CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of February 19, 2009 among GREIF, INC. and GREIF INTERNATIONAL HOLDING B.V., as Borrowers, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer, and The Other Lenders Party Hereto
EXECUTION
COPY
Published CUSIP Number: [_____]
Dated as
of February 19, 2009
among
XXXXX,
INC.
and
XXXXX INTERNATIONAL HOLDING
B.V.,
as
Borrowers,
BANK OF AMERICA,
N.A.,
as
Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and
L/C
Issuer,
and
The Other
Lenders Party Hereto
BANC
OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
and
X. X. XXXXXX SECURITIES
INC.,
as Joint
Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A.,
as
Syndication Agent,
and
KEYBANK
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
as
Co-Documentation Agents
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
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DEFINITIONS
AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
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1
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1.01
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Defined
Terms
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1
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1.02
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Other
Interpretive Provisions
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46
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1.03
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Accounting
Terms
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46
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1.04
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Rounding
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47
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1.05
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Times
of Day
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47
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1.06
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Letter
of Credit Amounts
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47
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1.07
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Exchange
Rates; Currency Equivalents
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47
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1.08
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Additional
Alternative Currencies
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48
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1.09
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Change
of Currency
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49
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1.10
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Dutch
Terms
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49
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ARTICLE II
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THE
COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
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50
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2.01
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The
Loans
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50
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2.02
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Borrowings,
Conversions and Continuations of Loans
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52
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2.03
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Letters
of Credit
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54
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2.04
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Swing
Line Loans
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65
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2.05
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Prepayments
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69
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2.06
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Termination
or Reduction of Commitments
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72
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2.07
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Repayment
of Loans
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73
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2.08
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Interest
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74
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2.09
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Fees
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75
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2.10
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Computation
of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable
Rate
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76
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2.11
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Evidence
of Debt
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76
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2.12
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Payments
Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback
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77
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2.13
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Sharing
of Payments by Lenders
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79
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2.14
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Increase
in Revolving Credit Facility
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80
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2.15
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Increase
in Term Facility
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81
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2.16
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Designated
Borrowers
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82
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2.17
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Cash
Collateral for L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender
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84
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ARTICLE III
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TAXES,
YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
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84
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3.01
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Taxes
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84
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3.02
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Illegality
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88
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3.03
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Inability
to Determine Rates
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89
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3.04
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Increased
Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans
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90
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3.05
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Compensation
for Losses
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91
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3.06
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Mitigation
Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
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92
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ARTICLE IV
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
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93
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4.01
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Conditions
of Initial Credit Extension
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93
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4.02
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Conditions
to all Credit Extensions
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95
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ARTICLE V
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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96
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5.01
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Corporate
Status
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97
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5.02
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Corporate
Power and Authority
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97
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5.03
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No
Violation
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97
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5.04
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Governmental
and Other Approvals
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97
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5.05
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Financial
Statements; Financial Condition; Undisclosed Liabilities Projections;
Etc
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98
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5.06
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Litigation
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99
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5.07
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True
and Complete Disclosure
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99
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5.08
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Use
of Proceeds; Margin Regulations
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99
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5.09
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Taxes
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99
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5.10
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Compliance
With ERISA
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100
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5.11
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Collateral
Documents
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100
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5.12
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Senior
Note Documents
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100
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5.13
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Ownership
of Property
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101
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5.14
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Capitalization
of the Company
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101
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5.15
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Subsidiaries
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101
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5.16
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Compliance
With Law, Etc
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102
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5.17
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Investment
Company Act
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102
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5.18
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Public
Utility Holding Company Act
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102
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5.19
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Environmental
Matters
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102
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5.20
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Labor
Relations
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103
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5.21
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Intellectual
Property, Licenses, Franchises and Formulas
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103
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5.22
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Anti-Terrorism
Laws
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103
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ARTICLE VI
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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104
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6.01
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Financial
Statements
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104
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6.02
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Certificates;
Other Information
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104
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6.03
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Notices
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107
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6.04
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Conduct
of Business and Maintenance of Existence
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108
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6.05
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Payment
of Obligations
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108
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6.06
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Inspection
of Property, Books and Records
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109
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6.07
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ERISA
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109
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6.08
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Maintenance
of Property, Insurance
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109
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6.09
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Environmental
Laws
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109
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6.10
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Use
of Proceeds
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110
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6.11
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Guarantee
Obligations and Security; Further Assurances
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110
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6.12
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End
of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters
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112
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6.13
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Foreign
Pension Plan Compliance
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112
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6.14
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Currency
and Commodity Hedging Transactions
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112
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6.15
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Limitations
on Activities of Subsidiaries
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112
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6.16
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Lien
Searches
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113
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6.17
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Post-Closing
Covenants
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113
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ARTICLE VII
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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113
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7.01
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Liens
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113
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7.02
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Indebtedness
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115
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7.03
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Fundamental
Changes
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117
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7.04
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Asset
Sales
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117
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7.05
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Dividends
or Other Distributions
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120
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7.06
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Issuance
of Stock
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121
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7.07
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Loans,
Investments and Acquisitions
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121
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7.08
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Transactions
with Affiliates
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123
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7.09
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Insurance
Subsidiary
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123
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7.10
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Sale
or Discount of Receivables
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124
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7.11
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Fiscal
Year
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124
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7.12
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Limitation
on Voluntary Payments and Modifications, Etc
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124
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7.13
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Limitation
on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries
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125
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7.14
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Accounting
Changes
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125
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7.15
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Financial
Covenants
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126
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ARTICLE VIII
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EVENTS
OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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126
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8.01
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Events
of Default
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126
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8.02
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Application
of Funds
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129
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8.03
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Collateral
Allocation Mechanism
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131
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ARTICLE IX
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ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT
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131
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9.01
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Appointment
and Authority
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131
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9.02
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Rights
as a Lender
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132
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9.03
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Exculpatory
Provisions
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132
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9.04
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Reliance
by Administrative Agent
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133
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9.05
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Delegation
of Duties
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133
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9.06
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Resignation
of Administrative Agent
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133
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9.07
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Non-Reliance
on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders
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134
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9.08
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No
Other Duties, Etc
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134
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9.09
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Administrative
Agent May File Proofs of Claim
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134
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9.10
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Collateral
and Guaranty Matters
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135
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9.11
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Existing
Guaranties, Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge
Agreements
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136
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ARTICLE X
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MISCELLANEOUS
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136
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10.01
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No
Waiver; Modifications in Writing
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136
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10.02
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Notices;
Effectiveness; Electronic Communications
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139
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10.03
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No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement
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141
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10.04
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Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver
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142
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10.05
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Payments
Set Aside
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142
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10.06
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Successors
and Assigns
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143
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10.07
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Treatment
of Certain Information; Confidentiality
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148
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10.08
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Right
of Setoff
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149
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10.09
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Interest
Rate Limitation
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149
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10.10
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Counterparts;
Integration; Effectiveness
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150
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10.11
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties
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150
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10.12
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Severability
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150
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10.13
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Replacement
of Lenders
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150
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10.14
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Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Etc
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151
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10.15
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WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL
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152
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10.16
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No
Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility
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152
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10.17
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Electronic
Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents
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153
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10.18
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USA
PATRIOT Act
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153
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10.19
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Judgment
Currency
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153
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10.20
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Special
Provisions in relation to Dutch Collateral
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154
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SIGNATURES
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S-1
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SCHEDULES
1.01(a)
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Cash
Restructuring Charges
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1.01(b)
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Mandatory
Cost Formulae
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2.01
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Commitments
and Applicable Percentages
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2.03
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Existing
Letters of Credit
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5.03
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Certain
Authorizations
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5.04
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Governmental
Approvals
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5.05(a)
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Pro
Forma Balance Sheet
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5.05(c)
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Certain
Liabilities
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5.11
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Financing
Statements and Other Filings
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5.13(b)
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Existing
Liens
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5.15
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Subsidiaries
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5.19
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Environmental
Matters
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6.08
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Insurance
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7.02
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Existing
Indebtedness
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7.04
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Certain
Dispositions
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7.07
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Certain
Investments
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7.08
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Transactions
with Affiliates
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7.13
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Certain
Encumbrances
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10.02
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Administrative
Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for
Notices
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EXHIBITS
Form
of
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A
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Committed
Loan Notice
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B
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Swing
Line Loan Notice
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C-1
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Term
Note
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C-2
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Revolving
Credit Note
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D
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Compliance
Certificate
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E-1
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Assignment
and Assumption
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E-2
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Administrative
Questionnaire
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F-1
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Company
Guaranty
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F-2
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Subsidiary
Guaranty
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G
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Security
Agreement
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H-1
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Opinion
Matters – Counsel to Loan Parties
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H-2
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Opinion
Matters – General Counsel of Company
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H-3
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Opinion
Matters – Local Counsel to Loan Parties
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I
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Designated
Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement
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J
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Designated
Borrower Notice
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This
CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is
entered into as of February 19, 2009, among Xxxxx, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), Xxxxx
International Holding B.V., a private limited liability company (besloten vennootschap met beperlite
aansprakelijkheid) incorporated and existing under the laws of The
Netherlands with statutory seat in Amstelveen, The Netherlands (“Greif International
Holding”), and certain other Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of the Company
party hereto pursuant to Section 2.16
(each of Greif International Holding and each such other Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary, a “Designated Borrower”
and, together with the Company, the “Borrowers” and each,
a “Borrower”),
each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and
individually, a “Lender”), and BANK OF
AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, a Swing Line Lender and L/C
Issuer.
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS:
The
Borrowers have requested that the Lenders provide a term loan facility and a
revolving credit facility, and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to
lend and the L/C Issuer has indicated its willingness to issue letters of
credit, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein.
In
consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the
parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined
Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall
have the meanings set forth below:
“Acquisition” means
(a) the purchase by a Person of all or a significant part of a business or
business unit conducted by another Person; or (b) the merger, consolidation or
amalgamation of any Person with any other Person.
“Administrative Agent”
means Bank of America in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the
Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
“Administrative Agent’s
Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s
address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02 with
respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such
currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Company
and the Lenders.
“Administrative
Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the
form of Exhibit
E-2 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means,
with respect to any 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.
“Aggregate
Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Agreement” means this
Credit Agreement.
“Alternative Currency”
means Euro and each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in
accordance with Section 1.08.
“Alternative Currency
Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in
Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency as
determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at
such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most
recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Alternative Currency with
Dollars.
“Alternative Currency Swing
Line Sublimit” means $75,000,000. As of the Closing Date, Bank
of America has agreed to make up to $42,000,000 in Swing Line Loans under the
Alternative Currency Swing Line Sublimit, and ING has agreed to make up to
$33,000,000 in Swing Line Loans under the Alternative Currency Swing Line
Sublimit, with each such agreed amount subject to change upon the mutual
agreement of the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Swing Line
Lenders. The Alternative Currency Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and
not in addition to, the Swing Line Sublimit.
“Ancillary
Obligations” means, collectively, obligations arising under any of the
Existing Guaranties, Secured Cash Management Agreements or Secured Hedge
Agreements.
“Applicable
Percentage” means:
(a) in
respect of the Term Facility, with respect to any Term Lender at any time,
the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Term Facility
represented by (i) on or prior to the Closing Date, such Term Lender’s
Term Commitment at such time and (ii) thereafter, the principal amount of
such Term Lender’s Term Loans at such time;
(b) in
respect of the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to any U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth
decimal place) of the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility represented by such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment at such time;
and
(c) in
respect of the Global Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to any Global
Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth
decimal place) of the Global Revolving Credit Facility represented by such
Global Revolving Credit Lender’s Global Revolving Credit Commitment at such
time.
If the
commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and
the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been
terminated pursuant to Section 8.01, or if
the Revolving Credit Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of
each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility or
the Global Revolving Credit Facility, as the case may be, shall be determined
based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender in respect of
the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility or the Global Revolving Credit Facility, as
the case may be, most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent
assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in
respect of each Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in
the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable.
2
“Applicable Rate”
means the following percentages per annum, based upon the Leverage Ratio as set
forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative
Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a):
Applicable
Rate for Term
Loans
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Applicable
Rate for
Revolving
Loans and
Letters
of Credit
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Pricing
Level
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Leverage
Ratio
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LIBOR
Loans
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Base
Rate
Loans
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LIBOR
Loans/Letter
of
Credit
Fees
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Base
Rate
Loans
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Facility
Fee
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1
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> 3.00:1
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3.50 | % | 2.50 | % | 3.00 | % | 2.00 | % | 0.50 | % | |||||||||||
2
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<
3.00:1 but
> 2.25:1
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3.25 | % | 2.25 | % | 2.75 | % | 1.75 | % | 0.50 | % | |||||||||||
3
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<
2.25:1 but
> 1.50:1
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3.00 | % | 2.00 | % | 2.50 | % | 1.50 | % | 0.50 | % | |||||||||||
4
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<
1.50:1
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2.75 | % | 1.75 | % | 2.30 | % | 1.30 | % | 0.45 | % |
Any
increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the
Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately
following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a);
provided that
if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such
Section, then, upon the request of the Required Term Lenders and the Required
Revolving Lenders, Pricing Level 1 shall apply as of the first Business Day
after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been
delivered and in each case shall remain in effect until the date on which such
Compliance Certificate is delivered. The Applicable Rate in effect
from the Closing Date through the date on which the Administrative Agent
receives a Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(a) for
the Fiscal Quarter ending April 30, 2009 shall be Pricing Level 3.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the
Applicable Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section
2.10(b).
“Applicable Time”
means, with respect to any Borrowings and payments in any Alternative Currency,
the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternative Currency as may
be determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be,
to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with
normal banking procedures in the place of payment.
3
“Applicant Borrower”
has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“Appropriate Lender”
means, at any time, (a) with respect to any of the Term Facility, the U.S.
Revolving Credit Facility or the Global Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that
has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Term Loan, a U.S.
Revolving Credit Loan or a Global Revolving Credit Loan, respectively, at such
time; (b) with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) the L/C
Issuer and (ii) if any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03(a), the
U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders; and (c) with respect to the Swing Line
Sublimit (including the Dollar Swing Line Sublimit and the Alternative Currency
Swing Line Sublimit), (i) the Swing Line Lenders and (ii) if any Swing
Line Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a),
the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Approved Fund” means
any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a
Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages
a Lender.
“Arrangers” means,
collectively, BAS and JPMSI, in their respective capacities as joint lead
arrangers and joint book managers.
“Asian Guaranty” means
the Continuing Guaranty, dated as of October 16, 2008, made by the Company, on
behalf of Xxxxx (Shanghai) Packaging Co. Ltd., Xxxxx (Taicang) Packaging Co.
Ltd., Greif (Ningbo) Packaging Co. Ltd., Greif (Huizhou) Packaging Co. Ltd.,
Xxxxx (Tianjin) Packaging Co. Ltd and Greif (Shanghai) Commercial Co. Ltd., in
favor of Bank of America.
“Asset Disposition”
means any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition (or series of related
sales, leases, transfers or dispositions) of all or any part of an interest in
shares of Equity Interests of a Subsidiary of the Company (other than directors’
qualifying shares) and similar arrangements required by Law, property or other
assets (each referred to for the purposes of this definition as a “disposition”)
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that a
Recovery Event shall not be considered an Asset Disposition.
“Assignee Group” means
two (2) or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or
more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
“Assignment and
Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender
and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is
required by Section
10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the
form of Exhibit
E-1 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Debt”
means as of the date of determination thereof, without duplication, (a) in
connection with a Sale and Leaseback Transaction, the net present value
(discounted according to GAAP at the cost of debt implied in the lease) of the
obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the then remaining term of
any applicable lease; (b) Receivables Facility Attributable Debt; provided that, for
purposes of the definition of “Leverage Ratio”, Receivables Facility
Attributable Debt in an amount not to exceed $225,000,000 in the aggregate for
all such Receivables Facility Attributable Debt shall not be considered
“Attributable Debt” to the extent the Permitted Accounts Receivable
Securitization giving rise to such Receivables Facility Attributable Debt
constitutes a “true sale” under GAAP; and (c) the principal balance outstanding
under any synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan
or similar off-balance sheet financing product to which such Person is a party,
where such transaction is considered borrowed money indebtedness for tax
purposes but is classified as an operating lease in accordance with
GAAP.
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“Audited Financial
Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company
and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended October 31, 2008, and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash
flows for such Fiscal Year of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the
notes thereto.
“Availability Period”
means, in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the period from and
including the Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date for the
Revolving Credit Facility, (b) the date of termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (c)
the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to
make Revolving Credit Loans and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C
Credit Extensions pursuant to Section
8.01.
“Bank of America”
means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
“BAS” means Banc of
America Securities LLC.
“Base Rate” means, for
any day, a rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Prime Rate for such
day; (b) the sum of 0.50% plus the Federal
Funds Rate for such day; and (c) except during a Eurodollar Unavailability
Period, the sum of 1.00% plus the 1-month
Eurodollar Rate.
“Base Rate Loan” means
a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest based on the Base
Rate. All Base Rate Loans shall be denominated in
Dollars.
“Beneficial Owner”
shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Rule 13d-3 of the SEC under the
Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof.
“Borrower” and “Borrowers” each has
the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Borrower Materials”
has the meaning specified in Section
6.02.
“Borrowing” means a
Term Borrowing, a U.S. Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Global Revolving Credit
Borrowing or a Swing Line Borrowing, as the context may require.
“Business Day” means
any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are
authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where
the Administrative Agent’s Office with respect to Obligations denominated in
Dollars is located and:
(a) if
such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurodollar Rate Loan
denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in
Dollars in respect of any such Eurodollar Rate Loan, or any other dealings in
Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such
Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in
Dollars are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar
market;
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(b) if
such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurodollar Rate Loan
denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in
Euro in respect of any such Eurodollar Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Euro
to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurodollar
Rate Loan, means a TARGET Day;
(c) if
such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurodollar Rate Loan
denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, means any such day on
which dealings in deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between
banks in the London or other applicable offshore interbank market for such
currency; and
(d) if
such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a
currency other than Dollars or Euro in respect of a Eurodollar Rate Loan
denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, or any other dealings in
any currency other than Dollars or Euro to be carried out pursuant to this
Agreement in respect of any such Eurodollar Rate Loan (other than any interest
rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange
business in the principal financial center of the country of such
currency.
“CAM Exchange” means
the exchange of the Lenders’ interests provided for in Section
8.03.
“CAM Exchange Date”
means the date on which any Event of Default referred to in Section 8.01(e)
shall occur or the date on which the Company receives written notice from the
Administrative Agent that any Event of Default referred to in Section 8.01(f) has
occurred.
“CAM Percentage”
means, as to each Lender, a fraction, expressed as a decimal, of which (a) the
numerator shall be the aggregate Dollar Amount of the Designated Obligations
owed to such Lender (whether or not at the time due and payable) immediately
prior to the CAM Exchange Date and (b) the denominator shall be the aggregate
amount of the Designated Obligations owed to all the Lenders (whether or not at
the time due and payable) immediately prior to the CAM Exchange
Date.
“Capital Expenditures”
means, without duplication, with respect to any Person, any amounts expended,
during or in respect of a period for any purchase or other acquisition for value
of any asset that should be classified on a consolidated balance sheet of such
Person prepared in accordance with GAAP as a fixed or capital asset including,
without limitation, the direct or indirect acquisition of such assets or
improvements by way of increased product or service charges, offset items or
otherwise, and shall include Capitalized Leases but shall exclude any Capital
Expenditures arising as a part of a Permitted Acquisition or any purchase of
timberland by Soterra LLC, or expenditures made in connection with the
replacement, substitution or restoration of assets to the extent financed from
the proceeds of a Recovery Event.
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“Capitalized Lease”
means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, any lease of
property, real or personal, in respect of which the present value of the minimum
rental commitment is capitalized on the balance sheet of the lessee in
accordance with GAAP.
“Capitalized Lease
Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made,
the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease which would at
such time be so required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of the lessee in
accordance with GAAP.
“Cash” means money,
currency or the available credit balance in a Deposit Account.
“Cash Collateralize”
has the meaning specified in Section
2.03(g).
“Cash Equivalents”
means (a) any security, maturing not more than one year after the date of
acquisition, issued by the United States or an instrumentality or agency thereof
and guaranteed in full as to principal, premium, if any, and interest by the
United States; (b) any certificate of deposit, time deposit or bankers’
acceptance (or, with respect to non-U.S. banking institutions, similar
instruments), maturing not more than one year after the day of acquisition,
issued by any commercial banking institution that is a member of the U.S.
Federal Reserve System or a commercial banking institution organized and located
in a country recognized by the United States, in each case, having combined
capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000 (or the
foreign currency equivalent thereof), whose short-term debt has a rating, at the
time as of which any investment therein is made, of “P-1” (or higher) according
to Xxxxx’x or “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P; (c) commercial paper
maturing not more than one year after the date of acquisition issued by a
corporation (other than an Affiliate or Subsidiary of the Company or any
Borrower) with a rating, at the time as of which any investment therein is made,
of “P-1” (or higher) according to Xxxxx’x or “A-1” (or higher) according to
S&P; (d) any money market deposit accounts issued or offered by a commercial
banking institution that is a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve System or a
commercial institution organized and located in a country recognized by the
United States, in each case, having combined capital and surplus in excess of
$500,000,000 (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof); and (e) other
short-term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries in accordance with
normal investment practices for cash management not exceeding a Dollar
Equivalent amount of $25,000,000 in aggregate principal amount outstanding at
any time.
“Cash Management
Agreement” means any agreement to provide cash management services,
including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic
funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.
“Cash Management Bank”
means (a) Deutsche Bank and its Affiliates and (b) any Person that (i) has
entered into a Cash Management Agreement with any Loan Party prior to the
Closing Date, if (A) such Person is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of
the Closing Date and (B) the obligations under such Cash Management Agreement
were secured pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement; and (ii) enters into a
Cash Management Agreement with any Loan Party on or after the Closing Date, if
such Person is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time it enters into
such Cash Management Agreement.
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“CFC” means a Person
that is a controlled foreign corporation as defined in Section 957 of the
Code.
“Change in Law” means
the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a)
the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any
change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration,
interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the
making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having
the force of law) by any Governmental Authority.
“Change of Control”
means the occurrence at any time of any of the following events:
(a) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Exchange Act) (other than the Permitted Investors) is or becomes (as a result of
the acquisition or issuance of securities, by merger or otherwise) the
Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 35% of the voting power
with respect to the election of directors of all then outstanding voting Equity
Interests of the Company (other than as a result of a public primary registered
equity offering by the Company of new shares issued by the Company in such
offering), whether as a result of the issuance of securities of the Company, any
merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution of the Company, any direct or
indirect transfer of securities by the Permitted Investors or otherwise (for
purposes of this clause (a), the
Permitted Investors will be deemed to beneficially own any voting Equity
Interests of a specified corporation held by a parent corporation so long as the
Permitted Investors beneficially own, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate a
majority of the total voting power of the voting Equity Interests of such parent
corporation);
(b) during
any period of two (2) consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of
such period constituted the Board of Directors of the Company (together with any
new directors whose election or appointment by such Board or whose nomination
for election by the stockholders of the Company was approved by a vote of not
less than a majority of the directors then still in office who were either
directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors of the Company then in office;
or
(c) the
sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition, directly or
indirectly, of all or substantially all the assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (other than Soterra LLC), considered as a whole (other than a
disposition of such assets as an entirety or virtually as an entirety to a
wholly owned Subsidiary or one or more Permitted Investors or a Person of which
one or more of the Permitted Investors own more than 50% of the voting power)
shall have occurred, or the Company merges, consolidates or amalgamates with or
into any other Person (other than one or more Permitted Investors; provided that the
Company is the surviving entity) or any other Person (other than one or more
Permitted Investors or a Person of which one or more of the Permitted Investors
own more than 50% of the voting power; and provided, further, that the
Company is the surviving entity) merges, consolidates or amalgamates with or
into the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which the
outstanding voting Equity Interests of the Company are reclassified into or
exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such
transaction where:
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(i) the
outstanding voting Equity Interests of the Company are reclassified into or
exchanged for other voting Equity Interests of the Company or for voting Equity
Interests of the surviving corporation, and
(ii) the
holders of the voting Equity Interests of the Company immediately prior to such
transaction own, directly or indirectly, not less than a majority of the voting
Equity Interests of the Company or the surviving corporation immediately after
such transaction and in substantially the same proportion as before the
transaction.
“Closing Date” means
the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are
satisfied or waived in accordance with Section
10.01.
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Collateral” means all
of the “Collateral” referred
to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is or is
intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in
favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“Collateral Documents”
means, collectively, the U.S. Security Agreement and any supplements thereto,
the Foreign Security Agreement and any supplements thereto, and any other
similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.11, and
each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports
to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Parties.
“Commitment” means a
Term Commitment, a U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment or a Global Revolving
Credit Commitment, as the context may require.
“Committed Loan
Notice” means a notice of a (a) Term Borrowing, (b) U.S. Revolving Credit
Borrowing, (c) Global Revolving Credit Borrowing, (d) conversion of Loans from
one Type to the other, or (e) continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to
Section
2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit
A.
“Common Stock” means
the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock of the Company, in each case
without par value.
“Company” has the
meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Company Guaranty”
means the Company Guaranty, made by the Company in favor of the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit
F-1.
“Company Owned Life Insurance
Program” means a life insurance program in which the Company is a
participant, pursuant to which the Company is the owner of whole life policies
insuring the lives of certain of its employees.
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“Compliance
Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section
6.02(a).
“Consolidated Debt”
means, at any time, (a) all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and (b) the aggregate
outstanding amount, without duplication, of Attributable Debt of the Company and
its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis.
“Consolidated EBITDA”
means, for any period, on a consolidated basis for the Company and its
Subsidiaries, the sum of the amounts for such period, without duplication,
of:
(a)
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Net Income;
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plus
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(b)
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Consolidated
Interest Expense, to the extent deducted in computing Consolidated Net
Income;
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plus
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(c)
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charges
against income for foreign, Federal, state and local taxes and capital
taxes in each case based on income, to the extent deducted in computing
Consolidated Net Income;
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plus
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(d)
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depreciation
and depletion expense, to the extent deducted in computing Consolidated
Net Income;
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plus
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(e)
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amortization
expense, including, without limitation, amortization of good will and
other intangible assets, fees, costs and expenses in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance of any of the Loan Documents, and
other fees, costs and expenses in connection with Permitted Acquisitions,
in each case, to the extent deducted in computing Consolidated Net
Income;
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minus
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the
gain (or plus the loss)
resulting from the sale of any assets other than in the ordinary course of
business to the extent added (deducted) in computing Consolidated Net
Income;
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minus
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any
amount of gains from the sale of Timber Lands in excess of the Dollar
Equivalent of $40,000,000 for any such period;
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minus
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extraordinary
or non-cash nonrecurring gains (or plus extraordinary or non-cash
nonrecurring losses) to the extent added (deducted) in computing
Consolidated Net Income;
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minus
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any
gain resulting from any write-up of assets (other than with respect to any
Company Owned Life Insurance Program) to the extent added (deducted) in
computing Consolidated Net Income;
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plus
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any
non-cash charge resulting from any write-down of assets to the extent
deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income and any deferred financing
costs for such period written off, or premiums paid, in connection with
the early extinguishment of
Indebtedness;
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any
non-cash restructuring charge to the extent deducted in computing
Consolidated Net Income; and
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plus
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cash
restructuring charges incurred during Fiscal Year 2008 or Fiscal Year
2009, not to exceed the amounts for such periods as set forth on Schedule
1.01(a);
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in each
case calculated for the applicable period in conformity with GAAP; provided that Consolidated
EBITDA shall be decreased by the amount of any cash expenditures in such period
related to non-cash charges added back to Consolidated EBITDA during any prior
periods.
“Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio” means, at any date of determination, the ratio
of (a) (i) Consolidated EBITDA, less (ii) the
aggregate amount of all cash Capital Expenditures, excluding any Capital
Expenditures financed entirely (A) by capital contributions to the Company by
its shareholders or from any proceeds from the issuance or sale of Equity
Interests of the Company or any Subsidiaries, (B) through the incurrence of
Indebtedness by the Company or any Subsidiary (other than the Loans) or (C) from
the proceeds of any Asset Sale or Recovery Event less (iii) the
aggregate amount of Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes actually paid
in cash (other than taxes related to Asset Sales not in the ordinary course of
business), to (b) the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense to the
extent paid or payable in cash during such period and (ii) the aggregate
principal amount of all regularly scheduled principal payments or redemptions or
similar acquisitions for value of outstanding debt for borrowed money, but
excluding any such payments to the extent refinanced through the incurrence of
additional Indebtedness otherwise expressly permitted under Section 7.02, in each
case, of or by the Company and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed
Test Period.
“Consolidated Interest
Expense” means, for any period, without duplication, the sum of the total
interest expense (including that attributable to Capitalized Leases in
accordance with GAAP) of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and
other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’
acceptance financing, but excluding any amortization of deferred financing
costs, all as determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, plus the interest
component of any lease payment under Attributable Debt transactions paid by the
Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, plus expenses and any
discount and/or interest component in respect of a sale of Receivables by the
Company and its Subsidiaries permitted under this Agreement regardless of
whether such expenses, discount or interest would constitute interest under
GAAP, plus
amortization in connection with Swap Contracts, plus interest expense
on deferred compensation or customer deposits.
“Consolidated Net
Income” and “Consolidated Net
Loss” mean, respectively, with respect to any period, the aggregate of
the net income (loss) of the Person in question for such period, determined in
accordance with GAAP on a consolidated basis; provided that there
shall be excluded (a) the income or loss of any unconsolidated Subsidiary and
any Person in which any other Person (other than the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any director holding qualifying shares in compliance with
applicable law or any other third party holding a de minimis number of shares
in order to comply with other similar requirements) has a joint interest, except
to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid to
the Company or any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries by such Person during such
period; (b) unrealized gains or losses in respect of Swap Contracts; and (c) the
cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles.
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“Consolidated Tangible
Assets” means, for any Person, the total assets of such Person and its
Subsidiaries, as determined from a consolidated balance sheet of such Person and
its consolidated Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP, but excluding
therefrom all items that are treated as goodwill and other intangible assets
under GAAP.
“Contaminant” means
any material with respect to which any Environmental Law imposes a duty,
obligation or standard of conduct, including without limitation any pollutant,
contaminant (as those terms are defined in 42 U.S.C. § 9601(33)), toxic
pollutant (as that term is defined in 33 U.S.C. § 1362(13)), hazardous substance
(as that term is defined in 42 U.S.C. §9601(14)), hazardous chemical (as that
term is defined by 29 CFR § 1910.1200(c)), hazardous waste (as that term is
defined in 42 U.S.C. § 6903(5)), or any state, local or other equivalent of such
laws and regulations, including, without limitation, radioactive material,
special waste, polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos, petroleum, including crude
oil or any petroleum-derived substance, (or any fraction thereof), waste, or
breakdown or decomposition product thereof, mold, bacteria or any constituent of
any such substance or waste, including but not limited to polychlorinated
biphenyls and asbestos.
“Contractual
Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any Securities
issued by such Person or of any indenture or credit agreement or any agreement,
instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it
or any of its property is bound or to which it may be subject.
“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. A Person shall be
deemed to Control a corporation if such Person possesses, directly or
indirectly, the power to vote ten percent (10%) or more of the Equity Interests
having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such
corporation. “Controlling” and
“Controlled”
have meanings correlative thereto.
“Controlled Group”
means the group consisting of (a) any corporation which is a member of the same
controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the
Code) as the Company; (b) a partnership or other trade or business (whether or
not incorporated) which is under common control (within the meaning of Section
414(c) of the Code) with the Company; (c) a member of the same affiliated
service group (within the meaning of Section 414(m) of the Code) as the Company,
any corporation described in clause (a) above or
any partnership or trade or business described in clause (b) above; or
(d) any other Person which is required to be aggregated with the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries pursuant to regulations promulgated under Section 414(o) of
the Code.
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“Controlled
Subsidiary” of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person (a) ninety
percent (90%) or more of the Equity Interests of which (other than directors’
qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by one or more
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person and (b) of which such Person possesses,
directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
agreement or otherwise.
“Credit Extension”
means each of (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
“Customary Permitted
Liens” means, for any Person:
(a) Liens
for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges not yet delinquent,
or can thereafter be paid without penalty or which are being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued; provided that
adequate provision for the payment of all such taxes, assessments or
governmental charges known to such Person has been made on the books of such
Person to the extent required by GAAP;
(b) mechanics’,
suppliers’, processor’s, materialmen’s, carriers’, warehousemen’s, workmen’s,
landlord’s, repairmen’s and similar Liens arising by operation of law and
arising or created in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations
of such Person that are not overdue for a period of more than sixty (60) days or
are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued
which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the
property or asset subject to such Lien;
(c) Liens
arising in connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, old
age pensions and social security benefits or other similar benefits which are
not delinquent or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
diligently pursued; provided that
adequate provision for the payment of such Liens known to such Person has been
made on the books of such Person to the extent required by GAAP;
(d) (i)
Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure the
performance of bids, tenders, statutory obligations, fee and expense
arrangements with trustees and fiscal agents (exclusive of obligations incurred
in connection with the borrowing of money or the payment of the deferred
purchase price of property) and customary deposits granted in the ordinary
course of business under Operating Leases, (ii) Liens securing surety,
indemnity, performance, appeal, customs and release bonds and (iii) other
non-delinquent obligations of a like nature; provided that all
such Liens individually or in the aggregate do not impair in any material
respect the use of the property of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the
operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole;
(e) Permitted
Real Property Encumbrances;
(f) consignment
arrangements (whether as consignor or as consignee) or similar arrangements for
the sale or purchase of goods in the ordinary course of business;
(g) attachment,
judgment, writs or warrants of attachment or other similar Liens arising in
connection with court or arbitration proceedings; provided that the
enforcement of such Liens are stayed, payment is covered in full by insurance or
which do not constitute an Event of Default under Section
8.01(i);
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(h) licenses
of patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights granted in the
ordinary course of business;
(i) Liens
in respect of an agreement to dispose of any asset, to the extent such disposal
is permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.10;
(j) Liens
arising due to any cash pooling, netting or composite accounting arrangements
between any one or more of the Borrowers and any of their Subsidiaries or
between any one or more of such entities and one or more banks or other
financial institutions where any such entity maintains deposits.
(k) leases
or subleases granted to others not interfering in any material respect with the
business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any interest or title of
a lessor, licensor or subleasor under any lease or license permitted by this
Agreement or the Collateral Documents;
(l) contract
easements and other contract rights on Timber Assets in connection with an
arrangement under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries permits, in the
ordinary course of business, a Person to cut or pay for timber, however
determined;
(m) Liens
to secure Indebtedness of joint ventures in which the Company or a Subsidiary
has an interest, to the extent that such Liens are on property or assets of, or
Equity Interests in, such joint ventures;
(n) Liens
resulting from the deposit of funds or evidences of Indebtedness in trust for
the purpose of defeasing funded Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, and legal or equitable encumbrances deemed to exist by reason of
negative pledges as they relate to such funds or evidences of Indebtedness
entered into in connection with such defeasances; and
(o) customary
rights of set off, banker’s lien, revocation, refund or chargeback or similar
rights under deposit disbursement, concentration account agreements or under the
UCC (or comparable foreign law) or arising by operation of law of banks or other
financial institutions where any Borrower maintains deposit, disbursement or
concentration accounts in the ordinary course of business that is not prohibited
by this Agreement.
“Debtor Relief Laws”
means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation,
conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors,
moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar
debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from
time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
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“Default” means any
event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving
of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of
Default.
“Default Rate” means
(a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an
interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the
Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans under the Term Facility
plus (iii) 2%
per annum; provided that with
respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate
equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate and any Mandatory
Cost) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum and
(b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the
Applicable Rate plus 2% per
annum.
“Defaulting Lender”
means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the Term Loans,
Revolving Credit Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or participations in
Swing Line Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within one Business Day
of the date required to be funded by it hereunder unless such failure has been
cured, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any
other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one
Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute or
unless such failure has been cured, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become
the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
“Deposit Account”
means a demand, time, savings, passbook or like account with a bank, savings and
loan association, credit union or like organization, other than an account
evidenced by a negotiable certificate of deposit.
“Designated Borrower”
has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Designated Borrower
Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“Designated Borrower Request
and Assumption Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“Designated Borrower
Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Revolving Credit
Facility and $200,000,000. The Designated Borrower Sublimit is part
of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Designated
Obligations” means all obligations of the Borrowers with respect to (a)
principal of and interest on the Loans and (b) accrued and unpaid fees under the
Loan Documents.
“Designated
Participant” means any of (a) Dubai International Capital LLC and its
Affiliates, including without limitation Mauser Group; (b) Xxxxxx Containers and
its Affiliates; and (c) any other Person designated by the Company from time to
time, while no Event of Default exists, as a competitor of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, so long as the Company provides written certification to that
effect signed by a Responsible Officer and provides evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such Person is a
competitor.
“Dividend” has the
meaning specified in Section
7.05.
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“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money
of the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent”
means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars,
such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any
Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by
the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on
the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation
Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative Currency.
“Dollar Swing Line
Sublimit” means $50,000,000. As of the Closing Date, Bank of
America has agreed to make up to $30,000,000 in Swing Line Loans under the
Dollar Swing Line Sublimit, and U.S. Bank has agreed to make up to $20,000,000
in Swing Line Loans under the Dollar Swing Line Sublimit, with each such agreed
amount subject to change upon the mutual agreement of the Company, the
Administrative Agent and the Swing Line Lenders. The Dollar Swing
Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Swing Line
Sublimit.
“Domestic Receivables
Securitization” means any securitization transaction or series of
securitization transactions that may be entered into by the Company or any of
its Domestic Subsidiaries whereby the Company or any of its Domestic
Subsidiaries sells, conveys or otherwise transfers any Receivables Facility
Assets of the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries to a Receivables Subsidiary
or to any unaffiliated Person, on terms customary for securitizations of
Receivables Facility Assets in the United States; provided that any
such transaction entered into by the Company and/or any of its Domestic
Subsidiaries after the Closing Date shall be consummated on terms reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and pursuant to documentation in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as evidenced
by its written approval thereof.
“Domestic Subsidiary”
means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political
subdivision of the United States.
“Dual Investment Grade
Status” exists at any time when the Company’s corporate credit rating is
BBB- or better from S&P and its issuer credit rating is Baa3 or better from
Xxxxx’x; provided that if
either S&P or Xxxxx’x shall change its system of classifications after the
date of this Agreement, Dual Investment Grade Status shall exist at any time
when the Company’s corporate or issuer credit rating is at or above the new
rating which most closely corresponds to the above specified levels under the
previous rating system.
“Earnout Obligations”
means those payment obligations of the Company and its Subsidiaries to former
owners of businesses which were acquired by the Company or one of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to an acquisition which are in the nature of deferred
purchase price to the extent such obligations are required to be set forth with
respect to such payment obligations on a balance sheet prepared in accordance
with GAAP applied in a manner consistent with past practices.
“Eligible Assignee”
means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Sections
10.06(b)(iii), (v), (vi) and (vi) (subject to such
consents, if any, as may be required under Section
10.06(b)(iii)).
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“EMU” means the
economic and monetary union in accordance with the Treaty of Rome 1957, as
amended by the Single Xxxxxxxx Xxx 0000, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 and the
Amsterdam Treaty of 1998.
“EMU Legislation”
means the legislative measures of the EMU for the introduction of, changeover to
or operation of a single or unified European currency.
“Environmental Claim”
means any notice of violation, claim, suit, demand, abatement order, or other
lawful order by any Governmental Authority or any Person for any damage,
personal injury (including sickness, disease or death), property damage,
contribution, cost recovery, or any other common law claims, indemnity, indirect
or consequential damages, damage to the environment, nuisance, cost recovery, or
any other common law claims, pollution, contamination or other adverse effects
on the environment, human health, or natural resources, or for fines, penalties,
restrictions or injunctive relief, resulting from or based upon (a) the
occurrence or existence of a Release or substantial threat of a material Release
(whether sudden or non-sudden or accidental or non-accidental) of, or exposure
to, any Contaminant in, into or onto the environment at, in, by, from or related
to any Premises or (b) the violation, or alleged violation, of any Environmental
Laws relating to environmental matters connected with any Borrower’s operations
or any Premises.
“Environmental Laws”
means any and all applicable foreign, Federal, state or local laws, statutes,
ordinances, codes, rules, regulations, orders, decrees, judgments, directives,
or Environmental Permits relating to the protection of health, safety or the
environment, including, but not limited to, the following statutes as now
written and hereafter amended: the Water Pollution Control Act, as codified in
33 U.S.C. § 1251 et
seq., the Clean Air Act, as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., the Toxic
Substances Control Act, as codified in 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as
codified in 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., the
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, as codified in 42
U.S.C. § 11001 et
seq., and the Safe Drinking Water Act, as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 300f et
seq., and any related regulations, as well as all state, local or other
equivalents.
“Environmental Permit”
means any and all permits, licenses, certificates, authorizations or approvals
of any Governmental Authority required by Environmental Laws and necessary or
reasonably required for the current and anticipated future operation of the
business of the Company or any Subsidiary.
“Equity Interests”
means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants,
options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of
shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such
Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of
capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or
warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of
such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit
interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests
therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants,
options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of
determination.
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“ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“ERISA Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) which, together with such Person, is under common control as
described in Section 414(c) of the Code or is a member of a “controlled group”,
as defined in Section 414(b) of the Code which includes such Person. Unless
otherwise qualified, all references to an “ERISA Affiliate” in this Agreement
shall refer to an ERISA Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary.
“Euro” and “EUR” mean the lawful
currency of the Participating Member States introduced in accordance with the
EMU Legislation.
“Eurodollar Rate”
means for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, a rate per
annum determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the following
formula:
Eurodollar Rate =
|
Eurodollar Base Rate
|
1.00 – Eurodollar Reserve Percentage
|
Where,
“Eurodollar Base
Rate” means
(a) For
any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the sum of (i) the
rate per annum equal to (A) the British Bankers’ Association LIBOR Rate as
published by Reuters (or other commercially available source providing
quotations of BBA LIBOR as designated by the Administrative Agent from time to
time) (“BBA
LIBOR”), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days
prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in the relevant
currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term
equivalent to such Interest Period or (B) if such published rate is not
available at such time for any reason, the rate determined by the Administrative
Agent to be the rate at which deposits in the relevant currency for delivery on
the first day of such Interest Period in Same Day Funds in the approximate
amount of the Eurodollar Rate Loan being made, continued or converted by Bank of
America and with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by
Bank of America’s London Branch to major banks in the London or other offshore
interbank market for such currency at their request at approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest
Period plus
(ii) the Market Disruption Spread, if any, as of the time of
determination.
(b) For
any interest rate calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan, the rate per
annum equal to (i) BBA LIBOR, at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time on the
date of determination (provided that if such
day is not a London Business Day, the next preceding London Business Day) for
Dollar deposits being delivered in the London interbank market for a term of one
month commencing that day or (ii) if such published rate is not available at
such time for any reason, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be
the rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the date of determination
in same day funds in the approximate amount of the Base Rate Loan being made,
continued or converted by Bank of America and with a term equal to one month
would be offered by Bank of America’s London Branch to major banks in the London
interbank Eurodollar market at their request at the date and time of
determination.
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“Eurodollar Reserve
Percentage” means, for any day during any Interest Period, the reserve
percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out to five decimal places) in
effect on such day, whether or not applicable to any Lender, under regulations
issued from time to time by the FRB for determining the maximum reserve
requirement (including any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve
requirement) with respect to Eurodollar funding (currently referred to as
“Eurodollar liabilities”). The Eurodollar Rate for each outstanding
Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be adjusted automatically as of the effective date of
any change in the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.
“Eurodollar Rate Loan”
means a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest at a rate based
on the Eurodollar Rate in accordance with clause (a) of the
definition of “Eurodollar Base Rate”. Eurodollar Rate Loans may be
denominated in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency. All Loans
denominated in an Alternative Currency must be Eurodollar Rate
Loans.
“Eurodollar Unavailability
Period” means any period of time during which a notice delivered to the
Company in accordance with Section 3.03(a) shall
remain in force and effect.
“Event of Default” has
the meaning specified in Section
8.01.
“Exchange Act” means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and as codified in 15 U.S.C. 78a
et m., and as hereafter amended.
“Excluded Taxes”
means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or
any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation
of any Borrower hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by the recipient’s
overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in
lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
thereof) under the Laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its
principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its
applicable Lending Office is located or as a result of a present or former
connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction of the Governmental
Authority imposing such tax (other than any such connection arising solely from
such recipient’s having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or
received payment under or enforcement of any Loan Document), (b) any branch
profits taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by any
other jurisdiction in which such Borrower is located, (c) any backup withholding
tax that is required by the Code to be withheld from amounts payable to a Lender
that has failed to comply with clause (A) of Section 3.01(e)(ii),
and (d) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a
request by the Company under Section 10.13), any
United States or The Netherlands withholding tax that (i) is required to be
imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender pursuant to the Laws in force
at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new
Lending Office) or (ii) is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure or
inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply with clause (B) of Section 3.01(e)(ii),
except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was
entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to
receive additional amounts from such Borrower with respect to such withholding
tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ii)
or (iii).
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“Existing Credit
Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2005
among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company, Deutsche Bank AG, New
York Branch, as agent, and a syndicate of lenders, as amended by (a) a First
Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2006, (b) a Second
Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2006, (c) a Third
Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 19, 2007, and (d) a Fourth
Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2008, and as further
amended, supplemented or modified prior to the date hereof.
“Existing Guaranties”
means, collectively, guaranties with respect to the Indebtedness set forth on
Schedule 7.02
that is designated as being subject to a guaranty from a Loan Party to a Person
that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the Closing
Date.
“Existing Guaranty
Bank” means any Person that has received an Existing
Guaranty.
“Existing Issuers”
means, collectively, the issuers of the Existing Letters of Credit.
“Existing Letters of
Credit” means each of the letters of credit listed on Schedule
2.03.
“Existing Swing Line
Loans” means the swing line loans outstanding as of the Closing Date made
by U.S. Bank to the Borrowers pursuant to the Existing Credit
Agreement.
“Facility” means the
Term Facility, the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility or the Global Revolving Credit
Facility, as the context may require.
“Federal Funds Rate”
means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the
rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such
day; provided
that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day
shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so
published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so
published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such
day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple
of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on such day on such transactions as
determined by the Administrative Agent.
“Fee Letters” means,
collectively, (a) the letter agreement, dated January 6, 2009, among the
Company, the Administrative Agent and BAS; and (b) the letter agreement, dated
January 15, 2009, among the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and
JPMSI.
“Fiscal Quarter” has
the meaning specified in Section
6.12.
“Fiscal Year” has the
meaning specified in Section
6.12.
“Foreign Borrower”
means any Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary.
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“Foreign Lender”
means, with respect to any Borrower, any Lender that is organized under the Laws
of a jurisdiction other than that in which such Borrower is resident for tax
purposes (including such a Lender when acting in the capacity of the L/C
Issuer). For purposes of this definition, the United States, each
State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a
single jurisdiction.
“Foreign Pension Plan”
means any plan, fund (including, without limitation, any superannuation fund) or
other similar program established or maintained outside of the United States of
America by Company or one or more of its Subsidiaries primarily for the benefit
of employees of the Company or such Subsidiaries residing outside the United
States of America, which plan, fund, or similar program provides or results in,
retirement income, a deferral of income in contemplation of retirement or
payments to be made upon termination of employment, and which is not subject to
ERISA or the Code.
“Foreign Receivables
Securitization” means any securitization transaction or series of
securitization transactions that may be entered into by any Foreign Subsidiary
of the Company whereby such Foreign Subsidiary of the Company sells, conveys or
otherwise transfers any Receivables Facility Assets of such Foreign Subsidiary
to a Receivables Subsidiary or to any unaffiliated Person, on terms customary
for securitizations of Receivables Facility Assets in the jurisdiction of
organization of such Foreign Subsidiary; provided that any
such transaction entered into by Foreign Subsidiaries after the Closing Date
shall be consummated on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent,
and pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent, as evidenced by its written approval
thereof.
“Foreign Security
Agreement” means a Foreign Security Agreement among the Foreign
Subsidiaries party thereto and the Administrative Agent, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, pursuant to which Equity
Interests only are pledged.
“Foreign Subsidiary”
means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other
than the United States, a State thereof or the District of
Columbia.
“Foreign Subsidiary
Guarantors” means, collectively, Greif International Holding, any other
Designated Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary, and any other Foreign
Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect parent of any Designated Borrower that
is a Foreign Subsidiary, in each case subject to Section
6.11.
“Foreign Subsidiary
Guaranty” means a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty made by the Foreign
Subsidiary Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.
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“Foreign Tax
Restructuring” means a series of transactions by which the Company’s
indirect ownership of its current first-tier and second-tier Foreign
Subsidiaries is restructured. It is currently anticipated that the
following series of transactions will take place, with such changes that are not
material or that are not objected to by the Administrative Agent: U.S.
Holdco will form a new Delaware limited liability company (“New LLC”) and will
own 100% of the Equity Interests therein. U.S. Holdco, as the 99% limited
partner, and the New LLC, as the 1% general partner, will form a new limited
partnership under the laws of The Netherlands (“New CV”), which will
file a Form 8832 to elect corporate status (from inception) for U.S. tax
purposes. The New CV will, in turn, form a new Netherlands BV (“New
BV”). GUSH will contribute 100% of the Equity Interests in
Greif Spain Holdings, SL (“GSH”) into the New
CV. The New CV will sell GSH to the New BV in exchange for consideration,
and GSH will sell the Equity Interests in Greif International Holding to the New
BV for consideration or otherwise distribute the Equity Interests in Greif
International Holding to New BV. It is currently anticipated that GSH
will be liquidated in connection with the Foreign Tax
Restructuring.
“FRB” means the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fund” means any
Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar
extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.
“GAAP” means generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions
and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved
by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that
are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination,
consistently applied.
“Global Revolving Credit
Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Global Revolving
Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having
the same Interest Period made by each of the Global Revolving Credit Lenders
pursuant to Section
2.01(b)(ii).
“Global Revolving Credit
Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Global
Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b)(ii),
in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the
amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01
under the caption “Global Revolving Credit Commitment” or opposite such caption
in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in
accordance with this Agreement.
“Global Revolving Credit
Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Global
Revolving Credit Lenders’ Global Revolving Credit Commitments at such
time. As of the Closing Date, the Global Revolving Credit Facility is
$250,000,000.
“Global Revolving Credit
Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Global Revolving Credit
Commitment at such time.
“Global Revolving Credit
Loan” has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(b)(ii).
“Governmental
Authority” means the government of the United States or any other nation,
or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency,
authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any
supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central
Bank).
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“Greif International
Holding” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.
“GSH” has the meaning
specified in the definition of “Foreign Tax Restructuring”.
“Guarantee
Obligations” means, as to any Person, without duplication, any direct or
indirect contractual obligation of such Person guaranteeing or intended to
guarantee any Indebtedness or Operating Lease, dividend or other obligation
(“primary
obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in
any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any
obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (a) to purchase any such
primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security
therefor; (b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase or payment of any
such primary obligation, or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital
of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the
primary obligor; (c) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for
the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability
of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation; or (d)
otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of such primary obligation
against loss in respect thereof; provided that the
term Guarantee Obligations shall not include any endorsements of instruments for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount
of any Guarantee Obligation at any time shall be deemed to be an amount equal to
the lesser at such time of (x) the stated or determinable amount of the primary
obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made or (y) the
maximum amount for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the
instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation; or, if not stated or
determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability (assuming full
performance) in respect thereof.
“Guaranties” means,
collectively, the Company Guaranty, the U.S. Subsidiary Guaranty and the Foreign
Subsidiary Guaranty (each individually, a “Guaranty”).
“Guarantors” means,
collectively, the Company, the Domestic Subsidiary Guarantors, the Foreign
Subsidiary Guarantors and each other Subsidiary of the Company that shall be
required to execute and deliver a guaranty or guaranty supplement pursuant to
Section 6.11.
“Hazardous Materials”
means (a) any petrochemical or petroleum products, radioactive materials,
asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam
insulation, transformers or other equipment that contain dielectric fluid
containing levels of polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gas; (b) any chemicals,
materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous
substances,” “hazardous wastes,” “hazardous materials,” “restricted hazardous
materials,” “extremely hazardous wastes,” “restrictive hazardous wastes,” “toxic
substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants” or “pollutants,” or words of
similar meaning and regulatory effect; or (c) any other chemical, material or
substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any
Governmental Authority.
“Hedge Bank” means any
Person that (a) has entered into a Swap Contract with any Loan Party prior to
the Closing Date, if (i) such Person is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as
of the Closing Date and (ii) the obligations under such Swap Contract were
secured pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement; and (b) enters into a Swap
Contract with any Loan Party on or after the Closing Date, if such Person is a
Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time it enters into such Swap
Contract.
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“Impacted Lender”
means (a) a Defaulting Lender or (b) a Lender as to which (i) an L/C Issuer or a
Swing Line Lender has a good faith belief that such Lender (A) has defaulted in
fulfilling its funding obligations under one or more other syndicated credit
facilities and (B) is not disputing in good faith that it is in default or (ii)
an entity that controls such Lender has been deemed insolvent or become the
subject to a bankruptcy or other similar proceeding.
“Indebtedness” means,
as applied to any Person (without duplication):
(a) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;
(b) the
deferred and unpaid balance of the purchase price of assets or services (other
than trade payables and other accrued liabilities incurred in the ordinary
course of business);
(c) all
Capitalized Lease Obligations;
(d) all
indebtedness secured by any Lien on any property owned by such Person, whether
or not such indebtedness has been assumed by such Person or is nonrecourse to
such Person;
(e) notes
payable and drafts accepted representing extensions of credit whether or not
representing obligations for borrowed money (other than such notes or drafts for
the deferred purchase price of assets or services which does not constitute
Indebtedness pursuant to clause (b)
above);
(f) indebtedness
or obligations of such Person, in each case, evidenced by bonds, notes or
similar written instruments;
(g) the
face amount of all letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances issued for the
account of such Person, and without duplication, all drafts drawn thereunder
other than, in each case, commercial or standby letters of credit or the
functional equivalent thereof issued in connection with performance, bid or
advance payment obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business,
including, without limitation, performance requirements under workers
compensation or similar laws;
(h) the
net obligations of such Person under Swap Contracts (valued as set forth in the
last paragraph of this definition);
(i) Earnout
Obligations;
(j) Attributable
Debt of such Person; and
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(k) all
Guarantee Obligations of such Person with respect to outstanding primary
obligations that constitute Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through
(j) above of
Persons other than such Person.
For all
purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness
of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a
corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general
partner or a joint venturer, unless in any case such Indebtedness is expressly
made non-recourse to such Person, whether in such Person’s Organizational
Documents, in the documents relating to such Indebtedness, by operation of law
or otherwise. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap
Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as
of such date.
“Indemnified
Taxes” means
Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnitees” has the
meaning specified in Section
10.04(b).
“Information” has the
meaning specified in Section
10.07.
“ING” means ING Bank
N.V.
“Insurance Subsidiary”
means Greif Insurance Company Limited, a Bermuda company and Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company.
“Insurance Subsidiary
Holdco” means Greif Nevada Holdings, Inc., a Nevada
corporation.
“Intercompany
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of Company or any of its Subsidiaries
which is owing to Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Interest Payment
Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day
of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the
Facility under which such Loan was made; provided that if any
Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective
dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period
shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan or Swing
Line Loan, the last Business Day of each January, April, July and October and
the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made (with Swing
Line Loans being deemed made under the Revolving Credit Facility for purposes of
this definition).
“Interest Period”
means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such
Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar
Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, as
selected by the Company in its Committed Loan Notice or such other period that
is twelve months or less requested by the Company and consented to by all the
Appropriate Lenders; provided
that:
(a) any
Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day
shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day
falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on
the next preceding Business Day;
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(b) any
Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month
at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the
calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and
(c) no
Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under
which such Loan was made.
“Inventory” means,
inclusively, all inventory as defined in the UCC from time to time and all
goods, merchandise and other personal property wherever located, now owned or
hereafter acquired (including Timber (but not Timber Lands) by Company or any of
its Subsidiaries of every kind or description which are held for sale or lease
or are furnished or to be furnished under a contract of service or are raw
materials, work-in-process or materials used or consumed or to be used or
consumed in Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business.
“Investment” means, as
applied to any Person, (a) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition
by that Person of, or a beneficial interest in, Securities of any other Person,
or a capital contribution by that Person to any other Person (b) any direct or
indirect loan or advance to any other Person (other than prepaid expenses or
Receivable created or acquired in the ordinary course of business), including
all Indebtedness to such Person arising from a sale of property by such person
other than in the ordinary course of its business or (c) any purchase by that
Person of a futures contract or such person otherwise becoming liable for the
purchase or sale of currency or other commodity at a future date in the nature
of a futures contract. The amount of any Investment by any Person on any date of
determination shall be the sum of the value of the gross assets transferred to
or acquired by such Person (including the amount of any liability assumed in
connection with such transfer or acquisition by such Person to the extent such
liability would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with
GAAP) plus the
cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or
decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such
Investment, minus the amount of
all cash returns of principal or capital thereon, cash dividends thereon and
other cash returns on investment thereon or liabilities expressly assumed by
another Person (other than the Company or another Subsidiary of the Company) in
connection with the sale of such Investment. Whenever the term
“outstanding” is used in this Agreement with reference to an Investment, it
shall take into account the matters referred to in the preceding
sentence.
“IP Rights” has the
meaning specified in Section
5.21.
“IRS” means the United
States Internal Revenue Service.
“ISP” means, with
respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998”
published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or
such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of
issuance).
“Issuer Documents”
means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application,
and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer
and the Company (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating
to such Letter of Credit.
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“JPMSI” means X. X.
Xxxxxx Securities Inc.
“Laws” means,
collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes,
treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative
or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or
administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the
enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable
administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and
permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case
whether or not having the force of law.
“L/C Advance” means,
with respect to each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender, such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with
its Applicable Percentage. All L/C Advances shall be denominated in
Dollars.
“L/C Borrowing” means
an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which
has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a U.S. Revolving
Credit Borrowing. All L/C Borrowings shall be denominated in
Dollars.
“L/C Credit Extension”
means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension
of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.
“L/C Issuer” means
Bank of America in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any
successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and, solely with respect to the
Existing Letters of Credit, the Existing Issuers; provided that
additional Lenders may be designated as an “L/C Issuer” and issue Letters of
Credit hereunder upon the approval of each of (a) the Administrative Agent and
(b) the Company.
“L/C Obligations”
means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be
drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of
all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings. For purposes
of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the
amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section
1.06. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of
determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may
still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP,
such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so
remaining available to be drawn.
“Lender” has the
meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and, as the context
requires, includes each Term Lender, each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender, each
Global Revolving Credit Lender and each Swing Line Lender.
“Lending Office”
means, as to any Lender, the office or offices (including any branch) of such
Lender (or any Affiliate of such Lender) described as such in such Lender’s
Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may
from time to time notify the Company and the Administrative Agent.
“Letter of Credit”
means any letter of credit issued hereunder and shall include the Existing
Letters of Credit. A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of
credit or a standby letter of credit. Letters of Credit may be issued
in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.
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“Letter of Credit
Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or
amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C
Issuer.
“Letter of Credit Expiration
Date” means the day that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date then in
effect for the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day,
the next preceding Business Day).
“Letter of Credit Fee”
has the meaning specified in Section
2.03(i).
“Letter of Credit
Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $40,000,000 and (b)
the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is
part of, and not in addition to, the U.S. Revolving Credit
Facility.
“Leverage Ratio”
means, for any period, the ratio of Consolidated Debt as of the last day of such
period to Consolidated EBITDA for such period.
“Lien” means (a) any
judgment lien or execution, attachment, levy, distraint or similar legal
process; and (b) any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment,
security interest, encumbrance, lien (statutory or otherwise), charge or deposit
arrangement (other than a deposit to a Deposit Account not intended as security)
of any kind or other arrangement of similar effect (including, without
limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in
the nature thereof, any agreement to give any of the foregoing, or any sale of
receivables with recourse against the seller or any Affiliate of the
seller).
“Liquidity Facility Loan
Agreement” means the Agreement, dated as of January 16, 2009, between the
Company and Bank of America.
“Loan” means an
extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under Article II in the
form of a Term Loan, a U.S. Revolving Credit Loan, a Global Revolving Credit
Loan or a Swing Line Loan.
“Loan Documents”
means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) the Guaranties,
(d) the Collateral Documents, (e) the Fee Letters and (f) each Issuer
Document.
“Loan Parties” means,
collectively, the Company, each Subsidiary Guarantor and each Designated
Borrower.
“Mandatory Cost”
means, with respect to any period, the percentage rate per annum determined in
accordance with Schedule 1.01(b).
“Market Disruption
Spread” means zero unless a notice delivered pursuant to Section 3.03(b) is in
effect, in which case such spread shall be a rate per annum equal to
1.00%.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse
effect upon, the operations, business, assets, properties, liabilities,
condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and
remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document, or
of the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan
Document to which it is a party; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the
legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of
any Loan Document to which it is a party.
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“Material Subsidiary”
means any Subsidiary of the Company (a) the Consolidated Tangible Assets of
which were more than 5% of the Company’s Consolidated Tangible Assets as of the
end of the most recently completed Fiscal Year of the Company for which audited
financial statements are available or (b) the consolidated revenues of which
were more than 5% of the Company’s consolidated total revenues for such
period.
“Maturity Date” means
(a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, February 19, 2012, and (b)
with respect to the Term Facility, February 19, 2012; provided that, in
each case, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the
next preceding Business Day.
“Moody’s” means
Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Multiemployer Plan”
means a plan that is a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute.
“Net Offering
Proceeds” means the proceeds received from (a) the issuance of any Equity
Interests (or capital contribution with respect to Equity Interests) or (b) the
incurrence of any Indebtedness, in each case net of the liabilities for
reasonably anticipated cash taxes in connection with such issuance or
incurrence, if any, any underwriting, brokerage and other customary selling
commissions incurred in connection with such issuance or incurrence, and
reasonable legal, advisory and other fees and expenses, including, without
limitation, title and recording tax expenses, if any, incurred in connection
with such issuance or incurrence.
“Net Sale Proceeds”
means, with respect to any Asset Disposition the aggregate cash payments
received by Company or any Subsidiary from such Asset Disposition (including,
without limitation, cash received by way of deferred payment pursuant to a note
receivable, conversion of non-cash consideration, cash payments in respect of
purchase price adjustments or otherwise, but only as and when such cash is
received) minus
the direct costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith (including in the
case of any Asset Disposition, the payment of the outstanding principal amount
of, premium, if any, and interest on any Indebtedness (other than hereunder)
required to be repaid as a result of such Asset Disposition); and any provision
for taxes in respect thereof made in accordance with GAAP. Any
proceeds received in a currency other than Dollars shall, for purposes of the
calculation of the amount of Net Sale Proceeds, be in an amount equal to the
Dollar Equivalent thereof as of the date of receipt thereof by the Company or
any Subsidiary of the Company.
“New BV” has the
meaning specified in the definition of “Foreign Tax Restructuring”.
“New CV” has the
meaning specified in the definition of “Foreign Tax Restructuring”.
“New LLC” has the
meaning specified in the definition of “Foreign Tax Restructuring”.
“Note” means a Term
Note or a Revolving Credit Note, as the context may require.
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“Obligations” means
all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of,
any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any
Loan, Letter of Credit, Secured Cash Management Agreement, Secured Hedge
Agreement or Existing Guaranty, in each case whether direct or indirect
(including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to
become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees
that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate
thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the
debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are
allowed claims in such proceeding.
“Operating Lease” of
any Person, means any lease (including, without limitation, leases which may be
terminated by the lessee at any time) of any property (whether real, personal or
mixed) by such Person, as lessee, which is not a Capitalized Lease.
“Organizational
Documents” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s articles or
certificate of incorporation, certificate of amalgamation, memorandum or
articles of association, bylaws, partnership agreement, limited liability
company agreement, joint venture agreement or other similar governing documents
and any document setting forth the designation, amount and/or relative rights,
limitations and preferences of any class or series of such Person’s Equity
Interests.
“Other Taxes” means
all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property
taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or
under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of,
or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“Outstanding Amount”
means (a) with respect to Term Loans, U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, Global
Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the Dollar Equivalent
amount of the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect
to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans, U.S. Revolving
Credit Loans, Global Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case
may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on
any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding amount of
such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit
Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount
of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any
reimbursements by the Company of Unreimbursed Amounts.
“Overnight Rate”
means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the
greater of (i) the Federal Funds Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by
the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, or the applicable Swing Line Lender,
as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternative
Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in the
applicable Alternative Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount
with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such
day by a branch or Affiliate of Bank of America in the applicable offshore
interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank
market.
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“Participant” has the
meaning specified in Section
10.06(d).
“Participating Member
State” means each state so described in any EMU Legislation.
“PBGC” means the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation created by Section 4002(a) of
ERISA.
“Permitted Accounts
Receivable Securitization” means (a) any Domestic Receivables
Securitization and (b) any Foreign Receivables Securitization, in each case,
together with any amendments, restatements or other modifications or
refinancings permitted by this Agreement.
“Permitted Acquired IRB
Debt” means Indebtedness consisting of industrial revenue bonds of a
Subsidiary of the Company issued and outstanding prior to the date on which such
Person becomes a Subsidiary or is merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or
into a Subsidiary.
“Permitted
Acquisition” means any Acquisition by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries if all of the following conditions are met on the date such
Acquisition is consummated:
(a) no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result
therefrom;
(b) such
acquisition has not been preceded by an unsolicited tender offer for such Person
by the Company or any of its Affiliates;
(c) all
transactions related thereto are consummated in compliance, in all material
respects, with applicable Law;
(d) in
the case of any acquisition of any Equity Interest in any Person, after giving
effect to such acquisition such Person becomes a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Company (or with respect to any such Person that does not become a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company, such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company, and,
to the extent required by Section 6.11, (i)
guarantees the Obligations hereunder and (ii) grants the security interest
contemplated by such Section
6.11);
(e) all
actions, if any, required to be taken under Section 6.11 with
respect to any acquired or newly formed Subsidiary and its property are taken as
and when required under Section 6.11;
and
(f) after
giving effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis for the period of four (4) Fiscal
Quarters ending with the Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have most
recently been delivered (or were required to be delivered) under Section 6.01, no
Default or Event of Default would exist hereunder and on or before the date of
such acquisition, the Company delivers to the Administrative Agent and Lenders a
certificate signed on behalf of Company by the Chief Financial Officer or
Treasurer of the Company attaching financial statements of the business or
Person to be acquired, including income statements or statements of cash flows
and, if available, balance sheet statements for at least the fiscal year or the
four fiscal quarters then most recently ended, together with pro forma financial
statements supporting the calculations required by this clause (f) certified
on behalf of Company by the Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer of the Company
to his or her knowledge.
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“Permitted Additional
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company; provided that (a) the
covenants, defaults and similar provisions applicable to such Indebtedness are
no more restrictive in any material respect than the provisions contained in
this Agreement and do not conflict in any material respect with this Agreement
and are, taken as a whole, otherwise on market terms and conditions; and (b)
after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness on a pro forma basis
for the period of four (4) Fiscal Quarters ending with the Fiscal Quarter for
which financial statements have most recently been delivered (or were required
to be delivered) pursuant to Section 6.01, no
Default or Event of Default would exist hereunder and any refinancings of such
Indebtedness that satisfies the foregoing.
“Permitted Covenant”
means (a) any periodic reporting covenant; (b) any covenant restricting payments
by the Company with respect to any securities of the Company which are junior to
the Permitted Preferred Stock; (c) any covenant the default of which can only
result in an increase in the amount of any redemption price, repayment amount,
dividend rate or interest rate; (d) any covenant providing board observance
rights with respect to the Company’s board of directors; and (e) any other
covenant that does not adversely affect the interests of the Lenders (as
reasonably determined by Administrative Agent).
“Permitted Debt
Documents” means, collectively, the Senior Note Documents; any documents
evidencing, guaranteeing or otherwise governing any Permitted Accounts
Receivable Securitization; and any other documents evidencing, guaranteeing or
otherwise governing Permitted Additional Indebtedness or Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness of any of the foregoing.
“Permitted Guarantee
Obligations” means (a) Guarantee Obligations of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of obligations of any Person under leases, supply contracts and
other contracts or warranties and indemnities, in each case, not constituting
Indebtedness of such Person, which have been or are undertaken or made in the
ordinary course of business by Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including,
without limitation, guarantees of leases and supply contracts entered into in
the ordinary course of business); (b) Guarantee Obligations arising under the
Loan Documents; (c) Guarantee Obligations arising under the Existing Guaranties;
(d) Guarantee Obligations of Greif International Holding or any other Dutch
entity that may become a party to this Agreement of any obligations of any of
its Affiliates for Taxes pursuant to Greif International Holding or such Dutch
entity being or having been part of a fiscal unity (fiscale eenheid) for
value-added tax, corporate tax or other purposes with such Affiliate; (e)
Guarantee Obligations of Greif International Holding or any other Dutch entity
that may become a party to this Agreement by virtue of declarations made under
Section 403 of Book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code (Burgerlyk Wetboek); (f)
Guarantee Obligations of any Loan Party with respect to Indebtedness permitted
under Section
7.02 (other than clauses (b), (f), (g) and (j) of such Section)
of any other Loan Party; provided that, to the
extent that such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Obligations, such Guarantee
Obligations shall be subordinated to the Obligations on terms reasonably
acceptable to Administrative Agent; (g) Guarantee Obligations of any Subsidiary
that is not a Loan Party with respect to Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02 (other
than clauses
(b), (f), (g) and (j) of such Section)
of any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party (other than a Receivables
Subsidiary, or Subsidiary involved in a Permitted Accounts Receivable
Securitization, Insurance Subsidiary or Timber SPV); (h) Guarantee Obligations
with respect to surety, appeal and performance bonds obtained by Company or any
of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; (i) any guarantee for
the performance of Contractual Obligations (other than obligations to pay money)
of other Persons that are not Affiliates or Subsidiaries so long as such
guarantee arises in connection with a project in which the Company or any
Subsidiary is otherwise involved in the ordinary course of business, not to
exceed in the aggregate for all Permitted Guarantee Obligations pursuant to this
clause (i), the
Dollar Equivalent of $25,000,000; and (j) additional Guarantee Obligations which
(other than Guarantee Obligations of Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.0.2(b)) do
not exceed the Dollar Equivalent of $25,000,000 in the aggregate at any
time.
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“Permitted Investors”
means (a) All Life Foundation, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Living
Trust, Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Trust,
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Trust, Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Living
Trust, Xxxxxx X. Xxxx, Xxxxxx X. Xxxx Living Trust, Xxxx X. XxXxxxx, Xxxx X.
XxXxxxx Living Trust, Xxxx X. XxXxxxx Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust, Xxxx
XxXxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx and Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx Living Trust; (b) the spouses,
heirs, legatees, descendants and blood relatives to the third degree of
consanguinity of any person in clause (a) and any
adopted children and blood relative thereof; (c) the executors and
administrators of the estate of any such person, and any court appointed
guardian of any person in clause (a) or (b); (d) any trust,
family partnership or similar investment entity for the benefit of any such
person referred to in the foregoing clause (a) or (b) or any other
Persons (including for charitable purposes), so long as one or more members of
the group consisting of the Permitted Investors have the exclusive or a joint
right to control the voting and disposition of securities held by such trust,
family partnership or other investment entity; and (e) any employee or retiree
benefit plan sponsored by the Company.
“Permitted Lien” has
the meaning specified in Section
7.01.
“Permitted Preferred
Stock” means any preferred stock of the Company (or any equity security
of the Company that is convertible or exchangeable into any preferred stock of
the Company), so long as the terms of any such preferred stock or equity
security of the Company (a) do not provide any collateral security; (b) do not
provide any guarantee or other support by any Borrower or any Subsidiaries of
any Borrower; (c) do not contain any mandatory put, redemption, repayment,
sinking fund or other similar provision occurring before the fourth anniversary
of the Closing Date; (d) do not require the cash payment of dividends or
interest; (e) do not contain any covenants other than any Permitted Covenant;
(f) do not grant the holders thereof any voting rights except for (i) voting
rights required to be granted to such holders under applicable law, (ii) limited
customary voting rights on fundamental matters such as mergers, consolidations,
sales of substantial assets, or liquidations involving the Company and (iii)
other voting rights to the extent not greater than or superior to those
allocated to the Company’s Common Stock on a per share basis; and (g) are
otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
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“Permitted Real Property
Encumbrances” means (a) as to any particular real property at any time,
such easements, encroachments, covenants, servitudes, rights of way,
subdivisions, parcelizations, minor defects, irregularities, encumbrances on
title (including leasehold title) or other similar charges or encumbrances which
individually or in the aggregate do not materially interfere with the ordinary
conduct of the business of the Company or Subsidiary in question or materially
impair the use of such real property for the purpose for which it is held by the
owner thereof; (b) municipal and zoning ordinances and other land use and
environmental regulations, which are not violated in any material respect by the
existing improvements and the present use made by the owner thereof of the
premises; (c) general real estate taxes and assessments not yet delinquent or
the amount or validity of which are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings diligently pursued; provided that
adequate provision for the payment of all such taxes known to such Person has
been made on the books of such Person to the extent required by GAAP; and (d)
such other items to which the Administrative Agent may consent.
“Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness” means a replacement, renewal, refinancing or extension of
any Indebtedness by the Person that originally incurred such Indebtedness (or
any successive replacement, renewal, refinancing or extension); provided
that:
(a) the
principal amount of such Indebtedness (as determined as of the date of the
incurrence of the Indebtedness in accordance with GAAP) does not exceed the
principal amount of the Indebtedness refinanced thereby on such date plus the amount of
accrued and unpaid fees and expenses incurred in connection with such
replacement, renewal, refinancing or extension;
(b) the
Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness is not less than the
Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being
refinanced;
(c) such
Indebtedness is not secured by any assets other than those securing such
Indebtedness being so refinanced and is not guaranteed by any Loan Party or any
Subsidiary of any Loan Party except to the extent such Person guaranteed such
Indebtedness being so refinanced; and
(d) the
covenants, defaults and similar provisions applicable to such Indebtedness,
taken as a whole, are no more restrictive in any material respect than the
provisions contained in the original documentation for such Indebtedness or in
this Agreement and do not conflict in any material respect with the provisions
of this Agreement and is otherwise on market terms and conditions.
“Person” means any
natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture,
association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.
“Plan” means any
“employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA)
established by the Company or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to
Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.
“Platform” has the
meaning specified in Section
6.02.
“Pledged Equity” has
the meaning specified in Section 4.1.2 of the Security Agreement.
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“Premises” means, at
any time any real estate then owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries.
“Prime Rate” means,
for any day, the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced
from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate.” The “prime
rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors, including
Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and
other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which
may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in
such rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of
business on the day specified in the public announcement of such
change.
“Pro Forma Basis”
means (a) with respect to the preparation of pro forma financial statements for
purposes of the tests set forth in the definition of Permitted Acquisitions and
for any other purpose relating to a Permitted Acquisition, pro forma on the
basis that (i) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed in connection with such
Acquisition was incurred or assumed on the first day of the applicable period,
(ii) if such Indebtedness bears a floating interest rate, such interest shall be
paid over the pro forma period at the rate in effect on the date of such
Acquisition, and (iii) all income and expense associated with the assets or
entity acquired in connection with such Acquisition (other than the fees, costs
and expenses associated with the consummation of such Acquisition) for the most
recently ended four fiscal quarter period for which such income and expense
amounts are available shall be treated as being earned or incurred by the
Company over the applicable period on a pro forma basis without giving effect to
any cost savings other than Pro Forma Cost Savings, (b) with respect to the
preparation of a pro forma financial statement for any purpose relating to an
Asset Disposition, pro forma on the basis that (i) any Indebtedness prepaid out
of the proceeds of such Asset Disposition shall be deemed to have been prepaid
as of the first day of the applicable Test Period, and (ii) all income and
expense (other than such expenses as the Company, in good faith, estimates will
not be reduced or eliminated as a consequence of such Asset Disposition)
associated with the assets or entity disposed of in connection with such Asset
Disposition shall be deemed to have been eliminated as of the first day of the
applicable Test Period and (c) with respect to the preparation of pro forma
financial statements for any purpose relating to an incurrence of Indebtedness,
pro forma on the basis that (i) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed in
connection with such incurrence of Indebtedness was incurred or assumed on the
first day of the applicable period, (ii) if such incurrence of Indebtedness
bears a floating interest rate, such interest shall be paid over the pro forma
period at the rate in effect on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness,
and (iii) all income and expense associated with the assets or entity acquired
in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness (other than the fees, costs
and expenses associated with the consummation of such incurrence of
Indebtedness) for the most recently ended four fiscal quarter period for which
such income and expense amounts are available shall be treated as being earned
or incurred by the Company over the applicable period on a pro forma basis
without giving effect to any cost savings other than Pro Forma Cost
Savings.
“Pro Forma Cost
Savings” means with respect to any Permitted Acquisition, if requested by
the Company pursuant to the succeeding sentence, the amount of factually
supportable and identifiable pro forma cost savings directly attributable to
operational efficiencies expected to be created by the Company with respect to
such Permitted Acquisition which efficiencies can be reasonably computed (based
on the four (4) fiscal quarters immediately preceding the date of such proposed
acquisition) and are approved by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion
acting in good faith. If Company desires to have, with respect to any Permitted
Acquisition, the amount of pro forma cost savings directly attributable to the
aforementioned operational efficiencies treated as part of the term Pro Forma
Cost Savings, then the Company shall so notify Administrative Agent and provide
written detail with respect thereto not less than five (5) Business Days prior
to the proposed date of consummation of such Permitted Acquisition.
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“Projections” has the
meaning specified in Section
5.05(e).
“Public Lender” has
the meaning specified in Section
6.02.
“RBS” means the Royal
Bank of Scotland Group.
“RBS Guaranty” means
the Guaranty, dated as of October 27, 2008, made by the Company in favor of ABN
AMRO Bank, Belgian Branch (as predecessor in interest to RBS).
“Receivable(s)” means
and includes all of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ presently existing and
hereafter arising or acquired accounts, accounts receivable, and all present and
future rights of the Company and its Subsidiaries to payment for goods sold or
leased or for services rendered (except those evidenced by instruments or
chattel paper), whether or not they have been earned by performance, and all
rights in any merchandise or goods which any of the same may represent, and all
rights, title, security and guarantees with respect to each of the foregoing,
including, without limitation, any right of stoppage in transit.
“Receivables
Documents” shall mean all documentation relating to any Permitted
Accounts Receivable Securitization.
“Receivables Facility
Assets” shall mean all Receivables (whether now existing or arising in
the future) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which are transferred
pursuant to a Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization, and any assets
related thereto, including without limitation (a) all collateral given by the
respective account debtor or on its behalf (but not by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries) securing such Receivables, (b) all contracts and all guarantees
(but not by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or other obligations
directly related to such Receivables, (c) other related assets including those
set forth in the Receivables Documents, and (d) proceeds of all of the
foregoing.
“Receivables Facility
Attributable Debt” means at any date of determination thereof in
connection with any Receivables Documents, the aggregate net outstanding amount
theretofore paid to the applicable seller of Receivables in respect of the
Receivables and related assets sold or transferred by it to an unaffiliated
Person or Receivables Subsidiary in connection with such documents (it being the
intent of the parties that the amount of Receivables Facility Attributable Debt
at any time outstanding approximate as closely as possible the principal amount
of Indebtedness which would be outstanding at such time under any Receivables
Documents if the same were structured as a secured lending agreement rather than
a purchase agreement).
“Receivables
Subsidiary” means a special purpose, bankruptcy remote Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company which has been or may be formed for the sole and
exclusive purpose of engaging in activities in connection with the purchase,
sale and financing of Receivables in connection with and pursuant to a Permitted
Accounts Receivable Securitization.
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“Recovery Event” means
the receipt by the Company (or any of its Subsidiaries) of any insurance or
condemnation proceeds payable (a) by reason of any theft, physical destruction
or damage or any other similar event with respect to any properties or assets of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) by reason of any condemnation,
taking, seizing or similar event with respect to any properties or assets of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (c) under any policy of insurance required
to be maintained under Section 6.08(b);
provided that in no event shall payments made under business interruption
insurance constitute a Recovery Event.
“Reduction Amount” has
the meaning specified in Section
2.05(b)(vi).
“Register” has the
meaning specified in Section
10.06(c).
“Related Parties”
means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners,
directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and
of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” means any
release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping, pouring, emptying, dumping,
injection, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, escape, leaching or
migration into the environment or into or out of any property of the Company or
its Subsidiaries, or at any other location, including any location to which the
Company or any Subsidiary has transported or arranged for the transportation of
any Contaminant, including the movement of Contaminants through or in the air,
soil, surface water, groundwater or property of the Company or its Subsidiaries
or at any other location, including any location to which the Company or any
Subsidiary has transported or arranged for the transportation of any
Contaminant.
“Remedial Action”
means actions legally required to (a) clean up, remove, treat or in any other
way address Contaminants in the environment or (b) perform pre-response or
post-response studies and investigations and post-response monitoring and care
or any other studies, reports or investigations relating to
Contaminants.
“Reportable Event”
means a “reportable event” described in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or in the
regulations thereunder with respect to a Plan, excluding any event for which the
thirty (30) day notice requirement has been waived.
“Request for Credit
Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or
continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice,
(b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and
(c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
“Required Global Revolving
Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Global Revolving Credit
Lenders holding more than 50% of the
sum of the (a) Total Global Revolving Credit Outstandings and
(b) aggregate unused Global Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the
unused Global Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total
Global Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting
Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required
Global Revolving Lenders.
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“Required Lenders”
means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum
of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving
Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations
and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for
purposes of this definition) and (b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit
Commitments; provided that the
unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings
held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of
making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Required Revolving
Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Revolving Credit Lenders
holding more than 50% of the
sum of the (a) Total Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate
amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded
participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by
such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and
(b) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the
unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Revolving
Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be
excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving
Lenders.
“Required Term
Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Term Lenders holding
more than 50% of the
Term Facility on such date; provided that the
portion of the Term Facility held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for
purposes of making a determination of Required Term Lenders.
“Required U.S. Revolving
Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, U.S. Revolving Credit
Lenders holding more than 50% of the
sum of the (a) Total U.S. Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate
amount of each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded
participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by
such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) and
(b) aggregate unused U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the
unused U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total U.S.
Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender
shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required U.S.
Revolving Lenders.
“Responsible Officer”
means any of the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the
President, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President, the Chief
Financial Officer, any Vice President or the Treasurer of Company or, if
applicable, any Subsidiary.
“Restricted Payment”
has the meaning specified in Section
7.05.
“Restructuring Effective
Date” has the meaning specified in Section
6.11(b).
“Revaluation Date”
means (a) with respect to any Loan, each of the following: (i) each
date of a Borrowing of a Eurodollar Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative
Currency, (ii) each date of a continuation of a Eurodollar Rate Loan denominated
in an Alternative Currency pursuant to Section 2.02,
and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall determine or
the Required Lenders shall require; and (b) with respect to any Letter of
Credit, each of the following: (i) each date of issuance of a Letter
of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of an amendment
of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof
(solely with respect to the increased amount), (iii) each date of any payment by
the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative
Currency, and (iv) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the L/C
Issuer shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require.
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“Revolving Credit
Borrowing” means a U.S. Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Global Revolving
Credit Borrowing, as applicable.
“Revolving Credit
Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its U.S. Revolving
Credit Commitment and its Global Revolving Credit Commitment, if
any.
“Revolving Credit
Facility” means the aggregate amount of the U.S. Revolving Credit
Facility and the Global Revolving Credit Facility.
“Revolving Credit
Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a U.S. Revolving Credit
Commitment or a Global Revolving Credit Commitment at such time.
“Revolving Credit
Loan” means a U.S. Revolving Credit Loan or a Global Revolving Credit
Loan, as the context may require.
“Revolving Credit
Note” means a promissory note made by a Borrower in favor of a Revolving
Credit Lender evidencing U.S. Revolving Credit Loans, Global Revolving Credit
Loans or Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, made by such Revolving Credit
Lender, each such note substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2.
“S&P” means
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies,
Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Sale and Leaseback
Transaction” means any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby a
seller or transferor shall sell or otherwise transfer any real or personal
property and then or thereafter within 180 days lease, or repurchase under an
extended purchase contract, conditional sales or other title retention
agreement, the same or similar property, but excluding the sale of an asset and
the subsequent lease of such asset for a term of less than one year; provided that such
transaction is not for the purpose of financing such asset.
“Same Day Funds” means
(a) with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available
funds; and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments in an Alternative
Currency, same day or other funds as may be determined by the Administrative
Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be customary in the place of
disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions
in the relevant Alternative Currency.
“SEC” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to
any of its principal functions.
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“Secured Cash Management
Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by
and between any Loan Party and any Cash Management Bank.
“Secured Hedge
Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VI or VII that is entered
into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank.
“Secured Parties”
means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the
Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by
the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05,
the Existing Guaranty Banks and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which
are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the
Collateral Documents.
“Securities” means any
stock, shares, voting trust certificates, bonds, debentures, options, warrants,
notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, secured or unsecured, convertible,
subordinated or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as
“securities” or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in
temporary or interim certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any
right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing.
“Security Agreement”
has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(a)(iii).
“Security Agreement
Supplement” means a Supplement to U.S. Pledge and Security Agreement
delivered pursuant to Section 7.6 of the Security Agreement.
“Senior Notes” means
the Company’s 6-¾% Senior Notes due 2017 of the Company issued and sold pursuant
to the Senior Note Documents.
“Senior Note
Documents” means the Indenture dated as of February 9, 2007, the Senior
Notes and all other agreements, instruments and other documents pursuant to
which the Senior Notes have been or will be issued or otherwise setting forth
the terms of the Senior Notes.
“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, for
any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the fair value and
present fair saleable of the property of such Person is greater than the total
amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person,
(b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less
than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such
Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person
does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or
liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts or liabilities
mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is
not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s
property would constitute an unreasonably small capital, and (e) such Person is
able to pay its debts as they become payable. In computing the amount
of contingent or unliquidated liabilities at any time, such liabilities shall be
computed at the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances
existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to
become an actual or matured liability.
“Soterra LLC” means
Soterra LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
of the Company.
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“Soterra Disposition”
means (a) the sale or other disposition of any of the assets and properties of
Soterra LLC, (b) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of
the Equity Interests (whether by way of dividend to the shareholders of the
Company, the sale of the Equity Interests of Soterra LLC or the sale of all or
substantially all of the assets and properties of Soterra LLC in one or more
series of transactions); provided that any
distribution of Equity Interests to the shareholders of the Company is
accomplished pursuant to a transaction which qualifies as a tax free corporate
division with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, or (c) the sale of
any assets and properties of Soterra LLC in connection with a Timberland
Installment Note Transaction.
“Special Notice
Currency” means at any time an Alternative Currency, other than the
currency of a country that is a member of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development at such time located in North America or
Europe.
“Spot Rate” for a
currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C
Issuer, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such
capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with
another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at
approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two (2) Business Days prior to the date as
of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative
Agent or the L/C Issuer may obtain such spot rate from another financial
institution designated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer if the
Person acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of determination a
spot buying rate for any such currency; and provided, further, that the L/C
Issuer may use such spot rate quoted on the date as of which the foreign
exchange computation is made in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in
an Alternative Currency.
“Subsidiary” of a
Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability
company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities
or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or
other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only
by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned,
or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly
through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person; provided that in no
event shall the term “Subsidiary” include
any Person unless and until its financial results are required to be
consolidated with the Company’s financial results under GAAP. Unless
otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to
“Subsidiaries”
shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Subsidiary
Guarantors” means, as applicable, the U.S. Subsidiary Guarantors and/or
the Foreign Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Subsidiary Guaranty”
means, as applicable, the U.S. Subsidiary Guaranty and/or the Foreign Subsidiary
Guaranty.
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“Swap Contract” means
(a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative
transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options,
forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or
bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price
or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign
exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar
transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions,
currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any
combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of
the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to
any master agreement; and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the
related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or
governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps
and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master
Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together
with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”),
including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master
Agreement.
“Swap Termination
Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking
into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to
such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts
have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance
therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date
referenced in clause
(a), the amount(s) determined as the xxxx-to-market value(s) for such
Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily
available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts
(which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Swing Line Borrowing”
means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section
2.04.
“Swing Line Lender”
means each of Bank of America, ING and U.S. Bank, in its capacity as provider of
Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder; provided that
additional Lenders may be designated as a “Swing Line Lender” and provide Swing
Line Loans hereunder upon the approval of each of (a) the Administrative Agent
and (b) the Company.
“Swing Line Loan” has
the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a) and
shall include the Existing Swing Line Loans.
“Swing Line Loan
Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b),
which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit
B.
“Swing Line Sublimit”
means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $125,000,000 and (b) the U.S.
Revolving Credit Facility. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and
not in addition to, the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility.
“TARGET Day” means any
day on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer (TARGET) payment system (or, if such payment system ceases to be
operative, such other payment system (if any) determined by the
Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of
payments in Euro.
“Taxes” means all
present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings
(including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by
any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or
penalties applicable thereto.
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“Term Borrowing” means
a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the
case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of
the Term Lenders pursuant to Section
2.01(a).
“Term Commitment”
means, as to each Term Lender, its obligation to make Term Loans to the
Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount
set forth opposite such Term Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under
the caption “Term Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and
Assumption pursuant to which such Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as
applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with
this Agreement.
“Term Facility” means,
at any time, (a) on or prior to the Closing Date, the aggregate amount of
the Term Commitments at such time, and (b) thereafter, the aggregate
principal amount of the Term Loans of all Term Lenders outstanding at such
time.
“Term Lender”
means (a) at any time on or prior to the Closing Date, any Lender that has
a Term Commitment at such time and (b) at any time after the Closing
Date, any Lender that holds Term Loans at such time.
“Term Loan” means an
advance made by any Term Lender under the Term Facility.
“Term Note” means
a promissory note made by the Company in favor of a Term Lender evidencing
Term Loans made by such Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1.
“Termination Event”
means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to any Plan; (b) the withdrawal of
Company or any ERISA Affiliate from a Plan during a plan year in which Company
or such ERISA Affiliate was a “substantial employer” as defined in Section
4001(a)(2) of ERISA or the cessation of operations which results in the
termination of employment of twenty percent (20%) of Plan participants who are
employees of Company or any ERISA Affiliate; (c) the imposition of an obligation
on Company or any ERISA Affiliate under Section 4041 of ERISA to provide
affected parties written notice of intent to terminate a Plan in a standard
termination or a distress termination described in Section 4041 of ERISA; (d)
the institution by the PBGC or any similar foreign governmental authority of
proceedings to terminate a Plan or Foreign Pension Plan; (e) any event or
condition which would constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA (other than
subparagraph (a)(4) of such Section) for the termination of, or the appointment
of a trustee to administer, any Plan; (f) that a foreign governmental authority
shall appoint a trustee to administer any Foreign Pension Plan in place of the
existing administrator; (g) the partial or complete withdrawal of Company or any
ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or Foreign Pension Plan or (h) receipt
of a notice of reorganization or insolvency with respect to a Multiemployer Plan
pursuant to Section 4242 or 4245 of ERISA.
“Test Period” means
the four consecutive Fiscal Quarters of Company then last ended; provided that the
first Test Period shall end on or about April 30, 2009.
“Timber” means timber
grown on Timber Lands or the sale, disposition or granting of rights to harvest
such timber.
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“Timber Assets” means,
collectively, the Timber and the Timber Lands.
“Timber Lands” means
the real property on which Timber is grown, all of which real property is owned
by Soterra LLC and Greif Bros. Canada, Inc.
“Timberland Installment Note
Transaction” means the sale or series of sales by Soterra LLC of any or
all of its Timber Assets whereby the consideration received from the purchaser
or purchasers of the Timber Assets on account of such sale is a combination of
Cash and one or more installment notes and Soterra LLC and/or the Timber SPV
involved in such Timberland Installment Note Transaction (a) pledges, in the
case of Timber SPV, such installment note and related assets in connection with
the Timber SPV’s issuance of notes or other incurrence of Indebtedness, (b)
enters into other transactions reasonably related to and in furtherance of the
foregoing and (c) dividends or distributes substantially all of the Net Offering
Proceeds of the Indebtedness issued by such Timber SPV to the Company or any of
its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than a Receivables Subsidiary, Timber SPV or
Insurance Subsidiary); provided that the
sale of the Timber Assets is treated as a “true sale” in accordance with GAAP;
and provided,
further, that
there is no recourse to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the
Timber SPV) for any of the obligations under the installment note or of the
Timber SPV. The form and substance of each Timberland Installment Note
Transaction shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent.
“Timber SPV” means a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company which is a bankruptcy remote special
purpose vehicle organized for sole the purpose of conducting a Timberland
Installment Note Transaction, including STA Timber LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company.
“Total Global Revolving
Credit Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Global
Revolving Credit Loans.
“Total Outstandings”
means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C
Obligations.
“Total Revolving Credit
Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving
Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations.
“Total U.S. Revolving Credit
Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all U.S.
Revolving Credit Loans, all Swing Line Loans and all L/C
Obligations.
“Trilla-St. Louis”
means Trilla-St. Louis Corporation, an Illinois corporation.
“Type” means, with
respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate
Loan.
“UCC” means the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that, if
perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any
security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code
as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “UCC” means the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other
jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection,
effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
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“United States” and
“U.S.” mean the
United States of America.
“Unreimbursed Amount”
has the meaning specified in Section
2.03(c)(i).
“U.S. Bank” means U.S.
Bank, N.A.
“U.S. Holdco” means
Greif US Holdings Inc., a Nevada corporation and a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of
the Company.
“U.S. Revolving Credit
Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous U.S. Revolving
Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having
the same Interest Period made by each of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders
pursuant to Section
2.01(b)(i).
“U.S. Revolving Credit
Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to (a) make U.S.
Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b)(i),
(b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and (c) purchase participations
in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time
outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 2.01
under the caption “U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment” or opposite such caption in
the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in
accordance with this Agreement.
“U.S. Revolving Credit
Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the U.S. Revolving
Credit Lenders’ U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments at such time. As of
the Closing Date, the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility is
$250,000,000.
“U.S. Revolving Credit
Loan” has the meaning specified in Section
2.01(b)(i).
“U.S. Revolving
Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a U.S. Revolving Credit
Commitment at such time.
“U.S. Subsidiary
Guarantors” means, collectively, each of the Domestic Subsidiaries of the
Company listed on Schedule 5.15 and
each other Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a U.S. Subsidiary
Guarantor pursuant to the terms hereof.
“U.S. Subsidiary
Guaranty” means the U.S. Subsidiary Guaranty made by the U.S. Subsidiary
Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, substantially
in the form of Exhibit
F-2.
“Weighted Average Life to
Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number
of years obtained by dividing (a) the then outstanding principal amount of such
Indebtedness into (b) the total of the product obtained by multiplying (i) the
amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or
other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in
respect thereof times (ii) the number
of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such
date and the making of such payment.
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“Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such
Person, all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of which (other than
qualifying shares required to be owned by directors) are at the time owned
directly or indirectly by such Person and/or one or more Wholly-Owned
Subsidiaries of such Person.
1.02 Other Interpretive
Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and each other
Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan
Document:
(a) 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, (i) any definition of
or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any
Organizational Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement,
instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements
or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any
reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
successors and assigns, (iii) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and
words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to
refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision
thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits
and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and
Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear,
(v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory
provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any
reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to
such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time,
and (vi) 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.
(b) In
the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified
date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until”
each mean “to but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and
including.”
(c) Section
headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of
reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document.
1.03 Accounting
Terms. (a) Generally. All
accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be
construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios
and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this
Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent
basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that
used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise
specifically prescribed herein.
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(b) Changes in
GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the
computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan
Document, and either the Company or the Required Lenders shall so request, the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Company shall negotiate in good faith
to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in
light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders);
provided that,
until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in
accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Company
shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements
and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested
hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or
requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in
GAAP.
(c) Pro Forma
Basis. For purposes of computing the Leverage Ratio in the
financial covenant in Section 7.15(a) as of
the end of any Test Period, all components of such ratio for the applicable Test
Period shall include or exclude, as the case may be, without duplication, such
components of such ratio attributable to any business or assets that have been
acquired or disposed of by Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including through
mergers or consolidations) after the first day of such Test Period and prior to
the end of such Test Period on a Pro Forma Basis as determined in good faith by
the Company and certified to by the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, or a
Responsible Officer of the Company employed in the finance or accounting
divisions of the Company to the Administrative Agent.
1.04 Rounding. Any
financial ratios required to be maintained by the Company and its Subsidiaries
pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate
component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the
number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result
up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest
number).
1.05 Times of
Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to
times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as
applicable).
1.06 Letter of Credit
Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a
Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the
stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided that with
respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer
Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the
stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be
the Dollar Equivalent of the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit
after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated
amount is in effect at such time.
1.07 Exchange Rates; Currency
Equivalents. (a) The Administrative Agent or the
L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation
Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions
and Outstanding Amounts denominated in Alternative Currencies. Such
Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the
Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies
until the next Revaluation Date to occur. Except for purposes of
financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating
financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the
applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan
Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the
Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable.
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Wherever
in this Agreement in connection with a Borrowing, conversion, continuation or
prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of
a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is
expressed in Dollars, but such Borrowing, Eurodollar Rate Loan or Letter of
Credit is denominated in an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the
relevant Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the
nearest unit of such Alternative Currency, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded
upward), as determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the
case may be.
1.08 Additional Alternative
Currencies. (a) The Company may from time to time
request that Eurodollar Rate Loans be made and/or Letters of Credit be issued in
a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of
“Alternative Currency”; provided that such
requested currency is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily
available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars. In
the case of any such request with respect to the making of Eurodollar Rate
Loans, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders; and in the case of any such request with respect to the
issuance of Letters of Credit, such request shall be subject to the approval of
the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer.
Any such
request shall be made to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m.,
twenty (20) Business Days prior to the date of the desired Credit Extension (or
such other time or date as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and, in the
case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the L/C Issuer, in its
or their sole discretion). In the case of any such request pertaining
to Eurodollar Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
Lender thereof; and in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of
Credit, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the L/C Issuer
thereof. Each Lender (in the case of any such request pertaining to
Eurodollar Rate Loans) or the L/C Issuer (in the case of a request pertaining to
Letters of Credit) shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00
a.m., ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents,
in its sole discretion, to the making of Eurodollar Rate Loans or the issuance
of Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested
currency.
Any
failure by a Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to respond to such
request within the time period specified in the preceding sentence shall be
deemed to be a refusal by such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to
permit Eurodollar Rate Loans to be made or Letters of Credit to be issued in
such requested currency. If the Administrative Agent and all the
Lenders consent to making Eurodollar Rate Loans in such requested currency, the
Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and such currency shall
thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for
purposes of any Borrowings of Eurodollar Rate Loans; and if the Administrative
Agent and the L/C Issuer consent to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such
requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and
such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative
Currency hereunder for purposes of any Letter of Credit issuances. If the
Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an
additional currency under this Section 1.08, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Company. Any
specified currency of an Existing Letter of Credit that is neither Dollars nor
one of the Alternative Currencies specifically listed in the definition of
“Alternative Currency” shall be deemed an Alternative Currency with respect to
such Existing Letter of Credit only.
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1.09 Change of
Currency. (a) Each obligation of the Borrowers to
make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of
the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the date
hereof shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption (in
accordance with the EMU Legislation). If, in relation to the currency
of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this
Agreement in respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention
or practice in the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest
in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such
convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state
adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that if any
Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior
to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such
Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.
Each
provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of
construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be
appropriate to reflect the adoption of the Euro by any member state of the
European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the
Euro.
Each
provision of this Agreement also shall be subject to such reasonable changes of
construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be
appropriate to reflect a change in currency of any other country and any
relevant market conventions or practices relating to the change in
currency.
1.10 Dutch
Terms. In this Agreement, where it relates to a Dutch entity,
a reference to:
(a) a
necessary action to authorize where applicable, includes without
limitation:
(i) any
action required to comply with the Works Councils Act of the Netherlands (Wet op de ondernemingsraden);
and
(ii) obtaining
an unconditional positive advice (advies) from the competent
works council(s);
(b) gross
negligence includes grove
xxxxxx;
(c) a
Lien includes any mortgage (hypotheek), pledge (pandrecht), retention of
title arrangement (eigendomsvoorbehoud),
privilege (voorrecht),
right of retention (recht van
retentie), right to reclaim goods (recht van reclame), and, in
general, any right in rem (beperlite recht), created for
the purpose of granting security (goederenrechtelijk
zekerheidsrecht);
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(d) willful
misconduct includes opzet;
(e) a
winding-up, administration or dissolution (and any of those terms) includes a
Dutch entity being declared bankrupt (failliet verklaard) or
dissolved (ontbonden);
(f) a
moratorium includes sursance van betaling and granted a moratorium includes
surséance verleend;
(g) any
step or procedure taken in connection with insolvency proceedings includes a
Dutch entity having filed a notice under Section 36 of the Dutch Tax Collection
Act (Invorderingswet
1990);
(h) an
administrative receiver includes a curator;
(i) an
administrator includes a bewindvoerder;
and
(j) an
attachment includes a beslag.
ARTICLE
II
THE
COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 The
Loans. (a) The Term
Borrowing. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, each Term Lender severally agrees to make a single loan to the Company
in Dollars on the Closing Date in an amount not to exceed such Term Lender’s
Term Commitment. The Term Borrowing shall consist of Term Loans made
simultaneously by the Term Lenders in accordance with their respective
Applicable Percentages of the Term Facility. Amounts borrowed under
this Section 2.01(a)
and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term Loans may be Base
Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(b) The Revolving Credit
Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, (i) each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans
(each such loan, a “U.S. Revolving Credit
Loan”) to the Borrowers in Dollars, from time to time on any Business Day
during the Availability Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time
outstanding the amount of such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s U.S. Revolving
Credit Commitment; and (ii) each Global Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees
to make loans (each such loan, a “Global Revolving Credit
Loan”) to the Borrowers in Dollars or in one or more Alternative
Currencies, from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability
Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount
of such Global Revolving Credit Lender’s Global Revolving Credit Commitment;
provided that,
after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing:
(A) (1)
the Total U.S. Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the U.S. Revolving
Credit Facility and (2) the Total Global Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not
exceed the Global Revolving Credit Facility;
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(B) (1)
the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of any U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender, plus such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all
L/C Obligations, plus such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all
Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s U.S.
Revolving Credit Commitment; and (2) the aggregate Outstanding Amount
of the Global Revolving Credit Loans of any Global Revolving Credit Lender shall
not exceed such Global Revolving Credit Lender’s Global Revolving Credit
Commitment; and
(C) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made to the
Designated Borrowers shall not exceed the Designated Borrower
Sublimit.
Within
the limits of each Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and
subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under
this Section
2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and
reborrow under this Section
2.01(b). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or
Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
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2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and
Continuations of Loans. (a) The Term Borrowing,
each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans or Revolving
Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar
Rate Loans shall be made upon the relevant Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the
Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon
(i) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing
of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in
Dollars or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in Dollars to
Base Rate Loans; (ii) three (3) Business Days (or five (5) Business Days in the
case of a Special Notice Currency), or such later time as the Administrative
Agent deems acceptable in its reasonable discretion, prior to the requested date
of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in
Alternative Currencies; and (iii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base
Rate Loans; provided that if the
relevant Borrower wishes to request Eurodollar Rate Loans having an Interest
Period other than one, two, three or six months in duration as provided in the
definition of “Interest Period,” the applicable notice must be received by the
Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon (i) four (4) Business Days prior
to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in Dollars; or (ii) five (5) Business Days (or
six (6) Business days in the case of a Special Notice Currency) prior to the
requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurodollar Rate
Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, whereupon the Administrative Agent
shall give prompt notice to the Appropriate Lenders of such request and
determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of
them. Not later than 12:00 noon (i) three (3) Business Days before
the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurodollar
Rate Loans denominated in Dollars; or (ii) three (3) Business Days (or five (5)
Business days in the case of a Special Notice Currency), or such later time as
the Administrative Agent deems acceptable in its reasonable discretion, prior to
the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurodollar
Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, the Administrative Agent shall
notify the relevant Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not
the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the
Lenders. Each telephonic notice by a Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written
Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible
Officer of such Borrower. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of (i) in
the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, $5,000,000 or a whole
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) in the case of Eurodollar Rate
Loans denominated in Euro, €5,000,000 or a whole multiple of €1,000,000 in
excess thereof or (iii) in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans designated in any
other Alternative Currency, the applicable Alternative Currency Equivalent of
$1,000,000 or a whole multiple of the applicable Alternative Currency Equivalent
of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and
2.04(c), each
Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of
$1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Each
Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify
(i) whether such Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a U.S. Revolving
Credit Borrowing, a Global Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Term
Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans; (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or
continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day); (iii) the
principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued; (iv) the Type
of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans or Revolving Credit
Loans are to be converted; (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest
Period with respect thereto; (vi) the currency of the Committed Loans to be
borrowed; and (vii) the Borrower. If a Borrower fails to specify a
currency in a Committed Loan Notice requesting a Borrowing, then the Loans so
requested shall be made in Dollars. If a Borrower fails to specify a
Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if a Borrower fails to give a timely
notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term Loans
or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans;
provided that
in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of Loans denominated
in an Alternative Currency, such Loans shall be continued as Eurodollar Rate
Loans in their original currency with an Interest Period of one
month. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be
effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect
to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If a Borrower requests a
Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any
such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be
deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month. No Loan may
be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in a different currency,
but instead must be prepaid in the original currency of such Loan and reborrowed
in the other currency. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a Eurodollar Rate
Loan.
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(b) Following
receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify each Lender of the amount (and currency) of its Applicable Percentage
under the applicable Facility of the applicable Term Loans, U.S. Revolving
Credit Loans or Global Revolving Credit Loans, and if no timely notice of a
conversion or continuation is provided by the relevant Borrower or the Company,
the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any
automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Loans denominated in
a currency other than Dollars, in each case as described in the preceding
clause. In the case of a Term Borrowing, a U.S. Revolving Credit
Borrowing or a Global Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall
make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day
Funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office for the applicable currency not later
than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later
than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of
any Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, in each case on the Business
Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon
satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if
such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the
Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Company
or the other applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative
Agent either by (i) crediting the account of such Borrower on the books of Bank
of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in
each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable
to) the Administrative Agent by such Borrower; provided that if, on
the date a Committed Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit Borrowing
denominated in Dollars is given by a Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings
outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, first, shall be
applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made
available to the applicable Borrower as provided above.
(c) Except
as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or
converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate
Loan. During the existence of a Default, no Loans may be requested
as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans (whether in Dollars or
any Alternative Currency) without the consent of the Required Lenders, and the
Required Lenders may demand that any or all of the then outstanding Eurodollar
Rate Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency be prepaid, or redenominated
into Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof, on the last day of
the then current Interest Period with respect thereto.
(d) The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company, the relevant Borrower
and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for
Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At
any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall
notify the Company, the relevant Borrower and the Lenders of any change in Bank
of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the
public announcement of such change.
(e) After
giving effect to the Term Borrowing, all conversions of Term Loans from one Type
to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans as the same Type, there shall
not be more than four (4) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Term
Facility. After giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all
conversions of Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all
continuations of Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be
more than twelve (12) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Revolving
Credit Facility.
(f) Anything
in this Section
2.02 to the contrary notwithstanding, no Borrower may select the
Eurodollar Rate for the initial Credit Extension unless such Borrower has
delivered a Eurodollar funding indemnity letter to the Administrative Agent at
least three (3) Business Days prior to the initial Credit
Extension.
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2.03 Letters of
Credit. (a) The Letter of Credit
Commitment.
(i) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees, in
reliance upon the agreements of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in
this Section
2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from
the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of
Credit denominated in Dollars or one or more Alternative Currencies for the
account of the Company or any Designated Borrower, and to amend or extend
Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and
(2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the U.S. Revolving
Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for
the account of the Company or any Designated Borrower and any drawings
thereunder; provided that, after
giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of
Credit:
(I) the
Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit
Facility at such time;
(II) the
Total U.S. Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the U.S. Revolving
Credit Facility at such time;
(III) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of the U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of any U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender, plus such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all
L/C Obligations, plus such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all
Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s U.S.
Revolving Credit Commitment;
(IV) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Credit Extensions to Designated Borrowers
shall not exceed the Designated Borrower Sublimit; and
(V) the
Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit
Sublimit.
Each
request by the relevant Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of
Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by such Borrower that the L/C
Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the
proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing limits, and
subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Borrower’s ability to obtain
Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly such Borrower may,
during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of
Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and
reimbursed. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have
been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date shall be
subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.
(ii) The
L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A) subject
to Section
2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would
occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last extension,
unless the Required U.S. Revolving Lenders have approved such expiry date;
or
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(B) the
expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of
Credit Expiration Date, unless all the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders have
approved such expiry date.
(iii) The
L/C Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit
if:
(A) any
order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by
its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter
of Credit, or any Law applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive
(whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with
jurisdiction over the L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer
refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of
Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such
Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the
L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing
Date, or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense
which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which the L/C Issuer in good
xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B) the
issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the L/C
Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally;
(C) except
as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, such Letter
of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $100,000 (or the Alternative
Currency Equivalent thereof, if denominated in an Alternative Currency), in the
case of a commercial Letter of Credit, or $100,000 (or the Alternative Currency
Equivalent thereof, if denominated in an Alternative Currency) in the case of a
standby Letter of Credit;
(D) except
as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, such Letter
of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars or an
Alternative Currency;
(E) the
L/C Issuer does not as of the issuance date of such requested Letter of Credit
issue Letters of Credit in the requested currency (other than Dollars or
Euro);
(F) such
Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the
stated amount after any drawing thereunder; or
(G) a
default of any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s obligations to fund under Section 2.03(c)
exists, or any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender is at such time an Impacted Lender,
unless the L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements satisfactory to the L/C
Issuer with the relevant Borrower or such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender to
eliminate the L/C Issuer’s risk with respect to such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender.
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(iv) The
L/C Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be
permitted at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under
the terms hereof.
(v) The
L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) the
L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit
in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such
Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of
Credit.
(vi) The
L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders with respect
to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith,
and the L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities
(A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with
respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection
with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer
Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term
“Administrative Agent” as used in Article IX included
the L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally
provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.
(b) Procedures for Issuance and
Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of
Credit.
(i) Each
Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the
request of the Company or any Designated Borrower delivered to the L/C Issuer
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit
Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of such
Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the
L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two
(2) Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and
the L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion)
prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may
be. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of
Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail
satisfactory to the L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the
requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount and
currency thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the
beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in
case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be
presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose
and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as the
L/C Issuer may reasonably require. In the case of a request for an
amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application
shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (1) the Letter
of Credit to be amended; (2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall
be a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (4) such other
matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably require. Additionally, the
relevant Borrower shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent
such other documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of
Credit issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer
or the Administrative Agent may require.
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(ii) Promptly
after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm
with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the
Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application
from the Company or a Designated Borrower and, if not, the L/C Issuer will
provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the L/C
Issuer has received written notice from any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender, the
Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one Business Day prior to the
requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that
one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not
then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/C
Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of
the Company (or the applicable Designated Borrower) or enter into the applicable
amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s
usual and customary business practices. Immediately upon the issuance
of each Letter of Credit, each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to,
and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C
Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to such
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount
available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration
and in furtherance of the foregoing, each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender hereby
absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent in
Dollars, for the account of the L/C Issuer, such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s
Applicable Percentage of (A) each payment made by the L/C Issuer under any
Letter of Credit in Dollars and (B) the Dollar Equivalent of each payment made
by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit in an Alternative Currency and, in
each case, not reimbursed by the relevant Borrower on the date due as provided
in Section
2.03(c)(i), or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to
such Borrower for any reason (or, if such reimbursement payment was refunded in
an Alternative Currency, the Dollar Equivalent thereof).
(iii) If
the relevant Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit
Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree to
issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an
“Auto-Extension Letter
of Credit”); provided that any
such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any
such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the
date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the
beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice
Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time
such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the L/C
Issuer, the relevant Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request
to the L/C Issuer for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension
Letter of Credit has been issued, the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders shall be
deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the
extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than
the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided that the L/C
Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C Issuer has determined
that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation at such time to
issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms
hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or
otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in
writing) on or before the day that is seven (7) Business Days before the
Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required
U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2)
from the Administrative Agent, any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender or the relevant
Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not
then satisfied, and in each such case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit
such extension.
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(iv) Promptly
after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of
Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof,
the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the relevant Borrower and the Administrative
Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or
amendment.
(c) Drawings and Reimbursements;
Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon
receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing
under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the relevant Borrower
and the Administrative Agent thereof. Without limiting or waiving any
rights that the Borrowers may have pursuant to the second proviso of Section 2.06(f), the
relevant Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer, in Dollars, in the amount of
such drawing, plus any interim
interest incurred in accordance with this Section
2.03(c). In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a
drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the L/C
Issuer shall notify the Company of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the
drawing promptly following the determination thereof. Not later than
11:00 a.m. on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit
(each such date, an “Honor Date”), the
relevant Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative
Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing in Dollars. If
the relevant Borrower fails to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by such time, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender of
the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in Dollars in
the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit
denominated in an Alternative Currency) (the “Unreimbursed
Amount”), and the amount of such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s
Applicable Percentage thereof. In such event, the relevant Borrower
shall be deemed to have requested a U.S. Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate
Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed
Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the
principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized
portion of the U.S. Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in
Section 4.02
(other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice
given by the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i)
may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the
lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or
binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i)
make funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office for Dollar-denominated
payments in an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of the Unreimbursed
Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by
the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii),
each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed
to have made a Base Rate Loan to the relevant Borrower in such
amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to
the L/C Issuer in Dollars.
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(iii) With
respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a U.S.
Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth
in Section 4.02
cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the relevant Borrower shall be
deemed to have incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of
the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be
due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at
the Default Rate. In such event, each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s
payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant
to Section
2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in
such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in
satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section
2.03.
(iv) Until
each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender funds its U.S. Revolving Credit Loan or L/C
Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to
reimburse the L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit,
interest in respect of such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage
of such amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.
(v) Each
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans or
L/C Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of
Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c),
shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or
other right which such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender may have against the L/C
Issuer, the Company or any other Loan Party, any Subsidiary or any other Person
for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or
(C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of
the foregoing; provided that each
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans
pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is
subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other
than delivery by the relevant Borrower of a Committed Loan
Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise
impair the obligation of any Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount
of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with
interest as provided herein.
(vi) If
any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by
the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii),
the L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with
interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the
date on which such payment is immediately available to the L/C Issuer at a rate
per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect,
plus any
administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the L/C Issuer
in connection with the foregoing. If such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so
paid shall constitute such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s Loan included in the
relevant Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as
the case may be. A certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to any
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to
any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi)
shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(d) Repayment of
Participations.
(i) At
any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and
has received from any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if
the Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment
in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether
directly from the relevant Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash
Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative
Agent will distribute to such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable
Percentage thereof in Dollars and in the same funds as those received by the
Administrative Agent.
(ii) If
any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is
required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05
(including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its
discretion), each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of the L/C Issuer, its Applicable Percentage thereof on
demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon
from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender,
at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in
effect. The obligations of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders under
this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the
termination of this Agreement.
(e) Obligations
Absolute. The obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the L/C
Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/C
Borrowing shall be, without limiting or waiving any rights the Borrowers may
have pursuant to the second proviso of Section 2.06(f),
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including
the following:
(i) any
lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or
any other Loan Document;
(ii) the
existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the
Company, any other Loan Party, any Designated Borrower or any of their
respective Subsidiaries may have at any time against any beneficiary or any
transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary
or any such transferee may be acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person,
whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby
or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or
any unrelated transaction;
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(iii) any
draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of
Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect
or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss
or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to
make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) any
payment by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a
draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter
of Credit; or any payment made by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to
any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession,
assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other
representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such
Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under
any Debtor Relief Law;
(v) any
adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the
relevant Alternative Currency to the Company, any Designated Borrower or any of
their respective Subsidiaries or in the relevant currency markets generally;
or
(vi) any
other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, the Company, any Designated Borrower or
any of their respective Subsidiaries.
The
relevant Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and
each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of
noncompliance with such Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, such
Borrower will promptly notify the L/C Issuer. The relevant Borrower
shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the L/C
Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as
aforesaid.
(f) Role of L/C
Issuer. Each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender and each Borrower
agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall
not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft,
certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to
ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the
authority of the Person executing or delivering any such
document. None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of
their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee
of the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender for (i)
any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the
approval of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders or the Required U.S. Revolving
Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross
negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness,
validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter
of Credit or Issuer Document. The Borrowers hereby assume all risks
of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its
use of any Letter of Credit; provided that this
assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Borrowers’ pursuing
such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at
law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuer, the
Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any
correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or
responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through
(v) of Section 2.03(e);
provided that
anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrowers may have
a claim against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the
Borrowers, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to
consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrowers which the
Borrowers prove were caused by the L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross
negligence or the L/C Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit
after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and
certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of
Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the
L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order,
without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or
information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for the
validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or
purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits
thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be
invalid or ineffective for any reason.
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(g) Cash
Collateral.
(i) Upon
the request of the Administrative Agent, (A) if the L/C Issuer has honored any
full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has
resulted in an L/C Borrowing which remains unpaid, or (B) if, as of the Letter
of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains
outstanding, the Company shall, in each case, promptly Cash Collateralize the
then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations.
(ii) In
addition, if the Administrative Agent notifies the Company at any time that the
Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time exceeds 105% of the
Letter of Credit Sublimit then in effect, then, within two (2) Business Days
after receipt of such notice, the Company shall Cash Collateralize the L/C
Obligations in an amount equal to the amount by which the Outstanding Amount of
all L/C Obligations exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit.
(iii) Sections 2.05 and
8.01 set forth
certain additional requirements to deliver Cash Collateral
hereunder. For purposes of this Section 2.03 and
Sections 2.05
and 8.01, “Cash
Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders,
as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances pursuant
to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer (which documents are hereby consented to
by the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders). Derivatives of such term have
corresponding meanings. The Borrowers hereby grant to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and the U.S. Revolving
Credit Lenders, a security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all
balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing. Cash Collateral
shall be maintained in blocked, interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of
America. If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that any
funds held as Cash Collateral are subject to any right or claim of any Person
other than the Administrative Agent or that the total amount of such funds is
less than the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, the Company
will, forthwith upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay to the
Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be deposited as Cash Collateral, an
amount equal to the excess of (x) such aggregate Outstanding Amount over
(y) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as Cash Collateral that
the Administrative Agent determines to be free and clear of any such right and
claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are
on deposit as Cash Collateral, such funds shall be applied, to the extent
permitted under applicable Laws, to reimburse the L/C Issuer.
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(h) Conversion. In
the event that the Loans become immediately due and payable on any date pursuant
to Article
VIII, all amounts (i) that a Borrower is at the time or thereafter
becomes required to reimburse or otherwise pay to the Administrative Agent in
respect of payments under Letters of Credit denominated in Alternative
Currencies (other than amounts in respect of which such Borrower has deposited
cash collateral pursuant to Section 2.03(g), if
such cash collateral was deposited in the applicable Alternative Currency to the
extent so deposited or applied), (ii) that the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders are
at the time or thereafter become required to pay to the Administrative Agent,
and the Administrative Agent is at the time or thereafter becomes required to
distribute to the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c), in
respect of Unreimbursed Amounts under Letters of Credit denominated in
Alternative Currencies, and (iii) of each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s
participation in any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency
under which a payment has been made shall in each case, automatically and with
no further action required, be converted into the Dollar Equivalent of such
amounts. On and after such conversion, all amounts accruing and owed
to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender
in respect of the Obligations described above shall accrue and be payable in
Dollars at the rates otherwise applicable hereunder.
(i) Reporting. Each
Existing Issuer will report in writing to the Administrative Agent (i) on the
first Business Day of each week, the aggregate face amount of Letters of Credit
issued by it and outstanding as of the last Business Day of the preceding week,
(ii) on or prior to each Business Day on which such Existing Issuer expects to
issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance or
amendment, and the aggregate face amount of Letters of Credit to be issued,
amended, renewed or extended by it and outstanding after giving effect to such
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (and such Existing Issuer shall advise
the Administrative Agent on such Business Day whether such issuance, amendment,
renewal or extension occurred and whether the amount thereof changed), (iii) on
each Business Day on which such Existing Issuer make any payment under an
Existing Letter of Credit, the date of such payment and the amount of such
payment and (iv) on any Business Day on which any Borrower fails to reimburse a
payment required to be reimbursed to such Existing Issuer on such day, the date
of such failure, the relevant Borrower and the amount of such
payment.
(j) Applicability of ISP and
UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and
the relevant Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any such
agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP
shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the Uniform
Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the
International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance shall apply to each
commercial Letter of Credit.
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(k) Letter of Credit
Fees. The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its
Applicable Percentage, in Dollars, a Letter of Credit fee (the “Letter of Credit
Fee”) for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate times the Dollar
Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be
drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be
determined in accordance with Section
1.06. Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) due and payable on
the first Business Day after the end of each April, July, October and January,
commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter
of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and
(ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. If there is any change
in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be
drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the
Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such
Applicable Rate was in effect. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required U.S. Revolving
Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall
accrue at the Default Rate.
(l) Fronting Fee and Documentary
and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer. The Company
shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, a fronting
fee (i) with respect to each commercial Letter of Credit, at the rate specified
in the applicable Fee Letter, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of
such Letter of Credit, and payable upon the issuance thereof, (ii) with respect
to any amendment of a commercial Letter of Credit increasing the amount of such
Letter of Credit, at a rate separately agreed between the Company and the L/C
Issuer, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of such increase, and
payable upon the effectiveness of such amendment, and (iii) with respect to each
standby Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum specified in the applicable Fee
Letter, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be
drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in
arrears. Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the tenth
Business Day after the end of each April, July, October and January in respect
of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of
the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the
issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and
thereafter on demand. For purposes of computing the daily amount
available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of
Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section
1.06. In addition, the Company shall pay directly to the L/C
Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, the customary issuance, presentation,
amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of
the L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in
effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due
and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
(m) Conflict with Issuer
Documents. In the event of any conflict between the terms
hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall
control.
(n) Letters of Credit Issued for
Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued
or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the
account of, a Subsidiary, the relevant Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse
the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of
Credit. Each Borrower hereby acknowledge that the issuance of Letters
of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of such
Borrower, and that such Borrower’s business derives substantial benefits from
the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
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2.04 Swing Line
Loans. (a) The Swing
Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein,
each Swing Line Lender may, in reliance upon the agreements of the other U.S.
Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04 but
nonetheless in its sole and absolute discretion, make loans denominated in
Dollars or one or more Alternative Currencies (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to
the Company or any Designated Borrower from time to time on any Business Day
during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time
outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that
such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Applicable Percentage of the
Outstanding Amount of U.S. Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations of the
Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lender’s U.S.
Revolving Credit Commitment; provided that, after
giving effect to any Swing Line Loan:
(i) the
Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit
Facility at such time;
(ii) the
Total U.S. Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the U.S. Revolving
Credit Facility at such time;
(iii) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed the Swing
Line Sublimit;
(iv) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars shall
not exceed the Dollar Swing Line Sublimit;
(v) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans denominated in Alternative
Currencies shall not exceed the Alternative Currency Swing Line
Sublimit;
(vi) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Credit Extensions to Designated Borrowers
shall not exceed the Designated Borrower Sublimit; and
(vii) the
aggregate Outstanding Amount of the U.S. Revolving Credit Loans of any U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender at such time, plus such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all
L/C Obligations at such time, plus such U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all
Swing Line Loans at such time shall not exceed such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender’s U.S. Revolving Credit Commitment; and
provided, further, that no
Borrower shall use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any
outstanding Swing Line Loan. Within the foregoing limits, and subject
to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Company or any Designated Borrower
may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay
under Section
2.05, and reborrow under this Section
2.04. Each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest at a rate to be
mutually agreed by the Company and the Swing Line Lender. Immediately
upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender shall be
deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from
the Swing Line Lender making such Swing Line Loan a risk participation in such
Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender’s Applicable Percentage times (i) for Swing
Line Loans denominated in Dollars, the amount of such Swing Line Loans and (ii)
for Swing Line Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, the Dollar
Equivalent of such Swing Line Loans. All Existing Swing Line Loans
shall be deemed to have been made pursuant hereto, and from and after the
Closing Date shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions
hereof.
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(b) Borrowing
Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the
relevant Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the applicable Swing Line Lender and
the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone or other means agreed
upon by the relevant Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Swing Line
Lender. Each such notice must be received by such Swing Line Lender
and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing
date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum
of (A) in the case of Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars, $100,000, (ii) in
the case of Swing Line Loans denominated in Euro, €100,000, or (iii) in the case
of Swing Line Loans designated in any other Alternative Currency, the applicable
Alternative Currency Equivalent of $1,000,000, and (ii) the requested borrowing
date, which shall be a Business Day. Each such telephonic notice must
be confirmed promptly by delivery to the applicable Swing Line Lender and the
Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately
completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the relevant
Borrower. Promptly after receipt by such Swing Line Lender of any
telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, such Swing Line Lender will confirm with the
Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent
has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, such Swing Line
Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the
contents thereof. Unless the applicable Swing Line Lender has
received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent
(including at the request of any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00
p.m. on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing such Swing
Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set
forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or
(B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article IV is not
then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the applicable
Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified
in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available
to the relevant Borrower by wire transfer or by crediting the account of such
Borrower on the books of such Swing Line Lender in Same Day Funds.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line
Loans.
(i) Any
Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request,
on behalf of the Borrowers (which hereby irrevocably authorize each Swing Line
Lender to so request on its behalf), that each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender make
a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s
Applicable Percentage of (A) the amount of Swing Line Loans denominated in
Dollars or (B) the Dollar Equivalent of Swing Line Loans denominated in
Alternative Currencies made by such Swing Line Lender then
outstanding. Such request shall be made in writing (which written
request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and
in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without
regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount
of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the U.S. Revolving
Credit Facility and the conditions set forth in Section
4.02. The applicable Swing Line Lender shall furnish the
relevant Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly
after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each U.S.
Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage
of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the
Administrative Agent, in Same Day Funds and in such currency as the applicable
Lender and the applicable Swing Line Lender may agree, for the account of the
applicable Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office for
Dollar-denominated payments not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in
such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii),
each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed
to have made a Base Rate Loan to the relevant Borrower in such
amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to
the applicable Swing Line Lender.
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(ii) If
for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a U.S. Revolving
Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i),
the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the applicable Swing Line Lender as
set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by such Swing Line Lender that
each of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the
relevant Swing Line Loan, and each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i)
shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(iii) If
any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative
Agent for the account of any Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by
such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section 2.04(c)
by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i),
such Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such U.S. Revolving
Credit Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount
with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to
the date on which such payment is immediately available to such Swing Line
Lender at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to
time in effect, plus any
administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Swing
Line Lender in connection with the foregoing. If such U.S. Revolving
Credit Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount
so paid shall constitute such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s Loan included in
the relevant Borrowing or funded participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan,
as the case may be. A certificate of any Swing Line Lender submitted
to any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with
respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
(iv) Each
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans or
to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.04(c)
shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or
other right which such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender may have against any Swing
Line Lender, the Company or any Designated Borrower, or any other Person for any
reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any
other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing; provided that each
U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make U.S. Revolving Credit Loans
pursuant to this Section 2.04(c)
is subject to the conditions set forth in Section
4.02. No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or
otherwise impair the obligation of any Borrower to repay Swing Line Loans,
together with interest as provided herein.
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(d) Repayment of
Participations.
(i) At
any time after any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk
participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender making such Swing
Line Loan receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, such Swing
Line Lender will distribute to such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable
Percentage thereof in such currency as the applicable U.S. Revolving Credit
Lender and the applicable Swing Line Lender shall agree.
(ii) If
any payment received by any Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or
interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by such Swing Line
Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05
(including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Swing Line Lender in
its discretion), each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to such Swing Line
Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent,
plus interest
thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a
rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate. The
Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of such Swing Line
Lender. The obligations of the U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders under
this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the
termination of this Agreement.
(e) Interest for Account of
Swing Line Lender. Each Swing Line Lender shall be responsible
for invoicing the Company or any Designated Borrower for interest on its Swing
Line Loans. Until each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender funds its Base
Rate Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to
refinance such U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of any Swing
Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Percentage shall be solely for
the account of the Swing Line Lender making such Swing Line Loan.
(f) Payments Directly to Swing
Line Lender. The relevant Borrower shall make all payments of
principal and interest in respect of each Swing Line Loan, in the applicable
currency in which such Swing Line Loan was made, directly to the Swing Line
Lender that made such Swing Line Loan, in the amount of such Swing Line
Loan.
(g) Conversion. In
the event that the Loans become immediately due and payable on any date pursuant
to Article
VIII, all amounts (i) that a Borrower is at the time or thereafter
becomes required to reimburse or otherwise pay to the Swing Line Lender in
respect of Swing Line Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, (ii) that the
U.S. Revolving Credit Lenders are at the time or thereafter become required to
pay to the Swing Line Lender in respect of Swing Line Loans denominated in
Alternative Currencies, and (iii) of each U.S. Revolving Credit Lender’s
participation in any Swing Line Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency
under which a payment has been made shall in each case, automatically and with
no further action required, be converted into the Dollar Equivalent of such
amounts. On and after such conversion, all amounts accruing and owed
to the Swing Line Lender or any U.S. Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the
Obligations described above shall accrue and be payable in Dollars at the rates
otherwise applicable hereunder.
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(h) Updates. The
Swing Line Lenders shall provide the Administrative Agent with written updates,
on a weekly basis and otherwise (including more frequently) at the reasonable
request of the Administrative Agent, setting forth the aggregate Outstanding
Amount of all Swing Line Loans and the currencies in which such Swing Line Loans
are denominated.
2.05 Prepayments. (a) Optional.
(i) Subject
to the last sentence of this Section 2.05(a)(i),
the Borrowers may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from
time to time voluntarily prepay Term Loans, U.S. Revolving Credit Loans and
Global Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty;
provided that
(A) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than
1:00 p.m. (1) three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of
Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in Dollars; (2) three (3) Business Days (or
five (5) Business Days, in the case of prepayment of Loans denominated in
Special Notice Currencies) prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate
Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies; and (3) on the date of
prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (B) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans
denominated in Dollars shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; (C) any prepayment of Eurodollar
Rate Loans denominated in Euro shall be in a minimum principal amount of
€5,000,000 or a whole multiple of €1,000,000 in excess thereof; (D) any
prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans denominated in any other Alternative
Currency shall be in a principal amount of the applicable Alternative Currency
Equivalent of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of the applicable Alternative
Currency Equivalent of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (E) any prepayment of
Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple
of $1,000,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal
amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the
date and amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and,
if Eurodollar Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such
Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of
its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s ratable
portion of such prepayment (based on such Lender’s Applicable Percentage in
respect of the relevant Facility). If such notice is given by the
Company, the Company shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified
in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified
therein. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be
accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any
additional amounts required pursuant to Section
3.05. Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant
to this Section
2.05(a) shall be applied to the principal repayment installments thereof
on a pro-rata basis, and each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in
accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of each of
the relevant Facilities.
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(ii) The
Borrowers may, upon notice to the applicable Swing Line Lender (with a copy to
the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay
Swing Line Loans, in the applicable currency in which each such Swing Line Loan
was made, in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A)
such notice must be received by such Swing Line Lender and the Administrative
Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such
prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of (1) in the case of Swing
Line Loans denominated in Dollars, $100,000, (2) in the case of Swing Line Loans
denominated in Euro, the Dollar Equivalent of €100,000, or (3) in the case of
Swing Line Loans designated in any other Alternative Currency, in an amount of
such Alternative Currency with a Dollar Equivalent of at least
$1,000,000. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of
such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Company, the Company
shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall
be due and payable on the date specified therein.
(b) Mandatory.
(i) Prepayment Upon
Overadvance.
(A) If
the Administrative Agent notifies the Company at any time that the Outstanding
Amount under the Revolving Credit Facility at such time exceeds an amount equal
to 105% of the aggregate amount of all Revolving Credit Commitments then in
effect, then, within two (2) Business Days after receipt of such notice, the
Borrowers shall prepay Revolving Loans and/or the Company shall Cash
Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount sufficient to reduce
such Outstanding Amount as of such date of payment to an amount not to exceed
100% of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect; provided that,
subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(g)(ii),
the Company shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations
pursuant to clause
(vi) of this Section 2.05(b)
unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans the Total
Revolving Credit Outstandings exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments
then in effect.
(B) If
the Administrative Agent notifies the Company at any time that the Outstanding
Amount under the Global Revolving Credit Facility at such time exceeds an amount
equal to 105% of the Global Revolving Credit Facility then in effect, then,
within two (2) Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Borrowers shall
prepay Global Revolving Credit Loans in an aggregate amount sufficient to reduce
such Outstanding Amount as of such date of payment to an amount not to
exceed 100% of the Global Revolving Credit Facility then in effect.
(ii) Mandatory Prepayment Upon
Asset Disposition. The Company shall prepay the principal of
the Loans within five (5) Business Days after the date of receipt thereof by the
Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries of Net Sale Proceeds from any Asset
Disposition (other than an Asset Disposition permitted by Section 7.03 or Sections 7.04(a)
through (1));
provided that
the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom shall not be required to be so applied on such
date to the extent that no Default or Event of Default then exists and, if the
aggregate Net Sale Proceeds from all such Asset Dispositions exceed $20,000,000
in any given Fiscal Year, the Company has delivered a certificate to the
Administrative Agent on or prior to such date stating that such Net Sale
Proceeds shall be (A) used to purchase assets used or to be used in the
businesses referred to in Section 6.04 within
360 days following the date of such Asset Disposition or (B) pending such
purchase, used to voluntarily prepay outstanding Revolving Loans to the extent
outstanding on the date of receipt of such Net Sale Proceeds; and provided, further, that (1) if
all or any portion of such Net Sale Proceeds are not so used (or contractually
committed to be used) within such 360 day period and, to the extent not
previously used to voluntarily prepay Revolving Loans pursuant to clause (B), such
remaining portion shall be applied on the last day of the respective period as a
mandatory repayment of principal of outstanding Loans pursuant to the terms of
Sections
2.05(b)(v) and (vi); and (2) if all
or any portion of such Net Sale Proceeds are not required to be applied on the
360th day
referred to in clause
(A) above because such amount is contractually committed to be used and
subsequent to such date such contract is terminated or expires without such
portion being so used, then such remaining portion shall be applied on the date
of such termination or expiration as a mandatory repayment of principal of
outstanding Loans as provided in this Section 2.05(b) to
the extent not previously used to voluntarily prepay Loans pursuant to clause
(B).
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(iii) Mandatory Prepayment With
Proceeds of Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization.
(A) In
the event that the Receivables Facility Attributable Debt with respect to
Domestic Receivables Securitizations in the aggregate equals or exceeds
$200,000,000, then on the date of receipt of cash proceeds arising from such
increased principal amount of Domestic Receivables Securitizations, the Company
shall, to the extent not previously prepaid pursuant to this Section
2.05(b)(iii)(A), prepay the principal of the Loans in an amount equal to
75% of such excess (unless a Default or Event of Default then exists or would
result therefrom, in which case 100% of such excess shall be prepaid), with such
amount applied pursuant to the terms of Sections 2.05(b)(v)
and (vi); provided that, so
long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom,
the Company and any of its Subsidiaries shall not be required to make such
mandatory prepayment to the extent that the aggregate net cash proceeds of any
Domestic Receivables Securitization do not exceed $5,000,000.
(B) In
the event that the Receivables Facility Attributable Debt with respect to the
Foreign Receivables Securitizations in the aggregate equals or exceeds the
Alternative Currency Equivalent of $225,000,000, then on the date of receipt of
cash proceeds arising from such increased principal amount of the Foreign
Receivables Securitizations, the Company shall, to the extent not previously
prepaid pursuant to this Section
2.05(b)(iii)(B), prepay the principal of the Loans in an amount equal to
75% of such excess (unless a Default or Event of Default then exists or would
result therefrom, in which case 100% of such excess shall be prepaid), with such
amount applied pursuant to the terms of Sections 2.05(b)(v)
and (vi));
provided that,
so long as no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom,
the Company and any of its Subsidiaries shall not be required to make such
mandatory prepayment to the extent that the aggregate net cash proceeds of any
Foreign Receivables Securitization do not exceed $5,000,000.
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(iv) Mandatory Prepayment with
Proceeds of Certain Permitted Indebtedness. On the Business
Day of receipt thereof by the Company or any Subsidiary, the Company shall cause
an amount equal to 100% of the Net Offering Proceeds of any Indebtedness
permitted by Section
7.02(d) hereof to be applied as a mandatory repayment of principal of the
Loans pursuant to the terms of Sections 2.05(b)(v)
and (vi); provided that, the
Company shall not be required to make such mandatory prepayment to the extent
that such Net Offering Proceeds (A) were used to pay all or any portion of the
consideration for a Permitted Acquisition so long as such Indebtedness is
unsecured or (B) when aggregated with all other Net Offering Proceeds from
issuances of Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.02(d) and
not used as a mandatory prepayment pursuant to this clause (other than due to
clause (A)
above) do not exceed the Dollar Equivalent of $5,000,000.
(v) Each
prepayment of Loans (other than any prepayment pursuant to Section
2.05(b)(ii)(B)) pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.05(b) shall
be applied, first, to the Term
Facility and to the principal repayment installments thereof on a pro-rata
basis and, second, to the
Revolving Credit Facility in the manner set forth in clause (vi) of this
Section
2.05(b).
(vi) Prepayments
of the Revolving Credit Facility made pursuant to this Section 2.05(b),
first, shall be
applied ratably to the L/C Borrowings and the Swing Line Loans; second, shall be
applied ratably to the outstanding U.S. Revolving Loans and Global Revolving
Credit Loans; and third, shall be used
to Cash Collateralize the remaining L/C Obligations; and, in the case of
prepayments of the Revolving Credit Facility required pursuant to clause (ii), (iv) or (v) of this Section 2.05(b), the
amount remaining, if any, after the prepayment in full of all L/C Borrowings,
Swing Line Loans and Revolving Credit Loans outstanding at such time and the
Cash Collateralization of the remaining L/C Obligations in full (the sum of such
prepayment amounts, cash collateralization amounts and remaining amount being,
collectively, the “Reduction Amount”)
may be retained by the Company for use in the ordinary course of its
business. Any amounts so repaid on the Revolving Credit Facility may
be reborrowed in accordance with the terms of this Agreement Upon the
drawing of any Letter of Credit that has been Cash Collateralized, the funds
held as Cash Collateral shall be applied (without any further action by or
notice to or from the Company or any other Loan Party) to reimburse the L/C
Issuer or the Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable.
2.06 Termination or Reduction of
Commitments. (a) Optional. The
Company may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the U.S.
Revolving Credit Facility or the Global Revolving Credit Facility, the Letter of
Credit Sublimit, the Dollar Swing Line Sublimit or the Alternative Currency
Swing Line Sublimit, or from time to time permanently reduce the U.S. Revolving
Credit Facility or the Global Revolving Credit Facility, the Letter of Credit
Sublimit, the Dollar Swing Line Sublimit or the Alternative Currency Swing Line
Sublimit; provided that (i) any
such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00
a.m. three (3) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii)
any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $10,000,000 or any
whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (iii) the Company shall not
terminate or reduce (A) the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility if, after giving
effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total U.S.
Revolving Credit Outstandings would exceed the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility,
(B) the Global Revolving Credit Facility if, after giving effect thereto and to
any concurrent prepayments hereunder the Total Global Revolving Credit
Outstandings would exceed the Global Revolving Credit Facility, (C) the Letter
of Credit Sublimit if, after giving effect thereto, the Outstanding Amount of
L/C Obligations not fully Cash Collateralized hereunder would exceed the Letter
of Credit Sublimit, (D) the Dollar Swing Line Sublimit if, after giving effect
thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding Amount of
Swing Line Loans denominated in Dollars would exceed the Dollar Swing Line
Sublimit or (E) the Alternative Currency Swing Line Sublimit if, after giving
effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding
Amount of Swing Line Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies would exceed
the Alternative Currency Swing Line Sublimit.
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(b) Mandatory.
(i) The
aggregate Term Commitments shall be automatically and permanently reduced to
zero on the date of the Term Borrowing.
(ii) If
after giving effect to any reduction or termination of Revolving Credit
Commitments under this Section 2.06, the
Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Designated Borrower Sublimit, the Dollar Swing
Line Sublimit or the Alternative Currency Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the
Revolving Credit Facility at such time, such Sublimit shall be automatically
reduced by the amount of such excess.
(c) Application of Commitment
Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will
promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of the Letter of
Credit Sublimit, Dollar Swing Line Sublimit, Alternative Currency Swing Line
Sublimit or the Revolving Credit Commitment under this Section
2.06. Upon any reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments,
the Revolving Credit Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender shall be reduced
by such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the applicable Reduction
Amount. All fees in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility accrued
until the effective date of any termination of the Revolving Credit Facility
shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.
2.07 Repayment of
Loans. (a) Term
Loans. The Company shall repay to the Term Lenders the
aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding on the following dates
in the respective amounts set forth opposite such dates (which amounts shall be
reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the
order of priority set forth in Section
2.05):
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Date
|
Amount
|
|||
Each
of the last Business Days of April 2009, July 2009, October 2009 and
January 2010
|
$ | 2,500,000 | ||
Each
of the last Business Days of April 2010, July 2010, October 2010, January
2011, April 2011, July 2011, October 2011 and January 2012
|
$ | 5,000,000 | ||
Maturity
Date for Term Loans
|
$ | 150,000,000 |
provided that the
final principal repayment installment of the Term Loans shall be repaid on the
Maturity Date for the Term Facility and in any event shall be in an amount equal
to the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans made to the Company
outstanding on such date.
(b) Revolving Credit
Loans. Each Borrower shall repay to (i) the U.S. Revolving
Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the
aggregate principal amount of all U.S. Revolving Credit Loans made to such
Borrower outstanding on such date and (ii) the Global Revolving Credit Lenders
on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal
amount of all Global Revolving Credit Loans made to such Borrower outstanding on
such Date.
(c) Swing Line
Loans. Each Borrower shall repay each Swing Line Loan, in the
applicable currency in which such Swing Line Loan was made, on the earlier to
occur of (i) the date ten (10) Business Days after such Loan is made and (ii)
the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.
2.08 Interest. (a) Subject
to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), (i)
each Eurodollar Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the
outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per
annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period, plus the Applicable
Rate for such Facility, plus (in the case of
a Eurodollar Rate Loan of any Lender which is lent from a Lending Office in the
United Kingdom or a Participating Member State) the Mandatory Cost; (ii) each
Base Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal
amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to
the Base Rate, plus the Applicable
Rate for such Facility; and (iii) each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on
the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a
rate to be mutually agreed by the Company and the Swing Line
Lender.
(b) (i) If
any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any
applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest
rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable Laws.
(ii) If
any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by any Borrower under any
Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace
periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon
the request of the Required Lenders such amount shall thereafter bear interest
at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate
to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
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(iii)
Upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, the
Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding
Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times
equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
Laws.
(iv) Accrued
and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due
interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(c) Interest
on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date
applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified
herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance
with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the
commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
2.09 Fees. In
addition to certain fees described in Sections 2.03(i) and
(j):
(a) Facility
Fee. The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable
Percentage, a facility fee in Dollars equal to the Applicable Rate times the actual
daily amount of the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if the Revolving Credit
Facility has terminated, on the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit
Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations), regardless of
usage. The facility fee shall accrue at all times during the
Availability Period for the Revolving Credit Facility (and thereafter so long as
any Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans or L/C Obligations remain
outstanding), including at any time during which one or more of the conditions
in Article IV
is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last
Business Day of each January, April, July and October, commencing with the first
such date to occur after the Closing Date, on the last day of the Availability
Period for the Revolving Credit Facility (and, if applicable, thereafter on
demand). The facility fee shall be calculated quarterly in
arrears.
(b) Other
Fees.
(i) The
Company shall pay to each Arranger and the Administrative Agent for their own
respective accounts, in Dollars, fees in the amounts and at the times specified
in their respective Fee Letters. Such fees shall be fully earned when
paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(ii) The
Company shall pay to the Lenders, in Dollars, such fees as shall have been
separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so
specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be
refundable for any reason whatsoever.
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2.10 Computation of Interest and
Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable
Rate. (a) All computations of interest for Base
Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by Bank of America’s “prime rate”
shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and
actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest
shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which
results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on
the basis of a 365-day year), or, in the case of interest in respect of Loans
denominated in Alternative Currencies as to which market practice differs from
the foregoing, in accordance with such market practice. Interest
shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not
accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such
portion is paid; provided that any
Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear
interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent
of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all
purposes, absent manifest error.
(b) If,
as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial
statements of the Company or for any other reason, the Company or the Lenders
determine that (i) the Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Company as of any
applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Leverage
Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the Company shall
immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent
for the account of the applicable Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be,
promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an
actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Company under
the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and without further
action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), an amount
equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been
paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such
period. This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under
Section
2.03(c)(iii), 2.03(i) or 2.08(b) or under
Article
VIII. The Company’s obligations under this paragraph shall
survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment of all
other Obligations hereunder.
2.11 Evidence of
Debt. (a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender
shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender
and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of
business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative
Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of
the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and
payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so
shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrowers
hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In
the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any
Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of
such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control
in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender to a
Borrower made through the Administrative Agent, such Borrower shall execute and
deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall
evidence such Lender’s Loans to such Borrower in addition to such accounts or
records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse
thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and
payments with respect thereto.
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(b) In
addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each
Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender
of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans. In the
event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the
Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of
such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control
in the absence of manifest error.
2.12 Payments Generally;
Administrative Agent’s Clawback. (a) General. All
payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made without condition or
deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except
as otherwise expressly provided herein and except with respect to principal of
and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, all payments by
the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the
applicable Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in Same Day Funds not
later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. Except as
otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder
with respect to principal and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternative
Currency shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the
respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable
Administrative Agent’s Office in such Alternative Currency and in Same Day Funds
not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent on the
dates specified herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Administrative Agent may require that any payments due under this Agreement be
made in the United States. If, for any reason, any Borrower is
prohibited by any Law from making any required payment hereunder in an
Alternative Currency, such Borrower shall make such payment in Dollars in the
Dollar Equivalent of the Alternative Currency payment amount. The
Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable
Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility (or other applicable share as
provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to
such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the
Administrative Agent (i) after 2:00 p.m., in the case of payments in
Dollars, or (ii) after the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative
Agent in the case of payments in an Alternative Currency, shall be deemed
received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee
shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by any Borrower
shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the
next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected on
computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
(b) (i) Funding by Lenders;
Presumption by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any
Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base
Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such 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 Section 2.02 (or, in
the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share
available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02) and
may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable 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 applicable Borrower severally agree to
pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in
Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date
such amount is made available to such Borrower to but excluding the date of
payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made
by such Lender, the Overnight Rate, plus any
administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the
Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a
payment to be made by such Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate
Loans. If such Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to
the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to such Borrower the amount of such
interest paid by such Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays
its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the
amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such
Borrowing. Any payment by such Borrower shall be without prejudice to
any claim such Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make
such payment to the Administrative Agent.
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(ii) Payments by Borrowers;
Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Borrower prior to the
time at which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of
the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder that such Borrower will not make such
payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such
assumption, distribute to the Appropriate Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case
may be, the amount due. In such event, if such Borrower has not in
fact made such payment, then each of the Appropriate Lenders or the L/C Issuer,
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 L/C Issuer,
in Same Day Funds 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 Overnight Rate.
A notice
of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or Borrower with respect to any amount
owing under this clause (b) shall be
conclusive, absent manifest error.
(c) Failure to Satisfy
Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the
Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender to any
Borrower as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such
funds are not made available to such Borrower by the Administrative Agent
because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not
satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative
Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to
such Lender, without interest.
(d) Obligations of Lenders
Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Term
Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit
and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) are
several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to
fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 10.04(c) on
any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its
corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase
its participation or to make its payment under Section
10.04(c).
(e) Funding
Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender
to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to
constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain
the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
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(f) Insufficient
Funds. If at any time insufficient funds are received by and
available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, L/C
Borrowings, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied
(i) first,
toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the
parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees
then due to such parties, and (ii) second, toward
payment of principal and L/C Borrowings then due hereunder, ratably among the
parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and L/C
Borrowings then due to such parties.
2.13 Sharing of Payments by
Lenders. If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of
setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a)
Obligations in respect of any of the Facilities due and payable to such Lender
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its
ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations
due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the
Obligations in respect of the Facilities due and payable to all Lenders
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on
account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities due and payable to all
Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by
all the Lenders at such time or (b) Obligations in respect of any of the
Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according
to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing (but not due and
payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the
Obligations in respect of the Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to all
Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Parties at such time) of payment on
account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities owing (but not due and
payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such
time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time then the Lender receiving such
greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and
(b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and
subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans of the other Lenders,
or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all
such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the
aggregate amount of Obligations in respect of the Facilities then due and
payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the
case may be; provided
that:
(i) if
any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any
portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or
subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the
extent of such recovery, without interest; and
(ii) the
provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment
made by a Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this
Agreement or (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the
assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or
subparticipations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or
participant, other than to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which
the provisions of this Section shall apply).
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Each
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 such Borrower rights of
setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such
Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such
participation.
2.14 Increase in Revolving Credit
Facility. (a) Request for
Increase. Provided there exists no Default, upon notice to the
Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the applicable Revolving
Credit Lenders), the Company may from time to time request an increase in
the U.S. Revolving Credit Facility and/or the Global Revolving Credit Facility
by an amount (for
all such requests, together with all increases in the Term Facility requested
under Section
2.15(a)) not
exceeding $200,000,000; provided that (i) any
such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of $25,000,000, and
(ii) together with all such requests under Section 2.15(a), the
Company may make a maximum of six (6) such requests. At the time of
sending such notice, the Company (in consultation with the Administrative Agent)
shall specify the time period within which each Revolving Credit Lender is
requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten (10) Business
Days from the date of delivery of such notice to the Revolving Credit
Lenders).
(b) Lender Elections to
Increase. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall notify the
Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to
increase its Revolving Credit Commitment and, if so, whether by an amount equal
to, greater than, or less than its Applicable Percentage of such requested
increase. Any Revolving Credit Lender not responding within such time
period shall be deemed to have declined to increase its Revolving Credit
Commitment.
(c) Notification by
Administrative Agent; Additional Revolving Credit Lenders. The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and each Revolving Credit Lender
of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder. To achieve the full
amount of a requested increase, and subject to the approval of the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and each Swing Line Lender (which approvals
shall not be unreasonably withheld), the Company may also invite additional
Eligible Assignees to become Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to a joinder
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its
counsel.
(d) Effective Date and
Allocations. If the Revolving Credit Facility is increased in
accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent and the Company shall
determine the effective date (the “Revolving Credit Increase
Effective Date”) and the final allocation and amount of such increase,
which may be less than the requested amount so long as the same is acceptable to
the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify the Company and the Revolving Credit Lenders of the final allocation of
such increase and the Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date.
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(e) Conditions to Effectiveness
of Increase. As a condition precedent to such increase, the
Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) such assurances,
certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably request to be satisfied that such increase will not violate or cause
a default under the Senior Note Documents or otherwise provide the holders of
the Senior Notes the right to collateral to secure the obligations under the
Senior Note Documents and (ii) a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the
Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date (in sufficient copies for each Lender)
signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (A) certifying and attaching
the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such
increase, and (B) in the case of the Company, certifying that, before and after
giving effect to such increase, (1) the representations and warranties contained
in Article V
and the other Loan Documents are true and correct on and as of the Revolving
Credit Increase Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations
and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are
true and correct as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this
Section 2.15,
the representations and warranties contained in clause (a) of Section 5.05 shall be
deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of
Section 6.01,
and (2) no Default exists. The Borrowers shall prepay any Revolving
Credit Loans outstanding on the Revolving Credit Increase Effective Date (and
pay any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05) to the
extent necessary to keep the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans ratable with any
revised Applicable Percentages arising from any nonratable increase in the
Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section.
(f)
Conflicting
Provisions. This Section shall supersede any provisions in
Section 2.13 or
10.01 to the
contrary.
2.15 Increase in Term
Facility. (a) Request for
Increase. Provided there exists no Default, upon notice to the
Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Term Lenders), the
Company may from
time to time request an increase in the Term Loans by an amount (for all such
requests, together with all increases in the Revolving Credit Facility requested
under Section
2.14(a)) not exceeding $200,000,000; provided that (i) any
such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of $25,000,000, and
(ii) together with all such requests under Section 2.14(a), the
Company may make a maximum of four (4) such requests. At the time of
sending such notice, the Company (in consultation with the Administrative Agent)
shall specify the time period within which each Term Lender is requested to
respond (which shall in no event be less than ten (10) Business Days from the
date of delivery of such notice to the Term Lenders).
(b) Lender Elections to
Increase. Each Term Lender shall notify the Administrative
Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to increase its Term
Loans and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its
ratable portion (based on such Term Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of
the Term Facility) of such requested increase. Any
Term Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have
declined to increase its Term Loans.
(c) Notification by
Administrative Agent; Additional Term Lenders. The
Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and each Term Lender of the
Term Lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder. To achieve
the full amount of a requested increase, and subject to the approval of the
Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), the
Company may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become
Term Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
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(d) Effective Date and
Allocations. If the Term Loans are increased in accordance
with this Section, the Administrative Agent and the Company shall determine the
effective date (the “Term Increase Effective
Date”) and the final allocation and amount of such increase, which may be
less than the requested amount so long as the same is acceptable to the
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
the Company and the Term Lenders of the final allocation of such increase and
the Term Increase Effective Date. As of the Term Increase Effective
Date, the amortization schedule for the Term Loans set forth in Section 2.07(a) shall
be amended to increase the then-remaining unpaid installments of principal by an
aggregate amount equal to the additional Term Loans being made on such date,
such aggregate amount to be applied to increase such installments ratably in
accordance with the amounts in effect immediately prior to the Term Increase
Effective Date. Such amendment may be signed by the Administrative
Agent on behalf of the Lenders.
(e) Conditions to Effectiveness
of Increase. As a condition precedent to such increase, the
Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) such assurances,
certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably request to be satisfied that such increase will not violate or cause
a default under the Senior Note Documents or otherwise provide the holders of
the Senior Notes the right to collateral to secure the obligations under the
Senior Note Documents and (ii) a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the
Term Increase Effective Date (in sufficient copies for each Lender) signed by a
Responsible Officer of such Loan Party (A) certifying and attaching the
resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase,
and (B) in the case of the Company, certifying that, before and after
giving effect to such increase, (1) the representations and warranties
contained in Article V and
the other Loan Documents are true and correct on and as of the Term Increase
Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties
specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct
as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 2.15,
the representations and warranties contained in clause (a) of Section 5.05 shall be
deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of
Section 6.01,
and (2) no Default exists. The additional Term Loans shall be
made by the Term Lenders participating therein pursuant to the procedures set
forth in Section
2.02.
(f)
Conflicting
Provisions. This Section shall supersede any provisions in
Section 2.13 or
10.01 to the
contrary.
2.16 Designated
Borrowers.
(a) Effective
as of the date hereof, Greif International Holding shall be a “Designated
Borrower” hereunder and may receive Loans for its account on the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
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(b) The
Company may at any time, upon not less than fifteen (15) Business Days’ notice
from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be
agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), designate any
additional Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Company (an “Applicant
Borrower”) as a Designated Borrower to receive Loans hereunder by
delivering to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver
counterparts thereof to each Lender) a duly executed notice and agreement in
substantially the form of Exhibit I (a
“Designated Borrower
Request and Assumption Agreement”). The parties hereto
acknowledge and agree that prior to any Applicant Borrower becoming entitled to
utilize the credit facilities provided for herein the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders shall have received such supporting resolutions, incumbency
certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, in form,
content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as may be
required by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders in their reasonable
discretion, and Notes signed by such new Borrowers to the extent any Lenders so
require. If the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders agree
that an Applicant Borrower shall be entitled to receive Loans hereunder, then
promptly following receipt of all such requested resolutions, incumbency
certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, the
Administrative Agent shall send a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit J (a
“Designated Borrower
Notice”) to the Company and the Lenders specifying the effective
date upon which the Applicant Borrower shall constitute a Designated Borrower
for purposes hereof, whereupon each of the Lenders agrees to permit such
Designated Borrower to receive Loans hereunder, on the terms and conditions set
forth herein, and each of the parties agrees that such Designated Borrower
otherwise shall be a Borrower for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that no
Committed Loan Notice or Letter of Credit Application may be submitted by or on
behalf of such Designated Borrower until the date five (5) Business Days after
such effective date.
(c) The
Obligations of the Company and each Designated Borrower that is a Domestic
Subsidiary shall be joint and several in nature. The Obligations of
all Designated Borrowers that are Foreign Subsidiaries shall be several in
nature.
(d) Each
Subsidiary of the Company that is or becomes a “Designated
Borrower” pursuant to this Section 2.16
hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent for all purposes relevant
to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including (i) the
giving and receipt of notices, (ii) the execution and delivery of all
documents, instruments and certificates contemplated herein and all
modifications hereto, and (iii) the receipt of the proceeds of any Loans
made by the Lenders to any such Designated Borrower hereunder. Any
acknowledgment, consent, direction, certification or other action which might
otherwise be valid or effective only if given or taken by all Borrowers, or by
each Borrower acting singly, shall be valid and effective if given or taken only
by the Company, whether or not any such other Borrower joins
therein. Any notice, demand, consent, acknowledgement, direction,
certification or other communication delivered to the Company in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been delivered to each
Designated Borrower.
(e) The
Company may from time to time, upon not less than fifteen (15) Business Days’
notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as
may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), terminate a
Designated Borrower’s status as such; provided that there
are no outstanding Loans made to such Designated Borrower payable by such
Designated Borrower, or other amounts payable by such Designated Borrower on
account of any Loans made to it, as of the effective date of such termination.
The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any such
termination of a Designated Borrower’s status.
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2.17 Cash Collateral for L/C
Issuer or Swing Line Lender. At any time that any Lender is an
Impacted Lender, upon the request of the L/C Issuer or any Swing Line Lender to
the Administrative Agent and the Company, the Company shall immediately pledge
and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent as collateral, for the
benefit of the L/C Issuer or such Swing Line Lender, as applicable, cash or
deposit account balances, in Dollars, in an aggregate amount not less than such
Impacted Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the then Outstanding Amount of all
L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans, as applicable, pursuant to documentation in
form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer
or such Swing Line Lender, as applicable, which arrangements and documents are
hereby consented to by the Lenders. No Impacted Lender shall be
required to provide collateral or other comfort with respect to its Applicable
Percentage of the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations or Swing Line
Loans; provided
that nothing in this Section 2.17 shall
limit the obligations of such Impacted Lender to participate in such L/C
Obligations and Swing Line Loans pursuant to Sections 2.03 and
2.04,
respectively. The Borrowers hereby grant to the Administrative Agent,
for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and each Swing Line Lender, as applicable, a
security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein
and all proceeds of the foregoing. Such collateral shall be
maintained in blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of
America. This Section and any agreements or other documents delivered
in connection with this Section shall not be prohibited by, or otherwise
conflict with, any contrary provision herein, including Sections 2.12, 2.13 and 7.01.
ARTICLE
III
TAXES,
YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 Taxes. (a) Payments Free of Taxes;
Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes.
(i) Any
and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the respective Borrowers
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall to the extent permitted by
applicable Laws be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding
for any Taxes. If, however, applicable Laws require any Borrower or
the Administrative Agent to withhold or deduct any Tax, such Tax shall be
withheld or deducted in accordance with such Laws as determined by such
Borrower or the
Administrative Agent, as the case may be, upon the basis of the information and
documentation to be delivered pursuant to clause (e)
below.
(ii) If
any Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall be required by the Code to
withhold or deduct any Taxes, including both United States Federal backup
withholding and withholding taxes, from any payment, then (A) such Borrower or
the Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions as are
determined by the Administrative Agent to be required based upon the information
and documentation it has received pursuant to clause (e) below, (B)
such Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount
withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with
the Code, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on
account of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the sum payable by such Borrower
shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the
making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional
sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer,
as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received
had no such withholding or deduction been made.
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(iii)
If any Borrower or the Administrative Agent shall be
required by any applicable Laws other than the Code to withhold or deduct any
Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as
required by such Laws, shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined
by it to be required based upon the information and documentation it has
received pursuant to clause (e) below, (B)
such Borrower or the Administrative Agent, to the extent required by such Laws,
shall timely pay the full amount so withheld or deducted by it to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with such Laws, and (C) to the extent that
the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes or Other
Taxes, the sum payable by such Borrower shall be increased as necessary so that
after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions
(including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section)
the Administrative Agent, Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, receives an
amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or
deduction been made.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by
the Borrowers. Without limiting the provisions of clause (a)
above, each Borrower shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Laws.
(c) Tax
Indemnifications.
(i) Without
limiting the provisions of clause (a) or (b) above, each
Borrower shall, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender
and the L/C Issuer, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten (10)
days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on
or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) withheld or deducted by
such Borrower or the Administrative Agent or paid by the Administrative Agent,
such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest
and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or
not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or
asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. Each Borrower shall
also, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make
payment in respect thereof within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for any
amount which a Lender or the L/C Issuer for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly
to the Administrative Agent as required by clause (ii) of this
clause. A certificate as to the amount of any such payment or
liability delivered to a Borrower by a Lender or the L/C Issuer (with a copy to
the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or
on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
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(ii) Without
limiting the provisions of clause (a) or (b) above, each
Lender and the L/C Issuer shall, and does hereby, indemnify each Borrower and the Administrative
Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten (10) days after
demand therefor, against any and all Taxes and any and all related losses,
claims, liabilities, penalties, interest and expenses (including the fees,
charges and disbursements of any counsel for such Borrower or the Administrative
Agent) incurred by or asserted against such Borrower or the Administrative Agent
by any Governmental Authority as a result of the failure by such Lender or the
L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to deliver, or as a result of the inaccuracy,
inadequacy or deficiency of, any documentation required to be delivered by such
Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to such Borrower or the
Administrative Agent pursuant to clause
(e). Each Lender and the L/C Issuer hereby authorizes the
Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing
to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under this Agreement or
any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under
this clause
(ii). The agreements in this clause (ii) shall
survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any
assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the
termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or
discharge of all other Obligations.
(d) Evidence of Payments.
Upon request by a
Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, after any payment of
Taxes by such Borrower or the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority
as provided in this Section 3.01, such
Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the
Administrative Agent shall deliver to such Borrower, as the case may be, the
original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority
evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such
payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to such
Borrower or the
Administrative Agent, as the case may be.
(e) Status of Lenders; Tax
Documentation.
(i) Each
Lender shall deliver to the Company and to the Administrative Agent, at the time
or times prescribed by applicable Laws or when reasonably requested by the
Company or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed
documentation prescribed by applicable Laws or by the Governmental Authority of
any jurisdiction and such other reasonably requested information as will permit
the Company or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, to determine (A)
whether or not payments made by the respective Borrowers hereunder or under any
other Loan Document are subject to Taxes, (B) if applicable, the required rate
of withholding or deduction, and (C) such Lender’s entitlement to any available
exemption from, or reduction of, applicable Taxes in respect of all payments to
be made to such Lender by the respective Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement or
otherwise to establish such Lender’s status for withholding tax purposes in the
applicable jurisdictions.
(ii) Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, if a Borrower is resident for tax
purposes in the United States,
(A) any
Lender that is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section
7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative
Agent executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or such other
documentation or information prescribed by applicable Laws or reasonably
requested by the Company on behalf of such Borrower or the Administrative Agent
as will enable such Borrower or the Administrative
Agent, as the case may be, to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to
backup withholding or information reporting requirements; and
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(B) each
Foreign Lender that is entitled under the Code or any applicable treaty to an
exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative
Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or
prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this
Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Company on
behalf of such Borrower or the Administrative
Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever
of the following is applicable:
(I) executed
originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for
benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a
party,
(II) executed
originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,
(III) executed
originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY and all required supporting
documentation,
(IV) in
the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for
portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the
effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of
section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of such
Borrower within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a
“controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code
and (y) executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN,
or
(V) executed
originals of any other form prescribed by applicable Laws as a basis for
claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax
together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by
applicable Laws to permit such Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine
the withholding or deduction required to be made.
(iii) Each
Lender shall promptly (A) notify the Company and the Administrative Agent of any
change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed
exemption or reduction, and (B) take such steps as shall not be materially
disadvantageous to it, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, and as may be
reasonably necessary (including the re-designation of its Lending Office) to
avoid any requirement of applicable Laws of any jurisdiction that any
Borrower or the
Administrative Agent make any withholding or deduction for taxes from amounts
payable to such Lender.
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(iv) Each
of the Borrowers shall promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent or any
Lender, as the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall reasonably request, on
or prior to the Closing Date (or such later date on which it first becomes a
Borrower), and in a timely fashion thereafter, such documents and forms required
by any relevant Governmental Authority under the Laws of any jurisdiction, duly
executed and completed by such Borrower, as are required to be furnished by such
Lender or the Administrative Agent under such Laws in connection with any
payment by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of Taxes or Other Taxes, or
otherwise in connection with the Loan Documents, with respect to such
jurisdiction.
(f)
Treatment of Certain
Refunds. Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall
the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on
behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, or have any obligation to pay to any
Lender or the L/C Issuer, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds
paid for the account of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may
be. If the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer
determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Taxes
or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Borrower or with
respect to which any Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this
Section, it shall pay to such Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only
to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by such
Borrower under this Section with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise
to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses and net of any loss or gain
realized in the conversion of such funds from or to another currency incurred by
the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and
without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental
Authority with respect to such refund); provided that each
Borrower upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Borrower (plus any penalties,
interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer in the event the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or the L/C Issuer is required to repay such
refund to such Governmental Authority. This clause shall not be
construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer to
make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes
that it deems confidential) to any Borrower or any other
Person.
3.02 Illegality. If
any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any
Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its
applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Eurodollar Rate Loans
(whether denominated in Dollars or an Alternative Currency), or to determine or
charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, or any Governmental
Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to
purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars or any Alternative Currency in
the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the
Company through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make
or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies, or, in
the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans in Dollars, to convert Base Rate Loans to
Eurodollar Rate Loans or, if such notice relates to the unlawfulness or asserted
unlawfulness of charging interest based on the Eurodollar Rate, to make Base
Rate Loans as to which the interest rate is determined with reference to the
Eurodollar Rate shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative
Agent and the Company that the circumstances giving rise to such determination
no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers shall, upon
demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if
applicable, and such Loans are denominated in Dollars, convert all Eurodollar
Rate Loans of such Lender and Base Rate Loans as to which the interest rate is
determined with reference to the Eurodollar Rate to Base Rate Loans as to which
the rate of interest is not determined with reference to the Eurodollar Rate,
either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may
lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans to such day, or
immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such
Eurodollar Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing
and despite the illegality for such a Lender to make, maintain or fund
Eurodollar Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans as to which the interest rate is
determined with reference to the Eurodollar Rate, that Lender shall remain
committed to make Base Rate Loans and shall be entitled to recover interest at
the Base Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers shall
also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or
converted.
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3.03 Inability to Determine
Rates.
(a) If
the Required Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any
request for a Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (i) deposits
(whether in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) are not being offered to banks
in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency for the applicable
amount and Interest Period of such Loan, (ii) adequate and reasonable means do
not exist for determining the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period
with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Loan (whether denominated in Dollars
or an Alternative Currency) or in connection with a Base Rate Loan as to which
the interest rate is determined with reference to the Eurodollar Rate, or (iii)
the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed
Eurodollar Rate Loan or in connection with a Eurodollar Rate Loan does not
adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, the
Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Company and each Lender.
Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate
Loans in the affected currency or currencies and Base Rate Loans as to which the
interest rate is determined with reference to the Eurodollar Rate shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required
Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Company may
revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, failing that,
will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of
Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
(b) If
Lenders having 45% or more of the Aggregate Commitments, acting in good faith,
certify (which certification shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrowers)
that the Eurodollar Rate or the Base Rate (if then based on the Eurodollar
Rate), as the case may be, will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to
such Lenders (as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or
maintaining their affected Loans and set forth the basis for such statement,
together with any available evidence thereof, the Agent shall give notice
thereof to the Company and the Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter and,
upon delivery of such notice and until the Administrative Agent (upon the
instruction of such Lenders that have previously delivered such a notice to the
Agent) revokes such notice, the Market Disruption Spread shall be included in
the calculation of the Base Rate (if then based on the Eurodollar Rate) and the
Eurodollar Rate.
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3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on
Eurodollar Rate Loans. (a) Increased Costs
Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose,
modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan,
insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for
the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except (A)
any reserve requirement reflected in the Eurocurrency Rate and (B) the
requirements of the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority or the
European Central Bank reflected in the Mandatory Cost, other than as set forth
below) or the L/C Issuer;
(ii) subject
any Lender or the L/C Issuer to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to
this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or
any Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments
to such Lender or the L/C Issuer in respect thereof (except for Indemnified
Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.01 and the
imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such
Lender or the L/C Issuer);
(iii) result
in the failure of the Mandatory Cost, as calculated hereunder, to represent the
cost to any Lender of complying with the requirements of the Bank of England
and/or the Financial Services Authority or the European Central Bank in relation
to its making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Loans; or
(iv) impose
on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or any applicable offshore interbank market any
other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Rate
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 Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation
to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer
of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of
maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit),
or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the
L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then,
upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the Company will pay (or cause
the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as
the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such
Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred
or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital
Requirements. If any Lender or the L/C Issuer determines that
any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any Lending Office
of such Lender or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any,
regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate
of return on such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s capital or on the capital of such
Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this
Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Eurodollar Rate Loans made by,
or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of
Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or the
L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company could have
achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or
the L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s
holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the
Company will pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) to such
Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts
as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C
Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
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(c) Certificates for
Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or the L/C Issuer
setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the
L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in clause
(a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Company shall be conclusive
absent manifest error. The Company shall pay (or cause the applicable
Designated Borrower to pay) such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be,
the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after
receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in
Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the
L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this
Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s right
to demand such compensation; provided that no
Borrower shall be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to
the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or
reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or
the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Company of the Change in Law
giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the
L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the
Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive,
then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the
period of retroactive effect thereof).
(e) Additional Reserve
Requirements. The Company shall pay (or cause the applicable
Designated Borrower to pay) to each Lender, but without duplication of amounts
paid as a result of the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage, as long as such Lender
shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous
requirement of any central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in
respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of Eurodollar Rate
Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded
upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual
costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such
Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), which shall be
due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided that the
Company shall have received at least ten (10) days’ prior notice (with a copy to
the Administrative Agent) of such additional costs from such
Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice ten (10) days prior to the
relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional costs shall be due and payable
ten (10) days from receipt of such notice.
3.05 Compensation for
Losses. Upon demand of the Administrative Agent, acting at the
request of a Lender, from time to time, the Company shall promptly compensate
(or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to compensate) such Lender for and
hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a
result of:
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(a) any
continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurodollar Rate Loan on a
day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether
voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or
otherwise);
(b) any
failure by any Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to
make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Eurodollar Rate Loan on
the date or in the amount notified by the Company or the applicable Designated
Borrower;
(c) any
failure by any Borrower to make payment of any Loan or drawing under any Letter
of Credit (or interest due thereon) denominated in an Alternative Currency on
its scheduled due date or any payment thereof in a different currency;
or
(d) any
assignment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the
Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to
Section
10.13;
including
any loss of anticipated profits, any foreign exchange losses with respect to
Loans in an Alternative Currency and any loss or expense arising from the
liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, from
fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained or
from the performance of any foreign exchange contract. The Company
shall also pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) any
reasonable and customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in
connection with the foregoing.
For
purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Company (or the applicable
Designated Borrower) to the Lenders under this Section 3.05,
each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it
at the Eurodollar Rate for such Loan by a
matching deposit or other borrowing in the offshore interbank market for such
currency for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not
such Eurodollar Rate Loan was in fact so funded.
3.06 Mitigation Obligations;
Replacement of Lenders. (a) Designation of a Different
Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under
Section 3.04,
or any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender, the L/C
Issuer, or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or the L/C
Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01, or if
any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then
such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall, as applicable, 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 judgment of such Lender or the L/C Issuer,
such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable
pursuant to Section
3.01 or 3.04, as the case may
be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as
applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender or the L/C
Issuer, as the case may be, to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not
otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may
be. The Company hereby agrees to pay (or to cause the applicable
Designated Borrower to pay) all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any
Lender or the L/C Issuer in connection with any such designation or
assignment.
(b) Replacement of
Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if
any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, the
Company may replace such Lender in accordance with Section
10.13.
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(c) Survival. All
of the Borrowers’ obligations under this Article III shall
survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, repayment of all other
Obligations hereunder, and resignation of the Administrative Agent.
ARTICLE
IV
CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit
Extension. The obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to
make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the
following conditions precedent:
(a) The
Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be
originals or telecopies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise
specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan
Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of
governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form
and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the
Lenders:
(i) executed
counterparts of this Agreement and the Guaranties, sufficient in number for
distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the
Company;
(ii) Notes
executed by the Borrowers in favor of each Lender requesting a
Note;
(iii) a
pledge and security agreement, in substantially the form of Exhibit G
(together with each other pledge and security agreement and pledge and security
agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.11, in
each case as amended, the “Security Agreement”),
duly executed by each Loan Party, together with:
(A) certificates
representing the Pledged Equity referred to therein accompanied by undated stock
powers executed in blank;
(B) proper
financing statements in form appropriate for filing under the Uniform Commercial
Code of all jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or
desirable in order to perfect the Liens created under the Security Agreement,
covering the Collateral described in the Security Agreement;
(C) completed
requests for information, dated on or before the date of the initial Credit
Extension, listing all effective financing statements filed in the jurisdictions
referred to in clause (B) above
that name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such other financing
statements;
(D) evidence
of the completion of all other actions, recordings and filings of or with
respect to the Security Agreement that the Administrative Agent may deem
necessary or desirable in order to perfect the Liens created
thereby;
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(E) evidence
that all other action that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or
desirable in order to perfect the Liens created under the Security Agreement has
been taken (including receipt of duly executed payoff letters, UCC-3 termination
statements and landlords’ and bailees’ waiver and consent
agreements);
(iv) such
certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or
other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the
Administrative Agent may require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity
of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer
in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such
Loan Party is a party or is to be a party;
(v) such
documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require
to evidence that each Loan Party (other than Trilla-St. Louis, with respect to
which such evidence shall be delivered pursuant to Section 6.17(b)) is
duly organized or formed, and that each such Loan Party is validly existing, in
good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its
ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business
requires such qualification, except to the extent that failure to do so would
not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(vi) a
favorable opinion of Vorys, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx LLP, special counsel to the
Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to the
matters set forth in Exhibit H-1 and such
other matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Required
Lenders may reasonably request;
(vii) a
favorable opinion of the General Counsel of the Company, addressed to the
Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit H-2 and such
other matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Required
Lenders may reasonably request;
(viii) a
favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxxx LLP, special counsel to the Administrative
Agent and the Arrangers, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender,
as to the enforceability of the Loan Documents under New York law;
(ix) a
certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company, on behalf of each Loan
Party, either (A) attaching copies of all consents, licenses and approvals
required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan
Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it
is a party, and such consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force and
effect, or (B) stating that no such consents, licenses or approvals are so
required;
(x) a
certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company, on behalf of each
Loan Party, certifying (A) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and
(b) have been
satisfied, (B) that
there has been no event or circumstance since October 31, 2008 that has had or
would be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect, and (C) the absence of any action, suit, investigation
or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in any
court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that would reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(xi) evidence
that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to the Loan Documents has
been obtained and is in effect, together with the certificates of insurance,
naming the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, as an additional
insured or loss payee, as the case may be, under all insurance policies
maintained with respect to the assets and properties of the Loan Parties that
constitutes Collateral;
(xii) evidence
that the Existing Credit Agreement has been, or concurrently with the Closing
Date is being, terminated and all Liens securing obligations under the Existing
Credit Agreement have been, or concurrently with the Closing Date are being,
released;
(xiii) evidence
that the Liquidity Facility Loan Agreement has been, or concurrently with the
Closing Date is being, terminated; and
(xiv) such
other assurances, certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, any Swing Line Lender or any Lender
reasonably may require.
(b) (i)
All fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers on or
before the Closing Date shall have been paid and (ii) all fees required to be
paid to the Lenders on or before the Closing Date shall have been
paid.
(c) Unless
waived by the Administrative Agent, the Company shall have paid all reasonable
fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly
to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent invoiced
prior to or on the Closing Date, plus such additional
amounts of such fees, charges and disbursements as shall constitute its
reasonable estimate of such fees, charges and disbursements incurred or to be
incurred by it through the closing proceedings (provided that such
estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the
Company and the Administrative Agent).
Without
limiting the generality of the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, for
purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each
Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to,
approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter
required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or
satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received
notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its
objection thereto.
4.02 Conditions to all Credit
Extensions. The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request
for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a
conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate
Loans) is subject to the following conditions precedent:
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(a) The
representations and warranties of the Company contained in Article V or any
other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any
time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in
all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to
the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an
earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 4.02, the
representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.05(a)
shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to
Sections
6.01(a) and (b),
respectively.
(b) No
Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from
the application of the proceeds thereof.
(c) The
Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/C Issuer or the applicable Swing
Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance
with the requirements hereof.
(d) If
the applicable Borrower is a Designated Borrower, then the conditions of Section 2.16 to the
designation of such Borrower as a Designated Borrower shall have been met to the
satisfaction of the Administrative Agent.
(e) In
the case of a Credit Extension to be denominated in an Alternative Currency
other than Euro, there shall not have occurred any change in national or
international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange
rates or exchange controls which in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative
Agent, the Required Global Revolving Lenders (in the case of any Revolving
Credit Loans to be denominated in an Alternative Currency) or the L/C Issuer (in
the case of any Letter of Credit to be denominated in an Alternative Currency)
would make it impracticable for such Credit Extension to be denominated in the
relevant Alternative Currency.
Each
Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only
a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate
Loans) submitted by the Company shall be deemed to be a representation and
warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a)
and (b) have
been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit
Extension.
ARTICLE
V
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
In order
to induce the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans, and
issue (or participate in) the Letters of Credit as provided herein, each
Borrower with respect to itself and its Subsidiaries makes the following
representations and warranties as of the Closing Date (both before and after
giving effect to the Credit Extensions on the Closing Date) and as of the date
of each subsequent Credit Extension (except to the extent such representations
and warranties are expressly made as of a specified date, in which case such
representations and warranties shall be true as of such specified date), all of
which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Notes
and the making of the Loans and issuance of the Letters of
Credit:
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5.01 Corporate
Status. Each Loan Party (a) is a duly organized or formed or
incorporated, as the case may be, and validly existing organization in good
standing (except for Trilla-St. Louis under the laws of the State of Illinois
and, for purposes hereof, only until satisfaction of the requirements of Section 6.17(b))
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization (to the extent that such
concept exists in such jurisdiction); (b) has the corporate or other
organizational power and authority to own its property and assets and to
transact the business in which it is engaged; and (c) is duly qualified and is
authorized to do business and is in good standing (to the extent such concept
exists in the relevant jurisdiction) in (i) Delaware in the case of the Company,
or its jurisdiction of organization in the case of a Subsidiary of the Company
and (ii) in each other jurisdiction where the ownership, leasing or operation of
property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except in
the case of clause
(i) with respect to Foreign Subsidiaries which are not Loan Parties and
in the case of clause
(ii) for such failure to be so qualified, authorized or in good standing
which, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
5.02
Corporate Power and
Authority. Each Loan Party has the corporate or other
organizational power and authority to execute and deliver each of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party and to perform its obligations thereunder and
has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by it of each of such Loan Documents. Each Loan Party has
duly executed and delivered each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party,
and each of such Loan Documents constitutes its legal, valid and binding
obligation enforceable in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that
the enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws generally affecting creditors’ rights
and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in
equity or at law).
5.03 No
Violation. The execution and delivery by any Loan Party of the
Loan Documents to which it is a party (including, without limitation, the
granting of Liens pursuant to the Collateral Documents) and the performance of
such Loan Party’s obligations thereunder do not (a) contravene any provision of
any Law applicable to any Loan Party; (b) conflict with or result in any breach
of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of
(or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien (except pursuant to the
Collateral Documents) upon any of the property or assets of any Loan Party
pursuant to the terms of any Contractual Obligation to which any Loan Party is a
party or by which it or any of its property or assets is bound except for such
contraventions, conflicts, breaches or defaults that would not be reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; (c) violate any provision of any
Organizational Document of any Loan Party; or (d) require any approval of
stockholders or any material approval or consent of any Person (other than a
Governmental Authority) except filings, consents, or notices which have been
made, obtained or given and except as set forth on Schedule 5.03.
5.04 Governmental and Other
Approvals. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.04 and
except for filings necessary to create or perfect security interests in the
Collateral, no material order, consent, approval, license, authorization or
validation of, or filing, recording or registration with (except as have been
obtained or made on or prior to the Closing Date), or exemption by, any
Governmental Authority, is required to authorize, or is required in connection
with, (a) the execution and delivery of any Loan Document or the performance of
the obligations thereunder or (b) the legality, validity, binding effect or
enforceability of any such Loan Document.
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5.05
Financial Statements;
Financial Condition; Undisclosed Liabilities Projections;
Etc.
(a) Financial
Statements. The balance sheet of the Company at October 31,
2007 and 2008 and the related statements of income, cash flows and shareholders’
equity of the Company for the Fiscal Year or other period ended on such dates,
as the case may be, fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition and results of operation and cash flows of the Company and its
consolidated subsidiaries as of such dates and for such
periods. Copies of such statements have been furnished to the Lenders
prior to the date hereof and have been examined by Ernst & Young LLP,
independent certified public accountants, who delivered an unqualified opinion
in respect thereto.
(b) Solvency. On
and as of the Closing Date and on and as of the date of each Borrowing, on a pro
forma basis after giving effect to the Loans to be made on such date (solely as
to the Closing Date) and to all Indebtedness incurred, and to be incurred, and
Liens created, and to be created, by each Loan Party on such date, each Loan
Party (on a consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries) is and will be
Solvent.
(c) No Undisclosed
Liabilities. Except as fully reflected in the financial
statements and the notes related thereto delivered pursuant to Section 5.05(a) and
on Schedule
5.05(c), there were as of the Closing Date (and after giving effect to
the transactions contemplated hereby) no liabilities or obligations with respect
to the Company and its Subsidiaries of any nature whatsoever (whether absolute,
accrued, contingent or otherwise and whether or not due) which, either
individually or in aggregate, would cause a Material Adverse
Effect. As of the Closing Date (and after giving effect to the
transactions contemplated hereby), the Borrowers do not know of any basis for
the assertion against the Company or any Subsidiary of any liability or
obligation of any nature whatsoever that is not reflected in the financial
statements or the notes related thereto delivered pursuant to Section 5.05(a) and
on Schedule
5.05(c), other than the Obligations, which, either individually or in the
aggregate, would reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse
Effect.
(d) No Material Adverse
Change. Since October 31, 2008, there has been no fact, event,
circumstance or occurrence which has caused or resulted in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(e) Projections. On
and as of the Closing Date, the financial projections previously delivered to
Administrative Agent and the Lenders (collectively, the “Projections”) and
each of the budgets delivered after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 6.02(d) are,
at the time made, prepared on a basis consistent with the financial statements
referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and
(b) and are at
the time made based on good faith estimates and assumptions made by the
management of the Company, and there are no statements or conclusions in the
Projections or any such budgets which, at the time made, are based upon or
include information known to the Company to be materially misleading or which
fail to take into account material information regarding the matters reported
therein. On the Closing Date, the Company believes that the
Projections are reasonable and attainable, it being understood that uncertainty
is inherent in any forecasts or projections, such Projections are not to be
viewed as facts, and that no assurance can be given that the results set forth
in the Projections will actually be obtained and the differences may be
material.
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5.06 Litigation. There
are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the best knowledge of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, threatened (a) against the Company or any Loan
Party challenging the validity or enforceability of any material provision of
any Loan Document, or (b) that would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
5.07 True and Complete
Disclosure. All factual information (taken as a whole)
heretofore or contemporaneously furnished by or on behalf of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries in writing to any Lender (including, without limitation, all
information contained in the Loan Documents) (other than the Projections as to
which Section
5.05(e) applies) for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or
any transaction contemplated herein is, and all other such factual information
(taken as a whole) hereafter furnished by or on behalf of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries in writing to any Lender for purposes of or in connection with
this Agreement or any transaction contemplated herein, when taken as a whole, do
not contain as of the date furnished any untrue statement of material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
contained herein or therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. As of the Closing Date, the Borrowers have
disclosed to the Lenders (a) all agreements, instruments and corporate or other
restrictions to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and (b)
all other matters known to any of them, that individually or in the aggregate
with respect to clauses (a) and (b) above, would
reasonably be expected to result in Material Adverse Effect.
5.08 Use of Proceeds; Margin
Regulations.
(a) Loan
Proceeds. All proceeds of the Loans incurred hereunder shall
be used by the Borrowers, as applicable, for ongoing working capital needs and
general corporate purposes including Permitted Acquisitions by the Company and
its Subsidiaries.
(b) Margin
Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used
to purchase or carry any margin stock (as defined in Regulation U of the FRB),
directly or indirectly, or to extend credit for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying any such margin stock for the purpose of reducing or retiring any
indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin
security or for any other purpose which might cause any of the Loans or other
Credit Extensions under this Agreement to be considered a “purpose credit”
within the meaning of Regulation T, U or X of the FRB.
5.09 Taxes. Each
of the Company and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all
material returns, statements, forms and reports for taxes required to have been
filed and has 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 Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set
aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do
so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
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5.10 Compliance With
ERISA. Except as, in the aggregate, would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: each Plan has been operated and
administered in a manner so as not to result in any liability of any Borrower
for failure to comply with the applicable provisions of applicable law,
including ERISA and the Code; no Termination Event has occurred with respect to
a Plan; to the best knowledge of each Borrower, no Multiemployer Plan is
insolvent or in reorganization; no Plan has an accumulated or waived funding
deficiency or has applied for an extension of any amortization period within the
meaning of Section 412 of the Code; the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries or any
ERISA Affiliates have not incurred any liability to or on account of a Plan
pursuant to Section 409, 502(i), 502(1), 4062, 4063, 4064, 4069, 4201 or 4204 of
ERISA or Section 4971 or 4975 of the Code; no proceedings have been instituted
to terminate any Plan within the last Fiscal Year; using actuarial assumptions
and computation methods consistent with subpart 1 of subtitle E of Title IV of
ERISA, to the best knowledge of the Borrowers, the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries and ERISA Affiliates would not have any liability to any Plans
which are Multiemployer Plans in the event of a complete withdrawal therefrom,
as of the close of the most recent Fiscal Year of each such Multiemployer Plan
ending prior to the date of any Credit Extension; no Lien imposed under the Code
or ERISA on the assets of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or any
ERISA Affiliate exists or is likely to arise on account of any Plan; the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and ERISA Affiliates have made all
contributions to each Plan within the time required by law or by the terms of
such Plan; and the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and ERISA Affiliates do not
maintain or contribute to any employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(1) of ERISA) which provides benefits to retired employees (other than
as required by Section 601 et seq. of ERISA) or any employee pension benefit
plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) the obligations with respect to
either of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
5.11 Collateral
Documents. When executed and delivered, the Security Agreement
will be effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties, legal and valid security interests in the
Collateral described therein and proceeds thereof. In the case of the
Pledged Equity to the extent represented by certificated securities (the “Certificated Pledged
Stock”) described in the Security Agreement, when stock certificates
representing such Certificated Pledged Stock are delivered to Administrative
Agent, and in the case of the other Collateral described in the Security
Agreement, when financing statements and other filings specified on Schedule 5.11 in
appropriate form are filed in the offices specified on Schedule 5.11 (so
long as the Closing Date shall have occurred), the Security Agreement shall
constitute a fully perfected Lien (to the extent such Lien can be perfected by
filing, recording, registration or, with respect to the Certificated Pledged
Stock, possession) on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest
of the Loan Parties in such Collateral and the proceeds thereof, as security for
the Obligations (as defined in the Security Agreement), in each case prior and
superior in right to any other Person (except, in the case of Collateral other
than Certificated Pledged Stock, Liens permitted by Section 7.01, and
only to the extent that priority can be obtained by filing).
5.12 Senior Note
Documents. There is no event of default or event or condition
which could become an event of default with notice or lapse of time or both,
under the Senior Note Documents, and each of the Senior Note Documents is in
full force and effect.
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5.13 Ownership of
Property.
(a) The
Company and each Material Subsidiary has good and marketable title to, or a
subsisting leasehold interest in, all material items of real and personal
property used in its operations (except as to leasehold interests) free and
clear of all Liens, except Liens permitted by Section 7.01 and
except to the extent that the failure to have such title or interest
(individually or in the aggregate) would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. Substantially all items of real and material
personal property owned by, leased to or used by the Company and each Material
Subsidiary are in adequate operating condition and repair, ordinary wear and
tear excepted, are free and clear of any known defects except such defects as do
not substantially interfere with the continued use thereof in the conduct of
normal operations, and are able to serve the function for which they are
currently being used, except to the extent the failure to keep such condition
(individually or in the aggregate) would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Schedule 5.13(b)
sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Liens on the property or assets
of the Company and each Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Timber SPV or
Receivables Subsidiary), showing as of the date hereof the lienholder thereof,
the principal amount of the obligations secured thereby and the property or
assets of such Person subject thereto.
5.14 Capitalization of the
Company. All outstanding Equity Interests of the Company have
been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. A
complete and correct copy of each of the Organizational Documents of the Company
in effect on the date of this Agreement has been delivered to Administrative
Agent.
5.15 Subsidiaries.
(a) Organization. Schedule 5.15 hereto
sets forth a true, complete and correct list as of the date of this Agreement of
each Subsidiary and indicates for each such Subsidiary (i) its jurisdiction of
organization, (ii) its ownership (by holder and percentage interest) and (iii)
whether such Subsidiary is a Material Subsidiary. As of the Closing
Date, the Company has no Subsidiaries except for those Subsidiaries listed as
such on Schedule
5.15 hereto.
(b) Capitalization. All
Equity Interests of each Loan Party and, to the knowledge of each Responsible
Officer of the Company, each other Subsidiary, have been duly authorized and
validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned free and clear
of all Liens except for Liens permitted by Section
7.01. A complete and correct copy of each Organizational
Document of each Domestic Subsidiary, each first-tier Foreign Subsidiary (which
is a Loan Party) and any other Borrower in effect on the date of this Agreement
has been delivered to Administrative Agent.
(c) Restrictions on or Relating
to Subsidiaries. Except to the extent permitted by Section 7.13, there
does not exist any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of:
(i) any
Subsidiary of the Company to pay dividends or make any other distributions on
its Equity Interests, or to pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company;
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(ii) any
Subsidiary of the Company to make loans or advances to the Company or any of the
Company’s Subsidiaries; or
(iii) the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to transfer any of its properties or assets
to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
except,
in connection with subclauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above, for such
encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (x) applicable Law,
(y) this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or (z) customary provisions
restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest
of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company.
5.16 Compliance With Law,
Etc. Neither the Company nor any of its Material Subsidiaries
is in default in any material respect under or in violation in any material
respect of any Law applicable to any of them or Contractual Obligation, or under
its Organizational Documents, as the case may be, in each case the consequences
of which default or violation, either in any one case or in the aggregate, would
have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.17 Investment Company
Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
“investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”,
within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
5.18 Public Utility Holding
Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
is a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, or an
“affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company” of a “holding
company” within the meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935,
as amended.
5.19 Environmental
Matters.
(a) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects
with, and on the date of such Credit Extension are in compliance in all material
respects with, all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits
except for such non-compliance as would not reasonably be expected, individually
or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no
pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrowers, threatened Environmental
Claims against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any real property
currently owned or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries except for
such Environmental Claims that would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Except
as set forth on Schedule 5.19,
Hazardous Materials have not at any time been generated, used, treated or stored
on, or transported to or from, or otherwise come to be located on, any real
property owned or at any time operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
where such generation, use, treatment or storage has violated or would
reasonably be expected to violate or create liability under any Environmental
Law in any material respect and result, either individually or in the aggregate,
in a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Borrowers,
Hazardous Materials have not at any time been Released on or from, or otherwise
come to be located on, any real property owned or at any time operated by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries where such Release has violated or would
reasonably be expected to violate or create liability under any Environmental
Law in any material respect and result, either individually or in the aggregate,
in a Material Adverse Effect.
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5.20 Labor
Relations. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
engaged in any unfair labor practice that would reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. There is (a) no significant unfair labor
practice complaint pending against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to
the best knowledge of the Borrowers, threatened against any of them before the
National Labor Relations Board or any similar Governmental Authority in any
jurisdiction, and no significant grievance or significant arbitration proceeding
arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement is so pending
against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best knowledge of the
Borrowers, threatened against any of them and (b) no significant strike, labor
dispute, slowdown or stoppage is pending against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or, to the best knowledge of the Borrowers, threatened against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except (with respect to any matter specified
in clause (a) or (b) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.21 Intellectual Property,
Licenses, Franchises and Formulas. Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries owns or holds licenses or other rights to or under all the material
patents, patent applications, trademarks, designs, service marks, trademark and
service xxxx registrations and applications therefor, trade names, copyrights,
copyright registrations and applications therefor, trade secrets, proprietary
information, computer programs, data bases, licenses, permits, franchises and
formulas, or rights with respect to the foregoing which are material to the
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (collectively,
“IP Rights”),
and has obtained assignments of all leases and other rights of whatever nature,
material to the present conduct of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, without any known material conflict with the
rights of others except, in each case, where the failure to own or hold such
rights or obtain such assignments would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of each Responsible Officer
of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to
any existing or threatened claim by any Person contesting the validity,
enforceability, use or ownership of the IP Rights, or of any existing state of
facts that would support a claim that use by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of any such IP Rights has infringed or otherwise violated any
proprietary rights of any other Person which would reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.22 Anti-Terrorism
Laws. None of the requesting or borrowing of the Loans, the
requesting or issuance, extension or renewal of any Letters of Credit or the use
of the proceeds of any thereof will violate the Trading With the Enemy Act (50
U.S.C. s. 1 et seq., as amended) (the “Trading With the Enemy
Act”) or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United
States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) (the
“Foreign Assets
Control Regulations”) or any enabling legislation or executive order
relating thereto (which for the avoidance of doubt shall include, but shall not
be limited to (a) Executive Order 13224 of September 21, 2001 Blocking Property
and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or
Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)) (the “Executive Order”) and
(b) the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools
Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Public Law
107-56)). Furthermore, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan
Party (i) is or will become a “blocked person” as described in the Executive
Order, the Trading With the Enemy Act or the Foreign Assets Control Regulations
or (ii) engages or will engage in any dealings or transactions, or be otherwise
associated, with any such “blocked person”.
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ARTICLE
VI
AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
Each
Borrower hereby agrees, as to itself and its Subsidiaries, that, so long as any
of the Commitments remains in effect, or any Loan or L/C Obligation remains
outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to any Lender or the
Administrative Agent hereunder (other than contingent indemnity Obligations),
such Borrower shall:
6.01 Financial
Statements. Furnish, or cause to be furnished, to each
Lender:
(a) Quarterly Financial
Statements. As soon as available, but in any event not later
than forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the Fiscal Quarters of each
Fiscal Year of the Company, the consolidated balance sheet and statements of
income of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such
quarter and the related unaudited consolidated statements of retained earnings
and of cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such
quarter and the portion of the Fiscal Year through the end of such quarter, all
of which shall be certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of the
Company, as at the dates indicated and for the periods indicated, subject to
normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; and
(b) Annual Financial
Statements. As soon as available, but in any event within
ninety (90) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Company, a copy of the
audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated
statements of income, retained earnings and of cash flows for such year, setting
forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous
year.
All such
financial statements shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods
(except as approved by the accountants preparing such statements or the chief
financial officer or treasurer, in the case of unaudited statements, and
disclosed therein) and, in the case of the consolidated financial statements
referred to in Section
6.01(b), shall be accompanied by a report thereon of independent
certified public accountants of recognized national standing, which report shall
contain no qualifications with respect to the continuance of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as going concerns and shall state that such financial statements
present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company
and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their
operations and cash flow for the periods indicated in conformity with
GAAP.
6.02 Certificates; Other
Information. Furnish to each Lender (or, if specified below,
to the Administrative Agent):
(a) Officer’s
Certificates. Concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and
6.01(b), a
certificate of the Company’s chief financial officer or treasurer substantially
in the form of Exhibit
D (a “Compliance
Certificate”) stating that to the best of such officer’s knowledge, (i)
such financial statements present fairly in all material respects, in accordance
with GAAP, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and
its Subsidiaries for the period referred to therein (subject, in the case of
interim statements, to normal recurring adjustments and the absence of
footnotes) and (ii) no Default or Event of Default exists, except as specified
in such certificate and, if so specified, the action which the Company proposes
to take with respect thereto, which certificate shall set forth detailed
computations to the extent necessary to establish the Company’s compliance with
the covenants set forth in Sections 7.15 of this
Agreement;
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(b) Audit Reports and
Statements. Promptly following the Company’s receipt thereof,
copies of all final consolidated financial or other consolidated reports or
statements, if any, submitted to the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries
by independent public accountants relating to any annual or interim audit of the
books of the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries including, without
limitation, to the extent available, audited reports with respect to each
Material Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary, reconciled to GAAP by the
Company, within one hundred eighty (180) days after the end of each Fiscal Year
of the applicable Foreign Subsidiary;
(c) Management
Letters. Promptly after receipt thereof, a copy of any
definitive “management letter” or any definitive letter citing a “material
weakness” received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from its certified
public accountants;
(d) Budgets. As
soon as available and in any event within ninety (90) days after the
commencement of each Fiscal Year, budgets of the Company and its Subsidiaries in
reasonable detail for each Fiscal Quarter of such Fiscal Year as customarily
prepared by management for its internal use, setting forth, with appropriate
discussion, the principal assumptions upon which such budgets are
based;
(e) Public
Filings. Within ten (10) Business Days after the same become
public, copies of all financial statements, filings, registrations and reports
which the Borrowers may make to, or file with, the SEC or any successor or
analogous Governmental Authority;
(f) Annual Covenant Compliance
Certificate. Concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements set forth in Section 6.01(b)
hereof, a certificate certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of
the Company setting forth the Company and its Subsidiaries’ compliance with each
of the covenants set forth in Article VII hereof,
including calculations of basket amounts, in each case in a manner reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) Collateral
Information. As soon as available, but in any event within
thirty (30) days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Company, (i) a report
supplementing Schedule
5.15 containing a description of all changes in the information included
in such Schedule as may be necessary for such Schedule to be accurate and
complete, each such report to be signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company
and to be in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
and
(h) Other Requested
Information. Such other information with respect to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the Collateral as the Administrative Agent
or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
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Documents
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or
(b) or Section 6.02(e)
(to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with
the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to
have been delivered on the date (a) on which the Company posts such documents,
or provides a link thereto on the Company’s website on the Internet at the
website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or
(b) on which such documents are posted on the Company’s behalf on an Internet or
intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have
access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the
Administrative Agent); provided that (i) the
Company shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent
or any Lender that requests the Company to deliver such paper copies until a
written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative
Agent or such Lender and (ii) the Company shall notify the Administrative Agent
and each Lender (by telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such
documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic
versions (i.e.,
soft copies) of such documents. Notwithstanding anything contained
herein, if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Company shall be required
to provide paper copies of the Compliance Certificates required by Section 6.02(a) and
the certificates required by Section 6.02(f) to
the Administrative Agent. Except for such certificates, the
Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to
maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have
no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Company with any such request for
delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to
it or maintaining its copies of such documents.
Each
Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or each
Arranger will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or
information provided by or on behalf of such Borrower hereunder (collectively,
the “Borrower
Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another
similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b)
certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may
have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with
respect to any of the Borrowers or their respective Affiliates, or the
respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in
investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’
securities. Each Borrower hereby agrees that it will use commercially
reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower Materials that may
be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower Materials
shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall
mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof;
(x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” the Borrowers shall be deemed to
have authorized the Administrative Agent, each Arranger, the L/C Issuer and the
Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material
non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with
respect to the Borrowers or their respective securities for purposes of United
States Federal and state securities laws (provided that to the
extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as
set forth in Section
10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be
made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side
Information”; and (z) the Administrative Agent and each Arranger shall be
entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being
suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public
Side Information”. The parties hereto hereby agree that, unless and
until the Administrative Agent and the Company agree otherwise, the Company
shall not be required to xxxx any Borrower Materials “PUBLIC” or otherwise, and
all Borrower Materials shall be posted on the portion of the Platform not
designated “Public Side Information”.
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6.03 Notices. Promptly
and in any event within three (3) Business Days after a Responsible Officer of
the Company or of any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, give
written notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly provide a copy
of such notice to each Lender) of:
(a) Default or Event of
Default. The occurrence of any Default or Event of Default,
accompanied by a statement of the chief financial officer or treasurer of the
Company setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating
what action the Borrowers propose to take with respect thereto;
(b) Litigation and Related
Matters. The commencement of, or any material development in,
any action, suit, proceeding or investigation pending or threatened against or
affecting the Company or any of its Material Subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority, (i) in
which the Company reasonably determines that potential exposure not covered by
insurance of the Company and its Subsidiaries exceeds $30,000,000 in the
aggregate; (ii) with respect to any Loan Document or any Indebtedness in a
principal amount in excess of $30,000,000 or material preferred stock of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (iii) which, if determined adversely to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, would individually or when aggregated
with any other action, suit, proceeding or investigation reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) Environmental
Matters. The occurrence of one or more of the following
environmental matters which would reasonably be expected to subject the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries to liability individually or in the aggregate in
excess of $30,000,000:
(i) any
pending or threatened material Environmental Claim against the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or any real property owned or operated by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries;
(ii) any
condition or occurrence on or arising from any real property owned or operated
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) results in material
noncompliance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any applicable
Environmental Law or (B) would reasonably be expected to form the basis of a
material Environmental Claim against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
any such real property;
(iii) any
condition or occurrence on any real property owned or operated by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to cause such real
property to be subject to any material restrictions on the ownership, occupancy,
use or transferability of such real property under any Environmental
Law;
(iv) the
taking of any Remedial Action on any real property at any time owned or operated
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and
(v) all
such notices shall describe in reasonable detail the nature of the Environmental
Claim, condition, occurrence or Remedial Action and the Company’s or such
Subsidiary’s response thereto. In addition, the Company will discuss
such Environmental Claim with the Administrative Agent at such times and in such
detail as may reasonably be requested by Administrative Agent;
or
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(d) The
(i) occurrence of any Asset Disposition for which the Borrowers are required to
make a mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i),
and (ii) incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness for which the Borrowers are
required to make a mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section
2.05(b)(ii).
Each
notice pursuant to this Section 6.03 (other
than Section
6.03(d)) shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of
the Company setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and
stating what action the Company has taken and proposes to take with respect
thereto. Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(a) shall
describe with particularity any and all provisions of this Agreement and any
other Loan Document that have been breached.
6.04 Conduct of Business and
Maintenance of Existence. The Company and its Subsidiaries
shall (a) continue to engage in business of the same general types as
now conducted by them (including, without limitation, businesses reasonably
related or incidental thereto) and preserve, renew and keep in full force and
effect its and each of its Material Subsidiary’s corporate existence and take
all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises material
to its and those of each of its Material Subsidiaries’ business except as
otherwise permitted pursuant to Sections 7.03 and
7.04 and comply
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply with all requirements of Law except
to the extent that failure to comply therewith would not in the aggregate
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (b) preserve or
renew all of its registered patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks,
the non-preservation of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
6.05 Payment of
Obligations. The Company shall pay or discharge or otherwise
satisfy at maturity or, to the extent permitted hereby, prior to maturity or
before they become delinquent, as the case may be, and cause each of its
Material Subsidiaries to pay or discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before
maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be:
(a) all
taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon any of them
or upon any of their income or profits or any of their respective properties or
assets prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto; and
(b) all
lawful claims prior to the time they become a Lien (other than Liens permitted
by Section
7.01) upon any of their respective properties or assets;
provided that neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or discharge
any such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim (i) while the same is being
contested by it in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued
so long as the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall have set
aside on its books adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP (segregated to the
extent required by GAAP) or their equivalent in the relevant jurisdiction of the
taxing authority with respect thereto; or (ii) that the failure to pay, either
individually or in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
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6.06 Inspection of Property,
Books and Records. The Company shall keep, or cause to be
kept, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to keep or cause to be kept, adequate
records and books of account, in which entries are to be made reflecting its and
their business and financial transactions in accordance with GAAP and all
material requirements of Law and permit, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
permit, any Lender or its respective representatives, at any reasonable time
during normal business hours, and from time to time at the reasonable request of
such Lender and at such Lender’s expense made to the Borrowers and upon
reasonable notice (which shall be at least two (2) Business Days notice), to
visit and inspect its and their respective properties, to examine and make
copies of and take abstracts from its and their respective records and books of
account, and to discuss its and their respective affairs, finances and accounts
with its and their respective executive officers, and, if an Event of Default
exists and is continuing, independent public accountants (and by this provision
the Borrowers authorize such accountants to discuss with the Lenders and such
representatives, and in the presence of an executive officer of the Company, the
affairs, finances and accounts of the Company and its
Subsidiaries).
6.07 ERISA. The
Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to (a) maintain each
Plan in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of
ERISA, the Code and other applicable law; (b) cause each Plan which is qualified
under Section 401(a) of the Code to maintain such qualification; and (c) make
all required contributions to any Plan subject to Section 412 of the Code,
except where failure to comply with clause (a), (b) or (c) would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.08 Maintenance of Property,
Insurance.
(a) The
Company shall keep, and cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to keep, all
material property (including, but not limited to, equipment) useful and
necessary in its business in good working order and condition, normal wear and
tear and damage by casualty excepted, and subject to Section
7.04;
(b)
The Company shall maintain, and shall cause each of its
Material Subsidiaries to maintain, with reputable insurers, insurance with
respect to its material properties and business against loss or damage of the
kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar
business, of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under
similar circumstances by such other Persons. Such insurance shall be
maintained with reputable insurers, except that a portion of such insurance
program (not to exceed that which is customary in the case of companies engaged
in the same or similar business or having similar properties similarly situated)
may be effected through self-insurance, provided adequate reserves therefor, in
all material respects in accordance with GAAP, are maintained; and
(c) The
Company shall furnish to Administrative Agent, on the Closing Date, Schedule 6.08 listing
the insurance that the Company, each Loan Party and each Material Subsidiary
carries as of such date.
6.09 Environmental
Laws. The Company shall comply with, and cause its
Subsidiaries to comply with, and, in each case take reasonable steps to ensure
compliance by all tenants and subtenants, if any, with, all applicable
Environmental Laws and obtain and comply in all material respects with and
maintain, and take reasonable steps to ensure that all tenants and subtenants
obtain and comply in all material respects with and maintain, any and all
licenses, approvals, notifications, registrations or permits required by
applicable Environmental Laws except to the extent that failure to do so would
not in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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6.10 Use of
Proceeds. Use all proceeds of the Loans as provided in Section
5.08.
6.11 Guarantee Obligations and
Security; Further Assurances.
(a) The
Company agrees to cause each Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Receivables
Subsidiary, a Timber SPV or an Insurance Subsidiary) in existence on the date
hereof to become a party to the U.S. Subsidiary Guaranty and the U.S. Security
Agreement, in accordance with the terms hereof.
(b) Promptly
following the date of the consummation of the Foreign Tax Restructuring, but in
any event no later than September 30, 2009 (or such later date as the
Administrative Agent shall agree in its reasonable discretion) (the “Restructuring Effective
Date”), the Company agrees to cause any direct or indirect parent of
Greif International Holding that is a Foreign Subsidiary to become party to a
Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty and a Foreign Security Agreement, in accordance with
the terms hereof and, at the request of the Administrative Agent, to deliver a
signed copy of a favorable opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and
the other Secured Parties, of counsel for the Loan Parties reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent.
(c) In
the event that any other Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Designated Borrower
hereunder, the Company agrees to cause Greif International Holding to become
party to a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty within thirty (30) days after the date
that such Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Designated Borrower, but in any event no
earlier than the Restructuring Effective Date.
(d) Within
thirty (30) days after the date of the formation or acquisition of any new
direct or indirect Domestic Subsidiary by any Loan Party (other than a
Receivables Subsidiary, a Timber SPV or an Insurance Subsidiary), the Company
shall, at the Company’s expense, cause such Domestic Subsidiary to (i) duly
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (A) a supplement to the U.S.
Subsidiary Guaranty, guaranteeing the Obligations in accordance with the
penultimate paragraph of this Section 6.11, and (B)
a Security Agreement Supplement (including delivery of all Pledged Equity in and
of such Domestic Subsidiary, and other instruments of the type specified in
Section
4.01(a)(iii)), securing payment of the Obligations in accordance with the
penultimate paragraph of this Section 6.11 and
constituting a Lien on such Domestic Subsidiary’s personal properties, as
provided therein; and (ii) take such actions to allow the filing of Uniform
Commercial Code financing statements as may be necessary or advisable in the
reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent to vest in the Administrative
Agent (or in any representative of the Administrative Agent designated by it)
valid and subsisting Liens on the properties purported to be subject to security
and pledge agreements delivered pursuant to this Section 6.11,
enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their
terms.
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(e) Upon
the date (i) of the formation or acquisition of any new Foreign Subsidiary that
is a direct parent of a Designated Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary, or
(ii) on which any Foreign Subsidiary (other than Greif International Holding)
becomes a Designated Borrower, the Company shall (if it has not already done
so), at the Company’s expense, within thirty (30) days after such date (but in
any event no earlier than the Restructuring Effective Date), cause such Foreign
Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, as
applicable, (A) a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty, guaranteeing the Obligations in
accordance with the penultimate paragraph of this Section 6.11, and (B)
a Foreign Security Agreement, securing payment of the Obligations in accordance
with the penultimate paragraph of this Section 6.11,
including delivery of all instruments of the type specified in Section
4.01(a)(iii));
(f) Within
sixty (60) days of the formation or acquisition of any new Subsidiary or of the
addition of a Designated Borrower under this Agreement, in each case as
described in clauses
(d) and (e) above, the
Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, a signed copy of a favorable
opinion, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, of
counsel for the Loan Parties reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent
as to such matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in any Loan Document, (a) no more than 66% of each
class of the voting Equity Interests of any Subsidiary that is a CFC (and that
is held directly by the Company, any of its Domestic Subsidiaries or any Foreign
Subsidiary that is disregarded as a separate entity from the Company or a
Domestic Subsidiary for U.S. tax purposes) shall be pledged as security for the
Obligations of the Company, any of its Domestic Subsidiaries or any Foreign
Subsidiary that is disregarded as a separate entity from the Company or a
Domestic Subsidiary for U.S. tax purposes; (b) no Equity Interests of any
Foreign Subsidiary not described in clause (a) of this
paragraph shall be pledged as security for the Obligations of the Company, any
of its Domestic Subsidiaries or any Foreign Subsidiary that is disregarded as a
separate entity from the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary for U.S. tax purposes;
(c) no Subsidiary that is a CFC (or a Subsidiary that is held directly or
indirectly by a CFC) shall be required to pledge any of its assets as security
for the Obligations of the Company, any of its Domestic Subsidiaries or any
Foreign Subsidiary that is disregarded as a separate entity from the Company or
a Domestic Subsidiary for U.S. tax purposes; (d) no Subsidiary that is a CFC (or
a Subsidiary that is held directly or indirectly by a CFC) shall be required to
guarantee the Obligations of the Company or its Domestic Subsidiaries or any
Foreign Subsidiary that is disregarded as a separate entity from the Company or
a Domestic Subsidiary for U.S. tax purposes; and (e) no Subsidiary shall be
required to execute such documents to the extent and for so long as any Law
(including any exchange control, financial assistance, minimum capitalization,
fraudulent conveyance, mandatory labor advice or similar rules or regulations)
would be violated thereby if all relevant Persons have taken all commercially
reasonable steps to avoid or cure such violation.
Promptly
upon request by the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the
Administrative Agent, (i) correct any material defect or error that may be
discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or
recordation thereof, and (ii) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record,
re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further
acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the
Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may
reasonably require from time to time in order to (A) carry out more effectively
the purposes of the Loan Documents; (B) to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, subject any Loan Party’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ properties,
assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered
by any of the Collateral Documents; (C) perfect and maintain the validity,
effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the
Liens intended to be created thereunder; and (D) assure, convey, grant, assign,
transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the Secured
Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the
Secured Parties under any Loan Document or under any other instrument executed
in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries is or is to be a party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do
so.
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6.12 End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal
Quarters. Cause the Company’s annual accounting periods to end
on October 31 of each year (each a “Fiscal Year”), with
quarterly accounting periods ending on or about January 31, April 30, July 31
and October 31 of each Fiscal Year (each a “Fiscal
Quarter”).
6.13 Foreign Pension Plan
Compliance. The Company shall, and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries and each member of the Controlled Group to, establish, maintain and
operate all Foreign Pension Plans to comply in all material respects with all
laws, regulations and rules applicable thereto and the respective requirements
of the governing documents for such Plans, except for failures to comply which,
in the aggregate, would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.14 Currency and Commodity
Hedging Transactions. Each of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries shall only enter into, purchase or otherwise acquire Swap Contracts
to the extent and only to the extent that such agreements or arrangements are
entered into, purchased or otherwise acquired in the ordinary course of business
of the Company and its Subsidiaries with reputable financial institutions or
counterparties and not for purposes of speculation.
6.15 Limitations on Activities of
Subsidiaries.
(a) The
Company shall at all times hold 100% of the Equity Interests of U.S. Holdco.
Prior to the Restructuring Effective Date, U.S. Holdco shall at all times hold
100% of the Equity Interests of GSH, except in connection with the Foreign Tax
Restructuring, which shall at all times hold 100% of the Equity Interests of
Greif International Holding. On and after the Restructuring Effective Date, U.S.
Holdco and New LLC shall at all times hold 100% of the Equity Interests of New
CV, which in turn shall at all times hold 100% of the Equity Interests of New
BV, which shall at all times hold 100% of the Equity Interests of Greif
International Holding. If GSH has not been liquidated on or before
the Restructuring Effective Date, then the Company shall cause GSH to enter into
a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty and a Foreign Security Agreement in accordance
with Section
6.11.
(b) The
Company shall cause Insurance Subsidiary Holdco not at any time to conduct
operations or business, incur direct or indirect obligations, contingent or
otherwise, and hold no assets other than the following: (i) its Obligations
under the Loan Documents, (ii) Investments in its Subsidiaries permitted by this
Agreement, and (iii) the Equity Interests of Insurance
Subsidiary.
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6.16 Lien
Searches. Promptly following receipt of the acknowledgment
copy of any financing statements filed under the Uniform Commercial Code in any
jurisdiction by or on behalf of the Secured Parties, and upon the written
request of the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent
completed requests for information listing such financing statement and all
other effective financing statements filed in such jurisdiction that name any
Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such other financing
statements.
6.17 Post-Closing
Covenants.
(a) On
or prior to March 15, 2009, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent a duly completed pro forma Compliance Certificate as of the last day of
the fiscal quarter of the Company ended January 31, 2009, as if the Closing Date
had occurred on such date, signed by the chief financial officer or treasurer of
the Company.
(b) As
soon as commercially reasonable following the Closing Date, the Company shall
deliver to the Administrative Agent such documents and certifications as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that Trilla-St. Louis is
in good standing in the State of Illinois.
(c) As
soon as commercially reasonable following the Closing Date, the Company shall
deliver to the Administrative Agent favorable opinions of Xxxxx & Xxxxx LLP,
local counsel to the Loan Parties in The Netherlands, and such other local
counsel as the Administrative Agent may reasonably approve, each addressed to
the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit H-3 and such
other matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Required
Lenders may reasonably request.
ARTICLE
VII
NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
Each
Borrower hereby agrees, as to itself and its Subsidiaries, that, so long as any
of the Commitments remain in effect or any Loan or L/C Obligation remains
outstanding and unpaid or any other amount is owing to any Lender or
Administrative Agent hereunder (other than contingent indemnity
Obligations):
7.01 Liens. No
Borrower will nor will permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume
or suffer to exist or become a party to any agreement, note, indenture or other
instrument pursuant to which such Person agrees to create, incur or assume any
Lien in, upon or with respect to any of its properties or assets, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, except for the following Liens (herein referred to
as “Permitted
Liens”):
(a) Liens
created by the Loan Documents or otherwise securing the
Obligations;
(b) Customary
Permitted Liens;
(c) Liens
securing Indebtedness permitted by Section
7.02(n);
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(d) Liens
on any property (including the interest of a lessee under a Capitalized Lease
(other than in respect of Capitalized Leases for automobiles leased in the
ordinary course of business that are not required to be capitalized under GAAP))
securing Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing (or
financing of the purchase price or cost of construction, repair, or improvement
within 180 days after the respective purchase of assets or completion of such
construction, repair or improvement) all or any part of the acquisition,
construction, repair or improvement cost of such property (including Liens to
which any property is subject at the time of acquisition thereof by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries); provided
that:
(i) any
such Lien does not extend to any other property,
(ii) such
Lien either exists on the date hereof or is created in connection with the
acquisition, construction, repair or improvement of such property as permitted
by this Agreement,
(iii) the
indebtedness secured by any such Lien, (or the Capitalized Lease Obligation with
respect to any Capitalized Lease) does not exceed 100% of the fair market value
of such assets, at the time of acquisition; and
(iv) the
Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section
7.02(f);
(e) Liens
on any assets of any Person at the time such assets are acquired or such Person
becomes a Subsidiary or is merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into a
Subsidiary and, in each case, not created in contemplation of or in connection
with such event; provided that (i) no
such lien shall extend to or cover any other property or assets of any Borrower
or of such Subsidiary, as the case may be; (ii) the aggregate principal amount
of the Indebtedness secured by all such Liens in respect of any such property or
assets shall not exceed 100% of the fair market value of such property or assets
at the time of such acquisition nor, in the case of a Lien in respect of
property or assets existing at the time of such Person becoming a Subsidiary or
being so consolidated or merged, the fair market value of the property or assets
acquired at such time; and (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted
to be incurred pursuant to Section
7.02(g);
(f) any
Lien arising out of the replacement, refinancing, extension, renewal or
refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by clauses (c), (d), (e), (g) and (h) of this Section;
provided that
such Indebtedness is not increased and is not secured by any additional
assets;
(g) Liens
on Receivables Facility Assets transferred in accordance with the terms of the
Receivables Documents pursuant to a Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization
and Liens on the assets of a Timber SPV arising from a Timberland Installment
Note Transaction;
(h) Liens
incurred in connection with Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted under
Section
7.02(1);
(i) Liens
securing Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries; provided that such
Liens do not at any time encumber any Collateral or other assets located in the
United States and the Dollar Equivalent amount of such Indebtedness shall not
exceed $15,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time
outstanding;
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(j) additional
Liens incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries so long as, without
duplication, the Dollar Equivalent of the value of the property subject to such
Liens at the time such Lien is incurred and the Dollar Equivalent of the
Indebtedness (including any refinancings of such Indebtedness) and other
obligations secured thereby do not exceed 2% of the Company’s Consolidated
Tangible Assets in the aggregate at any time.
In
addition, no Borrower will nor permit any of its Subsidiaries to become a party
to any agreement, note, indenture or other instrument, or take any other action,
which would prohibit the creation of a Lien on any of its properties or other
assets in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, as collateral for the Obligations (other than in connection with a
commitment to obtain Indebtedness which would be used to indefeasibly pay in
full all Obligations outstanding hereunder and result in the termination of all
Commitments hereunder); provided that any
agreement, note, indenture or other instrument in connection with Indebtedness
permitted under Section 7.02(b),
(e) and (i) and Indebtedness
consisting of purchase money obligations or Capitalized Lease Obligations
permitted under Section 7.02(d) or
(g) and any
license agreements under which the Company or any Subsidiary is a licensee,
operating leases of real property, and any other agreement that does not
restrict in any manner (directly or indirectly) Liens created pursuant to the
Loan Documents and does not require the direct or indirect granting of any Lien
securing Indebtedness for the benefit of any Person by virtue of the granting of
Liens hereunder, may prohibit the creation of a Lien in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on the items of
property obtained with the proceeds of such Indebtedness.
7.02 Indebtedness. No
Borrower will nor will permit any of its Subsidiaries to, incur, create, assume
directly or indirectly, or suffer to exist any Indebtedness except:
(a) Indebtedness
incurred pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or otherwise
evidencing any of the Obligations and Indebtedness existing on the date hereof
and set forth on Schedule
7.02(a);
(b) Receivables
Facility Attributable Debt incurred in connection with Permitted Accounts
Receivable Securitizations; provided that (i)
such Indebtedness related to Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitizations of
Foreign Subsidiaries shall not exceed the Dollar Equivalent of $225,000,000 and
(ii) such Indebtedness related to all Permitted Accounts Receivable
Securitizations shall not exceed the Dollar Equivalent of
$375,000,000;
(c) Indebtedness
evidenced by the Senior Notes and Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness with
respect thereto;
(d) Permitted
Additional Indebtedness;
(e) Indebtedness
consisting of Permitted Acquired IRB Debt in an aggregate principal amount
outstanding not to exceed $25,000,000;
(f) Indebtedness
of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries secured by Liens permitted under Section 7.01(d);
provided that
the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such
Indebtedness at any time together with the Dollar Equivalent of Indebtedness
permitted to be outstanding pursuant to Sections 7.02(g) and
(l) shall not
exceed 5% of the Company’s Consolidated Tangible Assets as set forth on the last
financial statements delivered by the Company pursuant to Section
6.01;
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(g) Indebtedness
of a Subsidiary issued and outstanding on or prior to the date on which such
Person becomes a Subsidiary or is merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or
into a Subsidiary (other than Indebtedness issued as consideration in, or to
provide all of any portion of the funds utilized to consummate, the transaction
or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Subsidiary became a
Subsidiary or was acquired by the Company); provided that the
Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such
Indebtedness at any time together with the Dollar Equivalent of Indebtedness
permitted to be outstanding pursuant to Sections 7.02(f) and
(l) shall not
exceed 5% of the Company’s Consolidated Tangible Assets as set forth on the last
financial statements delivered by the Company pursuant to Section
6.01;
(h) Indebtedness
under Swap Contracts providing protection against fluctuations in interest
rates, currency or commodity values in connection with any Borrowers’ or any of
their Subsidiaries’ operations so long as management of such Borrower or any
such Subsidiary, as the case may be, has determined that the entering into of
such Swap Contracts was for bona fide hedging
activities;
(i)
Indebtedness of a Timber SPV arising in connection with a Timberland Installment
Note Transaction;
(j)
Intercompany Indebtedness to the extent permitted by Section 7.07; provided that in the
event of any subsequent issuance or transfer of any Equity Interests which
results in the holder of such Indebtedness ceasing to be a Subsidiary or
Borrowers or any subsequent transfer of such Indebtedness (other than to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries) such Indebtedness shall be required to be
permitted under another clause of this Section 7.02; provided, further, that in the
case of Intercompany Indebtedness consisting of a loan or advance to a Loan
Party, each such loan or advance outstanding at any time after the Closing Date
shall be subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full of all of such Loan
Party’s Obligations;
(k) Indebtedness
constituting Permitted Guarantee Obligations;
(l)
Indebtedness in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions;
provided that
at the time of such entering into such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and after
giving effect thereto, the aggregate Dollar Equivalent amount of Attributable
Debt for such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and for all Sale and Leaseback
Transactions so entered into by Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, together with
the Dollar Equivalent of Indebtedness permitted to be outstanding pursuant to
clauses (f) and
(g) of this
Section 7.02
does not exceed 5% of the Company’s Consolidated Tangible Assets as set forth on
the last financial statements delivered by the Company pursuant to Section
6.01;
(m) Indebtedness
incurred by any Foreign Subsidiary in addition to that referred to elsewhere in
this Section
7.02 in a Dollar Equivalent principal amount not to exceed $85,000,000 in
the aggregate;
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(n) Indebtedness
(including any refinancings of such Indebtedness) incurred by Domestic
Subsidiaries in addition to that referred to elsewhere in this Section 7.02 in a
principal amount not to exceed in the aggregate $45,000,000;
(o) Indebtedness
of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries consisting of take-or-pay
obligations consistent with past practice contained in supply agreements entered
into in the ordinary course of business;
(p) Indebtedness
in respect of obligations secured by Customary Permitted Liens; and
(q) Guarantees
incurred by the Company or any Subsidiary of obligations of any employee,
officer or director of the Company or any such Subsidiary in respect of loans
made to such employee, officer or director in connection with such Person’s
acquisition of Equity Interests, phantom stock rights, capital appreciation
rights or similar equity-like interests in the Company or any such Subsidiary in
an aggregate amount not to exceed $7,500,000 outstanding at any one time.
7.03 Fundamental
Changes. No Borrower will nor will permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, merge into, amalgamate or consolidate with any other Person, or
permit any other Person to merge into, amalgamate or consolidate with it, or
liquidate, wind-up or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and
immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Company may amalgamate with or merge with any Person in a
transaction where the Company is the surviving corporation and any Subsidiary
(other than a Receivables Subsidiary, Insurance Subsidiary or Timber SPV) (i)
may amalgamate with or merge into the Company in a transaction in which the
Company is the surviving corporation, (ii) may amalgamate with or merge into any
Loan Party in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Loan Party or
that becomes a Loan Party simultaneously with such merger in connection with a
Permitted Acquisition and pursuant to which such surviving Loan Party assumes
all of the Obligations of the Person so amalgamated or merged, (iii) that is not
a Loan Party may amalgamate with or merge into any Subsidiary that is not a Loan
Party or any Person that becomes a Loan Party or a Subsidiary simultaneously
with such merger, (iv) may merge into any other Person that becomes a Loan Party
in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, (v) may liquidate, wind-up or
dissolve if the Company determines in good faith that such liquidation,
winding-up or dissolution is in the best interests of the Company and is not
materially disadvantageous to the Lenders; provided that any such amalgamation
or merger involving a Person that is not a Controlled Subsidiary immediately
prior to such amalgamation or merger shall not be permitted unless also
permitted by Section
7.07.
7.04 Asset
Sales. No Borrower will nor will permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of (or become party to
any agreement, note, indenture or other instrument pursuant to which such Person
agrees to do any of the foregoing at any future time without the Administrative
Agent’s prior written consent) all or any part of their property or assets, or
enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction, except that:
(a) the
Company and its Subsidiaries may sell, contribute and make other transfers of
Receivables Facility Assets pursuant to the Receivables Documents under a
Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization and Soterra LLC may sell Timber
Assets in connection with any Timberland Installment Note
Transaction;
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(b) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may lease, including subleases and assignments
of leases and subleases, real or personal property in the ordinary course of
business;
(c)
the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may sell Inventory in the ordinary course
of business;
(d) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without
recourse and in the ordinary course of business, accounts receivable arising in
the ordinary course of business (x) which are overdue, or (y) which such
Borrower or Subsidiary may reasonably determine are difficult to collect but
only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof consistent with
prudent business practice (and not as part of any bulk sale or financing of
receivables); provided that any
Foreign Subsidiary may effect a sale or discount with recourse or without
recourse if such sale or discount is consistent with its past practice or is
consistent with customary practice in such Subsidiary’s country of
business;
(e) Asset
Dispositions by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the Company or any
Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Timber SPV), Asset Dispositions by any Foreign
Borrower to any other Foreign Borrower; Asset Dispositions from any Foreign
Subsidiary (other than any Foreign Borrower) to any other Foreign Subsidiary and
to the extent permitted by Section 7.07, Asset
Dispositions by any Domestic Subsidiary to any Foreign Borrower and any other
transaction permitted by Section
7.07;
(f) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may enter into consignment arrangements (as
consignor or as consignee) or similar arrangements for the sale or purchase of
goods in the ordinary course of business;
(g) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may make Investments and acquisitions permitted
pursuant to Section
7.07;
(h) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may enter into licenses or sublicenses of
software, trademarks and other IP Rights and general intangibles in the ordinary
course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of
such Person;
(i) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may enter into Sale and Leaseback Transactions
permitted under Section
7.02(l);
(j) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments permitted pursuant
to Section
7.05, may grant Permitted Liens, may enter into transactions permitted by
Section 7.07,
and may lease property in transactions not prohibited by this
Agreement;
(k) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may make dispositions in the ordinary course of
business of equipment and other tangible personal property that is obsolete,
uneconomical, surplus, worn-out, excess or no longer useful in the Company’s and
its Subsidiaries’ business;
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(l) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may make dispositions of owned or leased
vehicles in the ordinary course of business;
(m) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may make other Asset Dispositions (excluding a
Soterra Disposition) for fair value; provided that (A) 75%
of the aggregate sales price from such Asset Disposition shall be paid in Cash
or Cash Equivalents; and (B) that the aggregate book value (at the time of
disposition thereof) of all assets then proposed to be disposed of together with
all other assets disposed of since the Closing Date pursuant to this clause (m), does not
exceed 5% of the Consolidated Tangible Assets of the Company at such time, in
each case, measured as of the date of the last such sale based on the last
financial statements delivered by the Company pursuant to Section 6.01; provided that to the
extent that the Net Sale Proceeds of any Asset Disposition that are not required
to be used to prepay the Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i)
are used to purchase assets used or to be used in the businesses referred to in
Section 6.04 in
the time period prescribed in Section 2.05(b)(i),
and if the Company or such Subsidiary has complied with the provisions of Section 6.10 with
respect to any assets purchased with such reinvested proceeds, such Asset
Disposition shall be disregarded for purposes of calculations pursuant to this
clause (m) (and
shall otherwise be deemed to be permitted under this clause (m)) to the
extent of the reinvested proceeds, from and after the time of compliance with
Section 6.10
with respect to the acquisition of such other property;
(n) the
Soterra Disposition; provided that such
Soterra Disposition is pursuant to a substantially contemporaneous exchange for,
or acquisition of, other timberland properties, or that at the time of such
Soterra Disposition and after giving effect thereto, (i) no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing; (ii) the Company shall be in pro
forma compliance with the financial covenants in Section 7.15 hereof
as if the Soterra Disposition had occurred on the first day of the most recently
completed fiscal period for measuring compliance with such financial covenants;
(iii) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii)
or Section
7.05(b); and (iv) the Soterra Disposition will not result in the breach
of or default under any material Contractual Obligation of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries;
(o) the
sale of equipment to the extent that such equipment is exchanged for credit
against the purchase price of similar replacement equipment, or the proceeds of
such sale are reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of similar
replacement equipment; and
(p) Asset
Dispositions contemplated by Schedule 7.04 so long
as made for fair market value as reasonably determined by the Company and on
ordinary business terms and so long as the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are
applied pursuant to Section
2.05(b)(i).
In the
event the Required Lenders waive the provisions of this Section 7.04 with
respect to the sale of any Collateral, or any Collateral is sold as permitted by
Section 7.04,
such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the
Collateral Documents, and Administrative Agent shall be authorized to take any
actions deemed appropriate in order to effect the foregoing.
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7.05 Dividends or Other
Distributions.
(a) No
Borrower will nor will permit any of its Subsidiaries to, either: (i) declare or
pay any dividend or make any distribution on or in respect of its Equity
Interests (“Dividend”) or to the
direct or indirect holders of its Equity Interests (except (A) dividends or
distributions payable solely in such Equity Interests or in options, warrants or
other rights to purchase such Equity Interests and (B) dividends, distributions
or redemptions payable to (1) the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the
Company and (2) any other Subsidiary of the Company in compliance with
applicable corporation or other organizational law); or (ii) purchase, redeem or
otherwise acquire or retire for value any Equity Interests of the Borrowers
other than in exchange for, or out of proceeds of, the substantially concurrent
sale (other than to an Affiliate of any Borrower) of other Equity Interests of
such Borrower or as permitted under clause (a)(i)(B)
above or (iii) purchase, defease, redeem, prepay, decrease or otherwise acquire
or retire for value, prior to any scheduled final or stated maturity, any
Indebtedness (other than with the proceeds of Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness) that is either subordinate or junior in right of payment to the
Obligations (other than Intercompany Indebtedness subordinated as a result of
Section 7.02(k)
or as permitted by Section 7.12); (any
of the foregoing being hereinafter referred to as a “Restricted Payment”);
provided that the Company may make scheduled principal and interest payments on
Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 in
accordance with the terms of the documents governing such Indebtedness and make
distributions to the extent necessary to enable the Company or a Subsidiary of
the Company to pay their taxes as they legally become due; and; provided,
further, that:
(b) so
long as no Default or Event of Default then exists pursuant to Section 8.01(a),
(e), or (f) or would result
therefrom, the Company may make any Restricted Payment which, together with all
other Restricted Payments made pursuant to this Section 7.05(a) since
November 1, 2008 would not exceed the sum of:
(i) 50%
of Consolidated Net Income for each Fiscal Year, commencing with the Fiscal Year
ended October 31, 2008, ending immediately prior to the date of such Restricted
Payment and for which financial statements complying with Section 6.01(b) have
been delivered to the Lenders (it being understood that there shall not be any
deductions for any net loss as shown on the Company’s income statement for any
Fiscal Year prepared in accordance with GAAP);
(ii) the
aggregate Net Offering Proceeds received by the Company from the issue or sale
of its Common Stock (including the issuance of Common Stock in conjunction with
the exercise of stock options) or Permitted Preferred Stock subsequent to
October 31, 2008 (other than an issuance or sale to a Subsidiary or an employee
stock ownership plan); and
(iii) $77,000,000;
and
(c) so
long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would
result therefrom, the Company can make a Soterra Disposition in the form of a
dividend payment of its Equity Interests in Soterra LLC, or the Company may make
a Restricted Payment from the Net Sale Proceeds of any Soterra Disposition when
the Net Sale Proceeds thereof are not used to make a substantially
contemporaneous exchange for, or acquisition of, other timberland properties,
and any Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments and other
distributions so long as any such payments pursuant thereto by any
non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company are made on a pro rata basis to such
Subsidiary’s shareholders generally.
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(d) on
and after the date on which the Company achieves Dual Investment Grade Status,
and for so long as such Dual Investment Grade Status exists, the Company may
make Restricted Payments provided that no Default or Event of Default has
occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom; provided that in the
event that Dual Investment Grade Status ceases to exist, any Restricted Payments
made pursuant to this Section 7.05(d) shall
be counted for purposes of the calculation of Restricted Payments (as if such
Restricted Payments had been made pursuant to Section 7.05(a)) and
determining the Company’s ability to make Restricted Payments pursuant to Section
7.05(a).
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Company may pay dividends of up to the lesser of (I) $0.01 per share of Class A
Common Stock for each four consecutive Fiscal Quarters and (II) $250,000 for
each consecutive Fiscal Quarter, and the Company may pay Dividends within 60
days after the date of declaration thereof if at such date of declaration such
Dividend would have complied with this Section 7.05; provided that such
Dividend if permitted only by Section 7.05(a) shall
be included (without duplication) in the calculation of the amount of Restricted
Payment for purpose of Section
7.05(a).
7.06 Issuance of
Stock.
(a) The
Company will not issue any Equity Interests, except for such issuances of Equity
Interests of the Company consisting of Common Stock or Permitted Preferred
Stock.
(b) No
Borrower will nor will permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly, issue, sell, assign, pledge or otherwise encumber or dispose of any
shares of Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Company, except (i) to the
Company, (ii) to another Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company, (iii) to
qualified directors if required by applicable law, (iv) pursuant to employee
stock ownership or employee benefit plans in effect on the date hereof or (v) as
otherwise permitted in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 7.07; provided that the
Company can make the Soterra Disposition in the form of a dividend payment of
its Equity Interests in Soterra LLC; and provided, further, that nothing
in this Section
7.06(b) will prohibit the Company or any Subsidiary from disposing of any
Equity Interests if the transaction would otherwise be permitted by Section
7.04.
7.07 Loans, Investments and
Acquisitions. No Borrower will nor will permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, make any Investments or make any acquisitions
except:
(a) the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may acquire and hold Cash and Cash
Equivalents;
(b) Investments
existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 7.07,
without giving effect to any additions thereto, but including any renewal or
extension of any thereof in the ordinary course of business and on ordinary
business terms in an amount not to exceed the original amount
thereof;
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(c) Investments
required pursuant to the terms of any Permitted Accounts Receivable
Securitization;
(d) Investments
(including debt obligations) in trade receivables or received in connection with
the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers and in settlement
(including settlements of litigation) of delinquent obligations of, and other
disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of
business;
(e)
the Company may enter into Swap Contracts in compliance with
Section
7.02(h);
(f) pledges
or deposits made in the ordinary course of business;
(g) (i)
Investments by the Company or any Subsidiary in their respective Subsidiaries
outstanding on the date hereof; (ii) Investments by the Company or any
Subsidiary in Loan Parties; (iii) Investments by Subsidiaries of the Company
that are not Loan Parties in other Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties; and
(iv) Investments in any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary (excluding Investments
of the type described in Section 7.02(p)(ii)),
(A) to the extent made in the ordinary course of business and in a manner
consistent with the Company’s past business practice to fund or support the
ordinary course operations of such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary or (B) if
de minimis and made in
connection with the organization or formation thereof;
(h) the
Borrowers or any Subsidiary may make Permitted Acquisitions (including payments
permitted by Section
7.02(i)) subject to clause (g) above in
the case of Investments by the Company and any Domestic Subsidiary in any
Foreign Subsidiary;
(i) extensions
of trade credit, accounts or notes receivable and prepaid expenses in the
ordinary course of business and Investments consisting of non-cash consideration
received in the form of securities, notes or similar obligations in connection
with Asset Dispositions not prohibited by this Agreement;
(j)
Investments in joint ventures by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
not at any time exceeding the sum of (i) in the aggregate a Dollar Equivalent
amount of $35,000,000 in any Fiscal Year following the Closing Date, plus (ii) the
aggregate net cash received by the Company and its Subsidiaries since the
Closing Date in connection with Investments under this clause (j) as
interest, dividends, distributions or other income and returns of capital from
Investments under this clause
(j);
(k) other
Investments not in excess of the sum of (i) the Dollar Equivalent amount of
$40,000,000 outstanding at any one time, plus (ii) the
aggregate net cash received by the Company and its Subsidiaries since the
Closing Date in connection with Investments under this clause (k) as
interest, dividends, distributions or other income and returns of capital from
Investments under this clause (k); provided that any
such Investment that is an acquisition complies with clauses (a) through (d) of
the definition of Permitted Acquisition;
(l) advances,
loans or extensions of credit to suppliers in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice as of the Closing Date;
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(m) advances,
loans or extensions of credit by the Company or any Subsidiary to any of its
employees (other than employees of any Insurance Subsidiary, Timber SPV or any
Receivables Subsidiary) in the ordinary course of business; provided that the
aggregate amount of all such loans, advances and extensions of credit shall not
at any time exceed in the aggregate a Dollar Equivalent amount of
$7,500,000;
(n) Investments
of any Person in the amount existing at the time such Person became a
Subsidiary, to the extent such Investment was not made in connection with, or in
contemplation of, such Person becoming a Subsidiary;
(o) Soterra
LLC and any Timber SPV may make Investments in connection with any Timberland
Installment Note Transaction; and
(p) (i)
so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such
Investment, Investments by the Loan Parties in Foreign Subsidiaries that are not
Loan Parties, or joint ventures in which the Company or any Subsidiary has an
interest; and (ii) Investments consisting of the transfer of equipment (and any
intellectual property rights necessary for the use of such assets) to Foreign
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; provided that the
aggregate amount of Investments described in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not
exceed 5% of the total assets of the Company (in each case measured at the time
of such Investment and, in the case of clause (ii) above,
based upon the sum of the current book value of the assets transferred, plus the book values
of all other assets previously transferred to Foreign Subsidiaries pursuant to
clause (ii)
above).
7.08 Transactions with
Affiliates. No Borrower will nor will permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, conduct any business or enter into any transaction or series of
similar transactions (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any
property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of any Borrower
(other than a Loan Party) unless the terms of such business, transaction or
series of transactions are as favorable to such Borrower, such Subsidiary as
terms that would be obtainable at the time for a comparable transaction or
series of similar transactions in arm’s-length dealings with an unrelated third
Person or, if such transaction is not one which by its nature could be obtained
from such Person, is on fair and reasonable terms; provided that the following
shall be permitted: (v) the payment of customary fees to members of the Board of
Directors of the Company and compensation or employee benefit arrangements with
employees of the Company or any Subsidiary, (w) transactions expressly permitted
by Section 7.03
or Section
7.05, (x) transactions described in Schedule 7.08 or
transactions pursuant to a Soterra Disposition and (y) transactions in
connection with Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitizations and any Timberland
Installment Note Transaction.
7.09 Insurance
Subsidiary. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, Insurance Subsidiary shall not engage in any business other than the
business of serving as a captive insurance company for the Company and its
Subsidiaries and engaging in such necessary activities related thereto as may be
permitted to be engaged in by a Bermuda captive insurance company pursuant to
applicable Bermuda captive insurance company rules and
regulations.
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7.10 Sale or Discount of
Receivables. The Borrowers shall not, and shall not cause or
permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, sell, with or without
recourse, or discount (other than in connection with trade discounts or
arrangements necessitated by the creditworthiness of the other party, in each
case in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice) or
otherwise sell for less than the face value thereof, notes or accounts
receivable, except (i) to any Domestic Loan Party (other than a Timber SPV) and
(ii) other than pursuant to a Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization and
transactions permitted by Section 7.04(d) or
Section
7.07.
7.11 Fiscal
Year. The Company will not change its Fiscal
Year.
7.12 Limitation on Voluntary
Payments and Modifications, Etc. No Borrower will nor will
permit any of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) make
(or give any notice in respect of) any voluntary or optional payment or
prepayment on or redemption or acquisition for value of (including, without
limitation, by way of depositing with the trustee with respect thereto or any
other Person money or securities before due for the purpose of paying when due)
any Indebtedness with a principal amount in excess of the Dollar Equivalent of
$10,000,000 (other than Intercompany Indebtedness subordinated as a result of
Section
7.02(j)) that is either subordinate or junior in right of payment to the
Obligations, other than pursuant to the issuance of Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness, except (i) regularly scheduled payments of interest and regularly
scheduled payments of principal on Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.02, (ii)
the conversion or exchange of any Indebtedness into Equity Interests of any
Borrower, (iii) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, (iv) the repayment in full
of all Indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreement and (v) the repayment in
full of all Indebtedness under the Liquidity Facility Loan
Agreement;
(b) amend,
terminate or modify, or permit the amendment, termination or modification of,
any provision of any documents governing Indebtedness described in clause (a)
above in a manner materially adverse to the interests of the
Lenders;
(c) enter
into any Receivables Documents other than in connection with a Permitted
Accounts Receivable Securitization (unless such Receivables Documents have been
approved by the Administrative Agent or are non-material documentation entered
into pursuant to such approved Receivables Documents) or amend or modify in any
material respect which is adverse to the Lenders any of such Receivables
Documents except as permitted by Section 7.10 unless
such amendment or modification has been approved by the Administrative Agent
(which shall not be unreasonably withheld); provided that if the
Receivables Documents, after giving effect to such amendment or modification,
would constitute a Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization, then such
approval of the Administrative Agent shall not be required; or
(d) amend,
modify or change in any way materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders,
its Organizational Documents (including, without limitation, by filing or
modification of any certificate of designation) or bylaws, or any agreement
entered into by it, with respect to its Equity Interests, or enter into any new
agreement with respect to its preferred stock in any manner materially adverse
to the interests of the Lenders.
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7.13 Limitation on Certain
Restrictions on Subsidiaries. No Borrower will nor will permit
any of its Material Subsidiaries, to create or otherwise cause or permit to
exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the
ability of any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary of any Borrower to (a) pay
dividends or make any other distributions on its Equity Interests or pay any
Indebtedness or other Obligation owed to the Company or any of its other
Subsidiaries, (b) make any loans or advances to the Company or any of its other
Material Subsidiaries, or (c) transfer any of its property to the Company or any
of its other Material Subsidiaries, except:
(i) any
encumbrance or restriction pursuant to the Loan Documents, the Senior Notes, any
documents evidencing Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness with respect to any of
the foregoing, any Permitted Accounts Receivable Securitization (including
limitations set forth in the charter documents of any Receivable Subsidiary) or
an agreement in effect at or entered into on the Closing Date and reflected on
Schedule 7.13
hereto or any encumbrance or restriction on the assets of a Timber SPV arising
out of a Timberland Installment Note Transaction;
(ii) any
encumbrance or restriction with respect to a Subsidiary of the Company pursuant
to an agreement relating to any Indebtedness issued by such Subsidiary on or
prior to the date on which such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary of the Company or
was acquired by the Company (other than Indebtedness issued as consideration in,
or to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate, the
transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Subsidiary
became a Subsidiary or was acquired by the Company) and outstanding on such
date;
(iii) any
such encumbrance or restriction consisting of customary provisions restricting
subletting or assignment of any leases governing leasehold interests of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries and customary provisions restricting
assignment of any agreement or license entered into by the Company or any
Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and customary restrictions in
sales agreements pending the closing of the applicable sale;
(iv) any
encumbrance or restriction existing solely as a result of a requirement of Law;
and
(v)
Permitted Liens or other restrictions
contained in security agreements or Capitalized Leases securing or otherwise
related to Indebtedness permitted hereby to the extent such restrictions
restrict the transfer of the property subject to such security
agreements.
7.14 Accounting
Changes. No Borrower will, nor will permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, make any change in accounting policies affecting the
presentation of financial statements from those employed by it on the date
hereof, unless (a) such change is disclosed to the Lenders through the
Administrative Agent or otherwise; (b) relevant prior financial statements that
are affected by such change are restated (in form and detail reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) as may be required by GAAP to show
comparative results; and (c) the Company delivers a report to the Administrative
Agent calculating all financial statements and other relevant financial terms
without giving effect to such change.
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7.15 Financial
Covenants. (a) Leverage
Ratio. Permit the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any
Fiscal Quarter for the Test Period then ended to be more than 3.50 to
1.00.
(b) Consolidated Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio as of the end of any Fiscal Quarter of the Company to be less than 1.50 to
1.00.
ARTICLE
VIII
EVENTS OF
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
8.01 Events of
Default. Any of the following events, acts, occurrences or
state of facts shall constitute an “Event of Default” for purposes of this
Agreement:
(a) Failure to Make Payments
When Due. Any Borrower (i) shall default in the payment of
principal on any of the Loans or any reimbursement obligation with respect to
any Letter of Credit; or (ii) shall default in the payment of interest on any of
the Loans or default in the payment of any fee or any other Obligation when due
and such default in payment shall continue for five (5) Business Days;
or
(b) Representations and
Warranties. Any representation or warranty made by any Loan
Party, as the case may be, to Administrative Agent or any Lender contained in
any Loan Document or certificate delivered to Administrative Agent or any Lender
pursuant hereto or thereto shall have been incorrect in any material respect on
the date as of when made or deemed made, or
(c) Covenants. Any
Loan Party shall (i) default in the performance or observance of any term,
covenant, condition or agreement on its part to be performed or observed under
Article VII
(other than Section
7.09 or 7.12(d)) hereof or
Section 6.03(a)
or (ii) default in the due performance or observance by it of any other term,
covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement and such default shall
continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice to the
Company by Administrative Agent or any Lender; or
(d) Default Under Other Loan
Documents. Any Loan Party shall default in the performance or
observance of any term, covenant, condition or agreement on its part to be
performed or observed hereunder or under any Loan Document (and not constituting
an Event of Default under any other clause of this Section 8.01) and
such default shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after
written notice thereof has been given to the Company by Administrative Agent;
or
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(e) Voluntary Insolvency,
Etc. Any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall become
insolvent or generally fail to pay, or admit in writing its inability to pay,
its debts as they become due, or shall voluntarily commence any proceeding, make
any proposal, seek any relief under or file any petition or proposal under any
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law in any jurisdiction or seeking
dissolution, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment or the
appointment of a receiver, receiver and manager, interim receiver, trustee,
custodian, court appointed monitor, administrator, administrative receiver,
liquidator or other similar official for it or a substantial portion of its
property, assets or business or to effect a plan or other arrangement with its
creditors, or shall file any answer admitting the jurisdiction of the court and
the material allegations of an involuntary petition filed against it in any
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding in any jurisdiction, or shall be
adjudicated bankrupt, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or shall consent to, or acquiesce in the appointment of, a receiver,
receiver and manager, interim receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, court
appointed monitor, administrator, administrative receiver, liquidator or other
similar official for a substantial portion of its property, assets or business,
shall call a meeting of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition or
adjustment of its debts or shall take any corporate action authorizing any of
the foregoing; or
(f) Involuntary Insolvency,
Etc. Involuntary proceedings or an involuntary petition shall
be commenced or filed against any Borrower or any Material Subsidiary under any
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law in any jurisdiction or seeking the
dissolution, reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, winding up,
liquidation, suspension of operations of it or the appointment of a receiver,
receiver and manager, interim receiver, trustee, custodian, court appointed
monitor, administrator, administrative receiver, liquidator or other similar
official for it or of a substantial part of its property, assets or business, or
to effect a plan or other arrangement with its creditors or any writ, judgment,
warrant of attachment, sequestration, execution or similar process shall be
issued or levied against a substantial part of its property, assets or business,
and such proceedings or petition shall not be dismissed, or such writ, judgment,
warrant of attachment, execution or similar process shall not be released,
vacated or fully bonded, within sixty (60) days after commencement, filing or
levy, as the case may be, or any order for relief shall be entered in any such
proceeding; or
(g) Default Under Other
Agreements. (i) Any Loan Party shall default in the payment
when due, whether at stated maturity or otherwise, of any Indebtedness (other
than Indebtedness owed to the Lenders under the Loan Documents) in excess of
$35,000,000 in the aggregate beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the
instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created, (ii) a
default shall occur in the performance or observance of any Permitted Debt
Document, any agreement or condition to any such Indebtedness referred to in
clause (i) of
this Section
8.01(g) or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing
or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the
effect of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit
the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of
such holder or holders) to cause (determined without regard to whether any
notice of acceleration or similar notice is required), any such Indebtedness to
become due or be repaid prior to its stated maturity, or (iii) any such
Indebtedness referred to in clause (i) of this
Section 8.01(g)
of the Loan Parties shall be declared to be due and payable, or required to be
prepaid other than by a regularly scheduled required payment or prepayment,
prior to the stated maturity thereof; or
(h) Invalidity of Subordination
Provisions. The subordination provisions of any agreement,
instrument or other documents evidencing, guaranteeing or otherwise governing
subordinated notes evidencing any Permitted Additional Indebtedness or any
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness therefor is for any reason revoked or
invalidated, or otherwise ceases to be in full force and effect, or the Loans
and the other Obligations hereunder entitled to receive the benefits of any Loan
Document is for any reason subordinated or does not have the priority
contemplated by this Agreement or such subordination provisions;
or
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(i) Judgments. One
or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against a Loan Party involving,
individually or in the aggregate, a liability (to the extent not paid or covered
by insurance) of $35,000,000 or more and shall not have been vacated,
discharged, satisfied, stayed or bonded pending appeal within sixty (60) days
from the entry thereof; or
(j) Collateral
Documents. Except as contemplated by Section 7.10, at any
time after the execution and delivery thereof, any of the Collateral Documents
shall cease to be in full force and effect (other than, except in the case of
documents governed by other than U.S. law, due to the effect of applicable
foreign law or action of any foreign government or as otherwise provided in any
Loan Document) or shall cease to give Administrative Agent for the benefit of
the Secured Parties the Liens, rights, powers and privileges purported to be
created thereby (including, without limitation, a first priority perfected
security interest in, and Lien on, all of the Collateral), in favor of
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties superior to and
prior to the rights of all third Persons and subject to no other Liens (except
to the extent expressly permitted herein or therein); or
(k) Guaranties. Any
Guaranty or any provision thereof shall (other than as a result of the actions
taken by Administrative Agent or the Lenders to release such Guaranty) cease to
be in full force and effect in accordance with its terms or the terms of any
other Loan Document, or any Guarantor or any Person acting by or on behalf of
such Guarantor shall deny or disaffirm such Guarantor’s obligations under any
Guaranty (except to the extent expressly permitted herein or therein);
or
(l) ERISA. Either
(i) any Termination Event shall have occurred, (ii) a trustee shall be appointed
by a United States District Court to administer any Plan or Multiemployer Plan,
(iii) the PBGC institutes proceedings to terminate any Plan or Multiemployer
Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, (iv) Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall become liable to the PBGC or any other party under Section
4062, 4063 or 4064 of ERISA with respect to any Plan or (v) any Borrower or any
Subsidiary of any Borrower fails to make a deficit reduction contribution
required under Code Section 412(1) to any Plan by the due date for such
contribution; if as of the date thereof or any subsequent date, the sum of each
of Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ various liabilities (such liabilities to
include, without limitation, any liability to the PBGC or to any other party
under Section 4062, 4063 or 4064 of ERISA with respect to any Plan, or to any
Multiemployer Plan under Section 4201 et seq. of ERISA) as a result of such
events listed in clauses (i) through
(v) above
exceeds $35,000,000 in the aggregate; or
(m) Change of
Control. A Change of Control shall occur; or
(n)
Dissolution. Any
order, judgment or decree shall be entered against any Borrower or any Material
Subsidiary decreeing its involuntary dissolution or split up and such order
shall remain undischarged and unstayed for a period in excess of sixty (60)
days; or Company or any Material Subsidiary shall otherwise dissolve or cease to
exist except as specifically permitted by this Agreement.
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If any of
the foregoing Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
Administrative Agent, at the written direction of the Required Lenders, shall
take one or more of the following actions for the ratable benefit of the Secured
Parties: (i) by written notice to Borrowers declare all Commitments to be
terminated whereupon such Commitments shall forthwith terminate, (ii) by written
notice to Borrowers declare all sums then owing by Borrowers hereunder and under
the Loan Documents to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon all such sums
shall become and be immediately due and payable without presentment, demand,
protest or notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by
Borrowers, (iii) direct Borrowers to Cash Collateralize (and each Borrower
agrees that upon receipt of such notice, or immediately and automatically upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default specified in
Section 8.01(e)
or Section
8.01(f) with respect to such Borrower it will Cash Collateralize) the
then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, and (iv) enforce, as
Administrative Agent the Guaranties and all of the Liens and security interests
created pursuant to the Collateral Documents in accordance with their terms. In
cases of any occurrence of any Event of Default described in Section 8.01(e) or
Section 8.01(f)
with respect to the Company, the Loans, together with accrued interest thereon
and all of the other Obligations, shall become immediately and automatically due
and payable forthwith and all Commitments immediately and automatically
terminated without the requirement of any such acceleration or request, and
without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which
are expressly waived by each Borrower, any provision of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, and other amounts payable
by Borrowers hereunder shall also become immediately and automatically due and
payable all without notice of any kind.
Anything
in this Section
8.01 to the contrary notwithstanding, Administrative Agent shall, at the
request of the Required Lenders, rescind and annul any acceleration of the Loans
by written instrument filed with Borrowers; provided that, at the
time such acceleration is so rescinded and annulled: (A) all past due interest
and principal, if any, on the Loans and all other sums payable under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall have been duly paid, and (B) no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing which shall not have been
waived in accordance with the provision of Section 10.1
hereof.
8.02 Application of
Funds. After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.01, any
amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the
Administrative Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of
that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and
other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the
Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable
to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;
Second, to payment of
that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts
(other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees) payable to the
Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel
to the respective Lenders and the L/C Issuer (including fees and time charges
for attorneys who may be employees of any Lender or the L/C Issuer) arising
under the Loan Documents and amounts payable under Article III, ratably
among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause
Second payable
to them;
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Third, to payment of
that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit
Fees and interest on the Loans, L/C Borrowings and other Obligations arising
under the Loan Documents, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuer in
proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to
them;
Fourth, to payment of
that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, L/C
Borrowings, Ancillary Obligations, ratably among the Lenders, the L/C Issuer,
the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks and the Existing Guaranty Banks, in
proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by
them;
Fifth, to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer, to Cash Collateralize
that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of
Letters of Credit; and
Last, the balance, if
any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full to the
Company or as otherwise required by Law.
Subject
to Section
2.03(c), amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount
of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fifth above shall be
applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they
occur. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all
Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount
shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth
above.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, Ancillary Obligations shall be excluded from the application
described above if the Administrative Agent has not received written notice
thereof, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent
may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank, Hedge Bank or Existing
Guaranty Bank, as the case may be. Each Cash Management Bank, Hedge
Bank or Existing Guaranty Bank not a party to the Credit Agreement that has
given the notice contemplated by the preceding sentence shall, by such notice,
be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the
Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of Article IX hereof for
itself and its Affiliates as if a “Lender” party hereto.
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8.03 Collateral Allocation
Mechanism. On the CAM Exchange Date, (a) the Lenders shall
automatically and without further act be deemed to have exchanged interests in
the Designated Obligations such that, in lieu of the interests of each Lender in
the Designated Obligations under each Loan in which it shall participate as of
such date, such Lender shall own an interest equal to such Lender’s CAM
Percentage in the Designated Obligations under each of the Loans and (b)
simultaneously with the deemed exchange of interests pursuant to clause (a) above, the
interests in the Designated Obligations to be received in such deemed exchange
shall, automatically and with no further action required, be converted into the
Dollar Amount, determined using the Spot Rate calculated as of such date, of
such amount and on and after such date all amounts accruing and owed to the
Lenders in respect of such Designated Obligations shall accrue and be payable in
Dollars at the rate otherwise applicable hereunder. Each Lender, each Person
acquiring a participation from any Lender as contemplated by Section 10.06 and
each Borrower hereby consents and agrees to the CAM Exchange. Each of the
Borrowers and the Lenders agrees from time to time to execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent all such promissory notes and other instruments and
documents as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request to evidence and
confirm the respective interests and obligations of the Lenders after giving
effect to the CAM Exchange, and each Lender agrees to surrender any promissory
notes originally received by it in connection with its Loans hereunder to the
Administrative Agent against delivery of any promissory notes so executed and
delivered; provided that the failure of any Borrower to execute or deliver or of
any Lender to accept any such promissory note, instrument or document shall not
affect the validity or effectiveness of the CAM Exchange. As a result
of the CAM Exchange, on and after the CAM Exchange Date, each payment received
by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any Loan Document in respect of the
Designated Obligations shall be distributed to the Lenders pro rata in
accordance with their respective CAM Percentages (to be redetermined as of each
such date of payment).
ARTICLE
IX
ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT
9.01 Appointment and
Authority. (a) Each of the Lenders and the L/C
Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints Bank of America to act on its behalf as the
Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes
the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such
powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or
thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of
the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, and no Borrower shall
have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.
(b) The
Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent”
under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (including in its capacities
as a potential Hedge Bank and a potential Cash Management Bank) and the L/C
Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to
act as the agent of such Lender and the L/C Issuer for purposes of acquiring,
holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan
Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and
discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection,
the Administrative Agent, as “collateral agent”, and any co-agents,
sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant
to Section 9.05
for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion
thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights
and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be
entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX and Article X (including
Section 10.04(c),
as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral
agent” under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect
thereto.
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9.02 Rights as a
Lender. The Person 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 the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise
expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person
serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual
capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from,
lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity
for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrowers or any
Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the
Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the
Lenders.
9.03 Exculpatory
Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties
or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan
Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Administrative Agent:
(a) shall
not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a
Default has occurred and is continuing;
(b) shall
not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary
powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or
by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to
exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or
percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the
other Loan Documents); provided that the
Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its
opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to
liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law;
and
(c) shall
not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have
any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any
information relating to any of the Borrowers or any of their respective
Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the
Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
The
Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it
(i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other
number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the
Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the
circumstances as provided in Sections 10.01 and
8.01) or (ii)
in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The
Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless
and until notice describing such Default is given to the Administrative Agent by
the Company, a Lender or the L/C Issuer.
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 this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (ii) the contents of
any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or
in connection herewith or therewith; (iii) the performance or observance of
any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein
or therein or the occurrence of any Default; (iv) the validity, enforceability,
effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any
other agreement, instrument or document, or the creation, perfection or priority
of any Lien purported to be created by the Collateral Documents; (v) the value
or the sufficiency of any Collateral; or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition
set forth in Article
IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly
required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
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9.04 Reliance by Administrative
Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely
upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request,
certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing
(including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other
distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or
otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative
Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and
believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any
liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any
condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of
Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or
the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is
satisfactory to such Lender or the L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent
shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or the L/C Issuer
prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of
Credit. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who
may be counsel for the Company), 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.
9.05 Delegation of
Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of
its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan
Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent
may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or
through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions
of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of
the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their
respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit
facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative
Agent.
9.06 Resignation of
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time
give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the
Company. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required
Lenders shall have the right, subject to approval by the Company if no Default
exists and is continuing, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an
office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in
the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed
by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty
(30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its
resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders
and the L/C Issuer, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the
qualifications set forth above subject to approval by the Company if no Default
exists and is continuing; provided that if the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders that no qualifying
Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless
become effective in accordance with such notice and (a) the retiring
Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any
collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders or
the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative
Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a
successor Administrative Agent is appointed); and (b) all payments,
communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the
Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and the L/C
Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor
Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section. Upon the
acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such
successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers,
privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the
retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and
obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already
discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees
payable by the Company to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as
those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Company and
such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and
Section 10.04
shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent,
its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions
taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative
Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.
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Any
resignation by Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section
shall also constitute its resignation as L/C Issuer and Swing Line
Lender. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as
Administrative Agent hereunder, (x) such successor shall succeed to and become
vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C
Issuer and Swing Line Lender; (y) the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender
shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations
hereunder or under the other Loan Documents; and (z) the successor L/C Issuer
shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any,
outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements
satisfactory to the retiring L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of
the retiring L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.
9.07 Non-Reliance on
Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender and the
L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties 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 and the L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of
their Related Parties 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 any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or
thereunder.
9.08 No Other Duties,
Etc. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of
the Arrangers, Book Managers or Syndication Agents listed on the cover page
hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or
any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the
Administrative Agent, a Lender or the L/C Issuer hereunder.
9.09 Administrative Agent May
File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency
of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial
proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of
whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and
payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on any Borrower)
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise
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(a) to
file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing
and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations
that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the
Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the
Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other
amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(i) and
(j), 2.09 and 10.04) allowed in
such judicial proceeding; and
(b) to
collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same;
and any
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Lender and the L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and,
if the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent
any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09
and 10.04.
Nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C
Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to
authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender
or the L/C Issuer or in any such proceeding.
9.10 Collateral and Guaranty
Matters. Each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a
potential Cash Management Bank, a potential Hedge Bank or an Existing Guaranty
Bank) and the L/C Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its
option and in its discretion,
(a) to
release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent
under any Loan Document (i) on the date on which all Obligations (including any
then due and owing indemnity obligations hereunder but excluding any Ancillary
Obligations) shall be indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or cash collateralized
on reasonably satisfactory terms), and the Aggregate Commitments hereunder shall
have been terminated, (ii) that is sold or to be sold as part of or in
connection with any sale permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document,
or (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing in accordance
with Section
10.01;
(b) to
release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under any Subsidiary
Guaranty if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction
permitted hereunder; and
(c) to
subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative
Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is
permitted by Section
7.01(i).
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Upon
request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will
confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or
subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release
any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under any Subsidiary Guaranty
pursuant to this Section
9.10. In each case as specified in this Section 9.10, the
Administrative Agent will, at the Company’s expense, execute and deliver to the
applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request
to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and
security interest granted under the Collateral Documents or to subordinate its
interest in such item, or to release such Subsidiary Guarantor from its
obligations under any Subsidiary Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the
terms of the Loan Documents and this Section
9.10.
9.11 Existing Guaranties, Secured
Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements. No
Existing Guaranty Bank, Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank that obtains the
benefits of Section
8.02, any Guaranty or any Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof
or of any Guaranty, any Collateral Document or any other Loan Document shall
have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any
action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the
Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in
its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly
provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision
of this Article
IX to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to
verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made
with respect to, Ancillary Obligations unless the Administrative Agent has
received written notice of such Ancillary Obligations, together with such
supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the
applicable Existing Guaranty Bank, Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the
case may be.
The
parties hereto hereby acknowledge and agree that, on the date on which all
Obligations (including any then due and owing indemnity obligations hereunder
but excluding any Ancillary Obligations) shall be indefeasibly paid in full in
cash (or cash collateralized on reasonably satisfactory terms), and the
Aggregate Commitments hereunder shall have been terminated (all of which shall
occur in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and whether or not any
Ancillary Obligations remain outstanding), any benefits obtained by any Existing
Guaranty Bank, Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank pursuant to any Guaranty, any
Collateral Document or any other Loan Document shall terminate, regardless of
whether any Ancillary Obligations remain outstanding.
ARTICLE
X
MISCELLANEOUS
10.01 No Waiver; Modifications in
Writing.
(a) No
failure or delay on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or
remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right, power or remedy. The remedies provided for herein are
cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies that may be available to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender at law or in equity or
otherwise. Neither this Agreement nor any terms hereof may be
amended, modified, supplemented, waived, discharged, terminated or otherwise
changed unless such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver, discharge,
termination or other change is in writing signed by the Company and the Required
Lenders; provided that no such
amendment, modification, supplement, waiver, discharge, termination or other
change shall, without the consent of each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender
or any Lender that is an Impacted Lender pursuant to clause (b) of the
definition thereof) (with Obligations directly affected thereby in the case of
the following clause
(i)):
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(i) extend
the final scheduled maturity of any Loan or Note (or extend the stated maturity
of any Letter of Credit beyond the Maturity Date with respect to the Revolving
Credit Facility), or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest
or fees thereon except for waivers of Default Rate interest, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or extend the time of payment or reduce the amount of
any other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan
Document,
(ii) release
all or substantially all of the value of the Guarantors or all or substantially
all of the Collateral (except as expressly provided in the Collateral Documents
or in this Agreement),
(iii) amend,
modify or waive any provision of this Section 10.01 (except
for technical amendments with respect to additional extensions of credit
pursuant to Section
2.14 or 2.15 which afford the
protections to such additional extensions of credit of the type provided to the
Loans on the date hereof) or reduce any percentage specified in the definition
of Required Lenders, or
(iv) consent
to the assignment or transfer by any Borrower of any of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement; and
provided, further, that no such
amendment, modification, supplement, waiver, discharge, termination or other
change shall:
(A) increase
or extend the Commitments of any Lender over the amount thereof then in effect
without the consent of such Lender (it being understood that waivers or
modifications of conditions precedent, representations, warranties, covenants,
Defaults or Events of Default shall not constitute an increase of the Commitment
of any Lender);
(B) without
the consent of Bank of America and each other L/C Issuer that has issued an
outstanding Letter of Credit, amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.03 or alter
its rights or obligations with respect to Letters of Credit;
(C) without
the consent of the Administrative Agent, amend, modify or waive any provision of
Article IX as
same applies to the Administrative Agent or any other provisions as same relates
to the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent;
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(D) without
the consent of the Administrative Agent, amend, modify or waive any provisions
relating to the rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent under the
other Loan Documents;
(E) alter
the required application of any prepayments or repayments (or commitment
reductions), as among the various Facilities, without the consent of the
Required Term Lenders, the Required U.S. Revolving Lenders and the Required
Global Lenders, as applicable and to the extent that their respective Facilities
are being allocated a lesser prepayment, repayment or commitment reduction;
provided that
the Required Lenders may waive in whole or in part, any such prepayment,
repayment or commitment reduction so long as the application, as among the
various Facilities, of any such prepayment, repayment or commitment reduction
which is still required to be made is not altered; or
(F) change
(1) any provision of this Section 10.01 or the
definitions of “Required Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the
number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any
rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder (other
than the definitions specified in clause (2) of this
Section
10.01(iv)(F)), without the written consent of the Required Lenders or (2)
the definitions of “Required Term Lenders”, “Required Revolving Lenders,
“Required U.S. Revolving Lenders” or “Required Global Revolving Lenders” without
the written consent of the Required Term Lenders, Required Revolving Lenders,
Required U.S. Revolving Lenders and Required Global Revolving Lenders,
respectively; and
provided, further, that (i) no
amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by each Swing
Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or
duties of the Swing Line Lenders under this Agreement; and (ii) any of the Fee
Letters may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing
executed only by the parties thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender (nor any Lender that is an Impacted Lender
pursuant to clause
(b) of the definition thereof) shall have any right to approve or
disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that the
Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent
of such Lender.
(b) If,
in connection with any proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver,
discharge, termination or other change of any of the provisions of this
Agreement as contemplated by clauses (a)(i)
through (iv),
inclusive, of the first proviso to the third sentence of Section 10.01(a), the
consent of the Required Lenders is obtained but the consent of one or more of
such other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained, then the Borrowers
shall have the right to replace each such non-consenting Lender or Lenders (or,
at the option of the Borrowers if the respective Lender’s consent is required
with respect to less than all Loans and/or Commitments, to replace only the
respective Loans and/or Commitments of the respective non-consenting Lender
which gave rise to the need to obtain such Lender’s individual consent) with one
or more replacement Lenders pursuant to Section 10.13 so long
as at the time of such replacement, each such replacement Lender consents to the
proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver, discharge, termination or
other change. Promptly following any such replacement hereunder, the
Administrative Agent shall effect the vote on the proposed amendment,
modification, supplement, waiver, discharge, termination or other
change.
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(c) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, upon the execution and delivery of all documentation required by
the Administrative Agent to be delivered pursuant to either (i) Section 2.14 in
connection with an increase in the Revolving Credit Facility or (ii) Section 2.15 in
connection with an increase in the Term Loans, this Agreement shall be deemed
amended without further action by any Lender to reflect, as applicable, the new
Lenders and the terms of such increase.
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness;
Electronic Communications. (a) Notices
Generally. Except in the case of notices and other
communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as
provided in clause
(b) below), 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 telecopier as follows, and all
notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by
telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as
follows:
(i) if
to a Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Swing Line
Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone
number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02;
and
(ii) if
to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address
or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire.
Notices
and other communications sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by
certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received;
notices and other communications sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been
given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the
recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the
next business day for the recipient). Notices and other
communications delivered through electronic communications to the extent
provided in clause
(b) below shall be effective as provided in such clause
(b).
(b) Electronic
Communications. Notices and other communications to the
Lenders and the L/C Issuer hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic
communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to
procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the
foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to
Article II if
such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative
Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic
communication. The Administrative Agent or the Company may, in its
discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by
electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that
approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications.
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Unless
the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other
communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the
sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by
the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other
written acknowledgement); provided that if such
notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of
the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at
the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient; and
(ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website
shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at
its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of
notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the
website address therefor.
(c) The
Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS
AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE
ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE
PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE
BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER
CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER
MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent
or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have
any liability to any Borrower, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person
for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in
tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any Borrower’s or the Administrative
Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the
extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined
by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to
have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent
Party; provided
that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Borrower, any
Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental,
consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual
damages).
(d) Change of Address,
Etc. Each of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the L/C
Issuer and the Swing Line Lenders may change its address, telecopier or
telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the
other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address,
telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by
notice to the Company, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Swing
Line Lenders. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the
Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent
has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number,
telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other
communications may be sent; and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such
Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one
individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected
the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration
screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in
accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law,
including United States Federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to
Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side
Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public
information with respect to the Company or its securities for purposes of United
States Federal or state securities laws.
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(e) Reliance by Administrative
Agent, L/C Issuer and Lenders. The Administrative
Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any
notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices and Swing Line Loan
Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower even if (i) such
notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not
preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein; or (ii) the
terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation
thereof. The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the
L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses,
costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on
each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower, except to the
extent determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and
nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any
Lender. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications
with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and
each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.
10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative
Remedies; Enforcement. No failure by any Lender, the L/C
Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person
in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any
other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any
other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy,
power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges
herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and
not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by
law.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the
authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively
in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement
shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in
accordance with Section 8.01 for the
benefit of all the Lenders and the L/C Issuer; provided that the
foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising on its
own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its
capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents;
(b) the L/C Issuer or any Swing Line Lender from exercising the rights and
remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as L/C Issuer or
Swing Line Lender, as the case may be) hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents; (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 10.08
(subject to the terms of Section 2.13); or (d)
any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its
own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Loan Party under
any Debtor Relief Law; and provided, further, that if at
any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents, then (x) the Required Lenders shall have the rights
otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01; and (y)
in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding
proviso and subject to Section 2.13, any
Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and
remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.
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10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage
Waiver. (a) Costs and
Expenses. The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates
(including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the
Administrative Agent), in connection with the syndication of the credit
facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution,
delivery and administration of this Agreement and 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
L/C Issuer 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, any
Lender or the L/C Issuer (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any
counsel for the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), and shall
pay all reasonable fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of
the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer, in connection with the
enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in
connection with Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all
such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or
negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.
(b) Indemnification by the
Company. The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent
(and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and the L/C Issuer, and each Related
Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against,
and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages,
liabilities and related reasonable expenses (including the reasonable fees,
charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), and shall
indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all reasonable fees and time
charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of any Indemnitee,
incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party
or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with,
or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any
other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or
thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations
hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any
sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents; (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit
or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by
the L/C Issuer 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
any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Claim related in
any way to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; or (iv) any actual or
prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of
the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether
brought by a third party or by the Company or any other Loan Party or any of the
Company’s or such Loan Party’s directors, shareholders or creditors, and
regardless of whether 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 (A) are determined
by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or
(B) result from a claim brought by the Company or any other Loan Party
against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations
hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Company or such other Loan
Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim
as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
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(c) Reimbursement by
Lenders. To the extent that the Company for any reason fails
to indefeasibly pay any amount required under clause (a)
or (b) of
this Section
10.04 to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent
thereof), the L/C Issuer or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each
Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such
sub-agent), the L/C Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, such
Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable
unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount;
provided that
the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or
related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the
Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or the L/C Issuer in its capacity
as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the
Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or L/C Issuer in connection with
such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause (c) are
subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d).
(d) Waiver of Consequential
Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, no Borrower shall 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 contemplated
hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds
thereof. No Indemnitee referred to in clause (b) above
shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of
any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by
such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information
transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby other than for
direct or actual damages resulting from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and nonappealable
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(e) Payments. All
amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than thirty (30) days
after demand therefor.
(f) Survival. The
agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation of the Administrative
Agent, the L/C Issuer and any Swing Line Lender, the replacement of any Lender,
the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or
discharge of all the other Obligations.
10.05 Payments Set
Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of any
Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender, or
the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of
setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is
subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside
or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be
repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of
such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be
satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such
payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender
and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon
demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered
from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon
from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per
annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, in the
applicable currency of such recovery or payment. The obligations of
the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the
preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the
termination of this Agreement.
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10.06 Successors and
Assigns. (a) Successors and Assigns
Generally. 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, except that no Borrower may assign or otherwise
transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written
consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or
otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an
assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06(b),
(ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06(d), or
(iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the
restrictions of Section 10.06(f) (and
any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and
void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be
construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their
respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent
provided in clause
(d) of this Section 10.06 and, to
the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders) any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Assignments by
Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more
assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment(s) and the Loans (including for
purposes of this Section 10.06(b),
participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to
it); provided
that any such assignment shall be subject to the following
conditions:
(i) Minimum
Amounts.
(A) in
the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning
Lender’s Commitment under any Facility and the Loans at the time owing to it
under such Facility or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of
a Lender or an Approved Fund, subject to Section 10.06(b)(vii)
no minimum amount need be assigned; and
(B) in
any case not described in clause (b)(i)(A) of
this Section
10.06, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose
includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the Commitment is not then in
effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans 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 or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of
the Trade Date, shall not be less than $5,000,000, in the case of any assignment
in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, or $5,000,000, in the case of any
assignment in respect of the Term Facility, unless each of the Administrative
Agent and, subject to Section 10.06(b)(vii)
so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company
otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed); provided that
concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent
assignments from members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or
to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a
single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has
been met;
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(ii) Proportionate
Amounts. 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 with respect to the Loans or the Commitment
assigned, except that this clause (ii) shall not (A) apply to any Swing Line
Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans or (B) prohibit
any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among
separate Facilities on a non-pro rata basis;
(iii) Required
Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment
except to the extent required by clause (b)(i)(B) of
this Section and, in addition:
(A) the
consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)
shall be required unless (1) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is to a Lender, an
Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund;
(B) the
consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments in respect of (1) any
Term Commitment or Revolving Credit Commitment if such assignment is to a Person
that is not a Lender with a Commitment in respect of the applicable Facility, an
Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender or (2)
any Term Loan to a Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an
Approved Fund;
(C) the
consent of the L/C Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) shall be required for any assignment that increases the obligation of
the assignee to participate in exposure under one or more Letters of Credit
(whether or not then outstanding); and
(D) the
consent of each of the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lenders (such consents not
to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for any assignment in
respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.
(iv) Assignment and
Assumption. The parties to each assignment shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with
a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $3,500; provided that the
Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing
and recordation fee in the case of any assignment. The assignee, if
it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative
Questionnaire.
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(v) No Assignment to
Company. No such assignment shall be made to the Company or
any of the Company’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries.
(vi) No Assignment to Natural
Persons. No such assignment shall be made to a natural
person.
(vii) Minimum Amounts for
Assignment. No such assignment with respect to any Obligations
hereunder which are owed by or committed to a Borrower incorporated or
established under Dutch law, shall be for an amount less than €50,000 (or its
equivalent in another currency) or, if it is less, the new Lender shall confirm
in writing to such Borrower that it, the new Lender, is a professional market
party within the meaning of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel
toezicht).
Subject
to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
clause (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in
each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this
Agreement 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 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 with respect to
facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such
assignment. Upon request, each Borrower (at its expense) shall
execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or
transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not
comply with this clause 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 Section
10.06(d).
(c) Register. The
Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the
Borrowers, shall maintain at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office 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 Commitments of,
and principal amounts of the Loans and L/C Obligations 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 Borrowers, the
Administrative Agent 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, absent
manifest error. No assignment or transfer of a Lender’s Commitment or
Loans shall be effective unless such assignment or transfer shall have been
recorded in the Register by the Administrative Agent as provided in this
Section. The Register shall be available for inspection by the
Borrowers and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon
reasonable prior notice.
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(d) Participations. Any
Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Borrower or
the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a
natural person or the Company or any of the Company’s Affiliates or
Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all
or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement
(including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such
Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line 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
Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer 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, waiver or other modification
described in the first or second proviso to Section 10.01 that
affects such Participant. Subject to clause (e) of this
Section, each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the
benefits of Sections 3.01,
3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as
if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to
Section
10.06(b). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant
also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a
Lender; provided that such
Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as
though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participating
interest in any Loan, Commitment or other interest to a Participant shall, as
agent of the Borrower solely for the purpose of this Section 10.06(d), record in
book entries maintained by such Lender the name and the amount of the
participating interest of each Participant entitled to receive payments in
respect of such participating interests.
(e) Limitations upon Participant
Rights. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any
greater payment under Section 3.01 or 3.04 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 Company’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 3.01
unless the Company is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and
such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as
though it were a Lender. No Lender shall provide, and no Designated
Participant shall be entitled to receive, any Information unless such
Information is publicly available at the time of the disclosure
thereof.
(f) Certain
Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a
security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement
(including under its Note(s), if any) to secure obligations of such Lender,
including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve
Bank; provided
that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its
obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender
as a party hereto.
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(g) Resignation as L/C Issuer or
Swing Line Lender after Assignment. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained herein, if at any time Bank of America assigns all of
its Revolving Credit Commitment and Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 10.06(b),
Bank of America may, (i) upon 30 days’ notice to the Company and the Lenders,
resign as L/C Issuer and/or (ii) upon 30 days’ notice to the Company, resign as
Swing Line Lender. In the event of any such resignation as L/C Issuer
or Swing Line Lender, the Company shall be entitled to appoint from among the
Lenders a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided that no
failure by the Company to appoint any such successor shall affect the
resignation of Bank of America as L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case
may be. If Bank of America resigns as L/C Issuer, it shall retain all
the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Issuer hereunder with
respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its
resignation as L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto
(including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk
participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section
2.03(c)). If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it
shall retain all the rights of a Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with
respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date
of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base
Rate Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant
to Section
2.04(c). Upon the appointment of a successor L/C Issuer and/or
Swing Line Lender, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with
all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer or
Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, and (b) the successor L/C Issuer shall
issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any,
outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements
satisfactory to Bank of America to effectively assume the obligations of Bank of
America with respect to such Letters of Credit.
10.07 Treatment of Certain
Information; Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer agrees to maintain the confidentiality of
the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed
(a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners,
directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, advisors and representatives
in connection with this Facility (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 on the terms
hereof), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting
to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent
required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal
process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of
any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or
proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the
enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement
containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i)
any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant
in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or any Eligible
Assignee invited to be a Lender pursuant to either Section 2.14(c) or
Section 2.15(c)
or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or
derivative transaction relating to a Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the
consent of the Company or (h) to the extent such Information
(i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this
Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender,
the L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis
from a source other than the Company.
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For
purposes of this Section, “Information” means
all information received from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof relating
to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof or their respective businesses,
other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent,
any Lender or the L/C Issuer on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by
any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof; provided that, in the
case of information received from a Loan Party or any such Subsidiary after the
date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as
confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of
Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied
with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of
care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would
accord to its own confidential information.
Each of
the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuer acknowledges that (a)
the Information may include material non-public information concerning the
Company or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance
procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will
handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law,
including United States Federal and state securities Laws.
10.08 Right of
Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates
is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general
or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any
time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such
Lender, the L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account
of any Borrower against any and all of the obligations of such Borrower now or
hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such
Lender or the L/C Issuer, irrespective of whether or not such Lender or the L/C
Issuer shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document and although such obligations of such Borrower may be contingent or
unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or the L/C Issuer
different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such
indebtedness. The rights of each Lender, the L/C Issuer and their
respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and
remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, the L/C Issuer or
their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer
agrees to notify the Company and the Administrative Agent promptly after any
such setoff and application; provided that the
failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and
application.
10.09 Interest Rate
Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan
Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted
by applicable Law (the “Maximum
Rate”). If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall
receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest
shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid
principal, refunded to the Company. In determining whether the
interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a
Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by
applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an
expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments
and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in
equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated
term of the Obligations hereunder.
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10.10 Counterparts; Integration;
Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts
(and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a
single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents
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 that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of
the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a
signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or other electronic imaging means
shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this
Agreement.
10.11 Survival of Representations
and Warranties. All representations and warranties made
hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant
hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the
execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and
warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each
Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent or any
Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or
any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any
Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any
Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any
Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding.
10.12 Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be
illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability
of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall
not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good
faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions
with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to
that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The
invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
10.13 Replacement of
Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if
any Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any
Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if
any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or a Lender that is an Impacted Lender
pursuant to clause
(b) of the definition thereof, then the Company 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, and consents of all Persons other than
such Lender required by, Section 10.06), all
of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related
Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee
may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided
that:
(a) the
Company shall have paid (or caused a Designated Borrower to pay) to the
Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section
10.06(b);
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(b) such
Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding
principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees
and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents
(including any amounts under Section 3.05) from
the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest
and fees) or the Company or applicable Designated Borrower (in the case of all
other amounts);
(c) in
the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under
Section 3.04 or
payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01,
such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments
thereafter; and
(d) such
assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws.
A Lender
shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior
thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances
entitling the Company to require such assignment and delegation cease to
apply.
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction;
Etc.
(a) GOVERNING
LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) SUBMISSION TO
JURISDICTION. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS 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 THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR
RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH PARTY HERETO 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 COURT OR, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL
COURT. EACH PARTY 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 IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL
AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR THE L/C ISSUER MAY
OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR
ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF
ANY JURISDICTION.
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(c) WAIVER OF
VENUE. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT
MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY 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 PARTY
HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR
PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(d) SERVICE OF
PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF
PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING
IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN
ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW
10.15 WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY
JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING
TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER
THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE,
AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE,
THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE
THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES
HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS
SECTION.
10.16 No Advisory or Fiduciary
Responsibility. In connection with all
aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with
any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan
Document), each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that: (i) (A) the
arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the
Administrative Agent and the Arrangers are arm’s-length commercial transactions
between such Borrower and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the
Administrative Agent and the Arrangers, on the other hand, (B) each Borrower has
consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent
it has deemed appropriate, and (C) such Borrower is capable of evaluating, and
understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions
contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative
Agent and each Arranger each is and has been acting solely as a principal and,
except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is
not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for such
Borrower or any of
its Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent nor
any Arranger has any obligation to such Borrower or any of its Affiliates with
respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations
expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents and as otherwise
agreed in writing by the relevant parties; and (iii) the Administrative Agent
and the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad
range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of such
Borrower and its Affiliates, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any
Arranger has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to such
Borrower or its
Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each of the
Borrowers hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the
Administrative Agent and the Arrangers with respect to any breach or alleged
breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any
transaction contemplated hereby.
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10.17 Electronic Execution of
Assignments and Certain Other Documents. The words
“execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment
and Assumption or in any amendment or other modification hereof (including
waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the
keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal
effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use
of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as
provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures
in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures
and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act.
10.18 USA PATRIOT
Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter
defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any
Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the
USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001))
(the “Act”), it
is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the
Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of the Borrowers and
other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as
applicable, to identify such Borrower in accordance with the
Act. Each Borrower shall, promptly following a request by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other
information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender requests in order to
comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and
anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Act.
10.19 Judgment
Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any
court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document
in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that
at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent
could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day
preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of
each Borrower in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent
or any Lender hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding
any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”)
other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the
applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”),
be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by
the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged
to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender,
as the case may be, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase
the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of
the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender from any Borrower in the Agreement Currency,
such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such
judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may
be, against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so
purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or
any Lender in such currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the
case may be, agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Borrower (or to
any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).
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10.20 Special Provisions in
relation to Dutch Collateral.
(a) Each
Loan Party that is or becomes a party to a Collateral Document governed by Dutch
law (each a “Dutch Law
Credit Party”) hereby irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes (such
undertaking to become effective at the time of effectiveness of the related
Collateral Document) to pay to the Administrative Agent as a separate and
independent obligation an amount equal to the total amount owed from time to
time by such Loan Party to any Secured Party (excluding any amount owed to the
Administrative Agent under this Section 10.20) under
the Loan Documents (its “Parallel
Debt”).
(b) For
the avoidance of doubt it is confirmed that clause (a) above
means:
(i) that
any separate and independent payment obligation of a Dutch Law Credit Party
under clause (a) above shall be due and payable to the Administrative Agent
under this Section
10.20 as soon as, and to the extent that, the amount owed by such Dutch
Law Credit Party to any Secured Party (excluding any amount owed to the
Administrative Agent under this Section10.20) is due
and payable under the Loan Documents;
(ii) accordingly
(without prejudice to the foregoing), that upon any Loans or other amounts (the
“Accelerated
Amounts”) being declared due and payable or payable on demand (as the
case may be) by a Dutch Law Credit Party pursuant to Section 10.01, a
portion of the Parallel Debt of that Dutch Law Credit Party in the same amount
as the Accelerated Amounts shall be due and payable or payable on demand (as the
case may be) on the same terms as are applicable to the Accelerated Amounts;
and
(iii) that
the undertaking of each Dutch Law Credit Party under this Section 10.20 shall
not increase the principal, interest, or fees owing by such Dutch Law Credit
Party under the Loan Documents.
(c) Each
of the parties acknowledges that (i) for this purpose the Parallel Debt of a
Dutch Law Credit Party constitutes undertakings, obligations and liabilities of
such Dutch Law Credit Party which are separate and independent from, and without
prejudice to the obligations which such Dutch Law Credit Party has to any
Secured Party and; (ii) each Parallel Debt represents the Administrative Agent’s
own claim (vordering)
to receive payment of such Parallel Debt by each Dutch Law Credit Party
and that the total amount which may become due under a Parallel Debt pursuant to
this Section
10.20 shall never exceed the total amount which becomes due by the
relevant Dutch Law Credit Party to the Secured Parties under the other
provisions of the Loan Documents (other than under this Section
10.20).
(d) Notwithstanding
any of the other provisions of this Section
10.20:
(i) the
total amount due and payable by each Dutch Law Credit Party under its Parallel
Debt shall be decreased to the extent such Dutch Law Credit Party shall have
paid any amounts to any Secured Party or any of them to reduce such Dutch Law
Credit Party’s outstanding obligations to the Secured Parties or any Secured
Party otherwise receives any amount in payment of such obligations (other than
by virtue of Section
10.20(f)); and
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(ii) to
the extent that any Dutch Law Credit Party shall have paid any amounts to the
Administrative Agent under its Parallel Debt or the Administrative Agent shall
have otherwise received monies in payment of such Parallel Debt, the total
amount due and payable by such Dutch Law Credit Party to the Secured Parties
shall de decreased by an equivalent amount as if said amounts were received
directly in payment of the amounts due to the Secured Parties (other than
amounts due under this Section
10.20).
(e) For
the purpose of this Section 10.20, the
Administrative Agent acts in its own name and on behalf of itself but for the
benefit of the Secured Parties and any Lien granted to the Administrative Agent
to secure any Parallel Debt is granted to the Administrative Agent in its
capacity as sole creditor of that Parallel Debt.
(f) All
payments received by the Administrative Agent shall be applied towards payment
of a Parallel Debt, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall distribute all
amounts to the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms hereof.
(g) To
the extent that any amounts are paid to the Administrative Agent in payment of a
Parallel Debt, the Administrative Agent shall, in accordance with the provisions
of the Loan Documents, return to such Dutch Law Credit Party such amounts, if
any, received in excess of the amount due to the Secured Parties.
(h) If
and to the extent any liability owed by any Loan Party to the Administrative
Agent in its capacity as Lender and/or L/C Issuer under the Loan Documents
cannot be validly secured through the Parallel Debt, such liability itself shall
be secured through the security provided by the Dutch Law Credit
Parties.
(i) Without
limiting or affecting the Administrative Agent’s rights against the Loan Parties
(whether under this Section 10.20 or
under any other provision of the Loan Documents), each Loan Party acknowledges
that:
(i) nothing
in this Section
10.20 shall impose any obligation on the Administrative Agent to advance
any sum to any Loan Party or otherwise under any Loan Document, except in its
capacity as Lender and/or L/C Issuer; and
(ii) for
the purpose of any vote taken under any Loan Document, the Administrative Agent
shall not be regarded as having any participation or commitment other than those
which it has in its capacity as a Lender and/or IC Issuer.
(j) Without
prejudice to Section
10.20, a Dutch Law Credit Party may not repay or prepay its Parallel Debt
unless directed to do so by the Administrative Agent or the Lien under the
relevant Collateral Document is enforced by the Administrative
Agent.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date
first above written.
XXXXX,
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L/C
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CHASE BANK, N.A., as a
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KEYBANK
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US
BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
THE
HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK, as
a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxx
X. Xxxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
CITIZENS
BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA, as
a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
AGFIRST
FARM CREDIT BANK, as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
FIFTH
THIRD BANK, as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxxx
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Title: |
Senior
Vice President
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Credit
Agreement
NATIONAL
CITY BANK, as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: |
Senior
Vice President
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Credit
Agreement
JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A., as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: |
Senior
Vice President
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Credit
Agreement
DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN
ISLANDS
BRANCH, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx XxXxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
XxXxxxx
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Title: |
Director
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Credit
Agreement
ING BANK N.V., DUBLIN BRANCH,
as a
Lender and
Swing Line Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Manager
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
Farm Credit Services of Mid-America,
PCA,
as Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
[HSBC
BANK USA, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION], as a Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X XxXxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx
X XxXxxxx
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Title: |
First
Vice President
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Credit
Agreement
THE
NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY, as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
TORONTO
DOMINION (NEW YORK) LLC,
as a Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title: |
Authorized
Signatory
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Credit
Agreement
UNION
BANK, N.A., as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
COMERICA
BANK, as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: |
Account
Officer
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Credit
Agreement
FIRSTMERIT BANK,
N.A., as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title: |
Senior
Vice President
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Credit
Agreement
[First
Commonwealth Bank], as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
1ST FARM
CREDIT SERVICES, PCA, as
a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title: |
SVP,
Business Lending/Corporate Relations
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Date: |
2/12/09
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Credit
Agreement
AMERICAN
AGCREDIT, PCA, as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
FARM
CREDIT SERVICES OF THE
MOUNTAIN
PLAINS, PCA as a
Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxx
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Title: |
Vice
President
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Credit
Agreement
GREENSTONE
FARM CREDIT SERVICES,
ACA/FLCA,
as a Lender
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By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Xx.
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Name: |
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxx Xx.
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Title: |
Vice
President / Managing Director
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Credit
Agreement