Exhibit 10.5(e)
[Execution Copy]
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as
of January 26, 1999, between MEDIACOM CALIFORNIA LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company ("Mediacom California"); MEDIACOM DELAWARE LLC, a Delaware
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limited liability company ("Mediacom Delaware"); MEDIACOM ARIZONA LLC, a
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Delaware limited liability company ("Mediacom Arizona" and, together with
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Mediacom California and Mediacom Delaware, the "Borrowers"); each of the lenders
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that is a signatory hereto identified under the caption "LENDERS" on the
signature pages hereto (each, individually, a "Lender" and, collectively, the
"Lenders") and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Administrative Agent (the
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"Administrative Agent").
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The Borrowers, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and First Union
National Bank, as Documentation Agent, are party to a Second Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 24, 1997 (as heretofore modified and
supplemented and in effect on the date hereof, the "Credit Agreement"),
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providing, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, for loans in an
aggregate principal amount up to but not exceeding $100,000,000. The Borrowers
wish to increase the Revolving Credit Commitments under the Credit Agreement
from $69,700,000 to $99,400,000 concurrently with a prepayment of the Term A
Loans in an amount equal to such increase and to amend the Credit Agreement in
certain other respects. The Lenders and the Administrative Agent are willing to
so agree and, accordingly, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. Except as otherwise defined in this Amendment
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No. 4, terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as defined therein.
Section 2. Amendments. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions
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precedent specified in Section 5 below, but effective as of the date hereof, the
Credit Agreement shall be amended as follows:
2.01. References in the Credit Agreement (including references to the
Credit Agreement as amended hereby) to "this Agreement" (and indirect references
such as "hereunder", "hereby", "herein" and "hereof") shall be deemed to be
references to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.
2.02. Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement shall be amended by adding
the following new definitions (to the extent not already included in said
Section 1.01) and inserting
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the same in the appropriate alphabetical locations and amending in their
entirety the following definitions (to the extent already included in said
Section 1.01), as follows:
"Amendment No. 4" shall mean Amendment No. 4 hereto dated as of January
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26, 1999 between the Borrowers, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and
the Documentation Agent.
"Amendment No. 4 Effective Date" shall mean the date upon which the
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amendments provided for in Section 2 of Amendment No. 4 hereto shall become
effective.
"Revolving Credit Commitment" shall mean, as to each Revolving Credit
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Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding up to but not
exceeding the amount set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule
1 to Amendment No. 4 or, in the case of a Person that becomes a Revolving
Credit Lender pursuant to an assignment permitted under Section 11.06(b)
hereof, as specified in the respective instrument of assignment pursuant to
which such assignment is effected (as the same may be reduced from time to
time pursuant to Section 2.03 or 2.09 hereof, or increased or reduced in
connection with any assignment pursuant to Section 11.06(b) hereof). The
original aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments
(after giving effect to Amendment No. 4) is $99,400,000.
2.03. Section 2.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
inserting a new paragraph (f) at the end thereof to read as follows:
"(f) Amendment No. 4 Effective Date. On the Amendment No. 4 Effective
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Date, all of the outstanding Term A Loans shall be prepaid be in full by
the Borrowers as provided in Section 5(ii) of Amendment No. 4 hereto.
Following such prepayment, all references in this Agreement to "Term A
Loans", "Term A Lenders" and the like shall be deemed to be inoperative."
2.04. The schedule set forth in Section 2.03(a) of the Credit Agreement
is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
(A) (B) (C)
Revolving Credit Revolving Credit Revolving Credit
Commitment Reduction Commitments Reduced Commitment Reduced
Date Falling on or by the Following to the Following
Nearest to: Amounts: Amounts:
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March 31, 1999 $1,600,000 $97,800,000
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June 30, 1999 $1,600,000 $96,000,000
September 30, 1999 $1,600,000 $94,600,000
December 31, 1999 $1,600,000 $93,000,000
March 31, 2000 $2,275,000 $90,725,000
June 30, 2000 $2,275,000 $88,450,000
September 30, 2000 $2,275,000 $86,175,000
December 31, 2000 $2,275,000 $83,900,000
March 31, 2001 $2,950,000 $80,950,000
June 30, 2001 $2,950,000 $78,000,000
September 30, 2001 $2,950,000 $75,050,000
December 31, 2001 $2,950,000 $72,100,000
March 31, 2002 $3,400,000 $68,700,000
June 30, 2002 $3,400,000 $65,300,000
September 30, 2002 $3,400,000 $61,900,000
December 31, 2002 $3,400,000 $58,500,000
March 31, 2003 $3,850,000 $54,650,000
June 30, 2003 $3,850,000 $50,800,000
September 30, 2003 $3,850,000 $46,950,000
December 31, 2003 $3,850,000 $43,100,000
March 31, 2004 $4,525,000 $38,575,000
June 30, 2004 $4,525,000 $34,050,000
September 30, 2004 $4,525,000 $29,525,000
December 31, 2004 $4,525,000 $25,000,000
March 31, 2005 $7,850,000 $17,150,000
June 30, 2005 $7,850,000 $ 9,300,000
September 30, 2005 $9,300,000 $ 0
2.05. Section 8.09(d)(ii) of the Credit Agreement shall be amended in
its entirety to read as follows:
"(ii) after giving effect to such payment during any fiscal quarter (the
"current fiscal quarter"), and to the making of any Capital Expenditures
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pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 8.12 hereof during the current
fiscal quarter, the Borrowers would (as at the last day of the most recent
fiscal quarter immediately prior to the current fiscal quarter) have been
in compliance on a pro forma basis with Section 8.10 hereof and the Senior
Leverage Ratio calculated on a pro forma basis is at the time less than
5.50 to 1
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(or, if lower, the applicable requirement at the time under Section 8.10(a)
hereof), the determination of such compliance and such Senior Leverage
Ratio to be determined as if (x) for purposes of calculating the Senior
Leverage Ratio and the Total Leverage Ratio, the amount of such payment,
together with the amount of any such Capital Expenditures, were added to
Indebtedness, and (y) for purposes of calculating the Interest Coverage
Ratio and Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, the amount of such payment (and any
Cure Monies received during the period for which the Interest Coverage
Ratio or Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is calculated), together with the
amount of any such Capital Expenditures, represented additional principal
of the Loans outstanding hereunder at all times during the respective
fiscal quarter for which such Ratios are calculated and the amount of
interest that would have been payable hereunder during such fiscal quarter
were recalculated to take into account such additional principal; and"
2.06. Section 8.12 of the Credit Agreement shall be amended by adding a
new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:
"In addition to the Capital Expenditures permitted under the preceding
paragraph, the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries may make additional Capital
Expenditures during any fiscal quarter in such amounts as would be
permitted under Section 8.09(d)(ii) (in the case of a payment of principal
of Affiliate Subordinated Indebtedness, as if such Capital Expenditure
constituted a payment in respect of Supplemental Capital thereunder)."
2.07. Section 8.13 of the Credit Agreement shall be amended in its
entirety to read as follows:
"8.13 Interest Rate Protection Agreements. The Borrowers will within 90
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days of the Effective Date, enter into, and thereafter maintain in full
force and effect, one or more Interest Rate Protection Agreements with one
or more of the Lenders or their affiliates (and/or with a bank or other
financial institution having capital, surplus and undivided profits of at
least $500,000,000), that effectively enables the Borrowers (in a manner
satisfactory to the Majority Lenders) to protect themselves, in a manner
and on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Majority Lenders, against
adverse fluctuations in the three-month London interbank offered rates as
to a notional principal amount which, together with that portion of the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of Indebtedness of the Borrowers
bearing a fixed rate of interest, shall in the aggregate be at least equal
to 50% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Indebtedness
(including Affiliate Subordinated Indebtedness) of the Borrowers."
Section 3. Consent. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions
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precedent specified in Section 5 below, but effective as of the date hereof, the
Lenders hereby consent to the amendment of the instruments and other documents
evidencing or relating to Affiliate
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Subordinated Indebtedness to permit the rate of interest payable in respect
thereof to be equal to a rate of interest payable by Mediacom on its 8-1/2%
Senior Notes due 2008.
Section 4. Representations and Warranties. Each Borrower represents
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and warrants to the Lenders that the representations and warranties set forth in
Section 7 of the Credit Agreement are true and complete on the date hereof as if
made on and as of the date hereof and as if each reference in said Section 7 to
"this Agreement" and "the Notes" included reference to this Amendment No. 4 and
to the New Notes (as defined herein below).
Section 5. Conditions Precedent. The effectiveness of the amendments
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set forth in Section 2 above, and the consent set forth in Section 3 above, is
subject to: (i) the condition that this Amendment No. 4 shall have been executed
and delivered by each Borrower, each Lender and the Administrative Agent (and
that the Parent Guarantors shall have executed and delivered their confirmation
and consent provided for on the signature pages hereto), in each case on or
before February 15, 1999, (ii) the prepayment, in accordance with the provisions
of Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement, of Term A Loans in an aggregate amount
of $29,700,000 (which amount is the aggregate principal amount of Term A Loans
outstanding on the date hereof) together with the payment of all interest
accrued thereon in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.02 of the Credit
Agreement (and any amounts that may be payable under Section 5.05 of the Credit
Agreement in connection therewith), which prepayment may be made from any
source, including from the increase in Revolving Credit Commitments contemplated
hereby, and (iii) the receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following
documents, each of which shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and
to the extent specified below, to each Lender) in form and substance:
(a) New Notes. A new promissory note for each Revolving Credit Lender,
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delivered by the Borrowers in exchange for the Revolving Credit Note
heretofore delivered to such Revolving Credit Lender, in substantially the
form of Exhibit A-1 to the Credit Agreement, dated the date of the
Revolving Credit Note being exchanged, payable to such Revolving Credit
Lender in a principal amount equal to its Revolving Credit Commitment (as
increased hereby) and otherwise duly completed. Each such promissory note
(a "New Note") shall constitute a "Revolving Credit Note" under the Credit
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Agreement as amended hereby.
(b) Organizational Matters. The Administrative Agent shall have
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received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or as
Milbank, Tweed, Xxxxxx & XxXxxx, special New York counsel to Chase, may
reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good
standing of each Credit Party and the authorization of this Amendment No.
4, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and its counsel.
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(c) Opinion of Counsel to the Obligors. The Administrative Agent
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shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Amendment No. 4
Effective Date) of Cooperman, Levitt, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx, P.C.,
counsel to the Obligors, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, and
covering such other matters relating to the Obligors, this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall
reasonably request (and each Obligor hereby requests such counsel to
deliver such opinion).
(d) Opinion of Special Counsel. The Administrative Agent shall have
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received a favorable written legal opinion (addressed to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders and dated the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date) of
Milbank, Tweed, Xxxxxx & XxXxxx, special New York counsel to Chase,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B (and the Administrative Agent hereby
requests Special Counsel to deliver such opinion).
(e) Other Documents. Such other documents as either the Administrative
Agent or any Lender or Special Counsel may reasonably request.
Section 6. Confirmation of Security. Each Borrower hereby confirms
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that the obligations of such Borrower under the Credit Agreement as amended by
this Amendment No. 4 shall be entitled to the benefits of the collateral
security provided for pursuant to the Security Agreement.
Section 7. Miscellaneous. Except as herein provided, the Credit
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Agreement shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect. This Amendment
No. 4 may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together
shall constitute one and the same amendatory instrument and any of the parties
hereto may execute this Amendment No. 4 by signing any such counterpart. This
Amendment No. 4 shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law
of the State of New York.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment No. 4
to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.
MEDIACOM CALIFORNIA LLC MEDIACOM DELAWARE LLC
By By
Title: Title:
MEDIACOM ARIZONA LLC
By
Title:
LENDERS
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THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
individually and as Administrative Agent
By By
Title: Title:
BANK OF MONTREAL CIBC INC.
By By
Title: Title:
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK MELLON BANK, N.A.
OF CHICAGO
By By
Title: Title:
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By their signatures below, each of the undersigned Parent Guarantors
under the above-referenced Credit Agreement hereby consents to the foregoing
Amendment No. 4 and confirms that the obligations of the Borrowers under said
Credit Agreement as amended by said Amendment No. 4 shall constitute "Guaranteed
Obligations" under the Guarantee and Pledge Agreement under and as defined in
said Credit Agreement for all purposes of said Guarantee and Pledge Agreement.
MEDIACOM LLC MEDIACOM MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION
By_____________________ By_____________________
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, as Title:
Manager
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SCHEDULE 1
to Amendment No. 4
Revolving Credit Commitments
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Lender Revolving Credit Commitment
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The Chase Manhattan Bank $19,880,000.00
First Union National Bank $19,880,000.00
Bank of Montreal $14,910,000.00
CIBC Inc. $14,910,000.00
The First National Bank of Chicago $14,910,000.00
Mellon Bank, N.A. $14,910,000.00
TOTAL $99,400,000.00
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EXHIBIT A
[Form of Opinion of Counsel to the Obligors]
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To the Lenders party to Amendment
No. 4 to the Credit Agreement referred to
below and The Chase Manhattan
Bank, as Administrative Agent
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to Mediacom California LLC ("Mediacom
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California"), Mediacom Delaware LLC ("Mediacom Delaware"), Mediacom Arizona LLC
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("Mediacom Arizona" and, together with Mediacom California and Mediacom
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Delaware, the "Borrowers") Mediacom LLC ("Mediacom") and Mediacom Management
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Corporation (the "Manager", and collectively, together with Mediacom, the
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"Parent Guarantors") in connection with (i) the Second Amended and Restated
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Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agreement") dated as of June 24, 1997, between the
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Borrowers, the lenders party thereto, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
Administrative Agent, and First Union National Bank, as Documentation Agent,
providing for loans to be made by said lenders to the Borrowers in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding $100,000,000, (ii) Amendment No. 4 thereto dated
as of January 26, 1999 ("Amendment No. 4") and (iii) the various other
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agreements, instruments and other documents referred to in the next following
paragraph. Terms defined in Amendment No. 4 (including terms incorporated by
reference into Amendment No. 4) are used herein as defined therein; in addition,
the Credit Agreement as amended by Amendment No. 4 is referred to herein as the
"Amended Credit Agreement". This opinion letter is being delivered pursuant to
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Section 5(iii)(c) of Amendment No. 4.
In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have examined the
following agreements, instruments and other documents:
(a) the Credit Agreement;
(b) Amendment No. 4;
(c) the New Notes being executed and delivered to the Lenders on the
date hereof (collectively, the "New Notes");
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(d) the Confirmation and Consent of the Parent Guarantors appended to
Amendment No. 4 (the "Confirmation and Consent"); and
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(e) such records of the Borrowers and such other documents as we have
deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions expressed below.
Amendment No. 4, the Amended Credit Agreement, the New Notes and the
Confirmation and Consent are collectively referred to as the "Credit Documents";
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the Borrowers, Mediacom and the Manager are herein collectively referred to as
the "Relevant Parties".
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We have also examined originals, or copies certified to our
satisfaction, of such corporate records, certificates of public officials of
pertinent states, certificates of corporate officers of the Relevant Parties and
such other instruments or documents as we have deemed necessary as a basis for
the opinions hereinafter set forth. As to questions of fact, we have, to the
extent that such facts were not independently established by us, relied upon
such certificates and we have assumed that any such certificates or other
evidence which was given or dated earlier than the date of this letter has
remained accurate, as far as relevant to the opinions contained herein, from
such earlier date through and including the date of this letter. In rendering
the opinions hereinafter set forth as to factual matters, we have also relied
upon, and assumed the accuracy of, the representations and warranties made in
the Credit Documents by the Relevant Parties. Whenever any statement herein is
qualified by our knowledge, it is intended to indicate that, during the course
of our representation of the Relevant Parties no information that would give us
actual knowledge of the inaccuracy of such statement has come to the attention
of the attorneys presently in this firm and who are actively engaged in the
representation of the Relevant Parties.
In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures,
the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the
conformity with authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as
copies.
In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have assumed, with respect
to all of the documents referred to in this opinion letter, that (except, to the
extent set forth in the opinions expressed below, as to the Relevant Parties):
(i) such documents have been duly authorized by, have been duly
executed and delivered by, and constitute legal, valid, binding
and enforceable obligations of, all of the parties to such
documents;
(ii) all signatories to such documents have been duly authorized; and
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(iii) all of the parties to such documents are duly organized and
validly existing and have the power and authority (corporate,
limited liability company, partnership or other) to execute,
deliver and perform such documents.
Based upon and subject to the foregoing and subject also to the comments
and qualifications set forth below, and having considered such questions of law
as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions expressed below, we are
of the opinion that:
1. Each Borrower is a limited liability company duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware. Mediacom is a limited liability company duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of New York. The
Manager is a corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.
2. Each Relevant Party has all requisite power to execute and deliver
Amendment No. 4 and the New Notes, and to perform its obligations under,
the Credit Documents to which it is a party. Each Borrower has all
requisite power to borrow under the Amended Credit Agreement.
3. The execution, delivery and performance by each Relevant Party of
each Credit Document to which it is a party, and the borrowings by each
Borrower under the Amended Credit Agreement, have been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate or other action (as the case may be) on the part of
such Relevant Party.
4. Amendment No. 4, the New Notes and the Confirmation and Consent
have each been duly executed and delivered by each Relevant Party party
thereto.
5. Each of the Credit Documents constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligation of each Relevant Party party thereto, enforceable
against such Relevant Party in accordance with its terms, except as may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance,
moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of
creditors generally and except as the enforceability of the Credit
Documents is subject to the application of general principles of equity
(regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law),
including, without limitation, (a) the possible unavailability of specific
performance, injunctive relief or any other equitable remedy and (b)
concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing.
6. No authorization, approval or consent of, and no filing or
registration with, any governmental or regulatory authority or agency of
the United States of America or the State of New York is required on the
part of any Relevant Party for the execution and
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delivery of Amendment No. 4 or performance by any Relevant Party of the
Amended Credit Agreement or for the borrowings by each of the Borrowers
under the Amended Credit Agreement.
7. The execution and delivery by each Relevant Party of Amendment No.
4, and the consummation by each Relevant Party of the transactions
contemplated by the Amended Credit Agreement do not and will not (a)
violate any provision of the limited liability company agreement, articles
of organization, certificate of formation or the charter or by-laws or
other organizational instrument of any Relevant Party, (b) violate any
applicable law, rule or regulation, (c) violate any order, writ, injunction
or decree of any court or governmental authority or agency or any arbitral
award applicable to the Relevant Parties of which we have knowledge (after
due inquiry) or (d) result in a breach of, constitute a default under,
require any consent under, or result in the acceleration or required
prepayment of any indebtedness pursuant to the terms of, any agreement or
instrument of which we have knowledge to which any Relevant Party is a
party or by which any of them is bound or to which any of them is subject,
or (except for the Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents) result
in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any Property of any Relevant
Party pursuant to, the terms of any such agreement or instrument.
The foregoing opinions are subject to the following comments and
qualifications:
(A) The enforceability of Section 11.03 of the Amended Credit Agreement
may be limited by (i) laws rendering unenforceable indemnification contrary
to Federal or state securities laws and the public policy underlying such
laws and (ii) laws limiting the enforceability of provisions exculpating or
exempting a party, or requiring indemnification of a party for, liability
for its own action or inaction, to the extent the action or inaction
involves gross negligence, recklessness, willful misconduct or unlawful
conduct.
(B) The enforceability of provisions in the Credit Documents to the
effect that terms may not be waived or modified except in writing may be
limited under certain circumstances.
(C) We express no opinion as to (i) the effect of the laws of any
jurisdiction in which any Lender is located (other than the State of New
York) that limit the interest, fees or other charges such Lender may
impose, (ii) Section 4.07(c) of the Credit Agreement, (iii) the second
sentence of Section 11.10 of the Credit Agreement (and any similar
provisions in any of the other Credit Documents), insofar as such sentence
relates to the subject matter jurisdiction of the United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York to adjudicate any controversy
related to any of the Credit Documents and (iv) the applicability to the
obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors (or
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the enforceability of such obligations) of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy
Code, Article 10 of the New York Debtor Creditor Law, or any provision of
law relating to fraudulent conveyances, transfers or obligations.
We express no opinion (a) as to the, and the effect of, compliance or
non-compliance by the Lenders or the Administrative Agent with any law, rule or
regulation applicable because of the legal or regulatory status or the specific
nature of the business of such Lender or Administrative Agent and (b) regarding
any law, rule or regulation to which any of the Relevant Parties may be subject,
or any approval which any of the Relevant Parties may be required to obtain,
because of the legal or regulatory status of the Lenders or the Administrative
Agent or because of any facts specifically pertaining to the Lenders or the
Administrative Agent.
Our opinions are limited to the specific issues addressed and are
limited in all respects to laws and facts existing on the date hereof. By
rendering our opinions, we do not undertake to advise you of any changes in such
laws or facts which may occur after the date hereof.
The foregoing opinions are limited to matters involving the Federal
laws of the United States, the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Delaware
Limited Liability Company Act and the law of the State of New York, and we do
not express any opinion as to the laws of any other jurisdiction (nor do we
express any opinion as to the applicability to, or the effect upon, the
transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents of the Federal Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or
the policies of the FCC).
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At the request of our clients, this opinion letter is, pursuant to
Section 5(iii)(c) of Amendment No. 4, provided to you by us in our capacity as
counsel to the Relevant Parties and may not be relied upon by any Person for any
purpose other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Amended Credit Agreement without, in each instance, our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
[XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXX & XXXXXX, P.C.]
By:_______________________
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EXHIBIT B
[Form of Opinion of Special New York Counsel to Chase]
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To the Lenders party to Amendment
No. 4 to the Credit Agreement referred to
below and The Chase Manhattan
Bank, as Administrative Agent
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special New York counsel to The Chase Manhattan Bank
("Chase") in connection with (i) the Second Amended and Restated Credit
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Agreement dated as of June 24, 1997 (the "Credit Agreement") between Mediacom
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California LLC ("Mediacom California"), Mediacom Delaware LLC ("Mediacom
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Delaware"), Mediacom Arizona LLC ("Mediacom Arizona" and, together with Mediacom
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California and Mediacom Delaware, the "Borrowers"), the lenders party thereto,
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Chase, as Administrative Agent, and First Union National Bank, as Documentation
Agent, providing for loans to be made by said lenders to the Borrowers in an
aggregate principal amount not exceeding $100,000,000, (ii) Amendment No. 4
thereto dated as of January 26, 1999 and (ii) the various other agreements,
instruments and other documents referred to in the next following paragraph.
Terms defined in Amendment No. 4 (including terms incorporated by reference into
Amendment No. 4) are used herein as defined therein; in addition, the Credit
Agreement as amended by Amendment No. 4 is referred to herein as the "Amended
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Credit Agreement". This opinion letter is being delivered pursuant to Section
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5(iii)(d) of Amendment No. 4.
In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have examined the following
agreements, instruments and other documents:
(a) the Credit Agreement;
(b) Amendment No. 4; and
(c) the New Notes being executed and delivered to the Lenders on the
date hereof (collectively, the "New Notes").
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Amendment No. 4, the Amended Credit Agreement, the New Notes and the
Confirmation and Consent are collectively referred to as the "Credit Documents";
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the Borrowers, Mediacom and the Manager are herein collectively referred to as
the "Relevant Parties".
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In our examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures,
the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the
conformity with authentic original documents of all documents submitted to us as
copies. When relevant facts were not independently established, we have relied
upon representations made in or pursuant to Amendment No. 4 and the Amended
Credit Agreement.
In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have assumed, with
respect to all of the documents referred to in this opinion letter, that:
(i) such documents have been duly authorized by, have been duly
executed and delivered by, and (except to the extent set forth
in the opinions below as to the Borrowers) constitute legal,
valid, binding and enforceable obligations of, all of the
parties to such documents;
(ii) all signatories to such documents have been duly authorized; and
(iii) all of the parties to such documents are duly organized and
validly existing and have the power and authority (corporate or
other) to execute, deliver and perform such documents.
Based upon and subject to the foregoing and subject also to the
comments and qualifications set forth below, and having considered such
questions of law as we have deemed necessary as a basis for the opinions
expressed below, we are of the opinion that each of Amendment No. 4 and the
Amended Credit Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of
each Relevant Party party thereto, enforceable against such Relevant Party in
accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the
rights of creditors generally and except as the enforceability of Amendment No.
4 or the Amended Credit Agreement is subject to the application of general
principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity
or at law), including, without limitation, (a) the possible unavailability of
specific performance, injunctive relief or any other equitable remedy and (b)
concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing.
The foregoing opinions are subject to the following comments and
qualifications:
(A) The enforceability of Section 11.03 of the Amended Credit
Agreement may be limited by (i) laws rendering unenforceable
indemnification contrary to Federal or state securities laws and the public
policy underlying such laws and (ii) laws limiting the
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enforceability of provisions exculpating or exempting a party, or requiring
indemnification of a party for, liability for its own action or inaction,
to the extent the action or inaction involves gross negligence,
recklessness, willful misconduct or unlawful conduct.
(B) The enforceability of provisions in the Credit Documents to the
effect that terms may not be waived or modified except in writing may be
limited under certain circumstances.
(C) We express no opinion as to (i) the effect of the laws of any
jurisdiction in which any Lender is located (other than the State of New
York) that limit the interest, fees or other charges such Lender may
impose, (ii) Section 4.07(c) of the Amended Credit Agreement, and (iii) the
second sentence of Section 11.10 of the Amended Credit Agreement, insofar
as such sentence relates to the subject matter jurisdiction of the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York to adjudicate
any controversy related to the Credit Documents and (iv) the applicability
to the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors (or the enforceability of
such obligations) of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code, Article 10 of the
New York Debtor Creditor Law, or any provision of law relating to
fraudulent conveyances, transfers or obligations.
The foregoing opinions are limited to matters involving the Federal
laws of the United States and the law of the State of New York, and we do not
express any opinion as to the laws of any other jurisdiction (nor do we express
any opinion as to the applicability to, or the effect upon, the transactions
contemplated by the Credit Documents of the Federal Communications Act of 1934,
as amended, the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or the policies of
the FCC).
At the request of our client, this opinion letter is, pursuant to
Section 5(iii)(d) of Amendment No. 4, provided to you by us in our capacity as
special New York counsel to Chase and may not be relied upon by any Person for
any purpose other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Amended Credit Agreement without, in each instance, our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
RJW/___
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