Exhibit 10.3
AMENDMENT AND WAIVER NO. 2 TO THE
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of June 4, 2001
AMENDMENT AND WAIVER NO. 2 TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT (this
"Amendment") among Panamco de Venezuela, S.A., a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of Venezuela (the "Borrower"), Inarco International
Bank, N.V., a financial institution organized and existing under the laws of
Aruba, Dutch West Indies (the "Bank"), and Panamerican Beverages, Inc., a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Republic of Panama,
as the guarantor under the $20 Million Credit Agreement referred to below
("PBI").
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:
(1) The Borrower, the Bank and PBI have entered into a Credit
Agreement dated as of July 18, 2000 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified through the date hereof, the "$20 Million Credit Agreement"; terms
defined therein, unless otherwise defined herein, being used herein as
therein defined).
(2) The Borrower and PBI have requested that the Bank agree to
amend the $20 Million Credit Agreement as hereinafter set forth.
(3) The Bank is, on the terms and conditions stated below, willing
to grant the request of the Borrower and PBI, and the Borrower, PBI and the
Bank have agreed to amend the $20 Million Credit Agreement as hereinafter set
forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual
covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
SECTION 1. Amendments to $20 Million Credit Agreement . The $20
Million Credit Agreement is, upon the occurrence of the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date (as hereinafter defined), hereby amended as follows:
(a) Section 1.1 of the $20 Million Credit Agreement is hereby
amended to add the following new definition in its appropriate
alphabetic order:
"Amendment No. 2 Effective Date" shall mean the first date on which
all of the conditions precedent to the effectiveness of Amendment
and Waiver No. 2 to the Credit Agreement were satisfied.
(b) Section 2.1 of the $20 Million Credit Agreement is hereby
amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
"Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the
Bank agrees (i) to make a single advance to the Borrower on July
26, 2000 in an amount equal to Yen 2,163,000,000 and (ii) to make a
single advance (such advance, together with the advance made
pursuant to clause (i) above, being collectively, the "Loan") on or
after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date.
(c) Section 2.2(a) of the $20 Million Credit Agreement is hereby
amended to delete the phrase "on or before July 26, 2000" in the last
line thereof.
(d) Section 2.5(a) of the $20 Million Credit Agreement is hereby
amended to replace the words "LIBOR plus 3.24%" with the words "LIBOR
plus 2.15%".
(e) Section 9.2 of the $20 Million Credit Agreement is hereby
amended to replace the amount "US$20,000,000.00" with the amount
"US$55,000,000.00".
(f) The Commitment amount "Yen 2,163,000,000.00" set forth opposite
the signature of the Bank to the $20 Million Credit Agreement is hereby
replaced with the Commitment amount "Yen 5,948,250,000.00".
SECTION 2. Conditions of Effectiveness . Sections 1 and 4 of this
Amendment shall become effective as of the date on which each of the
following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied (such date being the
"Amendment No. 2 Effective Date"):
(a) The Bank shall have received counterparts of this Amendment
executed by the Borrower, PBI and the Bank.
(b) The Bank shall have received on or before the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date the following, each dated such date (unless otherwise
specified), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Bank:
(i) A certificate, dated the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date,
of a duly authorized officer or agent of the Borrower, in the form
of Exhibit A hereto with appropriate insertions, together with
copies of the organizational documents, bylaws, board of directors
approvals and resolutions of the Borrower referred to in such
certificate.
(ii) A favorable opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, counsel for the
Borrower in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Bank.
(iii) Such financial, business and other information regarding
the Borrower and PBI and their respective property, assets and
businesses as the Bank shall have requested.
(iv) A Note executed by the Borrower and issued to the Bank in
an amount equal to the Commitment of the Bank as of the Amendment
No. 2 Effective Date.
(c) All representations and warranties contained in each of the
Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on
and as of the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date, as though made on and as
of such date.
(d) No event shall have occurred and be continuing that constitutes
a Default or an Event of Default.
(e) All of the accrued fees and expenses of the Bank (including the
accrued fees and expenses of counsel for the Bank) that are then due and
payable shall have been paid in full.
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The effectiveness of this Amendment is further conditioned upon the accuracy
of all of the factual matters described herein. This Amendment is subject to
the provisions of Section 11.12 of the $20 Million Credit Agreement, except
that no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Section 2, nor consent
to any departure by PBI or the Borrower therefrom, shall in any event be
effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Bank.
SECTION 3. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The
Borrower and PBI each represents and warrants as follows:
(a) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower and PBI
of this Amendment and the other Credit Documents, as amended hereby, to
which it is or is to be a party, are within its corporate powers, have
been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not (i)
contravene the Borrower's or PBI's charter or bylaws, (ii) violate any
law, rule or regulation, or any order, writ, judgment, injunction,
decree, determination or award, binding on or affecting PBI, the
Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their
properties, (iii) conflict with or result in the breach of, or
constitute a default under, any contract, loan agreement, indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument binding on or
affecting PBI, the Borrower, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any
of their properties or (iv) result in or require the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any of the properties of
PBI, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
(b) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice
to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any
other third party is required for the due execution, delivery or
performance by the Borrower and PBI of this Amendment or any of the
other Credit Documents, as amended hereby, to which it is or is to be a
party.
(c) This Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by the
Borrower and PBI. This Amendment and each of the other Credit Documents,
as amended hereby, to which the Borrower or PBI is a party is the legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Borrower and PBI, enforceable
against the Borrower and PBI in accordance with its terms.
(d) There is no action, suit, investigation, litigation or
proceeding affecting PBI, the Borrower or any of their respective
Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any court, governmental agency
or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or
enforceability of this Amendment or any of the other Credit Documents,
as amended hereby.
SECTION 4. Cancellation of Existing Note. On the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date and after the issuance of the Note referred to in Section
2(b)(iv), the Note for Yen 2,163,000,000 issued by the Borrower to the Bank
on January 26, 2001 shall be cancelled.
SECTION 5. Reference to and Effect on the Credit Documents . (a) On
and after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date, each reference in the $20
Million Credit Agreement to "this Agreement", "hereunder", "hereof" or words
of like import referring to the $20 Million Credit Agreement, and each
reference in the Note and each of the other Credit Documents to "the Credit
Agreement", "thereunder", "thereof" or words of like import referring to the
$20 Million Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the $20
Million Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment.
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(b) The $20 Million Credit Agreement, the Note and each of the
other Credit Documents, as specifically amended by this Amendment, are
and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all
respects ratified and confirmed.
(c) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment
shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of
any right, power or remedy of the Bank under any of the Credit
Documents, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Credit
Documents.
SECTION 6. Costs and Expenses The Borrower hereby agrees to pay on
demand all costs and expenses of the Bank in connection with the preparation,
execution, delivery and administration, modification and amendment of this
Amendment and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder
(including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel
for the Bank) in accordance with the terms of Section 10.1 of the $20 Million
Credit Agreement.
SECTION 7. Execution in Counterparts . This Amendment may be
executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be
an original and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the
same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to
this Amendment by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually
executed counterpart of this Amendment.
SECTION 8. Governing Law . This Amendment shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment
to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of
the date first above written.
PANAMCO DE VENEZUELA, S.A.,
as Borrower
By
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Name:
Title:
PANAMERICAN BEVERAGES, INC.,
as Guarantor
By
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Name:
Title:
INARCO INTERNATIONAL BANK, N.V.
By
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Name:
Title:
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PROMISSORY NOTE
YEN 5,948,250,000 New York, New York
June 6th 2001
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Panamco de Venezuela, S.A., a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the Republic of Venezuela (the "BORROWER"),
hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the order of INARCO INTERNATIONAL
BANK, N.V. (the "BANK"), in lawful money of the Kingdom of Japan in
immediately available funds, at the account number 022 0000000 of Citibank,
N.A. maintained in its Tokyo, Japan Branch, the principal sum of
Five-Billion-Nine-Hundred-Forty-Eight-Million-Two-Hundred-Fifty-Thousand Yen
(YEN 5,948,250,000) on July 28, 2003.
The principal amount hereof shall earn interest at the prevailing LIBOR
plus 2.15% (the "MARGIN"). "LIBOR" shall mean the rate of interest per annum
at which deposits in Yen are offered by the principal office of the Bank in
London, England, to prime banks in the London Interbank Market at 11:00 A.M.
(London time) two Business Days before the first day of each Interest Period
for a period equal to such Interest Period for approximately equal amounts for
such Interest Period. Interest shall be paid at the end of each Interest
Period. "INTEREST PERIOD" shall mean the period of time used to calculate
interest, beginning on the date the Loan is disbursed and ending on the first
Interest Payment Date and each subsequent period; provided that, if an
Interest Period ends on a day which is not a Business Day, then such Interest
Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, unless such next
succeeding Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month in which
case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day.
"BUSINESS DAY" shall mean any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which
shall be a legal holiday in New York City, Aruba or Caracas, Venezuela or a
day on which banking institutions in New York City, Aruba or Caracas,
Venezuela are authorized or required by law or other government action to
close.
Interest shall be payable on the following dates (each an "INTEREST
PAYMENT DATE"):
July 26, 2001
January 28, 2002
July 26, 2002
January 27, 2003
July 28, 2003
If the principal amount hereof is not fully paid at maturity, the unpaid
balance thereof shall earn penalty interest at the rate of 2% per annum above
the interest rate payable pursuant to Sections 2.5(a) and (c) calculated from
the maturity date until payment in full. Such interest to accrue on a daily
basis from the date such principal or interest was due with such interest to
be payable on demand.
Interest hereunder shall be calculated on the actual number of calendar
days elapsed on a year of 360 days.
The principal amount hereof and interest thereon shall be payable in
lawful currency of the Kingdom of Japan and in same day funds or any other
funds which at the time of payment shall be
customary for the settlement of international transactions in Yen, at the
office of Citibank, N.A., in Tokyo, Japan, free and clear of and without
deduction for any and all charges and withholdings and all liabilities with
respect thereto excluding income and franchise taxes of Venezuela, Aruba,
Panama and the United States of America.
The Borrower hereof covenants to pay all taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
charges and withholdings imposed by any authority of the United States,
Venezuela, Aruba, Panama or any other jurisdiction on the principal sum hereof
and interest thereon before any penalties or surcharges are payable in
connection thereto and further covenants to deliver to the Bank within 30 days
from the date such taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges and withholdings
become due and payable the appropriate documentation evidencing payment
thereof.
If this Note or the rights hereunder are negotiated, the Bank is
authorized by the Borrower to disclose general financial information about the
Borrower to the Person to which the Bank sells, transfers, or participates
this Note or the rights hereunder.
This Note is the Note referred to in the Credit Agreement dated as of
July 18, 2000 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the "$20 MILLION CREDIT AGREEMENT") among the Borrower, the Bank and
Panamerican Beverages, Inc. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have
the meanings set forth in the $20 Million Credit Agreement. The $20 Million
Credit Agreement contains, among other provisions, events of default that
permit the Bank to accelerate the payment hereof.
The Borrower hereby waives presentment, demand, protest or notice of any
kind in connection with this Note. This Note shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York.
PANAMCO DE VENEZUELA, S.A.
By:
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Name:
Title:
PANAMERICAN BEVERAGES, INC.,
as Guarantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
