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Exhibit 99(b)
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TUC HOLDING COMPANY
TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY
ENSERCH CORPORATION
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
5-YEAR
COMPETITIVE ADVANCE AND
REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT
"FACILITY B"
Dated as of April 24, 1997
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TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent
and
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Competitive Advance Facility Agent
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Article Section Page
I. DEFINITIONS; CONSTRUCTION ........................... 2
1.01. Defined Terms ................................ 2
1.02. Terms Generally .............................. 26
1.03. Construction Prior to and After
the Merger Date...................... 26
II. THE CREDITS ......................................... 27
2.01. Commitments................................... 27
2.02. Loans ..................................... 28
2.03. Competitive Bid Procedure .................... 30
2.04. Borrowing Procedure .......................... 33
2.05. Fees.......................................... 34
2.06. Repayment of Loans; Evidence
of Indebtedness ..................... 34
2.07. Interest on Loans ............................ 35
2.08. Default Interest ............................. 36
2.09. Alternate Rate of Interest ................... 37
2.10. Termination and Reduction of
Commitments.......................... 37
2.11. Prepayment ................................... 38
2.12. Reserve Requirements; Change
in Circumstances..................... 39
2.13. Change in Legality ........................... 41
2.14. Pro Rata Treatment ........................... 42
2.15. Sharing of Setoffs ........................... 43
2.16. Payments ..................................... 43
2.17. Taxes ..................................... 44
2.18. Assignment of Interests
Under Certain Circumstances.......... 48
III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES....................... 48
3.01. Organization; Powers ......................... 48
3.02. Authorization ................................ 49
3.03. Enforceability ............................... 49
3.04. Governmental Approvals ....................... 49
3.05. Financial Statements ......................... 49
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3.06. Litigation.................................... 50
3.07. Federal Reserve Regulations................... 51
3.08. Investment Company Act;
Public Utility Holding
Company Act ......................... 51
3.09. No Material Misstatements .................... 51
3.10. Taxes ........................................ 51
3.11. Employee Benefit Plans ....................... 52
3.12. Significant Subsidiaries...................... 52
3.13. Environmental Matters......................... 52
IV. CONDITIONS OF LENDING................................ 53
4.01. All Borrowings ............................... 53
4.02. Effective Date ............................... 54
4.03. Enserch Closing Date.......................... 55
4.04 First Borrowing by Enserch.................... 57
V. COVENANTS............................................ 57
5.01. Existence..................................... 57
5.02. Business and Properties....................... 58
5.03. Financial Statements, Reports,
Etc.................................. 58
5.04. Insurance .................................... 60
5.05. Taxes, Etc. .................................. 61
5.06. Maintaining Records; Access to
Properties and Inspections........... 61
5.07. ERISA ........................................ 61
5.08. Use of Proceeds............................... 61
5.09. Consolidations, Xxxxxxx, and
Sales of Assets.......................... 61
5.10. Limitations on Liens.......................... 62
5.11. Fixed Charge Coverage......................... 64
5.12. Equity Capitalization Ratio................... 65
5.13. Indebtedness of TU............................ 65
VI. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.................................... 66
VII. THE AGENTS .......................................... 69
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VIII. MISCELLANEOUS...................................... 72
8.01. Notices ................................... 72
8.02. Survival of Agreement ...................... 73
8.03. Binding Effect ............................. 73
8.04. Successors and Assigns ..................... 73
8.05. Expenses; Indemnity ........................ 77
8.06. Right of Setoff............................. 79
8.07. Applicable Law ............................. 79
8.08. Waivers; Amendment ......................... 79
8.09. Entire Agreement ........................... 80
8.10. Severability ............................... 80
8.11. Counterparts ............................... 81
8.12. Headings ................................... 81
8.13. Interest Rate Limitation ................... 81
8.14. Jurisdiction; Venue......................... 81
8.15. Confidentiality............................. 82
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 Borrowing Request
Exhibit B Administrative Questionnaire
Exhibit C Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit D-1 Opinion of Xxxx & Priest LLP, special
counsel to TUC, TU and TU Electric
Exhibit D-2 Opinion of Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P., general counsel
for TUC, TU and TU Electric
Exhibit D-3 Opinion of New York counsel to Enserch
Exhibit D-4 Opinion of Texas counsel to Enserch
Schedule 2.01 Commitments
Schedule 3.06 Litigation
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AMENDED AND RESTATED COMPETITIVE ADVANCE
AND REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AGREEMENT (the
"Agreement") dated as of April 24, 1997, and
effective as of the Effective Date, among TUC
HOLDING COMPANY, a Texas corporation ("TUC"; it
being understood that in connection with the Mergers
(as defined herein), TUC will change its name to
Texas Utilities Company), TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY, a
Texas corporation ("TU"; it being understood that in
connection with the Mergers, TU will change its name
to Texas Energy Industries, Inc.); TEXAS UTILITIES
ELECTRIC COMPANY, a Texas corporation and a wholly
owned subsidiary of TU ("TU Electric") and ENSERCH
CORPORATION, a Texas corporation ("Enserch" and,
together with TUC, TU and TU Electric, the
"Borrowers", and each individually, a "Borrower");
the lenders listed in Schedule 2.01 (together with
their successors and assigns, the "Lenders"); THE
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, a New York banking corporation
("Chase"), as Competitive Advance Facility Agent (in
such capacity, the "CAF Agent"); and TEXAS COMMERCE
BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking
association ("TCB"), as administrative agent for the
Lenders (in such capacity, the "Administrative
Agent"; and, together with the CAF Agent, the
"Agents").
The Borrowers (such term as used in this Agreement being
construed in accordance with Section 1.03) have requested the Lenders to extend
credit in the form of Standby Borrowings (such term and each other capitalized
term used herein having the meaning given it in Article I) (a) on and after the
Effective Date and at any time prior to the Merger Date, to TU and TU Electric,
(b) on and after the Merger Date and at any time prior to the Maturity Date, to
TUC, TU Electric and Enserch, and (c) on and after the Merger Date and at any
time prior to the TU Post-Merger Maturity Date, to TU, in each case in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of
$1,330,000,000. The Borrowers have also requested the Lenders to provide a
procedure pursuant to which the Borrowers may invite the Lenders to bid on an
uncommitted basis on short-term borrowings by the Borrowers. The
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proceeds of any such borrowings are to be used to refinance the Existing TU
Credit Agreements and for working capital and other corporate purposes,
including commercial paper back-up. The Lenders are willing to extend such
credit to the Borrowers on the terms and subject to the conditions herein set
forth.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS; CONSTRUCTION
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 Standby Loan bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II or any Eurodollar Loan converted (pursuant to Section
2.13(ii)) to a loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the
Alternate Base Rate.
"Acquisition Date" shall mean the date as of which a person
or group of related persons first acquires more than 30% of the outstanding
Voting Shares of TU (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the applicable rules and
regulations thereunder); provided, however, that, on and after the Merger Date,
the reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to
TUC.
"Administrative Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.05(b).
"Administrative Questionnaire" shall mean an Administrative
Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
"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.
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"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
greatest of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2
of 1%, (b) the Base CD Rate in effect on such day plus 1% and (c) the Prime
Rate in effect on such day. For purposes hereof, "Prime Rate" shall mean the
rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by Chase 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; "Base CD Rate" shall mean the sum of (a) the product of (i) the
Three-Month Secondary CD Rate and (ii) Statutory Reserves and (b) the
Assessment Rate; "Three-Month Secondary CD Rate" shall mean, for any day, the
secondary market rate for three-month certificates of deposit reported as being
in effect on such day (or, if such day shall not be a Business Day, the next
preceding Business Day) by the Board through the public information telephone
line of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which rate will, under the
current practices of the Board, be published in Federal Reserve Statistical
Release H.15(519) during the week following such day), or, if such rate shall
not be so reported on such day or such next preceding Business Day, the average
of the secondary market quotations for three-month certificates of deposit of
major money center banks in New York City received at approximately 10:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on such day (or, if such day shall not be a Business Day,
on the next preceding Business Day) by the CAF Agent from three New York City
negotiable certificate of deposit dealers of recognized standing selected by
it; "Assessment Rate" shall mean, for any day, the annual rate (rounded upwards
to the next 1/100 of 1%) most recently estimated by Chase as the then current
net annual assessment rate that will be employed in determining amounts payable
by Chase to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any successor) for
insurance by such Corporation (or such successor) of time deposits made in US
dollars at Chase's domestic offices; and "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 Chase, of the quotations for the day of such
transactions received by Chase from three Federal funds brokers of recognized
standing selected
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by it. If for any reason Chase shall have determined (which determination shall
be conclusive absent manifest error; provided that Chase, shall, upon request,
provide to the applicable Borrower a certificate setting forth in reasonable
detail the basis for such determination) that it is unable to ascertain the
Federal Funds Effective Rate for any reason, including the inability of Chase
to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms thereof, the
Alternate Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause (a) 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.
"Assignment and Acceptance" shall mean an assignment and
acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee in the form of Exhibit C.
"Auction Fees" shall mean the competitive advance auction
fees provided for in the Letter Agreement (with references to the Financing
Documents and provisions referred to therein being deemed to be references to
this Agreement and the Facility A Credit Agreement, as applicable, and the
analogous provisions herein and therein), payable to the CAF Agent by the
applicable Borrower at the time of each competitive advance auction request
made by such Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03.
"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 have the meaning given such term
in the preamble hereto.
"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.
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"Business Day" shall mean any day (other than a day which is
a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday in the State of New York or the State of
Texas) on which banks are open for business in New York City and Houston;
provided, however, that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the
term "Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for
dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.
"A Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred if (a)
any person or group of related persons (other than TU, any Subsidiary of TU, or
any pension, savings or other employee benefit plan for the benefit of
employees of TU and/or any Subsidiary of TU) shall have acquired beneficial
ownership of more than 30% of the outstanding Voting Shares of TU (within the
meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder); provided that a
Change in Control shall not be deemed to have occurred if such acquisition has
been approved, prior to the Acquisition Date and the date on which any tender
offer for Voting Shares of TU was commenced, by a majority of the Disinterested
Directors of TU, or (b) during any period of 12 consecutive months, commencing
before or after the date of this Agreement, individuals who on the first day of
such period were directors of TU (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 TU;
provided, however, that no Change of Control shall be deemed to have occurred
as a result of the Mergers; and provided further, however, that, on and after
the Merger Date, each reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed to be
a reference to TUC.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the
same may be amended from time to time.
"Commission" shall mean the Public Utility Commission of the
State of Texas.
"Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the
Commitment of such Lender set forth in Schedule 2.01 hereto, as such Commitment
may be permanently terminated or reduced from time to time pursuant to Section
2.10 or modified from time to time pursuant to Section 8.04. The Commitment of
each Lender shall
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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 Margin" shall mean, as to any Eurodollar
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.
"Competitive Bid Rate" shall mean, as to any Competitive Bid,
(i) in the case of a Eurodollar Loan, the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period
requested in such Competitive Bid plus the Competitive Bid 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 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
Eurodollar Competitive Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan.
"Consolidated Earnings Available for Fixed Charges" for any
twelve-month period means (i) consolidated net income, calculated after
deducting preferred stock dividends and preferred securities distributions of
Subsidiaries, but before any extraordinary items and before the effect in such
twelve-month period of any change in accounting principles promulgated by the
Financial
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Accounting Standards Board becoming effective after December 31, 1996, less
(ii) allowances for equity funds used during construction to the extent that
such allowances, taken as a whole, increased such consolidated net income, plus
(iii) provisions for Federal income taxes, to the extent that such provisions,
taken as a whole, decreased such consolidated net income, plus (iv)
Consolidated Fixed Charges, all determined for such twelve-month period with
respect to TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis;
provided, however, that in computing Consolidated Earnings Available for Fixed
Charges for any twelve-month period the following amounts shall be excluded:
(i) the effect of any regulatory disallowances resolving fuel or other issues
in any proceeding before the Commission or the Railroad Commission of Texas in
an aggregate amount not to exceed $100,000,000, (ii) any non-cash book losses
relating to the sale or write-down of assets, and (iii) one time costs incurred
in connection with the Mergers in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$100,000,000; provided, however, that on and after the Merger Date, the
reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
"Consolidated Fixed Charges" for any twelve-month period
means the sum of (i) interest on mortgage bonds, (ii) interest on other
long-term debt, (iii) other interest expense and (iv) preferred stock dividends
and preferred securities distributions of Subsidiaries, all determined for such
twelve-month period with respect to TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis; provided, however, that on and after the Merger Date, the
reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
"Consolidated Shareholders' Equity" means the sum of (i)
total common stock equity plus (ii) preferred stock not subject to mandatory
redemption, both determined with respect to TU and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; provided, however, that on and after the
Merger Date, the reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed to be a
reference to TUC.
"Consolidated Subsidiary" means at any date any Subsidiary or
other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of TU, TUC,
TU Electric or Enserch, as the case may be, in its consolidated financial
statements as of such date.
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"Consolidated Total Capitalization" means the sum of (i)
total common stock equity, (ii) preferred stock and preferred securities and
(iii) long-term debt (less amounts due currently), all determined with respect
to TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, but without
giving effect to any acceleration or potential acceleration of any long-term
debt; provided, however, that on and after the Merger Date, the reference in
this definition to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
"Controlled Group" shall mean all members of a controlled
group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not
incorporated) under common control which, together with TU, are treated as a
single employer under Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code; provided, however,
that on and after the Merger Date, the reference in this definition to TU shall
be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
"D&P" shall mean Duff & Xxxxxx Credit Rating Agency Co.
"Default" shall mean any event or condition which upon
notice, lapse of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.
"Disinterested Director" shall mean any member of the Board
of Directors of TU who is not affiliated, directly or indirectly, with, or
appointed by, a person or group of related persons (other than TU, any
Subsidiary of TU, or any pension, savings or other employee benefit plan for
the benefit of employees of TU and/or any Subsidiary of TU) acquiring the
beneficial ownership of more than 30% of the outstanding Voting Shares of TU
(within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder) and who
either was a member of the Board of Directors of TU prior to the Acquisition
Date or was recommended for election by a majority of the Disinterested
Directors in office prior to the Acquisition Date; provided, however, that on
and after the Merger Date, each reference in this definition to TU shall be
deemed to be a reference to TUC.
"dollars" or "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States
of America.
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"EEX" shall mean Enserch Exploration, Inc., which on the date
hereof is an approximately 83% owned Subsidiary of Enserch.
"Effective Date" shall mean the later of the date of this
Agreement and the date on which each condition set forth in Section 4.02 has
been satisfied.
"Enserch Applicable Margin" shall mean on any date, with
respect to Eurodollar Standby Loans, the applicable percentage set forth below
based upon the Enserch Ratings in effect on such date:
Applicable Percentage
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Category 1
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BBB or higher by S&P; .2100%
Baa2 or higher by Xxxxx'x;
BBB or higher D&P or Fitch;
Category 2
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BBB- by S&P; .2250%
Baa3 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB- by D&P or Fitch;
Category 3
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BB+ by S&P; .4000%
Ba1 by Xxxxx'x;
BB+ by D&P or Fitch;
Category 4
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BB or lower by S&P; .5375%
Ba2 or lower by Xxxxx'x;
BB or lower by D&P or Fitch;
For purposes of the foregoing, (i) if both D&P and Fitch have established
Enserch Ratings, only one of such Enserch Ratings shall be employed for
purposes of determining the Enserch Applicable Margin and the Enserch Rating
employed shall be the Enserch Rating from the institution that has for the
longest period of time had an Enserch Rating established for Enserch; (ii) if
more than two Enserch Ratings exist and the applicable Enserch Ratings
established or deemed to have been established by the Rating Agencies
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shall fall within different Categories, the Enserch Applicable Margin shall be
based upon the Category in which the largest number of Enserch Ratings falls or
is deemed to fall, provided, that if there shall be no such Category, the
middle Category shall apply; (iii) if only two Enserch Ratings exist, the
Enserch Applicable Margin shall, subject to clause (iv) below, be based upon
the lower of such Enserch Ratings; (iv) if neither S&P nor Xxxxx'x shall have
an Enserch Rating in effect, then the Enserch Applicable Margin shall be based
upon Category 4; and (v) if any Enserch Rating established or deemed to have
been established by any Rating Agency shall be changed (other than as a result
of a change in the rating system of such Rating Agency), such change shall be
effective as of the date on which such change is first announced by the Rating
Agency making such change. Each change in the Enserch Applicable Margin shall
apply to all Eurodollar Standby Loans that are outstanding at any time 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, or if any Rating Agency shall
cease rating the senior, unsecured, non-credit enhanced long term indebtedness
for borrowed money of Enserch (other than by reason of any action or nonaction
by Enserch following or in anticipation of a ratings downgrade), the parties
hereto shall negotiate in good faith to amend the references to specific
ratings in this definition (including by way of substituting another Rating
Agency mutually acceptable to the Borrowers and the Agents for the Rating
Agency with respect to which the rating system has changed or for which no
Enserch Rating is then in effect) to reflect such changed rating system or the
nonavailability of Enserch Ratings from such Rating Agency, and pending
agreement on such amendment (but subject to clause (iv) above), the Enserch
Rating in effect immediately prior to such change or cessation will be used in
determining the Enserch Applicable Margin. If any Rating Agency shall not have
an Enserch Rating in effect by reason of any action or nonaction by Enserch
following or in anticipation of a ratings downgrade, then such Rating Agency
shall be deemed to have established an Enserch Rating in Category 4.
"Enserch Closing Date" shall mean a date that is not later
than 30 days after the Merger Date upon which the conditions set forth in
Section 4.03 shall be satisfied and Enserch shall become a party to this
Agreement and the Facility A Credit Agreement.
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"Enserch Ratings" shall mean the ratings from time to time in
effect established by the Rating Agencies for Xxxxxxx's senior, unsecured,
non-credit enhanced, long-term indebtedness for borrowed money.
"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 is a member of a group of (i) organizations described
in Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code and (ii) solely for purposes of the Lien
created under Section 412(n) of the Code, organizations described in Section
414(m) or (o) of the Code of which the relevant Borrower is a member.
"ERISA Event" shall mean (i) any "Reportable Event"; (ii) 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;
(iii) 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 any
Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan;
(iv) the receipt by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC of any
notice relating to the intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a
trustee to administer any Plan; (v) the receipt by any Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate of any notice concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability 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; (vi) the
occurrence of a "prohibited transaction" with respect to which any Borrower or
any of its subsidiaries is liable; and (vii) any other similar event or
condition with respect to a Plan or Multiemployer Plan that could result in
liability of any Borrower other than a liability to pay premiums or benefits
when due.
"Eurodollar Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurodollar Loans.
"Eurodollar 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.
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"Eurodollar Loan" shall mean any Eurodollar Competitive Loan
or Eurodollar Standby Loan.
"Eurodollar Standby Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing
comprised of Eurodollar Standby Loans.
"Eurodollar 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.
"Existing Enserch Credit Agreement" shall mean the Credit
Agreement dated as of October 4, 1996 among Enserch, The Chase Manhattan Bank,
as administrative agent and auction agent, and the co-agents and lenders named
therein, as amended.
"Existing TU Credit Agreements" shall mean the Competitive
Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreements for Facility A and Facilities
B and C, each dated April 26, 1996 among TU, TU Electric, TCB, as
administrative agent, and Chemical Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility Agent,
as amended.
"Facility A Credit Agreement" shall mean the $570,000,000
Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility
Agreement dated as of the date hereof among the parties hereto, as amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time.
"Facility Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.05(a).
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"Facility Fee Percentage" shall mean on any date the
applicable percentage set forth below based upon the Ratings in effect on such
date:
Facility Fee
Percentage
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Category 1
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BBB+ or higher by S&P; .0900%
Baa1 or higher by Xxxxx'x;
BBB+ or higher by D&P or Fitch;
Category 2
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BBB by S&P; .1250%
Baa2 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB by D&P or Fitch;
Category 3
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BBB- by S&P; .2000%
Baa3 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB- by D&P or Fitch;
Category 4
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BB+ or lower by S&P; .3125%
Ba1 or lower by Xxxxx'x;
BB+ or lower by D&P or Fitch;
For purposes of the foregoing, (i) if both D&P and Fitch have established
Ratings, only one of such Ratings shall be employed for purposes of determining
the Facility Fee Percentage and the Rating employed shall be the Rating from
the institution that has for the longest period of time had a Rating
established for TU Electric; (ii) if more than two Ratings exist and the
applicable Ratings established or deemed to have been established by the Rating
Agencies shall fall within different Categories, the Facility Fee Percentage
shall be based upon the Category in which the largest number of Ratings falls
or is deemed to fall, provided, that if there shall be no such Category, the
middle Category shall apply; (iii) if only two Ratings exist, the Facility Fee
Percentage shall, subject to clause (iv) below, be based upon the lower of such
Ratings; (iv) if neither S&P nor Xxxxx'x shall have a Rating in effect, then
the Facility Fee Percentage shall be based upon
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Category 4; and (v) if any Rating established or deemed to have been
established by any Rating Agency shall be changed (other than as a result of a
change in the rating system of such Rating Agency), such change shall be
effective as of the date on which such change is first announced by the Rating
Agency making such change. Each such change shall apply 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, or if any Rating Agency shall cease
rating the first mortgage bonds of TU Electric (other than by reason of any
action or nonaction by TU Electric following or in anticipation of a ratings
downgrade), the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to amend the
references to specific ratings in this definition (including by way of
substituting another Rating Agency mutually acceptable to the Borrowers and the
Agents for the Rating Agency with respect to which the rating system has
changed or for which no Rating is then in effect) to reflect such changed
rating system or the nonavailability of Ratings from such Rating Agency, and
pending agreement on such amendment (but subject to clause (iv) above), the
Rating in effect immediately prior to such change or cessation will be used in
determining the Facility Fee Percentage. If any Rating Agency shall not have a
Rating in effect by reason of any action or nonaction by TU Electric following
or in anticipation of a ratings downgrade, then such Rating Agency shall be
deemed to have established a Rating in Category 4.
"Fees" shall mean the Facility Fee, the Auction Fees and the
Administrative Fees.
"Financial Officer" of any corporation shall mean the chief
financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, associate or
assistant treasurer, or any responsible officer designated by one of the
foregoing persons, of such corporation.
"First Mortgage" shall mean (i) the TU Electric Mortgage and
(ii) any Mortgage and Deed of Trust of TU Electric issued to refund, to replace
or in substitution for the TU Electric Mortgage.
"Fitch" shall mean Fitch Investors Service, L.P.
"Fixed Rate Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Fixed Rate Loans.
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"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.
"Fuel Company" shall mean Texas Utilities Fuel Company, a
Texas corporation, and its successors.
"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.
"Indebtedness" of any corporation shall mean all indebtedness
representing money borrowed which 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, with respect to any Loan,
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and, in the case of a
Eurodollar 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 Loan of a different
Type.
"Interest Period" shall mean (a) as to any Eurodollar
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing 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; provided, that for any Eurodollar Borrowing by TU, such period
shall end on the numerically corresponding day (or, if there is no numerically
corresponding day, on the last day) of the calendar month that is 1 month
thereafter, or, in addition, in the case of any Eurodollar Borrowing made
during the 30-day period ending on the Maturity Date, the period commencing on
the date of such Borrowing and ending on the seventh or
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fourteenth day thereafter, as the Borrower may elect, (b) as to any ABR
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing 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 2.02(e)
or repaid or prepaid in accordance with Section 2.06 or Section 2.11 and (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; 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 Eurodollar 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.
"Letter Agreement" shall mean the Engagement and Fee Letter
dated April 11, 1997 among the Borrowers and the Agents.
"LIBO Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar
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 approximately equal in principal amount to (i) in the case of a
Standby Borrowing, the Administrative Agent's portion of such Eurodollar
Borrowing and (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 for a
maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered to the principal London
offices of Chase 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 asset, any mortgage,
lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect
of such asset. For the
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purposes of this Agreement, any person shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien
any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or
lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title
retention agreement relating to such asset.
"Loan" shall mean a Competitive Loan or a Standby Loan,
whether made as a Eurodollar Loan, an ABR Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan, as
permitted hereby.
"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 Change" shall mean a materially adverse
change in the business, assets, operations or financial condition of TU and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole which makes any Borrower unable to perform any of
its obligations under this Agreement or the Facility A Credit Agreement or
which impairs the rights of, or benefits available to, the Lenders under this
Agreement or the Facility A Credit Agreement; provided, however, that on and
after the Merger Date, the reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed
to be a reference to TUC; provided further that the distribution of the capital
stock of EEX shall not be deemed to be a Material Adverse Change.
"Maturity Date" shall mean the fifth anniversary of the date
hereof or if such anniversary does not occur on a Business Day, the Business
Day immediately preceding such anniversary.
"Merger Agreement" shall mean the Agreement and Plan of
Merger among Enserch, TU, TUC and TXA, Inc., as amended and restated by the
Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of April 13, 1996,
among Enserch, TU and TUC and as in effect on the date hereof.
"Merger Date" shall mean the date on which the Mergers are
consummated in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement.
"Mergers" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
Joint Proxy Statement/Prospectus dated September 23, 1996 for TU and Enserch.
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"Mining Company" shall mean Texas Utilities Mining Company, a
Texas corporation, and its successors.
"Moody's" shall mean Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a multiemployer plan as
defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate 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 in the form of Exhibit A-2.
"Operating Agreements" shall mean the (i) Operating Agreement
dated April 28, 1978 between Mining Company and Dallas Power & Light Company,
Texas Electric Service Company and Texas Power & Light Company, as amended by
the Modification of Operating Agreement dated April 20, 1979 between the same
parties and (ii) the Operating Agreement dated December 15, 1976, between Fuel
Company and Dallas Power & Light Company, Texas Electric Service Company and
Texas Power & Light Company, as the same may be amended from time to time,
provided that any resulting amended agreement shall not increase the scope of
Liens permitted under Section 5.10(i).
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or
any entity succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
"Permitted Encumbrances" means, as to any person at any date,
any of the following:
(a) (i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges
not then delinquent and Liens for workers' compensation awards and
similar obligations not then delinquent and undetermined Liens or
charges incidental to construction, Liens for taxes, assessments or
governmental charges then delinquent but the validity of which is
being contested at the time by such person in good faith against which
an adequate reserve has been established, with respect to which levy
and execution thereon have been stayed and continue to be stayed and
which do not impair the use
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of the property or the operation of such person's business, (ii) Liens
incurred or created in connection with or to secure the performance of
bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of money),
leases, statutory obligations, surety bonds or appeal bonds, and (iii)
mechanics' or materialmen's Liens, assessments or similar
encumbrances, the existence of which do not impair the use of the
property subject thereto for the purposes for which it was acquired,
and other Liens of like nature incurred or created in the ordinary
course of business;
(b) Liens securing indebtedness, neither assumed nor
guaranteed by such person nor on which it customarily pays interest,
existing upon real estate or rights in or relating to real estate
acquired by such person for any substation, transmission line,
transportation line, distribution line, right of way or similar
purpose;
(c) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or
public authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant,
license or permit, or by any provision of law, to terminate such
right, power, franchise, grant, license or permit or to purchase or
recapture or to designate a purchaser of any of the property of such
person;
(d) rights reserved to or vested in others to take or receive
any part of the power, gas, oil, coal, lignite or other minerals or
timber generated, developed, manufactured or produced by, or grown on,
or acquired with, any property of such person and Liens upon the
production from property of power, gas, oil, coal, lignite or other
minerals or timber, and the by-products and proceeds thereof, to
secure the obligations to pay all or a part of the expenses of
exploration, drilling, mining or development of such property only out
of such production or proceeds;
(e) easements, restrictions, exceptions or reservations in
any property and/or rights of way of such person for the purpose of
roads, pipe lines, substations, transmission lines, transportation
lines, distribution lines, removal of oil, gas, lignite, coal or other
minerals or timber, and other like purposes, or for the joint or
common use of real property, rights of way, facilities and/or
equipment, and defects,
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irregularities and deficiencies in titles of any property and/or
rights of way, which do not materially impair the use of such property
and/or rights of way for the purposes for which such property and/or
rights of way are held by such person;
(f) rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or
public authority to use, control or regulate any property of such
person;
(g) any obligations or duties, affecting the property of such
person, to any municipality or public authority with respect to any
franchise, grant, license or permit;
(h) as of any particular time any controls, Liens,
restrictions, regulations, easements, exceptions or reservations of
any municipality or public authority applying particularly to space
satellites or nuclear fuel;
(i) any judgment Lien against such person securing a judgment
for an amount not exceeding 25% of Consolidated Shareholders' Equity,
so long as the finality of such judgment is being contested by
appropriate proceedings conducted in good faith and execution xxxxxxx
is stayed;
(j) any Lien arising by reason of deposits with or giving of
any form of security to any federal, state, municipal or other
governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or
instrumentality, domestic or foreign, for any purpose at any time as
required by law or governmental regulation as a condition to the
transaction of any business or the exercise of any privilege or
license, or to enable such person to maintain self-insurance or to
participate in any fund for liability on any insurance risks or in
connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, old age
pensions or other social security or to share in the privileges or
benefits required for companies participating in such arrangements; or
(k) any landlords' Lien on fixtures or movable property
located on premises leased by such person in the ordinary course of
business so long as the rent secured thereby is not in default.
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"person" shall mean any natural person, corporation, business
trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership or government, or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Plan" shall mean any employee pension benefit plan described
under Section 3(2) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the
provisions of Title IV of ERISA that is maintained by any Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate.
"Rating Agencies" shall mean Xxxxx'x, S&P, D&P and Fitch and
any substitute rating agencies agreed upon by the Borrowers and the Agents.
"Ratings" shall mean the ratings from time to time
established by the Rating Agencies for TU Electric's first mortgage bonds
issued under the TU Electric Mortgage.
"Register" shall have the meaning given such term
in Section 8.04(d).
"Reportable Event" shall mean any reportable event as defined
in Sections 4043(c)(1)-(8) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder (other
than a reportable event for which the 30-day notice requirement has been
waived) 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 representing at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate principal amount of the
Loans outstanding.
"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.
"S&P" shall mean Standard & Poor's (a division of The McGraw
Hill Companies).
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"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
"Significant Subsidiary" shall mean at any time (a) on or
prior to the Merger Date, a Subsidiary of TU and (b) on or after the Merger
Date, a Subsidiary of TUC, in either case which as of such time satisfies the
definition of a "significant subsidiary" contained as of the date hereof in
Regulation S-X of the SEC; provided that TU Electric shall at all times be
considered a Significant Subsidiary of TU; provided, further, that each of TU,
TU Electric and any other Borrower hereunder shall at all times on and after
the Merger Date be considered a Significant Subsidiary of TUC.
"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 Loans" shall mean the revolving loans made pursuant
to Section 2.04. Each Standby Loan shall be a Eurodollar Standby Loan or an
ABR Loan.
"Statutory Reserves" shall mean a fraction (expressed as a
decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which
is the number one minus the aggregate (without duplication) of the maximum
reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental
reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board and any other banking
authority to which the Administrative Agent is subject for new negotiable
nonpersonal time deposits in dollars of over $100,000 with maturities
approximately equal to three months. Statutory Reserves shall be adjusted
automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve
percentage.
"Subsidiary" shall mean, with respect to any person (the
"parent"), any corporation or other entity of which securities or other
ownership interests having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the
board of directors or other persons performing similar functions are at the
time directly or indirectly owned by such parent.
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"Substantial" shall mean an amount in excess of 10% of the
consolidated assets of TU or TUC, as the case may be, and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"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.
"TU Post-Merger Availability Period" shall mean the period
commencing on the Merger Date and ending on the later of (a) the date that is
180 days after the Merger Date and (b) August 29, 1997.
"TU Post-Merger Maturity Date" shall mean the last day of the
TU Post-Merger Availability Period.
"TU/TUC Applicable Margin" shall mean on any date, with
respect to Eurodollar Standby Loans, the applicable percentage set forth below
based upon the Ratings in effect on such date:
Applicable Percentage
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Category 1
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BBB+ or higher by S&P .2600%
Baa1 or higher by Xxxxx'x;
BBB+ or higher by D&P or
Fitch;
Category 2
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BBB by S&P; .2750%
Baa2 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB by D&P or Fitch;
Category 3
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BBB- by S&P; .4500%
Baa3 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB- by D&P or Fitch;
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Applicable Percentage
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Category 4
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BB+ or lower by S&P; .5875%
Ba1 or lower by Xxxxx'x;
BB+ or lower by D&P or
Fitch;
For purposes of the foregoing, (i) if both D&P and Fitch have established
Ratings, only one of such Ratings shall be employed for purposes of determining
the TU/TUC Applicable Margin and the Rating employed shall be the Rating from
the institution that has for the longest period of time had a Rating
established for TU Electric; (ii) if more than two Ratings exist and the
applicable Ratings established or deemed to have been established by the Rating
Agencies shall fall within different Categories, the TU/TUC Applicable Margin
shall be based upon the Category in which the largest number of Ratings falls
or is deemed to fall, provided, that if there shall be no such Category, the
middle Category shall apply; (iii) if only two Ratings exist, the TU/TUC
Applicable Margin shall, subject to clause (iv) below, be based upon the lower
of such Ratings; (iv) if neither S&P nor Moody's shall have a Rating in effect,
then the TU/TUC Applicable Margin shall be based upon Category 4; and (v) if
any Rating established or deemed to have been established by any Rating Agency
shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of
such Rating Agency), such change shall be effective as of the date on which
such change is first announced by the Rating Agency making such change. Each
change in the TU/TUC Applicable Margin shall apply to all Eurodollar Standby
Loans that are outstanding at any time 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, or if any Rating Agency shall cease rating the first
mortgage bonds of TU Electric (other than by reason of any action or nonaction
by TU Electric following or in anticipation of a ratings downgrade), the
parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to amend the references to
specific ratings in this definition (including by way of substituting another
Rating Agency mutually acceptable to the Borrowers and the Agents for the
Rating Agency with respect to which the rating system has changed or for which
no Rating is then in effect) to reflect such changed rating system or the
nonavailability of Ratings from such Rating
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Agency, and pending agreement on such amendment (but subject to clause (iv)
above), the Rating in effect immediately prior to such change or cessation will
be used in determining the TU/TUC Applicable Margin. If any Rating Agency shall
not have a Rating in effect by reason of any action or nonaction by TU Electric
following or in anticipation of a ratings downgrade, then such Rating Agency
shall be deemed to have established a Rating in Category 4.
"TU Electric Applicable Margin" shall mean on any date, with
respect to Eurodollar Standby Loans, the applicable percentage set forth below
based upon the Ratings in effect on such date:
Applicable Percentage
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Category 1
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BBB+ or higher by S&P; .2100%
Baa1 or higher by Xxxxx'x;
BBB+ or higher D&P or Fitch;
Category 2
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BBB by S&P; .2250%
Baa2 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB by D&P or Fitch;
Category 3
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BBB- by S&P; .4000%
Baa3 by Xxxxx'x;
BBB- by D&P or Fitch;
Category 4
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BB+ or lower by S&P; .5375%
Ba1 or lower by Xxxxx'x;
BB+ or lower by D&P or Fitch;
For purposes of the foregoing, (i) if both D&P and Fitch have established
Ratings, only one of such Ratings shall be employed for purposes of determining
the TU Electric Applicable Margin and the Rating employed shall be the Rating
from the institution that has for the longest period of time had a Rating
established for TU Electric; (ii) if more than two Ratings exist and the
applicable Ratings established or deemed to have been established by the Rating
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Agencies shall fall within different Categories, the TU Electric Applicable
Margin shall be based upon the Category in which the largest number of Ratings
falls or is deemed to fall, provided, that if there shall be no such Category,
the middle Category shall apply; (iii) if only two Ratings exist, the TU
Electric Applicable Margin shall, subject to clause (iv) below, be based upon
the lower of such Ratings; (iv) if neither S&P nor Moody's shall have a Rating
in effect, then the TU Electric Applicable Margin shall be based upon Category
4; and (v) if any Rating established or deemed to have been established by any
Rating Agency shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the
rating system of such Rating Agency), such change shall be effective as of the
date on which such change is first announced by the Rating Agency making such
change. Each change in the TU Electric Applicable Margin shall apply to all
Eurodollar Standby Loans that are outstanding at any time 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, or if any Rating Agency shall cease
rating the first mortgage bonds of TU Electric (other than by reason of any
action or nonaction by TU Electric following or in anticipation of a ratings
downgrade), the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to amend the
references to specific ratings in this definition (including by way of
substituting another Rating Agency mutually acceptable to the Borrowers and the
Agents for the Rating Agency with respect to which the rating system has
changed or for which no Rating is then in effect) to reflect such changed
rating system or the nonavailability of Ratings from such Rating Agency, and
pending agreement on such amendment (but subject to clause (iv) above), the
Rating in effect immediately prior to such change or cessation will be used in
determining the TU Electric Applicable Margin. If any Rating Agency shall not
have a Rating in effect by reason of any action or nonaction by TU Electric
following or in anticipation of a ratings downgrade, then such Rating Agency
shall be deemed to have established a Rating in Category 4.
"TU Electric Mortgage" shall mean the Mortgage and Deed of
Trust dated as of December 1, 1983, from TU Electric to Irving Trust Company
(now The Bank of New York), Trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
"Type", when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing, shall
refer to the Rate by reference to which
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interest on such Loan or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing is determined.
For purposes hereof, "Rate" shall include the LIBO Rate, the Alternate Base
Rate and the Fixed Rate.
"Voting Shares" shall mean, as to shares of a particular
corporation, outstanding shares of stock of any class of such corporation
entitled to vote in the election of directors, excluding shares entitled so to
vote only upon the happening of some contingency.
"Wholly Owned Subsidiary" shall mean any Consolidated
Subsidiary all the shares of common stock and other voting capital stock or
other voting ownership interests having ordinary voting power to vote in the
election of the board of directors or other governing body performing similar
functions (except directors' qualifying shares) of which are at the time
directly or indirectly owned by TU, or TUC, as the case may be.
"Withdrawal Liability" shall mean liability of a Borrower
established under Section 4201 of ERISA as a result of a complete or partial
withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of
Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
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 Borrowers' audited
financial statements referred to in Section 3.05.
SECTION 1.03. Construction Prior to and After the Merger
Date. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
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contained herein or the definition of "Borrowers", unless and until the Merger
Date shall have occurred, neither TUC nor Enserch shall be permitted to borrow
hereunder. Prior to the Merger Date, all determinations or calculations to be
made with respect to the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall be made for all
periods prior to the Merger Date in respect of which such determinations or
calculations are being made with respect to TU and TU Electric and their
Subsidiaries on a combined and consolidated basis.
(b) On and after the Merger Date, each of TU Electric, and,
subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 4.03, TUC
and Enserch and, during the TU Post-Merger Availability Period, TU, will be
permitted to borrow hereunder. Subject to the second proviso in Section 5.11,
on and after the Merger Date, all determinations or calculations to be made
(including periods commencing prior to the Merger Date) with respect to the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries shall be made for all periods in respect of
which such determinations or calculations are being made with respect to TUC,
TU, Enserch and TU Electric and their Subsidiaries on a combined and
consolidated basis.
(c) All representations and warranties by the Borrowers under
Article III will be deemed to have been made by each of TUC and Enserch on and
as of the Merger Date.
ARTICLE II. THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. 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, at
any time and from time to time (a) on and after the date hereof and on or prior
to the Merger Date, to TU and TU Electric, (b) on or after the Merger Date and
until the earlier of the Maturity Date and the termination of the Commitment of
such Lender, to TUC, TU Electric and, subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 4.03 and to Section 2.11(d), Enserch and (c)
after the Merger Date and until the earlier of the TU Post-Merger Maturity Date
and the termination of the Commitment of such Lender, to TU, in an aggregate
principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed such Xxxxxx's Commitment
minus the amount by which the Competitive Loans made to any Borrower and
outstanding at
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such time shall be deemed to have used such Commitment pursuant to Section
2.14, subject, however, to the conditions that (i) at no time shall the sum of
(x) the outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans plus (y)
the outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Competitive Loans exceed the
Total Commitment, (ii) at no time shall the sum of (x) the outstanding
aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans and the outstanding aggregate
principal amount of all Competitive Loans to Enserch plus (y) the outstanding
aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans and the outstanding aggregate
principal amount of all Competitive Loans to Enserch under and as defined in
the Facility A Credit Agreement exceed $650,000,000, (iii) at no time shall the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans made by any Lender
exceed the amount of such Lender's Commitment and (iv) at all times, the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans made by each Lender
to each Borrower shall equal the product of (A) the percentage which such
Xxxxxx's Commitment represents of the Total Commitment times (B) the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of all Standby Loans made to such
Borrower.
Within the foregoing limits, the Borrowers may borrow, pay or
prepay and reborrow Standby Loans hereunder, on and after the Effective Date or
the Merger Date, as the case may be, and prior to the Maturity Date or the TU
Post-Merger Maturity Date, in the case of TU, 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 Loans made by the Lenders ratably in
accordance with their respective 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 Competitive Loan shall
be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.03. The
Standby Loans or Competitive 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 and (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 $10,000,000 (or an
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aggregate principal amount equal to the remaining balance of the available
Commitments).
(b) Each Competitive Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of
Eurodollar Competitive Loans or Fixed Rate Loans, and each other Borrowing
shall be comprised entirely of Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as the applicable
Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.04, as applicable. Each
Lender may at its option make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or
foreign branch 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.
(c) Subject to paragraph (d) below, 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 Houston,
Texas, not later than noon, Houston time, and the Administrative Agent shall by
2:00 p.m., Houston time, credit the amounts so received to the account or
accounts specified from time to time in one or more notices delivered by the
applicable Borrower 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 shall be made by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with Section
2.14. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender
prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to
the Administrative Agent such Xxxxxx's portion of such Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Xxxxxx has made such 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. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have made
such portion available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and such
Borrower (without waiving any claim against such Lender for such Lender's
failure to make such portion available) severally agree to repay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together
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with interest thereon, 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, the Federal Funds Effective Rate. 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) A Borrower may refinance all or any part of any Standby
Borrowing with a Standby Borrowing of the same or a different Type, subject to
the conditions and limitations set forth in this Agreement. Any Standby
Borrowing or part thereof so refinanced shall be deemed to be repaid or prepaid
in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.11, as applicable, with the proceeds of a
new Standby Borrowing, and the proceeds of the new Standby Borrowing, to the
extent they do not exceed the principal amount of the Standby Borrowing being
refinanced, shall not be paid by the Lenders to the Administrative Agent or by
the Administrative Agent to such Borrower pursuant to paragraph (c) above.
SECTION 2.03. Competitive Bid Procedure. (a) In
order to request Competitive Bids, a Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy to
the CAF Agent a duly completed Competitive Bid Request in the form of Exhibit
A-1 hereto, to be received by the CAF Agent (i) in the case of a Eurodollar
Competitive Borrowing, not later than 11:00 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 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one
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 CAF Agent's sole discretion, and the CAF 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 Eurodollar 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
$5,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000, and (y) the Interest
Period with respect thereto (which may not end after the Maturity Date).
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Promptly after its receipt of a Competitive Bid Request that is not rejected as
aforesaid, the CAF Agent shall telecopy to each Lender a Notice of Competitive
Bid Request, in the form of Exhibit A-2, 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 Borrower responsive to such Borrower's
Competitive Bid Request. Each Competitive Bid by a Lender must be received by
the CAF Agent by telecopy, in the form of Exhibit A-3 hereto, (i) in the case
of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, 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. Multiple bids will be
accepted by the CAF Agent. Competitive Bids that do not conform substantially
to the format of Exhibit A-3 may be rejected by the CAF Agent, and the CAF
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 by the
applicable Borrower) of the Competitive Loan or Loans that the Lender is
willing to make to such Borrower, (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 CAF Agent
by telecopy (I) in the case of Eurodollar 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 CAF Agent shall notify the Borrower by telecopy, of
all the Competitive Bids made, the Competitive Bid Rate and the principal
amount of each Competitive Loan
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in respect of which such Competitive Bid was made and the identity of the
Lender that made each such bid by (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive
Borrowing, not later than 10:00 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 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of a
proposed Competitive Borrowing. The CAF Agent shall send a copy of all
Competitive Bids to the Borrower for its records as soon as practicable after
the completion of the bidding process set forth in this Section 2.03.
(d) A Borrower may in its sole and absolute discretion,
subject only to the provisions of this paragraph (d), accept or reject any or
all Competitive Bids referred to in paragraph (c) above. Such Borrower shall
notify the CAF 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
by (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 10:30
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 10:30
a.m., New York City time, on the day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing;
provided, however, that (i) the failure by such Borrower to give such notice
shall be deemed to be a rejection of all the bids referred to in paragraph (c)
above, (ii) such Borrower shall not accept a bid made at a particular
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 such Borrower shall not exceed the principal amount specified in
the Competitive Bid Request, (iv) if such 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 by such Borrower to exceed
the amount specified in the Competitive Bid Request, then such 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
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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 applicable Borrower. A notice given by a Borrower
pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall be irrevocable.
(e) The CAF Agent shall promptly notify each bidding Lender
(and the Administrative Agent), by telecopy, whether or not its Competitive Bid
has been accepted (and if so, in what amount and at what Competitive Bid Rate)
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 (i) or (ii) of Section 2.01 would not be met. No Competitive
Borrowing shall be requested or made hereunder (i) to TUC or Enserch prior to
the Merger Date, (ii) after the Merger Date, to Enserch if TUC shall no longer
own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the outstanding common stock of Enserch or
if the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 shall not have been satisfied, or
(iii) to TU after the TU Post-Merger Maturity Date.
(g) If either the Administrative Agent or CAF Agent shall
elect to submit a Competitive Bid in its capacity as a Lender, such party shall
submit such bid directly to the Borrower one quarter of an hour earlier than
the latest time at which the other Lenders are required to submit their bids to
the CAF Agent pursuant to paragraph (b) above.
(h) Each of the Borrowers and the CAF Agent shall deliver to
the Administrative Agent by telecopy copies of all notices delivered by it
pursuant to this Section 2.03 at the same times such notices are delivered
hereunder. All notices required by this Section 2.03 shall be given in
accordance with Section 8.01.
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(i) A Competitive Bid Request shall not be made within five
Business Days after the date of any previous Competitive Bid which was accepted
by a Borrower pursuant to paragraph (d) above.
SECTION 2.04. Borrowing Procedure. 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 (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 10:00
a.m., Houston time, three Business Days before such Borrowing, and (b) in the
case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., Houston 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 (i) whether the Borrowing then being requested is to be a
Eurodollar Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing; (ii) the date of such Standby
Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day) and the amount thereof; and (iii) if
such Borrowing is to be a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period with
respect thereto, which shall not end after the Maturity Date. If no election as
to the Type of Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the requested
Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period with respect to any
Eurodollar Borrowing is specified in any such notice, then the Borrower shall
be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration. If a
Borrower shall not have given notice in accordance with this Section 2.04 of
its election to refinance a Standby Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest
Period in effect for such Borrowing, then such Borrower shall (unless such
Borrowing is repaid at the end of such Interest Period) be deemed to have given
notice of an election to refinance such Borrowing with an ABR Borrowing.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, no
Borrowing shall be requested if the Interest Period with respect thereto would
end after the Maturity Date. The Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the
Lenders of any notice given pursuant to this Section 2.04 and of each Lender's
portion of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.05. Fees. (a) Each of TU, TUC and TU Electric
agrees jointly and severally to pay (and, on and after the Merger Date, Xxxxxxx
agrees jointly and severally 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 June 30, 1997) and on each
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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
Facility Fee 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 date hereof, 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) Each of TU, TUC and TU Electric agrees jointly and
severally to pay (and, on and after the Merger Date, Enserch agrees jointly and
severally to pay) the Administrative Agent, for its own account, the
administrative and other fees provided for in the Letter Agreement (the
"Administrative Fees").
(c) Each Borrower agrees to pay the CAF Agent, for its own
account, the Auction Fees applicable to such Borrower.
(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 or to the CAF Agent. Once paid, none of the Fees
shall be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.06. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Indebtedness.
(a) The outstanding principal balance of each Standby Loan and each Competitive
Loan shall be due and payable on the earlier of the last day of the Interest
Period applicable thereto and the Maturity Date (other than Loans made on or
after the Merger Date to TU, the outstanding principal balance of which shall
be due and payable on the earlier of the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto and the TU Post-Merger Maturity Date).
(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
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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 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 2.06 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 2.07. Interest on Loans. (a) Subject to the
provisions of Section 2.08, the Loans comprising each Eurodollar 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
Eurodollar Standby Loan made to TU or TUC, the LIBO Rate for the Interest
Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the TU/TUC Applicable Margin from time
to time in effect, (ii) in the case of each Eurodollar Standby Loan made to TU
Electric, the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing
plus the TU Electric Applicable Margin from time to time in effect, (iii) in
the case of each Eurodollar Standby Loan made to Enserch, the LIBO Rate for the
Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Enserch Applicable Margin
from time to time in effect and (iv) in the case of each Eurodollar Competitive
Loan, the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus
the Competitive Bid Margin offered by the Lender making such Loan and accepted
by the applicable Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08, 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
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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 2.08, 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) The interest rate applicable to each Eurodollar Loan made
to TU or to TUC shall be increased by 0.10% per annum for each day on which
Indebtedness of TU in excess of that permitted under Section 5.13(A) (without
giving effect to the proviso therein) shall be outstanding; provided, however,
that on and after the Merger Date, the second reference in this Section 2.07(d)
to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
(e) Interest on each Loan shall be payable on each Interest
Payment Date applicable to such Loan except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement. 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 Chase, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest
error; provided that Chase shall, upon request, provide to the applicable
Borrower a certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for such
determination.
SECTION 2.08. 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 2.07(b)) equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus 1%.
SECTION 2.09. 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 Eurodollar Borrowing the
Administrative Agent shall have
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determined (i) that dollar deposits in the principal amounts of the Eurodollar
Loans comprising such Borrowing are not generally available in the London
interbank 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 Borrowers and the
Lenders. In the event of any such determination under clauses (i) or (ii)
above, until the Administrative Agent shall have advised the Borrowers and the
Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (x)
any request by a Borrower for a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.03 shall be of no force and effect and shall be denied by the
Administrative Agent and (y) any request by a Borrower for a Eurodollar Standby
Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04 shall be deemed to be a request for an ABR
Borrowing. 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 Eurodollar
Loans 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 Eurodollar Standby
Borrowing shall be deemed a request for an ABR Borrowing. Each determination by
the Administra tive Agent hereunder shall be made in good faith and shall be
conclusive absent manifest error; provided that the Administrative Agent,
shall, upon request, provide to the applicable Borrower a certificate setting
forth in reasonable detail the basis for such determination.
SECTION 2.10. Termination and Reduction of Commitments.
(a) The Commitments shall automatically terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City
time, on the Maturity Date.
(b) Upon at least two Business Days' prior irrevocable
written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers, acting jointly, 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
$5,000,000 and in a minimum principal amount of $5,000,000 and (ii) no such
termination or reduction shall be made which would reduce the Total Commitment
to an amount (1) less than the
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aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Competitive Loans or (2) less
than $50,000,000, unless the result of such termination or reduction referred
to in this clause (2) is to reduce the Total Commitment to $0. The
Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of any notice given pursuant to
this Section 2.10(b) and of each Lender's portion of any such termination or
reduction of the Total Commitment.
(c) Each reduction in the Total Commitment hereunder shall be
made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective applicable
Commitments. The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lenders, on the date of each termination or reduction of the
Total Commitment, the Facility Fees on the amount of the Commitments so
terminated or reduced accrued through the date of such termination or
reduction.
SECTION 2.11. Prepayment. (a) Each Borrower shall have the
right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Standby Borrowing, 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.,
Houston time, three Business Days prior to prepayment, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, and (ii) before 10:00 a.m., Houston time, one Business Day
prior to prepayment, in the case of ABR Loans; provided, however, that each
partial prepayment shall be in an amount which is an integral multiple of
$5,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000. 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 2.10, the Borrowers shall pay or prepay so much
of the Standby Borrowings as shall be necessary in order that the aggregate
principal amount of the Competitive Loans and Standby Loans outstanding 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 Borrower to prepay such
Borrowing (or portion thereof) by the amount stated therein on the date stated
therein. All prepayments under this Section 2.11 shall be subject to Section
8.05 but otherwise without premium or penalty. All prepayments under this
Section 2.11
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shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the principal amount being prepaid
to the date of payment.
(d) In the event that on or after the Merger Date, TUC shall
cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the outstanding common stock of
Enserch, (i) Enserch shall immediately prepay the principal amount of all
outstanding Standby Loans to Enserch and the principal amount of all
outstanding Competitive Loans to Enserch, together with accrued interest on
such Loans being prepaid to the date of payment and any amounts payable
pursuant to Section 8.05 and (ii) the Lenders shall have no obligation to make
Standby Loans or Competitive Loans to Enserch thereafter and Enserch shall not
be permitted to request a Borrowing under this Agreement.
SECTION 2.12. 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 change the basis of taxation of payments to any Lender hereunder
(except for changes in respect of taxes on the overall net income of such
Lender or its lending office imposed by the jurisdiction in which such
Lender's principal executive office or lending office is located), or 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 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 Eurodollar Loan or
Fixed Rate Loan made by such Lender, and the result of any of the foregoing
shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any
Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan or to reduce the amount of any sum received
or receivable by such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or
otherwise) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then the
applicable Borrower or, if the foregoing circumstances do not relate to a
particular Borrowing, the Borrowers shall, upon receipt of the notice and
certificate provided for in Section 2.12(c), promptly pay to such Lender such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional
costs incurred or reduction suffered. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender
shall be entitled to request compensation under this
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paragraph with respect to any Competitive Loan if the change giving rise to
such request was applicable to such Lender at the time of submission of the
Competitive Bid pursuant to which such Competitive Loan was made.
(b) If any Lender 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 any
lending office of such Lender) or any Lender'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 capital or on
the capital of such Lender's holding company, if any, as a consequence of this
Agreement, such Xxxxxx's Commitment or the Loans made by such Lender pursuant
hereto to a level below that which such Lender or such Xxxxxx's holding company
could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into
consideration such Lender's policies and the policies of such Lender's holding
company with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to
be material, then from time to time such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender for any such reduction suffered will be paid by the
Borrowers to such Lender.
(c) A certificate of each Lender setting forth such amount or
amounts as shall be necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company
as specified in para graph (a) or (b) above, as the case may be, and containing
an explanation in reasonable detail of the manner in which such amount or
amounts shall have been determined, shall be delivered to the applicable
Borrower or the Borrowers, as the case may be, and shall be conclusive absent
manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay each Lender the amount shown as due on
any such certificate delivered by it within 10 days after its receipt of the
same. Each Lender shall give prompt notice to the applicable Borrower of any
event of which it has knowledge, occurring after the date hereof,
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that it has determined will require compensation by such Borrower pursuant to
this Section; provided, however, that failure by such Lender to give such
notice shall not constitute a waiver of such Xxxxxx's right to demand
compensation hereunder.
(d) Failure on the part of any Lender 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 right to demand compensation with respect to such
period or any other period; provided, however, that no Lender shall be entitled
to compensation under this Section 2.12 for any costs incurred or reductions
suffered with respect to any date unless it shall have notified the applicable
Borrower 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 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.
(e) Each Lender agrees that it will designate a different
lending office if such designation will avoid the need for, or reduce the
amount of, such compensation and will not, in the reasonable judgment of such
Lender, be disadvantageous to such Lender.
SECTION 2.13. 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
to make or maintain any Eurodollar Loan or to give effect to its obligations as
contemplated hereby with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, then, by written
notice to the Borrowers and to the Agents, such Lender may:
(i) declare that Eurodollar Loans will not thereafter be made
by such Lender hereunder (or be continued for additional Interest
Periods) and that ABR Loans will not thereafter be converted into
Eurodollar Loans, whereupon such Lender shall not submit a Competitive
Bid in response to a request for Eurodollar Competitive Loans and any
request for a Eurodollar
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Borrowing (or to convert an ABR Borrowing to a Eurodollar Borrowing or
to continue a Eurodollar Borrowing for an additional Interest Period)
shall, as to such Lender only, be deemed a request for an ABR Loan (or
a request to continue an ABR Loan as such for an additional Interest
Period or to convert a Eurodollar Loan into an ABR Loan, as the case
may be), unless such declaration shall be subsequently withdrawn (any
Lender delivering such a declaration hereby agreeing to withdraw such
declaration promptly upon determining that such event of illegality no
longer exists); and
(ii) require that all outstanding Eurodollar Loans made by it
be converted to ABR Loans, in which event all such Eurodollar Loans
shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans as of the effective date
of such notice as provided in paragraph (b) below.
In the event any Lender shall exercise its rights under (i) or (ii) above, all
payments and prepayments of principal which would otherwise have been applied
to repay the Eurodollar Loans that would have been made by such Lender or the
converted Eurodollar 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 Eurodollar Loans.
(b) For purposes of this Section 2.13, a notice by any Lender
shall be effective as to each Eurodollar Loan, if lawful, on the last day of
the Interest Period currently applicable to such Eurodollar Loan; in all other
cases such notice shall be effective on the date of receipt.
SECTION 2.14. Pro Rata Treatment. Except as provided below in
this Section 2.14 with respect to Competitive Borrowings and as required under
Sections 2.13 and 2.18, each Borrowing, each payment or prepayment of principal
of any Borrowing, each payment of interest on the Loans, each payment of the
Facility Fees, each reduction of the Commitments and each refinancing or
conversion of any Borrowing to or continuation of any Borrowing as a Borrowing
of any Type, shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in accordance with
their respective applicable Commitments (or, if such Commitments shall have
expired or been terminated, in accordance with the respective principal amounts
of their applicable outstanding Loans). Each payment of principal of any
Competitive Borrowing shall be
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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 such respective Commitments. Each Lender agrees that in
computing such Xxxxxx'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 2.15. 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 2.15 and the payment giving rise thereto shall thereafter be recovered,
such purchase or
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purchases or adjustments shall be rescinded to the extent of such recovery and
the purchase price or prices or adjustment restored without interest. Each
Borrower expressly consents to the foregoing arrangements and agrees that 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 by such Borrower to such
Lender by reason thereof as fully as if such Lender had made a Standby Loan in
the amount of such participation.
SECTION 2.16. Payments. (a) Each Borrower shall make each
payment (including principal of or interest on any Borrowing or any Fees or
other amounts) hereunder from an account in the United States not later than
10:00 a.m., Houston time, on the date when due in dollars to the Administrative
Agent at its offices at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx xxxxx, XX 00, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx
00000, in immediately available funds.
(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 2.17. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments of principal
and interest on any Borrowings, or of any Fees or indemnity or expense
reimbursements by a Borrower hereunder ("Borrower Payments") shall be made, in
accordance with Section 2.16, free and clear of and without deduction for any
and all current or future United States Federal, state and local taxes, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect
to such Borrower Payments, but only to the extent reasonably attributable to
such Borrower Payments, excluding (i) income taxes imposed on the net income of
the Administrative Agent, the CAF Agent or any Lender (or any transferee or
assignee thereof, including a participation holder (any such entity a
"Transferee")) and (ii) franchise taxes imposed on the net income of the
Administrative Agent, the CAF Agent or any Lender (or Transferee), in each case
by the jurisdiction under the laws of which the Administrative Agent, the CAF
Agent or such Lender (or Transferee) is organized or doing business through
offices or branches located therein, or any political subdivision thereof (all
such nonexcluded taxes,
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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) or the Agents, (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 2.17) such Lender (or Transferee) or Agent (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, each Borrower shall pay to the relevant
United States 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 the Letter Agreement ("Other Taxes").
(c) Each Borrower shall indemnify each Lender (or Transferee
thereof) and each Agent for the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes with
respect to Borrower Payments paid by such Lender (or Transferee) or such Agent,
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 United States Governmental
Authority. A certificate setting forth and containing an explanation in
reasonable detail of the manner in which such amount shall have been determined
and the amount of such payment or liability prepared by a Lender, the CAF
Agent, or the Administrative Agent on their behalf, absent manifest error,
shall be final, conclusive and binding for all purposes. Such indemnification
shall be made within 30 days after the date the Lender (or Transferee) or any
Agent, as the case may be, makes written demand therefor.
(d) If a Lender (or Transferee) or any Agent shall become
aware that it is entitled to claim a refund from a United States Governmental
Authority in respect of Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been
indemnified by a Borrower, or with respect to which a Borrower has paid
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additional amounts, pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall promptly notify
such Borrower of the availability of such refund claim and shall, within 30
days after receipt of a request by such Borrower, make a claim to such United
States Governmental Authority for such refund at such Borrower's expense. If a
Lender (or Transferee) or any 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 a Borrower or with
respect to which a Borrower had paid additional amounts pursuant to this
Section 2.17, it shall within 30 days from the date of such receipt pay over
such refund to such Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments
made, or additional amounts paid, by such Borrower under this Section 2.17 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) or such Agent and without
interest (other than interest paid by the relevant United States Governmental
Authority with respect to such refund); provided, however, that such Borrower,
upon the request of such Lender (or Transferee) or such Agent, agrees to repay
the amount paid over to such Borrower (plus penalties, interest or other
charges) to such Lender (or Transferee) or such Agent in the event such Lender
(or Transferee) or such Agent is required to repay such refund to such United
States Governmental Authority.
(e) As soon as practicable, but in any event within 30 days,
after the date of any payment of Taxes or Other Taxes by a Borrower to the
relevant United States Governmental Authority, such Borrower will deliver to
the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section 8.01, the
original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such United States
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 2.17
shall survive the payment in full of the principal of and interest on all Loans
made hereunder.
(g) Each Lender or Agent (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" or "Non U.S. Agent",
as applicable) shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent two
copies of either United States Internal Revenue Service
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Form 1001 or Form 4224, properly completed and duly executed by such Xxx-X.X.
Xxxxxx claiming complete exemption from, or reduced rate of, United States
Federal withholding tax on payments by any Borrower under this Agreement. Such
forms shall be delivered by each Non-U.S. Lender 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
changes its applicable lending office by designating a different lending office
(a "New Lending Office"). In addition, each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver such
forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously
delivered by such Non-U.S. Lender. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section 2.17(g), a Non-U.S. Lender shall not be required to deliver any form
pursuant to this Section 2.17(g) that such Non-U.S. Lender is not legally able
to deliver.
(h) A Borrower shall not be required to indemnify any
Non-U.S. Lender or Non-U.S. Agent (including any Transferee), or to pay any
additional amounts to any Non-U.S. Lender or Non-U.S. Agent (including any
Transferee), in respect of United States Federal, state or local 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, state or
local withholding tax existed on the date such Non-U.S. Lender 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 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 such
Borrower; 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) 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) 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
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(ii) the obligation to pay such additional amounts or such indemnity payments
would not have arisen but for a failure by such Non-U.S. Lender (including any
Transferee) to comply with the provisions of paragraph (g) above and (i) below.
(i) Any Lender (or Transferee) claiming any indemnity payment
or additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.17 shall use
reasonable efforts (consistent with legal and regulatory restrictions) to file
any certificate or document reasonably requested in writing by a Borrower 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 good faith determination of such Lender (or Transferee), be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender (or Transferee).
(j) Nothing contained in this Section 2.17 shall require any
Lender (or Transferee) or any Agent to make available to such Borrower any of
its tax returns (or any other information) that it deems to be confidential or
proprietary.
(k) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
indemnification obligations under this Section shall, to the extent
practicable, be allocated between the Borrowers based upon their relative
liability for the interest, fee or other payments in respect of which such
indemnification obligations arise.
SECTION 2.18. Assignment of Interests Under Certain
Circumstances. In the event that any Lender shall have delivered a notice or
certificate pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.13, or any Borrower shall be required
to make additional payments to any Lender under Section 2.17, the Borrowers
shall have the right, at their own expense, upon notice to such Lender and the
Agents, to require such Lender to transfer and assign without recourse (in
accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 8.04) all
such Lender's interests, rights and obligations contained hereunder to another
financial institution approved by the Agents and the Borrowers (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
Borrowers, as the case may be, shall pay to the
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affected Xxxxxx in immediately available funds on the date of such assignment
the principal of and interest accrued to the date of payment on the Loans made
by it hereunder and all other amounts accrued for its account or owed to it
hereunder.
ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders
as follows (except in the case of the representations contained (a) in Section
3.05(a) which are made by TU only, (b) Section 3.05(b), which are made by TU
Electric only, (c) Section 3.05(c), which are made by Enserch, (d) Section
3.05(d), which are made by Enserch only, and (e) Section 3.12, which are made
(x) on or prior to the Merger Date, by TU only and (y) on or after the Merger
Date, by TUC only):
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Such Borrower (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 Change, and (d)
has the corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and to borrow hereunder.
SECTION 3.02. Authorization. The execution, delivery and
performance by such Borrower of this Agreement and the Borrowings hereunder
(collectively, the "Transaction") (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, without limitation, the Margin
Regulations) or of the certificate of incorporation or other constitutive
documents or by-laws of such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to which such
Borrower is subject, (B) any order of any Governmental Authority or (C) any
provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which such
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries 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
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such indenture, agreement or other instrument or (iii) result in the creation
or imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of such Borrower.
SECTION 3.03. Enforceability. This Agreement constitutes a
legal, valid and binding obligation of such Borrower enforceable in accordance
with its terms except to the extent that enforcement may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors'
rights generally.
SECTION 3.04. Governmental Approvals. No action, consent or
approval of, registration or filing with or other action by any Governmental
Authority is or will be required in connection with the Transactions, to the
extent they relate to such Borrower.
SECTION 3.05. Financial Statements. (a) The
consolidated balance sheet of TU and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of
December 31, 1996 and the related consolidated statements of income, retained
earnings and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, reported on by Deloitte
& Touche LLP and set forth in TU's 1996 Annual Report on Form 10-K, a copy of
which has been delivered to each of the Lenders, fairly present, in conformity
with GAAP, the consolidated financial position of TU and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries as of such date and their consolidated results of operations and
cash flows for such fiscal year.
(b) The consolidated balance sheet of TU Electric as of
December 31, 1996 and the related consolidated statements of income, retained
earnings and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, reported on by Deloitte
& Touche LLP and set forth in TU Electric's 1996 Annual Report on Form 10-K, a
copy of which has been delivered to each of the Lenders, fairly present, in
conformity with GAAP, the consolidated financial position of TU Electric and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and their consolidated results of
operations and cash flows for such fiscal year.
(c) The consolidated balance sheet of Enserch as of December
31, 1996 and the related consolidated statements of income, retained earnings
and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, reported on by Deloitte & Touche
LLP and set forth in Enserch's 1996 Annual Report on Form 10-K, a copy of which
has been delivered to each of the Lenders,
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fairly present, in conformity with GAAP, the consolidated financial position of
Enserch and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and their
consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such fiscal year.
(d) There has heretofore been delivered to each of the
Lenders an unaudited condensed pro forma consolidated balance sheet as of June
30, 1996 and unaudited condensed statements of income for the six months ended
June 30, 1996 and for the fiscal years ending December 31, 1993 through
December 31, 1995, which gave effect to the distribution by Enserch of the
capital stock of EEX ("Pro Forma Financial Statements") which Pro Forma
Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP. The assumptions
used in preparing the Pro Forma Financial Statements are reasonable, as of the
date of such Pro Forma Financial Statements and as of the Effective Date, and
all material assumptions with respect to the Pro Forma Statements are set forth
therein.
(e) Since December 31, 1996, there has been no Material
Adverse Change with respect to such Borrower, other than as a result of the
matters excluded from the computation of Consolidated Earnings Available for
Fixed Charges as set forth in the definition thereof.
SECTION 3.06. Litigation. Except as set forth in the
financial statements or other reports of the type referred to in Section 5.03
hereof and which have been delivered to the Lenders on or prior to the date
hereof or as set forth on Schedule 3.06, there is no action, suit or proceeding
pending against, or to the knowledge of such Borrower threatened against or
affecting, TU or any of its Subsidiaries before any court or arbitrator or any
governmental body, agency or official in which there is a reasonable
possibility of an adverse decision which could materially adversely affect the
ability of such Borrower to pay its obligations hereunder or which in any
manner draws into question the validity of this Agreement; provided, however,
that, on and after the Merger Date, the reference in this definition to TU
shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
SECTION 3.07. Federal Reserve Regulations. (a) Neither
such Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of
its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose
of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock.
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(b) No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used by such
Borrower, 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.
SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding
Company Act. (a) Neither such Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
"investment company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the
Investment Company Act of 1940.
(b) Such Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is exempt from
all provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and rules and
regulations thereunder, except for Sections 9(a)(2) and 33 of such Act and the
rules and regulations thereunder, and the execution, delivery and performance
by the Borrowers of this Agreement and their respective obligations hereunder
do not violate any provision of such Act or any rule or regulation thereunder.
SECTION 3.09. No Material Misstatements. No report,
financial statement or other written information furnished by or on behalf of
such Borrower to the Agents or any Lender pursuant to or in connection with
this Agreement 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 3.10. Taxes. Such Borrower and its Subsidiaries have
filed or caused to be filed within 3 days of the date on which due, all Federal
and material state and local tax returns which to their knowledge are required
to be filed by them, and have paid or caused to be paid all material taxes
shown to be due and payable on such returns or on any assessments received by
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 3.11. Employee Benefit Plans. With respect to each
Plan such Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates are in compliance in all material
respects with the
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applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code and the final regulations and
published interpretations thereunder. No ERISA Event has occurred that alone or
together with any other ERISA Event has resulted or could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither such Borrower nor any
ERISA Affiliate has incurred any Withdrawal Liability that could result in a
Material Adverse Change. Neither such Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has
received any notification that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or
has been terminated within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, which such
reorganization or termination could result in a Material Adverse Change, and no
Multiemployer Plan is reasonably expected to be in reorganization or to be
terminated where such reorganization or termination has resulted or can
reasonably be expected to result, through an increase in the contributions
required to be made to such Plan or otherwise, in a Material Adverse Change.
SECTION 3.12. Significant Subsidiaries. Each of TU's
corporate Significant Subsidiaries is a corporation duly incorporated, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
incorporation and has all corporate powers necessary to carry on its business
substantially as now conducted. TU's corporate Significant Subsidiaries have
all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals
required to carry on the business of the corporate Significant Subsidiaries
substantially as now conducted; provided, however, that, on and after the
Merger Date, each reference in this definition to TU shall be deemed to be a
reference to TUC.
SECTION 3.13. Environmental Matters. Except as set forth in
or contemplated by the financial statements or other reports of the type
referred to in Section 5.03 hereof and which have been delivered to the Lenders
on or prior to the date hereof, such Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has
complied in all material respects with all Federal, state, local and other
statutes, ordinances, orders, judgments, rulings and regulations relating to
environmental pollution or to environmental or nuclear regulation or control,
except to the extent that failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Change. Except as set forth in or contemplated
by such financial statements or other reports, neither such Borrower nor any of
its Subsidiaries has received notice of any material failure so to comply,
except where such failure could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Change. Except as set forth in or contemplated by
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such financial statements or other reports, the facilities of such Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, are not used to manage any
hazardous wastes, hazardous substances, hazardous materials, toxic substances,
toxic pollutants or substances similarly denominated, as those terms or similar
terms are used in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the
Clean Water Act or any other applicable law relating to environmental
pollution, or any nuclear fuel or other radioactive materials, in violation in
any material respect of any law or any regulations promulgated pursuant
thereto, except to the extent that such violations could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Except as set forth in or
contemplated by such financial statements or other reports, such Borrower is
aware of no events, conditions or circumstances involving environmental
pollution or contamination that could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Change.
ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS OF LENDING
The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder are
subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
SECTION 4.01. All Borrowings. On the date of each Borrowing:
(a) The Agents shall have received a notice of such Borrowing
as required by Section 2.03 or Section 2.04, as applicable.
(b) The representations and warranties set forth in Article
III hereof (except, in the case of a refinancing of a Standby
Borrowing with a new Standby Borrowing that does not increase the
aggregate principal amount of the Loans of any Lender outstanding, the
representations set forth in Sections 3.05(e), 3.06, 3.11 and 3.13)
shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the
date of such Borrowing 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.
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(c) At the time of and immediately after such Borrowing no
Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Each Borrowing shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by
each Borrower on the date of such Borrowing 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 Agents shall have received favorable written opinions
of Xxxx & Priest LLP and Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P., each
dated the Effective Date and addressed to the Lenders and satisfactory
to Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, counsel for the Agents, to the effect set
forth in Exhibits D-1 and D-2 hereto.
(b) The Agents shall have received (i) a copy of the
certificate of incorporation, including all amendments thereto, of
each Borrower (other than Enserch), 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 each Borrower (other than
Enserch) as of a recent date from such Secretary of State; (ii) a
certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each
Borrower (other than Enserch) dated the Effective Date and certifying
(A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the by-laws
of such Borrower 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 such Borrower
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 such Xxxxxxxx; (iii) a certificate of
another officer of
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such Borrower as to the incumbency and specimen signature of the
Secretary or Assistant Secretary executing the certificate pursuant to
(ii) above; (iv) evidence satisfactory to the Agents that the
requisite approvals referred to in Section 3.04 hereof have been
obtained; and (v) such other documents as the Lenders or Xxxxxxx,
Swaine & Xxxxx, counsel for the Agents, shall reasonably request.
(c) The Agents shall have received a certificate, dated the
Effective Date and signed by a Financial Officer of each Borrower
(other than Enserch), confirming compliance with the conditions
precedent set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01.
(d) The Agents shall have received all Facility Fees accrued
prior to the date hereof and all other Fees and amounts due and
payable on or prior to the Effective Date.
(e) All the conditions to the effectiveness of the Facility A
Credit Agreement (other than the condition set forth in Section
4.02(e) thereof) shall have been satisfied.
(f) The Agents shall have received evidence satisfactory to
them that all amounts outstanding under the Existing TU Credit
Agreements have been repaid.
(g) The Agents shall have received an executed counterpart to
this Agreement of each Agent, each Lender and each Borrower other than
Enserch.
SECTION 4.03. Enserch Closing Date. On the
Enserch Closing Date:
(a) Enserch shall have executed and delivered to the Agents
an executed counterpart to this Agreement for each Lender by virtue of
which it shall have agreed to become (and shall have become), and to
perform all of the obligations of, a Borrower hereunder.
(b) The Agents shall have received favorable written opinions
of Texas and New York counsel to Enserch, each dated the Enserch
Closing Date and addressed to the Lenders and satisfactory to Xxxxxxx,
Swaine & Xxxxx, counsel to the Agents, to the effect set forth in
Exhibits D-3 and D-4 hereto.
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(c) The Agents shall have received (i) a copy of the
certificate of incorporation of Enserch, certified as of a recent date
by the Secretary of State of Enserch's state of incorporation, and a
certificate as to the good standing of Enserch as of a recent date
from such Secretary of State; (ii) a certificate of the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of Enserch dated the Enserch Closing Date and
certifying (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of
the by-laws of Enserch as in effect on such 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 Enserch
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 Enserch; (iii) a certificate of
another officer of Enserch as to the incumbency and specimen signature
of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary executing the certificate
pursuant to (ii) above; (iv) a copy of any amendments to the
certificates of incorporation provided pursuant to Section 4.02(b)(i),
certified as of a recent date by the applicable Secretary of State;
(v) evidence that neither the by-laws nor the resolutions provided
pursuant to Section 4.02(b)(ii) have been modified, rescinded or
amended since the Effective Date and are in full force and effect,
except to the extent that any such resolutions have been modified or
amended in order to increase permitted borrowings by the applicable
Borrower, in which case the applicable Borrower shall deliver to the
Agents a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
such Borrower dated the Enserch Closing Date and certifying, as
applicable, (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of
the by-laws of such Borrower as in effect on such 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 the amendments to, or modifications of, such resolutions
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duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Borrower, and that such
resolutions (as so amended or modified) have not been modified,
rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect, and (vi) such
other documents as the Lenders or Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx, counsel for
the Agents, shall reasonably request.
(d) The Agents shall have received a certificate, dated the
date of such Borrowing and signed by a Financial Officer of each of
TUC and Enserch, confirming compliance with the conditions precedent
set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.01.
(e) The Agents shall have received evidence satisfactory to
them that the Mergers have been consummated in accordance with the
terms of the Merger Agreement.
(f) Except as set forth in the financial statements or other
reports of the type referred to in Section 5.03 hereof and which have
been delivered to the Lenders on or prior to the date hereof or as set
forth on Schedule 3.06, there shall be no action, suit or proceeding
pending against, or to the knowledge of Enserch threatened against or
affecting, Enserch or any of its Subsidiaries before any court or
arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official in which there
is a reasonable possibility of an adverse decision which could
materially adversely affect the ability of Enserch to pay its
obligations hereunder or which in any manner draws into question the
validity of this Agreement.
SECTION 4.04. First Borrowing by Enserch. On or prior to the
date of the first Borrowing hereunder by Xxxxxxx, the Agents shall have
received evidence satisfactory to them that the Existing Enserch Credit
Agreement has been terminated and that all amounts outstanding thereunder have
been repaid.
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ARTICLE V. COVENANTS
Each of TU and TUC (and each of TU Electric and Enserch, to
the extent such covenants apply to it) agrees that, so long as any Lender has
any Commitment hereunder or any amount payable hereunder remains unpaid:
SECTION 5.01. Existence. It will, and will cause each of its
Significant Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and all
rights, licenses, permits, franchises and authorizations necessary or desirable
in the normal conduct of its business except as otherwise permitted pursuant to
Section 5.09.
SECTION 5.02. Business and Properties. It will, and will
cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable material laws,
rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority, whether now in
effect or hereafter enacted, except where the validity or applicability of such
laws, rules, regulations or orders is being contested by appropriate
proceedings in good faith; 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.
SECTION 5.03. Financial Statements, Reports, Etc. On and
prior to the Merger Date, TU and, on and after the Merger Date, TUC (and TU
Electric and Enserch, to the extent such information relates to TU Electric or
Enserch, as applicable, only) will furnish to the Agents and each Lender:
(a) as soon as available and in any event within 120 days
after the end of each fiscal year of TU or TUC, as applicable, a
consolidated balance sheet of TU or TUC, as applicable, and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and the
related consolidated statements of income, retained earnings and cash
flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative
form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on in a
manner reasonably acceptable to the Securities and Exchange Commission
by Deloitte & Touche LLP or other indepen-
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dent public accountants of nationally recognized standing;
(b) as soon as available and in any event within 60 days
after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year
of TU or TUC, as applicable, a consolidated balance sheet of TU, or
TUC, as applicable, and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of
such quarter and the related consolidated statements of income for
such quarter, for the portion of TU's or TUC's, as applicable, fiscal
year ended at the end of such quarter, and for the twelve months ended
at the end of such quarter, and the related consolidated statement of
cash flows for the portion of TU's or TUC's, as applicable, fiscal
year ended at the end of such quarter, setting forth comparative
figures for previous dates and periods to the extent required in Form
10-Q, all certified (subject to normal year-end adjustments) as to
fairness of presentation, GAAP and consistency by a Financial Officer
of TU or TUC, as applicable;
(c) simultaneously with any delivery of each set of financial
statements referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above, (i) an
unconsolidated balance sheet of TU or TUC, as applicable, and the
related unconsolidated statements of income, retained earnings and
cash flows as of the same date and for the same periods applicable to
the statements delivered pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) above, as
applicable, all certified (subject to normal year-end adjustments in
the case of quarterly statements) as to fairness of presentation, GAAP
and consistency by a Financial Officer of TU or TUC, as applicable,
and (ii) a certificate of a Financial Officer of TU or TUC, as
applicable, (A) setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations
required to establish whether TU or TUC, as applicable, was in
compliance with the requirements of Sections 5.11, 5.12 and 5.13 on
the date of such financial statements, and (B) stating whether any
Default exists on the date of such certificate and, if any Default
then exists, setting forth the details thereof and the action which TU
or TUC, as applicable, is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto;
(d) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of
financial statements referred to in paragraph (a) above, a statement
of the firm of independent public
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accountants which reported on such statements (i) stating whether
anything has come to their attention to cause them to believe that any
Default existed on the date of such statements and (ii) confirming the
calculations set forth in the Financial Officer's certificate
delivered simultaneously therewith pursuant to paragraph (c) above;
(e) forthwith upon becoming aware of the occurrence of any
Default, a certificate of a Financial Officer of TU or TUC, as
applicable, setting forth the details thereof and the action which TU,
or TUC, as applicable, is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto;
(f) promptly upon the mailing thereof to the shareholders of
TU or TUC, as applicable, generally, copies of all financial
statements, reports and proxy statements so mailed;
(g) promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of each final
prospectus (other than a prospectus included in any registration
statement on Form S-8 or its equivalent or with respect to a dividend
reinvestment plan) and all reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and
similar reports which TU, TUC, TU Electric or Enserch shall have filed
with the SEC, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of or
all the functions of the SEC;
(h) if and when any member of the Controlled Group (i) gives
or is required to give notice to the PBGC of any Reportable Event with
respect to any Plan which might constitute grounds for a termination
of such Plan under Title IV of ERISA, or knows that the plan
administrator of any Plan has given or is required to give notice of
any such Reportable Event, a copy of the notice of such Reportable
Event given or required to be given to the PBGC; (ii) receives notice
from a proper representative of a Multiemployer Plan of complete or
partial Withdrawal Liability being imposed upon such member of the
Controlled Group under Title IV of ERISA, a copy of such notice; or
(iii) receives notice from the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA of an
intent to terminate, or appoint a trustee to administer, any Plan, a
copy of such notice; and
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(i) promptly, from time to time, such additional information
regarding the financial position or business of TU or TUC, as
applicable, and its Subsidiaries as the Agents, at the request of any
Lender, may reasonably request.
As promptly as practicable after delivering each set of financial statements as
required in paragraph (a) of this Section, TU or TUC, as applicable, shall make
available a copy of the consolidating workpapers used by TU or TUC, as
applicable, in preparing such consolidated statements to each Lender that shall
have requested such consolidating workpapers. Each Lender that receives such
consolidating workpapers shall hold them in confidence as required by Section
8.15; provided that no Lender may disclose such consolidating workpapers to any
other person pursuant to clause (iv) of Section 8.15.
SECTION 5.04. Insurance. It will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, maintain such insurance or self 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.
SECTION 5.05. Taxes, Etc. It will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, pay and discharge promptly when due all material 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 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. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and
Inspections. It will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain
financial records in accordance with GAAP and, upon reasonable notice and at
reasonable times, permit authorized representatives designated by any Lender to
visit and inspect its properties and to discuss its affairs, finances and
condition with its officers.
SECTION 5.07. ERISA. It will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries that are members of the Controlled
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Group to, comply in all material respects with the applicable provisions of
ERISA and the Code except where any noncompliance, individually or in the
aggregate, would not result in a Material Adverse Change.
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds. It will not, and will not
cause or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, use the proceeds of the Loans for
purposes other than those set forth in the recitals hereto.
SECTION 5.09. Consolidations, Mergers, and Sales of Assets.
Other than the Mergers, neither TU nor TUC will (a) consolidate or merge with
or into any person unless (i) the surviving corporation is incorporated under
the laws of a State of the United States of America and assumes or is
responsible by operation of law for all the obligations of TU or TUC, as
applicable, hereunder and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred or be continuing at the time of or after giving effect to such
consolidation or merger or (b) sell, lease or otherwise transfer, in a single
transaction or in a series of transactions, all or any Substantial part of its
assets to any person or persons other than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary. Neither
TU nor TUC will permit any Significant Subsidiary to consolidate or merge with
or into, or sell, lease or otherwise transfer all or any Substantial part of
its assets to, any person other than TU, TUC or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (or a
person which as a result of such transaction becomes a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary), provided that in the case of any merger or consolidation involving
TU Electric or, on and after the Merger Date, TU or Enserch, such person must
assume or be responsible by operation of law for all the obligations of TU
Electric, TU or Enserch, as applicable, hereunder, and neither TU nor TUC will
in any event permit any such consolidation, merger, sale, lease or transfer if
any Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the
time of or after giving effect to any such transaction. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, (a) none of TU, TUC and their respective Subsidiaries will engage to
a Substantial extent in businesses other than those currently conducted by
them, or in the case of Enserch, by Enserch, and other businesses reasonably
related thereto and (b) nothing in this Section shall prohibit any sales of
assets permitted by Section 5.10(d)
SECTION 5.10. Limitations on Liens. None of TU, TUC or any
Significant Subsidiary will create or assume or
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permit to exist any Lien in respect of any property or assets of any kind (real
or personal, tangible or intangible) of TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary,
or sell any such property or assets subject to an understanding or agreement,
contingent or otherwise, to repurchase such property or assets, or sell, or
permit any Significant Subsidiary to sell, any accounts receivable; provided
that the provisions of this Section shall not prevent or restrict the creation,
assumption or existence of:
(a) any Lien in respect of any such property or assets of any
Significant Subsidiary to secure indebtedness owing by it to TU, TUC
or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary of TU or TUC, as applicable; or
(b) purchase money Liens (including capital leases) in
respect of property acquired by TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary,
to secure the purchase price of such property (or to secure
indebtedness incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 90 days
after the acquisition solely for the purpose of financing the
acquisition of such property), or Liens existing on any such property
at the time of acquisition of such property by TU, TUC or such
Significant Subsidiary, whether or not assumed, or any Lien in respect
of property of a corporation existing at the time such corporation
becomes a Subsidiary of TU or TUC, as applicable; or agreements to
acquire any property or assets under conditional sale agreements or
other title retention agreements, or capital leases in respect of any
other property; provided that:
(1) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness
secured by all Liens in respect of any such property shall
not exceed the cost (as determined by the board of directors
of TU, TUC or such Significant Subsidiary, as the case may
be) of such property at the time of acquisition thereof (or
(x) in the case of property covered by a capital lease, the
fair market value, as so determined, of such property at the
time of such transaction, or (y) in the case of a Lien in
respect of property existing at the time such corporation
becomes a Subsidiary of TU or TUC, as applicable, the fair
market value, as so determined of such property at such
time), and
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(2) at the time of the acquisition of the property
by TU, TUC or such Subsidiary, or at the time such
corporation becomes a Subsidiary of TU or TUC, as applicable,
as the case may be, every such Lien shall apply and attach
only to the property originally subject thereto and fixed
improvements constructed thereon; or
(c) refundings or extensions of any Lien permitted in the
foregoing paragraph (b) for amounts not exceeding the principal amount
of the Indebtedness so refunded or extended or the fair market value
(as determined by the board of directors of TU, TUC or such
Significant Subsidiary, as the case may be) of the property
theretofore subject to such Lien, whichever shall be lower, in each
case at the time of such refunding or extension; provided that such
Lien shall apply only to the same property theretofore subject to the
same and fixed improvements constructed thereon; or
(d) sales subject to understandings or agreements to
repurchase; provided that the aggregate sales price for all such sales
(other than sales to any governmental instrumentality in connection
with such instrumentality's issuance of indebtedness, including
without limitation industrial development bonds and pollution control
bonds, on behalf of TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary) made in any
one calendar year shall not exceed $50,000,000; or
(e) any production payment or similar interest which is
dischargeable solely out of natural gas, coal, lignite, oil or other
mineral to be produced from the property subject thereto and to be
sold or delivered by TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary; or
(f) any Lien including in connection with sale-leaseback
transactions created or assumed by any Significant Subsidiary on
natural gas, coal, lignite, oil or other mineral properties or nuclear
fuel owned or leased by such Subsidiary, to secure loans to such
Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not to exceed $400,000,000; provided
that none of TU, TUC or any other Subsidiary shall assume or guarantee
such financings; or
(g) leases (other than capital leases) now or hereafter
existing and any renewals and extensions
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thereof under which TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary may acquire
or dispose of any of its property, subject, however, to the terms of
Section 5.09; or
(h) any Lien created or to be created by the First
Mortgage of TU Electric; or
(i) any Lien on the rights of the Mining Company
or Fuel Company existing under their respective
Operating Agreements; or
(j) pledges or sales by TU Electric or Enserch of
its accounts receivable including customers'
installment paper; or
(k) the pledge of current assets, in the ordinary
course of business, to secure current liabilities; or
(l) Permitted Encumbrances.
SECTION 5.11. Fixed Charge Coverage. TU will not, as of the
end of each quarter of each fiscal year of TU, permit Consolidated Earnings
Available for Fixed Charges for the twelve months then ended to be less than or
equal to 150% of Consolidated Fixed Charges for the twelve months then ended;
provided, however, that on and after the Merger Date, the reference in this
Section 5.11 to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC; provided further
that if fewer than 12 calendar months shall have elapsed since the Merger Date,
the foregoing calculations of consolidated Earnings Available for Fixed Charges
and Consolidated Fixed Charges will be determined by using the calculations
available for TUC for the highest number of months ended since the Merger Date
and the calculations for the remaining number of months applicable to TU for
such months shall be substituted as if TUC had been TU for such months.
SECTION 5.12. Equity Capitalization Ratio. TU will not permit
at any time Consolidated Shareholders' Equity to be less than 35% of
Consolidated Total Capitalization; provided, however, that after the Merger
Date, the reference in this Section 5.12 to TU shall be deemed to be a
reference to TUC.
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SECTION 5.13. Indebtedness of TU. TU will not incur, create,
assume or permit to exist Indebtedness (other than guarantees existing as of
the date hereof and guarantees of any obligations of Subsidiaries) in an amount
at any time in excess of the sum of the following:
(A) $2,100,000,000;
(B) the excess, if any, of:
(i) cumulative consolidated net income of TU
(after preferred stock dividends and
preferred securities distributions)
LESS:
combined net income (after preferred stock
dividends and preferred securities
distributions) of the direct Subsidiaries
of TU in excess of dividend income recorded
by TU from such Subsidiaries
over
(ii) the aggregate amount of dividends recorded
by TU; provided that calculations for
clauses (B)(i) and (ii) shall be applied
and included for each fiscal quarter
commencing on or after July 1, 1997 for
which financial statements have been
delivered to the Lenders pursuant to
Section 5.03; and
(C) the aggregate proceeds received by TU from
issuances of capital stock of TU after
April 24, 1997 (other than issuances of
capital stock in connection with the Mergers
and in any event only to the extent such
proceeds have not been used to prepay
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness under
this Agreement or Indebtedness under the
Facility A Credit Agreement or any short-term
debt)),
provided that Indebtedness (other than guarantees existing as of the date
hereof and guarantees of any obligations of
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Subsidiaries) in an amount in excess of such sum may be incurred, created,
assumed or permitted to exist for a period of up to 120 days if TU shall have
given the Lenders prior written notice of its intent to issue capital stock
within such 120-day period for net cash proceeds to TU sufficient to eliminate
such excess; provided further that on and after the Merger Date, each reference
in this Section 5.13 to TU shall be deemed to be a reference to TUC.
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 by any
Borrower in or in connection with the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the Borrowings 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 by any Borrower in the payment of
any principal of any Loan 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 by any Borrower in the payment of
any interest on any Loan 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 five days;
(d) default shall be made by any Borrower in the due
observance or performance of any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in Section 5.01, 5.11, 5.12, or 5.13;
(e) default shall be made by any Borrower in the due
observance or performance of any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in Section 5.09 and such default shall continue unremedied
for a period of 5 days or default shall be made by any Borrower in the
due observance of any covenant, condition or agreement contained
herein (other than those specified in (b), (c) or (d) above) and such
default shall continue
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unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice thereof from the
Administrative Agent at the request of any Lender to such Borrower;
(f)(i) on or prior to the Merger Date, TU shall no longer
own, directly or indirectly, all the outstanding common stock of TU
Electric (or any successor) or, (ii) after the Merger Date, TUC shall
no longer own, directly or indirectly, all of the outstanding common
stock of TU Electric or, prior to the TU Post-Merger Maturity Date, TU
(or any successors), or (iii) after the Merger Date, TUC shall no
longer own, directly or indirectly, at least 51% of the outstanding
common stock of Enserch (or any successor);
(g) any Borrower 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 $40,000,000, when and
as the same shall become due and payable, subject to any applicable
grace periods, 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 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 to cause, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its
stated maturity;
(h) 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 TU, TUC or any
Significant Subsidiary, or of a substantial part of the property or
assets of TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary, 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 TU, TUC or any
Significant Subsidiary or for a substantial part of the property or
assets of TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary or (iii) the winding
up or liquidation of TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary; 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;
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(i) TU, TUC or any Significant Subsidiary 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 (h) above,
(iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee,
custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for TU, TUC
or any Significant Subsidiary or for a substantial part of the
property or assets of it or such Significant Subsidiary, (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;
(j) a Change in Control shall occur;
(k) one or more judgments or orders for the payment of money
in an aggregate amount in excess of $50,000,000 shall be rendered
against TU, TUC or any Subsidiary thereof or any combination thereof
and such judgment or order shall remain undischarged or unstayed for a
period of 30 days, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment
creditor to levy upon assets or properties of TU, TUC or any
Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment or order;
(l) an ERISA Event or ERISA Events shall have occurred that
reasonably could be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change;
then, and in every such event, 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 Borrowers, take either or both of the
following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate forthwith the
right of any or all of the Borrowers to borrow pursuant to the Commitments and
(ii) declare the Loans of any or all of the Borrowers then outstanding to be
forthwith due and payable in whole or in part, whereupon the principal of the
Loans so declared to be
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due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued
Fees and all other liabilities of such Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become
forthwith 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; provided that in the case of
any event described in paragraph (h) or (i) above with respect to any Borrower,
the Commitments of the Lenders with respect to such Borrower shall
automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding of the
Borrower with respect to which such event has occurred, together with accrued
interest thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees and all other liabilities of such
Borrower 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 by such Borrower, anything contained herein to the
contrary notwithstanding.
ARTICLE VII. THE AGENTS
In order to expedite the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, Texas Commerce Bank National Association is hereby appointed to act
as Administrative Agent, and Chase is hereby appointed to act as CAF Agent, on
behalf of the Lenders. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably authorizes the
Agents to take such actions on behalf of such Lender or holder and to exercise
such powers as are specifically delegated to the Agents 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 CAF Agent, without hereby limiting any implied authority,
(a) to receive on behalf of the Lenders and the CAF Agent all payments of
principal of and interest on the Loans and all other amounts due to the Lenders
and the CAF Agent hereunder, and promptly to distribute to each Lender and the
CAF Agent 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.
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No Agent or 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 Agents 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 Agents 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 Agents
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. Each of the
Agents 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. No
Agent or 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 the other Agent or any Lender of any of its
obligations hereunder or to the other Agent or any Lender on account of the
failure of or delay in performance or breach by any other Lender, the other
Agent or any Borrower of any of their respective obligations hereunder or in
connection herewith. Each of the Agents 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 Agents 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.
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Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor
Agent as provided below, either Agent may resign at any time by notifying the
Lenders and the Borrowers. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders
shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent acceptable to the Borrowers.
If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall
have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives
notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the
Lenders, appoint a successor Agent, 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 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 Agent and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its
duties and obligations hereunder. After any Agent's resignation hereunder, the
provisions of this Article and Section 8.05 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 Agent.
With respect to the Loans made by it hereunder, each of the
Agents, in its individual capacity and not as an Agent shall have the same
rights and powers as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it
were not an Agent, and each of the Agents and their 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 an
Agent.
Each Lender agrees (i) to reimburse the Agents, 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) of
any expenses incurred for the benefit of the Lenders in its role as 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 each of the
Agents 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 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
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reimbursed by the Borrowers; provided that no Lender shall be liable to any
Agent for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent or any
of its directors, officers, employees or agents. Each Lender agrees that any
allocation made in good faith by the Agents 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 Agents 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 Agents
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 VIII. MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 8.01. 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 Texas Utilities Company, Energy
Plaza, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention of
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Manager of Treasury Operations (Telecopy No.
214-812-2488);
(b) if to the CAF Agent, to The Chase Manhattan Bank, Loan
and Agency Services Group, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, New York 10081, Attention of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx (Telecopy No.
212-552-5627), with a copy to The Chase Manhattan Bank at 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention of Xxxxxx Xxxxx (Telecopy
No. 212-270-1354);
(c) if to the Administrative Agent, to Texas Commerce Bank
National Association, 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention of Xxxxx Xxxx
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(Telecopy No. 214-922-2997), with a copy to Texas Commerce Bank, Loan
Syndications Services, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, XX 00, Xxxxxxx,
XX 00000; and
(d) if to a Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number)
set forth in the Administrative Questionnaire delivered to the
Administrative Agent by such Lender in connection with the execution
of this Agreement or previously or in the Assignment and Acceptance
pursuant to which such Xxxxxx 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 8.02. 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 shall survive the making by the Lenders of the Loans regardless
of any investigation made by the Lenders 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 or the Commitments have not been terminated.
SECTION 8.03. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become
effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrowers and each 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 8.04. 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
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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 such Lender or an assignment to a Federal Reserve
Bank, the Borrowers and the Agents must give their prior written consent to
such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), (ii) 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 $10,000,000, (iii) each such assignment shall be of a constant,
and not a varying, percentage of all the assigning Lender's rights and
obligations under this Agreement, (iv) 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 one or more of this
Agreement and the Facility A Credit Agreement, the aggregate fee shall be
$3,000), and (v) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to
the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire. Upon acceptance and
recording pursuant to Section 8.04(e), from and after the effective date
specified in each Assignment and Acceptance, which effective date shall be at
least five Business Days after the execution thereof unless otherwise agreed by
the Administrative Agent (the Borrowers to be given reasonable notice of any
shorter period), (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 2.12, 2.17 and 8.05
afforded to such Lender prior to its assignment as well as to any Fees accrued
for its
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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 assignor and 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 Agents, 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 each Agent to take such action as agent
on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated
to such 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.
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(d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its
offices in the City of Houston 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 Agents 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, if required, the written consent of
the Borrowers and the Agents to such assignment, the Administrative Agent shall
(i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (ii) record the information
contained therein in the Register.
(f) Each Lender may without the consent of the Borrowers or
the Agents 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 2.12, 2.17 and 8.05 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 Agents 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, and such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the
obligations of the
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Borrowers under this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or
waiver of any provision of this Agreement (other than amendments, modifications
or waivers (x) decreasing any fees payable hereunder or the amount of principal
of, or the rate at which interest is payable on, the Loans, (y) extending any
scheduled principal payment date or date fixed for the payment of interest on
the Loans or (z) extending the Commitments).
(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
by or on behalf of the Borrowers; provided that, prior to any such disclosure,
each such assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall
execute an agreement 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, and any
attempted assignment or delegation (except as a consequence of a transaction
expressly permitted under Section 5.09) by a Borrower without such consent
shall be void.
(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 Xxxxxx, 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 8.05. Expenses; Indemnity. (a) The Borrowers agree to
pay all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agents in connection
with entering into this Agreement or in connection with any amendments,
modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof (but only if such
amendments, modifications or waivers are requested by a Borrower) (whether or
not the transactions hereby contemplated are consummated), or incurred by the
Agents or any Lender in connection with the enforcement of their rights in
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connection with this Agreement or in connection with the Loans made hereunder,
including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Agents or,
in the case of enforcement following an Event of Default, the Lenders.
(b) The Borrowers agree to indemnify each Lender against any
loss, calculated in accordance with the next sentence, or reasonable expense
which such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) any failure by
such Borrower to borrow or to refinance, convert or continue any Loan hereunder
(including as a result of such Borrower's failure to fulfill any of the
applicable conditions set forth in Article IV) after irrevocable notice of such
borrowing, refinancing, conversion or continuation has been given pursuant to
Section 2.03 or 2.04, (b) any payment, prepayment or conversion, or assignment
of a Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan of such Borrower 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 by such Lender in liquidating or
employing deposits from third parties, or with respect to commitments made or
obligations undertaken with third parties, to effect or maintain any Loan
hereunder or any part thereof as a Eurodollar Loan or a Fixed Rate Loan. Such
loss 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, converted or not borrowed (assumed to be the
LIBO Rate or, in the case of a Fixed Rate Loan, the fixed rate of interest
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
Xxxxxx) 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.
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(c) THE BORROWERS AGREE TO INDEMNIFY THE AGENTS, 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 (III) ANY CLAIM, LITIGATION, INVESTIGATION OR
PROCEEDING RELATING TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING, WHETHER OR NOT ANY INDEMNITEE IS A
PARTY THERETO, INCLUDING ANY OF THE FOREGOING ARISING FROM THE NEGLIGENCE,
WHETHER SOLE OR CONCURRENT, ON THE PART OF ANY INDEMNITEE; PROVIDED THAT SUCH
INDEMNITY SHALL NOT, AS TO ANY INDEMNITEE, BE AVAILABLE TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH
LOSSES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LIABILITIES OR RELATED EXPENSES (I) 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 OR (II) RESULT FROM
ANY LITIGATION BROUGHT BY SUCH INDEMNITEE AGAINST THE BORROWERS OR BY ANY
BORROWER AGAINST SUCH INDEMNITEE, IN WHICH A FINAL, NONAPPEALABLE JUDGMENT HAS
BEEN RENDERED AGAINST SUCH INDEMNITEE.
(d) 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 invalidity or unenforceability of any term
or provision of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any
Agent or any Lender. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable on
written demand therefor.
(e) A certificate of any Lender or Agent setting forth any
amount or amounts which such Lender or Agent is entitled to receive pursuant to
paragraph (b) of this Section and containing an explanation in reasonable
detail of the manner in which such amount or amounts shall have been determined
shall be delivered to the appropriate Borrower and shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.
SECTION 8.06. 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
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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 the account of the relevant Borrower against any of and all
the obligations of such Borrower 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. 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 8.07. Applicable Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 8.08. Waivers; Amendment. (a) No failure or delay of
either Agent 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 Agents 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 on any Loan, or waive or excuse any such payment or any
part thereof, or decrease the rate of interest on any Loan, without the prior
written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (ii) increase any Commitment
or decrease the Facility Fee of any Lender without the prior written consent
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of such Lender or (iii) amend or modify the provisions of Section 2.14 or
Section 8.04(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 CAF Agent
hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent or the
CAF Agent, as the case may be. 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.
SECTION 8.09. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING THE
SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS HERETO) AND THE FEE LETTER AGREEMENT CONSTITUTE A "LOAN
AGREEMENT" AS DEFINED IN SECTION 26.02(A) OF THE TEXAS BUSINESS AND COMMERCE
CODE, AND REPRESENT THE ENTIRE CONTRACT AMONG THE PARTIES RELATIVE TO THE
SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF AND THEREOF. ANY PREVIOUS AGREEMENT, WHETHER WRITTEN OR
ORAL, AMONG THE PARTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, INCLUDING,
WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE EXISTING TU CREDIT AGREEMENTS, IS SUPERSEDED BY THIS
AGREEMENT AND THE LETTER AGREEMENT. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS
BETWEEN THE PARTIES. 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 8.10. 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 8.11. 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 8.03.
SECTION 8.12. Headings. Article and Section headings and the
Table of Contents used herein are for
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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 8.13. Interest Rate Limitation. (a) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the applicable interest rate,
together with all fees and charges which are treated as interest under
applicable law (collectively the "Charges"), as provided for herein or in any
other document executed in connection herewith, or otherwise contracted for,
charged, received, taken or reserved by any Lender, shall exceed the maximum
lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") which may be contracted for, charged, taken,
received or reserved by such Lender in accordance with applicable law, the rate
of interest payable on the Loans of such Lender, together with all Charges
payable to such Lender, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate.
(b) If the amount of interest, together with all Charges,
payable for the account of any Lender in respect of any interest computation
period is reduced pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section and the amount of
interest, together with all Charges, payable for such Xxxxxx's account in
respect of any subsequent interest computation period, computed pursuant to
Section 2.07, would be less than the Maximum Rate, then the amount of interest,
together with all Charges, payable for such Xxxxxx's account in respect of such
subsequent interest computation period shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, be automatically increased to such Maximum Rate; provided that
at no time shall the aggregate amount by which interest paid for the account of
any Lender has been increased pursuant to this paragraph (b) exceed the
aggregate amount by which interest, together with all Charges, paid for its
account has theretofore been reduced pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section.
SECTION 8.14. Jurisdiction; Venue. (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, 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
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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 proceeding relating to this Agreement 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 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.
SECTION 8.15. Confidentiality. Each Lender shall use its best
efforts to hold in confidence all information, memoranda, or extracts furnished
to such Lender (directly or through the Agents) by the Borrowers hereunder or
in connection with the negotiation hereof; provided that such Lender may
disclose any such information, memoranda or extracts (i) to its accountants or
counsel, (ii) to any regulatory agency having authority to examine such Lender,
(iii) as required by any legal or governmental process or otherwise by law,
(iv) except as provided in the last sentence of Section 5.03, to any person to
which such Xxxxxx sells or proposes to sell an assignment or a participation
in its Loans hereunder, if such other person agrees for the benefit of the
Borrowers to comply with the provisions of this Section and (v) to the extent
that such information, memoranda or extracts shall be publicly available or
shall have become known to such Lender independently of any disclosure by any
Borrower hereunder or in connection with the negotiation hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Lender may
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disclose the provisions of this Agreement and the amounts, maturities and
interest rates of its Loans to any purchaser or potential purchaser of such
Lender's interest in any Loan.
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.
TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Treasurer and
Assistant Secretary
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC
COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Treasurer and
Assistant Secretary
TUC HOLDING COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Treasurer and
Assistant Secretary
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TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, individually and as
Administrative Agent,
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxx
Title: Vice President
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
individually and as CAF Agent,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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CO-AGENTS:
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
individually and as a
Co-Agent,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI,
LTD., individually and as a
Co-Agent,
by /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President and
Manager
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NATIONSBANK OF TEXAS, N.A.,
individually and as Co-Agent,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Sr. Vice President
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LEAD MANAGERS:
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST
AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION,
individually and as Lead
Manager,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
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CIBC INC., individually and as
Lead Manager,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Director
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CITIBANK, N.A., individually and
as Lead Manager,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxx
Title: Vice President
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CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON,
individually and as Lead
Manager,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Director
by /s/ X. Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: X. Xxxxx xxxxx
Title: Associate
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MELLON BANK, N.A., individually
and as Lead Manager,
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC.,
individually and as Lead
Manager,
by /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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PARTICIPANTS:
CAISSE NATIONALE DE CREDIT
AGRICOLE,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: President, General
Manager, US
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COMMERZBANK AG, ATLANTA AGENCY,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: SVP and Manager
by /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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CREDIT LYONNAIS,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Sr. Vice President
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
CHICAGO,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President/
Senior Banker
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FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF
NORTH CAROLINA,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED,
by /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Sr. Vice President
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THE INDUSTRIAL BANK OF JAPAN
TRUST COMPANY,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice
President, Houston
Office
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THE LONG-TERM CREDIT BANK OF
JAPAN, LIMITED,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Joint General
Manager
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THE MITSUBISHI TRUST AND BANKING
CORPORATION, LOS ANGELES AGENCY,
by /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Deputy General
Manager
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XXXXXX GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
Title: Vice President
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THE SAKURA BANK, LIMITED,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Sr. Vice President
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THE SANWA BANK, LIMITED, DALLAS
AGENCY,
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
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THE TOKAI BANK, LIMITED,
by /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Deputy General
Manager
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UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND,
NEW YORK BRANCH,
by /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Managing Director
by /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Asst. Vice President
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WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION,
by /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A-1
FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID REQUEST
The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility
Agent
for the Lenders referred to below,
c/o The Chase Manhattan Bank
Loan and Agency Services Group
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Floor
New York, New York 10081
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation] (the
"Borrower"), refers to the Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of April 24, 1997 (as it may
hereafter be amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time, the
"Agreement"), among the Borrower, [Texas Utilities Company] [Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation], the Lenders
named therein, Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Administrative
Agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility Agent.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Agreement. The Borrower hereby gives you
notice pursuant to Section 2.03(a) of the Agreement that it requests a
Competitive Borrowing under the 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/ ______________________
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1/ Not less than $5,000,000 (and in integral multiples of $1,000,000) or
greater than the Total Commitment then available.
2/ Eurodollar Loan or 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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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 Agreement have been satisfied.
Very truly yours,
[TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY,]
[TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY,]
[TUC HOLDING COMPANY,]
[ENSERCH CORPORATION,]
by
Name:
Title: [Financial Officer]
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EXHIBIT A-2
FORM OF NOTICE OF COMPETITIVE BID REQUEST
[Name of Lender]
[Address]
New York, New York
[Date]
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Competitive
Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of April 24, 1997 (as
it may hereafter be amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time,
the "Agreement"), among [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities Electric
Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation] (the "Borrower"), [Texas
Utilities Company][Texas Utilities Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company],
[Enserch Corporation], the Lenders named therein, Texas Commerce Bank National
Association, as Administrative Agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
Competitive Advance Facility Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the
Agreement. The Borrower made a Competitive Bid Request on , 19[ ], pursuant to
Section 2.03(a) of the 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 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
---------------
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1/ The Competitive Bid must be received by the CAF Agent (i) in the case
of Eurodollar 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 Business
Day of a proposed Competitive Borrowing.
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(D) Interest Period and the
last day thereof. ______________________
Very truly yours,
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
as Competitive Advance Facility
Agent,
by
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A-3
FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID
The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility
Agent for the Lenders referred to below,
c/o The Chase Manhattan Bank
Loan and Agency Services Group
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Floor
New York, New York 10081
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
[Date]
Attention: [ ]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, [Name of Lender], refers to the Amended and
Restated Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as
of April 24, 1997 (as it may hereafter be amended, modified, extended or
restated from time to time, the "Agreement"), among [Texas Utilities
Company][Texas Utilities Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch
Corporation] (the "Borrower"), [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation], the Lenders
named therein, Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Administrative
Agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility Agent.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Agreement. The undersigned hereby makes
a Competitive Bid pursuant to Section 2.03(b) of the 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 ______________________
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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 CAF Agent.
2/ i.e., LIBO Rate + or - %, in the case of Eurodollar Loans or %, in the
case of Fixed Rate Loans.
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The undersigned hereby confirms that it is prepared, subject
to the conditions set forth in the Agreement, to extend credit to the Borrower
upon acceptance by the Borrower of this bid in accordance with Section 2.03(d)
of the Agreement.
Very truly yours,
[NAME OF XXXXXX],
by
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A-4
FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID ACCEPT/REJECT LETTER
[Date]
The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility
Agent for the Lenders referred to below
c/o The Chase Manhattan Bank
Loan and Agency Services Group
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Floor
New York, New York 10081
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Telecopy: 000-000-0000
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation] (the
"Borrower"), refers to the Amended and Restated Loan and Competitive Advance
and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of April 24, 1997 (as it may
hereafter be amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time, the
"Agreement"), among the Borrower, [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation], the Lenders
named therein, Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Administrative
Agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility Agent for
the Lenders.
In accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Agreement, we have
received a summary of bids in connection with our Competitive Bid Request dated
________, 19[ ], and in accordance with Section 2.03(d) of the Agreement, we
hereby accept the following bids for maturity on [date]:
Principal Amount Fixed Rate/Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
---------------- ----------------- ------
$ [%]/[+/-. %]
$
We hereby reject the following bids:
Principal Amount Fixed Rate/Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
---------------- ----------------- ------
$ [%]/[+/-. %]
$
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The $ should be deposited in The Chase Manhattan Bank account
number [ ] on [date].
Very truly yours,
[TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY],
[TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY],
[TUC HOLDING COMPANY],
[ENSERCH CORPORATION],
by
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A-5
FORM OF BORROWING REQUEST
Texas Commerce Bank National Association,
as Administrative Agent
for the Lenders referred to below,
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx xxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxx
Telecopy:
[Date]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation] (the
"Borrower"), refers to the Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of April 24, 1997 (as it may
hereafter be amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time, the
"Agreement"), among the Borrower, [Texas Utilities Company][Texas Utilities
Electric Company], [TUC Holding Company], [Enserch Corporation], the Lenders
named therein, Texas Commerce Bank National Association, as Administrative
Agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility Agent.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to such terms in the Agreement. The Borrower hereby gives you
notice pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Agreement that it requests a [Standby]
Borrowing under the Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below the
terms on which such [Standby] Borrowing is requested to be made:
(A) Date of Borrowing
(which is a Business Day) _________________________
(B) Principal amount of
Borrowing 1/ _________________________
(C) Interest rate basis 2/ _________________________
(D) Interest Period and the
last day thereof 3/ _________________________
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1/ Not less than $10,000,000 (and in integral multiples of $5,000,000) or
greater than, as applicable, the Total Commitment.
2/ Specify Eurodollar 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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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 Agreement have been satisfied.
Very truly yours,
[TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY,]
[TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY,]
[TUC HOLDING COMPANY,]
[ENSERCH CORPORATION,]
by
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Name:
Title: [Financial Officer]
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EXHIBIT B
ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE
TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY
TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY
TUC HOLDING COMPANY
ENSERCH CORPORATION
PLEASE FORWARD THIS COMPLETED
FORM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO:
Xxxxx XxXxxxxxx FAX (000) 000-0000
PLEASE TYPE ALL INFORMATION.
Agent: Texas Commerce Bank National Association
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx 0-XXX-X 00
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000
Telex: 166-350 TCB HOU
Chase Securities Inc.
Syndications
Telecopier: (000) 000-0000 / Alt. Fax (000) 000-0000
Chase Securities Inc.
Syndications
Contacts: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (000) 000-0000
Xxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx (000) 000-0000
Xxxxx XxXxxxxxx (000) 000-0000
Operations: Xxxx Xxxxxxx (000) 000-0000
Letters of Credit: Xxxx Xxxxxxx (000) 000-0000
Competitive Auction
Contact: The Chase Manhattan Bank New York
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx - Phone: (000) 000-0000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
Full Legal Name of
your Institution:
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Hard-copy documents, notices and periodic financial statements of the Borrower
should be sent to the following account officer designated by your bank:
Officer's Name:
-------------------------------------------------------
Title:
-------------------------------------------------------
Street Address (No
P.O. Boxes please):
-------------------------------------------------------
City, State, Zip:
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Phone #:
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Telefax #:
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PRIMARY CONTACT INFORMATION
We will send all telecopies regarding time-critical information (drawdowns,
option changes, payments, etc.) to the Primary or Alternate Contact at the
banking location you designate.
1. Your bank's primary contact for telefaxes concerning
borrowings, options on interest rates, etc.:
Primary Telephone Telefax
Name Number Number
------- --------- -------
Alternate Name/ Telephone Telefax
Phone No. Number Number
--------------- --------- -------
If at any time any of the above information changes, please advise.
Publicity: Under what name would you prefer your
institution to appear in any future
advertisements?
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Movement of Funds: TO US: Wire Fed Funds to:
Texas Commerce Bank N.A.
ABA #000000000
for account number #0000-000-0000
Attention: Loan Syndication Svcs./ Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Reference:
TO YOU: Wire Fed Funds to:
NAME:
------------------------------------------------------------
ABA #
For Credit To:
------------------------------------------------------------
Attention:
------------------------------------------------------------
Reference:
------------------------------------------------------------
Other:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If buyer is purchasing Letter of Credit facility as part of this
participation/syndication, please provide the information below:
L/C contact name:
------------------------------------------------------------
Street Address:
------------------------------------------------------------
City, State, Zip:
------------------------------------------------------------
Phone #:
------------------------------------------------------------
Telefax #:
------------------------------------------------------------
Wire Fed Funds to:
NAME:
------------------------------------------------------------
ABA #
For Credit To:
------------------------------------------------------------
Attention:
------------------------------------------------------------
Reference:
------------------------------------------------------------
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PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
FOR COMPETITIVE AUCTIONS ONLY
Primary Contact
Competitive Auctions
Bank Name:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Address:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Contact:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Department:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Telephone Number:
------------------------------------------------------------
Telefax Number:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Alternate Contact
Competitive Auctions
Alternate Contact:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Department:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Telephone Number:
------------------------------------------------------------
Telefax Number:
--------------------------------------------------------------
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PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
FOR COMPETITIVE AUCTIONS ONLY
Primary Contact
Competitive Auctions
Bank Name:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Address:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary Contact:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Department:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Telephone Number:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Telefax Number:
----------------------------------------------------------------
Alternate Contact
Competitive Auctions
Alternate Contact:
-------------------------------------------------------------
Department:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Telephone Number:
--------------------------------------------------------------
Telefax Number:
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EXHIBIT C
[FORM OF]
ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
Dated: __________, 19__
Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Competitive
Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated as of April 24, 1997 (as
amended, modified, extended or restated from time to time, the "Agreement"),
among Texas Utilities Company, Texas Utilities Electric Company , [TUC Holding
Company], [Enserch Corporation] (collectively, the "Borrowers"), the lenders
listed in Schedule 2.01 thereto (the "Lenders"), Texas Commerce Bank National
Association, as Administrative Agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
Competitive Advance Facility Agent for the Lenders. Terms defined in the
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 of Assignment
set forth below], the interests set forth on the reverse hereof (the "Assigned
Interest") in the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Agreement,
including, without limitation, the interests set forth on the reverse hereof in
the Commitment of the Assignor on the [Effective Date of Assignment] and the
Competitive Loans and Standby Loans owing to the Assignor which are outstanding
on the [Effective Date of Assignment], together with unpaid interest accrued on
the assigned Loans to the [Effective Date of Assignment] and the amount, if
any, set forth on the reverse hereof of the Fees accrued to the [Effective Date
of Assignment] for the account of the Assignor. 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 8.04 of the Agreement, a copy of
which has been received by each such party. From and after the [Effective Date
of Assignment], (i) the Assignee shall be a party to and be bound by the
provisions of the 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 Agreement.
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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 2.17(g) of the Agreement, duly completed and executed by such Assignee,
(ii) if the Assignee is not already a Lender under the Agreement, an
Administrative Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit B to the 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:
-----------------------------------------------
Effective Date of Assignment (may not be fewer than 5 Business Days after the
Date of Assignment unless otherwise agreed by the
Administrative Agent):
--------------------------------------------------------
Percentage Assigned of Facility/
Commitment (set forth, to at least 8
Principal Amount Assigned decimals, as a percentage of the
(and identifying information as Facility and the aggregate
Facility to individual Competitive Loans) Commitments of all Lenders thereunder)
-------- -------------------------------- --------------------------------------
Commitment
Assigned: $____________ __________%
Standby Loans: $____________ __________%
Competitive Loans: $____________ __________%
Fees Assigned (if $____________ __________%
any):
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The terms set forth and on Accepted:
the reverse side hereof TEXAS UTILITIES COMPANY,
are hereby agreed to:
by:
-------------------------------------
, as
----------------------
Assignor, Name:
Title:
by:
------------------- TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC COMPANY,
Name:
Title: by:
-------------------------------------
, as
----------------------
Assignee, Name:
Title:
by:
-------------------- TUC HOLDING COMPANY,
Name:
Title: by:
-------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
ENSERCH CORPORATION,
by:
-------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
TEXAS COMMERCE BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Administrative
Agent,
by:
-------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as CAF
Agent,
by:
-------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
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[LETTERHEAD OF] EXHIBIT D-1
XXXX & PRIEST LLP
April 24, 1997
To the Lenders listed on
Schedule 2.01 of each
Credit Agreements referred to below
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We advise you that we have acted as counsel to TUC Holding
Company, a Texas corporation ("TUC"), Texas Utilities Company, a Texas
Corporation ("TU"), and Texas Utilities Electric Company, a Texas corporation
("TU Electric"), in connection with the 364-Day Amended and Restated
Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement and the 5-Year
Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility
Agreement (collectively, the "Credit Agreements"), each dated as of April 24,
1997, among TUC, TU, TU Electric, Enserch Corporation ("Enserch"), Texas
Commerce Bank National Association, as Administrative Agent, The Chase
Manhattan Bank, as Competitive Advance Facility Agent, and the banks listed on
Schedule 2.01 thereof (the "Lenders"), and have participated in the preparation
of or have examined and are familiar with (a) the current financial statements
and reports filed by TU and TU Electric with the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (b) the
Credit Agreements, (C) the articles of incorporation and by-laws of TUC, TU and
TU Electric and (d) such other records and documents as we have deemed
necessary for the purposes of this opinion.
Capitalized terms used in this opinion and not defined herein
shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreements.
This opinion is delivered to you pursuant to Section 4.02(a) of the Credit
Agreements.
As to those matters stated herein to be "to our knowledge" or
"known to us" such examination has been limited to discussions with and
certificates from officers of TUC, TU and TU Electric and we have not conducted
any independent investigation or verification or taken any action beyond such
discussions and certificates, nor made any search of the records of any
Governmental Authority with respect to such matters.
We are members of the New York Bar and do not hold ourselves
out as experts on the laws of the State of Texas. As to all matters of Texas
law (including incorporation of TUC, TU and TU Electric, titles to properties,
franchises,
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licenses and permits) we have, with your consent, relied upon an opinion of
even date herewith delivered to you by Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P.,
general counsel for TUC, TU and TU Electric. While we represent TUC, TU and TU
Electric on a regular basis, our engagement has been limited to specific
matters as to which we were consulted. We have no direct knowledge of the
day-to-day affairs of TUC, TU or TU Electric and have not reviewed generally
their business affairs. Accordingly, we are relying upon representations of
TUC, TU and TU Electric contained in the Credit Agreements, in certificates
furnished pursuant thereto, and in certificates furnished to us by officers of
TUC, TU and TU Electric.
For purposes of the opinions expressed below, we have assumed
(i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (ii) the
conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified or
photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies, (iii)
the genuineness of all signatures other than on behalf of TUC, TU and TU
Electric, (iv) the legal capacity of natural persons, (v) the power, corporate
or otherwise, of all parties other than TUC, TU and TU Electric to enter into
and to perform all of their obligations under such documents, and (vi) the due
authorization, execution and delivery of all documents by all parties other
than TUC, TU and TU Electric.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. Each of TUC, TU and TU Electric (i) is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Texas, (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 Change, and (iv) has all requisite corporate power
and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Credit
Agreements and to borrow funds thereunder.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by each of TUC,
TU and TU Electric of the Credit Agreements and the Borrowings by each of them
thereunder (collectively, the
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"Transactions") (i) have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action
and (ii) will not (a) violate (1) any law, statute, rule or regulation
presently binding on or applicable to TUC, TU or TU Electric, or the articles
of incorporation, as amended, or by-laws of TUC, TU or TU Electric, (2) to our
knowledge, any order of any Governmental Authority presently applicable to TUC,
TU or TU Electric or (3) any provision of any indenture, agreement or other
instrument known to us to which TUC, TU or TU Electric or its property is
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 or with respect to any property or assets of TUC, TU or TU
Electric.
3. The Credit Agreements have been duly executed and
delivered by TUC, TU and TU Electric and constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of TUC, TU and TU Electric enforceable against each of them in
accordance with their terms except as enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general
equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered
in a proceeding in equity or at law).
4. No action, consent or approval of, registration or filing
with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority (including pursuant to
the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended) is required on the
part of TUC, TU or TU Electric in connection with the Transactions, except such
as have been made or obtained and are in full force and effect.
5. (a) None of TUC, TU nor TU Electric nor any of their
respective Subsidiaries is an "investment company" as defined in, or subject to
regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and (b) TUC,
TU, TU Electric and each of their respective Subsidiaries is exempt from all
provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, and
the rules and regulations thereunder, except for Sections 9(a)(2) and 33 of
such Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, and the execution, delivery
and performance by each of TUC, TU and TU Electric of the Credit Agreements do
not violate any provisions of such Act or any rule or regulation thereunder.
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6. Except as described in the Annual Reports of TU and TU
Electric on Form 10-K of TU for the year ended December 31, 1996 and as set
forth in Schedule 3.06 to the Credit Agreements, to our knowledge there is no
action, suit, or proceeding at law or in equity or by or before any
Governmental Authority now pending or threatened against or affecting TUC, TU
or TU Electric (i) which involves the Transactions or (ii) as to which there is
a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and which, if adversely
determined, could, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material
Adverse Change.
7. To our knowledge after due inquiry, the proposed use of
the proceeds of the Loans is in accordance with the Credit Agreements and, if
so used, will not violate the Margin Regulations.
8. We believe that a New York court would give effect to the
provisions of the Credit Agreements that state that they are to be construed in
accordance with New York law.
This letter is solely for the benefit of the named addressees
and may not be quoted in whole or in part or otherwise referred to in any
document or report and may not be furnished to any person without our prior
written consent, except that Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, L.L.P. may rely
hereon in connection with their opinion being rendered pursuant to Section
4.02(a) of the Credit Agreements.
Very truly yours,
Xxxx & Priest LLP
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[LETTERHEAD OF] EXHIBIT D-2
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX, L.L.P.
April 24, 1997
To the Lenders listed on
Schedule 2.01 of each of the
Credit Agreements referred to below
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as general counsel for TUC Holding Company, a
Texas corporation ("TUC"), Texas Utilities Company, a Texas corporation ("TU")
and Texas Utilities Electric Company, a Texas corporation ("TU Electric"), in
connection with the execution and delivery of the 364-Day Amended and Restated
Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement and the 5-Year
Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility
Agreement (collectively, the "Credit Agreements"), each dated as of April 24,
1997, among TUC, TU, TU Electric, Enserch Corporation ("Enserch"), the banks
listed on Schedule 2.01 thereof (the "Lenders"), Texas Commerce Bank National
Association, as Administrative Agent and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
Competitive Advance Facility Agent.
Capitalized terms used in this opinion and not defined herein
shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreements.
This opinion is delivered to you pursuant to Section 4.02(a) of the Credit
Agreements.
In connection with this opinion we have examined a
counterpart of the Credit Agreements executed by TUC, TU and TU Electric and
have also made such examination of other documents and of certificates of
public officials and corporate officers of TUC, TU and TU Electric, and have
made such other legal and factual examinations and inquiries as we have deemed
necessary or advisable for the purpose of rendering this opinion; but as to
those matters stated herein to be "to our knowledge" or "known to us" such
examination has been limited to discussions with and certificates from officers
of TUC, TU and TU Electric and we have not conducted any independent
investigation or verification or taken any action beyond such discussions and
certificates, nor made any search of the records of any Governmental Authority
with respect to such matters.
For purposes of the opinions expressed below, we have assumed
(i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (ii) the
conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified or
photostatic
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copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies, (iii) the
genuineness of all signatures other than on behalf of TUC, TU and TU Electric,
(iv) the legal capacity of natural persons, (v) the power, corporate or
otherwise, of all parties other than TUC, TU and TU Electric to enter into and
to perform all of their obligations under such documents, and (vi) the due
authorization, execution and delivery of all documents by all parties other
than TUC, TU and TU Electric.
Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing and to such further
limitations and qualifications stated below, we are of the opinion that:
1. Each of TUC, TU and TU Electric (i) is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Texas, (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 Change, and (iv) has all requisite corporate power
and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Credit
Agreements and to borrow funds thereunder.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by each of TUC, TU
and TU Electric of the Credit Agreements and the Borrowings by each of them
(collectively, the "Transactions") (i) have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action and (ii) will not (a) violate (1) any law, statute,
rule or regulation presently binding on or applicable to TUC, TU or TU
Electric, or the articles of incorporation, as amended, or by-laws of TUC, TU
or TU Electric, (2) to our knowledge, any order of any Governmental Authority
presently applicable to TUC, TU or TU Electric or (3) any provision of any
indenture, agreement or other instrument known to us to which TUC, TU or TU
Electric is a party or by which TUC, TU or TU Electric or its property is
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 or with respect to any property or assets now owned or hereafter
acquired by TUC, TU or TU Electric.
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3. The Credit Agreements have been duly executed and
delivered by TUC, TU and TU Electric and constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of TUC, TU and TU Electric enforceable against each of them in
accordance with their terms except as enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law).
4. No action, consent or approval of, registration or filing
with, or any other action by, any Government Authority (including pursuant to
the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended) is required on the
part of TUC, TU or TU Electric in connection with the Transactions, except as
such as have been made or obtained and are in full force and effect.
5. None of TUC, TU nor TU Electric nor any of their
respective Subsidiaries is an "investment company" as defined in, or subject to
regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. TUC, TU, TU
Electric and each of their respective Subsidiaries is exempt from all
provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, and
rules and regulations thereunder, except for Sections 9(a)(2) and 33 of such
Act and rules and regulations thereunder, and the execution, delivery and
performance by TUC, TU and TU Electric of the Credit Agreements do not violate
any provision of such Act or any rule or regulation thereunder.
6. Except as described in the Annual Reports of TU and TU
Electric on Form 10-K of TU for the year ended December 31, 1996 and as set
forth in Schedule 3.06 to the Credit Agreements, to our knowledge there is no
action, suit or proceeding at law or in equity or by or before any Governmental
Authority now pending or threatened against or affecting TUC, TU or TU Electric
(i) which involves the Transactions or (ii) as to which there is a reasonable
possibility of an adverse determination and which, if adversely determined,
would, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse change.
7. To our knowledge, TUC, TU and TU Electric are not in
violation of any law, rule or regulation, or in default with respect to any
judgment, writ, injunction or
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decree of any Governmental Authority, where such violation or default would
result in a Material Adverse Change.
8. To our knowledge, after due inquiry, the proposed use of
the proceeds of the Loans is in accordance with the Credit Agreements, and, if
so used, will not violate the Margin Regulations.
9. We believe that a Texas court would give effect to the
provisions of the Credit Agreements that state that they are to be construed in
accordance with New York law; provided, however, that we render no opinion as
to the application of New York law that is contrary to a fundamental or public
policy of the State of Texas.
We are members of the State Bar of Texas and do not purport
to be experts on, nor do we opine as to, the laws of any jurisdiction other
than the State of Texas and the federal laws of the United States. To the
extent that the opinions hereinabove set forth involve the laws of the State of
New York, we have relied upon the opinion of even date herewith delivered by
you by Xxxx & Priest LLP, special counsel to TUC, TU and TU Electric.
The foregoing opinions are limited to existing laws and we
undertake no obligation or responsibility to update or supplement this letter
in response to subsequent changes in the law or future events or circumstances
affecting the Transactions. This letter is solely for the benefit of the named
addressees and may not be quoted in whole or in part or otherwise referred to
in any document or report and may not be furnished to any person without our
prior written consent, except that Xxxx & Priest LLP may rely hereon in
connection with their opinion being rendered pursuant to Section 4.02(a) of the
Credit Agreements.
Very truly yours,
XXXXXXX, XXXXXXXX &
XXXXXXXXXX, L.L.P.
By:
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A Partner
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[LETTERHEAD OF] EXHIBIT D-3
[NEW YORK COUNSEL FOR ENSERCH CORPORATION]
April 24, 1997
To the Lenders listed on
Schedule 2.01 of each
Credit Agreements referred to below
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We advise you that we have acted as counsel to Enserch
Corporation, a Texas corporation ("Enserch"), in connection with the 364-Day
Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit Facility
Agreement and the 5-Year Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement (collectively, the "Credit Agreements"),
each dated as of April 24, 1997, among TUC Holding Company, a Texas corporation
("TUC"), Texas Utilities Company, a Texas corporation ("TU"), Texas Utilities
Electric Company, a Texas corporation ("TU Electric"), Enserch, Texas Commerce
Bank National Association, as Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank,
as Competitive Advance Facility Agent, and the banks listed on Schedule 2.01
thereof (the "Lenders"), and have participated in the preparation of or have
examined and are familiar with (a) the current financial statements and reports
filed by Enserch with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (b) the Credit Agreements, (C) the
articles of incorporation and by-laws of Enserch and (d) such other records and
documents as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of this opinion.
Capitalized terms used in this opinion and not defined herein
shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreements.
This opinion is delivered to you pursuant to Section 4.03(c) of the Credit
Agreements.
As to those matters stated herein to be "to our knowledge" or
"known to us" such examination has been limited to discussions with and
certificates from officers of Enserch and we have not conducted any independent
investigation or verification or taken any action beyond such discussions and
certificates, nor made any search of the records of any Governmental Authority
with respect to such matters.
We are members of the New York Bar and do not hold ourselves
out as experts on the laws of the State of Texas. As to all matters of Texas
law (including incorporation of Enserch, titles to properties, franchises,
licenses and
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permits) we have, with your consent, relied upon an opinion of even date
herewith delivered to you by [ ], general counsel for Enserch. While we
represent Enserch on a regular basis, our engagement has been limited to
specific matters as to which we were consulted. We have no direct knowledge of
the day-to-day affairs of Enserch and have not reviewed generally its business
affairs. Accordingly, we are relying upon representations of Enserch contained
in the Credit Agreements, in certificates furnished pursuant thereto, and in
certificates furnished to us by officers of Enserch.
For purposes of the opinions expressed below, we have assumed
(i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (ii) the
conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified or
photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies, (iii)
the genuineness of all signatures other than on behalf of Enserch, (iv) the
legal capacity of natural persons, (v) the power, corporate or otherwise, of
all parties other than Enserch to enter into and to perform all of their
obligations under such documents, and (vi) the due authorization, execution and
delivery of all documents by all parties other than Enserch.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. Enserch (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas, (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
Change, and (iv) has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under the Credit Agreements and to borrow
funds thereunder.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by Enserch of the
Credit Agreements and the Borrowings by it thereunder (collectively, the
"Transactions") (i) have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action
and (ii) will not (a) violate (1) any law, statute, rule or regulation
presently binding on or applicable to Enserch, or the articles of
incorporation, as amended, or by-laws of
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Enserch, (2) to our knowledge, any order of any Governmental Authority
presently applicable to Enserch or (3) any provision of any indenture,
agreement or other instrument known to us to which Enserch or its property is
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 or with respect to any property or assets of Enserch.
3. The Credit Agreements have been duly executed and
delivered by Enserch and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of
Enserch enforceable against it in accordance with their terms except as
enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights
generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
4. No action, consent or approval of, registration or filing
with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority (including pursuant to
the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended) is required on the
part of Enserch in connection with the Transactions, except such as have been
made or obtained and are in full force and effect.
5. (a) Neither Enserch nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
"investment company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and (b) Enserch and each of its
respective Subsidiaries is exempt from all provisions of the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, and the rules and regulations
thereunder, except for Sections 9(a)(2) and 33 of such Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder, and the execution, delivery and performance by Enserch
of the Credit Agreements do not violate any provisions of such Act or any rule
or regulation thereunder.
6. Except as described in the Annual Report of Enserch on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1996 and as set forth in Schedule
3.06 to the Credit Agreements, to our knowledge there is no action, suit, or
proceeding at law or in equity or by or before any Governmental Authority now
pending or threatened against or affecting Enserch (i)
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which involves the Transactions or (ii) as to which there is a reasonable
possibility of an adverse determination and which, if adversely determined,
could, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change.
7. To our knowledge after due inquiry, the proposed use of
the proceeds of the Loans is in accordance with the Credit Agreements and, if
so used, will not violate the Margin Regulations.
8. We believe that a New York court would give effect to the
provisions of the Credit Agreements that state that they are to be construed in
accordance with New York law.
This letter is solely for the benefit of the named addressees
and may not be quoted in whole or in part or otherwise referred to in any
document or report and may not be furnished to any person without our prior
written consent, except that [ ] may rely hereon in connection with their
opinion being rendered pursuant to Section 4.03(c) of the Credit Agreements.
Very truly yours,
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[LETTERHEAD OF] EXHIBIT D-4
[GENERAL COUNSEL FOR ENSERCH CORPORATION]
April 24, 1997
To the Lenders listed on
Schedule 2.01 of each of the
Credit Agreements referred to below
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as general counsel for Enserch Corporation, a
Texas corporation ("Enserch"), in connection with the execution and delivery of
the 364-Day Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and Revolving Credit
Facility Agreement and the 5-Year Amended and Restated Competitive Advance and
Revolving Credit Facility Agreement (collectively, the "Credit Agreements"),
each dated as of April 24, 1997, among TUC Holding Company, a Texas corporation
("TUC"), Texas Utilities Company, a Texas Corporation ("TU"), Texas Utilities
Electric Company, a Texas corporation ("TU Electric"), Enserch, the banks
listed on Schedule 2.01 thereof (the "Lenders"), Texas Commerce Bank National
Association, as Administrative Agent and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
Competitive Advance Facility Agent.
Capitalized terms used in this opinion and not defined herein
shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreements.
This opinion is delivered to you pursuant to Section 4.03(c) of the Credit
Agreements.
In connection with this opinion we have examined a
counterpart of the Credit Agreements executed by Xxxxxxx and have also made
such examination of other documents and of certificates of public officials and
corporate officers of Enserch, and have made such other legal and factual
examinations and inquiries as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the
purpose of rendering this opinion; but as to those matters stated herein to be
"to our knowledge" or "known to us" such examination has been limited to
discussions with and certificates from officers of Enserch and we have not
conducted any independent investigation or verification or taken any action
beyond such discussions and certificates, nor made any search of the records of
any Governmental Authority with respect to such matters.
For purposes of the opinions expressed below, we have assumed
(i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, (ii) the
conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified or
photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies,
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(iii) the genuineness of all signatures other than on behalf of Enserch, (iv)
the legal capacity of natural persons, (v) the power, corporate or otherwise,
of all parties other than Enserch to enter into and to perform all of their
obligations under such documents, and (vi) the due authorization, execution and
delivery of all documents by all parties other than Enserch.
Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing and to such further
limitations and qualifications stated below, we are of the opinion that:
1. Enserch (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Texas, (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
Change, and (iv) has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under the Credit Agreements and to borrow
funds thereunder.
2. The execution, delivery and performance by Enserch of the
Credit Agreements and the Borrowings by each of them (collectively, the
"Transactions") (i) have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action
and (ii) will not (a) violate (1) any law, statute, rule or regulation
presently binding on or applicable to Enserch, or the articles of
incorporation, as amended, or by-laws of Enserch, (2) to our knowledge, any
order of any Governmental Authority presently applicable to Enserch or (3) any
provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument known to us to which
Enserch is a party or by which Enserch or its property is 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 or with
respect to any property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired by Enserch.
3. The Credit Agreements have been duly executed and
delivered by Enserch and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of
Enserch enforceable against each of them in accordance with their terms except
as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
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moratorium or other laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights
generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
4. No action, consent or approval of, registration or filing
with, or any other action by, any Government Authority (including pursuant to
the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended) is required on the
part of Enserch in connection with the Transactions, except as such as have
been made or obtained and are in full force and effect.
5. Neither Enserch nor any of its respective Subsidiaries is
an "investment company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Enserch and each of its
Subsidiaries is exempt from all provisions of the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1935, as amended, and rules and regulations thereunder, except
for Sections 9(a)(2) and 33 of such Act and rules and regulations thereunder,
and the execution, delivery and performance by Enserch of the Credit Agreements
do not violate any provision of such Act or any rule or regulation thereunder.
6. Except as described in the Annual Report of Enserch on
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1996 and as set forth in Schedule
3.06 to the Credit Agreements, to our knowledge there is no action, suit or
proceeding at law or in equity or by or before any Governmental Authority now
pending or threatened against or affecting Enserch (i) which involves the
Transactions or (ii) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an
adverse determination and which, if adversely determined, would, individually
or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse change.
7. To our knowledge, Enserch is not in violation of any law,
rule or regulation, or in default with respect to any judgment, writ,
injunction or decree of any Governmental Authority, where such violation or
default would result in a Material Adverse Change.
8. To our knowledge, after due inquiry, the proposed use of
the proceeds of the Loans is in accordance with the Credit Agreements, and, if
so used, will not violate the Margin Regulations.
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9. We believe that a Texas court would give effect to the
provisions of the Credit Agreements that state that they are to be construed in
accordance with New York law; provided, however, that we render no opinion as
to the application of New York law that is contrary to a fundamental or public
policy of the State of Texas.
We are members of the State Bar of Texas and do not purport
to be experts on, nor do we opine as to, the laws of any jurisdiction other
than the State of Texas and the federal laws of the United States. To the
extent that the opinions hereinabove set forth involve the laws of the State of
New York, we have relied upon the opinion of even date herewith delivered by
you by [ ], special counsel to Enserch.
The foregoing opinions are limited to existing laws and we
undertake no obligation or responsibility to update or supplement this letter
in response to subsequent changes in the law or future events or circumstances
affecting the Transactions. This letter is solely for the benefit of the named
addressees and may not be quoted in whole or in part or otherwise referred to
in any document or report and may not be furnished to any person without our
prior written consent, except that [ ] may rely hereon in connection with their
opinion being rendered pursuant to Section 4.03(c) of the Credit Agreements.
Very truly yours,
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Schedule 2.01
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Name Commitment
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The Chase Manhattan Bank $52,500,000.00
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Texas Commerce Bank National $52,500,000.00
Association
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The Bank of New York $91,000,000.00
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The Bank of Tokyo- $91,000,000.00
Mitsubishi, Ltd.
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NationsBank of Texas, N.A. $91,000,000.00
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Bank of America National $63,000,000.00
Trust and Savings
Association
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Canadian Imperial Bank of $63,000,000.00
Commerce
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Citibank, N.A. $63,000,000.00
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Credit Suisse First Boston $63,000,000.00
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Mellon Bank, N.A. $63,000,000.00
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Toronto Dominion $63,000,000.00
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The Industrial Bank of Japan $52,500,000.00
Trust Company
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Name Commitment
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Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust $52,500,000.00
Company of New York
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The Tokai Bank, Limited $49,000,000.00
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Commerzbank, AG $35,000,000.00
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Caisse Nationale de Credit $35,000,000.00
Agricole
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Credit Lyonnais $35,000,000.00
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The First National Bank of $35,000,000.00
Chicago
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First Union National Bank of $35,000,000.00
North Carolina
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The Fuji Bank, Limited $35,000,000.00
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The Long-Term Credit Bank of $35,000,000.00
Japan, Limited
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The Mitsubishi Trust and $35,000,000.00
Banking Corporation, Los
Angeles Agency
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Name Commitment
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The Sakura Bank, Limited $35,000,000.00
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The Sanwa Bank Limited $35,000,000.00
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Union Bank of Switzerland $35,000,000.00
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Westpac Banking Corporation $35,000,000.00
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Total Commitment $ 1,330,000,000.00
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SCHEDULE 3.06
TO THE
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Litigation
None
