CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of February 4, 2008 among A. H. BELO CORPORATION, as Borrower, The Lenders Party Hereto, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC. and BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC, as Joint Lead...
Exhibit 99.1
EXECUTION VERSION
dated as of
February 4, 2008
among
A. H. BELO CORPORATION,
as Borrower,
as Borrower,
The Lenders Party Hereto,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
as Administrative Agent
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC.
and
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
and
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent
as Syndication Agent
SUNTRUST BANK
and
CAPITAL ONE BANK, N.A.,
as Co-Documentation Agents
and
CAPITAL ONE BANK, N.A.,
as Co-Documentation Agents
[CS&M No. 6701-759]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I |
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Definitions |
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SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms |
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SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings |
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SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally |
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SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP |
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ARTICLE II |
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The Credits |
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SECTION 2.01. Commitments |
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SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings |
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SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings |
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SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans |
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SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit |
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SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings |
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SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections |
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SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments |
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SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
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SECTION 2.10. Prepayment of Loans |
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SECTION 2.11. Fees |
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SECTION 2.12. Interest |
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SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest |
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SECTION 2.14. Increased Costs |
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SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments |
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SECTION 2.16. Taxes |
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SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs |
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SECTION 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
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SECTION 2.19. Increase in Commitments |
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ARTICLE III |
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Representations and Warranties |
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SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers |
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SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability |
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SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts |
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SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change |
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SECTION 3.05. Properties |
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SECTION 3.06. Litigation, Labor and Environmental Matters |
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SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements |
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SECTION 3.08. Certain Legal Matters |
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SECTION 3.09. Taxes |
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SECTION 3.10. ERISA |
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SECTION 3.11. Solvency |
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SECTION 3.12. Subsidiary Guarantors |
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SECTION 3.13. Disclosure |
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ARTICLE IV |
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Conditions |
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SECTION 4.01. Effective Date |
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SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event |
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ARTICLE V |
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Affirmative Covenants |
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SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information |
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SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events |
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SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business |
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SECTION 5.04. Payment of Obligations |
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SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance |
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SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights |
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SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws |
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SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit |
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SECTION 5.09. Guarantee Requirement |
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ARTICLE VI |
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Negative Covenants |
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SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness |
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SECTION 6.02. Liens |
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SECTION 6.03. Restricted Payments |
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SECTION 6.04. Fundamental Changes |
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SECTION 6.05. Transactions with Affiliates |
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SECTION 6.06. Restrictive Agreements |
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SECTION 6.07. Sale and Lease-Back Transactions |
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SECTION 6.08. Asset Sales |
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SECTION 6.09. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions |
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SECTION 6.10. Hedging Agreements |
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SECTION 6.11. Leverage |
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SECTION 6.12. Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio |
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ARTICLE VII |
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Events of Default |
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ARTICLE VIII |
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The Administrative Agent |
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ARTICLE IX |
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Miscellaneous |
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SECTION 9.01. Notices |
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SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments |
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SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
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SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 9.05. Survival |
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SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
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SECTION 9.07. Severability |
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SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff |
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SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
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SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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SECTION 9.11. Headings |
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SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality |
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SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation |
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SECTION 9.14. Release of Subsidiary Guarantors |
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SECTION 9.15. USA Patriot Act |
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SECTION 9.16. No Fiduciary Relationship |
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Exhibits and Schedules |
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Exhibit A Form of Assignment and Assumption |
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Exhibit B-1 Form of Opinion of General Counsel of A. H. Belo Corporation |
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Exhibit B-2 Form of Opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP |
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Exhibit C Form of Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement |
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Exhibit D Form of Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement |
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Schedule 1.01 Subsidiary Guarantors |
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Schedule 2.01 Commitments |
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Schedule 3.06 Litigation, Labor and Environmental Matters |
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Schedule 4.01(g) Existing Capital Lease Obligations |
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Schedule 6.01 Existing Indebtedness |
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Schedule 6.02 Liens |
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Schedule 6.06 Existing Restrictions |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of February 4, 2008, among A. H. BELO
CORPORATION; the LENDERS party hereto; and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as
Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative
Agent”) and as Issuing Bank (in such capacity, the “Issuing
Bank”).
The Borrower (such term and each other capitalized term used and not otherwise defined herein
having the meaning assigned to it in Article I) has requested the Lenders to extend credit to
enable the Borrower to borrow on a revolving credit basis and to obtain Letters of Credit on and
after the date hereof and at any time and from time to time prior to the Maturity Date. The
proceeds of borrowings hereunder will be used for general corporate purposes of the Borrower and
the Subsidiaries. Letters of Credit issued hereunder will be used for general corporate purposes
of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries.
The Lenders are willing to extend such credit to the Borrower on the terms and subject to the
conditions herein set forth.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings specified below:
“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan,
or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to
the Alternate Base Rate. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan.
“Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as
administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form
supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with the Person specified.
“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a)
the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day
plus 1/2 of 1% per annum. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or
the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be
effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the
Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“Applicable Percentage” means on any date, with respect to any ABR Loan or Eurodollar
Loan or with respect to the commitment fees referred to in Section 2.11(a), as the case may be, the
applicable percentage set forth in the table below under the caption “ABR Spread”, “Eurodollar
Spread” or “Commitment Fee Percentage”, as the case may be, based upon the Leverage Ratio as of the
most recent determination date:
Commitment Fee | ||||||||||||||
Leverage Ratio | Percentage | Eurodollar Spread | ABR Spread | |||||||||||
Category 1 |
< 1.0 to 1.00 | 0.250% | 1.250% | 0.250% | ||||||||||
Category 2 |
³ 1.0 to 1.00 and | 0.375% | 1.500% | 0.500% | ||||||||||
< 2.00 to 1.00 | ||||||||||||||
Category 3 |
³ 2.0 to 1.00 | 0.500% | 1.750% | 0.750% | ||||||||||
For purposes of the foregoing, (i) the Leverage Ratio shall be determined as of the end
of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower’s fiscal year based upon the Borrower’s consolidated
financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) (or, prior to the delivery of any
such financial statements, as of September 30, 2007, based on the financial statements referred to
in Section 3.04) and (ii) each change in the Applicable Percentage resulting from a change in the
Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the first Business
Day following the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of the consolidated financial
statements indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date
of the next such change; provided that if the Borrower fails to deliver the consolidated
financial statements required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), the
Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 3 during the period from the first Business Day
following the day by which such statements were required to be delivered under Section 5.01(a) or
(b), as the case may be, until the first Business Day following the date on which such consolidated
financial statements are delivered. In the event that any financial statements delivered pursuant
to Section 5.01(a) or (b) shall prove to have been inaccurate (regardless of whether the
Commitments are in effect or any Loans or Letters of Credit are outstanding when such inaccuracy is
discovered), and such inaccuracy shall have resulted in the payment of any interest or fees at
rates lower than those that were in fact applicable for any period (based on the Borrower’s actual
Leverage Ratio), then the Borrower shall promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent corrected
financial statements and pay to the Administrative Agent, for distribution to the Lenders (or
former Lenders) as their interests may appear, the accrued interest or fees that should have been
paid but were not paid as a result of the inaccuracy of such financial statements (it being
understood that nothing in this sentence shall limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or the
Lenders under Section 2.12 or Article VII).
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a
Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is
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required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A
or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Debt” means, in connection with any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction, (a)
if such transaction involves a capital lease, the capitalized amount thereof, determined in
accordance with GAAP, and (b) if such transaction involves an operating lease, the amount that
would have been capitalized had such lease been a capital lease, determined in accordance with
GAAP.
“Augmenting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(a).
“Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but
excluding the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Commitments.
“Belo” means Belo Corp., a Delaware corporation.
“Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United
States of America.
“Borrower” means A. H. Belo Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
“Borrowing” means (a) Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued
on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in
effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan.
“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Revolving Borrowing in
accordance with Section 2.03.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed;
provided 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.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, all amounts that are (or should be) set
forth as capital expenditures (exclusive of any amount attributable to capitalized interest) of the
Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Borrower
for such period prepared in accordance with GAAP, but shall exclude (a) any expenditures made
during such period to replace damaged, condemned or seized property with insurance proceeds or the
proceeds of condemnation or eminent domain proceedings and (b) any expenditures made during such
period to repair or improve assets that shall later have been sold.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay
rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or
personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and
accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such
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Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof
determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Management Services Obligations” means any and all obligations of the Borrower
or any Subsidiary, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising,
evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and
substitutions therefor) in connection with cash management services (including controlled
disbursements, zero balance arrangements, cash sweeps, automated clearinghouse transactions, return
items, overdrafts, temporary advances, and interstate depository network services).
A “Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if (a) any person or group
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as in effect on the date
hereof), other than Management Shareholders and their Permitted Transferees, shall at any time own,
directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, shares representing more than 35% of the
aggregate ordinary voting power to elect members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower
represented by the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Borrower (unless at such time the
Management Shareholders and their Permitted Transferees shall own, beneficially and of record,
shares representing more than 50% of such aggregate ordinary voting power); or (b) a majority of
the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower shall at any time be
occupied by persons who are not Continuing Directors.
“Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date
of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c)
compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.14, by any lending
office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any
law, rule or regulation, or any guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of
any Governmental Authority, or any request of any Governmental Authority with which such Lender or
the Issuing Bank believes in good faith that it would be disadvantageous not to comply, in each
case made or issued after the date of this Agreement.
“Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan,
or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Collateral Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Borrower and each Subsidiary
(other than any Excluded Subsidiary) directly owning a Material Subsidiary either (i) a
counterpart of the Pledge Agreement, duly executed by such Person or (ii) in the case of
any Subsidiary (other than any Excluded
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Subsidiary) acquired or organized or becoming the direct owner of a Material
Subsidiary after the execution and delivery of the Pledge Agreement, a supplement in the
form specified in the Pledge Agreement under which such Person becomes a party thereto and
a pledgor thereunder;
(b) all Equity Interests in any Material Subsidiary owned by or on behalf of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) shall have been pledged
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (and, in the case of Equity Interests in any Foreign
Subsidiary, if requested by the Administrative Agent, a Foreign Pledge Agreement) as
collateral security for the Obligations, and the Administrative Agent shall have received
all certificates or other instruments representing all such Equity Interests, together with
undated stock powers or other instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in
blank; provided that, such pledge shall not include more than 65% of the voting
Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary; and
(c) all documents and instruments, including Uniform Commercial Code or other personal
property security registry financing statements, required by law or reasonably requested by
the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create or perfect the Liens
intended to be created by the Pledge Agreement shall have been filed, registered or
recorded or delivered to the Administrative Agent for filing, registration or recording,
and the Administrative Agent shall have received such evidence of authority, legal opinions
and other documents as it shall reasonably have requested in connection with the execution
and delivery of the Pledge Agreement by each party thereto and the pledges of Equity
Interests thereunder.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Material Subsidiary the Equity Interests of which are
required to be pledged under the foregoing provisions of this definition shall be acquired or
organized, or shall become a Material Subsidiary, after the Effective Date, the Collateral
Requirement shall be deemed satisfied as to such Subsidiary if the required Equity Interests in
such Subsidiary are pledged as provided above within 30 days (or such longer period as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably determine) after such Material Subsidiary shall be acquired or
organized or shall become a Material Subsidiary.
“Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make
Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder,
expressed as an amount representing the maximum permitted aggregate amount of such Lender’s
Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time
pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.19 and (c) reduced
or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section
9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as
applicable. The aggregate amount of the Commitments on the date of this Agreement is $100,000,000.
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“Commitment Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(c).
“Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” means, for any period, (a) Consolidated Interest
Expense for such period minus (b) to the extent included in such Consolidated Interest Expense, the
sum of (i) non-cash amounts attributable to amortization of debt discounts, (ii) non-cash amounts
attributable to the amortization of financing costs (including, without limitation, fees with
respect to interest rate protection agreements) payable in connection with the incurrence of
Indebtedness and (iii) non-cash amounts attributable to accrued interest payable in kind in such
period plus (c) any cash payments made during such period in respect of items referred to in the
preceding clause (b) that have been, or are to be, amortized or paid in kind in other periods.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for any
relevant period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus (a) without duplication and
to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense of the Borrower and the
Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and
amortization for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, (iv) any
extraordinary or nonrecurring non-cash charges or expenses of the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, (v) any non-cash stock-based compensation expenses of the Borrower
and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period and (vi) extraordinary or nonrecurring cash charges
of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period in an amount not to exceed 10% of
Consolidated EBITDA for such period as calculated without giving effect to this clause (vi) or
clause (b)(ii) below, and minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in
determining such Consolidated Net Income, (i) any extraordinary or nonrecurring non-cash gains of
the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, (ii) any extraordinary or
nonrecurring cash gains of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period in excess
of 10% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period as calculated without giving effect to this clause
(ii) or clause (a)(vi) above and (iii) any cash payments of the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period in respect of items that were the subject of non-cash charges during
any prior period and were added back to Consolidated EBITDA for such prior period pursuant to
clause (iv) or (v) above, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. If
during any relevant period the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have completed an
acquisition or disposition of property that (i) constitutes all or substantially all the Equity
Interests in, or all or substantially all the assets of, any Person or (ii) comprises all or
substantially all of any operating unit of a business, then Consolidated EBITDA for such period
shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and to any related incurrence
or repayment of Indebtedness as if they had occurred on the first day of such period.
“Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, for any period, the sum of (a) the Consolidated
Cash Interest Expense of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period and (b)
the cash dividends or other cash distributions paid or made by the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries during such period to Persons other than Loan Parties. If during any relevant period
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary
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shall have completed an acquisition or disposition of property that (i) constitutes all or
substantially all the Equity Interests in, or all or substantially all the assets of, any Person or
(ii) comprises all or substantially all of any operating unit of a business, then Consolidated
Fixed Charges for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to such transaction
and to any related incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness as if they had occurred on the first day
of such period.
“Consolidated Indebtedness” means all Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries for any period, the interest expense of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation, (a) the
amortization of debt discounts, (b) the amortization of all financing costs (including, without
limitation, fees with respect to interest rate protection agreements) payable in connection with
the incurrence of Indebtedness and (c) the portion of any Capital Lease Obligation allocable to
interest expense.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the
Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income of any Person
(other than the Borrower) that is not a Restricted Subsidiary except to the extent of the amount of
dividends or other distributions actually paid by such Person to the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary during such period, (b) the income of any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the
declaration or payment of cash dividends or similar cash distributions by such Restricted
Subsidiary is not, on the date of determination, permitted without any prior approval of any
Governmental Authority that has not been obtained or by the operation of the terms of the
organizational documents of such Restricted Subsidiary, any agreement or other instrument binding
upon such Restricted Subsidiary or the holders of its Equity Interests or any judgment, decree or
law applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary, and (c) that portion of the income of any Restricted
Subsidiary allocable to any minority interest in such Restricted Subsidiary owned by a Person other
than the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary.
“Consolidated Tangible Assets” of any Person means, at any time, the aggregate amount
of assets (less accumulated depreciation and amortization, applicable reserves and other properly
deductible items) of such Person and its subsidiaries, minus all goodwill, trade names, trademarks,
patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other intangible assets of such Person and its
subsidiaries, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Continuing Directors” means (i) the members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower
on the date hereof and (ii) future members of such Board of Directors who were nominated or
appointed by a majority of the Continuing Directors at the date of their nomination or appointment.
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“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to
exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled”
have meanings correlative thereto.
“Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which
upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“Disclosed Matters” means the actions, suits and proceedings, labor controversies and
the environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06. The disclosure of information in
Schedule 3.06 or in any other schedule or exhibit to this Agreement shall not constitute an
admission by the Borrower that such information is material for any purpose, including applicable
securities laws, other than this Agreement and the transactions provided for herein.
“dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the
United States or its territories or possessions.
“Effective Date” means the first date on which the conditions specified in
Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02).
“Environmental Laws” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders,
decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into
by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation
of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to
health and safety matters.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any
liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any
Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or
disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or
threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement
or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to
any of the foregoing.
“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership
interests in limited liability companies, beneficial interests in trusts or other equity ownership
interests in any Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holders thereof to
purchase or acquire any such equity interests.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from
time to time.
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“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that,
together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the
Code, or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a
single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or
the regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day
notice period is waived), (b) prior to the effectiveness of the applicable provisions of the
Pension Act, the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as
defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) or, on and after the effectiveness of
the applicable provisions of the Pension Act, any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum
funding standard (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable
to such Plan, in each case whether or not waived, (c) the filing pursuant to, prior to the
effectiveness of the applicable provisions of the Pension Act, Section 412(d) of the Code or
Section 303(d) of ERISA or, on and after the effectiveness of the applicable provisions of the
Pension Act, Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA, of an application for a waiver
of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan, (d) on and after the effectiveness of the
applicable provisions of the Pension Act, a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be,
in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code),
(e) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV
of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan or the withdrawal or partial withdrawal of the
Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (f) the receipt by the
Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice
relating to the intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any
Plan, (g) prior to the effectiveness of the applicable provisions of the Pension Act, 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, (h) the receipt by the Borrower or any of its ERISA
Affiliates of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any of its
ERISA Affiliates 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 or, on and after the effectiveness of the applicable
provisions of the Pension Act, in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 305
of ERISA.
“Eurodollar”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such
Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by
reference to the LIBO Rate.
“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Foreign Subsidiary and (b) any Joint Venture that
is prohibited by the terms of its organizational documents or of any shareholders agreement or
similar agreement binding on such Joint Venture or on the
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holders of its Equity Interests from becoming a party to the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the
Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of
the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by
the jurisdiction under the laws of which it is organized or managed, or the jurisdiction in which
its principal office is located, or any jurisdiction in which it is doing business other than
solely by reason of this Agreement, or, in the case of any Lender, the jurisdiction in which its
applicable lending office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of
America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Administrative Agent,
such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign
Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b)), any
United States Federal withholding tax that (i) is in effect and would apply to amounts payable to
such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement, unless (and
to the extent that) (A) such withholding tax liability arises or is increased by reason of a Change
in Law occurring after such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement or (B) such
Foreign Lender’s assignor (if any) was entitled, at the time of assignment, to receive additional
amounts from the Borrower with respect to such withholding tax liability pursuant to
Section 2.16(a) or (c) or (ii) is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender under this
Agreement because of its failure or inability to comply with Section 2.16(e).
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded
upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as
published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such
rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received
by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, vice president of finance,
principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower.
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, for any period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated
EBITDA minus Capital Expenditures to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges, in each case for such period.
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
other than the United States of America (including each State thereof and the District of
Columbia).
“Foreign Pledge Agreement” means a pledge or charge agreement with respect to Equity
Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary, prepared by counsel for the
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Administrative Agent and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not organized under the laws of the
United States or its territories or possessions.
“Form 10” means the Form 10 filed by the Borrower with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on October 12, 2007 relating to the Spin-Off, in the form made available to the Lenders
prior to the date hereof.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America
consistently applied.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any
other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency,
authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or
pertaining to government.
“Guarantee” means any agreement by which the Borrower or any Subsidiary assumes,
guarantees, endorses, contingently agrees to purchase or provide funds for the payment of, or
otherwise becomes liable upon, the Indebtedness of another Person.
“Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that (a) the Subsidiary
Guarantee Agreement (or a supplement referred to therein) shall have been executed by each Material
Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) existing at such time, shall have been delivered to
the Administrative Agent and shall be in full force and effect; provided, however,
that if any Material Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) is acquired or organized, or
becomes a Material Subsidiary, after the Effective Date, the Guarantee Requirement shall be
satisfied as to such Subsidiary if a supplement to the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement is executed
by such Subsidiary, delivered to the Administrative Agent and in full force and effect within 30
days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may reasonably determine) after such
Material Subsidiary shall be acquired or organized or shall become a Material Subsidiary and (b)
the Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement (or a supplement referred to therein) shall
have been executed by the Borrower and each Subsidiary that shall be a party to the Subsidiary
Guarantee Agreement, the Pledge Agreement or any Foreign Pledge Agreement, as applicable.
“Hedging Agreement” means any interest rate protection agreement, foreign currency
exchange agreement or option, commodity price protection agreement or other interest or currency
exchange rate or commodity price hedging arrangement.
“Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all
hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum
distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials,
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polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or
wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“Increase Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(c).
“Increasing Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(a).
“Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such
Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations
of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of
such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid, (d) all obligations of such Person
under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such
Person, (e) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or
services (excluding accounts payable and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of
business), (f) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness
has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or
acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (g) all
Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such
Person, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect
of letters of credit and letters of guaranty (excluding letters of credit supporting the purchase
of goods in the ordinary course of business and expiring no more than six months from the date of
issuance) and (j) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’
acceptances; provided that there shall be excluded from this definition (i) obligations in
respect of Hedging Agreements and (ii) obligations in connection with any self-insurance program
and obligations to employees or former employees of the Borrower in connection with any employee
benefit plan or program. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any
other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent
such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other
relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that
such Person is not liable therefor.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement” means an Indemnity, Subrogation
and Contribution Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit D, together with all supplements
thereto, made by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries party thereto.
“Initial Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(c).
“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a
Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline
Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar
Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the
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Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an
Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such
Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such
Interest Period, and (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the date that such Loan is required to
be repaid.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period
commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending one week thereafter or on the numerically
corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter, as the
Borrower may elect; provided, that (a) 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
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 and (b) any Interest Period that
commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no
numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the
last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the
date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter
shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Investment Grade Indebtedness” means, at any time, Indebtedness that is rated at
least BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P and at least Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s, in each
case with at least stable outlook.
“Issuing Bank” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as the issuer of
Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.05(i).
The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by
Affiliates of the Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such
Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.
“Joint Venture” means a Subsidiary organized or purchased after the date hereof by the
Borrower (or one or more Subsidiaries) and one or more third parties owning Equity Interests in
such Subsidiary to engage in one or more business ventures permitted under Section 6.04(b).
“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of
Credit.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all
outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements
that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of
any Lender at any time shall be its Participation Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.
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“Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall
have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person
that shall have ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.
“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.
“Leverage Ratio” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Indebtedness as of
such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the
Borrower most recently ended on or prior to such date.
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period,
the rate appearing on Page LIBOR 01 of the Reuters Service (or on any successor or substitute page
of such Service, or any successor to or substitute for such Service, providing rate quotations
comparable to those currently provided on such page of such Service, as determined by the
Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates
applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London
time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar
deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not
available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar
Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for
a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered to the principal London office of the
Administrative Agent or any Affiliate designated by the Administrative Agent in immediately
available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two
Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien,
pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the
interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title
retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of
the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call
or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
“Loan Documents” mean this Agreement, the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement, each Letter
of Credit, each promissory note delivered pursuant to this Agreement and, at any time when the
Borrower shall be required to satisfy the Collateral Requirement, the Pledge Agreement and each
Foreign Pledge Agreement (if any).
“Loan Parties” means the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Loans” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement.
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“Management Shareholders” means, at any time, individuals who at such time are
officers and directors of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than any Joint Venture).
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets,
operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken as a
whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower to perform any of its payment obligations under this
Agreement or (c) the rights of or benefits available to the Lenders under this Agreement.
“Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans, Letters of Credit
and any Guarantees thereof under the Loan Documents), or obligations in respect of one or more
Hedging Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an aggregate
principal amount of $10,000,000 or more. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the
“principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Hedging
Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting
agreements) that Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Hedging Agreement
were terminated at such time.
“Material Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary (a) the consolidated assets of which equal
3% or more of the consolidated assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries or (b) the consolidated
revenues of which equal 3% or more of the consolidated revenues of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, in each case as of the end of or for the most recent period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters of Holdings for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to
Section 5.01(a) or (b) (or, prior to the first delivery of any such financial statements, as of
September 30, 2007, or for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended
December 31, 2006); provided that if at the end of such fiscal quarter or for such period
of four consecutive fiscal quarters the combined consolidated total assets or combined consolidated
revenues of all Subsidiaries that under clauses (a) and (b) above would not constitute Material
Subsidiaries shall have exceeded 5% of the consolidated total assets or 5% of the consolidated
revenues of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, then one or more of such excluded Subsidiaries shall
for all purposes of this Agreement be deemed to be Material Subsidiaries in descending order based
on the amounts of their consolidated total assets until such excess shall have been eliminated.
“Maturity Date” means February 4, 2013.
“Moody’s” shall mean Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA.
“Non-Increasing Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(a).
“Obligations” means (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrower of (i) the
principal of and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any
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bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether
allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by
acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, (ii) each payment required to
be made by the Borrower under this Agreement in respect of any Letter of Credit, when and as due,
including payments in respect of reimbursement of disbursements, interest thereon and obligations
to provide cash collateral, and (iii) all other monetary obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including obligations to pay fees, expense
reimbursement obligations and indemnification obligations, whether primary, secondary, direct,
contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or
allowable in such proceeding), (b) the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the
Borrower and each other Loan Party under or pursuant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan
Documents, (c) the due and punctual payment and performance of all obligations of each Loan Party
under each Hedging Agreement that (i) is in effect on the Effective Date with a counterparty that
is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the Effective Date or (ii) is entered into after the
Effective Date with any counterparty that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time such
Hedging Agreement is entered into and (d) the due and punctual payment and performance of all Cash
Management Services Obligations of each Loan Party (i) owed on the Effective Date to a Person that
is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the Effective Date or (ii) owed to a Person that is a
Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time such Cash Management Services Obligations are
incurred.
“Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any
other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder
or from the execution or delivery of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement.
“Participation Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the
total Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment. If the Commitments have terminated or
expired, the Participation Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently
in effect, giving effect to any assignments.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in
ERISA.
“Pension Act” shall mean the Pension Protection Act of 2006, as amended from time to
time.
“Permitted Investments” means:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are
unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or any agency or
instrumentality thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the
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full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each case maturing within
one year from the date of acquisition thereof;
(b) investments in commercial paper maturing within one year from the date of
acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating
obtainable from S&P or Moody’s;
(c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits
maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or
placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of
any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State
thereof that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than
$500,000,000;
(d) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days
for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution
satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above; and
(e) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Rule 2a-7 under
the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and
(iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000.
“Permitted Liens” means (a) Liens for Taxes not yet due and payable, mechanic’s Liens and
materialman’s, shipper’s or warehouseman’s Liens for services or materials and landlord’s Liens for
rental amounts for which payment is not yet due or which are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings, (b) Liens securing any purchase money Indebtedness (including Capital
Lease Obligations relating to assets acquired after the date hereof) if such Liens do not encumber
any property other than the property for the purchase of which such purchase money Indebtedness was
incurred, (c) the currently existing Liens described in Schedule 6.02 hereto, if any, and renewals
thereof, (d) pledges or deposits made to secure payment of worker’s compensation, unemployment
insurance, pensions, or other social security programs, (e) good-faith pledges or deposits made to
secure performance of bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the repayment of borrowed money), or
leases, or to secure statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds or indemnity, performance or
other similar bonds in the ordinary course of business, (f) encumbrances consisting of zoning
restrictions, easements, utility district assessments or other restrictions on the use of property,
none of which materially impairs the operation by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (taken as a
whole) of their business, and none of which is violated by existing or proposed structures or land
use where such violation would materially impair the operation by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
(taken as a whole) of their business, (g) the following, if the validity or amount thereof is being
contested in good faith and by appropriate and lawful proceedings and so long as levy and execution
thereon have been stayed and continue to be stayed, or they do not in the aggregate materially
detract from the value of any material assets or the operations of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries taken as a whole: claims and Liens for Taxes due and payable; claims and Liens upon,
and defects of title to, property, including any attachment of property or other legal process
prior to adjudication of a dispute on the
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merits; claims and Liens of mechanics, materialmen, warehousemen, carriers, landlords, or other
Liens; and judgment Liens; (h) any Lien or encumbrance deemed to exist by virtue of any agreement
or arrangement expressly permitted by Section 6.06; and (i) any Lien existing on any property or
asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any
property or asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof prior to the time
the Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in
contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, as
the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or
any Restricted Subsidiary and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures
on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be.
“Permitted Transferee” means, at any time, the spouse of a Management Shareholder or a
lineal descendant of a great-grandparent of a Management Shareholder or any spouse of such lineal
descendant (collectively referred to as “such Management Shareholder’s Family Members”),
the trustee or trustees of a trust for the sole benefit of a Management Shareholder or such
Management Shareholder’s Family Members, a corporation wholly owned by a Management Shareholder
and/or such Management Shareholder’s Family Members, a partnership in which all of the partners
are, and all of the partnership interests are owned by a Management Shareholder and/or such
Management Shareholder’s Family Members, an organization established by a Management Shareholder or
such Management Shareholder’s Family Members, contributions to which are deductible for federal
income, estate, or gift tax purposes and a majority of whose governing board at all times consists
of a Management Shareholder and/or one or more of the Permitted Transferees of such Management
Shareholder and the executor, administrator or personal representative of the estate of a deceased
Management Shareholder or the guardian or conservator of a Management Shareholder adjudged disabled
or incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust,
joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan)
subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA,
and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated,
would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of
ERISA.
“Pledge Agreement” means a pledge agreement prepared by counsel for the Administrative
Agent and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time
by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City;
each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is
publicly announced as being effective.
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“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s
Affiliates and the respective directors, trustees, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such
Person and such Person’s Affiliates.
“Reportable Event” means any reportable event as defined by Section 4043 of ERISA and
the regulations issued under such Section with respect to a Plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan),
excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC by regulation or by technical update waived
the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within 30 days of the occurrence of
such event; provided that a failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of
the Code and Section 302 of ERISA shall be a reportable event regardless of the issuance of any
waiver in accordance with Section 412(d) of the Code.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and
unused Commitments representing more than 51% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures
and unused Commitments at such time.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash,
securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking
fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition,
cancellation or termination of any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of
the outstanding principal amounts of such Lender’s Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure and
Swingline Exposure at such time.
“Revolving Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01.
“Sale and Lease-Back Transaction” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.07.
“S&P” shall mean Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx
Companies, Inc.
“Spin-Off” means the distribution on a pro rata basis to Belo’s shareholders, on the
terms described in the Form 10, of all the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the
Borrower.
“Subsequent Borrowings” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(c).
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“subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any
corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity the accounts of
which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial
statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as
well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity
(a) of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or
more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the
general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, or (b) that is, as
of such date, otherwise Controlled, by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by
the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.
“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.
“Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement” means a Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement substantially
in the form of Exhibit C, together with all supplements thereto, made by the Subsidiary Guarantors
in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders.
“Subsidiary Guarantors” means each Person listed on Schedule 1.01 and each other
Person that shall have become a party to the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement as a Subsidiary
Guarantor, and the permitted successors and assigns of each such Person.
“Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all
Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any time shall
be its Participation Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at such time.
“Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as lender of
Swingline Loans hereunder.
“Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority.
“Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the
Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the borrowing of the Loans, the use of the proceeds
thereof, the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder and the consummation of the Spin-Off.
“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of
interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the
LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means, at any time, (a) any Joint Venture that shall have
been designated by the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 9.17,
other than any Joint Venture that shall subsequently have been
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designated as a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 9.17, and (b) any subsidiary
of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“USA Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
“Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a
complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of
Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement,
Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type
(e.g., a “Eurodollar Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving
Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving
Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g.,
a “Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to
the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the
context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other
document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such
amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person
shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”,
“hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this
Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to
Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of,
and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible
assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP. (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP,
as in effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative
Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of
any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation
of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders
request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such
notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such
provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied
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immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been
withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.
(b) Except as otherwise expressly provided in Article I, and notwithstanding any provision of
GAAP or of paragraph (a) above, all references in Article I to any accounting or financial amount
or computation for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis shall
require that such amount be determined, or such computation shall be made, without consolidating
the accounts of Unrestricted Subsidiaries with those of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Insofar as any accounting or financial amount or computation relates to or includes the fiscal
quarter in which the Spin-Off shall be completed or one or more prior fiscal quarters, such amount
shall be determined or such computation made (subject in each case to the immediately preceding
sentence) as to such fiscal quarter or fiscal quarters on a pro forma combined basis for the
businesses to be owned and operated by the Borrower after the Spin-Off.
ARTICLE II
The Credits
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each
Lender agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability
Period in dollars in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (a) such Lender’s
Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment or (b) the sum of the total Revolving
Credit Exposures exceeding the total Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the
terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving
Loans.
SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Each Revolving Loan shall be made as part of
a Borrowing consisting of Revolving Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their
respective Participation Percentages. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be
made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that
the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other
Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(b) Subject to Section 2.13, each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans
or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Swingline Loan shall
be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may 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; provided further, that if the designation of any such
foreign branch or Affiliate shall result in any costs, reductions or Taxes which would not
otherwise have been applicable and for which such Lender would, but for this proviso, be entitled
to request compensation under Section 2.14 or 2.16, such Lender shall not be entitled to request
such compensation unless it shall in good faith have determined such designation to be necessary or
advisable to avoid any material disadvantage to it.
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(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such
Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less
than $5,000,000. At the time that each ABR Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in
an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000;
provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is (i) equal to
the entire unused balance of the total Commitments or (ii) required to finance the reimbursement of
an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e). Each Swingline Loan shall be in an
aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000. Borrowings
of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there
shall not at any time be more than a total of five Eurodollar Revolving Borrowings outstanding.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled
to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with
respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings. In order to request a Revolving
Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in
the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business
Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing (including an
ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by
Section 2.05(e)), not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed
Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed
promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in
a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and
written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;
(ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
(iv) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be
applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term
“Interest Period”; and
(v) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be
disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.06.
If no election as to the Type of Revolving Borrowing is specified, then the requested Revolving
Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any
requested Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be
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deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of
a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each
Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the
requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time
during the Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will
not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding
$15,000,000 or (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the total
Commitments; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline
Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the
terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline
Loans.
(b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such
request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy), not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
day of a proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the
requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The
Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the
Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means
of a credit to the general deposit account of the Borrower with the Swingline Lender (or, in the
case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in
Section 2.05(e), by remittance to the Issuing Bank) by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
requested date of such Swingline Loan.
(c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later
than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Lenders to acquire
participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such
notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Lenders will participate.
Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each
Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Participation Percentage of such Swingline Loan or
Loans. Each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as
provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such
Lender’s Participation Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Lender acknowledges and
agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph
is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including
the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and
that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction
whatsoever. Each Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of
immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans
made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment
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obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline
Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the
Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and
thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and
not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or
other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the
Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to
the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly
remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to
this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that
any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Administrative
Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower
for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph
shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.
SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit. (a) General. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit denominated
in dollars for its own account, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the
Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period. In the event of
any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions
of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or
entered into by the Borrower with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and
conditions of this Agreement shall control.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request
the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter
of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication,
if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to the Issuing Bank and the
Administrative Agent (at least three Business Days in advance of the requested date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or
identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such
Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount
of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other
information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If
requested by the Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the
Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of
Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal
or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that),
after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the LC Exposure shall not
exceed $25,000,000 and (ii) the total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the total
Commitments.
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(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of
business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of
Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or
extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date;
provided that any Letter of Credit may provide by its terms that it may be automatically
extended for additional successive one-year periods under customary automatic renewal provisions.
Any Letter of Credit providing for automatic extension shall be extended upon the then current
expiration date without any further action by any person unless the Issuing Bank shall have given
notice to the applicable beneficiary (with a copy to the Borrower) of the election by the Issuing
Bank not to extend such Letter of Credit by a time agreed upon by the Borrower and the Issuing Bank
and set forth in such Letter of Credit; provided, that no Letter of Credit may be extended
automatically or otherwise beyond the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date.
For clarification purposes only and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, a Letter of Credit for which the Borrower has deposited cash collateral in an account
with the Administrative Agent pursuant to paragraph (j) of this Section in an amount equal to the
full undrawn face amount of such Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding until its stated
expiration date.
(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a
Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the
Issuing Bank or the Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender hereby
acquires from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s
Participation Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit.
In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and
unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank,
such Lender’s Participation Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not
reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any
reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Lender
acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in
respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or
the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and
that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction
whatsoever.
(e) Reimbursement. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a
Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative
Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC
Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been
received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon, New York
City time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is
received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day
immediately following the day that the Borrower
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receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time on the day of receipt;
provided that the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein,
request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving
Borrowing or Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s
obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving
Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the
Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then
due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lender’s Participation Percentage thereof.
Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its
Participation Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided
in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the
Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the
Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower
pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing
Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the
Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment
made by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement
(other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not
constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC
Disbursement.
(f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as
provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and
shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all
circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any
Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other
document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any
respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the
Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does
not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of
this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against,
the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. None of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing
Bank or any of their Related Parties shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in
connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make
any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding
sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any
draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any
document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or
any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that
the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to
the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages,
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claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by
applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise
care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply
with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross
negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court
of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such
determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the
parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in
substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole
discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further
investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and
make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of
such Letter of Credit.
(g) Disbursement Procedures. The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt
thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by
telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made
or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in
giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank
and the Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.
(h) Interim Interest. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then,
unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement
is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date on
which such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date on which the Borrower reimburses such
LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided
that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of
this Section, then Section 2.12(c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall
be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of
payment by any Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall
be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.
(i) Replacement of the Issuing Bank. The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by
written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the
successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement
of the Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall
pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section
2.11(c). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank
shall have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to
Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank”
shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor
and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the
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replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party
hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this
Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not
be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
(j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on
the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required
Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Lenders with LC Exposure
representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral
pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent,
in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal
to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided
that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such
deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon
the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in clause (i) or (j)
of Article VII. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the
payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The
Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of
withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits,
which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and
at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if
any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied
by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not
been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the
reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of
the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Lenders with LC Exposure
representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of
the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash
collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the
extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after
all Events of Default have been cured or waived. For clarification purposes only and subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, a Letter of Credit for which the Borrower has
deposited cash collateral in an account with the Administrative Agent pursuant to this paragraph
(j) in an amount equal to the full undrawn face amount of such Letter of Credit shall remain
outstanding until its stated expiration date.
SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be
made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds
by 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently
designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be
made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the
Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the
Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in New York City and designated by the
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Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Revolving Loans made
to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e) shall be remitted
by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank.
(b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the
proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent
such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has
made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in
reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such
event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the
Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each
day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the
date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds
Effective Rate or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate borne by the applicable
Borrowing. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall
constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections. (a) Each Revolving Borrowing initially shall be
of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar
Revolving Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request.
Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue
such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, may elect new Interest Periods
therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect
to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated
ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising
each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to
Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued.
(b) In order to make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the
Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be
required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type
resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such
telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand
delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form
approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower.
(c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different
options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof
to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the
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information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be
specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election
Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar
Borrowing; and
(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be
applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period
contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.
If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an
Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one
month’s duration.
(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall
advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a
Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then,
unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such
Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof,
if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request
of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is
continuing (i) no outstanding Revolving Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar
Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR
Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date.
(a) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date.
(b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments;
provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not
terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the
Loans, the sum of the Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the total Commitments.
(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce
the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the
effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date
thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the
Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section
shall be irrevocable; provided that a
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notice of termination of the Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice
is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be
revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified
effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the
Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the
Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments.
SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby
unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the
then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan on the Maturity Date, and (ii) to the Swingline
Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Maturity Date
and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar
month and is at least two Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on
each date that a Revolving Borrowing is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then
outstanding.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such
Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time
to time hereunder.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount
of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto,
(ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the
Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative
Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations recorded therein; provided 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 obligation
of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such
event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to
the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered
assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 2.10. Prepayment of Loans. (a) Subject to Section 2.15, the Borrower shall
have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part.
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(b) In the event of any termination of the Commitments, the Borrower shall prepay all
outstanding Borrowings on the date of such termination. In the event of any reduction of the
Commitments, the Borrower shall prepay outstanding Borrowings to the extent, if any, necessary so
that, on the date of and after giving effect to such reduction, the sum of the Revolving Credit
Exposures does not exceed the total Commitments.
(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a
Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment
hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, not later than 11:00
a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of
prepayment of an ABR Revolving Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00
noon, New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and
shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to
be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a
conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such
notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with
Section 2.08. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Revolving Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of
any Revolving Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of
a Revolving Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02. Each prepayment of a Revolving
Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments
shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.12.
SECTION 2.11. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of each Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Percentage per
annum on the daily unused amount of the Commitment of such Lender during the period from and
including February 8, 2008 to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates;
provided that for purposes of calculating commitment fees, outstanding Swingline Loans
shall not be counted as usage of the Lenders’ Commitments. Accrued commitment fees shall be
payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the
date on which the Commitments terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date
hereof. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be
payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the accounts of the Lenders,
ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments, the upfront fees separately agreed upon
between the Borrower and the Lenders. The upfront fees shall be payable on the date of this
Agreement.
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender
a participation fee with respect to such Lender’s participations in
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Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Percentage used to determine the
interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Revolving Loans on the average daily amount of such Lender’s
LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during
the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which
such Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC
Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of 0.125% per
annum on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to
unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but
excluding the later of the date of termination of the Commitments and the date on which there
ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings
thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of
March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day
following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date;
provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Commitments terminate
and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on
demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable
within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the
basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including
the first day but excluding the last day).
(d) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable
in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
(e) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds,
to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for
distribution, in the case of commitment fees, participation fees and upfront fees, to the Lenders.
Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.12. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each
Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate plus the
Applicable Percentage from time to time in effect.
(b) The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at a rate per annum
equal to the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable
Percentage from time to time in effect.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or
other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity,
upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before
judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, the rate
otherwise applicable to such Loan as
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provided above plus 2% per annum or (ii) in the case of any other amount, the rate applicable
to ABR Loans as provided above plus 2% per annum.
(d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date
for such Loan; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section
shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other
than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued
interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment
or prepayment, (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Loan (other than an ABR Revolving Loan)
prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be
payable on the effective date of such conversion and (d) in the event the Commitments are
terminated, all accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans shall be paid on the date of such
termination.
(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that
interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is
based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap
year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first
day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or LIBO Rate shall be
determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any
Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate for
such Interest Period or that a Change in Law makes it unlawful for any one or more of the Lenders
to make a Eurodollar Loan; or
(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that, as a result of a Change
in Law or other unusual events or conditions affecting the markets in which such Lenders conduct
their funding operations, the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will be lower than the actual cost
to such Lenders of obtaining the funds necessary to make or maintain their Loans comprising such
Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by
telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent
notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer
exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Revolving Borrowing
to, or continuation of any Revolving Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and
(ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be
made as an ABR Borrowing.
SECTION 2.14. Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall:
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(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar
requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by,
any Lender; or
(ii) impose on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other
condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of
Credit or participation therein;
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 to increase the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Bank of
participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum
received or receivable by such Lender or the Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest
or otherwise) by an amount deemed by such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to be
material, then the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may
be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital
requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital
or the Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company or the Issuing
Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by or
participations in Letters of Credit held by such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the
Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s holding
company or the Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law
(taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such
Lender’s holding company or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy) by
an amount deemed by such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to be material, then from
time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s
holding company or the Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts
necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be,
as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, and setting forth in reasonable detail the
manner in which such amount or amounts shall have been determined, shall be delivered to the
Borrower and shall, if submitted in good faith, be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower
shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation
pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right
to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate
a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to
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this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than six months prior to the
date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change
in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s
intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in
Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six-month period
referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any
principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable
thereto, (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest
Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, prepay or continue any Revolving
Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such
notice is permitted to be revocable and is revoked in accordance herewith), or (d) the assignment
of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a
result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, then, in any such event, the Borrower
shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the
case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an
amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which
would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the LIBO
Rate (not including the Applicable Percentage added to the LIBO Rate under Section 2.12(b)) that
would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day
of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or
continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the
amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate
which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits
of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A certificate of any
Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this
Section, and setting forth in reasonable detail the manner in which such amount or amounts shall
have been determined, shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall, if submitted in good faith, be
conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on
any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.16. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of
the Borrower hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified
Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as
necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section) each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or
the applicable Lender (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have
received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and
(iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in
accordance with applicable law.
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(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority
in accordance with applicable law.
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank,
within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other
Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts
payable under this Section) paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as
the case may be, and any liability (including penalties, interest and reasonable expenses) arising
therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were
correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as
to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender, by the
Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, or by the Issuing Bank, and
setting forth in reasonable detail the manner in which such amount shall have been determined,
shall, if submitted in good faith, be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the
Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the
original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such
payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax
under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the
Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), on or before the date on which it becomes a
Lender, and at such other times as prescribed by applicable law, properly completed and executed
forms prescribed by applicable law (together with such other documentation or certification as the
Borrower may reasonably request) that will permit the Borrower to make such payments without
withholding or at a reduced rate.
SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs. (a) The
Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal,
interest, fees or otherwise) prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time (or such other time as shall
be set forth herein), on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or
counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the
Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for
purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative
Agent at its offices at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, except payments to be made directly to
the Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant
to Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The
Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other
Person to the appropriate
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recipient in the amount owed to it promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment
hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended
to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest
thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in
dollars.
(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative
Agent in its capacity as such to fully pay all amounts then due under this Agreement, such funds
shall be applied to such amounts then due under this Agreement in such order and priority as the
Administrative Agent may elect; provided that any funds that the Administrative Agent
elects to apply to principal, interest or fees then due shall be applied ratably to all amounts of
principal, interest or fees (as the case may be) then due. It is understood that the provisions of
this paragraph (b) apply only to principal, interest, fees, yield maintenance payments, expenses
and indemnities and other amounts due and payable under this Agreement, and not to Obligations
referred to in clauses (c) and (d) of the definition of such term.
(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise,
obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Revolving Loans or
participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of
a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Revolving Loans and participations in LC
Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any
other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face
value) participations in the Revolving Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline
Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be
shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued
interest on their respective Revolving Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline
Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of
the payments giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the
purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions
of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to
and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as
consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or
participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans to any assignee or participant other than the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof. The Borrower consents to the foregoing and
agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a
participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of
set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a
direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the
date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the
Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may
assume that the Borrower has made such
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payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption,
distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event,
if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as
the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the
amount so distributed to such Lender or the Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from
and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the
Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Effective Rate.
(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section
2.06(b) or paragraph (d) above, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion
(notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such
Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
SECTION 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender
requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional
amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.16, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office
for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to
another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, such
designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.14 or
2.16, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed
cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender in such Lender’s good
faith judgment. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by
any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to
pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender
pursuant to Section 2.16, or if any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder, then
the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative
Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject
to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under
this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another
Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have
received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not
unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the
outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans,
accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the
assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the
Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting
from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to
Section 2.16, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A
Lender shall
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not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a
waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such
assignment and delegation cease to apply.
SECTION 2.19. Increase in Commitments. (a) The Borrower may at any time and from
time to time, by written notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver a copy to
each of the Lenders) given not earlier than the 60th day following the Effective Date, request that
the total Commitments be increased by an amount not greater than $130,000,000; provided,
that if the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have incurred Indebtedness in reliance on
clause (h) of Section 6.01, no increase in the Commitments shall be effected under this Section if
after giving effect thereto the aggregate amount of the Commitments would exceed $150,000,000.
Such notice shall set forth the amount of the requested increase in the total Commitments and the
date on which such increase is requested to become effective (which shall be not less than 45 days
or more than 60 days after the date of such notice), and shall offer each Lender the opportunity to
increase its Commitment by its Participation Percentage of the proposed increased amount. Each
Lender shall, by notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent given not more than 20 days
after the date of the Borrower’s notice, either agree to increase its Commitment by all or a
portion of the offered amount (each Lender so agreeing being called an “Increasing Lender”)
or decline to increase its Commitment (and any Lender that does not deliver such a notice within
such period of 20 days shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Commitment) (each Lender so
declining or deemed to have declined being called a “Non-Increasing Lender”). No Lender
shall have any obligation hereunder to become an Increasing Lender and any election to do so shall
be in the sole discretion of each Lender. In the event that, on the 20th day after the Borrower
shall have delivered a notice pursuant to the first sentence of this paragraph, the Lenders shall
have agreed pursuant to the preceding sentence to increase their Commitments by an aggregate amount
less than the increase in the total Commitments requested by the Borrower, the Borrower may arrange
for one or more Lenders or other financial institutions (any such Lender or other financial
institution being called an “Augmenting Lender”), which may include any Lender, to extend
Commitments or increase their existing Commitments in an aggregate amount equal to the unsubscribed
amount; provided that each Augmenting Lender, if not already a Lender hereunder, shall be
subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld) and each Augmenting Lender shall execute all such documentation as the Administrative
Agent shall specify to evidence its Commitment and its status as a Lender hereunder. Increases and
new Commitments created pursuant to this paragraph (a) shall become effective on the date specified
in the notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to the first sentence of this paragraph.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no increase in the total Commitments (or in the Commitment
of any Lender) shall become effective under paragraph (a) above unless, (i) on the date of such
increase, the conditions set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of Section 4.02 shall be satisfied and
the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and
executed by the President, a Vice-President or a Financial Officer of the Borrower, and (ii) the
Administrative Agent shall have received documents consistent with those delivered under
clauses (b) and (c) of
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Section 4.01 as to the corporate power and authority of the Borrower to borrow hereunder and
as to the enforceability of this Agreement after giving effect to such increase.
(c) On the effective date (the “Increase Effective Date”) of any increase in the total
Commitments pursuant to paragraph (a) above (the “Commitment Increase”), (i) the aggregate
principal amount of the Loans outstanding (the “Initial Loans”) immediately prior to giving
effect to the Commitment Increase on the Increase Effective Date shall be deemed to be paid,
(ii) each Increasing Lender and each Augmenting Lender that shall have been a Lender prior to the
Commitment Increase shall pay to the Administrative Agent in same day funds an amount equal to the
difference between (A) the product of (1) such Lender’s Participation Percentage (calculated after
giving effect to the Commitment Increase) multiplied by (2) the amount of the Subsequent Borrowings
(as hereinafter defined) and (B) the product of (1) such Lender’s Participation Percentage
(calculated without giving effect to the Commitment Increase) multiplied by (2) the amount of the
Initial Loans, (iii) each Augmenting Lender that shall not have been a Lender prior to the
Commitment Increase shall pay to Administrative Agent in same day funds an amount equal to the
product of (1) such Augmenting Lender’s Participation Percentage (calculated after giving effect to
the Commitment Increase) multiplied by (2) the amount of the Subsequent Borrowings, (iv) after the
Administrative Agent receives the funds specified in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, the
Administrative Agent shall pay to each Non-Increasing Lender the portion of such funds that is
equal to the difference between (A) the product of (1) such Non-Increasing Lender’s Participation
Percentage (calculated without giving effect to the Commitment Increase) multiplied by (2) the
amount of the Initial Loans, and (B) the product of (1) such Non-Increasing Lender’s Participation
Percentage (calculated after giving effect to the Commitment Increase) multiplied by (2) the amount
of the Subsequent Borrowings, (v) after the effectiveness of the Commitment Increase, the Borrower
shall be deemed to have made new Borrowings (the “Subsequent Borrowings”) in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Loans and of the Types and
for the Interest Periods specified in a Borrowing Request delivered to the Administrative Agent in
accordance with Section 2.03, (vi) each Non-Increasing Lender, each Increasing Lender and each
Augmenting Lender shall be deemed to hold its Participation Percentage of each Subsequent Borrowing
(calculated after giving effect to the Commitment Increase) and (vii) the Borrower shall pay each
Increasing Lender and each Non-Increasing Lender any and all accrued but unpaid interest on the
Initial Loans. The deemed payments made pursuant to clause (i) above shall be subject to
compensation by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.15 if the Increase Effective
Date occurs other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto.
ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that:
SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries (i) is
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
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the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its
business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do
business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required
and (ii) possesses all requisite authority and power and material licenses, permits and franchises
to conduct its business as presently conducted.
SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions are within the Loan
Parties’ corporate powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and, if
required, stockholder action. The Loan Documents have been duly executed and delivered by the Loan
Parties and constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Loan Parties, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of
equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not
require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with or any other action by any
Governmental Authority, except (i) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and
effect, (ii) routine filings after the Effective Date with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and (iii) other immaterial filings in connection with the Spin-Off the failure to have made which
could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation (other than immaterial violations
resulting from the failure to make filings referred to in clause (a)(iii) above) or the charter,
by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any order of any
Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, or other
material agreement or instrument binding upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or its assets, or give
rise to a right thereunder to require any material payment to be made by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien other than a
Permitted Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary. The Spin-Off will not violate or
result in a default under any indenture or other material agreement or instrument binding upon
Belo, or give rise to a right thereunder to require the assumption of any Indebtedness by the
Borrower or any Subsidiary.
SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.
(a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders (i) its unaudited pro forma
consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2007, and (ii) its unaudited pro forma consolidated
statement of operations for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, each certified by its chief
financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as
of such date and for such period in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and
the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (i) above.
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(b) Since December 31, 2006, there has been no material adverse change in the business,
assets, operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole.
SECTION 3.05. Properties. (a) Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries has good
title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its
business, except for minor defects in title or interest that do not interfere with its ability to
conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended
purposes.
(b) Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks,
tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property material to its business, and the
use thereof by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries does not infringe upon the rights of any other
Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.06. Litigation, Labor and Environmental Matters. (a) There are not any
actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority now pending
against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any
Subsidiary (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that,
if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result
in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or (ii) that involve this Agreement
or the Transactions.
(b) Except for the Disclosed Matters, there are no actual or, to the knowledge of the
Borrower, threatened labor controversies, including strikes, work stoppages, work slow downs or
National Labor Relations Board proceedings affecting the Borrower or the Subsidiaries that could,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Except for the Disclosed Matters and except with respect to any other matters that,
individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law
or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any
Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received
notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any
Environmental Liability.
(d) There has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in
the aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse
Effect.
SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements. Each of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries is in compliance with (a) all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental
Authority applicable to it or its property, and all agreements and
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other instruments binding on it or its property (other than indentures and other agreements
and instruments governing Indebtedness) except where the failure to be in compliance, individually
or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and
(b) all indentures and other agreements and instruments governing Indebtedness binding upon it or
its property, except where the failure to be in compliance, individually or in the aggregate, would
not, alone or with the passage of time or the giving of notice, constitute an Event of Default. No
Default has occurred and is continuing.
SECTION 3.08. Certain Legal Matters. (a) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is
an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act
of 1940.
(b) Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is engaged principally, or as one of its important
activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of buying or carrying margin stock
within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board. Margin stock will at all times constitute less
than 25% of the assets of the Borrower individually and of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis that are subject to the restrictions of Sections 6.02 and 6.08.
SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries has filed or caused
to be filed all tax returns and reports required to have been filed and paid or caused to be paid
all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith
by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set
aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur
that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events, could reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Effective Date, the present value of all accrued benefit
liabilities under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 87), determined at the most recent annual valuation date for such Plan,
does not exceed by more than $15,000,000 the fair market value of the assets of such Plan,
determined at the most recent annual valuation date for such Plan, and the present value of all
accrued benefit liabilities of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87), determined at the most recent annual valuation
dates for such Plans, does not exceed by more than $15,000,000 the fair market value of the assets
of all such underfunded Plans, determined at the most recent annual valuation date for such Plans.
SECTION 3.11. Solvency. Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to
occur on the Effective Date, including the making of any Loans to be made on the Effective Date and
the application of the proceeds of such Loans, (a) the fair value of the assets of each Loan Party,
at a fair valuation, will exceed its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise,
(b) the present fair saleable value of the
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assets of each Loan Party will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the
probable liability of its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as
such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) each Loan Party will be able to
pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities
become absolute and matured and (d) each Loan Party will not have unreasonably small capital with
which to conduct the business in which it is engaged, as such business is now conducted and is
proposed to be conducted following the Effective Date.
SECTION 3.12. Subsidiary Guarantors. The Subsidiary Guarantors include each Material
Subsidiary of the Borrower other than Excluded Subsidiaries and newly acquired or created
Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Subsidiaries) that are not yet required to have become Subsidiary
Guarantors under the definition of “Guarantee Requirement”.
SECTION 3.13. Disclosure. There are no agreements, instruments or corporate
restrictions to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and no other matters
known to the Borrower, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect. None of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other
information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or
supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits
to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to
projected and pro forma financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information
was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.
ARTICLE IV
Conditions
SECTION 4.01. Effective Date. This Agreement and the obligations of the Lenders to
make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective
until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with
Section 9.02):
(a) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each party hereto
either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (ii) written evidence
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include telecopy transmission of a signed
signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received favorable written opinions of (i) the General
Counsel of the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 hereto and (ii) Xxxxxx, Xxxx &
Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 hereto, in each
case covering such other matters
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relating to this Agreement and the Transactions as the Required Lenders shall reasonably
request. Each of such opinions shall be addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and
shall be dated the Effective Date. The Borrower hereby requests such counsel to deliver such
opinions.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the
Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence
and good standing of the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, the authorization of the
Transactions and any other legal matters relating to this Agreement or the Transactions, all in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and
signed by the President, a Vice President or a Financial Officer of the Borrower, confirming
compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (f) and (g) of this Section and paragraphs
(b) and (c) of Section 4.02.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on
or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced, reimbursement or payment of all
out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower hereunder.
(f) The Guarantee Requirement shall be satisfied.
(g) The Spin-Off shall have been completed on terms (including the terms of any agreements
entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with Belo and its subsidiaries) and with
results consistent in all material respects with the information contained in the Form 10 and the
pro forma financial statements contained therein. Without limiting the foregoing, immediately
after giving effect to the Spin-Off, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries shall not be liable in
respect of any Indebtedness other than Indebtedness under this Agreement and Capital Lease
Obligations listed on Schedule 4.01(g).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank
to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing
conditions is satisfied (or waived) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on March 15,
2008. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Effective Date,
and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.
SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the
occasion of any Borrowing (but not on the occasion of any interest election pursuant to Section
2.07 that does not increase the outstanding principal amount of the Loans of any Lender), and of
the Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to the
satisfaction of the following conditions (it being agreed that extensions pursuant to automatic
renewal provisions referred to in Section 2.05(c) shall not be governed by this Section)):
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(a) In the case of a Borrowing of Revolving Loans, the Administrative Agent shall have
received a Borrowing Request for such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03; in the case of a
Swingline Loan, the Administrative Agent shall have received the appropriate notice in accordance
with Section 2.04; and in the case of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank and the Administrative
Agent shall have received the appropriate notice, application or other information required in
connection with such request in accordance with Section 2.05.
(b) The representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in the Loan Documents
shall be true and correct on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable.
(c) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing.
Each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be
deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the
matters specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Section.
ARTICLE V
Affirmative Covenants
Until the Commitments have expired or terminated, the principal of and interest on each Loan
and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full, all Letters of Credit have expired or
terminated and all LC Disbursements have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with
the Lenders that:
SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish
to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:
(a) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its audited consolidated
balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the
end of and for such year, all reported on by Ernst & Young LLP or other independent public
accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification and
without any qualification as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated
financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of
operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP;
(b) within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal
year of the Borrower, its condensed consolidated balance sheet and related statements of
operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and
the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as
presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP for
interim financial information and with
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the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X (it being understood that such
statements will not include all the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete
financial statements);
(c) concurrently with each delivery of financial statements under clause (a) or (b) above, a
certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower (i) certifying as to whether a Default has
occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or
proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations
demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.11 and 6.12, together with supporting information in
reasonable detail showing amounts attributable to Unrestricted Subsidiaries that have been excluded
from such calculations, (iii) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has
occurred since the date of the most recent audited financial statements delivered pursuant to this
Section 5.01 (or, prior to the delivery of the first audited financial statements pursuant to this
Section 5.01, the financial statements referred to in Section 3.04) and, if any such change has
occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such
certificate, and (iv) identifying all the Unrestricted Subsidiaries as of the date of the balance
sheet included in such financial statements;
(d) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under clause (a) above, a
certificate of the accounting firm that reported on such financial statements stating whether, in
connection with their audit, anything came to their attention that caused them to believe that the
Borrower had failed to comply with the terms, covenants, provisions or conditions of Sections 6.11
and 6.12;
(e) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all annual and quarterly
reports to shareholders, reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q,
Form 8-K or any successor form, proxy statements and registration statements (other than those
relating only to employee benefit plans) filed or distributed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(f) promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations,
business affairs and financial condition of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the
terms of any Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request; and
(g) within 60 days after the commencement of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a consolidated
budget for such fiscal year (including a projected consolidated balance sheet and related projected
statement of operations as of the end of and for such fiscal year and summary information with
respect to depreciation, amortization and capital expenditures for such fiscal year, and setting
forth the assumptions used for purposes of preparing such budget).
Information required to be delivered pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to have been
delivered if such information, or one or more annual or quarterly reports containing such
information, shall have been posted by the Administrative Agent on an IntraLinks or similar site to
which the Lenders have been granted access or shall be
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available on the website of the SEC at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx or the website of the Borrower at
xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx and a confirming notice of such posting or availability shall have been
delivered to the Administrative Agent (it being agreed that such notice may be delivered by
electronic communication to an e-mail address provided by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower
for such purpose, as such e-mail address may be modified by the Administrative Agent from time to
time (notice of any such modification having been given to the Borrower)). Information required to
be delivered pursuant to this Section may also be delivered by electronic communications pursuant
to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the
Administrative Agent prompt written notice of the following:
(a) the occurrence of any Default;
(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator
or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any Affiliate thereof as to which
there is a reasonable likelihood of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined,
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and
(c) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that
have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $10,000,000.
Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer
or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development
requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.
SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full
force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises
material to the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or
dissolution permitted under Section 6.04.
SECTION 5.04. Payment of Tax Obligations. The Borrower will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, pay its tax liabilities before the same shall become delinquent or in default,
except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, (b) the Borrower or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with
respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (c) the failure to make payment pending such contest
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance. The Borrower will, and will
cause each Subsidiary to, (a) keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of the
business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole in good
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working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear and obsolescence excepted, (b) keep and
maintain all licenses, permits and franchises necessary for its business except as the loss of the
same could not individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse
Effect; and (b) maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in
such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same
or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations.
SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower will, and will
cause each Subsidiary to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct
entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The
Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, permit any representatives designated by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its
properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs,
finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at reasonable times and
as often as shall be reasonably requested.
SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, comply with all laws (including Environmental Laws), regulations and orders of any
Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except to the extent that the failure to
do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The Borrower will cause the
proceeds of the Loans and the Letters of Credit to be used only for the purposes referred to in the
preamble to this Agreement. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or
indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board,
including Regulations U and X.
SECTION 5.09. Guarantee Requirement; Collateral Requirement. (a) The Borrower will
cause the Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied at all times.
(b) The Borrower will cause the Collateral Requirement to be satisfied at all times when there
is any Indebtedness outstanding under Section 6.01(h) that is not Investment Grade Indebtedness;
provided, that if Investment Grade Indebtedness shall be outstanding under Section 6.01(h)
and any such Indebtedness shall cease to be Investment Grade Indebtedness, the requirements of this
paragraph shall be deemed to have been complied with if the Collateral Requirement shall be
satisfied within 30 days after the date on which such Indebtedness shall have ceased to be
Investment Grade Indebtedness.
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ARTICLE VI
Negative Covenants
Until the Commitments have expired or terminated, the principal of and interest on each Loan
and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full, all Letters of Credit have expired or
terminated and all LC Disbursements have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with
the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;
(b) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.01;
(c) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or
any other Subsidiary; provided that Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary to the
Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, or of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to
any Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.09;
(d) Guarantees by the Borrower of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary and by any Subsidiary of
Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided that Guarantees by the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, or by any
Loan Party of Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, shall be subject
to Section 6.09;
(e) Capital Lease Obligations in an aggregate principal amount that, when combined (but
without duplication) with the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness permitted under clause
(f) of this Section and the aggregate Attributable Debt in connection with all Sale and Lease-Back
Transactions entered into after the date hereof pursuant to Section 6.07, is not in excess of
$25,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(f) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred to finance the
acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets; provided that (i)
such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion
of such construction or improvement and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness
permitted by this clause (f), when combined (but without duplication) with the aggregate principal
amount of all Indebtedness permitted under clause (e) of this Section and the aggregate
Attributable Debt in connection with all Sale and Lease-Back Transactions entered into after the
date hereof pursuant to Section 6.07, shall not exceed $25,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(g) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof;
provided that (i) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and
is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person
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becoming a Subsidiary and (ii)
the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (g) shall not exceed
$20,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(h) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $150,000,000
at any time outstanding; provided that if the Commitments shall exceed $150,000,000 in the
aggregate, the Borrower shall reduce the total Commitments to an amount not greater than
$150,000,000 and reduce the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures to an amount not greater than such
reduced Commitments prior to or at the time of the incurrence of any Indebtedness in reliance on
this clause (h); and
(i) other unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding $20,000,000 at any time outstanding.
SECTION 6.02. Liens. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned
or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts
receivable) or rights in respect of any thereof, except that the Borrower and the Restricted
Subsidiaries may assign or sell delinquent receivables and rights in respect thereof and may
create, incur, assume or permit to exist (a) Permitted Liens and (b) other Liens on assets of the
Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Equity Interests that would be required to be
pledged in order for the Collateral Requirement to be satisfied) securing obligations in an
aggregate amount at any time not greater than $10,000,000.
SECTION 6.03. Restricted Payments. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any
Restricted Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any
Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so; provided,
that (a) the Borrower may declare and pay dividends with respect to its Equity Interests payable
solely in additional shares of its common stock, (b) any Restricted Subsidiary may declare and pay
dividends or make other distributions ratably with respect to its Equity Interests, (c) the
Borrower may make Restricted Payments pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or
other benefit plans for management or employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (d) the
Borrower may repurchase Equity Interests of the Borrower to the extent necessary to prevent
dilution of per-share income that would otherwise result from the issuance of Equity Interests
pursuant to stock option plans or other benefit plans for management or employees of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not exceeding $10,000,000 for any fiscal year, (e) the
Borrower may declare and pay cash dividends with respect to its Equity Interests so long as (A)
after giving pro forma effect to the payment of any such cash dividends as if such payment had
occurred on the first day of the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which
financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) (or, prior to the
delivery of the first financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b), the period of four
fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2007), the Borrower would be in compliance with Section 6.12
for such period of four fiscal quarters and (B) at the time of the declaration of each such
dividend and after giving pro forma effect to the payment thereof as if such payment had occurred
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on the date of such declaration, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result
therefrom and (f) the Borrower may make other Restricted Payments so long as (A) the ratio of the
Consolidated Indebtedness of the Borrower immediately after the making of each such Restricted
Payment (or, in the case of any dividends declared and paid pursuant to this clause (f), at the
time of the declaration of each such dividend and after giving pro forma effect to the payment
thereof and to any related incurrences of Indebtedness as if such payment and such incurrences had
occurred on the date of such declaration) to Consolidated EBITDA calculated on a pro forma basis as
if such Restricted Payment and any such incurrences of Indebtedness had occurred on the first day
of the most recently ended period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower
for which financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b)
(or, prior to the delivery of the first financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b),
the period of four fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2007) shall be less than 1.50 to 1.00 and
(B) at the time of the making of each such Restricted Payment and after giving effect thereto (or,
in the case of any dividends declared and paid pursuant to this clause (f), at the time of the
declaration of each such dividend and after giving pro forma effect to the payment thereof as if
such payment had occurred on the date of such declaration), no Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or would result therefrom.
SECTION 6.04. Fundamental Changes; Lines of Business. (a) The Borrower will not
merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or
consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, or permit the sale, lease,
transfer or other disposition of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or
substantially all its consolidated assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired), or liquidate
or dissolve, except that any Subsidiary or other Person may merge into the Borrower if the Borrower
is the surviving corporation and at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Borrower shall be in compliance with the
financial covenants contained in this Article VI on a pro forma basis with such merger being deemed
to have occurred at the beginning of each relevant period.
(b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, engage to an
extent material to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in any business other
than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof and
businesses reasonably related thereto, including media and reasonably related internet businesses.
SECTION 6.05. Transactions with Affiliates. The Borrower will not, and will not
permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into or be party to any transaction (including, without
limitation, the purchase or sale of any property or service) with, or make any payment or transfer
to, any of its Affiliates (other than the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) except (a)
transactions in the ordinary course of business and upon terms no less favorable to the Borrower or
such Restricted Subsidiary than the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary could obtain in a
comparable arm’s-length transaction and (b) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.03.
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SECTION 6.06. Restrictive Agreements. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any
Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any
agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the
ability of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien
upon any of its property or assets, or (b) the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to pay
dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or
advances to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the
Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not
apply to prohibitions, restrictions and conditions imposed by law or by any Loan Document, (ii) the
foregoing shall not apply to prohibitions, restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof
and identified on Schedule 6.06 and extensions, renewals or refinancings thereof; provided
that any such extension, renewal or refinancing does not expand the scope of, or otherwise make
more restrictive, such prohibitions, restrictions and conditions, (iii) the foregoing shall not
apply to customary prohibitions, restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to
the sale of any asset or Subsidiary pending such sale; provided that such prohibitions,
restrictions and conditions apply only to the asset or Subsidiary that is to be sold and such sale
is permitted hereunder, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to prohibitions,
restrictions or conditions (A) imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted
by this Agreement if such prohibitions, restrictions or conditions apply only to property or assets
securing such Indebtedness, (B) imposed by any agreement relating to Indebtedness permitted by this
Agreement if such prohibitions, restrictions or conditions would not prohibit the creation of Liens
securing the Obligations on any assets of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (including
any Equity Interests that would be required to be pledged in order for the Collateral Requirement
to be satisfied) or (C) in leases and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof and (v)
clause (b) of the foregoing shall not apply to prohibitions, restrictions and conditions applicable
to Restricted Subsidiaries in which the aggregate equity interest of the Borrower and the other
Restricted Subsidiaries (or, in the case of any Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the date
hereof, (A) the aggregate amount of cash and the aggregate fair market value of the assets invested
in or contributed to such Restricted Subsidiary by the Borrower and other Restricted Subsidiaries
minus (B) the sum of the aggregate returns of capital by such Restricted Subsidiary and the
aggregate net proceeds realized by the Borrower and other Restricted Subsidiaries from sales of
Equity Interests in such Restricted Subsidiary) does not exceed $10,000,000 at any time. For
purposes of this Section, a covenant in an agreement governing Indebtedness that requires the
maintenance of a financial amount or ratio will not be deemed to be an arrangement referred to in
clause (b) of the preceding sentence merely because it may have the effect of limiting the ability
of any Restricted Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity
Interests.
SECTION 6.07. Sale and Lease-Back Transactions. The Borrower will not, and will not
permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into or permit to exist any arrangement, directly or
indirectly, with any Person (other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) whereby it shall
sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned
or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property which it
intends to use for substantially the same
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purpose or purposes as the property being sold or
transferred, other than any such arrangement with a term of not more than one year entered into to
facilitate a transition of the ownership of the subject asset and not as part of a financing
transaction (any such arrangement being called a “Sale and Lease-Back Transaction”) unless
the aggregate Attributable Debt in connection with all Sale and Lease-Back Transactions entered
into after the date hereof, when combined (but without duplication) with the aggregate principal
amount of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clauses (e)and (f) of Section 6.01, shall not exceed
$25,000,000.
SECTION 6.08. Asset Sales. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, engage in any sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of
any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it (including through any issuance by a
Restricted Subsidiary of additional Equity Interests other than to the Borrower or another
Restricted Subsidiary), other than (a) sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions of inventory
and used or surplus equipment in the ordinary course of business, (b) sales, transfers, leases and
other dispositions to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, (c) leases, licenses, subleases
and sublicenses of assets in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and any Restricted
Subsidiary, (d) Sale and Lease-Back Transactions permitted under Section 6.07, (e) sales, transfers
and other dispositions of non-operating assets and interests in any joint venture with an aggregate
fair market value not exceeding, on a cumulative basis during the term of this Agreement,
$20,000,000 and (f) any other sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of assets with a book
value that, taken together with the book values of all other assets sold, transferred, leased or
otherwise disposed of in reliance on this clause (f) after the date hereof (minus any proceeds of
any such sale, transfer, lease or disposition after the date hereof that are in the form of
property, plant or equipment used or useful in the businesses conducted by the Borrower and its
subsidiaries, or that have been applied by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary within 180
days from the date of such sale, transfer or disposition to acquire property, plant or equipment
used or useful in the businesses conducted by the Borrower and its subsidiaries or to repay
Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary), is not in excess of 5% of the
Borrower’s Consolidated Tangible Assets as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which
financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) as of the time of
such sale, transfer lease or disposition (or as of September 30, 2007 in the case of a sale,
transfer, lease or disposition prior to the first delivery of financial statements pursuant to
Section 5.01(a) or (b)).
SECTION 6.09. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. The Borrower
will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, purchase, hold or acquire
(including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly owned Subsidiary prior to
such merger) any capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any
option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any
loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or
any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a
series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit, division,
product line or line of business, except:
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(a) Permitted Investments;
(b) investments existing on the date hereof in the capital stock of Subsidiaries (other than
Joint Ventures), and other investments (including investments in the capital stock of Joint
Ventures) existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.09;
(c) investments, loans or advances by the Borrower in or to any Restricted Subsidiary that
shall have been a Restricted Subsidiary prior to the making thereof and investments, loans or
advances by any Restricted Subsidiary in or to the
Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary that shall have been a Restricted Subsidiary prior
to the making thereof; provided that the amount of investments, loans and advances made by
Loan Parties in or to Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties shall not exceed
$10,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(d) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01;
(e) investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of, or settlement
of delinquent accounts and disputes with, customers and suppliers, in each case in the ordinary
course of business;
(f) investments made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from a sale,
transfer or other disposition of any asset in compliance with Section 6.08;
(g) repurchases of Equity Interests that constitute Restricted Payments permitted under
Section 6.03, and investments in the form of Hedging Agreements permitted under Section 6.10;
(h) loans or advances to employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary made in the ordinary
course of business; provided that the aggregate amount of such loans and advances
outstanding at any time shall not exceed $500,000;
(i) receivables owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, if created or acquired in
the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade
terms (provided that nothing in this clause (i) shall prevent the Borrower or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries from offering such concessionary trade terms as management deems reasonable in the
circumstances);
(j) the purchase or other acquisition by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including
through a merger or consolidation) of Equity Interests in, or all or substantially all the assets
of (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or
line of business of), any Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be (a) a wholly owned
Domestic Subsidiary or (b) in the case of any purchase or other acquisition of assets, will be
owned by a Loan Party; provided that (i) such purchase or acquisition was not preceded by,
or consummated pursuant to, an unsolicited tender offer or proxy contest initiated by the Borrower
or any Subsidiary, (ii) all transactions related thereto are consummated in accordance with
applicable law, (iii) the business of such Person, or such assets, as the case may be, constitutes
a business
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permitted under Section 6.04(b), (iv) all actions required to be taken with respect to
any newly created or acquired Subsidiary in order to satisfy the Guarantee Requirement (and, if
applicable, the Collateral Requirement) shall have been taken, (v) at the time of and immediately
after giving effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Default shall have occurred and
be continuing or would result therefrom and (vi) either (A) the ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness
(giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition and any related incurrence of Indebtedness) to
Consolidated EBITDA calculated on a pro forma basis as if such purchase or other acquisition had
occurred on the first day of the most recently ended period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of
the Borrower for which
financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b) (or, prior
to the delivery of any such financial statements, the first day of the period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended September 30, 2007) shall be less than 2.00 to 1.00, and the
Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower to
such effect and setting forth supporting computations in reasonable detail, or (B) the aggregate
consideration paid (including, in each case, all non-cash consideration (including payment
obligations in respect of noncompetition agreements and arrangements of a similar nature) and all
obligations in respect of deferred purchase price as reasonably estimated by the Borrower at the
time of the acquisition (including obligations under any purchase price adjustment, earnout or
deferred payment arrangements of a similar nature)) in connection with such purchase or other
acquisition and each other purchase or acquisition during the same fiscal year as to which the
requirements of clause (A) above shall not have been satisfied shall not exceed $25,000,000;
(k) investments and acquisitions not permitted under the foregoing clauses (a) through (j);
provided that, (i) at the time each such investment or acquisition is made, no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) the sum of the
aggregate amount of the investments and the aggregate consideration paid in the acquisitions made
in reliance on this clause (k), determined for each such investment and acquisition as of the time
such investment or acquisition shall have been made or completed, shall not exceed $15,000,000 in
the aggregate; and
(l) investments and acquisitions not permitted under the foregoing clauses (a) through (k);
provided that (i) at the time each such investment or acquisition is made, no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) the ratio of the
Consolidated Indebtedness of the Borrower immediately after the making of each such investment or
acquisition and any related incurrences of Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA calculated on a pro
forma basis as if such investment or acquisition and any such incurrences of Indebtedness had
occurred on the first day of the most recently ended period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of
the Borrower for which financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a)
or (b) (or, prior to the delivery of any such financial statements, the first day of the period of
four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended September 30, 2007) shall be less than 1.75
to 1.00 and (iii) the sum of the aggregate amount of the investments and the aggregate
consideration paid in the acquisitions made in reliance on this clause (l), determined for each
such investment and acquisition as of the time such
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investment or acquisition shall have been made
or completed, shall not exceed $25,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Borrower.
For purposes of the foregoing clauses (j), (k) and (l), the aggregate consideration paid for any
investment or acquisition will include, without duplication, the principal amount of any
Indebtedness assumed or incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in connection therewith, but
shall exclude, in the case of an investment in, or an acquisition of, Equity Interests in any
Person, Indebtedness of such Person for which neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary other than
such Person becomes liable pursuant to a Guarantee or otherwise.
SECTION 6.10. Hedging Agreements. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any
Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into or be party to any Hedging Agreement, except Hedging
Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary is exposed in the ordinary course in the conduct of its business or the management of
its liabilities, and not for speculative purposes.
SECTION 6.11. Leverage. The Borrower will not permit the Leverage Ratio as of the end
of any fiscal quarter to be greater than 2.50 to 1.00.
SECTION 6.12. Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. The Borrower will not permit the Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters to be less than 1.15 to
1.00.
ARTICLE VII
Events of Default
If any of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall occur:
(a) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary in or in connection with any Loan Document, or in any report, certificate, financial
statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document, shall
prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when so made or deemed made;
(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation
in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the
due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;
(c) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount
(other than an amount referred to in clause (b) above) payable under this Agreement or any other
Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue
unremedied for a period of three Business Days;
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(d) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in Section 5.02(a) or (b), Section 5.03 (with respect to the Borrower’s existence) or
5.09 or in Article VI;
(e) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in Section 5.02(c), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five
Business Days;
(f) any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in any Loan Document (other than those specified in clause (b), (c), (d) or (e) above)
and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period
of 30 days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent or any Lender to the Borrower;
(g) the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment of principal, regardless of
amount, in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable;
(h) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior
to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the
lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent
on its or their behalf, or, in the case of any Hedging Agreement, the applicable counterparty, to
cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase,
redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or, in the case of any Hedging
Agreement, to cause the termination thereof;
(i) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed
seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of the property or assets of the Borrower or a
Material Subsidiary, under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter
amended, or any other Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law
or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar
official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or for a substantial part of the property or
assets of the Borrower or any Material 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;
(j) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or
file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under Title 11 of the United
States Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any other Federal, state or foreign
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 petition described in clause (i)
above, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary or for a
substantial part of the property or
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assets of the Borrower or any Material 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 or (vi) take any action for the purpose
of effecting any of the foregoing;
(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an amount in excess of $10,000,000 (net
of insurance coverage, to the extent the insurer shall have been advised of such judgments and
shall not have disputed coverage) in the aggregate shall be rendered against the Borrower, any
Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30
consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be
legally taken by a
judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any property or assets of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment;
(l) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, when
taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(m) the Guarantee of any Subsidiary Guarantor under the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement shall
not be (or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be) valid or in full force and effect;
(n) at any time when the Collateral Requirement shall be required to be satisfied, any Lien
created by the Pledge Agreement shall not be (or shall be asserted by any Loan Party not to be)
valid or in full force and effect or perfected; or
(o) a Change in Control shall occur;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause
(i) or (j) above), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the
Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take
either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the
Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans
then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so
declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the
principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon
and all fees and other liabilities of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable
immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby waived by the Borrower; and in any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause
(i) or (j) above, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then
outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other liabilities of the
Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment,
demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.
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ARTICLE VIII
The Administrative Agent
Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent
as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to
exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan
Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
The bank serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers
in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the
Administrative Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates
may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent
hereunder.
The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set
forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the
Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of
whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any
duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary
rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is
required to exercise as directed by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the
Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02), and (c) except
as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to
disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information related to the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by it or any of its
Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or
not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or
percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section
9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. In addition, the
Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written
notice thereof is given to it by the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not
be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or
representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any
certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (iii) the
performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set
forth in any Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any
Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any
condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt
of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for
relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement,
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instrument, document or other
writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. The
Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and
believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying
thereon. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the
Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for
any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants
or experts.
The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers
by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by it. The Administrative Agent and any such
sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through Affiliates
or its or its Affiliates’ employees. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs and
the provisions of Section 9.03
shall apply to any such sub-agent, to the Affiliates of the Administrative Agent and any such
sub-agent and to the directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of the Administrative
Agent, any such sub-agent and their respective Affiliates, and shall apply to their respective
activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well
as activities of the Administrative Agent.
Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided
below, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Bank
and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders, with the consent of the
Borrower (which shall not be unreasonably withheld) shall have the right to appoint a successor
Administrative Agent from among the Lenders. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the
Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring
Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may,
with the consent of the Borrower (which shall not be unreasonably withheld), on behalf of the
Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Administrative Agent from among the Lenders which
shall be a bank with an office in The City of New York, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $500,000,000 or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as
Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested
with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the
retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After
the Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03
shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by
it while it was acting as Administrative Agent.
Each Lender agrees (a) to reimburse the Administrative Agent, on demand, in the amount of its
pro rata share at the time reimbursement is sought (based on its Commitment hereunder or, if the
Commitments shall have expired or terminated, based on its portion of the total Revolving Credit
Exposures) of any expenses incurred for the benefit of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank by the
Administrative Agent, including counsel fees and compensation of agents and employees paid for
services rendered on behalf of the Lenders, that shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrower and
(b) to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and any of its directors, officers,
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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 that may be imposed on, incurred by or
asserted against it in its capacity as Administrative Agent or any of them in any way relating to
or arising out of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by it or any of them under this
Agreement, to the extent the same shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrower, provided
that no Lender shall be liable to the Administrative Agent or any such other indemnified person for
any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by
final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of
the Administrative Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees or agents.
Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each
Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative
Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time
deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based
upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or related agreement or any document furnished
hereunder or thereunder.
None of the institutions named as Syndication Agent or Co-Documentation Agent on the cover
page of this Agreement shall, in their capacities as such, have any duties or responsibilities of
any kind under this Agreement.
ARTICLE IX
Miscellaneous
SECTION 9.01. Notices. Except in the case of notices and other communications
expressly permitted to be given by telephone, all notices and other communications provided for
herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by
certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:
(a) if to the Borrower, to it at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx; Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000-0000, Attention
of Xxx Xxxxx (Telecopy No.(000) 000-0000), with copies to Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (Telecopy No. (000)
000-0000) and to Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000-0000;
(b) if to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, to JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A. at Loan and Agency Services Group, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention of Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx (Telecopy No. 312-385-7096), with a copy to
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2200 Xxxx
00
Xxx., 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention of Xxxxx
XxXxxxxx (Telecopy No. 214-965-2044);
(c) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number) set forth in its
Administrative Questionnaire.
Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications
hereunder by notice to the other parties 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 or on
the date five Business Days after dispatch by certified or registered mail if mailed, except that
notices and communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II shall be deemed to
have been given only when received by the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative
Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other
Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or
power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power.
The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders hereunder
and under any other Loan Document are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies
that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any
departure by any Loan Party 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.
(b) None of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof may be
waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into
by the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto and the Required Lenders (or the
Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders); provided that no such
agreement shall (i) except pursuant to Section 2.19, increase or decrease the Commitment of any
Lender (except for a ratable decrease in the Commitments of all the Lenders), without the written
consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce
the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of
each Lender affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled date of payment of the principal amount
of any Loan or LC Disbursement, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable hereunder, or reduce
the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of
any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change any of the
provisions of this Section or the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision of any
Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required in order to waive, amend or
modify any rights thereunder or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each
Lender, (v) release Guarantees that collectively account for all or substantially all
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of the credit
support provided by the Subsidiary Guarantors from their Guarantees under the Subsidiary Guarantee
Agreement (except as expressly provided in Section 9.14 or in the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement)
without the written consent of each Lender; or (vi) release the Borrower from its obligation to
satisfy the Collateral Requirement or, at any time when the Borrower shall be required to satisfy
the Collateral Requirement, release all or substantially all the collateral pledged under the
Pledge Agreement (except as expressly provided in Section 9.14 and in the Pledge Agreement and any
Foreign Pledge Agreement) without the written consent of each Lender; provided
further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties
of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender hereunder or under any other
Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or
the Swingline Lender, as the case may be.
SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay (i)
all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and
disbursements of Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Administrative Agent, in connection
with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and
administration of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or
waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing
Bank in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or
any demand for payment thereunder, and (iii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, including the reasonable fees, charges and
disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, in
connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with any Loan Document.
(b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and each
Lender, each Affiliate of any of them and each of the respective directors, officers, employees,
agents and advisors 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 the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for
any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with
or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of the Loan Documents or any agreement or
instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties to the Loan Documents of their
respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions
contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit, or the use of the proceeds thereof
(including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit
if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of
such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on
or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any
Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any
claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether commenced
by the
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Borrower, any of its Affiliates or any other Person and whether or not any Indemnitee is a
party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available
to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by
a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the
gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee.
(c) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert, and hereby
waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect,
consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in
connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or
instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit, or the use of the
proceeds thereof.
(d) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable no later than 10 days after written
demand therefor.
SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of
Credit), except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted
assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void). Nothing in
this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the
parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any
Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit)) any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the
time owing to it); provided that (i) each of the Administrative Agent and, except in the
case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment during the
continuance of an Event of Default, the Borrower, must give their prior written consent to such
assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), (ii) except in the case
of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining
amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender
subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with
respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than
$5,000,000 (or such lesser amount as the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may agree), (iii)
each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, (iv) the Lenders party to each such
assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption,
together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, 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 paragraph (d) of this Section, from and after the
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effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, which effective date shall be at
least five Business Days after the execution thereof, the assignee thereunder shall be a party
hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the
rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall,
to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its
obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of
the 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 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and
9.03).
(c) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall
maintain at one of its offices in The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Assumption
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and
the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender
pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the
Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank 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, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.
The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Bank and any Lender, at
any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning
Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee
shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in
paragraph (b) above and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) above, the
Administrative Agent shall (i) accept such Assignment and Assumption, (ii) record the information
contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Lenders. No
assignment shall be effective unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this
paragraph (d).
(e) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Issuing Bank, the Swingline
Lender or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities
(“Participants”) 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 that
(i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall
remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and
(iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders shall continue
to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells
such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this
Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement;
provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without
the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the
first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that
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affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (f) below, the Borrower agrees that each
Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 to the same extent as
if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
Section. In connection with any sale of a participation pursuant to this paragraph, the selling
Lender shall obtain from the Participant an undertaking to be bound by the provisions of Section
9.12. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that
does not comply with paragraph (b) above shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale
by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with this paragraph.
(f) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.14 or
2.16 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the
participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is
made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it
were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16 unless the Borrower is notified
of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the
Borrower, to comply with Section 2.16(e) as though it were a Lender.
(g) Any Lender may at any time assign all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to
a Federal Reserve Bank to secure extensions of credit by such Federal Reserve Bank to such Lender;
provided that no such assignment shall release a Lender from any of its obligations
hereunder or substitute any such Federal Reserve Bank for such Lender as a party hereto.
SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties
made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments
delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be
considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto or thereto and shall survive the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and any other Loan Document and the making of any Loans
and the issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other
party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any
Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at
the time any credit is extended hereunder, 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 or any other Loan Document is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is
outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of
Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 9.03 and 9.12 and the last sentence of the definition of “Applicable
Percentage” in Section 1.01 shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans or the expiration
or termination of the Letters of Credit, the Commitments, this Agreement or any other Loan Document
or any provision hereof or thereof.
SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be
executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different
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counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken
together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any
separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the
entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all
previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.
Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been
executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received
counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties
hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and
their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page
of this Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of
this Agreement.
SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the
extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision
in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, each Lender is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such
Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations
of the 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 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property,
to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York
County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any
appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any
Loan Document, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law,
in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action
or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the
judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement or any
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other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or
any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against
the Borrower or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may
legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of
venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other
Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. 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.
(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner
provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will
affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by
law.
SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO
REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT
SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND
(B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS
AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used
herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect
the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. (a) The Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and
each of the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below),
except that Information may be disclosed (i) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers,
employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood
that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of
such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (ii) to the extent
requested by any regulatory authority, (iii) to the extent required by applicable laws or
regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (iv) to any other party to this Agreement,
(v) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding
relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or
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thereunder, (vi) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those
of this Section, to any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or
Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or to any direct or actual
counterparty (and its advisor) to any swap or derivative transaction entered into by the Borrower
without violating the terms of this Agreement, (vii) with the consent of the Borrower or (viii) to
the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of
this Section or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender
on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower. For the purposes of this
Section, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower relating to the
Borrower or its business including any potential acquisition or proposed business transaction,
other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or
any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower; provided that,
in the case of information received from the Borrower after the date hereof (other than information
obtained by any Lender in the course of examining the books or records of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary as permitted by Section 5.06) such information is clearly identified at the time of
delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as
provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such
Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as
such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
(b) Each Lender acknowledges that Information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement may
include material non-public information concerning the Borrower and its Related Parties or the
Borrower’s securities, and confirms that it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use
of material non-public information and that it will handle such material non-public information in
accordance with those procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
(c) All information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower
or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be
syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower
and its Related Parties or the Borrower’s securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a
credit contact who may receive information that may contain material non-public information in
accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state
securities laws.
SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges
and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the
“Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which may be
contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance
with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with
all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent
lawful, the interest and
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Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result
of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such
Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate
therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds
Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
SECTION 9.14. Release of Guarantees and Liens. A Subsidiary shall automatically be
released from its obligations under the Loan Documents and all security interests created by the
Pledge Agreement or any Foreign Pledge Agreement in collateral owned by such Subsidiary shall be
automatically released upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by this Agreement as a
result of which such Subsidiary ceases to be a Subsidiary (other than a transaction in which such
Subsidiary merges into or consolidates or otherwise combines with the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary); provided that, if so required by this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall
have consented to such transaction and the terms of such consent shall not have provided otherwise.
Upon any sale or other transfer by any Loan Party of any collateral that is permitted under this
Agreement (other than any sale or transfer to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates), or upon the
effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest granted under any Loan
Document in any collateral pursuant to Section 9.02, any security interest in such collateral
created by the Pledge Agreement or any Foreign Pledge Agreement shall be automatically released.
In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent
shall execute and deliver to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, at the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s
expense, all documents that the Borrower or such Subsidiary shall reasonably request to evidence
such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section
shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 9.15. USA Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant
to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information
that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and
other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with its
requirements.
SECTION 9.16. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Borrower, on behalf of itself and the
Subsidiaries, agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby
and any communications in connection therewith, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their
Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and their
Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by
implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders,
the Issuing Bank or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection
with any such transactions or communications.
SECTION 9.17. Unrestricted Subsidiaries. (a) The Borrower may at any time and from
time to time designate any Joint Venture as an Unrestricted Subsidiary by delivery of a notice to
the Administrative Agent if:
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(i) such Joint Venture does not own any Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary
or any Indebtedness for which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is directly or
contingently liable;
(ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or after
giving effect to such designation; and
(iii) the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, with its notice of such
designation, a certificate of a Financial Officer, dated the effective date of such
designation, confirming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the preceding
clauses (i) and (ii) and setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating that
the Borrower shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 6.11 and 6.12
as of the end of and for the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for
which financial statements shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or (b)
(or, prior to the delivery of the first financial statements pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or
(b), as of and for the period of four fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2007), giving pro
forma effect to the designation of such Joint Venture as an Unrestricted Subsidiary as if
it had occurred at the beginning of such period.
(b) The Borrower may at any time designate an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted
Subsidiary by delivery of a notice to the Administrative Agent if:
(i) such Unrestricted Subsidiary shall have been an Unrestricted Subsidiary for at
least four calendar quarters;
(ii) no other Unrestricted Subsidiary shall own any Equity Interests of such
Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Indebtedness for which such Unrestricted Subsidiary is
directly or contingently liable;
(iii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or
after giving effect to such designation; and
(iv) the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, with its notice of such
designation, a certificate of a Financial Officer, dated the effective date of such
designation, confirming the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the preceding
clauses (i), (ii) and (iii).
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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.
A. H. BELO CORPORATION, |
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by | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer | |||
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., individually, as Administrative Agent and as Issuing Bank, |
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by | /s/ Xxxxx XxXxxxxx | |||
Name: | Xxxxx XxXxxxxx | |||
Title: | Vice President |
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LENDER: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||||||
Title: Vice President |
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LENDER: SUNTRUST BANK | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxx | ||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||
For any Lender requiring a second signature line: | ||||||
by | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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LENDER: CAPITAL ONE, N.A. | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | ||||||
Title: Vice President |
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LENDER: WACHOVIA BANK, NA | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||||||
Title: Senior Vice President |
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LENDER: THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx | ||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||
For any Lender requiring a second signature line: | ||||||
by | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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SIGNATURE PAGE TO A. H. BELO CORPORATION
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
LENDER: Comerica Bank | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx Xx. | ||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||
For any Lender requiring a second signature line: | ||||||
by | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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SIGNATURE PAGE TO A. H. BELO CORPORATION
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
LENDER: U.S. BANK, N.A. | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxx XxXxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxxx XxXxxx | ||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||
For any Lender requiring a second signature line: | ||||||
by | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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SIGNATURE PAGE TO A. H. BELO CORPORATION
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
LENDER: AMEGY BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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by | /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||||||
Title: Senior Vice President |
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SIGNATURE PAGE TO A. H. BELO CORPORATION
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2008
LENDER: THE BANK OF NEW YORK | ||||||
by | /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxx | ||||||
Title: Vice President |
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