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XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
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NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Dated as of July 26, 1996
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$25,000,000 7.85% Senior Notes due 2003
$25,000,000 8.07% Senior Notes due 2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
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1. THE NOTES; THE CLOSINGS; ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1. Authorization and Description of Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2. Sale and Purchase of Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3. Closings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4. Application of Proceeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.5. Purchase for Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.6. Source of Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Proceedings Satisfactory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Opinions of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. Representations and Warranties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.4. Performance; No Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.5. Compliance Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.6. Legal Investment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.7. Absence of Certain Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.8. Consents and Approvals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.9. Fees Payable at Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.10. Private Placement Number. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.11. Related Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. PAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT OF NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Required Annual Prepayments and Payments at Maturity. . . . . . 7
3.2. Optional Prepayments with Makewhole Amount. . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. Notice of Optional Prepayments; Calculation of Makewhole
Amount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4. Allocation of Partial Prepayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5. Maturity; Surrender, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.6. Limitation on Prepayment and Acquisition of Notes . . . . . . . 8
3.7. Payments Due on Other than a Business Day . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. INSPECTION OF PROPERTIES AND BOOKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.1. Payment of Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.2. Maintenance of Certain Financial Conditions . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.3. Debt; Maximum Funded Debt and Current Debt. . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.4. Liens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.5. Investments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.6. Restricted Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.7. Transactions with Affiliates; Remuneration. . . . . . . . . . . 20
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6.8. Subsidiary Stock and Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.9. Consolidation, Merger, Sale of Assets, etc. . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.10. Restrictions on Long Term Leases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.11. Subordination of Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6.12. Guaranties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.13. Nature of Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.14. Books and Records; Fiscal Year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6.15. Corporate Existence; Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6.16. Payment of Taxes, Claims for Labor and Materials, etc.. . . . . 24
6.17. Maintenance of Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6.18. Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
6.19. Compliance with Laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6.20. Environmental Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
6.21. Maintenance of Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
7. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.1. Organization and Authority of the Company, etc. . . . . . . . . 26
7.2. Subsidiaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.3. Qualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.4. Business and Property; Financial Statements, etc. . . . . . . . 27
7.5. Changes, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.6. Compliance with Laws, Other Instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . 28
7.7. Consents and Approvals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.8. Debt, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
7.9. Title to Property; Leases; Investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.10. Litigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.11. Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.12. Compliance with ERISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.13. Private Offering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.14. Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7.15. Licenses, Patents, Trademarks, Authorizations, etc. . . . . . . 32
7.16. Status Under Certain Statutes; Other Regulations. . . . . . . . 32
7.17. Labor Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.18. Full Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.19. Environmental Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
8.1. Events of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity . . . . . . 34
8.2. Default Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.3. Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.4. Remedies Not Waived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
9. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
9.1. Defined Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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9.2. Accounting Terms, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
9.3. Directly or Indirectly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10. REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10.1. Note Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10.2. Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10.3. Owners and Holders of Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
11. LOST, ETC. NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
12. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
13. DIRECT PAYMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
14. LIABILITIES OF THE PURCHASER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
15. MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
15.1. Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
15.2. Reliance on and Survival of Representations . . . . . . . . . . 56
15.3. Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
15.4. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
15.5. LAW GOVERNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
15.6. SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. . . . . . . . 57
15.7. Headings, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
15.8. Substitution of Purchaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
15.9. Entire Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
15.10. Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
15.11. Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SIGNATURE PAGE
SCHEDULE I Information Concerning Purchasers
SCHEDULE II Information Concerning Subsidiaries and Qualification
SCHEDULE III Existing Debt of the Company and Subsidiaries
SCHEDULE IV Existing Leases of the Company and Subsidiaries
SCHEDULE V Existing Investments of the Company and Subsidiaries
EXHIBIT A-1 Form of Series A Note
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EXHIBIT A-2 Form of Series B Note
EXHIBIT B Form of Opinion of Company's Counsel
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XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
00 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Re: $25,000,000 7.85% Senior Notes due 2003
$25,000,000 8.07% Senior Notes due 2006
as of July 26, 1996
To the Institutional Investor Identified
on the Signature Page of this Agreement
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, HUTCHINSON TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, a corporation
organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota (the "COMPANY"), hereby
agrees with you as follows:
1. THE NOTES; THE CLOSINGS; ETC.
1.1. AUTHORIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF NOTES. The Company has duly
authorized the issuance and sale of
(a) $25,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its 7.85% Senior
Notes due 2003 (the "SERIES A NOTES", such term to include any such
notes delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and of the Other
Agreements referred to below in substitution, replacement or exchange
for any such notes previously issued hereunder or thereunder), each of
which shall (i) bear interest from the date thereof on the unpaid
principal amount thereof at the rate of 7.85% per annum (computed on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months), payable semiannually
in arrears on January 26 and July 26 of each year, commencing on January
26, 1997, and with interest on any overdue principal (including any
overdue required or optional prepayment of principal) and Makewhole
Amount, if any, and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any
overdue interest, at the rate of 9.85% per annum until paid, such
overdue interest, if any, to be payable semiannually as aforesaid or, at
the option of the registered holder of such Note, on demand, (ii) be
subject to required prepayment in the amounts and on the dates specified
in SECTION 3.1(A), (iii) mature and be payable as to the entire
remaining unpaid principal amount thereof on July 26, 2003, and (iv) be
in substantially the form of EXHIBIT A-1; and
(b) $25,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its 8.07% Senior
Notes due 2006 (the "SERIES B NOTES", such term to include any such notes
delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and of said Other
Agreements in substitution, replacement or exchange for any such notes
previously issued hereunder or thereunder), each of which shall (i) bear
interest from the date thereof on the unpaid principal amount thereof at
the rate of 8.07% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months), payable semiannually in arrears on May 26 and
November 26 of each year, commencing on May 26, 1997, and with interest
on any overdue principal (including any overdue required or optional
prepayment of principal) and Makewhole Amount, if any, and (to the
extent permitted by applicable law) any overdue interest, at the rate of
10.07% per annum until paid, such overdue interest, if any, to be
payable semiannually as aforesaid or, at the option of the registered
holder of such Note, on demand, (ii) be subject to required prepayment
in the amounts and on the dates specified in SECTION 3.1(B), (iii)
mature and be payable as to the entire remaining unpaid principal amount
thereof on November 26, 2006 and (iv) be in substantially the form of
EXHIBIT A-2.
The Series A Notes and the Series B Notes are sometimes referred to herein
collectively as the "NOTES" and separately as a "SERIES" of Notes. Except as
the context may otherwise require, terms used and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the respective meanings attributed thereto in SECTION 9.
Unless otherwise specified, any reference in this Agreement to a particular
section or other subdivision, or to a particular schedule or exhibit, shall
be considered a reference to that section or other subdivision of, or to that
schedule or exhibit to, this Agreement.
1.2. SALE AND PURCHASE OF NOTES. (a) The Company will issue and
sell to you and, subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in reliance
on the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and the
representations and warranties otherwise made by or on behalf of the Company
in writing in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, you will
purchase from the Company, at one of the Closings provided for in SECTION
1.3, as specified in SCHEDULE I, Notes of the series and in the aggregate
principal amount shown opposite your name on SCHEDULE I at the purchase price
of 100% of such principal amount.
(b) The Company represents and warrants that contemporaneously
herewith it is entering into separate Note Purchase Agreements (the "OTHER
AGREEMENTS") identical with this Agreement (except for the name and signature
of the purchaser at the end thereof) with each of the other institutional
purchasers (the "OTHER PURCHASERS") named in SCHEDULE I, providing for the
issuance and sale to each of the Other Purchasers at one of such Closings, as
specified in SCHEDULE I, of Notes of the series and in the aggregate
principal amount shown opposite its name on said SCHEDULE I at the purchase
price of 100% of such principal amount. This Agreement and the Other
Agreements are to be separate agreements and the purchase of Notes by you and
each of the Other Purchasers are to be separate and several purchases. This
Agreement and the Other Agreements are herein sometimes collectively referred
to as the "AGREEMENTS".
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1.3. CLOSINGS. The sale and purchase of the Notes to be purchased
by you and the Other Purchasers shall take place on two dates (each herein
called a "CLOSING DATE", and the closing held hereunder on each such date
herein called a "CLOSING"), namely (a) July 26, 1996, or such subsequent
Business Day not later than July 31, 1996 as you, the Other Purchasers and
the Company shall agree (the "SERIES A CLOSING DATE"), and (b) November 26,
1996, or such subsequent Business Day not later than December 15, 1996 as
you, the Other Purchasers and the Company shall agree (the "SERIES B CLOSING
DATE"). Each Closing shall take place at the offices of Coudert Brothers,
0000 Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000-0000, commencing at
9:30 A.M., New York City time. At the Closing on the Closing Date at which
you are scheduled to purchase Notes, the Company will deliver to you the
Notes to be purchased by you in the form of one or more Notes (as you may
designate), dated such Closing Date and registered in your name (or the name
of your nominee), against delivery by you to the Company of the purchase
price therefor by wire transfer of the amount thereof to the Company's
account No. 00-00-000 maintained at Norwest Bank Minnesota, National
Association, ABA No. 000000000. If at such Closing the Company shall fail to
tender such Notes to you as provided herein, or if at such Closing any of the
conditions specified in SECTION 2 shall not have been fulfilled to your
satisfaction, you shall, at your election, be relieved of all further
obligations under this Agreement, without thereby waiving any other rights
you may have by reason of such failure or such non-fulfillment.
1.4. APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS. The Company will apply the proceeds
from the sale of the Notes (subject in any event to the provisions of SECTION
7.14) as follows:
(a) approximately $35,000,000 of such proceeds will be applied to the
payment of costs incurred in the construction of the Company's photoetching
facility in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and
(b) the balance of such proceeds will be used for capital
expenditures and other general corporate purposes of the Company.
1.5. PURCHASE FOR INVESTMENT. You represent to the Company that on
the Closing Date on which you purchase Notes you will acquire such Notes for
your own account and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, the
distribution (as such term is used in Section 2(11) of the Securities Act) of
any part thereof, PROVIDED that the disposition of your property shall at all
times be and remain within your control. You and the Company each
acknowledge that each Note is a "security" as defined in Section 2(1) of the
Securities Act and Section 3(a)(10) of the Exchange Act.
1.6. SOURCE OF FUNDS. (a) You represent to the Company that at
least one of the following statements is an accurate representation as to
each source of funds to be used by you to pay the purchase price of the Notes
to be purchased by you hereunder:
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(i) no part of such funds constitutes assets allocated to any
separate account maintained by you in which any employee benefit plan
(or its related trust) has any interest; or
(ii) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes assets
allocated to any separate account maintained by you, you have disclosed
to the Company the name of each employee benefit plan whose assets in
such account exceed 10% of the total assets of such account as of the
date of such purchase (and for the purposes of this clause (ii), all
employee benefit plans maintained by the same employer or employee
organization are deemed to be a single plan); or
(iii) such funds constitute assets of one or more specific
employee benefit plans which you have identified in writing to the
Company; or
(iv) no part of such funds constitutes assets of any employee
benefit plan.
(b) If your source of funds includes assets of your insurance
company general account (as defined in Section V(e) of Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption ("PTCE") 95-60), you represent to the Company that no
employee benefit plan or employee benefit plans maintained by a single
employer (including an "affiliate" thereof, as defined in Section V(a) of
PTCE 95-60) or employee organization hold an interest or interests either as
contractholders or as the beneficial owners of contracts in such general
account, the reserves and liabilities for which exceed 10% of the sum of all
reserves and liabilities of such general account plus your surplus, such
reserves and liabilities and such surplus in each case being calculated in
accordance with the applicable provisions of PTCE 95-60.
(c) As used in this Section, the terms "employee benefit plan" and
"separate account" shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms
in Section 3 of ERISA.
2. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING. Your obligation to purchase and pay
for the Notes to be purchased by you hereunder at the Closing on the Closing
Date on which you are scheduled to purchase such Notes is subject to the
fulfillment to your satisfaction, prior to or at such Closing, of each of the
following conditions:
2.1. PROCEEDINGS SATISFACTORY. All proceedings taken in connection
with the authorization, issuance and sale of the Notes to be issued on such
Closing Date and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and
all documents and papers relating thereto shall be satisfactory in form,
scope and substance to you and your special counsel, and you and your special
counsel shall have received copies (executed or certified as may be
appropriate) of such documents and papers as you or they may reasonably
request in connection therewith.
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2.2. OPINIONS OF COUNSEL. You shall have received favorable
opinions, each dated such Closing Date, addressed to you and satisfactory in
form, scope and substance to you, from (a) Faegre & Xxxxxx LLP, special
counsel to the Company, substantially in the form of EXHIBIT B and covering
such other matters as you or your special counsel may reasonably request, and
(b) Coudert Brothers, your special counsel in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, covering such matters as you may
reasonably request.
2.3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. All representations and
warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement or otherwise made by or
on behalf of the Company in writing in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby shall be true and correct when made and (except as
affected by the consummation of such transactions) as of the time of such
Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties
had been made on and as of such Closing Date.
2.4. PERFORMANCE; NO DEFAULT. The Company shall have performed all
agreements and complied with all conditions contained herein required to be
performed or complied with by it prior to or at such Closing, and at the time
of such Closing (and after giving effect to the sale of the Notes to be
issued and sold by it at such Closing and the application of the proceeds of
such sale) no condition or event shall exist which constitutes a Default or
an Event of Default.
2.5. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE. The Company shall have delivered to
you an Officers' Certificate, dated such Closing Date, certifying that the
conditions specified in SECTIONS 2.3 AND 2.4 have been fulfilled.
2.6. LEGAL INVESTMENT. On such Closing Date the Notes to be
purchased by you hereunder shall be and qualify as a legal investment for you
under the laws and regulations of each jurisdiction to which you may be
subject (without resort to any basket or leeway provisions of said laws, such
as New York Insurance Law Section 1405(a)(8)) and the purchase thereof shall
not subject you to any penalty or other onerous condition pursuant to any
such law or regulation; and you shall have received such certificates or
other evidence as you may request demonstrating the satisfaction of this
condition.
2.7. ABSENCE OF CERTAIN EVENTS. There shall not have occurred any
Material Adverse Change in the Business or Condition of the Company or of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole from that reflected in the most
recent audited financial statements of the Company referred to in SECTION
7.4, copies of which shall have been delivered to you. Subsequent to the
date of the balance sheet included in such financial statements and prior to
the Series A Closing Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
shall have consolidated or merged with or into, or participated in a share
exchange with, any Person, or sold, leased or otherwise disposed of any
assets or properties other than in the ordinary course of business, except
that HTI Export, Ltd., a United States Virgin Islands corporation and a
former Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the
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Company, shall have transferred its assets to HTI Export and shall have
thereafter been dissolved.
2.8. CONSENTS AND APPROVALS. All actions, approvals, consents,
waivers, exemptions, Orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations,
filings and recordings (collectively, "APPROVALS"), if any, which are
required to be taken, given, obtained, filed or recorded, as the case may be,
by or from or with (a) any Governmental Body, (b) any trustee or holder of
any indebtedness, obligation or securities of the Company, or (c) any other
Person, in connection with the legal and valid execution and delivery by the
Company of this Agreement and the Other Agreements and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including the issuance and
sale of the Notes to be issued on such Closing Date), shall have been duly
taken, given, obtained, filed or recorded, as the case may be, and all such
Approvals shall be final, subsisting and in full force and effect on such
Closing Date, and shall not be subject to any further proceedings or appeals
or any conditions subsequent not approved by you. Certified copies or other
appropriate evidence of all such Approvals, in form, scope and substance
satisfactory to you and your special counsel, shall have been delivered to
you and your special counsel.
2.9. FEES PAYABLE AT CLOSING. The Company shall have paid, or made
arrangements satisfactory to you for the payment of, the legal fees and other
expenses of your special counsel referred to in SECTION 15.1 and all other
fees and expenses for which the Company is obligated pursuant to SECTION 15.1
and for which the Company shall have received invoices on or prior to the
Business Day preceding such Closing Date.
2.10. PRIVATE PLACEMENT NUMBER. A Private Placement Number
shall have been assigned to the Notes of each series by S&P's CUSIP Service
Bureau and you shall have received a copy of a letter from S&P confirming the
same.
2.11. RELATED TRANSACTIONS. In the case of the Closing on the
Series A Closing Date, each of the Other Agreements shall have been duly
executed and delivered by the Company and the Other Purchaser party thereto,
and the Company shall contemporaneously issue and sell, on such Closing Date,
the entire principal amount of Series A Notes (if any) to be issued and sold
to each Other Purchaser pursuant to each of the Other Agreements and shall
have received payment in full of the purchase price therefor. In the case of
the Closing on the Series B Closing Date, the Company shall have theretofore
issued and sold, on the Series A Closing Date, the Notes to have been issued
and sold on the Series A Closing Date as specified in SCHEDULE I.
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3. PAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT OF NOTES.
3.1. REQUIRED ANNUAL PREPAYMENTS AND PAYMENTS AT MATURITY.
(a) SERIES A NOTES. On July 26 in each of the years 2001 and 2002
(so long as any Series A Notes shall remain outstanding), the Company will
prepay, and there shall become due and payable, $8,333,333.00 in principal
amount of the Series A Notes (or such lesser principal amount of Series A
Notes as shall then be outstanding). Each such prepayment pursuant to this
SECTION 3.1(a) shall be at 100% of the principal amount so to be prepaid
together with interest accrued thereon to the date of such prepayment,
without premium. On July 26, 2003, the Company will pay, and there shall
become due and payable, the entire remaining unpaid principal amount of
Series A Notes, together with all interest accrued thereon. No prepayment of
less than all the Series A Notes pursuant to SECTION 3.2 shall relieve the
Company of its obligation to make (nor shall it reduce the amount of) the
prepayments of principal of the Series A Notes required by this SECTION
3.1(a).
(b) SERIES B NOTES. On November 26 in each of the years 2001
through 2005 (so long as any Series B Notes shall remain outstanding), the
Company will prepay, and there shall become due and payable, $4,166,667.00 in
principal amount of the Series B Notes (or such lesser principal amount of
Series B Notes as shall then be outstanding). Each such prepayment pursuant
to this SECTION 3.1(b) shall be at 100% of the principal amount so to be
prepaid together with interest accrued thereon to the date of such
prepayment, without premium. On November 26, 2006, the Company will pay, and
there shall become due and payable, the entire remaining unpaid principal
amount of Series B Notes, together with all interest accrued thereon. No
prepayment of less than all the Series B Notes pursuant to SECTION 3.2 shall
relieve the Company of its obligation to make (nor shall it reduce the amount
of) the prepayments of principal of the Series B Notes required by this
SECTION 3.1(b).
3.2. OPTIONAL PREPAYMENTS WITH MAKEWHOLE AMOUNT. The Notes shall
not be subject to prepayment at the option of the Company except as
hereinafter provided in this SECTION 3.2. The Company may, at its option,
upon notice as provided in SECTION 3.3, on the date specified in such notice,
prepay the Notes at any time in whole or from time to time in part (in a
minimum principal amount of at least $1,000,000 and in integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof), each such optional prepayment to be made at 100%
of the principal amount of the Notes so to be prepaid together with interest
accrued on such principal amount to the date of prepayment, plus the
Makewhole Amount determined in respect of such principal amount; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that (i) so long as Notes of more than one series shall remain
outstanding, the Company shall not prepay any Notes at its option on any date
pursuant to this SECTION 3.2 unless the principal amount of Notes to be
prepaid shall be allocated among the series in proportion to the aggregate
principal amount of each series outstanding immediately prior to such
prepayment; and (ii) the Company shall not prepay any Series A Notes prior to
issuance and sale of the Series B Notes on the Series B Closing Date.
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3.3. NOTICE OF OPTIONAL PREPAYMENTS; CALCULATION OF MAKEWHOLE
AMOUNT. The Company will give each holder of a Note, with respect to each
optional prepayment, (a) written notice thereof (which notice shall be
irrevocable) at least 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed
for such prepayment, specifying (i) such date of prepayment and the principal
amount of each Note held by such holder so to be prepaid, (ii) accrued
interest payable to such holder in respect of such prepayment, and (iii) the
Company's estimate as of the date of such notice of the Makewhole Amount
applicable in respect of such prepayment, showing in reasonable detail the
calculation thereof and setting forth the Treasury Rate used in such
calculation, and (b) further written notice (a copy of which shall be
telefaxed by the Company to each such holder concurrently with the sending
thereof) two Business Days prior to such date of prepayment, specifying such
Makewhole Amount, showing in reasonable detail the calculation thereof and
setting forth the Treasury Rate used in such calculation.
3.4. ALLOCATION OF PARTIAL PREPAYMENTS. In the case of each
prepayment, whether required or optional, of less than the entire unpaid
principal amount of all outstanding Notes of any series, the principal amount
of the Notes so to be prepaid shall be allocated among all of the Notes of
such series at the time outstanding in proportion, as nearly as practicable,
to the respective principal amounts thereof not theretofore prepaid. The
amount of each such optional prepayment so allocated to the Notes of any
series shall be credited against the remaining required prepayments and
payment at final maturity of the Notes of such series in the inverse order of
such required prepayments and payment at final maturity.
3.5. MATURITY; SURRENDER, ETC. In the case of each prepayment of
Notes, the principal amount of each Note to be prepaid shall become due and
payable on the date fixed for such prepayment in this Agreement (if such
prepayment is to be made pursuant to SECTION 3.1) or in the notice of such
prepayment pursuant to SECTION 3.3 (if such prepayment is to be made pursuant
to SECTION 3.2), together with interest accrued on such principal amount to
such date and the Makewhole Amount, if any, payable in connection with such
prepayment. Any Note paid or prepaid in full shall thereafter be surrendered
to the Company upon its written request therefor and cancelled and not
reissued.
3.6. LIMITATION ON PREPAYMENT AND ACQUISITION OF NOTES. The
Company will not, and will not permit any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries
to, pay, prepay, purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, directly or
indirectly, any Note except by way of payment or prepayment by the Company in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
3.7. PAYMENTS DUE ON OTHER THAN A BUSINESS DAY. If any payment or
prepayment of principal, Makewhole Amount, if any, or interest on or with
respect to any Note or Notes becomes due and payable on any day that is not a
Business Day, the amount of such payment shall be payable on the next
succeeding Business Day and with respect to any such payment of principal,
interest shall continue to accrue thereon
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during any such extension period at the applicable rate of interest in effect
immediately prior to such extension.
4. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; INFORMATION. The Company will furnish
(in duplicate) to you, so long as you or your nominee shall be obligated to
purchase or shall hold any of the Notes, and to each other institutional
holder of outstanding Notes (and, in the case of the information referred to
in subdivision (j) of this Section, to any prospective purchaser of Notes
which is identified to the Company):
(a) QUARTERLY STATEMENTS. As soon as available and in any event
within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarterly fiscal
periods in each fiscal year of the Company, a consolidated balance sheet
of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarterly
fiscal period and the related consolidated statements of operations and
cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such quarterly fiscal
period and (except in the case of the first such quarterly fiscal period
in each fiscal year) for the portion of the fiscal year ended with the
last day of such quarterly fiscal period, setting forth in comparative
form, in the case of each such statement of operations or cash flows,
the respective figures for the corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and certified by the principal
financial officer of the Company as complete and correct in all material
respects, subject to changes resulting from normal year-end audit
adjustments;
(b) ANNUAL STATEMENTS. As soon as available and in any event
within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the
end of such fiscal year and the related consolidated statements of
operations, shareholders' investment and cash flows of the Company and
its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in
comparative form the respective figures as of the end of and for the
previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and accompanied by an
opinion thereon of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP or other independent certified
public accountants of recognized national standing selected by the
Company and reasonably satisfactory to the holders of outstanding Notes,
which opinion shall not be made in reliance upon the opinion of any
other accountant, shall be made without qualification or modification,
shall comply with generally accepted auditing standards at the time in
effect 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 their cash flows for the periods indicated in conformity
with GAAP, that the audits of such accountants were conducted in
accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and that such
accountants believe such audits provide a reasonable basis for their
opinion;
(c) OFFICERS' CERTIFICATES. Concurrently with each delivery of
financial statements pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of this Section,
an Officers' Certificate:
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(i) stating that the signatories thereto have reviewed the
terms of the Agreements and of the Notes and have made, or caused
to be made under their supervision, a review in reasonable detail
of the transactions and conditions of the Company and its
Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by such financial
statements, and that such review has not disclosed the existence
during or at the end of such accounting period, and that such
signatories do not have knowledge of the existence as at the date
of such Officers' Certificate, of any condition or event which
constitutes a Default or an Event of Default, or, if any such
condition or event existed or exists, specifying the nature and
period of existence thereof and what action the Company has taken
or is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;
(ii) setting forth (A) as of the date of the consolidated
balance sheet included in such financial statements, (1) the
respective amounts of Consolidated Net Worth, the Net Worth
Minimum, Funded Debt outstanding under the Credit Agreement,
Consolidated Funded Debt, Consolidated Current Debt, Total
Capitalization, and Consolidated Tangible Assets and (2) the
aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Debt of the Company
and its Subsidiaries secured by Liens permitted by subdivision (g),
(h), (i) or (j) of SECTION 6.4, and the aggregate principal amount
outstanding for each Subsidiary of Subsidiary Secured Debt, (B) the
respective amounts of Consolidated Net Income Available for Fixed
Charges and Consolidated Fixed Charges for the Coverage Period with
respect to the Determination Date occurring on the date of such
consolidated balance sheet (and showing Consolidated Interest
Expense and Long Term Lease Rentals accrued for such Coverage
Period), and (C) the highest aggregate amount of Long Term Lease
Rentals for which the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be liable
in any one fiscal year (including the then current and each future
fiscal year), and the highest aggregate amount thereof for which
all such Subsidiaries (shown separately) shall be liable, under all
Long Term Leases; and
(iii) setting forth facts or computations in reasonable
detail demonstrating compliance during and at the end of such
accounting period with the covenants and restrictions contained in
SECTIONS 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.9, 6.10 AND 6.12;
(d) ACCOUNTANT'S CERTIFICATES. Together with each delivery of
annual financial statements pursuant to subdivision (b) of this Section,
a written statement addressed to the holders of the Notes from the
independent certified public accountants referred to in said subdivision
(b) who have reported on such financial statements:
(i) stating whether, in the course of their audit
examination, anything has come to their attention concerning the
existence during the
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fiscal year covered by such financial statements (and whether they
have knowledge of the existence as of the date of such written
statement) of any condition or event which constitutes a Default or
an Event of Default, and, if so, specifying the nature and period
of existence thereof; and
(ii) stating that they have examined the Officers' Certificate
delivered in connection with such annual financial statements
pursuant to subdivision (c) of this Section for such fiscal year,
and, based upon their annual audit examination, nothing has come to
their attention which causes them to believe that the information
contained in such Officers' Certificate is not correct or that the
matters set forth in such Officers' Certificate pursuant to
subdivisions (c)(ii) and (c)(iii) of this Section have not been
properly stated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(e) COMMISSION AND OTHER REPORTS. Promptly upon their becoming
available (and in any event within five Business Days thereafter),
copies of (i) all financial statements, reports, notices, proxy
statements and other information sent or made available generally by the
Company to any class of its security holders or by any Subsidiary to any
class of its security holders other than the Company or another
Subsidiary, (ii) all regular and periodic reports (including reports on
Form 8-K) and all registration statements (other than those on Form S-8
or a successor form relating to the registration of securities pursuant
to an employee benefit plan) and prospectuses filed by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries with any securities exchange or with the
Commission, and (iii) all press releases and other statements made
available generally by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the
public concerning material developments in the business of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) AUDIT REPORTS. Promptly upon receipt thereof (and in any event
within five Business Days thereafter), copies of reports submitted to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by independent certified public
accountants in connection with any annual, interim or special audit of
the Company or any Subsidiary made by such accountants;
(g) DEFAULTS, ETC. Promptly upon any Responsible Officer of the
Company obtaining knowledge of any condition or event which constitutes
a Default or an Event of Default (and in any event within 15 calendar
days after any Responsible Officer has obtained knowledge thereof, if
such condition or event constitutes a Default but shall not have become
an Event of Default, or within five Business Days thereafter, if such
condition or event constitutes or shall have become an Event of
Default), and promptly upon any Responsible Officer becoming aware that
the holder of any Note has given any notice or taken any other action
with respect to a claimed Default or Event of Default or that any Person
has given any notice to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or taken
any other action with respect to a claimed default under or in respect
of any Debt referred to in SECTION 8.1(e) or with respect to the
occurrence or existence of any
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event or condition of the type referred to in SECTION 8.1(F) OR 8.1(G)
(and in any event within five Business Days after any Responsible
Officer has become aware thereof), an Officers' Certificate specifying
in reasonable detail the nature and period of existence thereof and what
action the Company has taken or is taking or proposes to take with
respect thereto;
(h) ERISA. Promptly (and in any event within five Business Days)
after any Company Group Member or any plan administrator of any Plan (i)
knows of the occurrence of any Termination Event, (ii) receives with
respect to any Multiemployer Plan notice as prescribed in ERISA of any
withdrawal liability assessed against any Company Group Member or of a
determination that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or
insolvent (both within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA), (iii) knows
that a prohibited transaction (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code) for which a statutory or administrative
exemption is not available or a breach of fiduciary responsibility has
occurred in connection with which any Company Group Member could
reasonably be subject to any material liability under Section 406, 409,
502(i) or 502(l) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or under any
agreement or other instrument pursuant to which such Company Group
Member has agreed or is required to indemnify any Person against any
such liability or (iv) knows that there has been a material adverse
change in the funding status of any Plan, a description of such event or
a copy of such notice and a statement by the principal financial officer
of the Company of the action which has been or is being taken or is
proposed to be taken by the Company with respect thereto;
(i) LITIGATION, ETC. Promptly (and in any event within 15 calendar
days) after any Responsible Officer of the Company obtains knowledge of
any litigation, administrative proceeding or judgment (i) relating to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (whether or not considered by the
Company to be covered by insurance) and which could, if adversely
determined, have a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) relating in any way
to this Agreement, the Other Agreements or the Notes, an Officers'
Certificate specifying in each case in reasonable detail the facts and
circumstances surrounding such litigation, proceeding or judgment;
(j) RULE 144A INFORMATION. Promptly upon request therefor (and in
any event within five Business Days thereafter) by any holder of Notes
or by any prospective purchaser of any Notes designated by the holder
thereof, all information, statements, reports, descriptions of business,
products and services, financial statements and other information as
such holder may reasonably determine to be required to be delivered in
order to comply with the requirements of Rule 144A (or any successor
rule) promulgated by the Commission under the Securities Act; and
(k) REQUESTED INFORMATION. Promptly upon request therefor (and in
any event within ten Business Days thereafter), such other information
as to
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the Business or Condition of the Company or its Subsidiaries as may from
time to time be reasonably requested by the holders of any of the Notes.
5. INSPECTION OF PROPERTIES AND BOOKS. So long as you, your
nominee or any other institutional investor shall be obligated to purchase or
shall hold any Note, your or such other institutional holder's representative
or representatives may, at the Company's cost and expense (excluding,
however, salary and other overhead expenses of any holder and the travel,
lodging and related expenses of such holder's representative, all of which
shall, except as hereinafter provided, be borne by such holder) visit and
inspect any of the properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including
their respective books of account, records, reports and other papers, make
copies and extracts therefrom, and discuss their affairs, finances and
accounts with their respective officers, employees and independent public
accountants (and the Company hereby authorizes and directs each such officer,
employee and independent public accountant to engage in such discussions),
all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested upon
at least five days advance notice to the Company or the relevant Subsidiary,
as applicable, PROVIDED that, during the continuance of any Event of Default,
all reasonable travel and lodging costs and related expenses relating to any
such visit or inspection which would otherwise be required by the foregoing
provisions of this Section to be borne by a holder of Notes shall be borne by
the Company.
6. COVENANTS. The Company covenants and agrees that from the
date of this Agreement through the Series A Closing Date, and thereafter so
long as any Note shall be outstanding, the Company will perform and comply
with each the following covenants:
6.1. PAYMENT OF NOTES. The Company will duly and punctually pay
the principal of, Makewhole Amount, if any, and interest on the Notes in
accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Agreement.
6.2. MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL CONDITIONS.
(a) FIXED CHARGE COVERAGE RATIO. The Company will maintain
Consolidated Net Income Available for Fixed Charges of at least 150% of
Consolidated Fixed Charges during the Coverage Period with respect to each
Determination Date.
(b) CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH. The Company will not permit
Consolidated Net Worth as of any Testing Date to be less than the Net Worth
Minimum as of such date.
6.3. DEBT; MAXIMUM FUNDED DEBT AND CURRENT DEBT. (a) The Company
will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly,
create, assume, incur, issue, agree to purchase or repurchase, or provide
funds in respect of, or otherwise become or remain liable in respect of, by
way of Guaranty or otherwise, any Funded Debt or Current Debt, except that
the Company may become and remain liable in respect of the Funded Debt
evidenced by the Notes and except that:
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(i) the Company may remain liable in respect of the Debt
outstanding on the date hereof and described on SCHEDULE III, PROVIDED
that no such Debt described on SCHEDULE III may be modified, extended,
renewed, refunded or refinanced except as otherwise permitted by another
provision of this SECTION 6.3(a) and except that, the Company may from
time to time, to the extent permitted by the Existing IDB Documents,
procure the issuance of letters of credit for delivery in substitution
for the letter of credit then in effect under and as contemplated by the
Existing IDB Documents so long as the Debt, if any, incurred by the
Company in connection with such substitute letters of credit is
permitted by another provision of this Section;
(ii) any Subsidiary may become and remain liable in respect of Debt
of such Subsidiary owing to the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary;
(iii) the Company may become and remain liable in respect of
unsecured Funded Debt in accordance with the terms of the Credit
Agreement in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding
not exceeding $25,000,000;
(iv) the Company may become and remain liable in respect of Funded
Debt relating to an equivalent principal amount of IDB Debt secured by
Liens permitted by subdivision (h) of SECTION 6.4 and in respect of
Funded Debt secured by Liens permitted by subdivision (i) or (j) of
SECTION 6.4, and any Subsidiary may become and remain liable in respect
of Subsidiary Secured Debt, if at the time of incurrence of any such
Funded Debt or Subsidiary Secured Debt and after giving effect to such
incurrence and to the concurrent retirement or incurrence of any other
Debt by the Company and its Subsidiaries and to the application of the
proceeds of all such incurred Debt, the aggregate principal amount
outstanding of all Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries secured by
Liens permitted by subdivision (g), (h), (i) or (j) of SECTION 6.4 shall
not exceed 20% of Consolidated Net Worth, PROVIDED that, the Subsidiary
Secured Debt permitted by this subdivision (a)(iv) for which any one
Subsidiary may become and remain liable shall not at any one time exceed
$500,000 in aggregate principal amount outstanding; and
(v) the Company may become and remain liable (including, without
limitation, subject to SECTION 6.12, by way of Guaranties) in respect of
unsecured Funded Debt and unsecured Current Debt in addition to that
permitted by the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv) of this SECTION
6.3(a);
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall be
permitted pursuant to the foregoing clauses (i) through (v) of this SECTION
6.3(a) to become or to remain liable on any date in respect of any Funded
Debt or Current Debt the incurrence or existence of which would cause the
Company to be in violation of SECTION 6.3(b).
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(b) The Company will not on any date permit (a) the sum of (1)
Consolidated Funded Debt plus (2) Consolidated Current Debt plus (3) if (but
only if) such date shall occur prior to the issuance and sale of the Series B
Notes as contemplated hereby, $25,000,000 to exceed (b) 55% of the sum of (1)
Total Capitalization plus (2) if (but only if) such date shall occur prior to
the issuance and sale of the Series B Notes as contemplated hereby,
$25,000,000.
(c) For all purposes of this SECTION 6.3, (1) in the event the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall extend, renew, refund or refinance
any Debt, the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall be deemed
to have created, assumed or incurred such Debt at the time of such extension,
renewal, refunding or refinancing and (2) any Person becoming a Subsidiary
after the date of this Agreement shall be deemed to have created, assumed or
incurred all of its then outstanding Debt at the time it becomes a
Subsidiary. The Company will not in any event incur, create, assume or
permit to exist any Funded Debt or Current Debt of the Company owing to any
of its Subsidiaries.
6.4. LIENS. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or permit to
exist any Lien on or with respect to any property or asset of any character
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (whether held on the date hereof or
hereafter acquired) or any interest therein or any income or profits
therefrom except, subject to compliance with the penultimate paragraph of
this Section:
(a) Liens (other than Liens created or imposed under ERISA) for
taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies either not yet due
or the payment of which is not at the time required by SECTION 6.16;
(b) Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics,
materialmen and other similar Persons incurred in the ordinary course of
business for sums either not yet due or the payment of which is not at
the time required by SECTION 6.16;
(c) Liens (other than Liens created or imposed under ERISA)
incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in
connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other
types of social security, or to secure the performance of tenders,
statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government
contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar
obligations (exclusive in any case of obligations incurred in connection
with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit);
(d) Liens incidental to the conduct of business or to the
ownership or improvement of property of a character which customarily
exist on properties of corporations engaged in similar activities and
similarly situated and which were not incurred in connection with the
borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit, and which do
not, individually or in the aggregate, interfere
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with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or detract from the value or use of the properties subject
to any such Liens, PROVIDED that, the aggregate amount of monetary
liabilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries secured by all such
Liens (exclusive of all such liabilities covered by insurance maintained
with sound and reputable insurers) shall not at any time exceed
$1,000,000;
(e) any attachment, judgment or other similar Lien arising in
connection with court proceedings, so long as (i) the execution or other
enforcement of such Lien is effectively stayed and the claims secured
thereby are being actively contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings diligently conducted and effective to prevent the forfeiture
or sale of any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any
interference with the ordinary use thereof by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, and (ii) such reserve or other appropriate provision, if
any, in the amount and of the type as shall be required by GAAP shall be
maintained therefor, PROVIDED that, the aggregate amount of monetary
liabilities, including interest and penalties, if any, of the Company
and its Subsidiaries secured by all such Liens (exclusive of all such
liabilities covered by insurance maintained with sound and reputable
insurers) shall not at any time exceed $1,000,000;
(f) Liens on assets of any Subsidiary securing Debt or other
obligations of such Subsidiary owing to the Company or to a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary;
(g) the Lien existing on the date of this Agreement and securing
the Debt listed as Item 12 on SCHEDULE III; PROVIDED that, (i) such Lien
shall not at any time be extended to or cover any property of the
Company or any Subsidiary other than (A) the equipment and other
collateral subject to such Lien on the date hereof (the "EXISTING
WISCONSIN COLLATERAL") and (B) equipment substituted for equipment
included in the Existing Wisconsin Collateral (or other equipment
previously substituted therefor as permitted by this clause (B)) so long
as, concurrently with any such substitution, the equipment for which
such substitution is made shall be released from such Lien and, after
giving effect to any such substitution, neither the aggregate fair
market value nor the aggregate book value of all equipment subject to
such Lien shall exceed 110% of the aggregate principal amount of the
Debt secured thereby; and (ii) the principal amount of the Debt secured
by such Lien shall not be increased, or extended, renewed, refunded or
refinanced, except as permitted by SECTION 6.3;
(h) Liens securing IDB Debt, the Debt of the Company relating to
which is permitted to be incurred and to be outstanding pursuant to
SECTION 6.3, PROVIDED that no such Lien shall at any time extend to or
cover any asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the
equipment and facilities acquired or constructed with the proceeds of
such IDB Debt, real property
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appurtenant to such facilities, and proceeds of such equipment,
facilities and real property;
(i) Liens (including Capital Leases) created solely to secure the
deferred purchase price of fixed assets useful and intended to be used
in carrying on the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
acquired or constructed by the Company or any Subsidiary after the date
hereof, or any Lien (including a Capital Lease) created to secure Debt
(other than IDB Debt) incurred solely for the purpose of financing the
acquisition or construction, as the case may be, of any such asset (if
such Debt is incurred at the time of or within 90 days after such
acquisition or the completion of such construction) or any Lien existing
on acquired assets at the time of acquisition thereof, or, in the case
of any Person which hereafter becomes a Subsidiary, any Lien in respect
of its property existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary,
PROVIDED that:
(i) in the case of an acquisition of assets or a Person
becoming a Subsidiary, such Lien was not created in contemplation
of such event,
(ii) no such Lien shall at any time extend to or cover any
asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than the
acquired assets on which it was originally imposed and improvements
thereto and proceeds thereof, and
(iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Debt secured
by all such Liens on any such asset shall at no time exceed an
amount equal to the fair market value of such asset as determined
in good faith by the Board of Directors at the time such Lien was
created or incurred; and
(j) Liens extending, renewing or replacing any Lien permitted by
subdivision (g), (h) or (i) of this Section, PROVIDED that (i) no such
Lien shall be extended to any other asset of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and (ii) the principal amount of the Debt secured by any
such Lien shall not be increased in connection with such extension,
renewal, refunding or refinancing.
It shall be a further condition to the creation, incurrence,
assumption, extension, renewal, refunding or refinancing of any Lien
otherwise permitted by subdivision (h), (i) or (j) of this Section that, on
the date on which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries proposes to take any
such action and immediately after giving effect thereto, to the substantially
concurrent incurrence of any Debt and the substantially concurrent retirement
of any other Debt and to the application of the proceeds of all such Debt,
the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall be permitted to
incur and remain liable in respect of at least $1.00 of additional secured
Funded Debt pursuant to subdivision (a)(iv) of SECTION 6.3. For all purposes
of this Section, (A) Liens existing on or with respect to any assets of any
Person at the time it becomes a Subsidiary shall be deemed to have been
created at the time it becomes a Subsidiary, (B) any extension, renewal,
refunding or refinancing of any Lien by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries
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shall be deemed to be an incurrence of such Lien at the time of such
extension, renewal, refunding or refinancing, and (C) any Lien existing on
any property at the time it is acquired by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall be deemed to have been created at the time of such
acquisition.
In the event that any property or assets of the Company or any
Subsidiary shall become or be subject to a Lien not permitted by the
foregoing subdivisions (a) through (j) of this Section, the Company shall
make or cause to be made effective provision satisfactory to the holders of
the outstanding Notes whereby the Notes will be secured equally and ratably
with all other obligations secured by such Lien, and in any event, the Notes
shall have the benefit, to the full extent that (and with such priority as)
the holders thereof may be entitled under applicable law, of an equitable
Lien on such property or assets; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any violation of
this Section shall constitute a Default whether or not the Company shall have
made effective provision to secure the Notes equally and ratably with any
such other obligations or the holders of Notes shall be entitled to such
equal and ratable security or any such equitable Lien.
6.5. INVESTMENTS, ETC. The Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly (through a Subsidiary or
otherwise), make or own any Investments except:
(a) the Company and its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments
in (i) readily marketable direct obligations of the United States of
America or of any agency or instrumentality thereof the obligations of
which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of
America or readily marketable obligations unconditionally guaranteed by
the United States of America or by any such agency or instrumentality,
in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
thereof, (ii) certificates of deposit, time deposits or bankers'
acceptances maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
thereof issued by, or demand deposit accounts maintained with, any
commercial bank or trust company which is a member of the Federal
Reserve System, the long-term debt obligations of which are rated at
least A by Xxxxx'x Investors Service Inc. ("MOODY'S") or Standard &
Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc.
("S&P") and which has combined capital and surplus of at least
$250,000,000 (any such bank or trust company, an "ELIGIBLE BANK"), (iii)
repurchase agreements with respect to securities of the type referred to
in the foregoing subdivision (a)(i) transacted with Eligible Banks,
PROVIDED that each such repurchase agreement obligates an Eligible Bank
to repurchase the securities which are the subject thereof no later than
30 days after the acquisition of such repurchase agreement; (iv)
money-market preferred stock or money-market auction notes, in each case
maturing or redeemable at the option of the holder thereof no more than
one year after the date of acquisition thereof and having a rating of at
least A3 by Moody's or at least A- by S&P, and Tax Exempt Obligations
(as hereinafter defined) in the form of auction rate reset notes that
reset within one year from the date of acquisition thereof; (v)
obligations, the interest with respect to which is exempt from federal
income taxation under
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Section 103 of the Code, having a long term rating of at least A3 or A-,
or a short term rating of at least P-1 or A-1, by Moody's or S&P,
respectively, and having a maturity of less than two years ("TAX EXEMPT
OBLIGATIONS"), in addition to those described in the foregoing
subdivision (a)(iv); (vi) open market commercial paper of United States
corporations maturing not later than 270 days after the issuance thereof
and having a rating of at least P-2 by Moody's or at least A-2 by S&P,
and (vii) debt securities of United States corporations having a long
term rating of at least A3 by Moody's or at least A- by S&P and having a
maturity of less than two years;
(b) the Company and its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments
in any mutual fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended, the portfolio of which is limited to Investments of the
character described in the foregoing subdivision (a);
(c) the Company and its Subsidiaries may continue to own (i)
Investments in Subsidiaries of the Company existing on the date hereof,
and (ii) other Investments existing on the date hereof and described in
SCHEDULE V;
(d) the Company and its Subsidiaries may make and own (i)
Investments in any Subsidiary of the Company (other than HTI Export) or
in any Person which simultaneously therewith becomes a Subsidiary; and
(ii) Investments in HTI Export (so long as it shall be a Subsidiary) in
the form of (A) advances from the Company to HTI Export for the purpose
of meeting foreign sales corporation transaction requirements arising
under the Code in an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not
exceeding $20,000,000, with a duration for each such advance not
exceeding one Business Day, and (B) other Investments of the Company in
an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not exceeding $200,000;
(e) the Company and its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments
consisting of travel and other like advances in the ordinary course of
business to their officers and employees;
(f) the Company may make and own Investments consisting of (i)
loans to its officers, directors and employees, not in excess of an
aggregate for all such loans of $2,000,000 at any one time outstanding,
in order to enable such individuals to exercise options granted to them
by the Company to purchase shares of the Company's stock, and (ii) loans
in the ordinary course of business to officers and employees rendering
services to the Company outside the United States of America on a
substantially permanent basis not in excess of $10,000 in any one case
and not in excess of an aggregate for all such loans of $100,000 at any
one time outstanding; and the Company and its Subsidiaries may make and
own Investments consisting of loans and advances in the ordinary course
of business to their officers, directors and employees, in addition to
the loans otherwise permitted by this subdivision (f) and the advances
otherwise permitted
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by the foregoing subdivision (e), not in excess of $10,000 in any one
case and not in excess of an aggregate for all such additional loans and
advances by the Company and all of its Subsidiaries of $200,000 at any
one time outstanding;
(g) the Company and its Subsidiaries may become and remain liable
in respect of Guaranties of the obligations of other Persons to the
extent permitted by SECTION 6.12;
(h) the Company and its Subsidiaries may make and own Investments
consisting of (i) insurance policies issued by United States stock or
mutual insurance companies rated A or better by A. M. Best Company, Inc.
to the extent such policies are used to fund deferred compensation,
pension, retirement or similar obligations, (ii) progress payments and
like advances under construction, equipment purchase and other contracts
entered into in the ordinary course of business and, (iii) prepaid rent
and security deposits under leases entered into in the ordinary course
of business; and
(i) in addition to the Investments permitted by the foregoing
subdivisions (a) through (h) of this Section, the Company may make and
own other Investments, PROVIDED, that, the aggregate unliquidated amount
of all such other Investments made pursuant to this subdivision (i) and
outstanding at any time shall not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth.
For purposes of this Section, Investments owned by any Person or for which it
is obligated at the time it becomes a Subsidiary shall be deemed to be made
at the time such Person becomes such a Subsidiary.
6.6. RESTRICTED PAYMENTS. The Company will not, directly or
indirectly (through a Subsidiary or otherwise), declare, order, pay,
distribute, make, or set apart any sum or property for any Restricted Payment
unless, in the case of any such action, both at the time of and immediately
after effect has been given thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing.
6.7. TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES; REMUNERATION. (a) The Company
will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly, enter into or be a party to any transaction or arrangement
(including, without limitation, the contribution, transfer, purchase, sale or
exchange of property, or the rendering of any service, or the payment of
management or other service fees) with any Affiliate unless such transaction
or arrangement is otherwise permitted under this Agreement and is entered
into pursuant to the reasonable requirements and in the ordinary course of
the Company's or such Subsidiary's business and upon terms that are fair and
reasonable and no less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary, as the
case may be, than those which might be obtained at the time on an
arm's-length basis from any Person which is not such an Affiliate; PROVIDED
that, nothing in this SECTION 6.7(a) shall prevent the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries from making Compensation Payments as and to the extent permitted
by SECTION 6.7(b).
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(b) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, make payments, directly or indirectly, of any form of
compensation or remuneration to any of its officers, directors, employees or
stockholders, whether by way of salaries, bonuses, participations in pension
or profit sharing plans, fees under management contracts or for professional
services, grants of stock options, or otherwise, and whether in cash or other
property (any of the foregoing, "COMPENSATION PAYMENTS"), except for
Compensation Payments in amounts which represent, in the Company's reasonable
business judgment, no more than reasonable compensation for services actually
performed for the benefit of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries.
6.8. SUBSIDIARY STOCK AND DEBT. The Company will not, and will not
permit any Subsidiary to, issue, sell or otherwise dispose or part with
control of any shares of stock or any Debt or any other securities (or
warrants, rights or options to acquire stock or other securities) of any
Subsidiary, except to the Company or another Wholly Owned Subsidiary, and
except that all shares of stock and all Debt and other securities of any
Subsidiary at the time owned by or owed to the Company and all Subsidiaries
may be sold as an entirety for a consideration which represents the fair
value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) at the time of
sale of the shares of stock and Debt and other securities so sold; PROVIDED
that, (i) such Subsidiary being sold does not at that time own, directly or
indirectly, any Debt or stock or other security of any other Subsidiary which
is not also being simultaneously sold as an entirety as permitted by this
Section or any Debt of the Company, (ii) the assets of such Subsidiary
represented by the equity interest to be so transferred are such that the
sale of such assets would then be permitted by SECTION 6.9 (in which case
such transaction shall be considered and deemed a disposition of assets for
the purposes of SECTION 6.9), and (iii) at the time of the consummation of
such transaction and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
6.9. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OF ASSETS, ETC. The Company will
not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, voluntarily liquidate or
dissolve, or consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, or permit
any other Person to consolidate with or merge with or into it, or participate
in a share exchange with or sell, lease, transfer, contribute or otherwise
dispose of any of its assets to any other Person (other than sales of
inventory and worn out and obsolete assets in the ordinary course of business
as such business is conducted in compliance with SECTION 6.13), except that,
subject in any event to compliance with the last paragraph of this Section:
(a) any Subsidiary may (i) consolidate with or merge into the
Company or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary if the Company or a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving corporation or (ii)
consolidate or merge with any other corporation if such Subsidiary shall
be the continuing or surviving corporation;
(b) any Subsidiary may sell, lease, transfer, contribute or
otherwise dispose of its assets in whole or in part to the Company or
any Wholly Owned
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Subsidiary, and may, following any such disposition in whole, liquidate
and dissolve;
(c) the Company may consolidate or merge or enter into a share
exchange with any other Person if the Company shall be the continuing or
surviving corporation; and
(d) the Company or any Subsidiary, in addition to making any sale,
lease, transfer, contribution or other disposition permitted by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, may sell any of its assets for a
consideration at least equal to the fair market value thereof (as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) at the time of such
sale but only if the assets so sold, when taken together with all other
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries then being or theretofore so
sold (including deemed dispositions pursuant to SECTION 6.8) during the
period from and including the first day of the then current fiscal year
of the Company to and including the date of such sale shall not have an
aggregate fair market value or an aggregate book value (such fair market
value and such book value to be determined in the case of any such asset
as of the date of sale or proposed sale thereof) which shall exceed 10%
of Consolidated Net Worth as at the end of the then most recently
completed prior fiscal year of the Company.
No consolidation, merger, sale, lease, transfer, contribution or
other disposition referred to in subdivisions (a) through (d) of this Section
shall be permitted unless at the time of and immediately after giving effect
to any such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing. Nothing contained in this Section shall permit the
disposition of assets consisting of Debt, stock or similar interests or other
securities (or warrants, rights or options to acquire stock or other
securities) of any Subsidiary unless such disposition is also made in
compliance with SECTION 6.8.
6.10. RESTRICTIONS ON LONG TERM LEASES. The Company will not,
and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly become
or remain liable as lessee or as guarantor or other surety with respect to
any Long Term Lease unless, after giving effect to such Long Term Lease, (i)
the aggregate amount of all Long Term Lease Rentals for which the Company and
its Subsidiaries shall be liable in any one fiscal year (including the then
current and each future fiscal year) under all Long Term Leases shall not
exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth as at the end of the then most recently
completed fiscal quarter of the Company, and (ii) the aggregate amount of
Long Term Lease Rentals for which all such Subsidiaries shall be liable in
any one fiscal year (including the then current and each future fiscal year)
under all Long Term Leases shall not exceed $200,000.
6.11. SUBORDINATION OF CLAIMS. The Company will not, and will
not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, subordinate or permit to be
subordinated any claim against, or obligation of, any other Person held or
owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any other claim against,
or obligation of, such other Person.
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6.12. GUARANTIES. The Company will not, and will not permit
any of its Subsidiaries to, become or remain liable under any Guaranty of the
obligations of any other Person (other than, subject to SECTION 6.3,
obligations of the Company and its Subsidiaries) except that (a) the Company
may become and remain liable in respect of Guaranties of IDB Debt if and for
so long as the Funded Debt of the Company relating to such IDB Debt is
permitted pursuant to SECTION 6.3 and the Liens, if any, securing such IDB
Debt are permitted by SECTION 6.4(h), and (b) the Company and its
Subsidiaries may become and remain liable under Guaranties of other
obligations not in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate (provided that
nothing in this Section shall limit or prevent the Company from remaining
liable in respect of its obligations to indemnify its officers and directors
arising under the Company's Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws or applicable
law).
6.13. NATURE OF BUSINESS. The Company will not, and will not
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) alter the nature of the business in
which the Company and its Subsidiaries (viewed on a consolidated basis) are
engaged on the date hereof as described in the Memorandum (it being
understood that the continued development of critical care devices and other
products for the medical market, including, without limitation, products of
that character described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its
fiscal year ended September 24, 1995, and the conduct of activities incident
to or arising out of such development shall not for purposes hereof be deemed
an alteration of such business), or (b) invest, directly or indirectly, in
any substantial amount of assets or property other than assets or property
useful and to be used in such business as now conducted or as conducted in
the future in compliance with the foregoing provisions of this Section (the
"CORE BUSINESS"); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing in this Section shall
prohibit the Company from acquiring, through merger or consolidation with, or
purchase from, any other Person, assets or other property not used or useful
in the Core Business so long as (i) such assets or other property are used or
useful in a line or lines of business which are related or reasonably
complementary to the Core Business or which entail the application of
technological expertise utilized in the Core Business, or adaptations
thereof, to new or additional products and (ii) after giving effect to any
such acquisition the value of all such assets or other property of the
Company and its Subsidiaries not used or useful in the Core Business shall
not exceed 25% of Consolidated Tangible Assets.
6.14. BOOKS AND RECORDS; FISCAL YEAR. The Company will, and
will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep proper books of record and
account in which full, true and correct entries will be made of all its
material business dealings and transactions in accordance with GAAP applied
on a consistent basis and (b) maintain a system of accounting established and
administered in accordance with GAAP, and set aside on its books from its
earnings for each fiscal year all proper reserves, accruals and provisions
which, in accordance with GAAP, should be set aside from such earnings in
connection with its business, including, without limitation, provisions for
depreciation, obsolescence and/or amortization and accruals for taxes for
such period. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, change the basis on which its fiscal year is at present
determined.
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6.15. CORPORATE EXISTENCE; LICENSES. The Company will, and
will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence (except as otherwise permitted by SECTION 6.9) and its rights
(charter and statutory) and Licenses; except that, subject to compliance with
SECTIONS 6.8 AND 6.9 and the next succeeding sentence of this Section, the
rights and Licenses of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be
abandoned, modified or terminated if in the good faith judgment of the Board
of Directors such abandonment, modification or termination is in the best
interests of the Company and is not disadvantageous to the holders of Notes.
The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, in any event
maintain the validity of all Licenses necessary in any material respect for
the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as now
conducted and as proposed to be conducted.
6.16. PAYMENT OF TAXES, CLAIMS FOR LABOR AND MATERIALS, ETC.
The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, promptly pay
and discharge or cause to be promptly paid and discharged when due and before
the same shall become delinquent (a) all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its income or profits or upon any
of its franchises, Licenses, business or property, or upon any part thereof,
and (b) all claims of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics,
materialmen and other similar Persons for labor, materials, supplies and
rentals which, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien or charge upon any of
its property; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the failure of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries to pay any such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim shall
not constitute a default hereunder if and for so long as the amount,
applicability or validity thereof shall concurrently be contested in good
faith by appropriate and timely actions or proceedings diligently pursued,
and if such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be
required by GAAP shall have been made therefor and neither the Company's nor
any such Subsidiary's title to or right to the use of any of its property is
impaired in any material respect by reason of such contest.
6.17. MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES. The Company will, and will
cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain and keep, or cause to be
maintained and kept, in good repair, working order and condition (ordinary
wear and tear excepted) all material properties (whether owned or leased)
used or useful in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and from
time to time make or cause to be made all necessary and proper repairs,
renewals, replacements and improvements thereof so that the business carried
on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted
consistent with past practices of the Company.
6.18. INSURANCE. The Company will, and will cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, keep adequately insured, by financially sound and reputable
insurers, all of its property of a character customarily insured by prudent
corporations engaged in the same or a similar business and similarly situated
against loss or damage of the kinds and in amounts customarily insured
against by such corporations, and with deductibles or coinsurance no greater
than is customary, and carry, with such insurers in customary amounts, such
other insurance, including public liability insurance and insurance against
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claims for any violation of applicable law, as is customarily carried by
prudent corporations of established reputation engaged in the same or a
similar business and similarly situated.
6.19. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. The Company will, and will cause
each of its Subsidiaries to, promptly comply in all material respects with
all laws, statutes, rules, regulations and ordinances and all Orders of, and
restrictions imposed by, any court, arbitrator or Governmental Body in
respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its properties
(including, without limitation, applicable laws, statutes, rules,
regulations, ordinances and Orders relating to occupational health and safety
standards, consumer protection and equal employment opportunities), except to
the extent that the applicability or validity of any such law, statute, rule,
regulation, ordinance or Order is being contested in good faith by
appropriate and timely actions or proceedings diligently pursued, and for
which such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be
required by GAAP shall have been made, so long as such actions or proceedings
are effective to prevent the imposition of any material penalty on the
Company or such Subsidiary and neither the Company's nor any such
Subsidiary's title to or right to the use of any of its property is impaired
in any material respect by reason of such contest.
6.20. ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. (a) The Company will, and will
cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) obtain and maintain in full force and
effect all Environmental Permits that may be required from time to time under
any Environmental Laws applicable to the Company or any such Subsidiary and
(ii) be and remain in compliance in all material respects with all terms and
conditions of all such Environmental Permits and with all other limitations,
restrictions, conditions, standards, prohibitions, requirements, obligations,
schedules and timetables contained in all applicable Environmental Laws.
(b) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, (i) cause or allow (A) any Hazardous Substance to be present
at any time on, in, under or above the Company Premises or any part thereof
or (B) the Company Premises or any part thereof to be used at any time to
manufacture, generate, refine, process, distribute, use, sell, treat,
receive, store, dispose of, transport, arrange for transport of, handle, or
be involved in any other activity involving, any Hazardous Substance, or (ii)
conduct any such activities described in the foregoing clause (i)(B) on the
Company Premises or anywhere else, except, in each case referred to in the
foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), in a manner that is in compliance in all
material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental
Permits and to an extent that will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.21. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE. Until the principal, Makewhole
Amount, if any, and interest on the Notes shall have been paid in full to the
registered holders thereof, the Company will maintain its principal office at
a location in the United States of America where notices, presentations and
demands in respect of this Agreement and the Notes may be made upon it, and
will notify each holder of a Note in writing of any
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change of location of such office at least 30 days prior to such change of
location. Such office shall first be maintained at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000.
7. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. The Company
represents and warrants to you that:
7.1. ORGANIZATION AND AUTHORITY OF THE COMPANY, ETC. The Company
is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the State of Minnesota and has all requisite legal right, power
and authority to own or hold under lease the property it purports to own or
hold under lease, to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed
to be conducted, to enter into this Agreement and the Other Agreements, to
issue and sell the Notes and to carry out the terms of the Agreements and the
Notes. The Company has, by all necessary corporate action (no action of its
shareholders being required in connection therewith), duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Other Agreements, the
issuance and sale of the Notes and the performance of its obligations under
the Agreements and the Notes.
7.2. SUBSIDIARIES. SCHEDULE II lists all existing Subsidiaries of
the Company and correctly sets forth, as to each Subsidiary (a) its name, (b)
its jurisdiction of organization, (c) the percentage of its issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock of each class owned by the Company or one
of its Subsidiaries (specifying each such Subsidiary), and (d) the name of
each Person, if any, other than the Company or one of its Subsidiaries owning
outstanding shares of capital stock of any class of such Subsidiary and the
percentage of each such class of stock owned by such Person. Each Subsidiary
is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and has all requisite legal
right, power and authority to own or hold under lease the property it
purports to own or hold under lease and to carry on its business as now
conducted and as proposed to be conducted. All of the outstanding shares of
capital stock of each such Subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly
issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and all shares of capital stock
indicated on SCHEDULE II as owned by the Company or any other Subsidiary are
owned beneficially and of record by the Company or such other Subsidiary, as
the case may be, free and clear of any Lien. There are no outstanding
rights, options, warrants, conversion rights or agreements for the purchase
or acquisition from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any shares of
capital stock or similar interests or other securities of any such Subsidiary.
7.3. QUALIFICATION. The Company is, and each of its Subsidiaries
is, duly qualified or licensed and in good standing as a foreign corporation
duly authorized to do business in each jurisdiction (other than the
jurisdiction of its organization) in which the nature of its activities or
the character of the properties it owns or leases makes such qualification or
licensing necessary and in which the failure to so qualify or be licensed
would have a Material Adverse Effect. SCHEDULE II sets forth as to the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries the jurisdictions (other than the
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organization) in which it is qualified or licensed to do business or in
which any substantial part of its assets is located.
7.4. BUSINESS AND PROPERTY; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, ETC. The Company
has furnished to you a true and complete copy of the Confidential Offering
Memorandum, dated May 1996 (together with the schedules, exhibits and
attachments thereto, the "MEMORANDUM"), prepared by First Chicago Capital
Markets, Inc. (the "PLACEMENT AGENT"), in connection with the offering by the
Placement Agent, on behalf of the Company, of the Notes. The Memorandum
correctly describes in all material respects, as of its date, the business
and material properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries and the nature of
their respective operations. The Memorandum contains, among other things,
(i) a pro forma capitalization table and (ii) selected financial data for the
six month periods ended March 1995 and 1996, respectively. The Company has
also delivered to you (A) audited consolidated financial statements of the
Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of and for the fiscal years of the
Company ended September 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995, respectively,
accompanied in each case by the report thereon of the Company's certified
independent public accountants, (B) its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its
fiscal year ended September 24, 1995, (C) its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q
for its fiscal quarters ended December 24, 1995 and March 24, 1996,
respectively, and (D) the Projections. The financial statements described in
clause (A) of the preceding sentence and all related schedules and notes have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP, in each case applied on a consistent
basis throughout the periods specified (except for changes specifically noted
therein), are correct and complete in all material respects and present
fairly the financial position of the corporation or corporations to which
they relate as at the respective dates thereof and the results of operations
and cash flows of such corporation or corporations for the respective periods
specified. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
included in the reports described in clause (C) of said sentence have been
prepared, and in connection with such preparation certain information and
footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in
accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted, pursuant to the rules
and regulations of the Commission, and the information furnished therein
includes normal recurring adjustments and reflect all adjustments which are,
in the opinion of management of the Company, necessary for a fair
presentation of such financial statements. The Projections include certain
forecasted financial information for each of three alternative case
scenarios. Each such set of forecasted financial information was prepared
based on assumptions which were made in good faith at the time of such
preparation and for which, in the context of the particular case scenario to
which each such set relates, a reasonable basis existed at such time and, to
the extent relating to forecasted financial information for periods
subsequent to the Company's fiscal year ending in September, 1996, continues
to exist on the date hereof (it being understood, however, that nothing
herein shall be deemed a representation or warranty on the part of the
Company as to the attainability of the financial results included or implicit
in the Projections or any other particular financial results). The Company
has no material liabilities, contingent or otherwise, of a character
required, in accordance with GAAP, to be reflected in its financial
statements which are not described in the most recent audited financial
statements referred to in this Section or in the notes thereto.
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7.5. CHANGES, ETC. Since the date of the balance sheet included in
the most recent audited financial statements referred to in SECTION 7.4, (a)
there has been no change in the Business or Condition of the Company which
has been, either in any one case or in the aggregate, Materially Adverse, and
(b) there has been no occurrence or development, whether or not insured
against, which has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
7.6. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS, OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC. (a) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of its
corporate charter or by-laws or any agreement, indenture, mortgage,
instrument or License to which it is a party or by which it or any of its
properties may be bound or affected or any existing statute, law,
governmental rule, regulation or ordinance, or any Order of any court,
arbitrator or Governmental Body applicable to it (including, without
limitation, any statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance or Order relating
to occupational health and safety standards, consumer protection or equal
employment practice requirements), the consequences of which violation,
either in any one case or taken together with all other such violations, has
had or could have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the
Other Agreements or the Notes nor the performance of the terms and provisions
hereof or thereof nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby will result in any breach of or be in conflict with or
constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both
would become a default) under, or give to others any right of termination,
amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in a loss of any
benefit to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is entitled under, or
result in (or require) the creation of any Lien upon any property of the
Company under, any term of, the corporate charter or by-laws of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or any agreement, indenture, mortgage, instrument
or License to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by
which the Company, any such Subsidiary or any of their respective properties
may be bound or affected, or any existing statute, law, rule, regulation or
ordinance or any Order of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Body
applicable to the Company, any such Subsidiary or any of their respective
properties.
7.7. CONSENTS AND APPROVALS. No Approval by, from or with, and no
other action in respect of, any Governmental Body or any other Person
(including any trustee, or any holder of any indebtedness, securities or
other obligations of the Company) is required (a) for or in connection with
the valid execution and delivery by the Company of or the performance by the
Company of its obligations under this Agreement, the Other Agreements or the
Notes or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby, including the offer, issuance, sale and delivery by the
Company of the Notes, or (b) as a condition to the legality, validity or
enforceability as against the Company of this Agreement, the Other Agreements
or the Notes.
7.8. DEBT, ETC. SCHEDULE III correctly lists all secured and
unsecured Funded Debt and Current Debt of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries outstanding
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on the date hereof and shows, as to each item of Debt listed thereon, the
obligor and obligee, the aggregate principal amount outstanding on the date
hereof, whether the same constitutes Funded Debt or Current Debt, to what
extent, if any, the same will be reduced or repaid out of the proceeds of the
Notes and a brief description of any security therefor. No default or event
of default or basis for acceleration exists or, after giving effect to the
issuance and sale of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement and the Other
Agreements, will exist (or, but for the waiver thereof, would exist) under
any instrument or agreement evidencing, providing for the issuance or
securing of, or otherwise relating to any such Debt. The Company is not a
party to or bound by any charter provision, by-law, agreement, indenture,
mortgage, lease, instrument or License (other than this Agreement and the
Other Agreements) which contains any restriction on the incurrence by it of
any Debt, except for the Credit Agreement, the Notes Purchase Agreement,
dated as of July 9, 1987, among the institutional investors identified
therein and the Company, the Notes Purchase Agreement, dated as of October
28, 1988, among the institutional investors identified therein and the
Company, and the several Note Purchase Agreements, each dated as of April 20,
1994, among the respective institutional investors identified therein and the
Company, a true and correct copy of each of which has been delivered to you
or your special counsel and pursuant to each of which the Company is
permitted to incur the Debt to be evidenced by the Notes.
7.9. TITLE TO PROPERTY; LEASES; INVESTMENTS. (a) The Company and
its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to their real properties and
good title to the other properties they purport to own, including those
reflected in the balance sheet included in the most recent audited financial
statements referred to in SECTION 7.4 or purported to have been acquired by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the date of such balance sheet
(other than any such properties disposed of since such date in the ordinary
course of business), subject in the case of all such property to no Liens
other than Liens permitted by SECTION 6.4. The Company and its Subsidiaries
enjoy peaceful and undisturbed possession under all leases of all personal
and all real property necessary in any material respect to their respective
operations, all such leases are valid and subsisting and in full force and
effect, and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary is in default in any
material respect in the performance or observance of its obligations
thereunder. SCHEDULE IV includes a general description of all Long Term
Leases under which the Company or a Subsidiary is a lessee, and sets forth
with respect to each such lease, (i) the name of the lessor thereunder, (ii)
a general description of the property leased, and (iii) the annual rental
obligations payable thereunder.
(b) SCHEDULE V correctly lists all Investments of the Company and
its Subsidiaries existing on the date hereof other than Investments in
Subsidiaries.
7.10. LITIGATION. There are no actions, suits or proceedings
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties
(and no basis therefor is known to the Company) in any court or before any
arbitrator of any kind or before or by any Governmental Body, which (a)
question the validity or legality of this Agreement, the
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Other Agreements or the Notes or any action taken or to be taken pursuant
hereto or thereto or (b) could reasonably be expected to result, either in
any one case or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change.
7.11. TAXES. The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all
tax returns which are required by law to have been filed by them in any
jurisdiction and have paid all taxes, assessments, fees and charges of each
Governmental Body shown to be owing on such returns to the extent the same
have become due and payable and before they have become delinquent other than
those presently payable without penalty or interest and those being contested
in good faith by appropriate and timely actions or proceedings diligently
pursued with respect to which adequate reserves have been established in
accordance with GAAP. The Federal income tax returns of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries have been examined and reported on by applicable
taxing authorities or closed by applicable statute for all fiscal years
through the fiscal year ended in 1990. The Company does not know of any
additional assessment or proposed assessment for any fiscal year, and no
material controversy in respect of additional Federal or state income taxes
is pending or to the knowledge of the Company is threatened. In the opinion
of the Company, all tax liabilities (including taxes for all open years and
for its current fiscal period) are adequately provided for on the books of
the Company in accordance with GAAP.
7.12. COMPLIANCE WITH ERISA. (a) No Termination Event has
occurred, and to the best knowledge of the Company no event or condition has
occurred or exists as to which any Termination Event could reasonably be
expected to occur, with respect to any Plan, and no accumulated funding
deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code),
whether or not waived, has occurred with respect to any Plan. The present
value of all accrued benefits under each Plan which is not a Multiemployer
Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan, which assumptions
are reasonable) did not, as of the most recent valuation date, which for any
such Plan was not earlier than twelve months prior to the date as of which
this representation is made, exceed the then current value of the assets of
such Plan allocable to such benefits.
(b) No Company Group Member has incurred, or is reasonably
expected to incur, any withdrawal liability to any Multiemployer Plan and the
Company has no present intention of withdrawing from any Multiemployer Plan.
No Company Group Member has received any notification that any Multiemployer
Plan is in reorganization (as defined in Section 4241 of ERISA), is insolvent
(as defined in Section 4245 of ERISA) or has been terminated, within the
meaning of Title IV of ERISA, and to the best knowledge of the Company no
Multiemployer Plan is reasonably expected to be in reorganization, insolvent
or to be terminated.
(c) To the best knowledge of the Company, no prohibited
transaction (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code)
or material breach of fiduciary responsibility has occurred which has
subjected or may subject any Company Group Member to any liability under
Section 406, 409, 502(i) or 502(l) of ERISA or
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Section 4975 of the Code, or under any agreement or other instrument pursuant
to which such Company Group Member has agreed or is required to indemnify any
Person against any such liability. No Company Group Member has incurred, or
is reasonably expected to incur, any liability to the PBGC (other than for
insurance premiums, which will be paid in the ordinary course when due).
(d) Full payment has been made on or before the due date thereof
of all amounts which any Company Group Member is or was required under the
terms of any Plan to have paid as contributions to such Plan as of the date
hereof.
(e) No Lien imposed under the Code or ERISA on the assets of any
Company Group Member exists or is reasonably likely to arise on account of
any Plan.
(f) No welfare plan (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA)
maintained by any Company Group Member provides medical or death benefits
with respect to current or former employees beyond their termination of
employment (other than coverage mandated by law). To the best knowledge of
the Company, each such plan to which Sections 601-609 of ERISA and Section
4980B of the Code apply has been administered in compliance with such
sections.
(g) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
Other Agreements nor the issuance and sale of the Notes as herein
contemplated will involve any transaction which is subject to the
prohibitions of Section 406 of ERISA or in connection with which a tax could
be imposed pursuant to Section 4975 of the Code. The representation by the
Company in the preceding sentence is made in reliance upon and subject to the
accuracy of your representation in SECTION 1.6.
7.13. PRIVATE OFFERING. Neither the Company nor the Placement
Agent (the only Person authorized or employed by the Company to act on its
behalf in connection with the offer and sale of the Notes or any similar
securities of the Company) nor any other Person has offered the Notes or any
similar securities of the Company for sale to, or solicited any offer to buy
any of the same from, or otherwise approached or negotiated in respect
thereof with, any Person other than you, the Other Purchasers and 46 other
institutional investors, each of which was offered the Notes at private sale
for investment. Neither the Company nor any other Person acting on its behalf
has taken, or will take, any action which would subject the issuance or sale
of the Notes to Section 5 of the Securities Act or to the registration or
qualification requirements of any securities or blue sky law of any
applicable jurisdiction.
7.14. USE OF PROCEEDS; MARGIN REGULATIONS. The Company will
apply the proceeds from the sale of the Notes under the Agreements as
provided in SECTION 1.4. No part of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes
will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying any "margin stock" within the meaning of Regulation G of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 CFR 207, as amended), or for
the purpose of purchasing or carrying or trading in any securities under such
circumstances as to involve the Company in a violation of Regulation X of
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said Board (12 CFR 224, as amended) or to involve any broker or dealer in a
violation of Regulation T of said Board (12 CFR 220, as amended). No Debt
being reduced or retired out of the proceeds of the sale of the Notes was
incurred for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock within
the meaning of such Regulation G or any "margin security" within the meaning
of such Regulation T. The assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries do not
consist on the date hereof of, and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has any present intention of acquiring directly or indirectly,
any such margin stock or any such margin security. None of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, the direct or
indirect use of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes) will violate or
result in a violation of Section 7 of the Exchange Act or any regulations
issued pursuant thereto, including, without limitation, said Regulation G,
Regulation T and Regulation X.
7.15. LICENSES, PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AUTHORIZATIONS, ETC. The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries owns, possesses or has the right to use
(without any known conflict with the rights of others) all permits,
franchises, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights,
licenses, permits and governmental or other authorizations or the like
(collectively, "LICENSES") which are necessary in any material respect to the
conduct of its businesses as conducted on the date hereof and as proposed to
be conducted. Each such License is in full force and effect, and the Company
or its applicable Subsidiary, as the case may be (whichever shall own,
possess or have the right to use the same), has fulfilled and performed in
all material respects its obligations with respect thereto to the extent
required to be performed or observed on or prior to the date hereof. No
default in the performance or observance by the Company or any such
Subsidiary of its obligations thereunder has occurred (and, so far as is
known to the Company no other event has occurred) which permits, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would permit, the revocation or termination
of any such License or which has had a Material Adverse Effect or in the
future may (so far as the Company can now reasonably foresee) have a Material
Adverse Effect.
7.16. STATUS UNDER CERTAIN STATUTES; OTHER REGULATIONS. The
Company is not an "investment company" or a Person directly or indirectly
"controlled" by or "acting on behalf of" an "investment company" within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company is
not 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," as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1935, as amended. The Company is not a "public utility," as
such term is defined in the Federal Power Act, as amended. The Company is
not subject to regulation under any Federal or state law, statute, rule,
regulation or ordinance which limits its ability to incur Debt.
7.17. LABOR MATTERS. There are no labor disputes between the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries on the one hand and any of their
respective employees or representatives of such employees on the other hand
which in the aggregate might have a Material Adverse Effect, and the Company
and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all
applicable laws respecting employment and employment
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practices, terms and conditions of employment, tax withholding on behalf of
employees and wages and hours, and are not engaged in any unfair labor
practices which, either in any one case or taken together, has had or could
have a Material Adverse Effect.
7.18. FULL DISCLOSURE. Neither this Agreement nor the
Memorandum nor any other document, certificate or instrument delivered to you
by or on behalf of the Company in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement contains any untrue statement of a material
fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements contained herein or therein, in light of the circumstances under
which the same were made, not misleading. There is no fact known to the
Company which has had a Material Adverse Effect or in the future may (so far
as the Company can now reasonably foresee) have a Material Adverse Effect
which has not been set forth or reflected in this Agreement, the Memorandum
or in the other documents, certificates and instruments referred to herein
and delivered to you by or on behalf of the Company on or prior to the date
hereof in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
7.19. ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. (a) The Company and its
Subsidiaries currently hold and at all times heretofore the Company and its
Subsidiaries held all Environmental Permits required under all Environmental
Laws except to the extent failure to have any such Environmental Permit has
not had and will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The Company and its Subsidiaries currently are, and at all
times heretofore the Company and its Subsidiaries have been, in compliance
with all terms and conditions of all such Environmental Permits and all other
limitations, restrictions, conditions, standards, prohibitions, requirements,
obligations, schedules and timetables contained in all applicable
Environmental Laws except to the extent failure to comply therewith, in any
one case or in the aggregate, has not had and will not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has ever
received, and, so far as is known to the Company, no predecessor in interest
of the Company or any such Subsidiary in respect of any of the Company
Premises has ever received, from any Governmental Body or other Person any
notice of, and the Company has no knowledge of, any events, conditions or
circumstances that could prevent continued compliance in all material
respects with the Environmental Permits referred to in subdivision (b) of
this Section or any scheduled renewals thereof or any applicable
Environmental Laws currently in effect, or that could give rise to any
liability on the part of the Company or any such Subsidiary or otherwise form
the basis of any claim, action, demand, request, notice, suit, proceeding,
hearing, study or investigation (collectively, "ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS")
involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, based on or related to (i)
a violation of any applicable Environmental Laws currently in effect or (ii)
the manufacture, generation, refining, processing, distribution, use, sale,
treatment, receipt, storage, disposal, transport, arranging for transport or
handling, or the emission, discharge, release or threatened release into the
environment, of any Hazardous
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Substance in violation of any applicable Environmental Laws currently in
effect, other than liabilities or Environmental Claims referred to in this
subdivision (c) that have not had and will not have, either in any one case
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES.
8.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT DEFINED; ACCELERATION OF MATURITY. If any
of the following conditions or events (each herein called an "EVENT OF
DEFAULT") shall occur and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event
of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or come about or
be effected by operation of law or pursuant to or in compliance with judicial
or governmental or administrative order or action or otherwise):
(a) default shall be made in the due and punctual payment of all
or any part of the principal of or Makewhole Amount, if any, on any Note
when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether on a date
fixed for prepayment, at stated maturity, by acceleration or
declaration, or otherwise; or
(b) default shall be made in the due and punctual payment of any
interest on any Note when and as such interest shall become due and
payable, and such default shall have continued for a period of three
days; or
(c) default shall be made in the due performance or observance of
any covenant, provision, agreement or condition contained in SECTION
4(G) or any of SECTIONS 6.2 THROUGH 6.13, both inclusive, and, except in
the case of any such default under SECTION 4(G), subdivision (a) of
SECTION 6.3, SECTION 6.8, SECTION 6.9 or SECTION 6.10, such default
shall have continued for a period of ten days after the earlier of (x)
the date on which a Responsible Officer of the Company first has
knowledge of such default and (y) the giving of notice to the Company of
such default by any holder or holders of a Note or Notes; or
(d) default shall be made in the due performance or observance of
any other covenant, provision, agreement or condition contained in this
Agreement (other than any default referred to in the foregoing
subdivisions (a), (b) and (c) of this SECTION 8.1) and such default
shall have continued for a period of 30 days after the earlier of (x)
the date on which any Responsible Officer of the Company first has
knowledge of such default and (y) the giving of notice to the Company of
such default by any holder or holders of a Note or Notes; or
(e) (i) default shall be made in the payment of any amount due,
whether on an interest payment date or on a date fixed for prepayment,
at stated maturity, by acceleration or declaration or otherwise, under
or in respect of any Funded Debt or Current Debt of the Company (other
than the Notes) or any Subsidiary, and such default shall continue
beyond the period of grace, if any,
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allowed with respect thereto; or (ii) default shall be made in the due
performance or observance of any covenant, provision, agreement or
condition contained in any document evidencing or providing for the
issuance or securing of any such Funded Debt or Current Debt, if the
effect of any such default referred to in this clause (ii) is to cause
or to permit the holder or holders of such Debt (or a trustee or agent
on behalf of such holders) to cause any payment or payments in respect
of any such Debt to become due prior to the scheduled due date thereof;
or
(f) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) apply for or
consent to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a
receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a
substantial part of its property, (ii) become insolvent or be generally
unable to or shall generally fail or admit in writing its inability to
pay its debts as such debts become due, (iii) make a general assignment
for the benefit of its creditors, (iv) commence a voluntary case under
the Federal Bankruptcy Code (as now or hereafter in effect), (v) file a
petition seeking to take advantage of any bankruptcy, insolvency,
moratorium, reorganization or other similar law affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights generally, (vi) acquiesce in writing
to, or fail to controvert in a timely or appropriate manner, any
petition filed against it in an involuntary case under such Bankruptcy
Code, (vii) take any action under the laws of any jurisdiction (foreign
or domestic) analogous to any of the foregoing, or (viii) take any
action in furtherance of any of the foregoing; or
(g) a proceeding or case shall be commenced in respect of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, without its application or consent,
in any court of competent jurisdiction, seeking (i) the liquidation,
reorganization, moratorium, dissolution, winding up, or composition or
readjustment of its debts, (ii) the appointment of a trustee, receiver,
custodian, liquidator or the like of it or of all or any substantial
part of its assets, or (iii) similar relief in respect of it under any
law providing for the relief of debtors, and such proceeding or case
described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) shall continue undismissed, or
unstayed and in effect, for a period of 30 days, or an order for relief
shall be entered in an involuntary case under the Federal Bankruptcy
Code (as now or hereafter in effect) against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and shall continue undismissed, or unstayed and in effect,
for a period of 15 days; or action under the laws of any jurisdiction
(foreign or domestic) analogous to any of the foregoing shall be taken
with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and shall
continue undismissed, or unstayed and in effect, for a period of 15
days; or
(h) a final judgment or decree for the payment of money shall be
rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction against the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries which, either alone or together with other
outstanding judgments or decrees against the Company or any one or more
of its Subsidiaries, shall aggregate more than $500,000, and the Company
or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall not discharge the same or
provide for its discharge in accordance
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with its terms within 45 days from the date of entry thereof or within
such longer period during which execution of such judgment shall have
been stayed; or
(i) any representation or warranty made by the Company in this
Agreement or in any certificate or other instrument delivered hereunder
or pursuant hereto or in connection with any provision hereof shall
prove to have been false or incorrect or breached in any material
respect on the date as of which made; or
(j) (i) any Company Group Member shall fail to pay when due any
amount which it shall have become liable to pay to the PBGC or to a Plan
under Title IV of ERISA; (ii) any Company Group Member shall withdraw
from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year in which it is a
substantial employer (as such term is defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
ERISA), or shall be treated as having so withdrawn under Section 4062(e)
of ERISA, or any Multiple Employer Plan shall be terminated; (iii)
notice of intent to terminate a Plan or Plans shall be filed under Title
IV of ERISA by any Company Group Member, any plan administrator or any
combination of the foregoing; (iv) the PBGC shall institute proceedings
under Title IV of ERISA to terminate or to cause a trustee to be
appointed to administer any Plan or Plans; (v) any Company Group Member
shall withdraw from any Multiemployer Plan ; (vi) any Plan (with the
exception of any Multiemployer Plan) shall have an Unfunded Current
Liability; or (vii) any prohibited transaction (as defined in Section
406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) or breach of fiduciary
responsibility shall occur which may subject any Company Group Member to
any liability under Section 406, 409, 502(i) or 502(l) of ERISA or
Section 4975 of the Code, or under any agreement or other instrument
pursuant to which such Company Group Member has agreed or is required to
indemnify any Person against any such liability; and there shall result
from any such event or events referred to in the foregoing subdivisions
(i) through (vii) a Material Adverse Effect;
then (i) upon the occurrence on any date of any Event of Default described in
clause (f) or (g) of this Section with respect to the Company, the unpaid
principal amount of all Notes, together with the interest accrued thereon in
accordance with the terms thereof and hereof (which interest shall be deemed
matured) and all other amounts payable by the Company hereunder, plus (to the
extent permitted by applicable law) the Makewhole Amount (determined as of
such date in respect of such principal amount of the Notes) shall
automatically become immediately due and payable, without presentment,
demand, protest, notice of intention to accelerate, notice of acceleration,
or other requirements of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived
by the Company, and (ii) upon the occurrence on any date or during the
continuance of any other Event of Default, the holder or holders of not less
than 51% of the unpaid principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding
may, by written notice to the Company, declare the unpaid principal amount of
all Notes to be, and the same shall forthwith become, due and payable,
together with the interest accrued thereon in accordance with the terms
thereof and hereof (which interest shall be deemed matured) and all other
amounts payable by the Company
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hereunder, plus (to the extent permitted by applicable law) the Makewhole
Amount (determined as of the date of such declaration in respect of such
principal amount of Notes), without presentment, demand, protest, notice or
other requirements of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by
the Company; PROVIDED that, upon the occurrence on any date or during the
continuance of an Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of this
Section with respect to any Note, the holder of such Note may, by written
notice to the Company, declare the unpaid principal amount of such Note to
be, and the same shall forthwith become, due and payable, together with the
interest accrued thereon in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof
(which interest shall be deemed matured) and all other amounts payable by the
Company hereunder to the holder of such Note, plus (to the extent permitted
by applicable law) the Makewhole Amount (determined as of the date of such
declaration in respect of such principal amount of such Note), without
presentment, demand, protest, notice or other requirements of any kind, all
of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company. If any holder of any
Note shall exercise the option specified in the proviso to the preceding
sentence, the Company will forthwith give written notice thereof to the
holders of all other outstanding Notes and each such holder may (whether or
not such notice is given or received), by written notice to the Company,
declare the principal amount of all Notes held by it to be, and the same
shall forthwith become, due and payable, together with interest accrued
thereon in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof (which interest shall
be deemed matured) and all other amounts payable by the Company hereunder to
the holder of such Notes, plus (to the extent permitted by applicable law)
the Makewhole Amount (determined as of the date of such declaration in
respect of such principal amount of such Notes), without presentment, demand,
protest, notice or other requirements of any kind, all of which are hereby
expressly waived by the Company.
8.2. DEFAULT REMEDIES. If any Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the holder of any Note may proceed to protect and enforce
its rights under this Agreement or such Note, either by suit in equity or by
action at law or both, whether for specific performance of any covenant or
agreement contained in this Agreement or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted in this Agreement, or the holder of any Note may proceed to enforce
the payment of all sums due upon such Note or under this Agreement or to
enforce any other legal or equitable right available to the holder of such
Note. The Company covenants that if it shall default in the making of any
payment due under any Note or in the performance or observance of any
covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement, it will pay to each holder
of a Note such further amounts, to the extent lawful, as shall be sufficient
to pay the reasonable costs and expenses of collection or of otherwise
enforcing such holder's rights, including, without limitation, reasonable
counsel fees and disbursements. The obligations of the Company pursuant to
the immediately preceding sentence shall survive the transfer or payment in
full of the Notes.
8.3. REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No remedy herein conferred upon you or
the holder of any Note is intended to be exclusive of any other remedy and
each and every such remedy shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to
every other remedy
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given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by
statute or otherwise.
8.4. REMEDIES NOT WAIVED. No course of dealing between the Company
and you or the holder of any Note and no delay or failure in exercising any
rights hereunder or under any Note in respect thereof shall operate as a
waiver of or otherwise prejudice any of your rights or the rights of any
holder of any Note.
9. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION.
9.1. DEFINED TERMS. Except as otherwise specified or as the
context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective
meanings set forth below whenever used in this Agreement (terms defined in
the singular to have a correlative meaning when used in the plural and vice
versa):
AFFILIATE: with respect to any designated Person, any other Person
(a) directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such
designated Person, (b) which beneficially owns or holds 5% or more of the
shares of any class of Voting Stock (or in the case of a Person which is not
a corporation, 5% or more of the equity interest) of such designated Person,
(c) 5% or more of any class of the Voting Stock (or in the case of a Person
which is not a corporation, 5% or more of the equity interest) of which is
beneficially owned or held by such designated Person, or (d) who is an
officer or director of such Person. For purposes of this definition,
"CONTROL" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "CONTROLLED BY"
and "UNDER COMMON CONTROL WITH"), as used with respect to any Person, shall
mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through
the ownership of Voting Stock (or other equity interest) or by contract or
otherwise.
AGREEMENTS: as defined in SECTION 1.2(B).
APPROVALS: as defined in SECTION 2.8.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS: the Board of Directors of the Company or a
duly authorized committee of directors lawfully exercising the relevant
powers of such Board of Directors.
BUSINESS DAY: any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other
day on which commercial banks are required or authorized by law or regulation
to be closed in Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx or Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
BUSINESS OR CONDITION: of any Person, the business, operations,
assets, properties, earnings, condition (financial or other) or reasonably
foreseeable prospects of such Person, PROVIDED that such term, when used
without reference to any particular
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Person, shall mean the Business or Condition of the Company and of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
CAPITAL LEASE: as applied to any Person, any lease of any property
(whether real, personal or mixed) by such Person as lessee which would, in
accordance with GAAP, be required to be classified and accounted for as a
capital lease on the balance sheet of such Person or in the notes thereto,
other than, in the case of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any such
lease under which the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is the lessor.
CAPITAL LEASE OBLIGATION: as at any date, with respect to any
Capital Lease, the amount of the obligation of the lessee thereunder which
would, in accordance with GAAP, appear on a balance sheet of such lessee or
in the notes thereto in respect of such Capital Lease.
CLOSING: as defined in SECTION 1.3.
CLOSING DATE: as defined in SECTION 1.3.
CODE: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any
successor statute thereto, as interpreted by the rules and regulations issued
thereunder, in each case as in effect from time to time.
COMMISSION: the Securities and Exchange Commission and any other
similar or successor agency of the Federal government administering the
Securities Act and the Exchange Act.
COMPANY: as defined in the opening paragraph of this Agreement.
COMPANY GROUP MEMBER: the Company, each Subsidiary, and each of
their respective predecessors and (a) each corporation that is or was at any
time a member of the same controlled group of corporations (within the
meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code) as the Company or any Subsidiary, or
any of their respective predecessors, (b) each trade or business, whether or
not incorporated, that is or was at any time under common control (within the
meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code) with the Company or any Subsidiary, or
any of their respective predecessors, and (c) each trade or business, whether
or not incorporated, that is or was at any time a member of the same
affiliated service group (within the meaning of Sections 414(m) and (o) of
the Code) as the Company or any Subsidiary, or any of their respective
predecessors.
COMPANY PREMISES: real property in which the Company, any
Subsidiary, or any Person which has been a Subsidiary at any time has or ever
had any direct or indirect interest, including, without limitation, ownership
thereof, or any arrangement for the lease, rental or other use thereof, or
the retention or claim of any mortgage or security interest therein or
thereon.
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COMPENSATION PAYMENTS: as defined in SECTION 6.7.
CONSOLIDATED CURRENT DEBT: as at any date of determination, the
total of all Current Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries determined in
accordance with GAAP on a consolidated basis after eliminating all
inter-company items.
CONSOLIDATED FIXED CHARGES: for any period, the sum of the
following amounts for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis after eliminating all inter-company transactions: (a) Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period, plus (b) the aggregate amount of Long Term
Lease Rentals accrued (whether or not actually paid) during such period.
CONSOLIDATED FUNDED DEBT: as at any date of determination, the
total of all Funded Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries determined in
accordance with GAAP on a consolidated basis after eliminating all
inter-company items.
CONSOLIDATED INTEREST EXPENSE: for any period, the sum of the
following amounts for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis after eliminating all inter-company transactions: (a) the aggregate
amount of all interest accrued (whether or not actually paid and whether
deducted or capitalized) during such period on Debt (including, without
limitation, imputed interest on Capital Lease Obligations), plus (b)
amortization of debt discount and expense during such period, plus (c) all
fees or commissions payable in connection with any letters of credit during
such period.
CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME: for any period, the net income (or
deficit) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period (taken as a
cumulative whole) after deducting, without duplication, operating expenses,
provisions for all taxes and reserves (including reserves for deferred income
taxes) and all other proper deductions, all determined in accordance with
GAAP on a consolidated basis, after eliminating all inter-company items and
after deducting portions of income properly attributable to outside minority
interests, if any, in the stock and surplus of any Subsidiary; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that there shall in any event be excluded from Consolidated Net
Income (without duplication):
(a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the
date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the
Company or a Subsidiary;
(b) any amount representing the interest of the Company or any
Subsidiary in the earnings of any Person other than a Subsidiary, except
to the extent that any such earnings have been actually received by the
Company or such Subsidiary in the form of cash dividends or similar
distributions;
(c) any portion of the net income of a Subsidiary which for any
reason is unavailable for the payment of dividends to the Company or
another Subsidiary;
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(d) any deferred credit or amortization thereof from the
acquisition of any properties or assets of any Person;
(e) any gain during such period arising from (i) the sale,
exchange or other disposition of capital assets (such term to include
all fixed assets, whether tangible or intangible, and all securities) to
the extent the aggregate gains from such transactions exceed losses
during such period from such transactions, (ii) any reappraisal,
revaluation or write-up of assets after the date of the most recent
audited financial statements referred to in SECTION 7.4, (iii) the
acquisition of any securities of the Company or a Subsidiary or (iv) the
termination of any Plan;
(f) the proceeds of any life insurance policy; and
(g) any item properly classified as extraordinary in accordance
with GAAP.
CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME AVAILABLE FOR FIXED CHARGES: for any
period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus all amounts deducted in
arriving at such Consolidated Net Income in respect of (a) Consolidated Fixed
Charges and (b) provisions for taxes imposed on or measured by income or
excess profits.
CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH: as at any date of determination, the
excess of (a) the sum of common stock (but excluding stock subscribed for but
unissued) and surplus (including retained earnings and additional paid-in
capital) accounts of the Company and its Subsidiaries appearing on a
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries prepared in
accordance with GAAP as of such date of determination, after eliminating all
inter-company transactions and all amounts properly attributable to outside
minority interests in Subsidiaries over (b) the aggregate amount which would,
in accordance with GAAP, appear on such balance sheet in respect of all
assets other than those included in Consolidated Tangible Assets.
CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE ASSETS: as at any date of determination, the
Tangible Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis
in accordance with GAAP, after eliminating all inter-company items and making
appropriate deductions for outside minority interests.
COVERAGE PERIOD: with respect to any Determination Date, a period
(considered as one accounting period) consisting of either:
(a) if such Determination Date shall occur at or prior to the end
of the Company's fiscal year ending in 1998, four fiscal quarters (no
more than three of which may be consecutive) selected by the Company
from among the seven consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company ending
on such Determination Date; or
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(b) if such Determination Date shall occur subsequent to the end
of the Company's fiscal year ending in 1998, four fiscal quarters (which
may but need not be consecutive) selected by the Company from among the
six consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company ending on such
Determination Date.
CREDIT AGREEMENT: the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 8,
1995, by and among the Company, the Lenders identified (and as that term is
defined) therein and The First National Bank of Chicago, as agent for said
Lenders, as the same may be amended, modified and in effect from time to time.
CURRENT DEBT: as applied to any Person, as of any date of
determination, all Debt of such Person for borrowed money other than any such
Debt which constitutes Funded Debt as of such date.
DEBT: as applied to any Person, as of any date of determination,
all obligations of such Person (other than capital, surplus, reserves for
deferred income taxes and, to the extent not constituting obligations, other
deferred credits and reserves) which would be classified on a balance sheet
of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date as
liabilities, including in any event (without duplication):
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or evidenced
by bonds, debentures, notes, drafts or similar instruments;
(b) all obligations of such Person for all or any part of the
deferred purchase price of property or services or for the cost of
property constructed or of improvements;
(c) all obligations secured by any Lien on or payable out of the
proceeds of production from property owned or held by such Person even
though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of
such obligations;
(d) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person;
(e) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, in
respect of any letter of credit facilities, bankers' acceptance
facilities or other similar credit facilities (but only to the extent,
in the case of any of the foregoing obligations referred to in this
clause, the same does not support another obligation of such Person
which either is otherwise included in Debt or consists of current
accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business); and
(f) all Guaranties by such Person of or with respect to
obligations of the character referred to in the foregoing clauses (a)
through (e) of another Person;
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PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining the Debt of any Person, (i) all
liabilities for which such Person is jointly and severally liable with one or
more other Persons (including, without limitation, all liabilities of any
partnership or joint venture of which such Person is a general partner or
co-venturer) shall be included at the full amount thereof without regard to
any right such Person may have against any such other Persons for
contribution or indemnity, and (ii) no effect shall be given to deposits,
trust arrangements or similar arrangements which, in accordance with GAAP,
extinguish Debt for which such Person remains legally liable.
DEFAULT: any condition or event which, with notice or lapse of
time or both, would become an Event of Default.
DETERMINATION DATE: each date which shall be the last day of a
fiscal quarter of the Company.
ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS: as defined in SECTION 7.19.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: any past, present or future Federal, state,
local or foreign statutory or common law, or any regulation, ordinance, code,
plan, Order, permit, grant, franchise, concession, restriction or agreement
issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder, relating to (a) the
environment, human health or safety, including, without limitation,
emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of Hazardous
Substances into the environment, or (b) the manufacture, generation,
refining, processing, distribution, use, sale, treatment, receipt, storage,
disposal, transport, arranging for transport, or handling of Hazardous
Substances.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS: collectively, any and all permits,
consents, licenses, approvals and registrations of any nature at any time
required pursuant to or in order to comply with any Environmental Law.
ERISA: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended, and any successor statute thereto, as interpreted by the rules and
regulations thereunder, all as the same may be in effect from time to time.
References to sections of ERISA shall be construed also to refer to any
successor sections.
EVENT OF DEFAULT: as defined in SECTION 8.1.
EXCHANGE ACT: the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or any similar
Federal statute, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder,
all as the same shall be in effect from time to time.
EXISTING IDB DEBT: the Funded Debt of the Company described in
Item 11 on SCHEDULE III.
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EXISTING IDB DOCUMENTS: collectively, the Trust Indenture between
the City of Hutchinson, Minnesota ("Issuer") and National City Bank of
Minneapolis, as trustee, the Loan Agreement between the Issuer and the
Company, and the Remarketing Agreement between the Remarketing Agent referred
to in said Trust Indenture and the Company, each dated as of March 1, 1993
and relating to the Existing IDB Debt, together with the Bonds issued under
said Trust Indenture.
FUNDED DEBT: as applied to any Person, as of any date of
determination thereof, all Debt of such Person which would be classified upon
a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with
GAAP as long term or funded debt, including in any event (without
duplication) all Debt of such Person, whether secured or unsecured, having a
final maturity (or which, pursuant to the terms of a revolving credit
agreement or otherwise, is renewable or extendable at the option of such
Person for a period ending) more than one year after the date of creation
thereof, notwithstanding the fact that (a) payments in respect thereof
(whether installment, serial maturity or sinking fund payments or otherwise)
are required to be made by such Person on demand or within one year after the
creation thereof or (b) all or any part of the amount thereof is at the time
also included in current liabilities of such Person.
GAAP: generally accepted accounting principles as from time to
time set forth in the opinions of the Accounting Principles Board of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and in statements by the
Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such opinions and statements of
such other entities as shall be approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession in the United States of America.
GOVERNMENTAL BODY: any Federal, state, municipal, local or other
governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency, instrumentality,
political subdivision or taxing authority, of any country.
GUARANTY: as applied to any Person, any direct or indirect
liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person with respect to any
indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another, including,
without limitation, any such obligation directly or indirectly guaranteed,
endorsed (otherwise than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of
business) or discounted or sold with recourse by such Person, or in respect
of which such Person is otherwise in any manner directly or indirectly
liable, including, without limitation, any such obligation in effect
guaranteed by such Person through any agreement (contingent or otherwise) to
(a) purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such obligation or any security
therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation
(whether in the form of loans, advances, stock purchases, capital
contributions or otherwise), or (b) maintain the solvency or any balance
sheet or other financial condition of the obligor of such obligation, or (c)
make payment for any products, materials or supplies or for any
transportation or services regardless of the non-delivery or non-furnishing
thereof, in any such case if the purpose or intent of such agreement is to
provide assurance that such obligation will be paid or discharged, or that
any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of
such obligation will be protected against loss in respect thereof. For
purposes of all
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computations made under this Agreement the amount of any Guaranty shall be
equal to the amount of the obligation guaranteed or, if not stated or
determined, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof
(assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by
such Person in good faith.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES: shall mean and include those substances
included within the definitions of "hazardous substances," "hazardous
materials," "toxic substances" or "solid waste" in the Comprehensive
Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C.
Section 9601 et seq.) , as amended by Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 00-000 000 Stat. 1613), the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.) and
the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, (49 U.S.C. Section 1801 et seq.),
and in the regulations promulgated pursuant to said laws, all as amended; and
in any event shall include medical wastes, infectious wastes, asbestos, paint
containing lead, and urea formaldehyde.
HTI EXPORT: HTI Export, Ltd., a Barbados corporation and, on the
date hereof, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company.
IDB DEBT: Funded Debt issued by municipal, state or Federal
authorities secured by Liens of the character permitted by SECTION 6.4(H) and
incurred for the benefit of the Company to finance the construction or
acquisition of industrial or pollution control facilities pursuant to
Federal, state or local law, the interest borne by which Funded Debt is, at
the time of incurrence thereof, at a rate per annum less than the rate per
annum the Company would at the time be required to pay in respect of funds
borrowed by it from capital market sources then available to it, with the
same or comparable security, in a comparable principal amount and with a
comparable maturity.
INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES: as defined in SECTION 15.11.
INDEMNITEES: as defined in SECTION 15.11.
INVESTMENT: as applied to any designated Person, any direct or
indirect purchase or other acquisition by such designated Person for cash or
other property of stock, debt or other securities of any other Person, or any
direct or indirect loan, advance, extension of credit or capital contribution
by such designated Person to any other Person or any Guaranty by such
designated Person with respect to the Debt of such other Person, including
all Debt of and accounts receivable from any such other Person which are not
current assets or did not arise from sales to such other Person in the
ordinary course of business. In computing the amount involved in any
Investment, (i) undistributed earnings of, and interest accrued in respect of
Debt owing by, any such other Person accrued after the date of such
Investment shall not be included, (ii) there shall not be deducted from the
amounts invested in any such other Person any amounts received as earnings
(in the form of dividends, interest or otherwise) on such Investment or as
loans or advances from such other Person, and (iii) unrealized increases or
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decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs, of Investments
in any such other Person shall be disregarded.
LICENSES: as defined in SECTION 7.15.
LIEN: as to any Person, any mortgage, lien (statutory or other),
pledge, assignment, hypothecation, adverse claim, charge, security interest
or other encumbrance in or on, or any interest or title of any vendor,
lessor, lender or other secured party to or of such Person under any
conditional sale, trust receipt or other title retention agreement or Capital
Lease with respect to, any property or asset of such Person, or the signing
or filing of a financing statement which names such Person as debtor, or the
signing of any security agreement authorizing any other party as the secured
party thereunder to file any financing statement which names such Person as
debtor. For purposes of this Agreement, a Person shall be deemed to be the
owner of any property which it has placed in trust for the benefit of holders
of Debt of such Person which Debt is deemed to be extinguished under GAAP but
for which such Person remains legally liable, and such trust shall be deemed
to be a Lien.
LONG TERM LEASE: any lease of property (real, personal or mixed)
having an original term (including terms of renewal or extension at the
option of the lessor or the lessee, whether or not any such option has been
exercised) of more than one year, other than (a) a Capital Lease and (b) in
the case of any Subsidiary, any such lease under which the Company or a
Wholly Owned Subsidiary is the lessor.
LONG TERM LEASE RENTALS: as applied to the Company and its
Subsidiaries for any period, the total amount (whether designated as rentals
or additional or supplemental rentals or otherwise) payable as lessee under
all Long Term Leases during such period, including amounts so payable during
such period by reason of a lease termination or a surrender of property but
excluding amounts so payable on account of maintenance, ordinary repairs,
insurance, taxes, assessments and other similar charges.
MAKEWHOLE AMOUNT: applicable in respect of any prepayment of all
or any portion of the principal amount of any Note of any series pursuant to
SECTION 3.2 or the acceleration of the payment of the principal amount of any
Note of any series pursuant to SECTION 8.1 (such prepaid or accelerated
principal amount of any Note of any series being hereinafter referred to as
the "PREPAID PRINCIPAL"), the greater of (a) zero and (b) the excess of:
(i) the sum of the respective present values as of the date such
Makewhole Amount becomes due and payable of (A) each prepayment of
principal, if any, required to be made with respect to such Prepaid
Principal during the remaining term to maturity of the Notes of such
series, (B) the payment of principal balance required to be made at
final maturity with respect to such Prepaid Principal, and (C) each
payment of interest which would be required to be paid during the
remaining term to maturity of the Notes of such
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series with respect to such Prepaid Principal from time to time
outstanding, determined, in the case of each such required prepayment,
principal payment at final maturity and interest payment, by discounting
the amount thereof (on a semiannual basis) from the date fixed therefor
back to the date such Makewhole Amount becomes due and payable at the
Reference Rate (assuming for such purpose that all such payments and
prepayments of principal and payments of interest with respect to such
Prepaid Principal were made when due pursuant to the terms hereof and of
the Notes of such series, and that no other payment or prepayment with
respect to such Prepaid Principal was made),
over
(ii) the amount of such Prepaid Principal.
For purposes hereof, the "REFERENCE RATE" applicable in respect of any Note
shall mean a per annum rate equal to the sum of (x) 0.50% plus (y) the
Treasury Rate.
MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE; MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT; MATERIALLY
ADVERSE: in, on or to, as appropriate, any Person, a material adverse change
in such Person's Business or Condition, a material adverse effect on such
Person's Business or Condition or an event which is materially adverse to
such Person's Business or Condition; PROVIDED that, (a) any such term, when
used without reference to any particular Person, shall mean such change in or
effect on or event adverse to, as the case may be, the Company or the Company
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and (b) any impairment of the ability
of the Company to pay the principal of, Makewhole Amount, if any, and
interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof, or any
impairment in a material respect of the ability of the Company to perform its
other obligations under the Notes or this Agreement, shall in any case be
deemed to have resulted in a material adverse change in, to have a material
adverse effect on, and to be materially adverse to, the Company's Business or
Condition.
MEMORANDUM: as defined in SECTION 7.4.
XXXXX'X: as defined in SECTION 6.5.
MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN: a plan defined as such in Section 3(37) of
ERISA to which any Company Group Member is making or incurring an obligation
to make, or has made or incurred an obligation to make, contributions.
MULTIPLE EMPLOYER PLAN: a Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA to
which any Company Group Member, and at least one employer other than a
Company Group Member, is making or incurring an obligation to make
contributions or has made or incurred an obligation to make contributions.
NET WORTH MINIMUM: as of any Testing Date, the sum of (a)
$96,625,000, plus (b) an aggregate amount equal to 50% of Consolidated Net
Income
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for each fiscal quarter of the Company ended on or prior to such Testing Date
and for which Consolidated Net Income shall be positive, beginning with the
fiscal quarter of the Company ending September 29, 1996.
NOTE REGISTER: as defined in SECTION 10.1.
NOTES: as defined in SECTION 1.1.
OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE: a certificate executed on behalf of the
Company by two of its officers, one of whom shall be its Chairman of the
Board of Directors (if an officer) or its Chief Executive Officer, Chief
Operating Officer or President or one of its Vice Presidents or its
Secretary, and one of whom shall be its Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer
or an Assistant Treasurer.
ORDER: any order, writ, injunction, decree, judgment, award,
determination, direction or demand.
OTHER AGREEMENTS: as defined in SECTION 1.2(B).
OTHER PURCHASERS: as defined in SECTION 1.2(B).
OUTSTANDING: when used with reference to the Notes as of a
particular time, all Notes theretofore issued as provided in this Agreement,
except (a) Notes theretofore reported as lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed,
or surrendered for transfer, exchange or replacement, in respect of which
replacement Notes have been issued, (b) Notes theretofore paid in full, and
(c) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Company or delivered to the Company
for cancellation; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, for the purpose of determining
whether holders of the requisite principal amount of the Notes have made or
concurred in any amendment, waiver, consent, approval, declaration, notice or
other communication under this Agreement, Notes owned by the Company, any
Subsidiary of the Company or any Affiliates thereof shall not be deemed to be
outstanding.
PBGC: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established
pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA and any successor thereof.
PERSON: any individual, corporation, association, partnership,
joint venture, trust or estate, organization, business, government or agency
or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity.
PLACEMENT AGENT: as defined in SECTION 7.4.
PLAN: any employee pension benefit plan (as defined in Section
3(2) of ERISA) maintained or contributed to at any time by any Company Group
Member.
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PREPAID PRINCIPAL: as defined in the definition of the term
"Makewhole Amount."
PROJECTIONS: the forecasted financial information (A) for the
Company's fiscal years ending in 1996 through 1999 consisting of (i) the
forecasted consolidated statement of operations, balance sheet and statement
of cash flows, dated June 17, 1996, and the assumptions relating thereto,
dated June 17, 1996, (ii) the forecasted consolidated statement of
operations, balance sheet and statement of cash flows, dated June 25, 1996,
and the assumptions relating thereto, dated June 30, 1996, and (iii) the
forecasted consolidated statement of operations, balance sheet and statement
of cash flows, dated June 27, 1996, and the assumptions relating thereto,
dated June 27, 1996, and (B) for the Company's fiscal years ending in 1997
through 1999 consisting of capital spending breakouts, dated June 25, 1996,
all of which forecasted financial information is legended "Confidential
Restricted Information: For use by TIAA and Metropolitan Life Insur. Co. in
discussions on the $50M Placement only" and which was heretofore delivered to
you and each of the Other Purchasers together with a certificate of the Chief
Financial Officer of the Company dated as of July 26, 1996.
REFERENCE RATE: as defined in the definition of the term
"Makewhole Amount."
REPORTABLE EVENT: any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b)
of ERISA or the regulations thereunder.
RESPONSIBLE OFFICER: any officer of the Company who shall be
permitted to sign an Officers' Certificate (as provided in the definition of
that term set forth in this Section) and any other officer of the Company,
regardless of title, who shall either (a) at any time hereafter perform
substantially the same duties as are performed on the date hereof by any such
officer permitted to sign an Officers' Certificate or (b) be charged with
responsibility for monitoring or administering the Company's compliance with
any of the provisions of this Agreement.
RESTRICTED PAYMENT: any payment or distribution or the incurrence
of any liability to make any payment or distribution, in cash, property or
other assets (other than shares of common stock of the Company) upon or in
respect of any share of any class of capital stock of the Company or any
warrants, rights or options evidencing a right to purchase or acquire any
securities of the Company, including, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, payments or distributions as dividends and payments or
distributions for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring, retiring or redeeming
any such shares of stock (or any warrants, rights or options to purchase or
acquire any such securities) or the making of any other distribution in
respect of any such shares of stock (or any warrants, rights or options
evidencing a right to purchase or acquire any such securities).
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SECURITIES ACT: the Securities Act of 1933, or any similar Federal
statute, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as
the same shall be in effect from time to time.
SERIES: as defined in SECTION 1.1.
SERIES A CLOSING DATE: as defined in SECTION 1.3.
SERIES A NOTES: as defined in SECTION 1.1.
SERIES B CLOSING DATE: as defined in SECTION 1.3.
SERIES B NOTES: as defined in SECTION 1.1.
S&P: as defined in SECTION 6.5.
SUBSIDIARY: with respect to any Person, any corporation more than
80% of the Voting Stock of which is at the time owned by such Person and/or
one or more of its other Subsidiaries. Unless otherwise specified, any
reference to a Subsidiary is intended as a reference to a Subsidiary of the
Company.
SUBSIDIARY SECURED DEBT: any Funded Debt of a Subsidiary secured
by Liens of the character permitted by SECTION 6.4(I) or Liens extending,
renewing or replacing Liens of that character permitted by SECTION 6.4(J).
TANGIBLE ASSETS: of any Person, as at any date of determination,
the aggregate book value which would, in accordance with GAAP, be shown on
the books of such Person of all assets of any character, but exclusive of
good will, patents, patent applications, trade marks, trade names,
copyrights, franchises, licenses, permits, organizational and experimental
expense, unamortized debt discount and expense, all other assets which under
GAAP are deemed intangible, and treasury stock, less the sum (without
duplication) of (a) all depreciation, depletion, obsolescence, amortization
and other reserves set aside in connection with the business conducted by
such Person (other than general contingency reserves not allocated to any
particular purpose and reserves representing mere appropriations of surplus),
(b) the excess of the cost of shares acquired over the book value of related
assets, and (c) in the case of the Company or any Subsidiary, the amount of
any write-up in the book value of any asset resulting from the revaluation
thereof subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial
statements referred to in SECTION 7.4.
TERMINATION EVENT: (a) with respect to any Plan, the occurrence of
a Reportable Event or an event described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA, or (b)
the withdrawal of any Company Group Member from a Multiple Employer Plan
during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as such term is
defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA), or the termination of a Multiple
Employer Plan, or (c) the
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distribution of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan or Multiemployer Plan
pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) or 4041A of ERISA or the treatment of a Plan
amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or (d) the
institution of proceedings to terminate a Plan or Multiemployer Plan by the
PBGC under Section 4042 of ERISA, or (e) any other event or condition which
might constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of,
or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan or Multiemployer Plan
or (f) the complete or partial withdrawal of any Company Group Member from a
Multiemployer Plan.
TESTING DATE: each of the following dates: (a) any Determination
Date; (b) any date on which the Company shall, directly or indirectly,
declare, order, pay, distribute, make or set apart any sum or property for
any Restricted Payment; (c) any date on which the Company or any Subsidiary
shall issue, sell or otherwise dispose or part with control of any shares of
stock or any Debt or any other securities (or warrants, rights or options to
acquire stock or other securities) of any Subsidiary (except to the Company
or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary) the assets of which, represented by the equity
interest transferred, shall have an aggregate fair market value or an
aggregate book value greater than or equal to $5,000,000; (d) any date on
which the Company or any Subsidiary shall take any action described in
subdivision (a), (b), (c) or (d) of SECTION 6.9 as a result of or after
giving effect to which Consolidated Net Worth shall be reduced by an amount
greater than or equal to $5,000,000; and (e) any date on which the Company or
any Subsidiary shall take or suffer the taking of any action, or on which any
event shall occur, as a result of or after giving effect to which
Consolidated Net Worth shall be reduced by an amount greater than or equal to
$10,000,000.
THIS AGREEMENT: this Note Purchase Agreement (together with the
Schedules and Exhibits hereto), as from time to time amended, modified or
supplemented in accordance with its terms.
TOTAL CAPITALIZATION: as at any date of determination, the sum as
of such date of (a) Consolidated Net Worth, plus (b) Consolidated Funded Debt
plus (c) Consolidated Current Debt.
TREASURY RATE: for purposes of any determination of the Makewhole
Amount in respect of any principal amount of any Note of any series, the
yield to maturity for the actively traded marketable United States Treasury
fixed interest rate securities with a maturity equal to the remaining
Weighted Average Life to Maturity (rounded to the nearest month) of the Notes
of such series as of the date such Makewhole Amount becomes due and payable,
as set forth on page "USD" of the Bloomberg Financial Markets Service (or, if
not available, any other nationally recognized trading screen reporting
on-line intraday trading in United States Treasury fixed interest rate
securities) at 9:00 A.M. (New York City time) as of the third Business Day
preceding the date such Makewhole Amount becomes due and payable. In the
event that no such nationally recognized trading screen reporting on-line
trading in United States Treasury fixed interest rate securities is
available, "Treasury Rate" shall mean the arithmetic mean of the yields
reported as weekly averages for the two most recently ended weeks so
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reported under the heading "Week Ending" published in the Statistical Release
under the caption "Treasury Constant Maturities" for the maturity
corresponding to the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity (rounded to
the nearest month) of the Notes of such series as of the date such Makewhole
Amount becomes due and payable. For purposes of calculating the Treasury
Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of
determination of the Makewhole Amount shall be used. If no possible maturity
for United States Treasury fixed interest rate securities exactly corresponds
to such rounded Weighted Average Life to Maturity, yields for the two most
closely corresponding published maturities shall be calculated and the
Treasury Rate shall be interpolated from such yields on a straight-line
basis, rounding in each of such relevant periods to the nearest month. For
purposes hereof, "STATISTICAL RELEASE" shall mean the statistical release
designated "H.15(519)" (or any successor publication which is published
weekly by the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively
traded United States Treasury fixed interest rate securities adjusted to
constant maturities) or, if such statistical release is not published at the
time of any determination hereunder, then such other reasonably comparable
index which shall be designated by the holders of at least 66-2/3% in
aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding.
UNFUNDED CURRENT LIABILITY: of any Plan means the amount, if any,
by which the present value of the accrued benefits under such Plan (based on
those assumptions used to fund such Plan) as of the close of its most recent
plan year exceeds the then current value of the assets of such Plan allocable
to such benefits.
VOTING STOCK: capital stock of a corporation the holders of which
are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to elect a majority
of the corporate directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such
corporation.
WEIGHTED AVERAGE LIFE TO MATURITY: as applied to any indebtedness
at any date, the number of years (or portions of years) obtained by dividing
(a) the then outstanding principal amount of such indebtedness into (b) the
total of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then
remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required
payment of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect
thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth)
which will elapse between such date and the date on which such payment is to
be made.
WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY: any Subsidiary of the Company all of the
outstanding shares of capital stock and other equity securities of any class
or classes of which, other than directors' qualifying shares, shall at the
time be owned by the Company either directly or through one or more Wholly
Owned Subsidiaries.
9.2. ACCOUNTING TERMS, ETC. Except as specifically provided
herein, all accounting terms used herein which are not expressly defined in
this Agreement have the meanings given to them in accordance with GAAP and
all computations made pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in accordance
with GAAP. All balance sheets
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and other financial statements delivered pursuant to SECTION 4 shall be
prepared in accordance with GAAP.
9.3. DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY. Where any provision of this Agreement
refers to actions to be taken by any Person, or which such Person is
prohibited from taking, such provision shall be applicable whether the action
in question is taken directly or indirectly by such Person.
10. REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES.
10.1. NOTE REGISTER. The Company will keep, at its office
maintained pursuant to SECTION 6.21, a register (the "NOTE REGISTER") in
which, at its expense, it will provide for the registration and registration
of transfer of the Notes.
10.2. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE. Whenever any Note or Notes shall
be surrendered at the office of the Company referred to in SECTION 10.1 for
exchange or for registration of transfer, duly endorsed, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer duly executed by the registered holder of such
Note or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, the Company will,
at its expense, execute and deliver in exchange therefor a new Note or Notes,
as the case may be, of the same series as such surrendered Note or Notes, in
denominations of at least $1,000,000 (except that one Note may be issued in a
lesser principal amount if the unpaid principal amount of the surrendered
Note is not evenly divisible by, or is less than, $1,000,000), as may be
requested by such holder or the transferee, in the same aggregate unpaid
principal amount as the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Note or
Notes so surrendered. Each such new Note shall be made payable to and
registered in the name of the Person or Persons requested by such holder.
Any Note issued in exchange for any other Note or upon transfer thereof shall
carry the rights to unpaid interest and interest to accrue which were carried
by the Note so exchanged or transferred, and neither gain nor loss of
interest shall result from any such transfer or exchange.
10.3. OWNERS AND HOLDERS OF NOTES. The Company and any agent
of the Company may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered as
the owner and holder of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of the
principal of and Makewhole Amount, if any, and interest on such Note and for
all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note shall be overdue.
11. LOST, ETC. NOTES. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence
reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation
of any Note, and (in case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity or
security in form reasonably satisfactory to it, or, if mutilated, upon
surrender of such Note for cancellation, the Company will, at its expense,
issue and deliver in lieu of such Note a new Note of the same series, of like
tenor in a like unpaid principal amount, dated so that there will be no loss
of interest on such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Note.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, if any Note of
which you are, or any other
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institutional holder (or your or any such other holder's nominee), is the
owner is lost, stolen or destroyed, then your or such other holder's (or your
or its nominee's) written statement by an authorized officer as to such loss,
theft or destruction shall be accepted as satisfactory evidence thereof, and
no indemnity or security shall be required as a condition to the execution
and delivery by the Company of a new Note in lieu of such Note (or as a
condition to the payment thereof, if due and payable) other than your or such
institutional holder's unsecured written agreement to indemnify the Company.
12. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER. (a) Any term, provision, covenant,
agreement or condition of this Agreement or of the Notes may, with the
written consent of the Company, be amended or modified, or compliance
therewith may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and
either retroactively or prospectively), by one or more substantially
concurrent written instruments signed by the holder or holders of not less
than 66-2/3% in aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Notes at the time
outstanding; PROVIDED, that
(i) no such amendment, modification or waiver shall be effective
prior to the Series B Closing Date without your consent and the consent
of the Other Purchasers,
(ii) without the consent of the holders of all Notes at the time
outstanding, no such amendment, modification or waiver shall (A) change
the principal of, or change the rate of interest or change the time of
payment of principal, or Makewhole Amount, if any, or interest on any of
the Notes, (B) modify any of the provisions of this Agreement or of the
Notes with respect to the payment or prepayment thereof (including,
without limitation, amending or modifying the definition of the term
"Makewhole Amount", "Prepaid Principal", "Reference Rate", "Statistical
Release" or "Treasury Rate"), (C) change the percentage of holders of
Notes required to accelerate the Notes, or (D) modify any provision of
this Section, and
(iii) no such amendment, modification or waiver shall extend to
or affect any obligation not expressly waived or impair any right
consequent thereon.
(b) Any amendment, modification or waiver pursuant to this Section
shall apply equally to all holders of the Notes and shall be binding upon
them, upon each future holder of any Note and upon the Company, in each case
whether or not a notation thereof shall have been placed on any Note.
Promptly after any amendment, modification or waiver pursuant to this Section
has become effective, the Company shall deliver to each holder of a Note a
true and complete copy of the written instruments pursuant to which such
amendment, modification or waiver was effected, signed by the holder or
holders of the requisite percentage of outstanding Notes and setting forth
any such amendment or modification or the terms of any such waiver.
(c) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates, directly or indirectly, to solicit, request or
negotiate for or with respect to
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any proposed amendment, modification or waiver of any of the provisions of
this Agreement or the Notes unless each holder of Notes (irrespective of the
amount of Notes then owned by it) shall be informed thereof by the Company
and shall be afforded the opportunity of considering the same and shall be
supplied by the Company with sufficient information to enable it to make an
informed decision with respect thereto. The Company will not, and will not
permit any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, directly or indirectly, to
offer or pay any remuneration, whether by way of supplemental or additional
interest, fee or otherwise, to any holder of Notes in order to obtain such
holder's consent to any amendment, modification or waiver of any term or
provision of this Agreement or the Notes unless such remuneration is
concurrently paid on the same terms proportionately to each holder of Notes
then outstanding regardless of whether or not such holder consents to such
amendment, modification or waiver.
13. DIRECT PAYMENT. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Agreement or the Notes, so long as you or any nominee designated by you
shall be the holder of any Note, the Company shall promptly and punctually
pay all amounts which become due and payable on such Note or hereunder to you
at your address and in the manner set forth in SCHEDULE I, or at such other
place within the United States of America and in such other manner as you may
designate for the purpose by notice to the Company, without presentation or
surrender of such Note or the making of any notation thereon, except that any
Note paid or prepaid in full shall, following such payment or prepayment, be
surrendered to the Company for cancellation, upon its written request
therefor, at its office maintained pursuant to SECTION 6.21 or at the place
of payment specified in the Notes. You agree that prior to the sale,
transfer or other disposition of any such Note, you will make a notation
thereon of the portion of the principal amount paid or prepaid and the date
to which interest has been paid thereon, or surrender the same in exchange
for a Note or Notes of the same series aggregating the same principal amount
as the unpaid principal amount of the Note so surrendered. The Company shall
enter into an agreement similar to that contained in the first sentence of
this Section with any other institutional holder of outstanding Notes (or
nominee thereof) who shall make with the Company an agreement similar to that
contained in the second sentence of this Section.
14. LIABILITIES OF THE PURCHASER. Neither this Agreement nor any
disposition of any of the Notes shall be deemed to create any liability or
obligation on your part or that of any other holder of any Note to enforce
any provision hereof or of any of the Notes for the benefit or on behalf of
any other Person who may be the holder of any Note.
15. MISCELLANEOUS.
15.1. EXPENSES. Whether or not the transactions contemplated
hereby are consummated, the Company shall: (a) directly pay the fees and
disbursements of your special counsel for any services rendered in connection
with such transactions or in connection with any actual or proposed
amendment, waiver or consent requested by the Company pursuant to the
provisions hereof, including, without limitation, any
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amendments, waivers or consents, resulting from any work-out negotiation or
restructuring relating to the performance by the Company of its obligations
under this Agreement and the Notes (whether or not the same becomes
effective), and all other reasonable expenses in connection therewith
(including, without limitation, document production and reproduction expenses
and the cost of obtaining a private placement number from the CUSIP Service
Bureau); (b) reimburse you for your reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in
connection with such transactions and the exercise of your rights hereunder,
and each such actual or proposed amendment, waiver or consent requested by
the Company pursuant to the provisions hereof (whether or not the same
becomes effective), and any items of the character referred to in clause (a)
which shall have been paid by you, and pay the cost of transmitting Notes
(insured to your satisfaction) to you upon the issuance thereof; (c) pay, and
save you and each subsequent holder of any Note harmless from and against,
any and all liability and loss with respect to or resulting from the
nonpayment or delayed payment of any and all placement fees and other
liability to pay any agent or finder in connection with the sale of the Notes
to you; and (d) pay all documentary, stamp or similar taxes (including
interest and penalties) which may be payable in respect of the execution and
delivery or issuance (but not the transfer) of any of the Notes or of any
amendment of, or waiver or consent under or with respect to, this Agreement
or any of the Notes and save you and all subsequent holders of the Notes
harmless from and against any loss or liability resulting from nonpayment or
delay in payment of any such tax. The obligations of the Company under this
Section shall survive payment and transfer of any Notes.
15.2. RELIANCE ON AND SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS. All
agreements, covenants, representations and warranties of the Company herein
or of (or on behalf of) the Company in any certificates or other instruments
delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall (a) be deemed to be material and
to have been relied upon by you, notwithstanding any investigation heretofore
or hereafter made by you or on your behalf, and (b) survive the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the delivery of the Notes to you and any
investigation made at any time by you or on your behalf or any disposition of
any of the Notes.
15.3. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All covenants and agreements in
this Agreement by or on behalf of the respective parties hereto shall bind
and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that you shall not be obligated to purchase Notes
hereunder from any Person other than the existing Xxxxxxxxxx Technology
Incorporated, a Minnesota corporation. The provisions of this Agreement are
intended to be for the benefit of all holders from time to time of the Notes,
and shall be enforceable by any such holder, whether or not an express
assignment to such holder of rights under this Agreement has been made by you
or your successor or assign.
15.4. NOTICES. Unless otherwise expressly provided in this
Agreement, all notices, opinions and other communications provided for herein
shall be in writing and delivered by hand or mailed, first class postage
prepaid, or sent by overnight courier, or by confirmed telefax transmission
(confirmed by hand-delivered, mailed or
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overnight courier copy) addressed (a) if to the Company, to the address set
forth at the head of this Agreement, marked for the attention of the Chief
Financial Officer, or at such other address as the Company may hereafter
designate by notice to each holder of any Note at the time outstanding, or
(b) if to you or any Other Purchaser, at your or such Other Purchaser's
address, as the case may be, as set forth in SCHEDULE I or at such other
address as you or such Other Purchaser may hereafter designate by notice to
the Company; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that a notice to you by overnight courier
shall only be effective if delivered to you at a street address designated
for such purpose in SCHEDULE I, and notice to you by facsimile communication
shall only be effective if by confirmed transmission to you at a telephone
number designated for such purpose in SCHEDULE I, or (c) if to any other
holder of any Note, at the address of such holder as it appears on the Note
Register.
15.5. LAW GOVERNING. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE NOTES AND ALL
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, WAIVERS AND CONSENTS RELATING HERETO
OR THERETO SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO
BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
15.6. SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE
COMPANY HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT
LOCATED WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, STATE OF NEW YORK, AND IRREVOCABLY
AGREES THAT ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE
NOTES MAY BE LITIGATED IN SUCH COURTS, AND THE COMPANY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION
WHICH IT MAY HAVE BASED ON IMPROPER VENUE OR FORUM NON CONVENIENS TO THE
CONDUCT OF ANY PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT AND WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF
ANY AND ALL PROCESS UPON IT, AND CONSENTS THAT ALL SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS BE
MADE BY MAIL OR MESSENGER DIRECTED TO IT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 15.4 AND THAT
SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE COMPLETED UPON THE EARLIER OF ACTUAL
RECEIPT OR FIVE BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE SAME SHALL HAVE BEEN MAILED TO THE
COMPANY IN ACCORDANCE HEREWITH. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION SHALL
AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY HOLDER OF NOTES TO SERVE LEGAL PROCESS IN ANY OTHER
MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN THE COURTS OF
ANY JURISDICTION AGAINST THE COMPANY OR TO ENFORCE A JUDGMENT OBTAINED IN THE
COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. THE COMPANY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE TIME AND
EXPENSE REQUIRED FOR TRIAL BY JURY EXCEED THE TIME AND EXPENSE FOR A BENCH
TRIAL AND HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY
LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE NOTES OR
THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
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15.7. HEADINGS, ETC. The section and other subdivision
headings in this Agreement and the table of contents hereto are for
convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the
meaning or construction of any of the terms hereof.
15.8. SUBSTITUTION OF PURCHASER. You shall have the right to
substitute a subsidiary wholly owned by you as a purchaser of any or all of
the Notes to be purchased by you on any Closing Date by written notice
delivered to the Company, which notice shall be signed by you and such
subsidiary and shall contain such subsidiary's agreement to be bound by this
Agreement; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that such agreement may contain a statement to
the effect that such subsidiary at all times has the right to sell the Notes
being purchased by it to you. The Company agrees that, upon the Company's
receipt of such notice and except to the extent otherwise specified therein,
wherever the word "you" is used in this Agreement (other than in this
Section), such word shall be deemed to refer to such subsidiary in lieu of
you. If any subsidiary has been substituted as a purchaser of any Notes and
shall subsequently transfer such Notes to you, then you will thereafter be
entitled to all the rights and benefits of the purchaser of such Notes under
this Agreement.
15.9. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement embodies the entire
agreement and understanding between you and the Company and supersedes all
prior agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter hereof.
15.10. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which
together shall constitute one instrument.
15.11. INDEMNIFICATION. In consideration of the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by you, the Company hereby agrees to indemnify,
defend and hold you and each holder from time to time of any Notes, and your
and their respective officers, directors and trustees, general and limited
partners (and directors, officers and trustees thereof), employees and agents
(herein called the "INDEMNITEES") free and harmless from and against any and
all claims, actions, causes of action, suits or other proceedings (whether or
not such Indemnitee is a party thereto), losses, liabilities and damages, and
expenses in connection therewith, including, without limitation, reasonable
fees and disbursements of counsel, consultants and experts (herein called the
"INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES," which term shall not include, however, liabilities
incurred by an Indemnitee by reason of the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such Indemnitee) incurred by the Indemnitees or any of them as
a result of, or arising out of, or relating to (a) any transaction financed
or to be financed in whole or in part directly or indirectly with proceeds
from the sale of any Note, or (b) the execution, delivery, performance or
enforcement of this Agreement or the Notes or any instrument contemplated
hereby by any of the Indemnitees, or (c) any failure of any representation or
warranty set forth in SECTION 7 to be true and correct when made or any
failure by the Company to comply with any of its covenants or agreements set
forth in this Agreement. If and to the extent that the foregoing undertaking
may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company hereby agrees to make the
maximum contribution to the payment of each
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of the Indemnified Liabilities which is permissible under applicable law.
The provisions of, and obligations of the Company under, this Section shall
survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the delivery, payment
or transfer of any Note, the enforcement of any provision hereof or thereof,
the consummation of the transactions to occur on any Closing Date, and any
amendments or waivers and shall be enforceable by each Indemnitee separately
or together without necessity of accelerating the maturity of any Notes; and
any such Indemnitee seeking to enforce the indemnification provided for
hereunder may initially proceed directly against the Company without first
resorting to any other rights of indemnification or otherwise that it may
have.
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If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterparts of this Agreement and return one
of the same to the Company, whereupon this Agreement shall become a binding
agreement between you and the Company.
Very truly yours,
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
By /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Chief Financial Officer
The foregoing Agreement is
hereby accepted and agreed to
as of the date hereof.
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
By /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: AVP
SCHEDULE I
INFORMATION CONCERNING PURCHASERS
Principal Amount
Name, Address and Payment and Series of Notes Applicable
Provisions of Purchaser to be Purchased Closing Date
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METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY $10,000,000 Series A
Series A Notes Closing Date
(1) All payments to the above
Purchaser on any Note shall be
made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds
before 12:00 noon, Eastern time,
to the account of Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company Corporate
Investments,
Account No. 002-2-410591 at:
The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National
Association)
ABA #000000000
Metropolitan Branch 00
Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000
For Account of: Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company
(2) Address for all other
communications:
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
Fixed Income Investments
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, X.X. 00000
Attention: Vice President
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
With a copy to:
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Vice President
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
Principal Amount
Name, Address and Payment and Series of Notes Applicable
Provisions of Purchaser to be Purchased Closing Date
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METROPOLITAN INSURANCE AND ANNUITY $15,000,000 Series A
COMPANY Series A Notes Closing Date
(1) All payments to the above
Purchaser on any Note shall be
made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds
before 12:00 noon, Eastern time,
to the account of Metropolitan
Insurance and Annuity Company
Corporate Investments,
Account No. 000-0-000000
The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National
Association)
ABA #000000000
Metropolitan Branch 00
Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, X.X. 00000
For Account of: Metropolitan
Insurance and Annuity Company
(2) Address for all other
communications:
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
Fixed Income Investments
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, X.X. 00000
Attention: Vice President
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
With a copy to:
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Vice President
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
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Principal Amount
Name, Address and Payment and Series of Notes Applicable
Provisions of Purchaser to be Purchased Closing Date
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TEACHERS INSURANCE AND ANNUITY $25,000,000 Series B Closing
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Series B Notes Date
(1) All payments on account of the
Series B Notes shall be made in
immediately available funds at
the opening of business on the
due date by electronic funds
transfer (identifying each as
"XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY
INCORPORATED, private placement
number 448407 B@ 4, 8.07% Senior
Notes due 2006, principal,
premium or interest") through
the Automated Clearing House
System to:
Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company
of New York
ABA No. 000-000-000
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Account of: Teachers Insurance
and Annuity Association of
America,
Account Number: 000-00-000,
On order of: XXXXXXXXXX
TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
(2) Contemporaneous with the above
electronic funds transfer,
advice setting forth (a) the
full name, private placement
number, interest rate and
maturity date of the Series B
Notes, (b) the allocation of
payment between principal,
interest, premium or any other
payment, and (c) the name and
address of the bank from which
payment was made, shall be
delivered, mailed or telefaxed
to:
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Principal Amount
Name, Address and Payment and Series of Notes Applicable
Provisions of Purchaser to be Purchased Closing Date
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Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association of America
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Securities
Accounting Division
Phone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
(3) All other communications shall
be delivered, mailed or
telefaxed to:
Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association of America
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Securities Division,
Private Placements
Phone: (000) 000-0000
(Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx) or
(000) 000-0000
(general number)
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
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SCHEDULE II
INFORMATION CONCERNING SUBSIDIARIES AND QUALIFICATION
PART A
% of Capital Stock Other Jurisdictions Jurisdictions
Jurisdiction of Owned by Owner(s) of in which Assets where
Name of Subsidiary Organization Company Capital Stock Located Qualified
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Xxxxxxxxxx Technology Asia, Inc. Minnesota ("MN") 100%-Company N/A MN Singapore MN Singapore
HTI Export Ltd. Barbados 100%-Company N/A Barbados Barbados
PART B
Jurisdictions Jurisdictions
In Which Company Where Company
Assets Located Qualified
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Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin Minnesota, South Dakota,
Netherlands, Wisconsin, California
SCHEDULE III
EXISTING DEBT OF THE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
FUNDED ("F")
OR
CURRENT OUTSTANDING DESCRIPTION
("C") PRINCIPAL OF
DESCRIPTION OBLIGEE OBLIGOR GUARANTOR DEBT AMOUNT COLLATERAL
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1). Notes Purchase Northwestern Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F $120,000.06 Unsecured
Agreement for National Life Technology
$2,000,000 Incorporated
2). Notes Purchase Northwestern Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 1,237,500.00 Unsecured
Agreement for National Life Technology
$3,750,000 Incorporated
3). Notes Purchase Northern Life Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 135,000.05 Unsecured
Agreement for Insurance Co. Technology
$2,250,000 Incorporated
4). Notes Purchase Northern Life Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 1,072,500.00 Unsecured
Agreement for Insurance Co. Technology
$3,250,000 Incorporated
5). Notes Purchase North Atlantic Life Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 60,000.03 Unsecured
Agreement for Insurance Company Technology
$1,000,000 (now held by J. Incorporated
Romeo & Co.)
6). Notes Purchase North Atlantic Life Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 660,000.00 Unsecured
Agreement for Insurance Company Technology
$2,000,000 Incorporated
7). Notes Purchase Ministers Life (now Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 45,000.04 Unsecured
Agreement for held by VAR & CO.) Technology
$750,000 Incorporated
8). Notes Purchase FB Annuity Co. Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 29,999.98 Unsecured
Agreement for Technology
$500,000 Incorporated
9). Notes Purchase Farm Bureau Life Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 29,999.98 Unsecured
Agreement for Insurance Co. Technology
$500,000 Incorporated
10). Notes Purchase American Investors Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 330,000.00 Unsecured
Agreement for Life Insurance Co. Technology
$1,000,000 (Now held by Incorporated
Northwestern National
Life)
FUNDED ("F")
OR
CURRENT OUTSTANDING DESCRIPTION
("C") PRINCIPAL OF
DESCRIPTION OBLIGEE OBLIGOR GUARANTOR DEBT AMOUNT COLLATERAL
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11). Revenue Bonds City of Xxxxxxxxxx, Hutchinson N/A F 1,600,000.00 Unsecured
for $2,000,000 MN Variable Rate Technology
Demand Industrial Incorporated
Development Revenue
Refunding Bonds; The
First National Bank of
Chicago under the
Credit Agreement
(item 16, below)
12). Major Economic Wisconsin Department Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 500,000.00(1) Secured by one
Development of Development Technology Clean Line and
Fund Agreement Incorporated one Dual Line
for $1,000,000 Continuous Feed
Forming Press
and by amounts
owing to
Company from
Obligee
13). Note Purchase Teachers Insurance Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 20,000,000.00 Unsecured
Agreement for and Annuity Technology
$20,000,000 Association of Incorporated
America
14). Note Purchase Central Life Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 5,000,000.00 Unsecured
Agreement for Assurance Company Technology
$5,000,000 (now held by Salked Incorporated
& Co.)
15). Note Purchase Modern Woodmen of Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 5,000,000.00 Unsecured
Agreement for America Technology
$5,000,000 Incorporated
16). Credit The First National Xxxxxxxxxx N/A F 0.00 Unsecured
Agreement for Bank of Chicago Technology
$25,000,000 Incorporated
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TOTAL $35,820,000.14
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1 This loan provides a covenant for forgiveness of principal in an amount equal
to $500 per full-time position created and maintained by a Wisconsin resident
until December 31, 1999, after four hundred full time positions have been
created. The Company expects to achieve the maximum amount of forgiveness
allowable ($500,000) and has therefore recorded such amount as a deferred
credit at this time.
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SCHEDULE IV
EXISTING LEASES OF THE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
Expiration
of term
(assuming
exercise of
Commencement optional Property Annual
Lessor Lessee Guarantor of Term renewals) Leased Rental
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SCHEDULE V
EXISTING INVESTMENTS OF THE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
NONE
EXHIBIT A-1
TO
NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
FORM OF SERIES A NOTE
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
7.85% Senior Note due 2003
No. R- [Date]
$ New York, New York
Private Placement No.: 448407 B* 6
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Minnesota (herein, together with its successors and
assigns, the "COMPANY"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
______________________________, or registered assigns, the principal amount of
_____________ DOLLARS ($__________) (or so much thereof as shall not have been
prepaid) on July 26, 2003, with interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months) on the unpaid balance of such principal amount at
the rate of 7.85% per annum from the date hereof, payable semiannually in
arrears on January 26 and July 26 of each year, commencing January 26, 1997,
until such unpaid balance shall become due and payable (whether at final
maturity, at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration, acceleration or
otherwise), and with interest on any overdue principal (including any overdue
required or optional prepayment of principal) and any overdue Makewhole Amount
(as that term is defined in the Note Purchase Agreements referred to below), if
any, and (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any overdue interest at the
rate of 9.85% per annum until paid, such overdue interest, if any, to be payable
semiannually as aforesaid or, at the option of the registered holder hereof, on
demand. Payments of principal, Makewhole Amount, if any, and interest on this
Note shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America at the
principal office in New York, New York of Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, or at such other place as may be provided pursuant to the Note Purchase
Agreements referred to below or, in certain circumstances, to the holder of this
Note as provided in Section 13 of said Note Purchase Agreements. If any payment
or prepayment of principal, Makewhole Amount, if any, or interest on or with
respect to this Note becomes due and payable on any day that is not a Business
Day, the amount of such payment shall be payable on the next succeeding Business
Day and with respect to any such payment of principal, interest shall continue
to accrue during any such extension period at the applicable rate of interest in
effect immediately prior to such extension. "BUSINESS DAY" means any day other
than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks are required
or authorized by law or regulation to be closed in Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx or Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This Note is one of the duly authorized 7.85% Senior Notes due 2003 of
the Company (the "SERIES A NOTES") which, together with the 8.07% Senior Notes
due 2006 of
the Company (collectively, together with the Series A Notes, the "NOTES"),
are originally issuable in the aggregate principal amount of $50,000,000
pursuant to three separate Note Purchase Agreements, each dated as of July
26, 1996, between the Company and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
of America, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Metropolitan Insurance
and Annuity Company, respectively. The holder of this Note is entitled to
the rights and benefits of said Note Purchase Agreements and may on the terms
therein set forth enforce the agreements of the Company contained therein and
exercise the remedies provided for thereby or otherwise available in respect
thereof. Reference is hereby made to said Note Purchase Agreements for a
statement of such rights and benefits.
As provided in said Note Purchase Agreements, this Note is subject to
required and optional prepayments, in whole and in part, in certain cases with a
Makewhole Amount, all as specified in said Note Purchase Agreements.
Upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer, duly
endorsed, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer duly executed,
by the registered holder hereof or such holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, a new Series A Note or Series A Notes aggregating a like outstanding
principal amount will be issued to and registered in the name of the
transferee. The Company and any agent of the Company may treat the person in
whose name this Note is registered as the holder and owner hereof for the
purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes.
In case an Event of Default (as defined in said Note Purchase
Agreements) shall occur and be continuing, the principal of this Note, together
with interest and Makewhole Amount, in certain circumstances shall become due
and payable and in other circumstances may be declared and become due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in said Note Purchase
Agreements.
THIS NOTE IS MADE AND DELIVERED IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, AND SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE
OF NEW YORK.
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
By_________________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A-2
TO
NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT
FORM OF SERIES B NOTE
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
8.07% Senior Note due 2006
No. R- [Date]
$ New York, New York
Private Placement No.: 448407 B@ 4
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Minnesota (herein, together with its successors and
assigns, the "COMPANY"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
______________________________, or registered assigns, the principal amount of
_____________ DOLLARS ($__________) (or so much thereof as shall not have been
prepaid) on November 26, 2006, with interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months) on the unpaid balance of such principal amount at
the rate of 8.07% per annum from the date hereof, payable semiannually in
arrears on May 26 and November 26 of each year, commencing May 26, 1997, until
such unpaid balance shall become due and payable (whether at final maturity, at
a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration, acceleration or otherwise), and
with interest on any overdue principal (including any overdue required or
optional prepayment of principal) and any overdue Makewhole Amount (as that term
is defined in the Note Purchase Agreements referred to below), if any, and (to
the extent permitted by applicable law) any overdue interest at the rate of
10.07% per annum until paid, such overdue interest, if any, to be payable
semiannually as aforesaid or, at the option of the registered holder hereof, on
demand. Payments of principal, Makewhole Amount, if any, and interest on this
Note shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America at the
principal office in New York, New York of Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, or at such other place as may be provided pursuant to the Note Purchase
Agreements referred to below or, in certain circumstances, to the holder of this
Note as provided in Section 13 of said Note Purchase Agreements. If any payment
or prepayment of principal, Makewhole Amount, if any, or interest on or with
respect to this Note becomes due and payable on any day that is not a Business
Day, the amount of such payment shall be payable on the next succeeding Business
Day and with respect to any such payment of principal, interest shall continue
to accrue during any such extension period at the applicable rate of interest in
effect immediately prior to such extension. "BUSINESS DAY" means any day other
than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks are required
or authorized by law or regulation to be closed in Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx or Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This Note is one of the duly authorized 8.07% Senior Notes due 2006 of
the Company (the "SERIES B NOTES") which, together with the 7.85% Senior Notes
due 2003 of
the Company (collectively, together with the Series B Notes, the "NOTES"),
are originally issuable in the aggregate principal amount of $50,000,000
pursuant to three separate Note Purchase Agreements, each dated as of July
26, 1996, between the Company and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
of America, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Metropolitan Insurance
and Annuity Company, respectively. The holder of this Note is entitled to
the rights and benefits of said Note Purchase Agreements and may on the terms
therein set forth enforce the agreements of the Company contained therein and
exercise the remedies provided for thereby or otherwise available in respect
thereof. Reference is hereby made to said Note Purchase Agreements for a
statement of such rights and benefits.
As provided in said Note Purchase Agreements, this Note is subject to
required and optional prepayments, in whole and in part, in certain cases with a
Makewhole Amount, all as specified in said Note Purchase Agreements.
Upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer, duly
endorsed, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer duly executed,
by the registered holder hereof or such holder's attorney duly authorized in
writing, a new Series B Note or Series B Notes aggregating a like outstanding
principal amount will be issued to and registered in the name of the
transferee. The Company and any agent of the Company may treat the person in
whose name this Note is registered as the holder and owner hereof for the
purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes.
In case an Event of Default (as defined in said Note Purchase
Agreements) shall occur and be continuing, the principal of this Note, together
with interest and Makewhole Amount, in certain circumstances shall become due
and payable and in other circumstances may be declared and become due and
payable in the manner and with the effect provided in said Note Purchase
Agreements.
THIS NOTE IS MADE AND DELIVERED IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, AND SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE
OF NEW YORK.
XXXXXXXXXX TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
By______________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT B
to
Note Purchase Agreement
FORM OF OPINION OF COMPANY'S COUNSEL
[Letterhead of Faegre & Xxxxxx]
[Applicable Closing Date]
To Each Note Purchaser Listed
on the Attached Schedule
Re: Xxxxxxxxxx Technology Incorporated --
$25,000,000 7.85% Senior Notes due 2003
$25,000,000 8.07% Senior Notes due 2006
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to Xxxxxxxxxx Technology
Incorporated, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota
(the "COMPANY"), in connection with (a) the execution and delivery of the three
separate Note Purchase Agreements, each dated as of July 26, 1996 (the "NOTE
AGREEMENTS"), between the Company and each of Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company and Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company (each, a "SERIES A
PURCHASER) and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (the
"SERIES B PURCHASER"), respectively, providing for the issuance by the Company
and the purchase by the Series A Purchasers of the Company's 7.85% Senior Notes
due 2003 (the "SERIES A NOTES") and the issuance by the Company and the purchase
by the Series B Purchaser of the Company's 8.07% Senior Notes due 2006 (the
"SERIES B NOTES"), and (b) [the sale by the Company and the purchase by each
Series A Purchaser today of the principal amount of Series A Notes set forth
opposite its name on Schedule I to the Note Agreements] [the sale by the Company
and the purchase by the Series B Purchaser today of Series B Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000]. This opinion is delivered to you
pursuant to Section 2.2(a) of the Note Agreements. Certain capitalized terms
used and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings attributed
thereto in the Note Agreements.
In so acting, we have participated in the preparation of and are
familiar with the Note Agreements and the Series [A] [B] Notes being purchased
by and delivered to the Series [A] [B] Purchaser[s] today (the "NOTES"). In
addition, we have examined such records, documents, and other instruments and
such certificates of public officials and of officers of the Company, and have
made such investigations of law, as in our
judgment are necessary or appropriate to enable us to render the opinions
expressed below. As to certain questions of fact material to the opinions
expressed below that have not been independently established by us we have
relied upon such certificates of public officials and officers of the
Company, copies of which have been delivered to you on or prior to the date
hereof, and upon the representations and warranties contained in and made
pursuant to the Note Agreements.
We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures (other than the
signature of the Company) on all documents examined by us, the authenticity of
all documents submitted to us as originals (other than the Note Agreements and
the Notes), the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to
us as photostatic or certified copies, and the authenticity of the originals of
such latter documents.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Minnesota and
has all requisite power and authority to own or hold under lease the
property it purports to own or hold under lease, to carry on its business
as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, to enter into the Note
Agreements, to issue and sell the Series A Notes and the Series B Notes,
and to perform its obligations under, and to consummate the transactions
contemplated by the Note Agreements and the Series A Notes and the Series B
Notes. The Company is duly qualified or licensed and in good standing as a
foreign corporation duly authorized to do business in each jurisdiction
(other than the jurisdiction of its incorporation) in which the nature of
its activities or the character of the properties owned or leased by it
makes such qualification or licensing necessary.
2. Each Subsidiary of the Company is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation and has all requisite power and authority
to own or hold under lease the property it purports to own or hold under
lease and to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be
conducted. The Company owns, beneficially and of record, all the
outstanding capital stock of each of its Subsidiaries, in each case free of
any Lien and not subject to any warrant or option, and all such capital
stock has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and
non-assessable. Each Subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified or
licensed and in good standing as a foreign corporation duly authorized to
do business in each jurisdiction (other than the jurisdiction of its
incorporation) in which the nature of its activities or the character of
the properties owned or leased by it makes such qualification or licensing
necessary.
3. The execution and delivery by the Company of the Note
Agreements and the Series A Notes and the Series B Notes, the performance
by the Company of its obligations thereunder and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated thereby (including the issuance and sale of the
Series A
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Notes and the Series B Notes) have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on the part of the Company (no action of its
shareholders being required therefor).
4. The Note Agreements and the Notes have been duly executed
and delivered by duly authorized officers of the Company and constitute the
legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against
the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by (a) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws from time to time in effect
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (b) general
equitable principles, regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. The Notes are entitled to
the benefits of the Note Agreements.
5. To the best of our knowledge there are no actions, suits,
proceedings or investigations pending or threatened against the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties in any court
or before any arbitrator of any kind or before or by any Governmental Body
except actions, suits or proceedings of the character normally incident to
the kind of business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries which
(a) do not question the validity or enforceability of the Note Agreements
or the Notes or any action taken or to be taken pursuant thereto or
contemplated thereby and (b) in the aggregate, if adversely determined,
would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
6. Neither the execution and delivery by the Company of the
Note Agreements and the Notes nor the performance of the terms and
provisions thereof nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated
thereby will result in any breach of or be in conflict with or constitute a
default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would
become a default) under, or give to others any right of termination,
amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in a loss of any
benefit to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is entitled under,
or result in (or require) the creation of any Lien in respect of any
property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under, the charter or
by-laws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any agreement,
indenture, mortgage, instrument or License to which the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties may be bound or
affected, or any existing statute, law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or
any Order known to us of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Body
applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties.
7. No Order, consent, approval or authorization of, or
registration, filing or declaration with, or the taking of any other action
in respect of, any Governmental Body or any other Person is required
(a) for or in connection with the valid execution and delivery by the
Company of or the performance by the Company of its obligations under the
Note Agreements or the
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Notes or the consummation by the Company of the transactions
contemplated thereby, including the offer, issuance, sale and
delivery by the Company of the Notes, or (b) as a condition to the
legality, validity or enforceability as against the Company of the Note
Agreements or the Notes.
8. It is not necessary, in connection with the offer, issuance,
sale and delivery of the Notes under the circumstances contemplated by the
Note Agreements, to register the Notes under the Securities Act or to
qualify an indenture in respect of the Notes under the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended.
9. Neither the issuance, sale and purchase of the Notes nor the
application of the proceeds of the Notes, in each case under the
circumstances contemplated by the Note Agreements, nor the execution and
delivery of the Note Agreements and the Notes, involve any violation of
Regulation G (12 CFR 207), T (12 XXX 000), X (00 XXX 221) or X (12 CFR 224)
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other
regulation of said Board, or Section 7 of the Exchange Act.
10. The Company is not an "investment company" or a Person
directly or indirectly "controlled" by or acting on behalf of an
"investment company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended. The Company is not 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", as such terms are
defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended. The
Company is not a "public utility" a such term is defined in the Federal
Power Act, as amended. The Company is not subject to regulation under any
Federal or state law, statute, rule, regulation or ordinance which limits
its ability to incur Debt.
Coudert Brothers, your special counsel in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Note Agreements, may rely on this opinion for
purposes of rendering their opinion to you required by Section 2.2(b) of the
Note Agreements.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE OF ADDRESSEES
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
ATTENTION: Vice President
Metropolitan Insurance and Annuity Company
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
ATTENTION: Vice President
Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association of America
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
ATTENTION: Securities Division, Private Placements
