrower shall accept a portion of such bid or
bids in an amount equal to the amount specified in the Competitive Bid Request
less the amount of all other Competitive Bids accepted with respect to such
Competitive Bid Request, which acceptance, in the case of multiple bids at such
Competitive Bid Rate, shall be made pro rata in accordance with the amount of
each such bid at such Competitive Bid Rate, and (v) except pursuant to clause
(iv) above, no bid shall be accepted for a Competitive Loan unless such
Competitive Loan is in a minimum principal amount of $5,000,000 and an integral
multiple of $1,000,000; provided further, however, that if a Competitive Loan
must be in an amount less than $5,000,000 because of the provisions of clause
(iv) above, such Competitive Loan may be for a minimum of $1,000,000 or any
integral multiple thereof, and in calculating the pro rata allocation of
acceptances of portions of multiple bids at a particular Competitive Bid Rate
pursuant to clause (iv) the amounts shall be rounded to integral multiples of
$1,000,000 in a manner which shall be in the discretion of the Borrower. A
notice given pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall be irrevocable.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
bidding Lender whether or not its Competitive Bid has been accepted (and if so,
in what amount and at what Competitive Bid Rate) by telecopy, and each
successful bidder will thereupon become bound, subject to the other applicable
conditions hereof, to make the Competitive Loan in respect of which its bid has
been accepted.
(f) No Competitive Borrowing shall be requested or made
hereunder if after giving effect thereto any of the conditions set forth in
paragraph (c) of Section 2.01 would not be met.
(g) If the Administrative Agent shall elect to submit a
Competitive Bid in its capacity as a Lender, it shall submit such bid directly
to the Applicable Borrower one quarter of an hour earlier than the latest time
at which the other Lenders are required to submit their bids to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to paragraph (b) above.
(h) All notices required by this Section 2.03 shall be given
in accordance with Section 9.01.
SECTION 2.04. Standby and Local Currency Borrowing Procedure.
(a) In order to request a Standby Borrowing, a Borrower shall hand deliver or
telecopy to the Administrative Agent a duly completed Standby Borrowing Request
in the form of Exhibit A-5 (i) in the case of a Eurocurrency Standby Loan, not
later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time (or, if the Standby Borrowing request
is delivered or telecopied to the Administrative Agent in London, 9:30 a.m.,
London time), three Business Days before such Borrowing, and (ii) in the case
of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the day
of such Borrowing. No Fixed Rate Loan shall be requested or made pursuant to a
Standby Borrowing Request. Such notice shall be irrevocable and shall in each
case specify (A) whether the Borrowing then being requested is to be a
Eurocurrency Standby Loan or an ABR Borrowing; (B) the date of such Standby
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and the amount thereof; and (C) if
such Borrowing is to be a Eurocurrency Standby Loan, the Interest Period with
respect thereto, which shall not end after the Maturity Date. If no election
as to the Type of Standby Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the
requested Standby Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period
with respect to any Eurocurrency Standby is specified in any such notice, then
the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's
duration. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
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Agreement to the contrary, no Standby Borrowing shall be requested if the
Interest Period with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly advise each of the Lenders of any notice
given pursuant to this Section 2.04 and of each Lender's portion of the
requested Borrowing.
(b) In order to request a Local Currency Borrowing, a
Borrower shall give the notice required under the applicable Local Currency
Addendum and shall simultaneously deliver a copy of such notice to the
Administrative Agent.
SECTION 2.05. Conversion and Continuation of Standby Loans.
Each Borrower shall have the right at any time upon prior irrevocable notice to
the Administrative Agent (i) not later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on
the day of the conversion, to convert all or any part of any Eurocurrency
Standby Loan into an ABR Standby Loan, and (ii) not later than 10:30 a.m., New
York City time, three Business Days prior to conversion or continuation, to
convert any ABR Standby Loan into a Eurocurrency Standby Loan or to continue
any Eurocurrency Standby Loan as a Eurocurrency Standby Loan for an additional
Interest Period, subject in each case to the following:
(a) if less than all the outstanding principal amount of any
Standby Borrowing shall be converted or continued, the aggregate
principal amount of the Standby Borrowing converted or continued shall
be an integral multiple of $5,000,000 and not less than $20,000,000;
(b) accrued interest on a Standby Borrowing (or portion
thereof) being converted shall be paid by the Borrower at the time of
conversion;
(c) if any Eurocurrency Standby Loan is converted at a time
other than the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the
Borrower shall pay, upon demand, any amounts due to the Lenders
pursuant to Section 2.15;
(d) any portion of a Standby Borrowing maturing or required to
be repaid in less than one month may not be converted into or
continued as a Eurocurrency Standby Loan;
(e) any portion of a Eurocurrency Standby Loan which cannot be
continued as a Eurocurrency Standby Loan by reason of clause (d) above
shall be automatically converted at the end of the Interest Period in
effect for such Eurocurrency Standby Loan into an ABR Borrowing;
(f) no Interest Period may be selected for any Eurocurrency
Standby Borrowing that would end later than the Maturity Date; and
(g) at any time when there shall have occurred and be
continuing any Default or Event of Default, no Standby Loan may be
converted into or continued as a Eurocurrency Standby Loan.
Each notice pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall be irrevocable
and shall refer to this Agreement and specify (i) the identity and amount of
the Standby Borrowing to be converted or continued, (ii) whether such Standby
Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Standby Loan or
an ABR Standby Loan, (iii) if such notice requests a conversion, the date of
such conversion (which shall be a Business Day) and (iv) if such Standby
Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Standby Loan,
the Interest Period with respect thereto. If no Interest Period is specified
in any such notice with respect to any conversion to or continuation as a
Eurocurrency Standby Loan, the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an
Interest Period of one
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month's duration. If no notice shall have been given in accordance with this
Section 2.05 to convert or continue any Standby Borrowing, such Standby
Borrowing shall, at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto (unless
repaid pursuant to the terms hereof), automatically be continued into a new
Interest Period as an ABR Standby Loan.
SECTION 2.06. Fees. (a) The Company agrees to pay to each
Lender, through the Administrative Agent, on each March 31, June 30, September
30 and December 31 (with the first payment being due on December 31, 1995) and
on each date on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated as
provided herein, a facility fee (a "Facility Fee"), at a rate per annum equal
to the Applicable Percentage from time to time in effect on the amount of the
Commitment of such Lender, whether used or unused, during the preceding quarter
(or other period commencing on the Effective Date, or ending with the Maturity
Date or any date on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated).
All Facility Fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days
elapsed in a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be. The Facility Fee due
to each Lender shall commence to accrue on the Effective Date, and shall cease
to accrue on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the
Commitment of such Lender as provided herein.
(b) The Company agrees to pay the Administrative Agent, for
its own account, the administrative and other fees separately agreed to by the
Company and the Administrative Agent (the "Administrative Fees").
(c) The Company agrees to pay (i) to each Lender, through the
Administrative Agent, on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31
and on the date on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated as
provided herein, a fee (an "L/C Participation Fee") calculated on such Lender's
average daily L/C Exposure (excluding the portion thereof attributable to
unreimbursed L/C Disbursements) during the preceding quarter (or shorter period
commencing with the Effective Date or ending with the Maturity Date or the date
on which the Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated) at a rate equal to
the Applicable Percentage from time to time applicable for purposes of
determining the interest rate on Borrowings comprised of Eurocurrency Loans
pursuant to Section 2.08, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank with respect to each
Letter of Credit the fees agreed upon by the Company and such Issuing Bank in
the applicable Issuing Bank Agreement plus, in connection with the issuance,
amendment or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any L/C Disbursement, the
Issuing Bank's customary documentary and processing charges (collectively, the
"Issuing Bank Fees"). All L/C Participation Fees and Issuing Bank Fees shall be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360
days. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of any Letter of Credit that
will expire later than the first anniversary of the issuance, amendment, renewal
or extension thereof, the L/C Participation Fee and Issuing Bank Fees shall be
increased by an amount to be agreed upon prior to such issuance, amendment,
renewal or extension by the applicable Borrower, the applicable Issuing Bank and
the Required Lenders.
(d) All Fees shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately
available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, if and as
appropriate, among the Lenders except that the Issuing Bank Fees shall be paid
directly to the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative Fees shall be
paid pursuant to paragraph (b) above. Once paid, none of the Fees shall be
refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.07. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a)
Each Borrower hereby agrees that the outstanding principal balance of each
Standby Loan or Local Currency Loan shall be payable on the Maturity Date
(unless an earlier date is specified in the Local Currency Addendum relating to
such Local Currency Loan) and that the outstanding principal balance of each
Competitive
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Loan shall be payable on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
Each Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal balance thereof as
set forth in Section 2.08.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness to such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such Lender from time to time, including the
amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to
time under this Agreement.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which
it will record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the currency of each
Loan, the Borrower of each Loan, the Type of each Loan made and the Interest
Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and
payable or to become due and payable from each Borrower to each Lender
hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent
hereunder from each Borrower and each Lender's share thereof.
(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to
paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section 2.07 shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender
or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein
shall not in any manner affect the obligations of the Borrowers to repay the
Loans in accordance with their terms.
SECTION 2.08. Interest on Loans. (a) Subject to the
provisions of Section 2.09, the Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing
shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed
over a year of 360 days) at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of each
Eurocurrency Standby Loan, the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for
such Borrowing plus the Applicable Percentage from time to time in effect, (ii)
in the case of each Eurocurrency Competitive Loan, the LIBO Rate for the
Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Margin offered by the
Lender making such Loan and accepted by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03
and (iii) in the case of each Eurocurrency Local Currency Loan, the LIBO Rate
for the Interest Period in effect for such Loan plus any spread specified in
the applicable Local Currency Addendum.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, the Loans
comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may
be, for periods during which the Alternate Base Rate is determined by reference
to the Prime Rate and 360 days for other periods) at a rate per annum equal to
the Alternate Base Rate.
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, each Fixed
Rate Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days) equal to the fixed rate
of interest offered by the Lender making such Loan and accepted by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.03.
(d) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.09, any Local
Currency Loan that is not a Eurocurrency Loan shall bear interest at the rate
or rates per annum set forth in the applicable Local Currency Addendum.
(e) Interest on each Loan shall be payable on each Interest
Payment Date applicable to such Loan except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement or in an applicable Local Currency Addendum. The applicable LIBO
Rate or Alternate Base Rate for each Interest Period or day within an Interest
Period, as the case may be, shall be determined by the Administrative Agent,
and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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SECTION 2.09. Default Interest. If a Borrower shall default
in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Loan or any other amount
becoming due hereunder, whether by scheduled maturity, notice of prepayment,
acceleration or otherwise, such Borrower shall on demand from time to time from
the Administrative Agent pay interest, to the extent permitted by law, on such
defaulted amount up to (but not including) the date of actual payment (after as
well as before judgment) at a rate per annum (computed as provided in Section
2.08(b)) equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus 2% (or, in the case of Local
Currency Loans, such other rate as may be specified in the applicable Local
Currency Addendum).
SECTION 2.10. Alternate Rate of Interest. In the event, and
on each occasion, that on the day two Business Days prior to the commencement
of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Administrative Agent
shall have determined (i) that deposits in the currency and principal amounts
of the Eurocurrency Loans comprising such Borrowing are not generally available
in the London market or (ii) that reasonable means do not exist for
ascertaining the LIBO Rate, the Administrative Agent shall, as soon as
practicable thereafter, give telecopy notice of such determination to the
Borrower and the Lenders. In the event of any such determination under clause
(i) or (ii) above, until the Administrative Agent shall have advised the
Company and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no
longer exist, (x) any request by a Borrower for a Eurocurrency Competitive Loan
pursuant to Section 2.03 shall be of no force and effect and shall be denied by
the Administrative Agent, (y) any request by a Borrower for a Eurocurrency
Standby Loan pursuant to Section 2.04(a) shall be deemed to be a request for an
ABR Borrowing and (z) any request for a Eurocurrency Local Currency Loan
pursuant to Section 2.04(b) and to a Local Currency Addendum shall be deemed to
be a request for a Local Currency Loan bearing interest by reference to the
rate specified in the applicable Local Currency Addendum (provided that if the
requested Eurocurrency Local Currency Loan was to be made pursuant to a Local
Currency Addendum in which no rate is specified such request shall be of no
force and effect and shall be denied by the Administrative Agent). In the
event the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent that the rates at
which Dollar deposits are being offered will not adequately and fairly reflect
the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining Eurocurrency Loans in Dollars
during such Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall notify the
applicable Borrower of such notice and until the Required Lenders shall have
advised the Administrative Agent that the circumstances giving rise to such
notice no longer exist, any request by such Borrower for a Eurocurrency Standby
Loan shall be deemed a request for an ABR Borrowing. Each determination by the
Administrative Agent hereunder shall be made in good faith and shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.11. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a)
The Commitments shall be automatically terminated on the Maturity Date.
(b) Upon at least three Business Days' prior irrevocable
telecopy notice to the Administrative Agent, the Company may at any time in
whole permanently terminate, or from time to time in part permanently reduce,
the Total Commitment; provided, however, that (i) each partial reduction of the
Total Commitment shall be in an integral multiple of $10,000,000 and in a
minimum principal amount of $50,000,000 and (ii) no such termination or
reduction shall be made (A) which would reduce the Total Commitment to an
amount less than the sum of the aggregate Standby Credit Exposures, Competitive
Loan Exposures and L/C Exposures or (B) which would reduce any Lender's
Commitment to an amount that is less than the sum of such Lender's Standby
Credit Exposure and L/C Exposure.
(c) Each reduction in the Total Commitment hereunder shall be
made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments.
The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Lenders, on the date of each reduction or termination of
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the Total Commitment, the Facility Fees on the amount of the Commitments
terminated accrued through the date of such termination or reduction.
SECTION 2.12. Prepayment. (a) Each Borrower shall have the
right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Standby Borrowing or
Local Currency Borrowing, as the case may be, in whole or in part, upon giving
telecopy notice (or telephone notice promptly confirmed by telecopy) to the
Administrative Agent: (i) before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, three
Business Days prior to prepayment, in the case of Eurocurrency Standby Loans,
and (ii) before 10:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day prior to
prepayment, in the case of ABR Standby Loans and (iii) in the case of Local
Currency Loans, by such time as shall be specified in the applicable Local
Currency Addendum; provided, however, that each partial prepayment shall be in
an amount which is (x) in the case of any Standby Borrowing, an integral
multiple of $10,000,000 and not less than $50,000,000, and (ii) in the case of
any Local Currency Borrowing, an amount in which prepayments are permitted to
be made under the applicable Local Currency Addendum. No prepayment may be
made in respect of any Competitive Borrowing.
(b) On the date of any termination or reduction of the
Commitments pursuant to Section 2.11, the Borrowers shall pay or prepay so much
of the Standby Borrowings as shall be necessary in order that the sum of the
aggregate Competitive Loan Exposures, Standby Credit Exposures and L/C
Exposures will not exceed the Total Commitment after giving effect to such
termination or reduction.
(c) Each notice of prepayment shall specify the prepayment
date and the principal amount of each Borrowing (or portion thereof) to be
prepaid, shall be irrevocable and shall commit the applicable Borrower to
prepay such Borrowing (or portion thereof) by the amount stated therein on the
date stated therein. All prepayments under this Section 2.12 shall be subject
to Section 2.15 but otherwise without premium or penalty. All prepayments
under this Section 2.12 shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the
principal amount being prepaid to the date of payment.
SECTION 2.13. Reserve Requirements; Change in Circumstances.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if after the date of this
Agreement any change in applicable law or regulation or in the interpretation
or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof (whether or not having the force of
law) shall result in the imposition, modification or applicability of any
reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits
with or for the account of or credit extended by any Lender or any Issuing
Bank, or shall result in the imposition on any Lender or the London interbank
market of any other condition affecting this Agreement, such Lender's
Commitment or any Eurocurrency Loan or Fixed Rate Loan made by such Lender or
any Letter of Credit, and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to
increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Loan
or Fixed Rate Loan or of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to
reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or such
Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise) by an
amount deemed by such Lender or such Issuing Bank to be material, then such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender, or such Issuing
Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs or reduction will be paid
by the Borrowers to such Lender, or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, upon
demand. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender or Issuing Bank shall be
entitled to request compensation under this paragraph with respect to any
Competitive Loan or Letter of Credit if the change giving rise to such request
was applicable to such Lender or Issuing Bank at the time of submission of the
Competitive Bid or L/C Competitive Bid pursuant to which such Competitive Loan
or Letter of Credit was made or issued.
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(b) If any Lender or any Issuing Bank shall have determined
that the adoption of any law, rule, regulation or guideline arising out of the
July 1988 report of the Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory
Practices entitled "International Convergence of Capital Measurement and
Capital Standards", or the adoption after the date hereof of any other law,
rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital adequacy, or any change in any
of the foregoing or in the interpretation or administration of any of the
foregoing by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency
charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any
Lender or Issuing Bank (or any lending office of such Lender or such Issuing
Bank) or any Lender's or Issuing Bank's holding company with any request or
directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law)
of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency, has or would have the
effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's or Issuing Bank's
capital or on the capital of such Lender's or Issuing Bank's holding company,
if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, such Lender's Commitment or the
Loans made or Letters of Credit issued by such Lender or Issuing Bank pursuant
hereto to a level below that which such Lender or Issuing Bank or such Lender's
or Issuing Bank's holding company could have achieved but for such adoption,
change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender's or Issuing Bank's
policies and the policies of such Lender's or Issuing Bank's holding company
with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender or Issuing
Bank to be material, then from time to time such additional amount or amounts
as will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank for such reduction will be paid
by the Borrowers to such Lender or Issuing Bank.
(c) A certificate of any Lender or Issuing Bank setting forth
such amount or amounts as shall be necessary to compensate such Lender or
Issuing Bank or its holding company, as applicable, as specified in paragraph
(a) or (b) above, as the case may be, shall be delivered to the Company and
shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender
or Issuing Bank the amount shown as due on any such certificate delivered by it
within 10 days after its receipt of the same.
(d) Failure on the part of any Lender or Issuing Bank to
demand compensation for any increased costs or reduction in amounts received or
receivable or reduction in return on capital with respect to any period shall
not constitute a waiver of such Lender's or Issuing Bank's right to demand
compensation with respect to such period or any other period; provided,
however, that no Lender or Issuing Bank shall be entitled to compensation under
this Section 2.13 for any costs incurred or reductions suffered with respect to
any date unless it shall have notified the Company that it will demand
compensation for such costs or reductions under paragraph (c) above not more
than 90 days after the later of (i) such date and (ii) the date on which it
shall have become aware of such costs or reductions. The protection of this
Section shall be available to each Lender and Issuing Bank regardless of any
possible contention of the invalidity or inapplicability of the law, rule,
regulation, guideline or other change or condition which shall have occurred or
been imposed.
SECTION 2.14. Change in Legality. (a) Notwithstanding any
other provision herein, if any change in any law or regulation or in the
interpretation thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
administration or interpretation thereof shall make it unlawful for any Lender
or any of its Affiliates which shall be party to a Local Currency Addendum to
make or maintain any Eurocurrency Loan or Local Currency Loan or to give effect
to its obligations as contemplated hereby with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan
or Local Currency Loan, or shall limit the convertibility into Dollars of any
Local Currency (or make such conversion commercially impracticable), then, by
written notice to the Company and to the Administrative Agent, such Lender may:
(i) declare that Eurocurrency Loans or Loans in any affected
Local Currency will not thereafter be made by such Lender hereunder,
whereupon such Lender shall not submit a
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Competitive Bid in response to a request for a Eurocurrency
Competitive Loan, any request for a Eurocurrency Standby Loan shall,
as to such Lender only, be deemed a request for an ABR Loan, and any
request for a Local Currency Borrowing in such Local Currency shall be
disregarded, unless such declaration shall be subsequently withdrawn;
and
(ii) require that all outstanding Eurocurrency Loans in
Dollars made by it be converted to ABR Loans and that all outstanding
Local Currency Loans made by it in the affected Local Currency be
promptly prepaid, in which event all such Eurocurrency Loans in
Dollars shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans as of the
effective date of such notice as provided in paragraph (b) below and
all such Local Currency Loans shall be promptly prepaid.
In the event any Lender shall exercise its rights under (i) or (ii) above with
respect to Eurocurrency Loans in Dollars, all payments and prepayments of
principal which would otherwise have been applied to repay the Eurocurrency
Loans that would have been made by such Lender or the converted Eurocurrency
Loans, of such Lender shall instead be applied to repay the ABR Loans made by
such Lender in lieu of, or resulting from the conversion of, such Eurocurrency
Loans.
(b) For purposes of this Section 2.14, a notice by any Lender
shall be effective as to each Eurocurrency Loan or Local Currency Loan, if
lawful, on the last day of the Interest Period currently applicable to such
Eurocurrency Loan or Local Currency Loan; in all other cases such notice shall
be effective on the date of receipt.
SECTION 2.15. Indemnity. The Borrowers shall indemnify each
Lender against any out-of-pocket loss or expense which such Lender may sustain
or incur as a consequence of (a) any failure to borrow or to refinance, convert
or continue any Loan hereunder after irrevocable notice of such borrowing,
refinancing, conversion or continuation has been given pursuant to Section 2.03,
2.04 or 2.05 or pursuant to any Local Currency Addendum, (b) any payment,
prepayment or conversion, or assignment required under Section 2.20, of a
Eurocurrency Loan required by any other provision of this Agreement or otherwise
made or deemed made on a date other than the last day of the Interest Period, if
any, applicable thereto, (c) any default in payment or prepayment of the
principal amount of any Loan or any part thereof or interest accrued thereon, as
and when due and payable (at the due date thereof, whether by scheduled
maturity, acceleration, irrevocable notice of prepayment or otherwise) or (d)
the occurrence of any Event of Default, including, in each such case, any loss
or reasonable expense sustained or incurred or to be sustained or incurred in
liquidating or employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or
maintain such Loan or any part thereof as a Eurocurrency Loan. Such loss or
reasonable expense shall include an amount equal to the excess, if any, as
reasonably determined by such Lender, of (i) its cost of obtaining the funds for
the Loan being paid, prepaid, refinanced or not borrowed (assumed to be the LIBO
Rate applicable thereto) for the period from the date of such payment,
prepayment, refinancing or failure to borrow or refinance to the last day of the
Interest Period for such Loan (or, in the case of a failure to borrow or
refinance the Interest Period for such Loan which would have commenced on the
date of such failure) over (ii) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined
by such Lender) that would be realized by such Lender in reemploying the funds
so paid, prepaid or not borrowed or refinanced for such period or Interest
Period, as the case may be. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any
amount or amounts which such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this
Section shall be delivered to such Borrower and shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.
SECTION 2.16. Pro Rata Treatment. Except as required under
Sections 2.14 and 2.20, each payment of the Facility Fees and each reduction of
the Commitments shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in accordance
with their respective Commitments (or, if such Commitments shall have expired
or been terminated, in accordance with the respective principal amounts of
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outstanding Standby Loans). Each payment of principal of any Competitive
Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders participating in such
Borrowing in accordance with the respective principal amounts of their
outstanding Competitive Loans comprising such Borrowing. Except as required
under Section 2.14, each payment or repayment of principal of any Standby
Borrowing and each refinancing or conversion of any Standby Borrowing shall be
allocated pro rata among the Lenders in such Borrowing in accordance with the
respective principal amounts of their outstanding Standby Loans comprising such
Borrowing, and each payment of interest on any Standby Borrowing shall be
allocated pro rata among the Lenders participating in such a Borrowing in
accordance with the respective amounts of accrued and unpaid interest on their
outstanding Standby Loans comprising such Borrowing. Each payment of principal
of any Competitive Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders
participating in such Borrowing in accordance with the respective principal
amounts of their outstanding Competitive Loans comprising such Borrowing. Each
payment of interest on any Competitive Borrowing shall be allocated pro rata
among the Lenders participating in such Borrowing in accordance with the
respective amounts of accrued and unpaid interest on their outstanding
Competitive Loans comprising such Borrowing. For purposes of determining the
Available Commitments of the Lenders at any time, each outstanding Competitive
Borrowing shall be deemed to have utilized the Commitments of the Lenders
(including those Lenders which shall not have made Loans as part of such
Competitive Borrowing) pro rata in accordance with their respective
Commitments. Each Lender agrees that in computing such Lender's portion of any
Borrowing to be made hereunder, the Administrative Agent may, in its
discretion, round each Lender's percentage of such Borrowing to the next higher
or lower whole Dollar amount.
SECTION 2.17. Sharing of Setoffs. Each Lender agrees that if
it shall, through the exercise of a right of banker's lien, setoff or
counterclaim, or pursuant to a secured claim under Section 506 of Title 11 of
the United States Code or other security or interest arising from, or in lieu
of, such secured claim, received by such Lender under any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law or otherwise, or by any other
means, obtain payment (voluntary or involuntary) in respect of any Standby Loan
or Loans as a result of which the unpaid principal portion of its Standby Loans
shall be proportionately less than the unpaid principal portion of the Standby
Loans of any other Lender, it shall be deemed simultaneously to have purchased
from such other Lender at face value, and shall promptly pay to such other
Lender the purchase price for, a participation in the Standby Loans of such
other Lender, so that the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Standby
Loans and participations in the Standby Loans held by each Lender shall be in
the same proportion to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Standby
Loans then outstanding as the principal amount of its Standby Loans prior to
such exercise of banker's lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event was to
the principal amount of all Standby Loans outstanding prior to such exercise of
banker's lien, setoff or counterclaim or other event; provided, however, that,
if any such purchase or purchases or adjustments shall be made pursuant to this
Section 2.17 and the payment giving rise thereto shall thereafter be recovered,
such purchase or purchases or adjustments shall be rescinded to the extent of
such recovery and the purchase price or prices or adjustment restored without
interest. Any Lender holding a participation in a Standby Loan deemed to have
been so purchased may exercise any and all rights of banker's lien, setoff or
counterclaim with respect to any and all moneys owing to such Lender by reason
thereof as fully as if such Lender had made a Standby Loan in the amount of
such participation.
SECTION 2.18. Payments. (a) The Borrowers shall make each
payment (including principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any L/C
Disbursement and any Fees or other amounts) hereunder from an account in the
United States not later than 12:00 noon, local time at the place of payment, on
the date when due in immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent at
its offices at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx (or, in the case of Local
Currency Loans, such other time and place as shall be specified in the
applicable Local Currency Addendum). Each such payment (other than principal
of and interest on Local Currency Loans) shall be made in Dollars.
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(b) Whenever any payment (including principal of or interest
on any Borrowing or any Fees or other amounts) hereunder shall become due, or
otherwise would occur, on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment may be
made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in
such case be included in the computation of interest or Fees, if applicable.
SECTION 2.19. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments to the
Lenders hereunder shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.18, free and
clear of and without deduction for any and all current or future taxes, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect
thereto, excluding (i) income taxes imposed on the income of the Administrative
Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank (or any transferee or assignee thereof,
including a participation holder (any such entity a "Transferee")) and (ii)
franchise taxes imposed on the income, assets or net worth of the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank (or Transferee), in each
case by the jurisdiction under the laws of which the Administrative Agent, such
Lender or such Issuing Bank (or Transferee) is organized or doing business
(other than as a result of entering into this Agreement, performing any
obligations hereunder, receiving any payments hereunder or enforcing any rights
hereunder), or any political subdivision thereof (all such nonexcluded taxes,
levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities,
collectively or individually, "Taxes"). If any Borrower shall be required to
deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder to any Lender
(or any Transferee), the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank, (i) the sum
payable shall be increased by the amount (an "additional amount") necessary so
that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section 2.19) such Lender (or Transferee),
the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank (as the case may be) shall
receive an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such
deductions been made, (ii) such Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii)
such Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) In addition, the Borrowers shall pay to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law any current or future
stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or
similar levies that arise from any payment made hereunder or from the
execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document ("Other Taxes").
(c) The Borrowers shall indemnify each Lender (or
Transferee), the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank for the full amount
of Taxes and Other Taxes paid by such Lender (or Transferee), the
Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and any
liability (including penalties, interest and expenses (including reasonable
attorney's fees and expenses)) arising therefrom or with respect thereto,
whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted by
the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such
payment or liability prepared by a Lender (or Transferee), Issuing Bank or the
Administrative Agent on its behalf, absent manifest error, shall be final,
conclusive and binding for all purposes. Such indemnification shall be made
within 30 days after the date any Lender (or Transferee), an Issuing Bank or
the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, makes written demand therefor,
which written demand shall be made within 60 days of the date such Lender (or
Transferee), such Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent receives written
demand for payment of such Taxes or Other Taxes from the relevant Governmental
Authority.
(d) If a Lender (or Transferee), an Issuing Bank or the
Administrative Agent shall become aware that it is entitled to claim a refund
from a Governmental Authority in respect of Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it
has been indemnified by the Borrowers, or with respect to which the Borrowers
have paid additional amounts, pursuant to this Section 2.19, it shall promptly
notify the Borrowers of the availability of such refund claim and shall, within
30 days after receipt of a request
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by the Borrowers, make a claim to such Governmental Authority for such refund at
the Borrowers' expense. If a Lender (or Transferee), an Issuing Bank or the
Administrative Agent receives a refund (including pursuant to a claim for refund
made pursuant to the preceding sentence) in respect of any Taxes or Other Taxes
as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrowers or with respect to which
the Borrowers have paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.19, it
shall within 30 days from the date of such receipt pay over such refund to the
Borrowers (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional
amounts paid, by the Borrowers under this Section 2.19 with respect to the Taxes
or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of
such Lender (or Transferee), such Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent and
without interest (other than interest paid by the relevant Governmental
Authority with respect to such refund); provided, however, that the Borrowers,
upon the request of such Lender (or Transferee), such Issuing Bank or the
Administrative Agent, agree to repay the amount paid over to the Borrowers (plus
penalties, interest or other charges) to such Lender (or Transferee), such
Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent in the event such Lender (or
Transferee), such Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent is required to repay
such refund to such Governmental Authority.
(e) As soon as practicable after the date of any payment of
Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrowers to the relevant Governmental Authority,
the Borrowers will deliver to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred
to in Section 9.01, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by
such Governmental Authority evidencing payment thereof.
(f) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement
contained herein, the agreements and obligations contained in this Section 2.19
shall survive the payment in full of the principal of and interest on all Loans
made hereunder and the expiration or cancellation of all Letters of Credit and
the payment of all L/C Disbursements thereunder.
(g) Each Lender and Issuing Bank (or Transferee) that is
organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, any
State thereof or the District of Columbia (a "Non-U.S. Lender") shall deliver
to the Company and the Administrative Agent two copies of either United States
Internal Revenue Service Form 1001 or Form 4224, or, in the case of a Non-U.S.
Lender or Issuing Bank claiming exemption from U.S. Federal withholding tax
under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments of
"portfolio interest", a Form W-8, or any subsequent versions thereof or
successors thereto (and, if such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank delivers a
Form W-8, a certificate representing that such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank
is not a bank for purposes of Section 881(c) of the Code, is not a 10 percent
shareholder (within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code) of the
Company and is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Company
(within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code)), properly completed and
duly executed by such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank claiming complete
exemption from, or reduced rate of, U.S. Federal withholding tax on payments by
the Company under this Agreement. Such forms shall be delivered by each
Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank on or before the date it becomes a party to
this Agreement (or, in the case of a Transferee that is a participation holder,
on or before the date such participation holder becomes a Transferee hereunder)
and on or before the date, if any, such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank changes
its applicable lending office by designating a different lending office (a "New
Lending Office"). In addition, each Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank shall
deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form
previously delivered by such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Section 2.19(g), a Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank
shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this Section 2.19(g) that
such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank is not legally able to deliver.
(h) The Company shall not be required to indemnify any
Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank, or to pay any additional amounts to any
Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank, in respect of United
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States Federal withholding tax pursuant to paragraph (a) or (c) above to the
extent that (i) the obligation to withhold amounts with respect to United States
Federal withholding tax existed on the date such Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank
became a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of a Transferee that is a
participation holder, on the date such participation holder became a Transferee
hereunder) or, with respect to payments to a New Lending Office, the date such
Non-U.S. Lender or Issuing Bank designated such New Lending Office with respect
to a Loan; provided, however, that this clause (i) shall not apply to any
Transferee or New Lending Office that becomes a Transferee or New Lending Office
as a result of an assignment, participation, transfer or designation made at the
request of the Company; and provided further, however, that this clause (i)
shall not apply to the extent the indemnity payment or additional amounts any
Transferee, or Lender (or Transferee) or Issuing Bank through a New Lending
Office, would be entitled to receive (without regard to this clause (i)) do not
exceed the indemnity payment or additional amounts that the person making the
assignment, participation or transfer to such Transferee, or Lender (or
Transferee) or Issuing Bank making the designation of such New Lending Office,
would have been entitled to receive in the absence of such assignment,
participation, transfer or designation or (ii) the obligation to pay such
additional amounts would not have arisen but for a failure by such Non-U.S.
Lender or Issuing Bank to comply with the provisions of paragraph (g) above.
(i) Any Lender (or Transferee) or Issuing Bank claiming any
indemnity payment or additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.19
shall use reasonable efforts (consistent with legal and regulatory
restrictions) to file any certificate or document reasonably requested in
writing by the Company or to change the jurisdiction of its applicable lending
office if the making of such a filing or change would avoid the need for or
reduce the amount of any such indemnity payment or additional amounts that may
thereafter accrue and would not, in the sole determination of such Lender (or
Transferee) or Issuing Bank, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender (or
Transferee) or Issuing Bank.
(j) Nothing contained in this Section 2.19 shall require any
Lender (or Transferee), any Issuing Bank or the Administrative Agent to make
available any of its tax returns (or any other information that it deems to be
confidential or proprietary).
SECTION 2.20. Duty to Mitigate; Assignment of Commitments
Under Certain Circumstances. (a) Any Lender (or Transferee) or Issuing Bank
claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.13 or Section
2.19 or exercising its rights under Section 2.14 shall use reasonable efforts
(consistent with legal and regulatory restrictions) to file any certificate or
document requested by the Company or to change the jurisdiction of its
applicable lending office if the making of such a filing or change would avoid
the need for or reduce the amount of any such additional amounts which may
thereafter accrue or avoid the circumstances giving rise to such exercise and
would not, in the sole determination of such Lender (or Transferee) or Issuing
Bank, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender (or Transferee) or Issuing
Bank.
(b) In the event that any Lender or Issuing Bank shall have
delivered a notice or certificate pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.14, or the
Company shall be required to make additional payments to any Lender or Issuing
Bank under Section 2.19, the Company shall have the right, at its own expense,
upon notice to such Lender or Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent, to
require such Lender or Issuing Bank to transfer and assign without recourse,
representation or warranty (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions
contained in Section 9.04) all interests, rights and obligations contained
hereunder to another financial institution approved by the Administrative Agent
(which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) which shall assume such
obligations; provided that (i) no such assignment shall conflict with any law,
rule or regulation or order of any Governmental Authority and (ii) the assignee
or the Company, as the case may be, shall pay to the affected Lender or
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Issuing Bank in immediately available funds on the date of such assignment the
principal of and interest accrued to the date of payment on the Loans and L/C
Disbursements made by it hereunder and all other amounts accrued for its account
or owed to it hereunder and shall cause all Letters of Credit issued by it to be
canceled on such date.
SECTION 2.21. Terms of Local Currency Facilities. (a) The
Company may in its discretion from time to time elect to borrow, or elect that
one or more Borrowing Subsidiaries may borrow, Local Currency Loans on a
revolving basis from any one or more Local Currency Lenders, with the consent
of each such Local Currency Lender in its sole discretion, by delivering a
Local Currency Addendum to the Administrative Agent and the Local Currency
Lenders (through the Administrative Agent), executed by the Company, each such
Borrowing Subsidiary and each such Local Currency Lender; provided, however,
that on the effective date of such election, and after giving effect thereto,
(i) an Exchange Rate with respect to each Local Currency covered by such Local
Currency Addendum shall be determinable by reference to the Reuters currency
pages (or comparable publicly available screen), (ii) no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (iii) the aggregate amount of
all Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amounts under all Local Currency
Addenda at the time in effect shall not exceed $500,000,000. Each Borrower
and, by agreeing to any Local Currency Addendum, each relevant Local Currency
Lender, acknowledges and agrees that each reference in this Agreement to any
Lender shall, to the extent applicable, be deemed to be a reference to such
Local Currency Lender, subject to the second sentence of the definition of such
term.
(b) Each Local Currency Addendum shall set forth (i) the
maximum amount (expressed in Dollars and without duplication) available to be
borrowed from all Local Currency Lenders under such Local Currency Addendum (as
the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.22(c) or (d), a
"Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount") and (ii) with respect to
each Local Currency Lender party to such Local Currency Addendum, the maximum
amount (expressed in Dollars and without duplication) available to be borrowed
from such Local Currency Lender thereunder (as the same may be reduced from
time to time pursuant to Section 2.22(c) or (d), a "Local Currency Lender
Maximum Borrowing Amount"). In no event shall the aggregate of all Local
Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amounts in respect of any Local Currency
Lender at any time exceed such Lender's Commitment. Except as provided in
Section 2.21(c), the making of Local Currency Loans by a Local Currency Lender
under a Local Currency Addendum shall under no circumstances reduce the amount
available to be borrowed from such Lender under any other Local Currency
Addendum to which such Lender is a party.
(c) Except as otherwise required by applicable law, in no
event shall the Local Currency Lenders have the right to accelerate the Local
Currency Loans outstanding under any Local Currency Addendum, or to terminate
their commitments (if any) thereunder to make Local Currency Loans prior to the
stated termination date in respect thereof, except that such Local Currency
Lenders shall, in each case, have such rights upon an acceleration of the Loans
and a termination of the Commitments pursuant to Article VI, respectively. No
Local Currency Loan may be made if (i) an Exchange Rate with respect to such
Local Currency cannot be determined, (ii) a Default or an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom or (iii) after
giving effect thereto, (A) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the
Dollar Loans (other than Competitive Loans) and Local Currency Loans (Dollar
Equivalent) of any Lender (and the Affiliates of such Lender that are Local
Currency Lenders) then outstanding and the L/C Exposure of such Lender would
exceed such Lender's Commitment, (B) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate
principal amount of outstanding Local Currency Loans denominated in a specified
Local Currency would exceed the applicable Local Currency Facility Maximum
Borrowing Amount or (C) the sum of the aggregate Standby Credit
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Exposures, the aggregate L/C Exposures and the aggregate Competitive Loan
Exposures would exceed the Total Commitment.
(d) The applicable Borrower and the applicable Local Currency
Lenders, or, if so specified in the relevant Local Currency Addendum, an agent
acting on their behalf, shall furnish to the Administrative Agent, promptly
following the making, payment or prepayment of each Local Currency Loan, and at
any other time at the request of the Administrative Agent, a statement setting
forth the outstanding Local Currency Loans made under such Local Currency
Addendum.
(e) The applicable Borrower shall furnish to the
Administrative Agent copies of any amendment, supplement or other modification
to the terms of any Local Currency Addendum promptly after the effectiveness
thereof.
(f) The Company may terminate any Local Currency Addendum, if
there are not any Loans outstanding thereunder, in its sole discretion (or, if
there are Loans outstanding thereunder, with the consent of each Local Currency
Lender party thereto), by written notice to the Administrative Agent, which
notice shall be executed by the Company, each relevant Borrowing Subsidiary
and, if their consent is required, each such Local Currency Lender. Once
notice of such termination is received by the Administrative Agent, such Local
Currency Addendum and the loans and other obligations outstanding thereunder
shall immediately cease to be subject to the terms of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.22. Currency Fluctuations, etc. (a) Not later than
1:00 p.m., New York City time, on each Calculation Date, the Administrative
Agent shall (i) determine the Exchange Rate as of such Calculation Date with
respect to each Local Currency covered by a Local Currency Addendum and (ii)
give notice thereof to the Lenders, the Company and the relevant Borrowing
Subsidiaries. The Exchange Rates so determined shall become effective on the
first Business Day immediately following the relevant Calculation Date (a
"Reset Date") and shall remain effective until the next succeeding Reset Date.
(b) Not later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on each
Reset Date and each Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall (i)
determine the Dollar Equivalent of the Local Currency Loans then outstanding
(after giving effect to any Local Currency Loans to be made or repaid on such
date) and (ii) notify the Lenders, the Company and the relevant Borrowing
Subsidiaries of the results of such determination.
(c) If, on any Reset Date or any Borrowing Date (after giving
effect to (i) any Loans to be made or repaid on such date and (ii) any
amendment, supplement or other modification to any Local Currency Addendum
effective on such date of which the Administrative Agent has received notice),
the aggregate outstanding Dollar Standby Extensions of Credit of any Lender
exceeds the Dollar Standby Credit Overage of such Lender (the amount of such
excess being called the "Dollar Standby Credit Excess"), then such Lender's
Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amount under each Local Currency
Addendum to which such Lender is a party shall be reduced on such date by an
amount equal to the product of such Dollar Standby Credit Excess times a
fraction the numerator of which shall equal the Local Currency Lender Maximum
Borrowing Amount under such Local Currency Addendum and the denominator of
which shall equal the aggregate of the Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing
Amounts of such Lender. After giving effect to any such reduction in Local
Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amounts, the Local Currency Facility Maximum
Borrowing Amount with respect to each Local Currency Addendum shall in turn be
reduced to an amount equal to the aggregate of the Local Currency Lender
Maximum Borrowing Amounts of all Lenders party to such Local Currency Addendum.
Reductions in Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amounts and Local
Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amounts pursuant to this
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Section 2.22(c) shall be effective until the amount thereof shall be
recalculated by the Administrative Agent on the next succeeding Reset Date or
Borrowing Date, and shall not be deemed to reduce the stated amount of any
commitment of any Local Currency Lender in respect of any Local Currency
Addendum.
(d) If, on any Reset Date or Borrowing Date (after giving
effect to (i) any Loans to be made or repaid on such date, (ii) any amendment,
supplement or other modification to any Local Currency Addendum effective on
such date of which the Administrative Agent has received notice and (iii) any
reduction in the Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amounts pursuant to
Section 2.22(c) effective on such date), the sum of (A) the aggregate
outstanding Dollar Standby Extensions of Credit of all the Lenders, (B) the
aggregate L/C Exposures and (C) the aggregate Competitive Loan Exposures exceed
the Dollar Facility Overage (the amount of such excess being called the "Dollar
Facility Excess"), then the Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount
under each Local Currency Addendum shall be reduced on such date by an amount
equal to the product of such Dollar Facility Excess times a fraction the
numerator of which shall equal the Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing
Amount under such Local Currency Addendum and the denominator of which shall
equal the aggregate of the Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amounts
with respect to all Local Currency Addenda. Each such reduction in the Local
Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount under a Local Currency Addendum
shall in turn reduce the respective Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing
Amounts of each Local Currency Lender party to such Local Currency Addendum,
pro rata on the basis of the respective Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing
Amounts of such Local Currency Lenders immediately prior to such reduction.
Reductions in Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amounts and Local
Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amounts pursuant to this Section 2.22(d)
shall be effective until the amount thereof shall be recalculated by the
Administrative Agent on the next succeeding Reset Date or Borrowing Date, and
shall not be deemed to reduce the stated amount of any commitment of any Local
Currency Lender in respect of any Local Currency Addendum.
(e) If, on any Reset Date, the Dollar Equivalent of the Local
Currency Loans outstanding under a Local Currency Addendum exceeds 105% of the
Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount with respect thereto (after
giving effect to any reductions therein effected pursuant to Section 2.22(c) or
(d) on such date), then the relevant Borrower shall, within three Business Days
after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent, (i) increase the Local
Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount with respect to such Local Currency
Facility in accordance with Section 2.21(e) and/or (ii) prepay Local Currency
Loans, in either case in an aggregate amount such that, after giving effect
thereto, (x) the Dollar Equivalent of all such Local Currency Loans shall be
equal to or less than such Local Currency Facility Maximum Borrowing Amount and
(y) the Dollar Equivalent of the Local Currency Loans of each relevant Local
Currency Lender shall be equal to or less than such Local Currency Lender's
Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amount with respect to such Local
Currency Addendum.
(f) If, on any Reset Date, the Standby Credit Exposure of any
Lender exceeds 105% of such Lender's Commitment, then, within three Business
Days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent, the Company shall
prepay and/or cause the relevant Borrowing Subsidiaries to prepay the Loans in
accordance with this Agreement, in an aggregate amount such that, after giving
effect thereto, the Standby Credit Exposure of such Lender shall be equal to or
less than such Lender's Commitment.
(g) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the
relevant Lenders of the amount of any reductions in Local Currency Facility
Maximum Borrowing Amounts or Local Currency Lender Maximum Borrowing Amounts
required pursuant to this Section 2.22.
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SECTION 2.23. Letters of Credit. (a) General. The Borrowers
may request the issuance of Letters of Credit, in a form reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, appropriately
completed, for the accounts of the Borrowers, at any time and from time to time
while the Commitments remain in effect. All Letters of Credit shall be
denominated in Dollars. This Section shall not be construed to impose an
obligation upon any Issuing Bank to issue any Letter of Credit that is
inconsistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension;
Certain Conditions. In order to request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or
to amend, renew or extend an existing Letter of Credit), the applicable
Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to the applicable Issuing Bank and the
Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter
of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or
extended, the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, the date on
which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph
2.23(c) below), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of
the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to
prepare such Letter of Credit. Following receipt of such notice and prior to
the issuance of the requested Letter of Credit or the applicable amendment,
renewal or extension, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers, each
Lender and the applicable Issuing Bank of the amount of the Aggregate Credit
Exposure after giving effect to (i) the issuance, amendment, renewal or
extension of such Letter of Credit, (ii) the issuance or expiration of any
other Letter of Credit that is to be issued or will expire prior to the
requested date of issuance of such Letter of Credit and (iii) the borrowing or
repayment of any Loans that (based upon notices delivered to the Administrative
Agent by the Borrowers) are to be borrowed or repaid prior to the requested
date of issuance of such Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued,
amended, renewed or extended only if, and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or
extension of each Letter of Credit, the Borrowers shall be deemed to represent
and warrant that, (i) after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal
or extension (A) the L/C Exposure shall not exceed $500,000,000 and (B) the
Aggregate Credit Exposure shall not exceed the Total Commitment and (ii) in the
case of a Letter of Credit that will expire later than the first anniversary of
such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, the applicable Borrower, the
applicable Issuing Bank and the Required Lenders shall have reached agreement
on the fees to be applicable thereto as contemplated by the last sentence of
Section 2.06(c).
(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at
the close of business on the earlier of the date five years after the date of
the issuance of such Letter of Credit and the date that is five Business Days
prior to the Maturity Date, unless such Letter of Credit expires by its terms
on an earlier date; provided that a Letter of Credit shall not be issued (nor
shall a Letter of Credit be amended, renewed or extended) that would result in
the Aggregate Credit Exposure exceeding the Total Commitment. Compliance with
the foregoing proviso shall be determined based upon the assumption that (i)
each Letter of Credit remains outstanding and undrawn in accordance with its
terms until its expiration date (taking into account any rights of renewal or
extension that do not require written notice by or consent of the applicable
Issuing Bank, in its sole discretion, in order to effect such renewal or
extension) and (ii) the Commitments will not be reduced voluntarily pursuant to
Section 2.11(b).
(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit and
without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or the
Lenders, the applicable Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each
such Lender hereby acquires from the applicable Issuing Bank, a participation
in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender's Applicable Share from time to
time of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit,
effective upon the issuance of such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in
furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable
Issuing Bank, such Lender's Applicable Share from time to time of each L/C
Disbursement made by such
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Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower (or, if applicable, another
party pursuant to its obligations under any other Loan Document) forthwith on
the date due as provided in Section 2.02(e). Each Lender acknowledges and
agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph
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, and that each such payment
shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction
whatsoever.
(e) Reimbursement. If an Issuing Bank shall make any L/C
Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the applicable Borrower shall
pay to the Administrative Agent such L/C Disbursement not later than two hours
after the Borrower shall have received notice from such Issuing Bank that
payment of such draft will be made, or, if the Borrower shall have received
such notice later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day, not
later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the immediately following
Business Day.
(f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrowers' obligations to
reimburse L/C Disbursements as provided in paragraph 2.23(e) above shall be
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, under any and all circumstances
whatsoever, and irrespective of:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of
Credit or any Loan Document, or any term or provision therein;
(ii) any amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure
from all or any of the provisions of any Letter of Credit or any Loan
Document;
(iii) the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other
right that the Borrowers, any other party guaranteeing, or otherwise
obligated with, the Borrowers, any Subsidiary or other Affiliate
thereof or any other person may at any time have against the
beneficiary under any Letter of Credit, any Issuing Bank, the
Administrative Agent or any Lender or any other person, whether in
connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other
related or unrelated agreement or transaction;
(iv) any draft or 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;
(v) payment by the applicable Issuing Bank under a Letter of
Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not
comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; and
(vi) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind of
any Issuing Bank, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent or any other
person or any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not
similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of
this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of the
Borrowers' obligations hereunder.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is
expressly understood and agreed that the absolute and unconditional obligation
of the Borrowers hereunder to reimburse L/C Disbursements will not be excused
by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of any Issuing Bank. However, the
foregoing shall not be construed to excuse any Issuing Bank from liability to
the
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Borrowers to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential
damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers to the
extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrowers that are caused
by such Issuing Bank's gross negligence or wilful misconduct in determining
whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply
with the terms thereof; it is understood that each 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
and, in making any payment under any Letter of Credit (i) an Issuing Bank's
exclusive reliance on the documents presented to it under such Letter of Credit
as to any and all matters set forth therein, including reliance on the amount
of any draft presented under such Letter of Credit, whether or not the amount
due to the beneficiary thereunder equals the amount of such draft and whether
or not any document presented pursuant to such Letter of Credit proves to be
insufficient in any respect, if such document on its face appears to be in
order, and whether or not any other statement or any other document presented
pursuant to such Letter of Credit proves to be forged or invalid or any
statement therein proves to be inaccurate or untrue in any respect whatsoever
and (ii) any noncompliance in any immaterial respect of the documents presented
under such Letter of Credit with the terms thereof shall, in each case, be
deemed not to constitute wilful misconduct or gross negligence of an Issuing
Bank.
(g) Disbursement Procedures. The applicable Issuing Bank
shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting
to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. Such Issuing Bank
shall as promptly as possible give telephonic notification, confirmed by
telecopy, to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Borrower of such
demand for payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make an L/C
Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving
such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the
Issuing Bank and the Lenders with respect to any such L/C Disbursement. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly give each Lender notice thereof.
(h) Interim Interest. If an Issuing Bank shall make any L/C
Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, then, unless the Borrower shall
reimburse such L/C Disbursement in full on such date, the unpaid amount thereof
shall bear interest for the account of such Issuing Bank, for each day from and
including the date of such L/C Disbursement, to but excluding the earlier of
the date of payment or the date on which interest shall commence to accrue
thereon as provided in paragraph 2.02(e) above, at the rate per annum that
would apply to such amount if such amount were an ABR Loan.
(i) Resignation or Removal of an Issuing Bank. An Issuing
Bank may resign at any time by giving 180 days' prior written notice to the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrowers, and may be removed at any
time by the Borrowers by notice to the Issuing Bank, the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders. Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, upon the acceptance
of any appointment as an Issuing Bank hereunder by a successor Issuing Bank,
such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the interests, rights
and obligations of the retiring Issuing Bank and the retiring Issuing Bank shall
be discharged from its obligations to issue additional Letters of Credit
hereunder. At the time such removal or resignation shall become effective, the
Borrowers shall pay all accrued and unpaid fees pursuant to Section 2.06(c)(ii).
The acceptance of any appointment as an Issuing Bank hereunder by a successor
Lender shall be evidenced by an agreement entered into by such successor, in a
form satisfactory to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, and, from and
after the effective date of such agreement, (i) such successor Lender shall have
all the rights and obligations of the previous Issuing Bank under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents and (ii) references herein and in the other Loan
Documents to the term "Issuing Bank" shall be deemed to refer to such successor
or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing
Banks, as the context shall require. After the resignation or removal of an
Issuing Bank hereunder, the retiring Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto
and shall continue to have all the rights and
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obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such resignation or
removal, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
(j) Additional Issuing Banks. The Borrowers may, at any time
and from time to time with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) and such Lender, designate one or
more additional Lenders to act as an issuing bank under the terms of the
Agreement. Any Lender designated as an issuing bank pursuant to this paragraph
2.23(j) shall, upon entering into an Issuing Bank Agreement with the Company,
be deemed to be an "Issuing Bank" (in addition to being a Lender) in respect of
Letters of Credit issued or to be issued by such Lender, and, with respect to
such Letters of Credit, such term shall thereafter apply to the other Issuing
Banks and such Lender.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders
that:
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each Borrower and each
of the Subsidiaries (a) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b)
has all requisite power and authority to own its property and assets and to
carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, (c) is
qualified to do business in every jurisdiction where such qualification is
required, except where the failure so to qualify would not result in a Material
Adverse Effect, and (d) in the case of each Borrower, has the corporate power
and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan
Documents and to borrow hereunder and thereunder.
SECTION 3.02. Authorization. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Borrowers of this Agreement, the Issuing Bank Agreements,
the promissory notes, if any, issued pursuant to Section 9.04(i) and each Local
Currency Addendum (and by the Borrowing Subsidiaries of each Borrowing
Subsidiary Agreement), the Borrowings hereunder and the completion of the
Distribution (collectively, the "Transactions") (a) have been duly authorized
by all requisite corporate action and (b) will not (i) violate (A) any
provision of any law, statute, rule or regulation (including the Margin
Regulations) or of the certificate of incorporation or other constitutive
documents or by-laws of the Borrowers, (B) any order of any Governmental
Authority or (C) any provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument
to which any Borrower is a party or by which it or any of its property is or
may be bound, (ii) be in conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute
(alone or with notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any such
indenture, agreement or other instrument or (iii) result in the creation or
imposition of any lien upon any property or assets of any Borrower.
SECTION 3.03. Enforceability. This Agreement and each Loan
Document to which a Borrower is a party constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of each Borrower enforceable in accordance with its terms.
SECTION 3.04. Governmental Approvals. No action, consent or
approval of, registration or filing with or other action by any Governmental
Authority, other than those which have been taken, given or made, as the case
may be, is or will be required with respect to any Borrower in connection with
the Transactions.
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SECTION 3.05. Financial Statements. (a) The Company has
heretofore furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders copies of its
combined balance sheet and statements of income, cash flow and retained
earnings as of and for the year ended December 31, 1994, and the six months
ended June 30, 1995, as included in the Proxy Statement. Such financial
statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated combined
financial condition and the results of operations of the Company and the
Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP.
(b) The Company has heretofore furnished to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders copies of its pro forma combined balance
sheet and statements of income as of June 30, 1995, and for the year and the
six months ended December 31, 1994, and June 30, 1995, respectively, giving
effect to the Distribution and certain related transactions. Such financial
statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated combined
financial condition and the results of operations of the Company and the
Subsidiaries on a pro forma basis as of such dates and for such periods in
accordance with GAAP.
(c) As of the Effective Date, there has been no material
adverse change in the consolidated financial condition of the Company and the
Subsidiaries taken as a whole from the financial condition reported in the
financial statements referenced in paragraph (a) of this Section 3.05.
SECTION 3.06. Litigation; Compliance with Laws. (a) As of
the Effective Date, there are no actions, proceedings or investigations filed
or (to the knowledge of the Borrowers) threatened or affecting any Borrower or
any Subsidiary in any court or before any Governmental Authority or arbitration
board or tribunal which question the validity or legality of this Agreement,
the Transactions or any action taken or to be taken pursuant to this Agreement
and no order or judgment has been issued or entered restraining or enjoining
any Borrower or any Subsidiary from the execution, delivery or performance of
this Agreement nor is there any other action, proceeding or investigation filed
or (to the knowledge of any Borrower or any Subsidiary) threatened against any
Borrower or any Subsidiary in any court or before any Governmental Authority or
arbitration board or tribunal which would be reasonably likely to result in a
Material Adverse Effect or materially restrict the ability of any Borrower to
comply with its obligations under the Loan Documents.
(b) Neither any Borrower nor any Subsidiary is in violation
of any law, rule or regulation (including any law, rule or regulation relating
to the protection of the environment or to employee health or safety), or in
default with respect to any judgment, writ, injunction or decree of any
Governmental Authority, where such violation or default would be reasonably
likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) No exchange control law or regulation materially
restricts any Borrower from complying with its obligations in respect of any
Loan or Letter of Credit or otherwise under this Agreement or any Local
Currency Addendum.
SECTION 3.07. Federal Reserve Regulations. (a) Neither any
Borrower nor any Subsidiary that will receive proceeds of the Loans hereunder
is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business
of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock.
(b) No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether
directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, to
purchase or carry Margin Stock or to refund indebtedness originally incurred
for such purpose, or for any other purpose which entails a violation of, or
which is inconsistent with, the provisions of the Margin Regulations.
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SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding
Company Act. No Borrower is (a) an "investment company" as defined in, or
subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940
Act") or (b) a "holding company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under,
the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
SECTION 3.09. Use of Proceeds. All proceeds of the Loans and
Letters of Credit shall be used for the purposes referred to in the recitals to
this Agreement.
SECTION 3.10. Full Disclosure; No Material Misstatements.
None of the representations or warranties made by any Borrower in connection
with this Agreement as of the date such representations and warranties are made
or deemed made, and no report, financial statement or other information
furnished by or on behalf of any Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any
Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or the credit
facilities established hereby, contains or will contain any material
misstatement of fact or omits or will omit to state any material fact necessary
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were or will be made, not misleading.
SECTION 3.11. Taxes. Each Borrower and each of the material
Subsidiaries have filed or caused to be filed all Federal, state and local tax
returns which are required to be filed by them, and have paid or caused to be
paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns or on any
assessments received by any of them, other than any taxes or assessments the
validity of which is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings,
and with respect to which appropriate accounting reserves have to the extent
required by GAAP been set aside.
SECTION 3.12. Employee Pension Benefit Plans. The present
aggregate value of accumulated benefit obligations of all unfunded and
underfunded pension plans of the Company and its Subsidiaries (based on those
assumptions used for disclosure in corporate financial statements in accordance
with GAAP) did not, as of December 31, 1994, exceed by more than $605,000,000
the value of the assets of all such plans. Of such $605,000,000, $540,000,000
is primarily attributable to employee pension plans in countries where the
funding of such obligations is not required or customary and $65,000,000
relates primarily to domestic pension plans where funding is not permitted
under current tax regulations. In these cases the Company has recorded book
reserves to meet the obligations. Trust assets totalling approximately
$45,000,000 have been established to provide for certain of the foregoing
domestic pension benefits, however, because of restrictions relating to
bankruptcy or insolvency, such funds are not included in the funded amount of
plans for purposes of GAAP.
SECTION 3.13. Distribution. At or prior to the Effective
Date, the Distribution will have been duly completed in accordance with
applicable law and as described in the Proxy Statement, and the assets,
liabilities and capitalization of the Company will have been consistent at the
time of and after giving effect to the Distribution in all material respects
with the forecasted capitalization table of the Company set forth in the Proxy
Statement and the pro forma financial statements referred to in Section
3.05(b), except that in the event the Distribution shall occur prior to
December 31, 1995, the transactions set forth in Schedule 3.13 which are
reflected as having occurred in such capitalization table and such pro forma
financial statements might not yet have occurred.
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ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS OF LENDING
The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the
Issuing Banks to issue Letters of Credit hereunder are subject to the
satisfaction of the following conditions:
SECTION 4.01. All Extensions of Credit. On the date of each
Borrowing and on the date of each issuance of a Letter of Credit:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received a notice of
such Borrowing as required by Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, as
applicable, or, in the case of the issuance of a Letter of Credit, the
applicable Issuing Bank shall have been selected to issue such Letter
of Credit as contemplated by Section 2.23.
(b) The representations and warranties set forth in Article
III hereof shall be true and correct in all material respects on and
as of the date of such Borrowing or issuance of a Letter of Credit
with the same effect as though made on and as of such date, except to
the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an
earlier date.
(c) At the time of and immediately after such Borrowing or
issuance of a Letter of Credit no Event of Default or Default shall
have occurred and be continuing.
Each Borrowing and issuance of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute
a representation and warranty by each Borrower on the date of such Borrowing or
issuance of a Letter of Credit as to the matters specified in paragraphs (b)
and (c) of this Section 4.01.
SECTION 4.02. Effective Date. On the Effective Date:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable
written opinion of or Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq., dated the Effective Date and
addressed to the Lenders and satisfactory to the Lenders, the Administrative
Agent and Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx, counsel for the Administrative Agent, to the
effect set forth in Exhibit D hereto.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a copy
of the certificate of incorporation, including all amendments thereto, of the
Company, certified as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of its state
of incorporation, and a certificate as to the good standing of the Company as
of a recent date from such Secretary of State; (ii) a certificate of the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company dated the Effective Date and
certifying (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the by-laws
of the Company as in effect on the Effective Date and at all times since a date
prior to the date of the resolutions described in clause (B) below, (B) that
attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the
Board of Directors of the Company authorizing the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the Borrowings hereunder, and that such
resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force
and effect, (C) that the certificate of incorporation referred to in clause (i)
above has not been amended since the date of the last amendment thereto shown
on the certificate of good standing furnished pursuant to such clause (i) and
(D) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each officer executing this
Agreement or any other document delivered in connection herewith on behalf of
the Company; and (iii) a certificate of another officer of the Company as to
the incumbency and specimen signature of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary
executing the certificate pursuant to (ii) above.
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(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received a
certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by a Financial Officer of the
Company, confirming compliance with the conditions precedent set forth in
paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01.
(d) The principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on any
loans outstanding under the Existing Credit Facilities shall have been paid in
full, all other amounts due in respect of the Existing Credit Facilities shall
have been paid in full and the commitments to lend under the Existing Credit
Facilities shall have been permanently terminated.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received any Fees or
other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date.
SECTION 4.03. First Borrowing by Each Borrowing Subsidiary.
On or prior to the first date on which Loans are made to or Letters of Credit
are issued for the benefit of any Borrowing Subsidiary:
(a) The Lenders and any Issuing Banks shall have received the
favorable written opinion of counsel satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, addressed to the Lenders and satisfactory to the
Lenders, the Administrative Agent and Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx, counsel
for the Administrative Agent, to the effect set forth in Exhibit D
hereto.
(b) Each Lender and any Issuing Banks shall have received a
copy of the Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement executed by such Borrowing
Subsidiary.
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
A. Affirmative Covenants. Each Borrower covenants and agrees
with each Lender and the Administrative Agent that so long as this Agreement
shall remain in effect or the principal of or interest on any Loan, any Fees or
any other amounts payable hereunder shall be unpaid or any Letters of Credit
have not been canceled or have not expired or any amounts drawn thereunder have
not been reimbursed in full, unless the Required Lenders shall otherwise
consent in writing, it will, and will cause each of the Subsidiaries to:
SECTION 5.01. Existence. Do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, rights and franchises, except as expressly permitted under Section
5.09; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the
abandonment or termination of the existence, rights or franchises of any
Subsidiary or any rights or franchises of any Borrower if such abandonment or
termination is in the best interests of the Borrowers and is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Lenders.
SECTION 5.02. Business and Properties. Comply in all
material respects with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of
any Governmental Authority (including any of the foregoing relating to the
protection of the environment or to employee health and safety), whether now in
effect or hereafter enacted; and at all times maintain and preserve all
property material to the conduct of its business and keep such property in good
repair, working order and condition and from time to time make, or cause to be
made, all needful and proper repairs, renewals, additions, improvements and
replacements thereto necessary in order that the business carried on in
connection therewith may be properly conducted at all times.
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SECTION 5.03. Financial Statements, Reports, Etc. In the case
of the Company, furnish to the Administrative Agent for distribution to each
Lender:
(a) within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, its
consolidated balance sheet and the related consolidated statements of
income and cash flows showing its consolidated financial condition as
of the close of such fiscal year and the consolidated results of its
operations during such year, all audited by Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP or
other independent certified public accountants of recognized national
standing selected by the Company and accompanied by an opinion of such
accountants to the effect that such consolidated financial statements
fairly present its financial condition and results of operations on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (it being agreed that the
requirements of this paragraph may be satisfied by the delivery
pursuant to paragraph (d) below of an annual report on Form 10-K
containing the foregoing);
(b) within 90 days after the end of each of the first three
fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, its consolidated balance sheet
and related consolidated statements of income, cash flow and
stockholders' equity, showing its consolidated financial condition as
of the close of such fiscal quarter and the consolidated results of
its operations during such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion
of the fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as
fairly presenting its financial condition and results of operations on
a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal
year-end audit adjustments (it being agreed that the requirements of
this paragraph may be satisfied by the delivery pursuant to paragraph
(d) below of a quarterly report on Form 10-Q containing the
foregoing);
(c) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements
under paragraph (a) or (b) above, a certificate of a Financial Officer
certifying that, to the best of such Financial Officer's knowledge, no
Event of Default or Default has occurred or, if such an Event of
Default or Default has occurred, specifying the nature and extent
thereof and any corrective action taken or proposed to be taken with
respect thereto;
(d) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies
of all reports on forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed by it with the SEC,
or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of or all the
functions of the SEC, or, in the case of the Company, copies of all
reports distributed to its shareholders, as the case may be;
(e) promptly, from time to time, such other information as
any Lender shall reasonably request through the Administrative Agent;
and
(f) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements
under paragraph (a) or (b) above, calculations of the financial test
referred to in Section 5.12.
SECTION 5.04. Insurance. Keep its insurable properties
adequately insured at all times by financially sound and reputable insurers,
and maintain such other insurance, to such extent and against such risks,
including fire and other risks insured against by extended coverage, as is
customary with companies similarly situated and in the same or similar
businesses (it being understood that the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may
self-insure to the extent customary with companies similarly situated and in
the same or similar businesses).
SECTION 5.05. Obligations and Taxes. Pay and discharge
promptly when due all taxes, assessments and governmental charges imposed upon
it or upon its income or profits or in respect of its property, as well as all
other material liabilities, in each case before the same shall
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become delinquent or in default and before penalties accrue thereon, unless and
to the extent that the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and adequate reserves with respect thereto shall, to the extent
required by GAAP, have been set aside.
SECTION 5.06. Litigation and Other Notices. Give the
Administrative Agent prompt written notice of the following (which the
Administrative Agent shall promptly provide to the Lenders):
(a) the filing or commencement of, or any written threat or
written notice of intention of any person to file or commence, any
action, suit or proceeding which could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(b) any Event of Default or Default, specifying the nature
and extent thereof and the action (if any) which is proposed to be
taken with respect thereto; and
(c) any change in any of the Ratings.
SECTION 5.07. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and
Inspections. Maintain financial records in accordance with GAAP and, upon
reasonable notice, at all reasonable times, permit any authorized
representative designated by the Administrative Agent to visit and inspect the
properties of the Company and of any material Subsidiary and to discuss the
affairs, finances and condition of the Company and any material Subsidiary with
a Financial Officer of the Company and such other officers as the Company shall
deem appropriate.
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Loans
only for the purposes set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
B. Negative Covenants. Each Borrower covenants and agrees
with each Lender and the Administrative Agent that so long as this Agreement
shall remain in effect or the principal of or interest on any Loan, any Fees or
any other amounts payable hereunder shall be unpaid or any Letters of Credit
have not been canceled or have not expired or any amounts drawn thereunder have
not been reimbursed in full, unless the Required Lenders shall otherwise
consent in writing, it will not, and will not cause or permit any of the
Subsidiaries to:
SECTION 5.09. Consolidations, Mergers, and Sales of Assets.
Consolidate or merge with or into any other person or sell, lease or transfer
all or substantially all of its property and assets, or agree to do any of the
foregoing, unless (a) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or would have occurred immediately after giving effect thereto, and
(b) in the case of a consolidation or merger or transfer of assets involving
the Company and in which the Company is not the surviving corporation or sells,
leases or transfers all or substantially all of its property and assets, the
surviving corporation or person purchasing, leasing or receiving such property
and assets is organized in the United States of America or a state thereof and
agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions applicable to the Company
hereunder.
SECTION 5.10. Limitations on Liens. In the case of the
Company, create, suffer to be created, or assume (directly or indirectly) any
mortgage, pledge or other lien upon any Principal Property, or permit any
Restricted Subsidiary to create, suffer to be created, or assume (directly or
indirectly) any mortgage, pledge or other lien upon any Principal Property;
provided, however, that this covenant shall not apply to any of the following:
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(a) any mortgage, pledge or other lien on any Principal
Property hereafter acquired, constructed or improved by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary which is created or assumed to secure or
provide for the payment of any part of the purchase price of such
property or the cost of such construction or improvement, or any
mortgage, pledge or other lien on any Principal Property existing at
the time of acquisition thereof, provided, however, that the mortgage,
pledge or other lien shall not extend to any Principal Property
theretofore owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(b) any mortgage, pledge or other lien on any Principal
Property existing on the date of this Agreement as described in
Schedule 5.10;
(c) any mortgage, pledge or other lien existing upon any
property of a company which is merged with or into or is consolidated
into, or substantially all the assets or shares of capital stock of
which are acquired by, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, at the
time of such merger, consolidation or acquisition, provided that such
mortgage, pledge or other lien does not extend to any other Principal
Property, other than improvements to the property subject to such
mortgage, pledge or other lien;
(d) any pledge or deposit to secure payment of workers'
compensation or insurance premiums, or in connection with tenders,
bids, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money) or
leases;
(e) any pledge of, or other lien upon, any assets as security
for the payment of any tax, assessment or other similar charge by any
Governmental Authority or public body, or as security required by law
or governmental regulation as a condition to the transaction of any
business or the exercise of any privilege or right;
(f) any pledge or lien necessary to secure a stay of any legal
or equitable process in a proceeding to enforce a liability or
obligation contested in good faith by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary or required in connection with the institution by the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any legal or equitable
proceeding to enforce a right or to obtain a remedy claimed in good
faith by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, or required in
connection with any order or decree in any such proceeding or in
connection with any contest of any tax or other governmental charge;
or the making of any deposit with or the giving of any form of
security to any governmental agency or any body created or approved by
law or governmental regulation in order to entitle the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary to maintain self-insurance or to participate in
any fund in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment
insurance, old age pensions or other social security or to share in
any provisions or other benefits provided for companies participating
in any such arrangement or for liability on insurance of credits or
other risks;
(g) any mechanics', carriers', workmen's, repairmen's, or
other like liens, if arising in the ordinary course of business, in
respect of obligations which are not overdue or liability for which is
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(h) any lien or encumbrance on property in favor of the United
States of America, or of any agency, department or other
instrumentality thereof, to secure partial, progress or advance
payments pursuant to the provisions of any contract;
(i) any mortgage, pledge or other lien securing any
indebtedness incurred in any manner to finance or recover the cost to
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of any
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physical property, real or personal, which prior to or simultaneously
with the creation of such indebtedness shall have been leased by the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to the United States of America or
a department or agency thereof at an aggregate rental, payable during
that portion of the initial term of such lease (without giving effect
to any options of renewal or extension) which shall be unexpired at
the date of the creation of such indebtedness, sufficient (taken
together with any amounts required to be paid by the lessee to the
lessor upon any termination of such lease) to pay in full at the
stated maturity date or dates thereof the principal of and the
interest on such indebtedness;
(j) any mortgage, pledge or other lien securing indebtedness
of a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary,
provided that in the case of any sale or other disposition of such
indebtedness by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, such sale
or other disposition shall be deemed to constitute the creation of
another mortgage, pledge or other lien not permitted by this clause
(j);
(k) any mortgage, pledge or other lien affecting property of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary securing indebtedness of the
United States of America or a State thereof (or any instrumentality or
agency of either thereof) issued in connection with a pollution
control or abatement program required in the opinion of the Company to
meet environmental criteria with respect to manufacturing or
processing operations of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and
the proceeds of which indebtedness have financed the cost of
acquisition of such program;
(l) the renewal, extension, replacement or refunding of any
mortgage, pledge, lien, deposit, charge or other encumbrance permitted
by the foregoing provisions of this covenant upon the same property
theretofore subject thereto, or the renewal, extension, replacement or
refunding of the amount secured thereby, provided that in each case
such amount outstanding at that time shall not be increased; or
(m) any other mortgage, pledge or other lien, provided that
immediately after the creation or assumption of such mortgage, pledge
or other lien, the total of (x) the aggregate principal amount of
indebtedness of the Company and all Restricted Subsidiaries secured by
all mortgages, pledges and other liens created or assumed under the
provisions of this clause (m), plus (y) the aggregate amount of
Capitalized Lease-Back Obligations of the Company and Restricted
Subsidiaries under the entire unexpired terms of all leases entered
into in connection with sale and lease-back transactions which would
have been precluded by the provisions of Section 5.11 but for the
satisfaction of the condition set forth in clause (b) thereof, shall
not exceed an amount equal to 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
The lease of any property by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary and rental
obligations with respect thereto (whether or not arising out of a sale and
lease-back of properties and whether or not in accordance with GAAP such
property is carried as an asset and such rental obligations are carried as
indebtedness on the Company's or a Restricted Subsidiary's balance sheet) shall
not in any event be deemed to be the creation of a mortgage, pledge or other
lien.
SECTION 5.11. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.
In the case of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, enter into any
arrangement with any person providing for the leasing by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of any Principal Property (except for temporary leases
for a term of not more than three years and except for leases between the
Company and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries), which
property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary to such person more than 120 days after the
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acquisition thereof or the completion of construction and commencement of full
operation thereof, unless either (a) the Company shall apply an amount equal to
the greater of the Fair Value of such property or the net proceeds of such
sale, within 120 days of the effective date of any such arrangement, to the
retirement (other than any mandatory retirement or by way of payment at
maturity) of Indebtedness or to the acquisition, construction, development or
improvement of properties, facilities or equipment used for operating purposes
which are, or upon such acquisition, construction, development or improvement
will be, a Principal Property or a part thereof; or (b) at the time of entering
into such arrangement, such Principal Property could have been subjected to a
mortgage, pledge or other lien securing indebtedness of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary in a principal amount equal to the Capitalized Lease-Back
Obligations with respect to such Principal Property under paragraph (m) of
Section 5.10.
SECTION 5.12. Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Interest
Expense. Permit the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA to (b) Consolidated
Interest Expense for any period of four fiscal quarters to be less than 3.75 to
1.0.
ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
In case of the happening of any of the following events (each
an "Event of Default"):
(a) any representation or warranty made or deemed made in or
in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any
Local Currency Addenda or the Borrowings or issuances of Letters of
Credit hereunder shall prove to have been false or misleading in any
material respect when so made, deemed made or furnished;
(b) default shall be made in the payment of any principal of
any Loan or the reimbursement with respect to any L/C Disbursement
when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due
date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or by
acceleration thereof or otherwise;
(c) default shall be made in the payment of any interest on
any Loan or L/C Disbursement or any Fee or any other amount (other
than an amount referred to in paragraph (b) above) due hereunder, when
and as the same shall become due and payable, and such default shall
continue unremedied for a period of ten days;
(d) default shall be made in the due observance or performance
of any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.01,
5.09, 5.10, 5.11 or 5.12 or in any Local Currency Addendum and, in the
case of any default under Section 5.10, such default shall continue
for 30 days;
(e) default shall be made in the due observance or performance
of any covenant, condition or agreement contained herein or in any
other Loan Document (other than those specified in clauses (b), (c) or
(d) above) and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of
30 days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or any
Lender to the Company;
(f) the Company or any Subsidiary shall (i) fail to pay any
principal or interest, regardless of amount, due in respect of any
Indebtedness in a principal amount in excess of $20,000,000, beyond
the period of grace, if any, provided in the agreement or instrument
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under which such Indebtedness was created, or (ii) fail to observe or
perform any other term, covenant, condition or agreement contained in
any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing any such
Indebtedness, or any other event shall occur or condition shall exist,
beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in such agreement or
instrument, if the effect of any failure referred to in this clause
(ii) is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such
Indebtedness or a trustee on its or their behalf (with or without the
giving of notice) to cause, such Indebtedness to become due prior to
its stated maturity;
(g) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an
involuntary petition shall be filed in a court of competent
jurisdiction seeking (i) relief in respect of the Company, or of a
substantial part of the property or assets of the Company or any
Subsidiary with assets having gross book value in excess of
$25,000,000, under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now
constituted or hereafter amended, or any other Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, (ii) the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator,
conservator or similar official for the Company or for a substantial
part of the property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary with
assets having gross book value in excess of $25,000,000 or (iii) the
winding up or liquidation of the Company; and such proceeding or
petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree
approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;
(h) the Company or any Subsidiary with assets having a gross
book value in excess of $25,000,000 shall (i) voluntarily commence any
proceeding or file any petition seeking relief under Title 11 of the
United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any
other Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar
law, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a
timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or the filing of any
petition described in (g) above, (iii) apply for or consent to the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator,
conservator or similar official for the Company or for a substantial
part of the property or assets of the Company, (iv) file an answer
admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in
any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, (vi) become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due or (vii) take any action
for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
(i) one or more final judgments shall be entered by any court
against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries for the payment of
money in an aggregate amount in excess of $100,000,000 and such
judgment or judgments shall not have been paid, covered by insurance,
discharged or stayed for a period of 60 days, or a warrant of
attachment or execution or similar process shall have been issued or
levied against property of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries to
enforce any such judgment or judgments;
(j) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of
the Required Lenders, when taken together with all other such ERISA
Events, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect; or
(k) a Change in Control shall occur;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Company
or any Subsidiary with assets having gross book value in excess of $25,000,000
described in paragraph (g) or (h) above), and at any time thereafter during the
continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent, at the request of the
Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the Company, take any or all of the
following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate forthwith the
Commitments, (ii) declare the Loans then
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outstanding to be forthwith due and payable in whole or in part, whereupon the
principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued
interest thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees and all other liabilities of the
Borrowers accrued hereunder, without presentment, demand, protest or any other
notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived anything contained
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (iii) require the Borrowers to deposit
with the Administrative Agent cash collateral in an amount equal to the
aggregate L/C Exposures to secure the Borrowers' reimbursement obligations
under Section 2.23; and, in the case of any event with respect to the Company
or any Subsidiary having a gross book value in excess of $25,000,000 described
in paragraph (g) or (h) above, the Commitments shall automatically terminate
and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest
thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees and all other liabilities of the Borrowers
accrued hereunder shall automatically become due and payable, without
presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby expressly waived anything contained herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, and the Borrowers shall deposit with the Administrative Agent
cash collateral in an amount equal to the aggregate L/C Exposure to secure the
Borrowers' reimbursement obligations under Section 2.23.
ARTICLE VII
GUARANTEE
The Company unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the due
and punctual payment and performance, when and as due, whether at maturity, by
acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, of the
Guaranteed Obligations. The Company further agrees that the Guaranteed
Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or
further assent from it and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee
notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligations.
The Company waives presentment to, demand of payment from and
protest to the Borrowing Subsidiaries of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and
also waives notice of acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for
nonpayment. The obligations of the Company hereunder shall not be affected by
(a) the failure of any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any
right or remedy against the Borrowing Subsidiaries under the provisions of this
Agreement or otherwise; (b) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification
of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement, any guarantee or any other
agreement; or (c) the failure of any Lender to exercise any right or remedy
against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations.
The Company further agrees that its guarantee constitutes a
guarantee of payment when due and not of collection, and waives any right to
require that any resort be had by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any
security, if any, held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or to any
balance of any deposit account or credit on its books, in favor of the
Borrowing Subsidiaries or any other person.
The obligations of the Company hereunder shall not be subject
to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason,
including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise,
and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or
termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of the Company hereunder shall
not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce
any remedy under this Agreement, any guarantee or any other agreement, by any
waiver or modification of any provision
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thereof, by any default, failure or delay, wilful or otherwise, in the
performance of the Guaranteed Obligations, or by any other act or omission
which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of the Company
or otherwise operate as a discharge of the Company as a matter of law or
equity.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company waives
any defense based on or arising out of any defense available to the Borrowing
Subsidiaries, including any defense based on or arising out of any disability
of the Borrowing Subsidiaries, or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed
Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause
of the liability of the Borrowing Subsidiaries, other than final payment in
full of the Guaranteed Obligations. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders
may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them
by one or more judicial or non-judicial sales, or exercise any other right or
remedy available to them against the Borrowing Subsidiaries, or any security
without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of the Company
hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been fully and
finally paid. The Company waives any defense arising out of any such election
even though such election operates to impair or to extinguish any right of
reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of the Company against
the Borrowing Subsidiaries or any security.
The Company further agrees that its guarantee shall continue
to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment,
or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation
is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Lender upon the bankruptcy or
reorganization of any Borrowing Subsidiary or otherwise.
In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any
other right which the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have at law or in
equity against the Company by virtue hereof, upon the failure of any Borrowing
Subsidiary to pay any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become
due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or
otherwise, the Company hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written
demand by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, forthwith pay or cause to be
paid to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in cash the amount of such
unpaid Guaranteed Obligation.
The Company hereby irrevocably waives and releases any and all
rights of subrogation, indemnification, reimbursement and similar rights which
it may have against or in respect of the Borrowing Subsidiaries at any time
relating to the Guaranteed Obligations, including all rights that would result
in its being deemed a "creditor" of the Borrowing Subsidiaries under the United
States Code as now in effect or hereafter amended, or any comparable provision
of any successor statute.
ARTICLE VIII
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
In order to expedite the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, Chemical Bank is hereby appointed to act as Administrative Agent on
behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks. Each of the Lenders and the
Issuing Banks hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to take
such actions on behalf of such Lender or Issuing Bank and to exercise such
powers as are specifically delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
and provisions hereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent is hereby expressly authorized by
the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, without hereby limiting any implied
authority, (a) to receive on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Banks all
payments of principal of and
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interest on the Loans and all other amounts due to the Lenders and the Issuing
Banks hereunder, and promptly to distribute to each Lender or Issuing Bank its
proper share of each payment so received; (b) to give notice on behalf of each
of the Lenders to the Borrowers of any Event of Default of which the
Administrative Agent has actual knowledge acquired in connection with its
agency hereunder; and (c) to distribute to each Lender copies of all notices,
financial statements and other materials delivered by the Borrowers pursuant to
this Agreement as received by the Administrative Agent.
Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its directors,
officers, employees or agents shall be liable as such for any action taken or
omitted by any of them except for its or his or her own gross negligence or
willful misconduct, or be responsible for any statement, warranty or
representation herein or the contents of any document delivered in connection
herewith, or be required to ascertain or to make any inquiry concerning the
performance or observance by the Borrowers of any of the terms, conditions,
covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement. The Administrative Agent
shall not be responsible to the Lenders for the due execution, genuineness,
validity, enforceability or effectiveness of this Agreement or other
instruments or agreements. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the
Lender which makes any Loan as the holder of the indebtedness resulting
therefrom for all purposes hereof until it shall have received notice from such
Lender, given as provided herein, of the transfer thereof. The Administrative
Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or refraining from
acting, in accordance with written instructions signed by the Required Lenders
and, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, such instructions and
any action or inaction pursuant thereto shall be binding on all the Lenders.
The Administrative Agent shall, in the absence of knowledge to the contrary, be
entitled to rely on any instrument or document believed by it in good faith to
be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or
persons. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers,
employees or agents shall have any responsibility to the Borrowers on account
of the failure of or delay in performance or breach by any Lender or Issuing
Bank of any of its obligations hereunder or to any Lender or Issuing Bank on
account of the failure of or delay in performance or breach by any other Lender
or Issuing Bank or the Borrowers of any of their respective obligations
hereunder or in connection herewith. The Administrative Agent may execute any
and all duties hereunder by or through agents or employees and shall be
entitled to rely upon the advice of legal counsel selected by it with respect
to all matters arising hereunder and shall not be liable for any action taken
or suffered in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel.
The Lenders hereby acknowledge that the Administrative Agent
shall be under no duty to take any discretionary action permitted to be taken
by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement unless it shall be requested
in writing to do so by the Required Lenders.
Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor
Administrative Agent as provided below, the Administrative Agent may resign at
any time by notifying the Lenders and the Company. Upon any such resignation,
the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative
Agent acceptable to the Company. If no successor shall have been so appointed
by the Required Lenders 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 Lenders, appoint a
successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New
York, New York, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000
or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as
Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor bank, such successor shall
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties
of the retiring Administrative Agent and the retiring Administrative Agent
shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After the
Administrative Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article
and Section 9.05 shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any
actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as
Administrative Agent.
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With respect to the Loans made by it hereunder, the
Administrative Agent in its individual capacity and not as Administrative Agent
shall have the same rights and powers as any other Lender and may exercise the
same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative
Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally
engage in any kind of business with the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or other
Affiliate thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent.
Each Lender agrees (i) to reimburse the Administrative Agent,
on demand, in the amount of its pro rata share (based on its Commitment
hereunder or, if the Commitments shall have been terminated, the amount of its
outstanding Loans and L/C Exposure) of any expenses incurred for the benefit of
the Lenders by the Administrative Agent, including counsel fees and compensation
of agents and employees paid for services rendered on behalf of the Lenders,
which shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrowers and (ii) to indemnify and
hold harmless the Administrative Agent and any of its directors, officers,
employees or agents, on demand, in the amount of such pro rata share, from and
against any and all liabilities, taxes, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or
nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against it in
its capacity as the Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out
of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by it under this Agreement to
the extent the same shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrowers; provided
that no Lender shall be liable to the Administrative Agent for any portion of
such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the gross negligence or
wilful misconduct of the Administrative Agent or any of its directors, officers,
employees or agents. Each Lender agrees that any allocation made in good faith
by the Administrative Agent of expenses or other amounts referred to in this
paragraph between this Agreement and the Facility A Credit Agreement shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and
without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on
such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also
acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and
information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its
own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement
or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01. Notices. Notices and other communications
provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or
overnight courier service, mailed or sent by telecopy, as follows:
(a) if to any Borrower, to ITT Industries, Inc., Red Oak
Corporate Park, 0 Xxxx Xxx Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention of Treasurer (Telecopy No. 914-696-2950);
(b) if to the Administrative Agent, to Chemical Bank Agency
Services Corp., 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention of Mr. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, (Telecopy No. 212-622-0002),
with a copy to Chemical Bank at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Re: ITT Industries, Inc.; and
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(c) if to a Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number)
set forth in Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Acceptance
pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto.
All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the
date of receipt if delivered by hand or overnight courier service or sent by
telecopy to such party as provided in this Section or in accordance with the
latest unrevoked direction from such party given in accordance with this
Section.
SECTION 9.02. Survival of Agreement. All covenants,
agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrowers herein and in
the certificates or other instruments prepared or delivered in connection with
or pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by
the Lenders and the Issuing Banks and shall survive the making by the Lenders
of the Loans and issuance of Letters of Credit regardless of any investigation
made by the Lenders or the Issuing Banks or on their behalf, and shall continue
in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on
any Loan or any Fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is
outstanding and unpaid, any Letter of Credit is outstanding or the Commitments
have not been terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.13, 2.15, 2.19 and 9.05
shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the
expiration of the term of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, the repayment of any of the Loans, the expiration of any
Letter of Credit, the expiration of the Commitments, the invalidity or
unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement, or any
investigation made by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
SECTION 9.03. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become
effective on the Effective Date and when it shall have been executed by the
Company and the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall
have received copies hereof (telecopied or otherwise) which, when taken
together, bear the signature of each Lender, and thereafter shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
successors and assigns, except that the Borrowers shall not have the right to
assign any rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior consent of
all the Lenders.
SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) Whenever in this
Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be
deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants,
promises and agreements by or on behalf of any party that are contained in this
Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of its successors and assigns.
(b) Each Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a
portion of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing
to it); provided, however, that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a
Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, the Company must give its prior written
consent to such assignment (which consent, if required, shall not be
unreasonably withheld in the event an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing), (ii) the parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver
to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, and a processing and
recordation fee of $3,000 (provided that, in the case of simultaneous
assignment of interests under this Agreement and the Facility A Credit
Agreement, the aggregate fee shall be $3,000), (iii) the assignee, if it shall
not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative
Questionnaire, and (iv) the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender
subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and
Acceptance with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative
Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 and the amount of the Commitment of
such Lender remaining after such assignment shall not be less than $5,000,000
or shall be zero. Upon acceptance and recording pursuant to paragraph (e) of
this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment
and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at least five Business Days after
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execution thereof, (A) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to
the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, have the
rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement and (B) the assigning
Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such
Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this
Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the
remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this
Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto (but shall continue to
be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.13, 2.15, 2.19 and 9.05, as well as
to any Fees accrued for its account hereunder and not yet paid)).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Lender assigning its rights and obligations
under this Agreement may retain any Competitive Loans made by it outstanding at
such time, and in such case shall retain its rights hereunder in respect of any
Loans so retained until such Loans have been repaid in full in accordance with
this Agreement.
(c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance,
the assigning Lender thereunder and the assignee thereunder shall be deemed to
confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows:
(i) such assigning Lender warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of
the interest being assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim, (ii)
except as set forth in (i) above, such assigning Lender makes no representation
or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement, or
the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value of this Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto or the financial condition of the Borrowers or the performance or
observance by the Borrowers of any obligations under this Agreement or any
other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee
represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter into such
Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee confirms that it has received a
copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial
statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.03 and such other documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (v) such assignee will
independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such
assigning Lender or any other Lender and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (vi) such
assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action
as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are
delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees
that it will perform in accordance with their terms all the obligations which
by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its
offices in The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses
of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and the principal amount of the Loans
owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the
"Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks
and the Lenders may treat each person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by each party
hereto, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
notice.
(e) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and
Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee together with an
Administrative Questionnaire completed in respect of the assignee (unless the
assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation
fee referred to in paragraph (b) above and the written consent of the Company
to such assignment, the
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Administrative Agent shall (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (ii)
record the information contained therein in the Register.
(f) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks
or other entities in all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to
it); provided, however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement
shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the
other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) each
participating bank or other entity shall be entitled to the benefit of the cost
protection provisions contained in Sections 2.13, 2.15 and 2.19 to the same
extent as if it were the selling Lender (and limited to the amount that could
have been claimed by the selling Lender had it continued to hold the interest
of such participating bank or other entity), except that all claims made
pursuant to such Sections shall be made through such selling Lender, and (iv)
the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the other
Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such selling Lender in
connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement.
(g) Any Lender or participant may, in connection with any
assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to
this Section, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or
participant any information relating to the Borrowers furnished to such Lender;
provided that, prior to any such disclosure, each such assignee or participant
or proposed assignee or participant shall execute an agreement for the benefit
of the Company whereby such assignee or participant shall agree (subject to
customary exceptions) to preserve the confidentiality of any such information.
(h) The Borrowers shall not assign or delegate any rights and
duties hereunder without the prior written consent of all Lenders.
(i) Any Lender may at any time pledge all or any portion of
its rights under this Agreement to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no
such pledge shall release any Lender from its obligations hereunder or
substitute any such Bank for such Lender as a party hereto. In order to
facilitate such an assignment to a Federal Reserve Bank, each Borrower shall,
at the request of the assigning Lender, duly execute and deliver to the
assigning Lender a promissory note or notes evidencing the Loans made to such
Borrower by the assigning Lender hereunder.
SECTION 9.05. Expenses; Indemnity. (a) The Borrowers agree
to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent in connection with entering into this Agreement or in connection with any
amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof, or incurred by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the enforcement or
protection of their rights in connection with this Agreement or in connection
with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder or under any Local
Currency Addendum, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the
Administrative Agent or, in the case of enforcement, the Lenders.
(b) The Borrowers agree to indemnify the Administrative
Agent, the Issuing Banks, each Lender, each of their Affiliates and the
directors, officers, employees and agents of the foregoing (each such person
being called an "Indemnitee") against, and to hold each Indemnitee harmless
from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses,
including reasonable counsel fees and expenses, incurred by or asserted against
any Indemnitee arising out of (i) the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) the use of the proceeds of the Loans or
issuance of Letters of Credit or (iii) any claim, litigation, investigation or
proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not any Indemnitee is a
party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be
available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
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expenses are determined by a final judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct
of such Indemnitee.
(c) The provisions of this Section shall remain operative and
in full force and effect regardless of the expiration of the term of this
Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the
repayment of any of the Loans, the expiration of any Letter of Credit, the
invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or
any investigation made by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing
Banks or any Lender. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable on
written demand therefor.
SECTION 9.06. APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
EACH LETTER OF CREDIT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OR RULES DESIGNATED IN SUCH LETTER OF CREDIT, OR IF
NO SUCH LAWS OR RULES ARE DESIGNATED, THE UNIFORM CUSTOMS AND PRACTICE FOR
DOCUMENTARY CREDITS (1993 REVISION), INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
PUBLICATION NO. 500 (THE "UNIFORM CUSTOMS") AND, AS TO MATTERS NOT GOVERNED BY
THE UNIFORM CUSTOMS, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 9.07. Waivers; Amendment. (a) No failure or delay
of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks or any Lender in exercising any
power or right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or
discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The
rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks and the
Lenders hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or
remedies which they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this
Agreement or consent to any departure therefrom shall in any event be effective
unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) below, and then such waiver
or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose
for which given. No notice or demand on any Borrower or any Subsidiary in any
case shall entitle such party to any other or further notice or demand in
similar or other circumstances.
(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be
waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in
writing entered into by the Borrowers and the Required Lenders; provided,
however, that no such agreement shall (i) decrease the principal amount of, or
extend the maturity of or any scheduled principal payment date or date for the
payment of any interest or fees on any Loan or for reimbursement of any L/C
Disbursement, or waive or excuse any such payment or any part thereof, or
decrease the rate of interest on any Loan or L/C Disbursement, without the
prior written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (ii) increase the
Commitment or decrease the Facility Fee, L/C Participation Fee of any Lender or
other amounts due to any Lender of any Lender without the prior written consent
of such Lender, (iii) limit or release the guarantee set forth in Article VII,
or (iv) amend or modify the provisions of Section 2.16 or Section 9.04(h), the
provisions of this Section or the definition of the "Required Lenders", without
the prior written consent of each Lender; provided further, however, that no
such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of
the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Banks hereunder without the prior
written consent of the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Banks. Each Lender
shall be bound by any waiver, amendment or modification authorized by this
Section and any consent by any Lender pursuant to this Section shall bind any
assignee of its rights and interests hereunder.
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SECTION 9.08. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the
agreements referenced in Section 2.06(b) and the letter agreement attached as
Exhibit H constitute the entire contract among the parties relative to the
subject matter hereof. Any previous agreement among the parties with respect
to the subject matter hereof is superseded by this Agreement. Nothing in this
Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended to confer upon any party other
than the parties hereto any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under
or by reason of this Agreement.
SECTION 9.09. Severability. In the event any one or more of
the provisions contained in this Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions contained herein shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to
replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions
the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid,
illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION 9.10. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
in two or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original but all
of which when taken together shall constitute but one contract, and shall
become effective as provided in Section 9.03.
SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the
Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not
part of this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be
taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 9.12. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time
and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and
apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or
final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Lender
to or for the credit or obligations of the Company and any Borrowing Subsidiary
now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender,
irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under
this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. Each Lender
agrees promptly to notify the Company and the Administrative Agent after such
setoff and application made by such Lender, but the failure to give such notice
shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights of
each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies
(including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.
SECTION 9.13. JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS.
(A) EACH BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF
AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF ANY NEW YORK STATE COURT
OR FEDERAL COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SITTING IN NEW YORK CITY, AND
ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT
OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY LOCAL CURRENCY ADDENDA OR ANY LETTER OF
CREDIT, 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 ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH
NEW YORK STATE OR, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. 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. SUBJECT TO THE
FOREGOING AND TO PARAGRAPH (B) BELOW, NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL AFFECT
ANY RIGHT THAT ANY PARTY HERETO MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR
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PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY LOCAL CURRENCY ADDENDUM OR ANY
LETTER OF CREDIT AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY HERETO IN THE COURTS OF ANY
JURISDICTION.
(B) EACH BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY LEGALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO SO, ANY
OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR THEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY
SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY
LOCAL CURRENCY ADDENDUM OR ANY LETTER OF CREDIT IN ANY NEW YORK STATE OR
FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE
MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(C) EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO
SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 9.01. NOTHING
IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT TO SERVE
PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW.
SECTION 9.14. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY
HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HERETO
(A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS
REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE
EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES
THAT IT AND OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT
BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATION IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 9.15. Addition of Borrowing Subsidiaries. Each
Borrowing Subsidiary which shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a
Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement executed by such Subsidiary and the Company
shall, upon such delivery and without further act, become a party hereto and a
Borrower hereunder with the same effect as if it had been an original party to
this Agreement.
SECTION 9.16. Conversion of Currencies. (a) If, for the
purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum
owing hereunder in one currency into another currency, each party hereto
agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of
exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking
procedures in the relevant jurisdiction the first currency could be purchased
with such other currency on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on
which final judgment is given.
(b) The obligations of the Borrowers in respect of any sum
due to any party hereto or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the
"Applicable Creditor") shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the
"Judgment Currency") other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be
due hereunder (the "Agreement Currency"), be discharged only to the extent
that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any
sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may
in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction
purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of
the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the
Applicable Creditor in the
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Agreement Currency, the Borrowers agree, as a separate obligation and
notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against
such loss. The obligations of the Borrowers contained in this Section 9.16
shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all other
amounts owing hereunder.
SECTION 9.17 Execution. Upon execution by the Lenders, this
Agreement will be executed with Old ITT as "the Company" all as contemplated by
the letter agreement attached as Exhibit H, and upon execution of this
Agreement by the Company, the Company shall succeed to the rights and
obligations of Old ITT as contemplated in such agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC., as Borrower,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President and Controller
CHEMICAL BANK, individually and as
Administrative Agent,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
ABN AMRO BANK N.V., NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx O'X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx O'X. Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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ARAB BANK PLC,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and
Branch Manager
BANCA COMMERCIALE ITALIANA, NEW
YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
BANCA DI ROMA - NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: First Vice President
by /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Associate Vice President
BANCA NAZIONALE DEL LAVORO S.P.A.,
NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: First Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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BANCA POPOLARE DI MILANO,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Executive vice President/
General Manager
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
BANK OF AMERICA NT & SA.
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
BANK OF HAWAII,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Officer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
by /s/ Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
by /s/ J. Xxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: J. Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Authorized Signatory
THE BANK OF TOKYO TRUST COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President
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BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. Judge
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx X. Judge
Title: Vice President
BARCLAYS BANK PLC,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Associate Director
BAYERISCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE,
CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and
General Manager
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
Manager Lending Division
CIBC, INC.,
by /s/ X. Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A.,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
CITIBANK, N.A.,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Attorney-in-Fact
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COMERICA BANK,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Account Officer
COMMERZBANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT,
GRAND CAYMAN BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
COMPAGNIE FINANCIERE DE CIC ET DE
L'UNION EUROPEENNE,
by /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President
CREDIT LYONNAIS, NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
CREDIT SUISSE,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Member of Senior Management
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Associate
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CREDITO ITALIANO, S.P.A.,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: First Vice President and
Deputy Manager
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LTD., NEW
YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
DEN DANSKE BANK, AKTIESELSKAB,
CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
by /s/ Bent X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Bent X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
AND/OR CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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DG BANK DEUTSCHE GENOSSENSCHAFTSBANK,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
DRESDNER BANK AG, NEW YORK BRANCH
AND GRAND CAYMAN BRANCH,
by /s/ J. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: J. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President
FIRST INTERSTATE BANK OF CALIFORNIA,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Director
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
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XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XX XXXXX
XXXXXXXX,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED, NEW YORK
BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Manager
THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN, LIMITED,
NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
ISTITUTO BANCARIO SAN PAOLO DI TORINO
SPA,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
KREDIETBANK N.V.,
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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LLOYDS BANK PLC,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President B374
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President A088
LTCB TRUST COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxx X. XxXxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. XxXxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
THE MITSUBISHI BANK, LIMITED,
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
THE MITSUBISHI TRUST AND BANKING
CORPORATION,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx xx Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx xx Xxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
XXXXXX GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC,
NASSAU BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
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NATIONSBANK, N.A.,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
THE NIPPON CREDIT BANK LTD.,
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President and Manager
THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
by /s/ Xxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Commercial Banking Officer
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Manager
THE SAKURA BANK, LIMITED, NEW YORK
BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President and Manager
THE SANWA BANK LIMITED, NEW YORK
BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Small
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Small
Title: Vice President and Area Manager
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SOCIETE GENERALE,
by /s/ Sedare Xxxxxxx
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Name: Sedare Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
THE SUMITOMO BANK, LIMITED, NEW
YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Joint General Manager
SUNTRUST BANK, ATLANTA
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Banking Officer
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
--------------------------------------------
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
SWISS BANK CORPORATION, NEW YORK
BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
--------------------------------------------
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Director Credit Risk Management
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxxx III
--------------------------------------------
Name: Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxxx III
Title: Associate Director
International Finance Division
THE TOKAI BANK, LIMITED,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
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THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
--------------------------------------------
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND, NEW YORK
BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx Xx.
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx Xx.
Title: Vice President
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
--------------------------------------------
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Treasurer
WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK
GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK AND CAYMAN
ISLANDS BRANCHES,
by /s/ A. Kumbie
--------------------------------------------
Name: A. Kumbie
Title: Managing Director
by /s/ MPM Ransley
--------------------------------------------
Name: MPM Ransley
Title: Associate
THE YASUDA TRUST AND BANKING
COMPANY LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--------------------------------------------
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
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EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID REQUEST
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent
for the Lenders referred to below,
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, ________________ (the "Borrower"), refers to
the Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated
as of November 2, 1995 (as it may be amended, modified, extended or restated
from time to time, the "5-Year Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Borrowing
Subsidiaries parties thereto, the Lenders named therein and Chemical Bank, as
Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the 5-Year Agreement.
The Borrower hereby gives you notice pursuant to Section 2.03(a) of the 5-Year
Agreement that it requests a Competitive Borrowing under the 5-Year Agreement,
and in that connection sets forth below the terms on which such Competitive
Borrowing is requested to be made:
(A) Date of Competitive Borrowing
(which is a Business Day) __________________
(B) Principal amount of
Competitive Borrowing (1) __________________
(C) Interest rate basis (2) __________________
(D) Interest Period and the
last day thereof (3) __________________
Upon acceptance of any or all of the Loans offered by the
Lenders in response to this request, the Borrower shall be deemed to have
represented and warranted that the conditions to lending specified in Section
4.01(b) and (c) of the 5-Year Agreement have been satisfied.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF BORROWER],
by
-------------------------
Name:
Title:[Financial Officer]
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(1) Not less than $10,000,000 (and in integral multiples of $5,000,000) or
greater than the Total Commitment then available.
(2) Eurocurrency Competitive Loan Fixed Rate Loan.
(3) Which shall be subject to the definition of "Interest Period" and end
not later than the Maturity Date.
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EXHIBIT A-2
FORM OF NOTICE OF COMPETITIVE BID REQUEST
[Name of Lender]
[Address]
[Date]
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the 5-Year Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of November 2, 1995 (as it may
hereafter be amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time, the
"5-Year Agreement"), among ITT Industries, Inc. [, ________] (the "Borrower"),
the Borrowing Subsidiaries parties thereto, the Lenders parties thereto and
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the
5-Year Agreement. The Borrower made a Competitive Bid Request on __________,
19[ ], pursuant to Section 2.03(a) of the 5-Year Agreement, and in that
connection you are invited to submit a Competitive Bid by [Date]/[Time]. (1)
Your Competitive Bid must comply with Section 2.03(b) of the 5-Year Agreement
and the terms set forth below on which the Competitive Bid Request was made:
(A) Date of Competitive Borrowing _________________
(B) Principal amount of
Competitive Borrowing _________________
(C) Interest rate basis _________________
(D) Interest Period and the
last day thereof. _________________
Very truly yours,
CHEMICAL BANK,
as Administrative Agent,
by
----------------------------
Name:
Title:
------------
(1) The Competitive Bid must be received by the Administrative Agent (i) in
the case of Eurocurrency Competitive Loans, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York
City time, four Business Days before a proposed Competitive Borrowing, and (ii)
in the case of Fixed Rate Loans, not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time,
one Business Day before a proposed Competitive Borrowing.
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EXHIBIT A-3
FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent
for the Lenders referred to below,
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000
[Date]
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, [Name of Lender], refers to the Five-Year
Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of
November 2, 1995 (as it may be amended, modified, extended or restated from
time to time, the "5-Year Agreement"), among ITT Industries, Inc. [,
___________] (the "Borrower"), the Borrowing Subsidiaries parties thereto, the
Lenders and Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to
such terms in the 5-Year Agreement. The undersigned hereby makes a Competitive
Bid pursuant to Section 2.03(b) of the 5-Year Agreement, in response to the
Competitive Bid Request made by the Borrower on ___________, 19[ ], and in that
connection sets forth below the terms on which such Competitive Bid is made:
(A) Principal Amount (1) _________________
(B) Competitive Bid Rate (2) _________________
(C) Interest Period and last
day thereof _________________
The undersigned hereby confirms that it is prepared, subject
to the conditions set forth in the 5-Year Agreement, to extend credit to the
Borrower upon acceptance by the Borrower of this bid in accordance with Section
2.03(d) of the 5-Year Agreement.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF LENDER],
by
-------------------------
Name:
Title:
____________________
(1) Not less than $5,000,000 or greater than the requested Competitive
Borrowing and in integral multiples of $1,000,000. Multiple bids will be
accepted by the Administrative Agent.
(2) i.e., LIBO Rate + or - __%, in the case of Eurocurrency Competitive
Loans or ___%, in the case of Fixed Rate Loans.
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EXHIBIT A-4
FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID ACCEPT/REJECT LETTER
[Date]
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent
for the Lenders referred to below
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, ______________________ (the "Borrower"),
refers to the Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility
Agreement dated as of November 2, 1995 (as it may be amended, modified,
extended or restated from time to time, the "5-Year Agreement"), among the
Borrower, the Borrowing Subsidiaries parties thereto, the Lenders parties
thereto and Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders.
In accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the 5-Year Agreement, we
have received a summary of bids in connection with our Competitive Bid Request
dated _____________, and in accordance with Section 2.03(d) of the 5-Year
Agreement, we hereby accept the following bids for maturity on [date]:
Principal Amount Fixed Rate/Margin Lender
---------------- ----------------- ------
$ (%)/(+/-. %)
$
We hereby reject the following bids:
Principal Amount Fixed Rate/Margin Lender
---------------- ----------------- ------
$ (%)/(+/-. %)
$
The $__________ should be deposited in Chemical Bank account
number [ ] on [date].
Very truly yours,
(NAME OF BORROWER),
by
----------------------------
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A-5
FORM OF STANDBY BORROWING REQUEST
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent
for the Lenders referred to below,
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000
[Date]
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, ____________________________ (the
"Borrower"), refers to the Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit
Facility Agreement dated as of November 2, 1995 (as it may be amended,
modified, extended or restated from time to time, the "5-Year Agreement"),
among the Borrower, the Borrowing Subsidiaries parties thereto, the Lenders
named therein and Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms
used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to such terms in the 5-Year Agreement. The Borrower hereby gives you notice
pursuant to Section 2.04 of the 5-Year Agreement that it requests a Standby
Borrowing under the 5-Year Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below
the terms on which such Standby Borrowing is requested to be made:
(A) Date of Standby Borrowing
(which is a Business Day) __________________
(B) Principal amount of
Standby Borrowing (1) __________________
(C) Interest rate basis (2) __________________
(D) Interest Period and the
last day thereof (3) __________________
Upon acceptance of any or all of the Loans made by the Lenders
in response to this request, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented
and warranted that the conditions to lending specified in Section 4.01(b) and
(c) of the 5-Year Agreement have been satisfied.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF BORROWER],
by
--------------------------
Name:
Title: [Financial Officer]
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(1) Not less than $20,000,000 (and in integral multiples of $5,000,000) or
greater than the Total Commitment then available.
(2) Eurocurrency Standby Loan or ABR Loan.
(3) Which shall be subject to the definition of Interest Period and end not
later than the Maturity Date.
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EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF]
ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
Dated: _________, 19__
Reference is made to the Five-Year Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of November 2, 1995 (the "5-Year
Agreement"), among ITT Industries, Inc. (the "Company"), the Borrowing
Subsidiaries parties thereto, the lenders parties thereto (the "Lenders") and
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders. Terms defined in the
5-Year Agreement are used herein with the same meanings.
1. The Assignor hereby sells and assigns, without recourse,
to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes, without
recourse, from the Assignor, effective as of the Effective Date set forth
below, the interests set forth below (the "Assigned Interest") in the
Assignor's rights and obligations under the 5-Year Agreement, including,
without limitation, the interests set forth below in the Commitment of the
Assignor on the Effective Date and the Competitive Loans and Standby Loans
owing to the Assignor which are outstanding on the Effective Date. Each of the
Assignor and the Assignee hereby makes and agrees to be bound by all the
representations, warranties and agreements set forth in Section 9.04 of the
5-Year Agreement, a copy of which has been received by each such party. From
and after the Effective Date, (i) the Assignee shall be a party to and be bound
by the provisions of the 5-Year Agreement and, to the extent of the interests
assigned by this Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of
a Lender thereunder and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent of the interests
assigned by this Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be
released from its obligations under the 5-Year Agreement.
2. This Assignment and Acceptance is being delivered to the
Administrative Agent together with (i) if the Assignee is organized under the
laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States, the forms specified in
Section 2.19(g) of the 5-Year Agreement, duly completed and executed by such
Assignee, (ii) if the Assignee is not already a Lender under the 5-Year
Agreement, an Administrative Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit B to the
5-Year Agreement and (iii) a processing and recordation fee of $3,000.
3. This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Date of Assignment:
Legal Name of Assignor:
Legal Name of Assignee:
Assignee's Address for Notices:
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2
Effective Date of Assignment
(may not be fewer than 5 Business
Days after the Date of Assignment):
Percentage Assigned of
Facility/Commitment (set forth,
to at least 8 decimals, as a
Principal Amount Assigned (and percentage of the Facility and
identifying information as to the aggregate Commitments of
Facility individual Competitive Loans) all Lenders thereunder)
-------- ----------------------------- -------------------------------
Commitment Assigned:
$____________ ___________ %
Standby Loans: $____________ ___________ %
Competitive Loans: $____________ ___________ %
The terms set forth and on the reverse side Accepted:
hereof are hereby agreed to:
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC.,
________________________________, as by: ___________________________
Assignor, Name:
Title:
by: ____________________________
Name:
Title:
________________________________,
as Assignee,
by: ____________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT D
[FORM OF]
OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC. (1)
1. ITT Industries, Inc. (i) is a corporation duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Indiana,
(ii) has all requisite power and authority to own its property and assets and
to carry on its business as now conducted, (iii) is qualified to do business in
every jurisdiction within the United States where such qualification is
required, except where the failure so to qualify would not result in a Material
Adverse Effect on ITT Industries, Inc., and (iv) has all requisite corporate
power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the
Agreement and to borrow funds thereunder.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by ITT Industries,
Inc. of the Agreement and the borrowings of ITT Industries, Inc. thereunder
(collectively, the "Transactions") (i) have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action and (ii) will not (a) violate (1) any provision of
law, statute, rule or regulation (including without limitation, the Margin
Regulations), or of the certificate of incorporation or other constitutive
documents or by-laws of ITT Industries, Inc., (2) any order of any governmental
authority or (3) any provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument
to which ITT Industries, Inc. is a party or by which it or its property is or
may be bound, (b) be in conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute
(alone or with notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any such
indenture, agreement or other instrument or (c) result in the creation or
imposition of any lien upon any property or assets of ITT Industries, Inc.
3. The Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by ITT
Industries, Inc. and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of ITT
Industries, Inc. enforceable against ITT Industries, Inc. in accordance with
its terms, subject as to the enforceability of rights and remedies to any
applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other similar
laws of general application relating to or affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights from time to time in effect.
4. No action, consent or approval of, registration or filing
with, or any other action by, any government authority is or will be required
in connection with the Transactions, except such as have been made or obtained
and are in full force and effect.
5. Neither ITT Industries, Inc. nor any of its subsidiaries
is (a) except as set forth in the next sentence, an "investment company" as
defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940
(the "1940 Act") or (b) a "holding company" as defined in, or subject
------------
(1) Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the 5-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving
Credit Facility Agreement (the Agreement ) dated as of October [ ], 1995, among
ITT Industries, Inc., the lenders listed in Schedule 2.01 thereto, and Chemical
Bank, as Administrative Agent.
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EXHIBIT E to the
Credit Agreement
BORROWING SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENT dated as of [
], [ ], among ITT INDUSTRIES, INC., an Indiana
corporation (the "Company"), [Name of Subsidiary], a
[ ] corporation ("the Subsidiary"), and
CHEMICAL BANK, as administrative agent (the
"Administrative Agent") for the lenders (the
"Lenders") party to the Five-Year Competitive Advance
and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of
November 2, 1995, as amended (the "Agreement"), among
the Company, the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders.
Under the Agreement, the Lenders have agreed, upon the terms
and subject to the conditions therein set forth, to make competitive advance
and revolving credit loans and to issue Letters of Credit to the Company and to
Subsidiaries (as defined in the Agreement) of the Company which execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent Borrowing Subsidiary Agreements in the form
of this Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement. The Company represents that the
Subsidiary is a subsidiary (as so defined) of the Company and that the
guarantee of the Company contained in Article VII of the Agreement applies to
the obligations of the Subsidiary. In consideration of being permitted to
borrow or have Letters of Credit issued under the Agreement upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth therein, the Subsidiary agrees that from
and after the date of this Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement it will be, and will
be liable for the observance and performance of all the obligations of, a
Borrowing Subsidiary under the Agreement, as the same may be amended from time
to time, to the same extent as if it had been one of the original parties to
the Agreement and that it will furnish to the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders copies of its financial statements on an annual basis.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and the Subsidiary have caused
this Borrowing Subsidiary Agreement to be duly executed by their authorized
officers as of the date first appearing above.
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC.
by
-----------------------------------
Name:
Title:
[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY],
by
-----------------------------------
Name:
Title:
Accepted as of the date
first appearing above:
CHEMICAL BANK, as Administrative
Agent,
by
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT F to the
Credit Agreement
ISSUING BANK AGREEMENT dated as of [ ],
1995, between ITT INDUSTRIES, INC., an Indiana
corporation ("ITT") and the financial institution
identified on Schedule I hereto as the Issuing Bank
(the "Issuing Bank").
Reference is made to the 5-Year Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of November 2, 1995 (as amended,
modified, extended or restated from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among
ITT, the Borrowing Subsidiaries parties thereto, the Lenders named therein and
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent. ITT and the Issuing Bank desire to enter
into this Agreement in order to provide for Letters of Credit to be issued by
the Issuing Bank as contemplated by the Credit Agreement. Accordingly, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used herein and
not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings specified in the
Credit Agreement. The provisions of Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement shall
apply to this Agreement as though set forth herein.
SECTION 2. Letter of Credit Commitment. The Issuing Bank
hereby agrees to be an "Issuing Bank" under, and, subject to the terms and
conditions hereof and of the Credit Agreement, to issue Letters of Credit under,
the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that Letters of Credit issued by the
Issuing Bank hereunder shall be subject to the limitations, if any, set forth on
Schedule I hereto, in addition to the limitations set forth in the Credit
Agreement.
SECTION 3. Issuance Procedure. In order to request the
issuance of a Letter of Credit hereunder, the Account Party (or ITT on behalf of
the applicable Account Party) shall hand deliver or telecopy a notice
(specifying the information required by Section 2.23(b) of the Credit Agreement)
to the Issuing Bank, at its address or telecopy number specified on Schedule I
hereto (or such other address or telecopy number as the Issuing Bank may specify
by notice to ITT), not later than the time of day (local time at such address)
specified on Schedule I hereto prior to the proposed date of issuance of such
Letter of Credit. A copy of such notice shall be sent, concurrently, by the
applicable Account Party (or ITT on behalf of the applicable Account Party) to
the Administrative Agent in the manner specified for Borrowing Requests under
the Credit Agreement. Upon receipt of such notice, the Issuing Bank shall
consult the Administrative Agent by telephone in order to determine (i) whether
the conditions specified in the last sentence of Section 2.23(b) of the Credit
Agreement will be satisfied in connection with the issuance of such Letter of
Credit and (ii) whether the requested expiration date for such Letter of Credit
complies with the proviso to Section 2.23(c) of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 4. Issuing Bank Fees, Interest and Payments. The
Issuing Bank Fees payable to the Issuing Bank in respect of Letters of Credit
issued hereunder are specified on Schedule I hereto (and such fees shall be in
addition to the Issuing Bank's customary documentary and processing charges in
connection with the issuance, amendment or transfer of any Letter of Credit
issued hereunder). Each payment of Issuing Bank Fees payable hereunder shall be
made not later than 12:00 (noon), local time at the place of payment, on the
date when due, in immediately available funds, to the account of the Issuing
Bank specified on Schedule I hereto (or to such other account of the Issuing
Bank as it may specify by notice to ITT).
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SECTION 5. Credit Agreement Terms. Notwithstanding any
provision hereof which may be construed to the contrary, it is expressly
understood and agreed that (a) this Agreement is supplemental to the Credit
Agreement and is intended to constitute an Issuing Bank Agreement, as defined
therein (and, as such, constitutes an integral part of the Credit Agreement as
though the terms of this Agreement were set forth in the Credit Agreement), (b)
each Letter of Credit issued hereunder and each and every L/C Disbursement made
under any such Letter of Credit shall constitute a "Letter of Credit" and an
"L/C Disbursement", respectively, for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and
the other Loan Documents, (c) the Issuing Bank's commitment to issue Letters of
Credit hereunder and each and every Letter of Credit requested or issued
hereunder shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement
and entitled to the benefits of the Loan Documents and (d) the terms and
conditions of the Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated herein as though set
forth herein in full and shall supersede any contrary provisions hereof.
SECTION 6. Assignment. The Issuing Bank may not assign its
commitment to issue Letters of Credit hereunder without the consent of ITT and
prior notice to the Administrative Agent. In the event of an assignment by the
Issuing Bank of all its other interests, rights and obligations under the Credit
Agreement, then the Issuing Bank's commitment to issue Letters of Credit
hereunder shall terminate unless the Issuing Bank, ITT and the Administrative
Agent otherwise agree.
SECTION 7. Effectiveness. This Agreement shall not be
effective until counterparts hereof executed on behalf of each of ITT and the
Issuing Bank have been delivered to and accepted by the Administrative Agent.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused a
counterpart of this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date
first above written.
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC.,
by
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Name:
Title:
[ISSUING BANK],
by
------------------------
Name:
Title:
Accepted:
CHEMICAL BANK, as
Administrative Agent,
by
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Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE I to
Issuing Bank Agreement
A. Issuing Bank:
B. Issuing Bank's Address and
Telecopy Number for Notices:
C. Time of Day by Which Notices A notice requesting the issuance of a Letter
Must be Received of Credit must be received by the Issuing
Bank by 10:00 a.m. (New York time) not less
than five Business Days prior to the
proposed date of issuance.
D. Special Terms: The aggregate L/C Exposure in respect of
Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this
Agreement shall not exceed $[ ].
E. Issuing Bank Fees: [ ]% per annum on the average daily
undrawn amount of the Scheduled Letters of
Credit, payable on the same dates that L/C
Participation Fees are payable under the
Credit Agreement.
F. Issuing Bank's Account for
Payment of Issuing Bank Fees:
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EXHIBIT G
[FORM OF]
LOCAL CURRENCY ADDENDUM
To: Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent
From: ITT Industries, Inc.
1. This Local Currency Addendum is being delivered to you
pursuant to Section 2.21(b) of the 5-Year Competitive Bid and Revolving Credit
Facility, dated as of November 2, 1995, among ITT Industries, Inc., the
Borrowing Subsidiaries parties thereto, the Lenders parties thereto and Chemical
Bank, as Administrative Agent (as the same may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"). Terms defined in
the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in
the Credit Agreement.
2. The effective date (the "Effective Date") of this Local
Currency Addendum will be [ ].
LOCAL CURRENC(Y)(IES):
LOCAL CURRENCY FACILITY
MAXIMUM BORROWING AMOUNT: $
LOCAL CURRENCY Local Currency Lender
LENDERS: Name of Lender Maximum Borrowing Amount
$
LIST OF DOCUMENTATION GOVERNING
LOCAL CURRENCY FACILITY
(THE "DOCUMENTATION"):(1)
3. The Company hereby represents and warrants that (i) as of
the Effective Date, an Exchange Rate with respect to each Local Currency is
determinable by reference to the Reuters currency pages (or comparable publicly
available screen), (ii) the Documentation complies in all respects with the
requirements of Section 2.21 of the Credit Agreement and (iii)___________
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(1) Copies of the Documentation must accompany the Local Currency Addendum,
together with, if applicable, an English translation thereof (provided, that the
Company may instead furnish a summary term sheet in English so long as an
English translation of the Documentation is furnished to the Administrative
Agent or its counsel within 90 days after the date of delivery of the Local
Currency Addendum).
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of__________ (2) contains an express acknowledgement that such Local Currency
Loan shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 2.21 and 2.22 of the Credit
Agreement.
ITT INDUSTRIES, INC.
By
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Title:
Accepted and Acknowledged:
CHEMICAL BANK, as Administrative Agent
By
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Title:
[LOCAL CURRENCY LENDER]
By
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Title:
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(2) Provide citation to relevant provision from the Documentation.
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Exhibit H
ITT Corporation
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
November ___, 1995
Chemical Bank, as Administrative Agent
for the Lenders
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Dear Sirs:
Reference is made to the 364-Day Competitive Advance and Revolving
Credit Facility Agreement and the Five-Year Competitive Advance and Revolving
Credit Facility Agreement (collectively, the "Credit Agreements"), each among
ITT Industries, an Indiana corporation ("ITT Industries"), the lenders listed in
Schedules 2.01 thereto (the "Lenders") and Chemical Bank, as administrative
agent for the Lenders (the "Administrative Agent").
1. As contemplated by Section 9.16 of the 364-Day Credit Agreement,
and Section 9.17 of the Five-Year Credit Agreement, ITT Corporation, a Delaware
corporation ("Old ITT"), and the Administrative Agent, acting on behalf of the
Lenders, hereby agree that the Credit Agreements shall be executed on the date
hereof and that, except as otherwise provided herein, Old ITT will have all
rights and obligations of the "Company" referred to therein.
2. Old ITT agrees that upon the completion of the Distribution, it
shall cause ITT Industries to execute, and ITT Industries shall succeed to the
rights and obligations of Old ITT under, the Credit Agreements.
3. Old ITT further agrees that prior to each of (a) the successions
referred to in paragraph 2 above, (b) the termination and cancellation of the
Existing Credit Facilities (as defined in the Credit Agreements), (c) the
completion of the Distribution and (d) the satisfaction of
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the other conditions set forth in the Credit Agreements, Old ITT shall not make
any Borrowing or request the issuance of any Letter of Credit under the Credit
Agreements.
This letter agreement shall be deemed to be a part of each of the
Credit Agreements and shall have the same effect as if set forth in full
therein. The failure of the Borrower to comply with the terms of this letter
agreement shall constitute an Event of Default under the Credit Agreements.
Very truly yours,
ITT CORPORATION
by
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Name:
Title:
Accepted and agreed to
as of the date first
written above:
CHEMICAL BANK, as Administrative Agent
by
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Name:
Title:
