Exhibit 99.1
$225,000,000
Dated as of August 14, 2009
among
AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES OPERATING PARTNERSHIP LP,
as Borrower,
AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES, INC.,
as Parent Guarantor,
THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN,
as Subsidiary Guarantors,
THE INITIAL LENDERS, INITIAL ISSUING BANK
AND SWING LINE BANK NAMED HEREIN,
as Initial Lenders, Initial Issuing Bank and Swing Line Bank
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent,
and
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS INC.,
as Lead Arranger,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
as Co-Syndication Agents,
and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Co-Documentation Agents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms |
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SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions |
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SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms |
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ARTICLE II AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT |
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SECTION 2.01. The Advances and the Letters of Credit |
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SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances |
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SECTION 2.03. Issuance of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit |
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SECTION 2.04. Repayment of Advances |
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SECTION 2.05. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments |
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SECTION 2.06. Prepayments |
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SECTION 2.07. Interest |
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SECTION 2.08. Fees |
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SECTION 2.09. Conversion of Advances |
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SECTION 2.10. Increased Costs, Etc |
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SECTION 2.11. Payments and Computations |
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SECTION 2.12. Taxes |
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SECTION 2.13. Sharing of Payments, Etc |
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SECTION 2.14. Use of Proceeds |
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SECTION 2.15. Evidence of Debt |
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SECTION 2.16. Increase in the Aggregate Commitments |
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SECTION 2.17. Replacement of Lenders Under Certain Circumstances |
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SECTION 2.18. Extension of Termination Date |
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ARTICLE III CONDITIONS OF LENDING AND ISSUANCES OF LETTERS OF CREDIT |
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SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Initial Extension of Credit |
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SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing, Issuance, Renewal and
Commitment Increase |
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SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01 |
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Loan Parties |
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ARTICLE V COVENANTS OF THE LOAN PARTIES |
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SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants |
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SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenants |
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SECTION 5.03. Reporting Requirements |
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SECTION 5.04. Financial Covenants |
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ARTICLE VI EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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SECTION 6.01. Events of Default |
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SECTION 6.02. Actions in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default |
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ARTICLE VII GUARANTY |
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SECTION 7.01. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability |
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SECTION 7.02. Guaranty Absolute |
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SECTION 7.03. Waivers and Acknowledgments |
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SECTION 7.04. Subrogation |
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SECTION 7.05. Guaranty Supplements |
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SECTION 7.06. Indemnification by Guarantors |
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SECTION 7.07. Subordination |
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SECTION 7.08. Continuing Guaranty |
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ARTICLE VIII THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT |
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SECTION 8.01. Authorization and Action |
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SECTION 8.02. Administrative Agents’ Reliance, Etc |
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SECTION 8.03. Administrative Agent and Affiliates |
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SECTION 8.04. Lender Party Credit Decision |
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SECTION 8.05. Indemnification by Lender Parties |
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SECTION 8.06. Successor Administrative Agent |
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SECTION 8.07. Payments |
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SECTION 8.08. Reliance on Hedge Provider |
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ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS |
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SECTION 9.01. Amendments, Etc |
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SECTION 9.02. Notices, Etc |
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SECTION 9.03. No Waiver; Remedies |
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SECTION 9.04. Costs and Expenses |
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SECTION 9.05. Right of Set-off |
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SECTION 9.06. Binding Effect |
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SECTION 9.07. Assignments and Participations |
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SECTION 9.08. Execution in Counterparts |
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SECTION 9.09. No Liability of the Issuing Banks |
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SECTION 9.10. Confidentiality |
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SECTION 9.11. Release of Collateral |
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SECTION 9.12. Patriot Act Notification |
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SECTION 9.13. Jurisdiction, Etc |
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SECTION 9.14. Governing Law |
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SECTION 9.15. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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SECTION 9.16. Addition of Borrowing Base Properties |
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SECTION 9.17. Special Security Documents |
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SCHEDULES |
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Schedule I
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Commitments and Applicable Lending Offices |
Schedule II
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Initial Borrowing Base Properties |
Schedule III
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Reserved |
Schedule IV
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On-Campus Participating Properties |
Schedule V
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Existing Letters of Credit |
Schedule 4.01(b)
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Subsidiaries |
Schedule 4.01(d)
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Authorizations, Approvals, Actions, Notices and Filings |
Schedule 4.01(f)
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Disclosed Litigation |
Schedule 4.01(n)
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Surviving Debt |
Schedule 4.01(o)
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Existing Liens |
Schedule 4.01(p)
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Real Estate Assets |
Schedule 4.01(q)
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Tenancy Leases |
Schedule 4.01(r)
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Environmental Matters |
Schedule 4.01(x)
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Plans and Welfare Plans |
Schedule 4.01(y)
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Certain Condemnation Proceedings |
Schedule 4.01(bb)
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Debt of On-Campus Participating Entities |
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EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit A
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Form of Note |
Exhibit B
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Form of Notice of Borrowing |
Exhibit C
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Form of Notice of Issuance |
Exhibit D
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Form of Guaranty Supplement |
Exhibit E
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Form of Assignment and Acceptance |
Exhibit F
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Form of Opinion of Counsel to the Loan Parties |
Exhibit G
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Form of Mortgage |
Exhibit H
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Form of Borrowing Base Certificate |
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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of August 14, 2009 (this “
Agreement”)
among AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES OPERATING PARTNERSHIP LP, a Maryland limited partnership (the
“
Borrower”), AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES, INC., a Maryland corporation (the “
Parent Guarantor”),
the other entities listed on the signature pages hereof as guarantors (together with any Additional
Guarantors (as hereinafter defined) acceding hereto pursuant to Section 7.05, the “
Subsidiary
Guarantors” and, together with the Parent Guarantor, the “
Guarantors”), the banks, financial
institutions and other institutional lenders listed on the signature pages hereof as the initial
lenders (the “
Initial Lenders”), KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“
KeyBank”), as the initial issuer of
Letters of Credit (as hereinafter defined) (the “
Initial Issuing Bank”), the Swing Line Bank (as
hereinafter defined), KeyBank, as administrative agent (together with any successor administrative
agent appointed pursuant to Article VIII, the “
Administrative Agent”) for the Lender Parties (as
hereinafter defined), JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as co-syndication
agents, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (“DBTCA”) and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
co-documentation agents, and KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS INC., as lead arranger (the “
Arranger”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Borrower, Guarantors, DBTCA, as Administrative Agent, and the Lenders then parties
thereto entered into that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of August 17, 2004, as amended by that
certain First Amendment to
Credit Agreement dated as of November 1, 2004, that certain Second
Amendment to
Credit Agreement dated as of December 10, 2004, that certain Third Amendment to
Credit
Agreement dated as of June 17, 2005 and that certain Fourth Amendment to
Credit Agreement dated as
of February 8, 2006 (as amended, the “
Original Credit Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Third Amendment to
Credit Agreement referenced above, DBTCA resigned
as the Administrative Agent and the “Collateral Agent” under the Original Credit Agreement and
KeyBank became the Administrative Agent under the Original Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, in order to amend and restate the Original Credit Agreement, Borrower, Guarantors,
Administrative Agent and the Lenders entered into that certain First Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement dated as of August 17, 2006, as amended by that certain First Amendment to First Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 16, 2008, and as amended by that certain Second
Amendment to First Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of November 10, 2008 (as amended
and from time to time in effect, the “Existing Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, Borrower, Guarantors, Administrative Agent and the Lenders desire to amend and
restate the Existing Credit Agreement to modify certain provisions thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the sum of TEN and NO/100 DOLLARS ($10.00), and
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby amend and restate the Existing
Credit Agreement in its entirety and covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms
shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and
plural forms of the terms defined):
“ACC OP Sweet Home LLC” means ACC OP Sweet Home LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
“ACC OP (Village At Newark) LLC” means ACC OP (Village At Newark) LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company.
“ACCSI” means American Campus Communities Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a
Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor.
“ACCSI Guaranty” means that certain Guaranty, dated as of September 27, 2000, made by American
Campus Communities, L.L.C. (“ACCLLC”), as guarantor, in favor of Compass Bank, as lender, in
connection with certain construction financing provided by Compass Bank to American Campus (U of
H), Ltd., which Guaranty became the obligation of ACCSI as a result of the conversion of ACCLLC
from a limited liability company to a corporation pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law
and the change of its name to “American Campus Communities Services, Inc.”.
“Acknowledgment” means the Acknowledgment executed by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC and in favor
of the Administrative Agent, acknowledging the pledge of Equity Interests in 1772 Sweet Home Road,
LLC to Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, as the same may be modified, amended or restated.
“Additional Borrowing Base Property” means any Student Housing Property as to which all of the
following conditions have been met: (a) the Borrower has notified the Administrative Agent in
writing that it wishes to designate such Student Housing Property as a “Borrowing Base Property”,
(b) the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a description, in detail reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of such Student Housing Property, (c) unless otherwise
agreed in writing by the Required Lenders, all of the Borrowing Base Property Conditions have been
satisfied with respect to such Student Housing Property; provided, however, that unless otherwise
agreed to in writing by all of the Lenders, the Borrowing Base Property Condition in subpart (g) of
such definition must be satisfied, (d) the conditions and requirements in Section 9.16 shall have
been satisfied with respect to such Student Housing Property, and (e) the Borrower has delivered to
the Administrative Agent a revised Schedule II hereto reflecting the inclusion of such Student
Housing Property within the definition of “Borrowing Base Property”, it being understood that such
revised Schedule II shall become effective only upon the inclusion of such Student Housing Property
within the definition of “Borrowing Base Property”.
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“Additional Guarantor” has the meaning specified in Section 7.05.
“Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Administrative Agent’s Account” means the account of the Administrative Agent maintained by
Administrative Agent at its office at 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000-0000, ABA
#000-000-000, credit to KREC Loan Services, Account No. 1140228209012, with reference to American
Campus Communities Operating Partnership, Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, or such other account as the
Administrative Agent shall specify in writing to the Lender Parties from time to time.
“Advance” means a Revolving Credit Advance, a Swing Line Advance or a Letter of Credit
Advance.
“Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls,
is controlled by or is under common control with such Person or is a director or officer of such
Person. For purposes of this definition, the term “control” (including the terms “controlling”,
“controlled by” and “under common control with”) of a Person means the possession, direct or
indirect, of the power to vote 10% or more of the Voting Interests of such Person or to direct or
cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of
Voting Interests, by contract or otherwise.
“Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount” means, as of any date of determination with respect to the
Borrowing Base Properties, an amount equal to the lesser of (a) 65% of the aggregate Appraised
Value of the Borrowing Base Properties (other than the Sweet Home Property) plus fifty
percent (50%) of the SUNY Value, and (b) the Implied Mortgage Amount, in each case as determined
from the Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 5.03(d).
“Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Agreement Value” means, for each Hedge Agreement as of any date of determination, an amount
equal to: (a) in the case of a Hedge Agreement documented pursuant to the Master Agreement
(Multicurrency-Cross Border) published by the International Swap and Derivatives Association, Inc.
(the “Master Agreement”), the amount, if any, that would be payable by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries to its counterparty to such Hedge Agreement, as if (i) such Hedge Agreement was being
terminated early on such date of determination, (ii) such Loan Party or Subsidiary was the sole
“Affected Party” (as defined in the Master Agreement), and (iii) the Administrative Agent was the
sole party determining such payment amount (with the Administrative Agent making such determination
pursuant to the provisions of the form of Master Agreement); or (b) in the case of a Hedge
Agreement traded on an exchange, the xxxx-to-market value of such Hedge Agreement, which will be
the unrealized loss on such Hedge Agreement to the Loan Party or Subsidiary of a Loan Party party
to such Hedge Agreement as determined by the Administrative Agent based on the settlement price of
such Hedge Agreement on such date of determination, or (c) in all other cases, the xxxx-to-market
value of such Hedge Agreement, which will be the unrealized loss on such Hedge Agreement to the
Loan Party or
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Subsidiary of a Loan Party party to such Hedge Agreement as determined by the Administrative
Agent to be the amount, if any, by which (i) the present value of the future cash flows to be paid
by such Loan Party or Subsidiary exceeds (ii) the present value of the future cash flows to be
received by such Loan Party or Subsidiary pursuant to such Hedge Agreement.
“Applicable Lending Office” means, with respect to each Lender Party, such Lender Party’s
Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance and such Lender Party’s Eurodollar
Lending Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance.
“Applicable Margin” means, as of any date of determination, a percentage per annum determined
by reference to the Leverage Ratio as set forth below:
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Pricing |
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Applicable Margin for |
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Leverage Ratio |
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> 60%
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3.50 |
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£ 60% but > 55%
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1.75 |
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3.25 |
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The Applicable Margin for each Base Rate Advance shall be determined by reference to the Leverage
Ratio in effect from time to time, and the Applicable Margin for any Interest Period for all
Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing shall be determined by reference to
the Leverage Ratio in effect on the first day of such Interest Period; provided, however that
(a) no change in the Applicable Margin resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be
effective until three Business Days after the date on which the Administrative Agent receives
(x) the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c), as the
case may be, and (y) a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower demonstrating the
Leverage Ratio, and (b) the Applicable Margin shall be at Pricing Level I for so long as the
Borrower has not submitted to the Administrative Agent, as and when required under Section 5.03(b)
or (c), as applicable, the information described in clause (a) of this proviso.
“Appraisal” means, with respect to any Borrowing Base Property, a written appraisal of such
Borrowing Base Property prepared by an Appraiser and delivered to the Administrative Agent, in each
case in form, content and methodology reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and in
compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements (including, without limitation,
conforming in all respects to the criteria for appraisals set forth in the Financial Institutions
Reform and Recovery Act of 1989 and the regulations promulgated thereunder, in each case determined
as if the Administrative Agent were an institution under the jurisdiction thereof).
“Appraised Value” means, as of any date of determination with respect to any Borrowing Base
Property, the appraised value of such Borrowing Base Property on an “as is” basis, in each case as
set forth in the most recent Appraisal of such Borrowing Base Property delivered to the
Administrative Agent on or before such date of determination.
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“Appraiser” means, with respect to any appraisal of any Borrowing Base Property, any
independent appraiser selected by the Administrative Agent who is not an employee of the Borrower,
the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries, the Administrative Agent or a Lender.
“Arranger” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Assignment and Acceptance” means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender Party
and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 9.07
and in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto.
“Assignment of Leases and Rents” means each of the assignments of leases and rents from the
Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor to the Administrative Agent, as it may be modified or amended,
pursuant to which there shall be assigned to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Lenders a security interest in the interest of the Borrower or such Subsidiary Guarantor as lessor
with respect to all Leases of all or any part of each Borrowing Base Property, which shall be in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent.
“Assuming Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(d).
“Assumption Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(d).
“Available Amount” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit at any time, the maximum amount
available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit at such time (assuming compliance at such time
with all conditions to drawing).
“Bankruptcy Law” means any applicable law governing a proceeding of the type referred to in
Section 6.01(f) or Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar foreign, federal or state law for the relief
of debtors.
“Base Rate” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which
rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the higher of (a) the rate of interest announced
publicly by Administrative Agent in Cleveland, Ohio, or the head office of any successor
Administrative Agent, from time to time, as Administrative Agent’s “prime rate” or (b) 0.50% per
annum above the Federal Funds Rate. The Base Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily
represent the lowest or best rate being charged to a customer. A change in the rate of interest
payable hereunder and resulting from a change in the Base Rate shall become effective as of the
opening of business on the day on which such change in the Base Rate becomes effective, without
notice or demand of any kind.
“Base Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in Section 2.07(a)(i).
“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Borrower’s Account” means the account of the Borrower maintained by the Borrower with
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. at its office at 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx,
00000, ABA No. 000000000, Account No. 00113388202, or such other account as the Borrower shall
specify in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time.
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“Borrowing” means each of (a) a Swing Line Borrowing or (b) a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Revolving Credit Advances of the same Type made by the Lenders.
“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit
H hereto, duly certified by the Chief Financial Officer of the Parent Guarantor.
“Borrowing Base Properties” means, collectively, as of any date of determination, (a) each
Initial Borrowing Base Property plus (b) each Additional Borrowing Base Property minus
(c) each Removed Borrowing Base Property; provided that, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the
Required Lenders, if any Initial Borrowing Base Property or Additional Borrowing Base Property
shall at any time fail to satisfy the Borrowing Base Property Conditions, such Initial Borrowing
Base Property or Additional Borrowing Base Property shall be excluded from the definition of
“Borrowing Base Property.”
“Borrowing Base Property Conditions” means, collectively, the following conditions with
respect to any Student Housing Property, each of which shall be established to the satisfaction of
the Administrative Agent:
(a) such Student Housing Property is 100% owned by the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor
either (i) in fee simple or (ii) pursuant to and under a ground lease which (A) has a remaining
term of at least 30 years (after giving effect to any renewal terms that are exercisable at the
sole option of Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor), (B) contains customary leasehold
mortgagee protection rights, and (C) is mortgageable without the applicable ground lessor’s consent
(or with only such consents as shall have been obtained);
(b) no Person other than a Loan Party has any direct or indirect ownership of any Equity
Interest or other voting interest in Borrower or such Subsidiary Guarantor (it being understood
that no such Person shall be deemed to have any such ownership interest for purposes of this
definition solely by virtue of (i) owning any Equity Interest in the Parent Guarantor, (ii) owning
any limited partnership interests in the Borrower; provided that, in the case of this clause (ii),
at least 51% of the limited partnership interests in the Borrower are at all times owned by the
Parent Guarantor, (iii) in the case of the Ground Leased Property (Temple), the ownership by the
Ground Lessor (Temple) of a 1.0% membership interest in the Loan Party which owns the Ground Leased
Property (Temple); provided that, in the case of this clause (iii), such Loan Party retains control
of all decisions relating to the sale, financing and management of the Ground Leased Property
(Temple), subject to the terms of the Ground Lease (Temple), (iv) in the case of the Student
Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, the ownership by XX Xxxxxxxx-MG Plaza, LLC of
its membership interest as it exists as of the date of this Agreement in 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC;
provided ACC OP Sweet Home LLC shall be the managing member of 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC and shall
retain control of all decisions relating to the financing, sale, leasing and management of the
Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC; and (v) in the case of the Student
Housing Property owned by Village At Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, the ownership by Titan Investments
V LLC of its membership interest as it exists as of the date of this Agreement in Village At Newark
Urban Renewal, LLC; provided that ACC OP (Village At Newark) LLC shall be the managing member of
Village At Newark Urban Renewal, LLC and shall retain control of all decisions relating to the
financing, sale, leasing and management of the Student Housing Property owned by Village At Newark
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Urban Renewal, LLC (subject to the limits in clauses (ix) and (x) of the definition of “Major
Decisions” in the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Village At Newark
Urban Renewal, LLC effective as of August 2, 2005, which provisions limit the leveraging of such
Student Housing Property above 80% of the value of such Student Housing Property and material
additions or changes to such Student Housing Property));
(c) such Student Housing Property and the direct and indirect interest of Borrower and any
Guarantor therein is subject to no Liens or negative pledge other than with respect to those
matters disclosed in the Mortgage Policies or the Sweet Home Property Commitment and those matters
in favor of Administrative Agent to secure the Obligations under the Loan Documents and the Hedge
Obligations;
(d) construction of such Student Housing Property is complete, a certificate of occupancy has
been issued for such Student Housing Property (or such Student Housing Property may otherwise be
lawfully occupied for its intended use), and such Student Housing Property is not otherwise a
Development Property;
(e) such Student Housing Property is free of material title defects and structural defects,
has all Environmental Permits applicable thereto and is not subject to any material Environmental
Claim or otherwise in violation of any Environmental Law if the result of such violation would be
reasonably likely to result in a material adverse effect on the value of such Student Housing
Property;
(f) such Student Housing Property is managed by the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries and
all management rights of the Borrower or such Subsidiary with respect thereto are expressly
subordinated to the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to such Student
Housing Property and the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents and the Hedge
Obligations;
(g) except with respect to the Sweet Home Property, such Student Housing Property is subject
to a Mortgage pursuant to which the Administrative Agent has a first priority perfected Lien, for
the benefit of the Lenders, as security for the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan
Documents and the Hedge Obligations;
(h) such Student Housing Property is located entirely in a state within the continental United
States;
(i) such Student Housing Property has been designated as a “Borrowing Base Property” on
Schedule II or in a Borrowing Base Certificate in accordance with Section 5.03(i), and in
either event has not been removed as a Borrowing Base Property pursuant to Section 5.03(d);
(j) with respect to which Student Housing Property the Administrative Agent shall have
received the Borrowing Base Qualification Documents (which shall be promptly distributed by
Administrative Agent to the Lenders); and
(k) all other applicable conditions set forth in Section 3.01(a) have been satisfied with
respect to such Subsidiary Guarantor and such Student Housing Property (such satisfaction to be
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determined mutatis mutandis for any Additional Borrowing Base Property). In addition to the
foregoing conditions, with respect to the Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road,
LLC, the following conditions shall apply, each of which shall be established to the satisfaction
of the Administrative Agent: (i) such Student Housing Property is 100% owned by 1772 Sweet Home
Road, LLC; (ii) 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC and ACC OP Sweet Home LLC shall be a Subsidiary
Guarantor; (iii) ACC OP Sweet Home LLC shall be the managing member of 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC
and shall retain control of all decisions relating to the financing, sale, leasing and management
of the Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC; and (iv) 1772 Sweet Home Road,
LLC shall have no Debt other than as a Loan Party under the Loan Documents. Furthermore, with
respect to the Student Housing Property owned by Village At Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, the
following conditions shall apply, each of which shall be established to the satisfaction of the
Administrative Agent: (i) such Student Housing Property is 100% owned by Village At Newark Urban
Renewal, LLC; (ii) Village At Newark Urban Renewal, LLC and ACC OP (Village At Newark) LLC shall be
a Subsidiary Guarantor; (iii) ACC OP (Village At Newark) LLC shall be the managing member of
Village At Newark Urban Renewal, LLC and shall retain control of all decisions relating to the
financing, sale, leasing and management of the Student Housing Property owned by Village At Newark
Urban Renewal, LLC (subject to the limits in clauses (ix) and (x) of the definition of “Major
Decisions” in the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Village At Newark
Urban Renewal, LLC effective as of August 2, 2005, which provisions limit the leveraging of such
Student Housing Property above 80% of the value of such Student Housing Property and material
additions or changes to such Student Housing Property); and (iv) Village At Newark Urban Renewal,
LLC shall have no Debt other than as a Loan Party under the Loan Documents.
“Borrowing Base Qualification Documents” means, with respect to any Student Housing Property
which the Borrower seeks to include as a Borrowing Base Property in the calculation of the
Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount, the following which are to be received by Administrative Agent not
less than ten (10) Business Days prior to any addition of such Student Housing Property to the
Borrowing Base Properties:
(a) a formal written request of Borrower to Administrative Agent to add a Student Housing
Property as a Borrowing Base Property including a description of the Student Housing Property;
(b) the Borrowing Base Certificate required by Section 5.03(d);
(c) if such Student Housing Property is owned or leased by a Subsidiary Guarantor, such
Subsidiary Guarantor shall have executed and delivered to Administrative Agent a Guaranty
Supplement and such other documents described in Section 3.01(a)(iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (x),
(xi) and (xii) as Administrative Agent may reasonably require;
(d) historic operating statements, if available, for the prior eight (8) fiscal quarters;
(e) a current rent roll certified by the Borrower and showing such information as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably require;
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(f) a projected operating budget for such Student Housing Property for the next four (4)
fiscal quarters of the Borrower;
(g) a budget setting forth any capital expenditures to be made with respect to such Student
Housing Property within the following twelve (12) month period, in form and substance satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent;
(h) a certification of an officer of Borrower that such Student Housing Property meets each of
the Borrowing Base Property Conditions;
(i) deeds of trust, trust deeds and mortgages, in substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto
(with such changes as may be required to account for local law matters and otherwise reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent) and covering all Initial Borrowing
Base Properties (together with each other deed of trust, trust deed and mortgage delivered in
connection with any Additional Borrowing Base Property, in each case as amended, the “Mortgages”),
duly executed by the appropriate Loan Party;
(j) an Assignment of Leases and Rents;
(k) the Hazardous Indemnity Agreement;
(l) evidence that counterparts of the Mortgages have been duly executed, acknowledged and
delivered and are in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that
the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to create a valid first and
subsisting Lien on the property described therein in favor of the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Lender Parties and that all required affidavits, tax forms and filings pertaining to
any applicable documentary stamp, intangible and mortgage recordation taxes have been executed and
delivered by all appropriate parties and are in form suitable for filing with all applicable
governmental authorities;
(m) except with respect to the Sweet Home Property, acknowledgment copies of proper financing
statements, duly filed under the Uniform Commercial Code of all jurisdictions that the
Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect the first
priority liens and security interests created under the Collateral Documents, covering the
Collateral described therein;
(n) completed requests for information listing all effective financing statements filed in the
jurisdictions referred to in clause (m) above and in such other jurisdictions specified by the
Administrative Agent that name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such other
financing statements,
(o) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrative Agent, with respect to each
Borrowing Base Property, engineering/property inspection reports, Phase I environmental
assessments, Phase II environmental assessments, if required by the Administrative Agent, zoning
and other similar reports with respect to such Borrowing Base Property, in form and substance and
from professional firms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, together with a letter
from each preparer thereof entitling the Administrative Agent and its successors and assigns to
rely upon such reports;
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(p) certificates of insurance as required by the terms of this Agreement, together with
endorsements, satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, naming the Administrative Agent as an
additional insured and loss payee under the applicable insurance policies;
(q) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders,
an Appraisal of each Borrowing Base Property;
(r) other than with respect to the Sweet Home Property, fully-paid American Land Title
Association Lender’s Extended Coverage title insurance policies (the “Mortgage Policies”), in form
and substance, with endorsements (including zoning endorsements where available) and in amounts
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, issued, coinsured and reinsured by title
insurers reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and insuring the Mortgages to be valid
first and subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all Liens
(including, but not limited to, mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and encumbrances, excepting
only Liens approved by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, and providing for such other
affirmative insurance (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents and for
mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary or desirable, and with respect to any such
property located in a State in which a zoning endorsement is not available, such other evidence
regarding zoning and land use compliance as the Administrative Agent may require and approve in its
reasonable discretion;
(s) American Land Title Association/American Congress on Surveying and Mapping form surveys
for which all necessary fees have been paid, certified to the Administrative Agent and its
successors, assigns and designees and to the issuer of the Mortgage Policies in a manner reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent by a land surveyor duly registered and licensed in the
States in which the Borrowing Base Properties described in such surveys are located and acceptable
to the Administrative Agent, showing all buildings and other improvements, any off-site
improvements, the location of any easements, rights of way, building set-back lines and other
dimensional regulations and the absence of encroachments, either by such improvements or on to such
property, and other defects, other than encroachments and other defects reasonably acceptable to
the Administrative Agent;
(t) signed copies of favorable opinions, addressed to the Administrative Agent and the other
Lender Parties, of local counsel for the Loan Parties in each of the States in which the Borrowing
Base Properties are located, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent;
(u) a true and complete copy of any property management agreement or leasing brokerage
agreement pertaining to any of the Borrowing Base Properties, certified by the applicable Loan
Party, and an assignment and subordination agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and duly executed by such Loan Party and the counterparty to such property
management agreement;
(v) a true and complete copy of the Ground Lease (Temple), certified by the applicable Loan
Party, together with an estoppel and consent, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, duly executed by the Ground Lessor (Temple);
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(w) a true and complete copy of the Ground Lease (Newark), certified by the applicable Loan
Party, together with an estoppel and consent, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, duly executed by the Ground Lessor (Newark);
(x) a true and complete copy of the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas), certified by the
applicable Loan Party, together with an estoppel and consent, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent, duly executed by the Ground Lessor (Callaway Villas);
(y) a copy of the certificate(s) of occupancy issued to the Borrower or any Subsidiary
Guarantor for the Borrowing Base Property permitting the use and occupancy of the Building thereon
(or a copy of the certificates of occupancy issued for such Borrowing Base Property and evidence
satisfactory to the Agent that any previously issued certificate(s) of occupancy is not required to
be reissued to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor), or a legal opinion or certificate from
the appropriate authority reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that no certificates
of occupancy are necessary to the use and occupancy thereof; and
(z) a Subordination, Attornment and Non-Disturbance Agreement from non-residential tenants of
such Borrowing Base Property as required by the Administrative Agent;
(aa) estoppel certificates from non-residential tenants of such Borrowing Base Property as
required by Administrative Agent, such certificates to be dated not more than thirty (30) days
prior to the inclusion of such Borrowing Base Property in the Collateral, each such estoppel
certificate to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(bb) a flood zone determination of such Borrowing Base Property;
(cc) such other documents, certificate, reports or assurances as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably require in its discretion; and
(dd) with respect to the Sweet Home Property, (i) the Pledge Agreement and (ii) the
Acknowledgment.
(ee) such other consents, agreements and confirmations of lessors and third parties as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary and evidence that all other action that the
Administrative may deem necessary in order to create valid first and subsisting Liens on the
property described in the Mortgages has been taken.
With respect to the Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, ACC OP Sweet Home
LLC and 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, each shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor and shall deliver to
Administrative Agent the documents described at clause (c) above. With respect to the Student
Housing Property owned by Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, ACC OP (Village at Newark) LLC and
Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, each shall be a Subsidiary Guarantor and shall deliver to
Administrative Agent the documents described in clause (c) above.
“Building” means with respect to each Student Housing Property or parcel of Real Estate, all
of the buildings, structures and improvements now or hereafter located thereon.
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“
Business Day” means a day of the year on which banks are not required or authorized by law to
close in
New York City and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advances,
on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market.
“Capitalization Rate” means 7.50%.
“Capitalized Leases” means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP,
recorded as capitalized leases.
“Capitalized Value” means, for any Real Estate Asset as of any date of determination, an
amount equal to (a) the Net Operating Income for such Real Estate Asset divided by (b) the
Capitalization Rate.
“Capital Reserve” means an amount equal to $190 multiplied by the weighted average number of
beds attributed (in accordance with the historical practices of the Parent Guarantor and its
Subsidiaries) to all Student Housing Properties of the Consolidated Entities as of the end of such
period.
“Cash” means money, currency or a credit balance in a Deposit Account.
“Cash Equivalents” means, as of any date of determination, any of the following to the extent
owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries: (a) readily marketable direct obligations of the
Government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof or readily marketable
obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the Government of the United
States, in each case maturing within one year after such date; (b) readily marketable direct
obligations issued by any State of the United States or any political subdivision of any such State
or any public instrumentality thereof, in each case maturing within one year after such date and
having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, the highest rating obtainable from either S&P or
Xxxxx’x; (c) certificates of deposit of or time deposits with any commercial bank that (i) is a
Lender Party or a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues)
commercial paper rated as described in clause (d) below, (iii) is organized under the laws of the
United States or any State thereof and (iv) has combined capital and surplus of at least
$1,000,000,000, in each case maturing within one year after such date; and (d) commercial paper in
an aggregate amount of not more than $50,000,000 per issuer outstanding at any time, maturing
within 270 days after such date and issued by any corporation organized under the laws of any State
of the United States and rated at least “Prime 1” (or the then equivalent grade) by Xxxxx’x or “A
1” (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P.
“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of
1980, as amended from time to time.
“CERCLIS” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) any Person or two or
more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired and shall continue to have following the date of
the Original Credit Agreement beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d 3 of the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of
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1934), directly or indirectly, of Voting Interests of the Parent Guarantor (or other
securities convertible into such Voting Interests) representing 35% or more of the combined voting
power of all Voting Interests of the Parent Guarantor; or (b) during any period of up to 12
consecutive months, commencing after the date of the Original Credit Agreement, individuals who at
the beginning of such 12-month period were directors of the Parent Guarantor shall cease for any
reason to constitute a majority of the board of directors of the Parent Guarantor unless Persons
replacing such individuals were nominated by the board of directors of the Parent Guarantor or, in
the case of each such individual, the Person replacing such individual was nominated by the same
institution that nominated the Person being replaced; or (c) any Person or two or more Persons
acting in concert shall have acquired and shall continue to have following the date of the Original
Credit Agreement, by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement
that, upon consummation, will result in its or their acquisition of the power to direct, directly
or indirectly, the management or policies of the Parent Guarantor; or (d) the Parent Guarantor
ceases to be the general partner of the Borrower; or (e) the Parent Guarantor ceases to be the
legal and beneficial owner of all of the general partnership interests in the Borrower or ceases to
be the legal and beneficial owner of at least 51% of the limited partnership interests in the
Borrower; or (f) the Parent Guarantor shall create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on
the Equity Interests in the Borrower owned by it.
“Closing Date” means the date on which the conditions set forth in Article III are satisfied
and the Initial Extension of Credit is made.
“Collateral” means all “Property” or “Collateral” referred to in the Collateral Documents and
all other property that is or is intended to be subject to any Lien in favor of the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties and will include, without limitation, all Borrowing
Base Properties (including, without limitation, the Sweet Home Property) and the Equity Interests
in 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC that are owned and controlled by ACC OP Sweet Home LLC.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Mortgages, the Acknowledgment, the Pledge
Agreement and any other agreement that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties.
“Commitment” means a Revolving Credit Commitment, a Swing Line Commitment or a Letter of
Credit Commitment.
“Commitment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(b).
“Commitment Increase” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“Commitment Percentage” means with respect to each Lender, the percentage set forth on
Schedule I hereto as such Lender’s percentage of the aggregate Commitments of all of the
Lenders, as the same may be changed from time to time in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
“Communications” has the meaning specified in Section 9.02(b).
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“Completion Guarantee” means a guarantee entered into in the ordinary course of business by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the completion of construction of a Student
Housing Property.
“Condemnation Proceeds” means all compensation, awards, damages, judgments and proceeds
awarded to the Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor by reason of any Taking, net of all reasonable
and customary amounts actually expended to collect the same.
“Confidential Information” means information that any Loan Party furnishes to Administrative
Agent or any Lender Party in writing designated as confidential, but does not include any such
information (a) that is or becomes generally available to the public or (b) that is or becomes
available to Administrative Agent or such Lender Party from a source other than the Loan Parties in
a manner that does not violate a confidentiality agreement or undertaking that is known to
Administrative Agent or such Lender Party.
“Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA” means, as of any date of determination, Consolidated EBITDA as
of such date of determination for the four fiscal-quarter period of the Parent Guarantor most
recently ended minus the Capital Reserve.
“Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” means, for any period, an amount equal to
(a) consolidated total interest expense of the Consolidated Entities for such period minus
(b) any non-cash amounts included in such consolidated total interest expense which reflect the
amortization of deferred financing charges for such period plus (c) any interest
capitalized by the Consolidated Entities during such period, excluding any such capitalized
interest related to debt incurred to fund Development Properties.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, without duplication, the consolidated net income
or loss of the Consolidated Entities for such period (before deduction for minority interests in
any of the Consolidated Entities and excluding any adjustments for so-called “straight-line rent
accounting”); plus (A) the amount of any dividends or other distributions actually paid to
any of the Consolidated Entities by any of the On-Campus Participating Entities during such period;
plus (B) the following items to the extent deducted in computing such consolidated net
income for such period: (i) consolidated interest expense of the Consolidated Entities for such
period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense of the Consolidated Entities for such period, and
(iii) consolidated real estate depreciation, amortization and other extraordinary and non-cash
items of the Consolidated Entities for such period (except, in the case of such other non-cash
items, to the extent that a cash payment will be required to be made in respect thereof in a future
period); minus (C) the following items to the extent included in computing such
consolidated net income for such period: (i) all consolidated gains (or plus all consolidated
losses) attributable to any sales or other dispositions of assets or debt restructurings of the
Consolidated Entities in such period, and (ii) all income (or plus all losses) from all
Unconsolidated Entities; plus (or minus, as applicable) (D) the Unconsolidated Allocation
Percentage of any of the items described above in this definition that are attributable to any
Unconsolidated Entity for such period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Consolidated EBITDA shall
exclude the non-cash compensation expenses related to awards granted under the Parent Guarantor’s
2004 incentive award plan and any subsequent similar incentive award plans with respect to
restricted equity-based awards.
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“Consolidated Entities” means the Parent Guarantor and its Consolidated Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio
of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges, in each case for the four
fiscal-quarter period of the Parent Guarantor most recently ended for which financial statements
are required to be delivered to the Lender Parties pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c), as the case
may be.
“Consolidated Fixed Charges” means, for any period, the sum, without duplication, of
(i) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for such period, (ii) dividends paid by any of the
Consolidated Entities in respect of any Preferred Interests of such Consolidated Entity during such
period, other than any such dividends paid by such Consolidated Entity to another Consolidated
Entity, (iii) the scheduled principal amount of all amortization payments (other than balloon
payments) on all Debt of the Consolidated Entities for such period, other than any such Debt owed
to another Consolidated Entity, and (iv) the Unconsolidated Allocation Percentage of any of the
items described above in this definition that are attributable to any Unconsolidated Entity for
such period.
“Consolidated Fixed Rate/Hedged Debt Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio,
expressed as a percentage, of (a) that portion of Consolidated Total Indebtedness which, either
directly or after giving effect to one or more Hedge Agreements to which the Consolidated Entity is
a party, bears interest at a fixed rate per annum for the period from such date of determination to
and including the earlier of the Termination Date or the final maturity of such portion of
Consolidated Total Indebtedness, to (b) Consolidated Total Indebtedness.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to
(a) Consolidated Total Asset Value minus (b) Consolidated Total Indebtedness.
“Consolidated Subsidiaries” means, collectively, all Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor
other than (a) the On-Campus Participating Entities and their Subsidiaries and (b) Hampton Roads
Joint Venture (subject to the terms of Section 5.01(p)).
“Consolidated Total Asset Value” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the
following amounts on such date, all as determined for the Consolidated Entities on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP: (i) unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents, (ii) the Capitalized
Value of all Real Estate Assets (other than unimproved land and Development Properties) owned by
any Consolidated Entity for more than four full fiscal quarters as of such date, (iii) without
duplication, the undepreciated book value of (a) all Real Estate Assets owned or in operation by
any Consolidated Entity for less than four full fiscal quarters as of such date, (b) all unimproved
land, and (c) all Development Properties, and (iv) the Unconsolidated Allocation Percentage of any
of the items described above in this definition that are attributable to any Unconsolidated Entity
as of such date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Real Estate Assets consisting of the GCT
Portfolio acquired by Borrower or one of its Consolidated Subsidiaries shall be valued at
undepreciated book value through the period ending March 31, 2010.
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“Consolidated Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to
the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of all Debt of the Consolidated Entities as of such date,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, plus (ii) the Unconsolidated
Allocation Percentage of any Debt that is attributable to any Unconsolidated Entity as of such
date. Consolidated Total Indebtedness shall not include any Qualifying Trust Preferred Obligations.
“Contingent Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any Obligation or arrangement of
such Person to guarantee or intended to guarantee any Debt, leases, dividends or other payment
Obligations (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner,
whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, (a) the direct or indirect
guarantee, endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business),
co-making, discounting with recourse or sale with recourse by such Person of the Obligation of a
primary obligor, (b) the Obligation to make take-or-pay or similar payments, if required,
regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement or (c) any Obligation of
such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property
constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the
purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (B) to maintain working capital or equity
capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary
obligor, (iii) to purchase property, assets, securities or services primarily for the purpose of
assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make
payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such
primary obligation against loss in respect thereof. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall
be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in
respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such
primary obligation for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument
evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably
anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder),
as determined by such Person in good faith; provided that the amount of any Completion Guaranty as
of any date of determination shall be deemed to be the maximum reasonably anticipated liability of
the Person providing such Completion Guaranty after taking into account any actual or projected
cost overruns in connection with the construction of the related Student Housing Property as well
as any other factors which are reasonably likely to result in the incurrence of any costs or
expenses by such Person under such Completion Guaranty. Anything contained herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, the term “Contingent Obligation” shall not include (x) any Obligation or
arrangement of a Consolidated Entity which guarantees or is intended to guarantee any lease,
dividend or other payment Obligation, other than Debt, of another Consolidated Entity or (y) the
ACCSI Guaranty; provided, however, that the ACCSI Guaranty shall be included within the definition
of “Contingent Obligation” in the event that (1) the U of H Contingent Payment Obligation ceases to
be in full force and effect, (2) The University of Houston or any of its publicly-issued debt
securities cease to have an investment grade rating, or (3) the Debt guaranteed pursuant to the
ACCSI Guaranty is accelerated or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its stated final
maturity.
“Conversion”, “Convert” and “Converted” each refer to a conversion of Advances of one Type
into Advances of the other Type pursuant to Section 2.07(d), 2.09 or 2.10.
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“Corporate Debt Yield Ratio” means, as of the date of any determination, the ratio (expressed
as a percentage) of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for the four fiscal-quarter period of the Parent
Guarantor most recently ended and for which financial statements are required to be delivered to
the Lender Parties pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c), as the case may be, to (b) Consolidated
Total Indebtedness.
“Cullen Oaks Phase II Guaranty” means the guaranty by ACCSI of the obligations of American
Campus (U of H), Ltd. with respect to the Cullen Oaks Phase II Loan, which guaranty, as it pertains
to the principal amount of the Cullen Oaks Phase II Loan, shall be limited to the amount of
$4,000,000.
“Cullen Oaks Phase II Loan” means Debt incurred by American Campus (U of H), Ltd. in
connection with construction financing provided by Compass Bank in an aggregate principal amount of
$17,041,824 on the terms and conditions set forth in that certain Construction Loan Agreement dated
December 17, 2004 between Compass Bank and American Campus (U of H), Ltd., as the same has been and
may be amended, renewed and/or extended from time to time on terms satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders.
“Customary Carve-Out Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of Non-Recourse
Debt.
“Debt” of any Person means, without duplication for purposes of calculating financial ratios,
(a) all Debt for Borrowed Money of such Person, (b) all Obligations of such Person for the deferred
purchase price of property or services, which purchase price is (i) due more than six months from
the date of incurrence of the Obligation in respect thereof or (ii) evidenced by a note or similar
written instrument, (c) all Obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or
other similar instruments, (d) all Obligations of such Person created or arising under any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such
Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the
event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) that portion of any
Obligations of such Person as lessee under Capitalized Leases that is properly classified as a
liability on the balance sheet of such Person in conformity with GAAP, (f) the face amount of all
Obligations of such Person under acceptance, letter of credit or similar facilities, (g) all
Obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in
respect of any Equity Interests in such Person or any other Person (other than Preferred Interests
that are issued by any Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof and classified as either equity or minority
interests pursuant to GAAP) or any warrants, rights or options to acquire such Equity Interests,
(h) all Obligations of such Person in respect of Hedge Agreements, valued at the Agreement Value
thereof, (i) all Contingent Obligations of such Person and (j) all indebtedness and other payment
Obligations referred to in clauses (a) through (i) above of another Person secured by (or for which
the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien
on property (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person,
even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness or
other payment Obligations.
“Debt for Borrowed Money” of any Person means all items that, in accordance with GAAP, would
be classified as indebtedness on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person.
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“Default” means any Event of Default or any event that would constitute an Event of Default
but for the requirement that notice be given or time elapse or both.
“Delinquent Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(c).
“Deposit Account” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in any applicable jurisdiction.
“Development Property” means any Real Estate Asset owned or acquired by the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries and on which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is actively pursuing
construction of one or more buildings for use as a Student Housing Property and for which
construction is proceeding to completion without undue delay from permit denial, construction
delays or otherwise, all pursuant to the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary; provided that any Student Housing Property will no longer be considered to be a
Development Property when a certificate of occupancy has been issued for such Student Housing
Property or such Student Housing Property may otherwise be lawfully occupied for its intended use.
“Disclosed Litigation” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(f).
“Distribution Percentage” means as of any date of determination, the percentage of the cash
which would be distributed to ACC OP Sweet Home LLC pursuant to the terms of the operating
agreement of 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, assuming a hypothetical cash distribution following a sale
of assets of 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC. The amount available for such distribution shall be an
amount equal to (A) the Net Operating Income (without any adjustment based upon the Distribution
Percentage) of 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC divided by (B) the Capitalization Rate. The Distribution
Percentage shall be an amount equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the total cash that
would be distributed to ACC OP Sweet Home LLC in connection with such distribution by (y) the
total amount of cash that would be distributed as a result of such sale.
“Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender Party, the office of such Lender
Party specified as its “Domestic Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or
in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender Party, as the case may be, or
such other office of such Lender Party as such Lender Party may from time to time specify to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, (i) a Lender;
(ii) an Affiliate or Fund Affiliate of a Lender; (iii) a commercial bank organized under the laws
of the United States, or any State thereof, respectively, and having total assets in excess of
$500,000,000; (iv) a savings and loan association or savings bank organized under the laws of the
United States or any State thereof, and having total assets in excess of $500,000,000; (v) a
commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country that is a member of the OECD or has
concluded special lending arrangements with the International Monetary Fund associated with its
General Arrangements to Borrow, or a political subdivision of any such country, and having total
assets in excess of $500,000,000, so long as such bank is acting through a branch or agency located
in the United States; (vi) the central bank of any country that is a member of the
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OECD; (vii) a finance company, insurance company or other financial institution or fund
(whether a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity) that is engaged in making, purchasing
or otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business and having total
assets in excess of $500,000,000; and (viii) any other Person approved by the Administrative Agent
and, unless a Default has occurred and is continuing at the time any assignment is effected
pursuant to Section 9.07, the Borrower, each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed, and (b) with respect to the Letter of Credit Facility, a Person that is an Eligible
Assignee under subclause (iii) or (v) of this definition and is approved by the Administrative
Agent and, unless a Default has occurred and is continuing at the time any assignment is effected
pursuant to Section 9.07, approved by the Borrower, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld
or delayed; provided, however, that neither any Loan Party nor any Affiliate of a Loan Party shall
qualify as an Eligible Assignee under this definition.
“Environmental Action” means any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim, notice of
non-compliance or violation, notice of liability or potential liability, investigation, proceeding,
consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any Environmental Law, any Environmental
Permit or Hazardous Material or arising from alleged injury or threat to health, safety or the
environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any governmental or regulatory authority for
enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and (b) by any
governmental or regulatory authority or third party for damages, contribution, indemnification,
cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief.
“Environmental Indemnity” means an indemnification or guaranty agreement entered into in the
ordinary course of business by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to Hazardous
Materials and Environmental Laws and the ownership and operation of a Student Housing Property.
“Environmental Law” means any applicable Federal, state, local or foreign statute, law,
ordinance, rule, regulation, code, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or judicial or agency
interpretation, policy or guidance relating to pollution or protection of the environment, health,
safety or natural resources, including, without limitation, those relating to the use, handling,
transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge of Hazardous Materials.
“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other
authorization required under any Environmental Law.
“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, shares of capital stock of (or other
ownership or profit interests in) such Person, warrants, options or other rights for the purchase
or other acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit
interests in) such Person, securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock
of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the
purchase or other acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and other
ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without limitation, partnership, member or
trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants,
options, rights or other interests are authorized or otherwise existing as of any date of
determination.
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“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any Person that for purposes of Title IV of ERISA is a member of the
controlled group of any Loan Party, or under common control with any Loan Party, within the meaning
of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a)(i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the meaning of Section
4043 of ERISA, with respect to any Plan unless the 30 day notice requirement with respect to such
event has been waived by the PBGC or (ii) the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply with
respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of a Plan, and an
event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is
reasonably expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the following 30 days; (b) the
application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to a Plan; (c) the provision by the
administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to Section
4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a plan amendment referred to in
Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (d) the cessation of operations at a facility of any Loan Party or any
ERISA Affiliate in the circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by
any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for which it
was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the conditions for
imposition of a lien under Section 302(f) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan;
(g) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of security to such Plan
pursuant to Section 307 of ERISA; or (h) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a
Plan pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition described in
Section 4042 of ERISA that constitutes grounds for the termination of, or the appointment of a
trustee to administer, such Plan.
“Eurodollar Business Day” means any day on which commercial banks are open for international
business (including dealings in Dollar deposits) in London.
“Eurocurrency Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Regulation D of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar Lending Office” means, with respect to any Lender Party, the office of such Lender
Party specified as its “Eurodollar Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto
or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender Party (or, if no such
office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other office of such Lender Party as
such Lender Party may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Eurodollar Rate” means for any Eurodollar Rate Advance for any Interest Period, the average
rate (rounded to the nearest 1/100th) as shown in Reuters Screen LIBOR 01 Page (or any successor
service, or if such Person no longer reports such rate as determined by Administrative Agent, by
another commercially available source providing such quotations approved by Administrative Agent)
at which deposits in U.S. dollars are offered by first class banks in the London Interbank Market
at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two (2) Eurodollar Business Days prior
to the first day of such Interest Period with a maturity approximately equal to such Interest
Period and in an amount approximately equal to the amount
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to which such Interest Period relates, adjusted for reserves and taxes if required by future
regulations. If such service or such other Person approved by the Administrative Agent described
above no longer reports such rate or the Administrative Agent determines in good faith that the
rate so reported no longer accurately reflects the rate available to Administrative Agent in the
London Interbank Market, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall accrue interest at the Base Rate plus the
Applicable Margin for such Eurodollar Rate Advance. For any period during which a Eurodollar Rate
Reserve Percentage shall apply, the Eurodollar Rate with respect to Eurodollar Rate Advances shall
be equal to the amount determined above divided by an amount equal to 1 minus the Eurodollar Rate
Reserve Percentage; provided, however, in no event shall the Eurodollar Rate be less than two
percent (2.00%).
“Eurodollar Rate Advance” means an Advance that bears interest as provided in
Section 2.07(a)(ii).
“
Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage” means, for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate
Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing, the reserve percentage applicable two Business Days
before the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from time to time by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum
reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal
reserve requirement) for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in
New York City with respect
to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or with respect to
any other category of liabilities that includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on
Eurodollar Rate Advances is determined) having a term equal to such Interest Period.
“Events of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Agreement.
“Existing Letters of Credit” means the Letters of Credit issued by KeyBank and described on
Schedule V hereto.
“Facility” means the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Facility or the Letter of
Credit Facility, as applicable.
“Facility Exposure” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the aggregate principal
amount of all outstanding Advances and the Available Amount under all outstanding Letters of
Credit.
“
Federal Funds Rate” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for
each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as
published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day)
by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a
Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the
Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
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“Fee Letter” means the fee letter dated April 10, 2009, between the Borrower and KeyBank, as
the same may be amended from time to time.
“Fiscal Year” means a fiscal year of the Consolidated Entities ending on December 31 in any
calendar year.
“Xxxxxxx Mac/ACC Loan” means that certain revolving credit facility up to the principal face
amount of $125,000,000, evidenced in part by that certain Credit Agreement dated after date of the
Closing Date, to be entered into by and between Parent Guarantor, Royal Orlando Limited
Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership, Royal Gainesville Limited Partnership, a Delaware
limited partnership, Royal Lexington Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership, Royal
Tallahassee Limited Partnership, an Illinois general partnership, Royal Tallahassee Partnership II
Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership, Royal Tallahassee III Partnership, an Illinois
general partnership, Seminole Ridge Associates, a Delaware limited liability company, Riverbend
Associates, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, SHP Riverwalk LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, collectively, as co-borrowers; and PNC ARCS LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company, as lender. Notwithstanding the fact that the Xxxxxxx Mac/ACC Loan will be entered into
after the Closing Date, such revolving credit facility shall continue to be subject to all of the
conditions and restrictions pertaining to such Debt contained in this Agreement.
“Fund Affiliate” means, with respect to any Lender that is a fund that invests in bank loans,
any other fund that invests in bank loans and is advised or managed by the same investment advisor
as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.
“Funds From Operations” means, for any period for the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries on
a consolidated basis (and in accordance with the standards established by the Board of Governors of
NAREIT in its March 1995 White Paper, as amended in November 1999 and April 2000), net income
(computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains (or losses) from sales of property and
extraordinary and unusual items, plus depreciation, inclusive of any asset impairment
charges, and amortization, and after adjustments for any Unconsolidated Entities. Adjustments for
Unconsolidated Entities will be calculated to reflect funds from operations on the same basis.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Funds from Operations shall exclude the non-cash compensation
expenses related to awards granted under the Parent Guarantor’s 2004 incentive award plan and any
subsequent similar incentive award plans with respect to restricted equity-based awards.
“GAAP” means, subject to the limitations on the application thereof set forth in Section 1.03,
generally accepted accounting principles set forth in opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting
Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, in each case
as the same are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.
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“GCT Portfolio” means the portfolio of 40 wholly-owned student housing properties as well as
minority interests in 21 properties held in 2 joint ventures, which Borrower acquired from GMH
Communities Trust on June 11, 2008.
“Good Faith Contest” means the contest of an item as to which: (a) such item is contested in
good faith, by appropriate proceedings, (b) reserves that are adequate are established with respect
to such contested item in accordance with GAAP and (c) the failure to pay or comply with such
contested item during the period of such contest is not reasonably likely to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
“Ground Lease (Callaway Villas)” means that certain parking lease between SHP-Callaway Land
LP, as ground lessor, and ACC OP (Callaway Villas) LP, as ground lessee, dated as of July 8, 2005,
as the same has been, and may hereafter be, amended, modified and supplemented from time to time in
accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Ground Leased Property (Callaway Villas)” means the portion of the Student Housing Property
located in the County of Brazos, Texas, which property is subject to the Ground Lease (Callaway
Villas).
“Ground Lessor (Callaway Villas)” means SHP-Callaway Land L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership, together with its successors and assigns, as ground lessor under the Ground Lease
(Callaway Villas).
“Ground Lease (Newark)” means that certain ground lease between Xxxxxx Newark, L.L.C., as
ground lessor, and Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, as ground lessee, dated as of August 3,
2005, as the same has been, and may hereafter be, amended, modified and supplemented from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Ground Leased Property (Newark)” means the Student Housing Property located in the City of
Newark, County of Essex, New Jersey, which property is subject to the Ground Lease (Newark).
“Ground Lessor (Newark)” means Xxxxxx Newark, L.L.C., a New Jersey limited liability company,
together with its successors and assigns, as ground lessor under the Ground Lease (Newark).
“Ground Lease (Temple)” means that certain ground lease between Temple University-Of the
Commonwealth System of Higher Education, as ground lessor, and ACT-Village at Temple, LLC, as
ground lessee, dated as of October 2, 2003, as the same has been, and may hereafter be, amended,
modified and supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof and
pursuant to that certain Ground Lease Agreement, dated October 2, 2003, between Temple University
and ACT-Village at Temple LLC, that certain First Amendment to Ground Lease Agreement, dated
October 2, 2003, that certain Second Amendment to Ground Lease Agreement, dated October 20, 2003,
that certain Memorandum of Lease, dated October 3, 2003, between ACT-Village at Temple LLC and
Temple University, that certain Amended and Restated Indemnity Agreement executed by Borrower and
Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, dated October 20, 2003, that
certain Replacement Reserve and Escrow Agreement, dated October 2, 2003, between ACT-
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Village at Temple, LLC and Temple University, that certain Bed Leasing Agreement executed by
Borrower and Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, dated January 16,
2004 and that certain Completion Guaranty, dated as of October 28, 2003, by RAP Student Housing
Properties, LLC to and for the benefit of Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher
Education.
“Ground Leased Property (Temple)” means the Student Housing Property located at Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which property is subject to the Ground Lease (Temple).
“Ground Lessor (Temple)” means Temple University-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher
Education, together with its successors and assigns, as ground lessor under the Ground Lease
(Temple).
“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.
“Guarantors” means, collectively, the Parent Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Guaranty” means the Guaranty by the Guarantors pursuant to Article VII, together with any and
all Guaranty Supplements delivered pursuant to Section 7.05.
“Guaranty Supplement” means a supplement entered into by an Additional Guarantor in
substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto.
“Hampton Roads Joint Venture” means Hampton Roads PPV, LLC, a joint venture between Xxxx
Development Group of El Paso, Texas, a subsidiary of Borrower and the Department of the Navy, which
joint venture will develop, own and operate the Hampton Roads Unaccompanied Housing Privatization
at Xxxx Xxxxx and Xxxx Xxxxxx in Norfolk, Virginia, and at a five acre site located in the city of
Newport News, Virginia.
“Hazardous Indemnity Agreement” means each of the Indemnity Agreements Regarding Hazardous
Materials now or hereafter made by the Borrower, Parent Guarantor and Guarantors owning Borrowing
Base Properties in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, as the same may be modified,
amended or ratified, pursuant to which the Borrower, Parent Guarantor and such Subsidiary Guarantor
agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to Hazardous Materials and
Environmental Laws, which agreement shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Administrative Agent.
“Hazardous Materials” means (a) petroleum or petroleum products, by-products or breakdown
products, radioactive materials, asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon
gas and mold and (b) any other chemicals, materials or substances designated, classified or
regulated as hazardous or toxic or as a pollutant or contaminant under any Environmental Law.
“Hedge Agreements” means interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest rate future or
option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts and other hedging
agreements.
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“Hedge Obligations” means all obligations of Borrower to any Lender Hedge Provider to make any
termination payments under any agreement with respect to an interest rate swap, collar, cap or
floor or a forward rate agreement or other agreement regarding the hedging of interest rate risk
exposure with respect to the Facility, and any confirming letter executed pursuant to such hedging
agreement, all as amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Implied Mortgage Amount” means, as of any date of determination with respect to the Borrowing
Base Properties, an amount equal to the aggregate Net Operating Income for the Borrowing Base
Properties divided by the product of (i) the Mortgage Constant, (ii) 12 and (iii) 1.35, in
each case as determined from the Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.03(d); provided that for purposes of calculating Net
Operating Income for any Start-Up Student Housing Property not owned and operated by the Borrower
or Subsidiary Guarantor for four (4) full fiscal quarters, the Net Operating Income attributable to
such Start-Up Student Housing Property shall be calculated on an annualized basis using the sum of
(A) the actual historical results for the period that the Start-Up Student Housing Property was
owned and operated by the Borrower or such Subsidiary Guarantor and (B) the proforma results, as
approved by the Administrative Agent, for the future period necessary to achieve an annualized
number.
“Increase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“Increasing Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(b).
“Indemnified Costs” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).
“Indemnified Party” has the meaning specified in Section 7.06(a).
“Initial Borrowing Base Property” means each Student Housing Property described on
Schedule II hereto as of the Closing Date, and “Initial Borrowing Base Properties” means
all such Student Housing Properties, collectively.
“Initial Extension of Credit” means the earlier to occur of the initial Borrowing and the
initial issuance of a Letter of Credit hereunder.
“Initial Issuing Bank” means KeyBank.
“Initial Lenders” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Insurance Proceeds” means all insurance proceeds, damages and claims and the right thereto
under any insurance policies relating to any portion of any Collateral, net of all reasonable and
customary amounts actually expended to collect the same.
“Insufficiency” means, with respect to any Plan, the amount, if any, of its unfunded benefit
liabilities, as defined in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA.
“Interest Period” means, for each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of the same
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the date of the
Conversion of any Base Rate Advance into such Eurodollar Rate Advance, and ending on the
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last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and,
thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest
Period and ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions
below. The duration of each such Interest Period shall be one, two or three, as the Borrower may,
upon notice received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon (
New York City time) on
the third Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Period, select;
provided, however,
that:
(a) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate
Advance that ends after the Termination Date;
(b) Interest Periods commencing on the same date for Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part
of the same Borrowing shall be of the same duration;
(c) whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a
Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next
succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that if such extension would cause the last day of such
Interest Period to occur in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period
shall occur on the next preceding Business Day; and
(d) whenever the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a day of an initial calendar month
for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that succeeds such
initial calendar month by the number of months equal to the number of months in such Interest
Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such succeeding calendar month.
“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time,
and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder.
“Investment” in any Person means any loan or advance to such Person (other than advances to
employees for moving, entertainment and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures
in the ordinary course of business), any purchase or other acquisition of any Equity Interests or
Debt or the assets comprising a division or business unit or a substantial part or all of the
business of such Person, any capital contribution to such Person or any other direct or indirect
investment in such Person, including, without limitation, any acquisition by way of a merger or
consolidation and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs Debt of the types referred
to in clause (i) or (j) of the definition of “Debt” in respect of such Person. The amount of any
Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto,
without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or
write-offs with respect to such Investment.
“Issuing Bank” means the Initial Issuing Bank and any other Lender approved as an Issuing Bank
by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower and any Eligible Assignee to which a Letter of Credit
Commitment hereunder has been assigned pursuant to Section 9.07 so long as each such Lender or each
such Eligible Assignee expressly agrees to perform in accordance with their terms all of the
obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as an Issuing
Bank and notifies the Administrative Agent of its Applicable Lending Office
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and the amount of its Letter of Credit Commitment (which information shall be recorded by the
Administrative Agent in the Register) for so long as such Initial Issuing Bank, Lender or Eligible
Assignee, as the case may be, shall have a Letter of Credit Commitment.
“KeyBank” means KeyBank National Association.
“KeyBank/ACC Term Loan Agreement” means that certain Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement by and
between Borrower, Parent Guarantor, the other entities listed on the signature pages as guarantors,
KeyBank National Association, individually and as administrative agent, and the other lenders from
time to time a party thereto, dated as of May 23, 2008, as amended by that certain First Amendment
to Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement dated as of November 10, 2008, as the same may be further
modified or amended from time to time.
“L/C Cash Collateral Account” means the account of the Borrower maintained with the
Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole control and
dominion of the Administrative Agent and subject to the terms of this Agreement.
“L/C Related Documents” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(c)(ii)(A).
“Lender Party” means any Lender, the Swing Line Bank or any Issuing Bank.
“Lender Hedge Provider” means with respect to any Hedge Obligations, any counterparty thereto
that, at the time the applicable hedge agreement was entered into, was a Lender or an Affiliate of
a Lender with respect to the Facility.
“Lenders” means the Initial Lenders and each Person that shall become a Lender hereunder
pursuant to Section 9.07 for so long as such Initial Lender or Person, as the case may be, shall be
a party to this Agreement.
“Letter of Credit Advance” means an advance made by any Issuing Bank or any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.03(c).
“Letter of Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
“Letter of Credit Commitment” means, with respect to any Issuing Bank at any time, the amount
set forth opposite such Issuing Bank’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Letter
of Credit Commitment” or, if such Issuing Bank has entered into one or more Assignment and
Acceptances, set forth for such Issuing Bank in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as such Issuing Bank’s “Letter of Credit Commitment”, as such amount
may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Letter of Credit Facility” means, at any time, an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the
aggregate amount of the Issuing Banks’ Letter of Credit Commitments at such time, and
(b) $15,000,000, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Letters of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
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“Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio, expressed as a percentage,
of (a) Consolidated Total Indebtedness to (b) Consolidated Total Asset Value, in each case as at
the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Parent Guarantor for which financial
statements are required to be delivered to the Lender Parties pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c),
as the case may be.
“Lien” means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or any
other type of preferential arrangement, including, without limitation, the lien or retained
security title of a conditional vendor and any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title
to real property.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) the Fee Letter,
(d) each Letter of Credit Agreement, (e) each Guaranty Supplement, and (f) the Collateral
Documents, and all other documents, instruments or agreements now or hereafter executed or
delivered by or on behalf of a Borrower or the Guarantor in connection with the Facility, in each
case as modified or amended from time to time.
“Loan Parties” means the Borrower and the Guarantors.
“Management Agreement” means any property management agreement relating to any Borrowing Base
Property.
“Margin Stock” has the meaning specified in Regulation U.
“Material Acquisition” means the acquisition of the GCT Portfolio by Borrower.
“Material Adverse Change” means any material adverse change in the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations or prospects of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, (b) the
rights and remedies of Administrative Agent or any Lender Party under any Loan Document or the
creation, perfection or priority of any Liens of Administrative Agent in the Collateral, (c) the
ability of any Loan Party to perform its Obligations under any Loan Document to which it is or is
to be a party or (d) the value of the Collateral.
“Material Contract” means any contract or other arrangement to which any Loan Party is a party
(other than the Loan Documents) for which breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
“Material Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(e).
“Monetary Event of Default” means (i) any Event of Default under Section 6.01(a), or (ii) any
declaration by notice to the Borrower that, or occurrence of any other event pursuant to
Section 6.1 by which, the Notes, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be due and payable.
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“Xxxxx’x” means Xxxxx’x Investors Services, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage Constant” means, as of any date of determination, the monthly factor determined by
the Administrative Agent by reference to a standard level constant payment table for a fully
amortizing loan with a maturity of 30 years based upon an assumed per annum interest rate equal to
the greater of (i) the ten-year U.S. Treasury rate plus 2.00% or (ii) 7.50%.
“Mortgage Policies” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Borrowing Base
Qualification Documents”.
“Mortgage Receivables” means a mortgage loan on one or more properties of the type described
in Section 5.02(f)(v)(D), and which Mortgage Receivable includes, without limitation, the
indebtedness secured by a related first mortgage.
“Mortgages” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Borrowing Base Qualification
Documents”.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to
which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make
contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to
make contributions.
“Multiple Employer Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of
ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and at least
one Person other than the Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in
respect of which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate could have liability under Section 4064 or
4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to any issuance or sale of any Equity Interests of the
Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries, the Cash proceeds of such issuance or sale net of
underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs and expenses associated
therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses.
“Net Operating Income” means, for any Real Estate Asset as of any date of determination, an
amount equal to (A) the aggregate gross revenues from the operations of such Real Estate Asset
during the four fiscal-quarter period most-recently ended, excluding any accrued revenues
attributable to so-called “straight-line rent accounting”; minus (B) the sum of (i) all
expenses and other proper charges incurred in connection with the operation of such Real Estate
Asset during such period (including real estate taxes, but excluding any management fees, debt
service charges, income taxes, depreciation, amortization, capital reserves and other non-cash
expenses), and (ii) an assumed management fee equal to 5% of the aggregate gross revenues from the
operations of such Real Estate Asset during such period. For purposes of determining the
Capitalized Value and the Implied Mortgage Amount with respect to the Student Housing Property
owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, the SUNY Allocable Net Operating Income shall be utilized
instead of the Net Operating Income from such Student Housing Property.
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“Non-Recourse Debt” means Debt for Borrowed Money with respect to which recourse for payment
is limited to (a) any building(s) and/or parcel(s) of real property and/or any related assets
encumbered by a Lien securing such Debt for Borrowed Money and/or (b) the general credit of any
Property-Level Subsidiary and/or the Equity Interests therein and/or the general credit of the
immediate parent entity of such Property-Level Subsidiary, provided that such parent entity’s
assets consist solely of Equity Interests in one or more Property-Level Subsidiaries, it being
understood that the instruments governing such Debt may include customary carve-outs to such
limited recourse (any such customary carve-outs or agreements limited to such customary carve-outs,
being a “Customary Carve-Out Agreement”) such as, for example, personal recourse to the Parent
Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries for fraud, willful misrepresentation, misapplication or
misappropriation of cash, waste, environmental claims, damage to properties, non-payment of taxes
or other liens despite the existence of sufficient cash flow, interference with the enforcement of
loan documents upon maturity or acceleration, violation of loan document prohibitions against
voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy filings, transfer of properties or ownership interests therein
and liabilities and other circumstances customarily excluded by lenders from exculpation provisions
and/or included in separate indemnification agreements in non-recourse financings of real estate.
“Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the order of any Lender, in
substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the
Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Advances, Swing Line Advances and
Letter of Credit Advances made by such Lender.
“Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 9.02(c).
“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(a).
“Notice of Issuance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
“Notice of Swing Line Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(b).
“NPL” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
“Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any payment, performance or other obligation
of such Person of any kind, including, without limitation, any liability of such Person on any
claim, whether or not the right of any creditor to payment in respect of such claim is reduced to
judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, disputed, undisputed, legal,
equitable, secured or unsecured, and whether or not such claim is discharged, stayed or otherwise
affected by any proceeding referred to in Section 6.01(f). Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents include (a) the obligation to
pay principal, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, charges, expenses, fees, attorneys’ fees and
disbursements, indemnities and other amounts payable by such Loan Party under any Loan Document and
(b) the obligation of such Loan Party to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing
that any Lender Party, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan
Party.
“OECD” means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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“On-Campus Participating Entities” means each of (a) American Campus (Laredo), Ltd., (b)
American Campus (PVAMU) Ltd., (c) American Campus (U of H), Ltd., (d) American Campus (PVAMU IV)
Ltd., each of which entities described in (a)-(d) holds all of the right, title and interest of the
Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries in one of the On-Campus Participating Properties, and (e) any
other entity approved by the Required Lenders pursuant to Section 5.02(f).
“On-Campus Participating Properties” means, collectively, the Student Housing Properties
described on Schedule IV attached hereto, together with any additional Student Housing
Properties owned by On-Campus Participating Entities approved pursuant to Section 5.02(f).
“Original Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Agreement.
“Other Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(b).
“Parent Guarantor” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 9.12.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor).
“Permitted Liens” means: (a) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies
the payment of which is not, at the time, required by Section 5.01(b); (b) statutory Liens of banks
and rights of set-off and other Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’,
workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business
securing obligations, in each case that (i) are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days and
(ii) individually or together with all other Permitted Liens outstanding as of any date of
determination do not materially adversely affect the use of the property to which they relate
unless, in the case of (i) or (ii) above, such liens are the subject of a Good Faith Contest;
(c) pledges or deposits to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar
legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations; (d) easements, zoning restrictions,
rights of way, restrictive covenants and other non-monetary encumbrances on title to real property
other than the Collateral that do not render title to the property encumbered thereby unmarketable
or materially adversely affect the use or value of such property for its intended purposes;
(e) Tenancy Leases; (f) with respect to Real Estate Assets encumbered by Secured Debt or
Non-Recourse Debt and not comprising Collateral as defined herein, easements, zoning restrictions,
rights of way, restrictive covenants and other Liens affecting such real property that are
permitted to exist under the terms of the agreements governing such Secured Debt or Non-Recourse
Debt; (g) all Liens and other matters disclosed in the Mortgage Policies or the Sweet Home Property
Commitment; (h) such other title and survey exceptions as the Administrative Agent has approved or
may approve in writing in its reasonable discretion; (i) Liens incurred or deposits made in the
ordinary course of business to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and
appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, trade contracts, performance and return-of-money
bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money),
so long as no foreclosure, sale or similar proceedings have been commenced with respect to any
portion of the Collateral on account thereof; (j) any
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attachment or judgment Lien not constituting an Event of Default and not with respect to any
portion of the Collateral; (k) any (i) interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease
not prohibited by this Agreement, (ii) restriction or encumbrance that the interest or title of
such lessor or sublessor may be subject to, or (iii) subordination of the interest of the lessee or
sublessee under such lease to any restriction or encumbrance referred to in the preceding subclause
(ii), so long as the holder of such restriction or encumbrance agrees to recognize the rights of
such lessee or sublessee under such lease; and (l) Liens arising from filing UCC financing
statements relating solely to leases not prohibited by this Agreement.
“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), limited
liability company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other
entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof.
“Plan” means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 9.02(b).
“Pledge Agreement” means the Pledge Agreement dated of even date herewith made by ACC OP Sweet
Home LLC in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders.
“Post Petition Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 7.07(c).
“Preferred Interests” means, with respect to any Person, Equity Interests issued by such
Person that are entitled to a preference or priority over any other Equity Interests issued by such
Person upon any distribution of such Person’s property and assets, whether by dividend or upon
liquidation.
“Property-Level Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that holds a direct fee or
leasehold interest in any single building (or group of related buildings, including, without
limitation, buildings pooled for purposes of a Non-Recourse Debt financing) and/or parcel (or group
of related parcels, including, without limitation, parcels pooled for purposes of a Non-Recourse
Debt financing) of real property and related assets and not in any other building or parcel of real
property.
“Pro Rata Share” of any amount means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the product of
such amount times a fraction the numerator of which is the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Commitment at such time (or, if the Commitments shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 2.05
or 6.01, such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment as in effect immediately prior to such
termination) and the denominator of which is the Revolving Credit Facility at such time (or, if the
Commitments shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01, the Revolving Credit
Facility as in effect immediately prior to such termination).
“Qualifying Trust Preferred Obligation” means any Indebtedness of the Consolidated Entities
which (i) has an original maturity of not less than thirty (30) years, (ii) is not putable to the
Consolidated Entities, (iii) is non-amortizing and provides for payment of interest only not more
often than quarterly, (iv) imposes no financial covenants on the Consolidated Entities, (v) is
subordinated to the Loan Documents and the Obligations of the Loan Parties thereunder on
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such terms as are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; and (vi) when aggregated
with any other such Indebtedness then outstanding does not exceed $100,000,000.
“Real Estate” means all real property at any time owned or leased (as lessee or sublessee) by
the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, including, without limitation,
the Borrowing Base Properties.
“Real Estate Asset” means, as of any date of determination, any fee or leasehold interest then
owned by any Loan Party in any real property.
“Reference Bank” means KeyBank.
“Refinancing Debt” means, with respect to any Debt, any Debt extending the maturity of, or
refunding or refinancing, in whole or in part, such Debt, provided that (a) the terms of any
Refinancing Debt, and of any agreement entered into and of any instrument issued in connection
therewith, do not provide for any Lien on any Borrowing Base Property and are otherwise permitted
by the Loan Documents, (b) the principal amount of such Refinancing Debt shall not exceed the
principal amount of the Debt being extended, refunded or refinanced, (c) any Liens securing such
Refinancing Debt shall not encumber any property or assets other than the property or assets that
secured the Debt being extended, refunded or refinanced (and any improvements thereon) and (d) the
other material terms, taken as a whole, of such Refinancing Debt are no less favorable in any
material respect to the Loan Parties or the Lender Parties than the terms governing the Debt being
extended, refunded or refinanced (it being understood that the mere extension of the maturity of
any Surviving Debt that is Non-Recourse Debt shall be deemed to qualify as Refinancing Debt
hereunder).
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 9.07(d).
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as
in effect from time to time.
“REIT” means a Person that is qualified to be treated for tax purposes as a real estate
investment trust under Sections 856-860 of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Removed Borrowing Base Property” means any Student Housing Property previously included
within the definition of “Borrowing Base Property” as to which all of the following conditions have
been met: (a) the Borrower has notified the Administrative Agent in writing that it wishes to
exclude such Student Housing Property from the definition of “Borrowing Base Property” as a result
of the sale or other permanent disposition or refinancing of such Borrowing Base Property, (b) no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time such Student Housing
Property is excluded from the definition of “Borrowing Base Property” or would result from such
exclusion, and (c) prior to the exclusion of such Student Housing Property from the definition of
“Borrowing Base Property”, the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a Borrowing Base
Certificate demonstrating that, after giving effect to such exclusion, (i) the Aggregate Borrowing
Base Amount will be equal to or greater than the Facility Exposure, and (ii) unless otherwise
approved in writing by the Required Lenders, (A) there will be not less than five (5) Borrowing
Base Properties (excluding the Sweet Home
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Property) included as Collateral, and (B) the Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount (excluding the
Sweet Home Property) is not less than $100,000,000.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding greater than 662/3% of the sum of
(a) the aggregate principal amount of all Advances outstanding at such time, (b) the aggregate
Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time and (c) the aggregate Unused
Revolving Credit Commitments at such time; provided that in determining said percentage at any
given time, all the existing Lenders that are Delinquent Lenders (and their Revolving Credit
Commitments) will be disregarded and excluded. For purposes of this definition, the aggregate
principal amount of any Swing Line Advances owing to the Swing Line Bank and any Letter of Credit
Advances owing to any Issuing Bank, and the Available Amount of each Letter of Credit, shall each
be considered to be owed to the Revolving Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective
Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Responsible Officer” means, with respect to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, any
officer of, or any officer of any general partner or managing member of, such Loan Party or such
Subsidiary.
“Revolving Credit Advance” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, (a) with respect to any Lender at any time, the amount
set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Revolving
Credit Commitment” or (b) if such Lender has entered into one or more Assignment and Acceptances,
set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 9.07(d) as such Lender’s “Revolving Credit Commitment”, as such amount may be reduced at or
prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving
Credit Commitments at such time.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc. and
any successor thereto.
“Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx” means the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as amended.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended to the date hereof and from time
to time hereafter, and any successor statute.
“Secured Debt” means as of any given date the amount of the Consolidated Total Indebtedness
that is secured in any manner by any Lien.
“Secured Recourse Debt” means as of any given date the amount of the Secured Debt less the
amount of Non-Recourse Debt.
“Securities Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended to the date
hereof and from time to time hereafter, and any successor statute.
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“1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC” means 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company.
“Single Employer Plan” means a single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of
ERISA, that (a) is maintained for employees of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and no Person
other than the Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of
which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate could have liability under Section 4069 of ERISA in the
event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the
fair value of the property of such Person, on a going-concern basis, is greater than the total
amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person,
(b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person, on a going-concern basis, is not
less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its
debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe
that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and
liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is
not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute
an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed
as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time
(including, without limitation, after taking into account appropriate discount factors for the
present value of future contingent liabilities), represents the amount that can reasonably be
expected to become an actual or matured liability.
“Special Security Documents” means the Mortgage, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Security
Agreement and Fixture Filing, Assignments of Leases and Rents and UCC-1 Financing Statements
relating to the Sweet Home Property, which have been executed and delivered to the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, and which are not to be recorded until the occurrence of the
events specified in §9.17 (it being acknowledged that the Guaranty and the Hazardous Indemnity
Agreement are not Special Security Documents).
“Standby Letter of Credit” means any Letter of Credit issued under the Letter of Credit
Facility, other than a Trade Letter of Credit.
“Start-Up Student Housing Property” means a Student Housing Property that either (a) has not
been owned by Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor for a period of four full fiscal quarters, or
(b) if such Student Housing Property was a Development Property of Borrower or one of its
Subsidiaries, such Student Housing Property has ceased to be a Development Property for less than a
period of four full fiscal quarters.
“Student Housing Property” means all right, title and interest of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in and to any land and any improvements thereon comprising a student housing property
that is located in the United States and within reasonably close proximity to any college,
university or other institution of higher learning located in the United States or which is
marketed primarily to students, employees or faculty of such college, university or other
institution, together with all equipment, furniture, materials, supplies and personal property in
which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an interest and which is now or hereafter
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located on or used in connection with such student housing property, and all appurtenances,
additions, improvements, renewals, substitutions and replacements thereof now or hereafter acquired
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Subordinated Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 7.07(a).
“Subsidiary” of any Person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
liability company, trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the issued and
outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the Board of
Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of any other class
or classes of such corporation shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any
contingency), (b) the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership, joint venture or
limited liability company or (c) the beneficial interest in such trust or estate, in each case, is
at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or
more of its other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person’s other Subsidiaries. Without
limiting the foregoing, 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC and Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC are each
a Subsidiary of Loan Parties.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“SUNY Allocable Net Operating Income” means, as any date of determination, an amount equal to
(A) the Net Operating Income from the Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC
(without any adjustment based upon the Distribution Percentage) multiplied by (B) the Distribution
Percentage as of the end of the most recently-ended fiscal quarter.
“SUNY Value” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (A) the Appraised
Value of the Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC multiplied by (B) the
Distribution Percentage as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter.
“Surviving Debt” means Debt of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately
before and after the Closing Date.
“Sweet Home Reserve”. An amount equal to one hundred ten percent (110%) of the amount
reasonably estimated by Agent to pay all of the applicable documentary stamp, intangible and
mortgage recordation taxes to the appropriate governmental authorities due upon recordation of the
Special Security Documents. As of the date hereof, the amount of the Sweet Home Reserve is
$474,100.
“
Sweet Home Property” means the portion of the Borrowing Base Property located in the City of
Amherst, County of Erie,
New York, and commonly known as University Village at Sweet Home.
“
Sweet Home Property Commitment” means that certain Certificate of Title from First American
Title Insurance Company of
New York (Title No. 397072NY1NCS) with an effective date of May 20, 2009
covering the Sweet Home Property.
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“Swing Line Advance” means an advance made by (a) the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section
2.01(c) or (b) any Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b).
“Swing Line Bank” means KeyBank, in its capacity as the Lender of Swing Line Advances, and its
successors and permitted assigns in such capacity.
“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of a Swing Line Advance made by the Swing
Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.01(c) or the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.02(b).
“Swing Line Commitment” means, with respect to the Swing Line Bank, the amount of the Swing
Line Facility set forth in Section 2.01(c), as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time
pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Swing Line Facility” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).
“Taking” means the taking or appropriation (including by deed in lieu of condemnation) of any
Borrowing Base Property, or any part thereof or interest therein, whether permanently or
temporarily, for public or quasi-public use under the power of eminent domain, by reason of any
public improvement or condemnation proceeding, or in any other manner or any damage or injury or
diminution in value through condemnation, inverse condemnation or other exercise of the power of
eminent domain.
“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(a).
“Tenancy Leases” means operating leases, subleases, licenses, occupancy agreements and
rights-of-use entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in its capacity as a lessor
or a similar capacity in the ordinary course of business that do not materially and adversely
affect the use of the Real Estate Asset encumbered thereby for its intended purpose.
“Termination Date” means the earlier of (a) August 14, 2012, as such date may be extended as
provided in Section 2.18, and (b) the date of termination in whole of the Revolving Credit
Commitments, the Letter of Credit Commitments and the Swing Line Commitment pursuant to
Section 2.05 or 6.01.
“Trade Letter of Credit” means any Letter of Credit that is issued under the Letter of Credit
Facility for the benefit of a supplier of inventory to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to
effect payment for such Inventory.
“Transfer” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02(e).
“Type” refers to the distinction between Advances bearing interest at the Base Rate and
Advances bearing interest at the Eurodollar Rate.
“Unconsolidated Allocation Percentage” means, as of any date of determination with respect to
any Unconsolidated Entity, the aggregate percentage ownership interest of the Consolidated Entities
in such Unconsolidated Entity as of such date.
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“Unconsolidated Entity” means, as of any date of determination, any Person in which the Parent
Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries holds an Investment and whose financial results would not be
consolidated under GAAP with the financial results of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries if
consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries were prepared as of
such date. Subject to the terms of Section 5.01(p), Hampton Roads Joint Venture shall not be
deemed an Unconsolidated Entity.
“Unsecured Debt” means as of any given date the amount of the Consolidated Total Indebtedness
which is not Secured Indebtedness.
“Unused Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.08(a).
“Unused Revolving Credit Commitment” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, (a) such
Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time minus (b) the sum of (i) the aggregate
principal amount of all Advances made by such Lender (in its capacity as a Lender) and outstanding
at such time plus (ii) such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of (A) the aggregate Available Amount
of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, (B) the aggregate principal amount of all Letter
of Credit Advances made by the Issuing Banks pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and outstanding at such
time and (C) the aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Advances made by the Swing Line Bank
pursuant to Section 2.01(c) and outstanding at such time.
“U of H Contingent Payment Obligation” has the meaning assigned to the term “Contingent
Payment Obligation” in the U of H Ground Lease.
“U of H Ground Lease” means that certain Ground Lease Agreement dated as of September 26,
2000, by and between The Board of Regents of the University of Houston System, as lessor for the
use and benefit of The University of Houston, and American Campus (U of H), Ltd., as lessee.
“Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC” means Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company.
“Voting Interests” means shares of capital stock issued by a corporation, or equivalent Equity
Interests in any other Person, the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of
contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar
functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such
a contingency.
“Welfare Plan” means a welfare plan, as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, that is maintained
for employees of any Loan Party or in respect of which any Loan Party could have liability.
SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions. In this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents in the computation of periods of time from a specified date
to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and
“until” each mean “to but excluding”. References in the Loan Documents to any agreement or
contract “as amended” shall mean and be a reference to such agreement or contract
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as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in
accordance with its terms.
SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
Agreement, all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to
them in conformity with GAAP. Financial statements and other information required to be delivered
by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.03(b), (c) and (f) shall be
prepared in accordance with GAAP as in effect at the time of such preparation (and delivered
together with the reconciliation statements, if any, provided for in Section 5.03(g)). Except as
otherwise provided in the definitions contained herein, calculations in connection with the
definitions, covenants and other provisions of this Agreement shall utilize accounting principles
and policies in conformity with those applied in the preparation of the financial statements
referred to in Section 4.01(g).
ARTICLE II
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND THE LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION 2.01. The Advances and the Letters of Credit. (a) The Revolving Credit
Advances. Each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to
make advances (each a “Revolving Credit Advance”) to the Borrower from time to time on any Business
Day during the period from the date hereof until the Termination Date in an amount for each such
Advance not to exceed such Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment at such time. Each
Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in
excess thereof and shall consist of Revolving Credit Advances made simultaneously by the Lenders
ratably according to their Revolving Credit Commitments. Within the limits of each Lender’s Unused
Revolving Credit Commitment in effect from time to time and prior to the Termination Date, the
Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(a), prepay pursuant to Section 2.06(a) and reborrow
under this Section 2.01(a).
(b) Letters of Credit. Each Issuing Bank severally agrees, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth, to issue (or cause its Affiliate that is a commercial bank to
issue on its behalf) letters of credit (the “Letters of Credit”), for the account of the Borrower
from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the date hereof until 60 days before
the Termination Date in an aggregate Available Amount (i) for all Letters of Credit not to exceed
at any time the Letter of Credit Facility at such time, (ii) for all Letters of Credit issued by
such Issuing Bank not to exceed such Issuing Bank’s Letter of Credit Commitment at such time, and
(iii) for each such Letter of Credit not to exceed the aggregate of the Unused Revolving Credit
Commitments of the Lenders at such time, provided that such obligation of the Issuing Banks shall
be contingent on no Lender being a Delinquent Lender or such Lender, or its parent holding company,
being subject to (1) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation or similar proceeding,
or (2) any “cease and desist” order from, receivership of, or other operational control of any
applicable state or federal regulatory authority (provided that the Issuing Bank may, in its sole
discretion, be entitled to waive this condition). All Letters of Credit shall be denominated in
Dollars and shall be issued on a sight basis only. No Letter of Credit shall have an expiration
date later than the earlier of the date that is 60 days before the Termination Date and (A) in the
case of a Standby Letter of Credit, the date that is one year after the date of issuance thereof,
but may by its terms provide that such expiration date will be automatically
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extended annually for a period of up to one year on terms acceptable to the Issuing Bank that
issues such Standby Letter of Credit and (B) in the case of a Trade Letter of Credit, 60 days after
the date of issuance thereof; provided, however, that the terms of each Standby Letter of Credit
that is automatically extendible annually shall not permit the expiration date (after giving effect
to any extension) of such Standby Letter of Credit in any event to be extended to a date later than
60 days before the Termination Date. Within the limits of the Letter of Credit Facility, and
subject to the limits referred to above, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit
under this Section 2.01(b), repay any Letter of Credit Advances resulting from drawings thereunder
pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and request the issuance of additional Letters of Credit under this
Section 2.01(b).
(c) The Swing Line Advances. The Borrower may request the Swing Line Bank to make,
and the Swing Line Bank agrees to make, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, Swing
Line Advances to the Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the date
hereof until the Termination Date (i) in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding
$15,000,000 (the “Swing Line Facility”) and (ii) in an amount for each such Swing Line Borrowing
not to exceed the aggregate of the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments of the Lenders at such time,
provided that such obligation of the Swing Line Bank shall be contingent on no Lender being a
Delinquent Lender or such Lender, or its parent holding company, being subject to (1) any
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, liquidation or similar proceeding, or (2) any “cease and
desist” order from, receivership of, or other operational control of any applicable state or
federal regulatory authority (provided that the Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, be
entitled to waive this condition). No Swing Line Advance shall be used for the purpose of funding
the payment of principal of any other Swing Line Advance. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be in an
amount of $100,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and shall be made as a
Base Rate Advance. Within the limits of the Swing Line Facility and within the limits referred to
in clause (ii) above, the Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(c), repay pursuant to Section
2.04(b) or prepay pursuant to Section 2.06(a) and reborrow under this Section 2.01(c).
(d) Sweet Home Reserve. So long as the Sweet Home Property is a Borrowing Base
Property, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Borrower shall not be
entitled to obtain any Advance or Letter of Credit, and the Lenders shall have no obligation to
make any Advance or issue any Letter of Credit, in an amount equal to the Sweet Home Reserve, which
shall be reserved from the Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount as provided in this Section 2.01(d). If
the amount unfunded under this Agreement (for the avoidance of doubt, Letters of Credit issued and
outstanding shall be considered funded for the purposes of this section) is less than the Sweet
Home Reserve, Borrower shall within five (5) days of demand either (x) reduce the Facility Exposure
such that the amount unfunded under this Agreement equals or exceeds the Sweet Home Reserve or (y)
deposit with the Administrative Agent cash in an amount equal to such shortfall, and execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent such documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request to grant the Administrative Agent a first priority perfected security interest in such
sums. Such amount shall be held as additional collateral for the Facility but may be released to
Borrower at such time as Administrative Agent determines in its sole and absolute discretion that
the amount unfunded under this Agreement (for the avoidance of doubt, Letters of Credit issued and
outstanding shall be considered funded for the purposes of this section) is more than the Sweet
Home Reserve.
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Administrative Agent shall provide written notice to the Borrower in the event that there is
any change to the amount of the Sweet Home Reserve.
SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.03, each Borrowing shall be made on notice,
given not later than 12:00 Noon (
New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of
the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, or not
later than 1:00 P.M. (
New York City time) on the first Business Day prior to the date of the
proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances, by the Borrower to
the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Lender prompt notice thereof by telex or
telecopier. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a “
Notice of Borrowing”) shall be by telephone,
confirmed immediately in writing, or telex or telecopier or e-mail, in each case in substantially
the form of
Exhibit B hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing,
(ii) Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing, (iii) aggregate amount of such Borrowing and
(iv) in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, initial Interest Period for
each such Advance. Each Lender shall, before 12:00 Noon (
New York City time) on the date of such
Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances and 1:00 P.M. (
New York
City time) on the date of such Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate
Advances, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative
Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day funds, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of
such Borrowing in accordance with the respective Commitments of such Lender and the other Lenders.
After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the applicable
conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds available to the
Borrower by crediting the Borrower’s Account;
provided, however, that the Administrative Agent
shall first make a portion of such funds equal to the aggregate principal amount of any Swing Line
Advances and Letter of Credit Advances made by the Swing Line Bank or any Issuing Bank, as the case
may be, and by any other Lender and outstanding on the date of such Borrowing,
plus
interest accrued and unpaid thereon to and as of such date, available to the Swing Line Bank or
such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and such other Lenders for repayment of such Swing Line
Advances and Letter of Credit Advances.
(b) Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than 12:00 Noon (New
York City time) on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing, by the Borrower to the Swing Line
Bank and the Administrative Agent. Each such notice of a Swing Line Borrowing (a “Notice of Swing
Line Borrowing”) shall be by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing or by telecopier or
e-mail, in each case specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing, (ii) amount of
such Borrowing and (iii) maturity of such Borrowing (which maturity shall be no later than the
earlier of (A) the seventh day after the requested date of such Borrowing and (B) the Termination
Date). The Swing Line Bank shall, before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date of such Swing
Line Borrowing, make the amount thereof available to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative
Agent’s Account, in same day funds. After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and
upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent
will make such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the Borrower’s Account. Upon written
demand by the Swing Line Bank, with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent, each other
Lender shall purchase from
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the Swing Line Bank, and the Swing Line Bank shall sell and assign to each such other Lender,
such other Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such outstanding Swing Line Advance as of the date of such
demand, by making available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the Swing Line Bank, by deposit to the Administrative Agent’s Account, in
same day funds, an amount equal to the portion of the outstanding principal amount of such Swing
Line Advance to be purchased by such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to each such sale and
assignment. Each Lender agrees to purchase its Pro Rata Share of an outstanding Swing Line Advance
on (i) the Business Day on which demand therefor is made by the Swing Line Bank, provided that
notice of such demand is given not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on such Business Day
or (ii) the first Business Day next succeeding such demand if notice of such demand is given after
such time. Upon any such assignment by the Swing Line Bank to any other Lender of a portion of a
Swing Line Advance, the Swing Line Bank represents and warrants to such other Lender that the Swing
Line Bank is the legal and beneficial owner of such interest being assigned by it, but makes no
other representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to such Swing Line
Advance, the Loan Documents or any Loan Party. If and to the extent that any Lender shall not have
so made the amount of such Swing Line Advance available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount together with interest
thereon, for each day from the date of demand by the Swing Line Bank until the date such amount is
paid to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent such amount for the account of the Swing Line Bank on any Business Day, such
amount so paid in respect of principal shall constitute a Swing Line Advance made by such Lender on
such Business Day for purposes of this Agreement, and the outstanding principal amount of the Swing
Line Advance made by the Swing Line Bank shall be reduced by such amount on such Business Day.
(c) Anything in subsection (a) above to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) the Borrower may not
select Eurodollar Rate Advances for the initial Borrowing hereunder or for any Borrowing if the
aggregate amount of such Borrowing is less than $3,000,000 or if the obligation of the Lenders to
make Eurodollar Rate Advances shall then be suspended pursuant to Section 2.07(d)(ii), 2.09 or 2.10
and (ii) there may not be more than eight (8) separate Borrowings outstanding at any time.
(d) Each Notice of Borrowing and Notice of Swing Line Borrowing shall be irrevocable and
binding on the Borrower. In the case of any Borrowing that the related Notice of Borrowing
specifies is to be comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall indemnify each Lender
against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on
or before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing the applicable
conditions set forth in Article III, including, without limitation, any loss, cost or expense
incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such
Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as part of such Borrowing when such Advance,
as a result of such failure, is not made on such date.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to (x) the
date of any Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances or (y) 12:00 Noon (New York City time)
on the date of any Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances that such Lender will not make
available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s
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Pro Rata Share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has
made such portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance
with subsection (a) of this Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the
extent that such Lender shall not have so made such Pro Rata Share available to the Administrative
Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay or pay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand such corresponding amount and to pay interest thereon, for each day from the
date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid or paid to
the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at such
time under Section 2.07 to Advances comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender,
the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding
amount, such amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Advance as part of such Borrowing for
all purposes.
(f) The failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing
shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Advance on the
date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to
make the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
SECTION 2.03. Issuance of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit. (a)
Request for Issuance. Each Letter of Credit shall be issued upon notice, given not later
than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the fifth Business Day prior to the date of the proposed
issuance of such Letter of Credit, by the Borrower to any Issuing Bank, which shall give to the
Administrative Agent prompt notice thereof by telex, telecopier or e-mail or by means of the
Platform. Each such notice of issuance of a Letter of Credit (a “Notice of Issuance”) shall be by
facsimile, confirmed in writing via overnight courier for delivery on the immediately succeeding
Business Day, in each case in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto and specifying therein
the requested (i) date of such issuance (which shall be a Business Day), (ii) Available Amount of
such Letter of Credit, (iii) expiration date of such Letter of Credit, (iv) name and address of the
beneficiary of such Letter of Credit and (v) form of such Letter of Credit, and shall be
accompanied by such application and agreement for letter of credit as such Issuing Bank may specify
to the Borrower for use in connection with such requested Letter of Credit (a “Letter of Credit
Agreement”). If the requested form of such Letter of Credit is acceptable to such Issuing Bank in
its sole discretion, such Issuing Bank will, upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set
forth in Article III, make such Letter of Credit available to the Borrower at its office referred
to in Section 9.02 or as otherwise agreed with the Borrower in connection with such issuance. In
the event and to the extent that the provisions of any Letter of Credit Agreement shall conflict
with this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern. The Existing Letters of Credit
shall upon the Closing Date be deemed to be a Letter of Credit under this Agreement.
(b) [Intentionally Omitted.]
(c) Drawing and Reimbursement. The payment by any Issuing Bank of a draft drawn under
any Letter of Credit shall constitute for all purposes of this Agreement the making by such Issuing
Bank of a Letter of Credit Advance, which shall be a Base Rate Advance, in the amount of such
draft. Upon written demand by any Issuing Bank with an
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outstanding Letter of Credit Advance, with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent,
each Lender shall purchase from such Issuing Bank, and such Issuing Bank shall sell and assign to
each such Lender, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such outstanding Letter of Credit Advance as of
the date of such purchase, by making available for the account of its Applicable Lending Office to
the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, by deposit to the Administrative
Agent’s Account, in same day funds, an amount equal to the portion of the outstanding principal
amount of such Letter of Credit Advance to be purchased by such Lender. Promptly after receipt
thereof, the Administrative Agent shall transfer such funds to such Issuing Bank. The Borrower
hereby agrees to each such sale and assignment. Each Lender agrees to purchase its Pro Rata Share
of an outstanding Letter of Credit Advance on (i) the Business Day on which demand therefor is made
by the Issuing Bank which made such Advance, provided that notice of such demand is given not later
than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on such Business Day, or (ii) the first Business Day next
succeeding such demand if notice of such demand is given after such time. Upon any such assignment
by an Issuing Bank to any Lender of a portion of a Letter of Credit Advance, such Issuing Bank
represents and warrants to such other Lender that such Issuing Bank is the legal and beneficial
owner of such interest being assigned by it, free and clear of any liens, but makes no other
representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to such Letter of Credit
Advance, the Loan Documents or any Loan Party. If and to the extent that any Lender shall not have
so made the amount of such Letter of Credit Advance available to the Administrative Agent, such
Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount together with
interest thereon, for each day from the date of demand by such Issuing Bank until the date such
amount is paid to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate for its account or the
account of such Issuing Bank, as applicable. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent
such amount for the account of such Issuing Bank on any Business Day, such amount so paid in
respect of principal shall constitute a Letter of Credit Advance made by such Lender on such
Business Day for purposes of this Agreement, and the outstanding principal amount of the Letter of
Credit Advance made by such Issuing Bank shall be reduced by such amount on such Business Day.
(d) Failure to Make Letter of Credit Advances. The failure of any Lender to make the
Letter of Credit Advance to be made by it on the date specified in Section 2.03(c) shall not
relieve any other Lender of its obligation hereunder to make its Letter of Credit Advance on such
date, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Letter of
Credit Advance to be made by such other Lender on such date.
SECTION 2.04. Repayment of Advances. (a) Revolving Credit Advances. The
Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Lenders on the
Termination Date the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances then
outstanding.
(b) Swing Line Advances. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of (i) the Swing Line Bank and (ii) each other Lender that has made a Swing Line Advance by
purchase from the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.02(b), the outstanding principal amount of
each Swing Line Advance made by each of them on the earlier of the maturity date specified in the
applicable Notice of Swing Line Borrowing (which maturity shall be no later than the seventh day
after the requested date of such Swing Line Borrowing) and the Termination Date.
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(c) Letter of Credit Advances.
(i) The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Issuing Bank
and each other Lender that has made a Letter of Credit Advance on the same day on which such
Advance was made the outstanding principal amount of each Letter of Credit Advance made by each of
them.
(ii) The Obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement, any Letter of Credit Agreement and
any other agreement or instrument relating to any Letter of Credit (and the obligations of each
Lender to reimburse the Issuing Bank with respect thereto) shall be unconditional and irrevocable,
and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such Letter of Credit
Agreement and such other agreement or instrument under all circumstances, including, without
limitation, the following circumstances:
(A) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document, any Letter of Credit
Agreement, any Letter of Credit or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto (all of the
foregoing being, collectively, the “L/C Related Documents”);
(B) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any
of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of any L/C Related Document or any other amendment or
waiver of or any consent to departure from all or any of the L/C Related Documents;
(C) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower may have at
any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of a Letter of Credit (or any Persons for which
any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), any Issuing Bank or any other Person,
whether in connection with the transactions contemplated by the L/C Related Documents or any
unrelated transaction;
(D) any statement or any other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be
forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or
inaccurate in any respect;
(E) payment by any Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or
certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit;
(F) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral or other collateral, or any
release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranties or any other
guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of the Borrower in respect of the L/C Related
Documents; or
(G) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, including, without limitation, any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a
defense available to, or a discharge of, the Borrower or a guarantor;
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provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, an Issuing Bank shall not be relieved of any
liability it may otherwise have as a result of its gross negligence or willful misconduct (as
determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction).
SECTION 2.05. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments. (a) Optional. The
Borrower may, upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate in
whole or reduce in part the unused portions of the Swing Line Facility, the Letter of Credit
Facility and the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided, however, that each partial
reduction of a Facility (i) shall be in an aggregate amount of $3,000,000 (or in the case of the
Swing Line Facility, $100,000) or an integral multiple of $500,000 (or in the case of the Swing
Line Facility, $100,000) in excess thereof and (ii) shall be made ratably among the Lenders in
accordance with their Commitments with respect to such Facility.
(b) Mandatory. (i) The Letter of Credit Facility shall be permanently reduced from
time to time on the date of each reduction in the Revolving Credit Facility by the amount, if any,
by which the amount of the Letter of Credit Facility exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility after
giving effect to such reduction of the Revolving Credit Facility.
(ii) The Swing Line Facility shall be permanently reduced from time to time on the date of each
reduction in the Revolving Credit Facility by the amount, if any, by which the amount of the Swing
Line Facility exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility after giving effect to such reduction of the
Revolving Credit Facility.
SECTION 2.06. Prepayments. (a) Optional. The Borrower may, upon same day
notice in the case of Base Rate Advances and two Business Days’ notice in the case of Eurodollar
Rate Advances, in each case to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate
principal amount of the prepayment, and if such notice is given the Borrower shall, prepay the
outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in
whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the
aggregate principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that (i) each partial prepayment shall be in
an aggregate principal amount of $500,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or,
if less, the amount of the Advances outstanding and (ii) if any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate
Advance is made on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period for such Advance, the
Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 9.04(c).
(b) Mandatory. (i) The Borrower shall, on each Business Day, prepay an aggregate
principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances comprising part of the same Borrowings, the Swing
Line Advances and the Letter of Credit Advances and deposit an amount in the L/C Cash Collateral
Account in an amount equal to the amount by which (A) the Facility Exposure exceeds (B) the lesser
of (1) the Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount and (2) the Revolving Credit Facility.
(ii) The Borrower shall, on each Business Day, pay to the Administrative Agent for deposit in
the L/C Cash Collateral Account an amount sufficient to cause the aggregate amount on deposit in
the L/C Cash Collateral Account to equal the amount
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by which the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding exceeds the
Letter of Credit Facility on such Business Day.
(iii) Prepayments of the Revolving Credit Facility made pursuant to clause (b)(i) above or (c)
below shall be first applied to prepay Letter of Credit Advances then outstanding until such
Advances are paid in full, second applied to prepay Swing Line Advances then outstanding until such
Advances are paid in full, third applied to prepay Revolving Credit Advances then outstanding
comprising part of the same Borrowings until such Advances are paid in full and fourth deposited in
the L/C Cash Collateral Account to cash collateralize 100% of the Available Amount of the Letters
of Credit then outstanding. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on
deposit in the L/C Cash Collateral Account, such funds shall be applied to reimburse the relevant
Issuing Bank or Lenders, as applicable.
(iv) All prepayments under this subsection (b) shall be made together with accrued interest
to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid.
(c) Casualty and Condemnation. In the event there shall have occurred a casualty with
respect to any Borrowing Base Property and the Borrower is required to repay the Facility pursuant
to Section 5.01(d) or a Taking and the Borrower is required to repay the Borrowings pursuant to a
Mortgage or Section 5.01(d), the Borrower shall prepay the Borrowings on the date of receipt by the
Borrower or the Agent of any Insurance Proceeds or Condemnation Proceeds in respect of such
casualty or Taking, as applicable, in the amount required pursuant to the relevant provisions of
Section 5.01(d) or such Mortgage.
SECTION 2.07. Interest. (a) Scheduled Interest. The Borrower shall pay
interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such
Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum:
(i) Base Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a
rate per annum equal at all times to the greater of (i) the sum of (A) the Base Rate in effect from
time to time plus (B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, and (ii) the then
applicable Eurodollar Rate for one month interest periods plus the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar
Rate Advances payable in arrears quarterly on the last day of each September, December, March and
June, during such periods and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in
full.
(ii) Eurodollar Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar
Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during each Interest Period for such Advance to
the sum of (A) the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance plus (B) the
Applicable Margin in effect on the first day of such Interest Period, payable in arrears on the
last day of such Interest Period and on the date such Eurodollar Rate Advance shall be Converted or
paid in full.
(b) Default Interest. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of
Default, the Borrower shall pay interest on (i) the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing
to each Lender, payable in arrears on the dates referred to in clause (a)(i) or
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(a)(ii) above and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 4% per annum above the
rate per annum required to be paid on such Advance pursuant to clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above and
(ii) to the fullest extent permitted by law, the amount of any interest, fee or other amount
payable under the Loan Documents that is not paid when due, from the date such amount shall be due
until such amount shall be paid in full, payable in arrears on the date such amount shall be paid
in full and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 4% per annum above the rate per
annum required to be paid, in the case of interest, on the Type of Advance on which such interest
has accrued pursuant to clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above and, in all other cases, on Base Rate
Advances pursuant to clause (a)(i) above.
(c) Notice of Interest Period and Interest Rate. Promptly after receipt of a Notice
of Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(a), a notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 2.09 or a
notice of selection of an Interest Period pursuant to the terms of the definition of “Interest
Period”, the Administrative Agent shall give notice to the Borrower and each Lender of the
applicable Interest Period and the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent
for purposes of clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above, and the applicable rate, if any, furnished by the
Reference Bank for the purpose of determining the applicable interest rate under clause (a)(ii)
above.
(d) Interest Rate Determination.
(i) Reference Bank agrees to furnish to the Administrative Agent timely information for the
purpose of determining each Eurodollar Rate.
(ii) If Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or other source selected by Administrative Agent as
permitted pursuant to the definition of “Eurodollar Rate” contained in this Agreement) is
unavailable and Reference Bank is unable to furnish timely information to the Administrative Agent
for determining the Eurodollar Rate for any Eurodollar Rate Advances,
(A) the Administrative Agent shall forthwith notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the
interest rate cannot be determined for such Eurodollar Rate Advances,
(B) each such Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period
therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance (or if such Advance is then a Base Rate Advance, will
continue as a Base Rate Advance), and
(C) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate
Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the
Lenders that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
SECTION 2.08. Fees. (a) Unused Fee. The Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders an unused commitment fee (the “Unused Fee”),
from the date hereof in the case of each Initial Lender and from the effective date specified in
the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender in the case of each other Lender
until the Termination Date, payable in arrears on the last day of each September, December, March
and June, commencing September 30, 2009, and on the
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Termination Date. The Unused Fee payable for the account of each Lender shall be calculated
for each period for which the Unused Fee is payable on the average daily Unused Revolving Credit
Commitment of such Lender during such period at the rate of 0.35% per annum.
(b) Letter of Credit Fees, Etc. (i) The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of each Lender, a commission with respect to each Letter of Credit
outstanding from time to time, payable in arrears, (a) quarterly on the last day of each September,
December, March and June, commencing September 30, 2009, and (b) on the Termination Date, on such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the average daily Available Amount of such Letter of Credit during the
applicable quarter at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Advances
in effect from time to time.
(ii) The Borrower shall pay to each Issuing Bank, for its own account, (A) a fronting fee for
each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank and outstanding from time to time, payable in
arrears, (a) quarterly on the last day of each September, December, March and June, commencing
September 30, 2009, and (b) on the Termination Date, on the average daily Available Amount of such
Letter of Credit during the applicable quarter at a rate per annum equal to 0.125%; provided that
in any event the minimum amount of the fronting fee payable in any 12-month period with respect to
any Letter of Credit shall be $500; and (B) such other commissions, issuance fees, transfer fees
and other fees and charges in connection with the issuance or administration of each Letter of
Credit as the Borrower and such Issuing Bank shall agree.
(c) Administrative Agents’ Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent
for its own account such fees, in such amounts and payable at such times, as may from time to time
be agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 2.09. Conversion of Advances. (a) Optional. The Borrower may on any
Business Day, upon notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon (New York
City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion and subject to
the provisions of Sections 2.07 and 2.10, Convert all or any portion of the Advances of one Type
comprising the same Borrowing into Advances of the other Type; provided, however, that any
Conversion of Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be made only on the last day
of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Advances, any Conversion of Base Rate Advances into
Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be in an amount not less than the minimum amount specified in
Section 2.02(c), no Conversion of any Advances shall result in more separate Borrowings than
permitted under Section 2.02(c) and each Conversion of Advances comprising part of the same
Borrowing under any Facility shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their
Commitments under such Facility. Each such notice of Conversion shall, within the restrictions
specified above, specify (i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the Advances to be Converted and
(iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate Advances, the duration of the initial Interest
Period for such Advances. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding on the
Borrower.
(b) Mandatory. (i) On the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of
Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by
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payment or prepayment or otherwise, to less than $3,000,000, such Advances shall automatically
Convert into Base Rate Advances.
(ii) If the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any
Eurodollar Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained in the definition of “Interest
Period” in Section 1.01, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the
Lenders, whereupon each such Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the
then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance.
(iii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, (y) each
Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period
therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (z) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to
Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended.
SECTION 2.10. Increased Costs, Etc. (a) If, due to either (i) the introduction of or
any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation or (ii) the compliance with any
guideline or request from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having
the force of law) adopted or made after the date hereof, there shall be any increase in the cost to
any Lender Party of agreeing to make or of making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Advances
or of agreeing to issue or of issuing or maintaining or participating in Letters of Credit or of
agreeing to make or of making or maintaining Letter of Credit Advances (excluding, for purposes of
this Section 2.10, any such increased costs resulting from (y) Taxes or Other Taxes (as to which
Section 2.12 shall govern) and (z) changes in the basis of taxation of overall net income or
overall gross income by the United States or by the foreign jurisdiction or state under the laws of
which such Lender Party is organized or has its Applicable Lending Office or any political
subdivision thereof), then the Borrower shall from time to time, within 10 days after demand by
such Lender Party (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party additional amounts sufficient to
compensate such Lender Party for such increased cost; provided, however, that, before making any
such demand, such Lender Party agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal
policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if
the making of such a designation would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such increased
cost that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender Party, be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender Party. A certificate as to the amount of such increased
cost, submitted to the Borrower by such Lender Party, shall be conclusive and binding for all
purposes, absent manifest error.
(b) If any Lender Party determines that either (i) the introduction of or any change in or in
the interpretation of any law or regulation or (ii) the compliance with any guideline or request
from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law)
adopted or made after the date hereof results in any change in the amount of capital required or
expected to be maintained by such Lender Party or any corporation controlling such Lender Party and
that the amount of such capital is increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender Party’s
commitment to lend or to issue or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder and other commitments
of such type or the issuance or maintenance of or
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participation in the Letters of Credit (or similar contingent obligations), then, upon demand
by such Lender Party or such corporation (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent),
the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party, from time
to time as specified by such Lender Party, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender
Party in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Lender Party reasonably
determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such Lender Party’s
commitment to lend or to issue or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder or to the issuance or
maintenance of or participation in any Letters of Credit. A certificate as to such amounts
submitted to the Borrower by such Lender Party shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes,
absent manifest error.
(c) If, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Required Lenders notify the
Administrative Agent that the Eurodollar Rate for any Interest Period for such Advances will not
adequately reflect the cost to such Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their Eurodollar Rate
Advances for such Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith so notify the Borrower
and the Lenders, whereupon (i) each such Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last
day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the
obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower that such Lenders have
determined that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if after the date of this Agreement
the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation shall make
it unlawful, or any central bank or other governmental authority shall assert that it is unlawful,
for any Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make
Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder,
then, on notice thereof and demand therefor by such Lender to the Borrower through the
Administrative Agent, (i) each Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, upon such demand,
Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert
Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall
notify the Borrower that such Lender has determined that the circumstances causing such suspension
no longer exist; provided, however, that, before making any such demand, such Lender agrees to use
reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to
designate a different Eurodollar Lending Office if the making of such a designation would allow
such Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to continue to perform its obligations to make
Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances and would not,
in the judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.
SECTION 2.11. Payments and Computations. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment
hereunder and under the Notes, irrespective of any right of counterclaim or set-off (except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.13), not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the day when
due in U.S. dollars to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account in same day
funds, with payments being received by the Administrative Agent after such time being deemed to
have been received on the next succeeding Business Day. The Administrative Agent will promptly
thereafter cause like funds to be distributed (i) if such
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payment by the Borrower is in respect of principal, interest, commitment fees or any other
Obligation then payable hereunder and under the Notes to more than one Lender Party, to such Lender
Parties for the account of their respective Applicable Lending Offices ratably in accordance with
the amounts of such respective Obligations then payable to such Lender Parties and (ii) if such
payment by the Borrower is in respect of any Obligation then payable hereunder to one Lender Party,
to such Lender Party for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and
Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the Register pursuant to Section
9.07(d), from and after the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance, the Administrative
Agent shall make all payments hereunder and under the Notes in respect of the interest assigned
thereby to the Lender Party assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and Acceptance
shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods prior to such effective date
directly between themselves.
(b) The Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender Party and each of its Affiliates, if and to the
extent payment owed to such Lender Party is not made when due hereunder or, in the case of a
Lender, under the Note held by such Lender, to charge from time to time, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such Lender Party any amount
so due.
(c) All computations of interest based on the Base Rate, the Eurodollar Rate or the Federal
Funds Rate and of fees and Letter of Credit commissions shall be made by the Administrative Agent
on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the actual number of days (including the first
day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest, fees or
commissions are payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate, fee
or commission hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(d) Whenever any payment hereunder or under the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day other
than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such
extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or
commitment fee, as the case may be; provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment
of interest on or principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made in the next following calendar
month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the
date on which any payment is due to any Lender Party hereunder that the Borrower will not make such
payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in
full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon
such assumption, cause to be distributed to each such Lender Party on such due date an amount equal
to the amount then due such Lender Party. If and to the extent the Borrower shall not have so made
such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each such Lender Party shall repay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender Party together with
interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Lender Party until
the date such Lender Party repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds
Rate.
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(f) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the
Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties under or in respect of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and
applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses
that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent (solely in its capacity as Administrative
Agent) under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably
based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such fees, indemnification payments, costs and
expenses owing to the Administrative Agent on such date;
(ii) second, to the payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses
that are due and payable to the Issuing Banks (solely in their respective capacities as such) under
or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably based upon the
respective aggregate amounts of all such fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing
to the Issuing Banks on such date;
(iii) third, to the payment of all of the indemnification payments, costs and expenses that
are due and payable to the Lenders under Section 9.04 and any similar section of any of the other
Loan Documents on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such
indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Lenders on such date;
(iv) fourth, to the payment of all of the amounts that are due and payable to the
Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties under Sections 2.10 and 2.12 on such date, ratably
based upon the respective aggregate amounts thereof owing to the Administrative Agent and the
Lender Parties on such date;
(v) fifth, to the payment of all of the fees that are due and payable to the Lenders under
Section 2.08(a) on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate Commitments of the
Lenders under the Facilities on such date;
(vi) sixth, to the payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations of the
Borrower under or in respect of the Loan Documents that is due and payable to the Administrative
Agent and the Lender Parties under Section 2.07(b) on such date, ratably based upon the respective
aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on
such date;
(vii) seventh, to the payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Advances that
is due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties under Section 2.07(a) on such
date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to the
Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date;
(viii) eighth, to the payment of the principal amount of all of the outstanding Advances and
any reimbursement obligations that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender
Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective
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aggregate amounts of all such principal and reimbursement obligations owing to the
Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date, and to deposit into the L/C Cash
Collateral Account any contingent reimbursement obligations in respect of outstanding Letters of
Credit to the extent required by Section 6.02;
(ix) ninth, to the payment of the Hedge Obligations; and
(x) tenth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties owing under or in
respect of the Loan Documents that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other
Lender Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such
Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Lender Parties on such date.
SECTION 2.12. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by the Borrower hereunder or under the
Notes shall be made, in accordance with Section 2.11, free and clear of and without deduction for
any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all
liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each Lender Party and the
Administrative Agent, taxes that are imposed on its overall net income by the United States and
taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (and franchise or other similar taxes imposed in
lieu thereof) by the state or foreign jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender Party or the
Administrative Agent, as the case may be, is organized or any political subdivision thereof and, in
the case of each Lender Party, taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (and franchise or
other similar taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by the state or foreign jurisdiction of such Lender
Party’s Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof (all such non-excluded
taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities in respect of payments
hereunder or under the Notes being hereinafter referred to as “Taxes”). If the Borrower shall be
required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder or under any
Note to any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent, (i) the sum payable by the Borrower shall be
increased as may be necessary so that after the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have made all
required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section
2.12) such Lender Party or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, receives an amount equal
to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make
all such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant
taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any present or future stamp, documentary, excise,
property, intangible, mortgage recording or similar taxes, charges or levies that arise from any
payment made hereunder or under the Notes or from the execution, delivery or registration of,
performance under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement, or any other Loan Document
(hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”).
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify each Lender Party and the Administrative Agent for and hold
them harmless against the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes, and for the full amount of taxes of
any kind imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 2.12, imposed on or paid
by such Lender Party or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) and any liability (including
penalties, additions to tax, interest and
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expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification shall be made
within 30 days from the date such Lender Party or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be)
makes written demand therefor.
(d) Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the Borrower shall furnish to the
Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section 9.02, the original or a certified copy
of a receipt evidencing such payment or, if such receipts are not obtainable, other evidence of
such payments by the Borrower reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. In the case of
any payment hereunder or under the Notes by or on behalf of the Borrower through an account or
branch outside the United States or by or on behalf of the Borrower by a payor that is not a United
States person, if the Borrower determines that no Taxes are payable in respect thereof, the
Borrower shall furnish, or shall cause such payor to furnish, to the Administrative Agent, at such
address, an opinion of counsel acceptable to the Administrative Agent stating that such payment is
exempt from Taxes. For purposes of subsections (d) and (e) of this Section 2.12, the terms “United
States” and “United States person” shall have the meanings specified in Section 7701 of the
Internal Revenue Code.
(e) Each Lender Party organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States
shall, on or prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this Agreement in the case of each
Initial Lender Party, and on the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it becomes
a Lender Party in the case of each other Lender Party, and from time to time thereafter as
requested in writing by the Borrower (but only so long thereafter as such Lender Party remains
lawfully able to do so), provide each of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with two
original Internal Revenue Service forms W8 ECI or W8 BEN, as appropriate, or any successor or other
form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender Party is exempt from
or entitled to a reduced rate of United States withholding tax on payments pursuant to this
Agreement or the Notes. If the forms provided by a Lender Party at the time such Lender Party
first becomes a party to this Agreement indicate a United States interest withholding tax rate in
excess of zero, withholding tax at such rate shall be considered excluded from Taxes unless and
until such Lender Party provides the appropriate forms certifying that a lesser rate applies,
whereupon withholding tax at such lesser rate only shall be considered excluded from Taxes for
periods governed by such forms; provided, however, that if, at the effective date of the Assignment
and Acceptance pursuant to which a Lender Party becomes a party to this Agreement, the Lender Party
assignor was entitled to payments under subsection (a) of this Section 2.12 in respect of United
States withholding tax with respect to interest paid at such date, then, to such extent, the term
Taxes shall include (in addition to withholding taxes that may be imposed in the future or other
amounts otherwise includable in Taxes) United States withholding tax, if any, applicable with
respect to the Lender Party assignee on such date. If any form or document referred to in this
subsection (e) requires the disclosure of information, other than information necessary to compute
the tax payable and information required on the date hereof by Internal Revenue Service form W8 ECI
or W8 BEN, that the applicable Lender Party reasonably considers to be confidential, such Lender
Party shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and shall not be obligated to include in such form
or document such confidential information. Upon the request of the Borrower, any Lender that is a
United States person and is not an exempt recipient for U.S. backup withholding purposes shall
deliver to the Borrower two copies of Internal Revenue Service form W 9 (or any successor form).
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(f) For any period with respect to which a Lender Party has failed to provide the Borrower
with the appropriate form described in subsection (e) above (other than if such failure is due to a
change in law occurring after the date on which a form originally was required to be provided or if
such form otherwise is not required under subsection (e) above), such Lender Party shall not be
entitled to indemnification under subsection (a) or (c) of this Section 2.12 with respect to Taxes
imposed by the United States by reason of such failure; provided, however, that should a Lender
Party become subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a form required hereunder, the
Borrower shall take such steps as such Lender Party shall reasonably request to assist such Lender
Party to recover such Taxes.
(g) Any Lender Party claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.12
agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory
restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Eurodollar Lending Office if the making of such a
change would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may
thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender Party, be otherwise
disadvantageous to such Lender Party.
(h) If any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent receives a refund of Taxes or Other Taxes
paid by the Borrower or for which the Borrower has indemnified any Lender Party or the
Administrative Agent, as the case may be, pursuant to this Section 2.12, then such Lender Party or
the Administrative Agent, as applicable, shall pay such amount, net of any expenses incurred by
such Lender Party or the Administrative Agent, to the Borrower within 30 days of the receipt of
such Taxes or Other Taxes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Borrower shall not be entitled
to review the tax records or financial information of any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent
and (ii) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender Party shall have any obligation to pursue
(and no Loan Party shall have any right to assert) any refund of Taxes or Other Taxes that may be
paid by the Borrower.
SECTION 2.13. Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender Party shall obtain at any time
any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or
otherwise, other than as a result of an assignment pursuant to Section 9.07) (a) on account of
Obligations due and payable to such Lender Party hereunder and under the Notes at such time in
excess of its Pro Rata Share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due
and payable to such Lender Party at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations due
and payable to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes at such time) of payments on
account of the Obligations due and payable to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes at
such time obtained by all the Lender Parties at such time, or (b) on account of Obligations owing
(but not due and payable) to such Lender Party hereunder and under the Notes at such time in excess
of its Pro Rata Share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing to
such Lender Party at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations owing (but not due
and payable) to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the Notes at such time) of payments on
account of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lender Parties hereunder and
under the Notes at such time obtained by all of the Lender Parties at such time, or (c) on account
of any Hedge Obligations due and payable to a Lender Hedge Provider under the Hedge Agreements at
such time in excess of its Pro Rata Share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such
Hedge Obligations due and payable to such Lender Hedge Provider at such time to (ii) the aggregate
amount of the Hedge Obligations due and
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payable to all the Lender Hedge Providers) of payments on account of the Hedge Obligations due
and payable to all the Lender Hedge Providers under the Hedge Agreements at such time obtained by
the Lender Hedge Provider, such Lender Party shall forthwith purchase from the other Lender Parties
such interests or participating interests in the Obligations or Hedge Obligations, as the case may
be, due and payable or owing to them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such
purchasing Lender Party to share the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided, however,
that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing
Lender Party, such purchase from each other Lender Party shall be rescinded and such other Lender
Party shall repay to the purchasing Lender Party the purchase price to the extent of such Lender
Party’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (1) the purchase price paid to such Lender
Party to (2) the aggregate purchase price paid to all Lender Parties) of such recovery together
with an amount equal to such Lender Party’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (x) the
amount of such other Lender Party’s required repayment to (y) the total amount so recovered from
the purchasing Lender Party) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing
Lender Party in respect of the total amount so recovered. The Borrower agrees that any Lender
Party so purchasing an interest or participating interest from another Lender Party pursuant to
this Section 2.13 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment
(including the right of set-off) with respect to such interest or participating interest, as the
case may be, as fully as if such Lender Party were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the
amount of such interest or participating interest, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.14. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Advances and issuances of Letters
of Credit shall be available (and the Borrower agrees that it shall use such proceeds and Letters
of Credit) solely for the acquisition and/or development of Student Housing Properties and/or
Development Properties, to make capital expenditures, for working capital purposes and for other
general corporate purposes of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries.
SECTION 2.15. Evidence of Debt. (a) Each Lender Party shall maintain in accordance
with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such
Lender Party resulting from each Advance owing to such Lender Party from time to time, including
the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender Party from time to time
hereunder. The Borrower agrees that upon notice by any Lender Party to the Borrower (with a copy
of such notice to the Administrative Agent) to the effect that a promissory note or other evidence
of indebtedness is required or appropriate in order for such Lender Party to evidence (whether for
purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise) the Advances owing to, or to be made by, such Lender
Party, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Lender Party, with a copy to the
Administrative Agent, a Note, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, payable to the
order of such Lender Party in a principal amount equal to the Revolving Credit Commitment of such
Lender Party. All references to Notes in the Loan Documents shall mean Notes, if any, to the
extent issued hereunder. By delivery of this Agreement and the Notes, there shall not be deemed to
have occurred, and there has not otherwise occurred, any payment, satisfaction or novation of the
Debt evidenced by the Existing Credit Agreement and the “Notes” described in the Existing Credit
Agreement, which Debt is instead evidenced by this Agreement and the Notes and is allocated among
the Lender Parties as of the date hereof in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share of the
Commitments, and the Lender Parties shall as of the date hereof make such
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adjustments to the outstanding Advances of such Lender Parties so that such outstanding
Advances are consistent with their respective Commitments.
(b) The Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) shall
include a control account, and a subsidiary account for each Lender Party, in which accounts (taken
together) shall be recorded (i) the date and amount of each Borrowing made hereunder, the Type of
Advances comprising such Borrowing and, if appropriate, the Interest Period applicable thereto,
(ii) the terms of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it, (iii) the amount
of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each
Lender Party hereunder, and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent from
the Borrower hereunder and each Lender Party’s share thereof.
(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to
subsection (b) above, and by each Lender Party in its account or accounts pursuant to subsection
(a) above, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or
to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender Party and,
in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender Party, under this Agreement, absent manifest
error; provided, however, that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party to make
an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts
shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement.
SECTION 2.16. Increase in the Aggregate Commitments. (a) The Borrower may, at any
time, by written notice to the Administrative Agent, request an increase in the aggregate amount of
the Revolving Credit Commitments by not less than $10,000,000 nor more than $75,000,000 in the
aggregate (each such proposed increase, a “Commitment Increase”) to be effective as of a date that
is within 24 months after the Closing Date (the “Increase Date”) as specified in the related notice
to the Administrative Agent, which Commitment Increase may be allocated (1) to the then existing
Revolving Credit Commitments, (2) as a new revolving tranche having the same terms as the then
existing Revolving Credit Commitments, or (3) any combination thereof satisfactory to
Administrative Agent and existing or additional Lenders providing such additional Revolving Credit
Commitments; provided, however, that (i) in no event shall the aggregate amount of the Commitments
at any time exceed $300,000,000, (ii) in no event shall the Borrower submit more than two (2)
separate requests for a Commitment Increase hereunder, and (iii) on the date of any request by the
Borrower for a Commitment Increase and on the related Increase Date, the applicable conditions set
forth in Article III shall be satisfied.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of each request by the Borrower
for a Commitment Increase, which notice shall include (i) the proposed amount of such requested
Commitment Increase, (ii) the proposed Increase Date and (iii) the date by which Lenders wishing to
participate in the Commitment Increase must commit to an increase in the amount of their respective
Commitments (the “Commitment Date”). Each Lender that is willing to participate in such requested
Commitment Increase (each an “Increasing Lender”) shall, in its sole discretion, give written
notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Commitment Date of the amount by which it is
willing to increase its
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Commitment. If the Lenders notify the Administrative Agent that they are willing to increase
the amount of their respective Commitments by an aggregate amount that exceeds the amount of the
requested Commitment Increase, the requested Commitment Increase shall be allocated among the
Lenders willing to participate therein in such amounts as are agreed between the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
(c) Promptly following each Commitment Date, the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Borrower as to the amount, if any, by which the Lenders are willing to participate in the requested
Commitment Increase. If the aggregate amount by which the Lenders are willing to participate in
such requested Commitment Increase on such Commitment Date is less than the requested Commitment
Increase, then the Borrower may extend offers to one or more Eligible Assignees to participate in
any portion of the requested Commitment Increase that has not been committed to by the Lenders as
of such Commitment Date; provided, however, that the Commitment of each such Eligible Assignee
shall be in an amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof unless
otherwise agreed by Borrower and Administrative Agent.
(d) On each Increase Date, each Eligible Assignee that accepts an offer to participate in the
requested Commitment Increase in accordance with Section 2.16(c) (an “Assuming Lender”) shall
become a Lender party to this Agreement as of such Increase Date and the Commitment of each
Increasing Lender for such requested Commitment Increase shall be so increased by such amount (or
by the amount allocated to such Lender pursuant to the last sentence of Section 2.16(b)) as of such
Increase Date; provided, however that the Administrative Agent shall have received on or before
such Increase Date the following, each dated such date:
(i) an assumption agreement from each Assuming Lender, if any, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (each an “Assumption Agreement”), duly
executed by such Assuming Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower; and
(ii) confirmation from each Increasing Lender of the increase in the amount of its Commitment
in a writing satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
On each Increase Date, upon fulfillment of the conditions set forth in the immediately
preceding sentence of this Section 2.16(d), the Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders
(including, without limitation, each Assuming Lender) and the Borrower, on or before 1:00 P.M. (New
York City time), by telecopier or telex, of the occurrence of the Commitment Increase to be
effected on such Increase Date and shall record in the Register the relevant information with
respect to each Increasing Lender and each Assuming Lender on such date.
(e) As a condition to the effectiveness of any increase in the aggregate Commitments pursuant
to this Section 2.16, the Borrower shall pay (i) to the Administrative Agent such fees as required
by the Fee Letter, and (ii) to each Increasing Lender or Assuming Lender, as applicable, such fees
as they may require in connection therewith, which fees shall, when paid, be fully earned and
non-refundable under any circumstances.
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(f) As a condition to the effectiveness of any increase in the aggregate Commitments pursuant
to this Section 2.16, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders such additional documents (including, without limitation,
amendments to the Collateral Documents), instruments, certifications and opinions as the Agent may
reasonably require in its sole and absolute discretion (including, without limitation, in the case
of the Borrower, a Borrowing Base Certificate, demonstrating compliance with all covenants,
representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Documents after giving effect to the increase)
and the Borrower shall pay the cost of any Mortgage Policy or any endorsement or update thereto or
any updated UCC searches, all recording costs and fees, and any and all intangible taxes or other
documentary or mortgage taxes, assessments or charges or any similar fees, taxes or expenses which
are required to be paid in connection with such increase.
(g) On any Increase Date the outstanding principal balance of the Advances shall be
reallocated among the Lenders such that after the applicable Increase Date the outstanding
principal amount of Advances owed to each Lender shall be equal to such Lender’s Commitment
Percentage (as in effect after the applicable Increase Date) of the outstanding principal amount of
all Advances. The participation interests of the Lenders in Swing Line Facility and Letter of
Credit Facility shall be similarly adjusted. On any Increase Date those Lenders whose Commitment
Percentage is increasing shall advance the funds to the Administrative Agent and the funds so
advanced shall be distributed among the Lenders whose Commitment Percentage is decreasing as
necessary to accomplish the required reallocation of the outstanding Advances. The funds so
advanced shall be Base Rate Advances or Eurodollar Rate Advances, as the case may be, among all
Lenders based on their Commitment Percentages.
SECTION 2.17. Replacement of Lenders Under Certain Circumstances. In the event that
any Lender (a) shall make a demand for payment of increased costs pursuant to Section 2.10(a) or
(b) shall make a demand for Conversion of all Eurodollar Rate Advances to Base Rate Advances
pursuant to Section 2.10(d), and unless the circumstances giving rise to such demand are no longer
in effect, the Borrower may, if such Lender is not then an Issuing Bank and such Lender shall fail
to withdraw such demand within five Business Days after the Borrower’s request for such withdrawal,
upon 30 days’ prior written notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and such Lender,
elect to cause such Lender to assign its Advances and Commitments in full to an Eligible Assignee
in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.07(a), and such Lender hereby agrees to assign its
Advances and Commitments as provided above if an Eligible Assignee shall have agreed to assume such
Advances and Commitments; provided that, on the date of such assignment, the Borrower shall
pay (x) to such Lender (1) any amounts payable to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.10 or otherwise
pursuant to this Agreement and (2) any amounts that would have been payable to such Lender
pursuant to Section 9.04(c) if the Borrower had prepaid all outstanding Advances of such Lender on
the date of such assignment and (y) to the Administrative Agent, any processing and recordation fee
payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(a) in connection with such assignment.
SECTION 2.18. Extension of Termination Date. (a) Provided that no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower shall have the option, to be exercised
by giving written notice to the Administrative Agent not more than ninety (90) days
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and not less than thirty (30) days prior to the initial scheduled Termination Date (an “Extension
Request”), subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to extend the
Termination Date to August 14, 2013 one year from new Termination Date. The request by the
Borrower for extension of the Termination Date shall constitute a representation and warranty by
the Borrower that all of the conditions set forth in this Section shall have been satisfied on the
date of such request.
(b) The obligations of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to extend the Termination Date
as provided in Section 2.18(a) shall be subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions
precedent on the then effective Termination Date (without regard to such extension request):
(i) Payment of Extension Fee. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent on
or before the then effective Termination Date (without regard to such extension request) for the
account of the Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares an extension fee equal
to one-half of one percent (0.50%) of the total Commitment, which fee shall, when paid, be fully
earned and non-refundable under any circumstances.
(ii) No Default. On the date the Extension Request is given and on the Termination
Date (as determined without regard to such extension) there shall exist no Default or Event of
Default.
(iii) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties made by the
Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries in the Loan Documents or otherwise made
by or on behalf of such Persons in connection therewith or after the date thereof shall have been
true and correct in all material respects when made and shall also be true and correct in all
material respects on the Termination Date (as determined without regard to such extension) except
for representations or warranties that expressly relate to an earlier date.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each of the Lenders in the event that the
Termination Date is extended as provided in this Section 2.18.
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS OF LENDING AND ISSUANCES OF LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Initial Extension of Credit. The obligation of
each Lender to make an Advance or of any Issuing Bank to issue a Letter of Credit on the occasion
of the Initial Extension of Credit hereunder is subject to the satisfaction of the following
conditions precedent before or concurrently with the Initial Extension of Credit:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the Closing Date the following,
each dated the Closing Date (unless otherwise specified), in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent (unless otherwise specified) and (except for the Notes) in sufficient copies
for each Lender Party:
(i) This Agreement, together with a Note payable to the order of each Lender that has
requested a Note prior to the Closing Date.
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(ii) Copies of the Borrowing Base Qualification Documents for each of the Borrowing Base
Properties.
(iii) Certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors, board of managers,
management committee, general partner or managing member (or other similar body), as applicable, of
each Loan Party approving the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and each Loan
Document to which it is or is to be a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary
corporate action and governmental and other third party approvals and consents, if any, with
respect to the transactions under the Loan Documents and each Loan Document to which it is or is to
be a party.
(iv) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State (or equivalent authority) of the
jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation of each Loan Party, dated reasonably near
the Closing Date, certifying, if and to the extent such certification is generally available for
entities of the type of such Loan Party, (A) as to a true and correct copy of the charter,
certificate of limited partnership, certificate of formation or other comparable organizational
document of such Loan Party, and of each amendment thereto on file in such Secretary’s office and
(B) that (1) such amendments are the only amendments to the charter, certificate of limited
partnership, certificate of formation or other comparable organizational document, as applicable,
of such Loan Party that are on file in such Secretary’s office and (2) such Loan Party has paid all
franchise taxes to the date of such certificate and (C) that such Loan Party is duly incorporated,
organized or formed and in good standing or presently subsisting under the laws of the jurisdiction
of its incorporation, organization or formation.
(v) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State (or equivalent authority) of each
jurisdiction in which any Loan Party owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its
business requires it to qualify or be licensed as a foreign corporation, limited partnership or
limited liability company (except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed (A) would not be
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect), and (B) is not a jurisdiction in which a
Borrowing Base Property is located, dated reasonably near (but prior to) the Closing Date, stating,
with respect to each such Loan Party, that such Loan Party is duly qualified and in good standing
as a foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company in such State and has
filed all annual reports required to be filed to the date of such certificate.
(vi) A certificate of each Loan Party, signed on behalf of such Loan Party by its President or
a Vice President and its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or those of its general partner or
managing member or other authorized representative, if applicable), dated the Closing Date,
certifying as to (A) a true and correct copy of the bylaws, operating agreement, partnership
agreement or other governing document of such Loan Party as in effect on the date on which the
resolutions referred to in Section 3.01(a)(iii) were adopted and on the Closing Date, (or that
there have been no changes from those agreements delivered pursuant to the Existing Credit
Agreement), (B) the due incorporation, organization or formation and good standing or valid
existence of such Loan Party as a corporation, limited liability company or general or limited
partnership organized under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or
formation and the absence of any proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of such Loan Party,
(C) the truth of the representations and warranties contained in
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the Loan Documents as though made on and as of the Closing Date and (D) the absence of any
event that has occurred and is continuing, or that would result from the Initial Extension of
Credit, that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default.
(vii) A certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or other Responsible Officer,
if applicable) of each Loan Party certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such
Loan Party authorized to sign each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party (either
individually or as the general partner or managing member of another Loan Party) and the other
documents to be delivered hereunder and thereunder.
(viii) Such financial, business and other information regarding each Loan Party and its
Subsidiaries as the Lender Parties shall have requested, including, without limitation, information
as to possible contingent liabilities, tax matters, environmental matters, obligations under Plans,
Multiemployer Plans and Welfare Plans, collective bargaining agreements and other arrangements with
employees, Material Contracts and Tenancy Leases (together with copies thereof if requested by the
Administrative Agent), audited annual financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2008,
interim financial statements dated the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial
statements are available (or, in the event the Lender Parties’ due diligence review reveals
material changes since such financial statements, as of a later date within 45 days of the Closing
Date).
(ix) Evidence of insurance naming the Administrative Agent as loss payee and additional
insured for itself and, when applicable, as agent for other participating Lenders, with such
responsible and reputable insurance companies, and in such amounts and covering such risks, in each
case as is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(x) Opinions of Xxxxx Lord Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in
substantially the forms of Exhibit F hereto and as to such other matters as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(xi) [Intentionally Omitted.]
(xii) The payment of any and all intangible taxes or other documentary or mortgage taxes,
assessments or charges or any similar fees, taxes or expenses.
(xiii) A Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Issuance, as applicable, and a Borrowing Base
Certificate relating to the Initial Extension of Credit.
(b) The Lender Parties shall be satisfied with the corporate and legal structure and
capitalization of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries, including the terms and conditions of the
charter and bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other governing document of each
of them.
(c) The Loan Parties shall have no Debt, other than Surviving Debt, and all Surviving Debt
shall be on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender Parties.
(d) Intentionally Omitted.
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(e) Before and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents,
there shall have occurred (i) no Material Adverse Change since June 30, 2009, and (ii) no material
adverse change in the Initial Borrowing Base Properties since the date of this Agreement.
(f) There shall exist no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any
Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any court, governmental agency
or arbitrator that (i) would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect other than the
matters described on Schedule 4.01(f) hereto (the “Disclosed Litigation”) or (ii) purports
to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated thereby, and there shall have been no adverse change in the status, or
financial effect on any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, of the Disclosed Litigation from
that described on Schedule 4.01(f) hereto.
(g) All governmental and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have been obtained (without the imposition of
any conditions that are not acceptable to the Lender Parties) and shall remain in effect, and no
law or regulation shall be applicable in the reasonable judgment of the Lender Parties that
restrains, prevents or imposes materially adverse conditions upon the transactions contemplated by
the Loan Documents.
(h) The Borrower shall have paid all fees that are due and payable pursuant to the Fee Letter,
all other accrued fees of the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties and all out-of-pocket
expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) of the Administrative Agent and
the Arranger.
SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing, Issuance, Renewal and Commitment
Increase. The obligation of each Lender to make an Advance (other than a Letter of Credit
Advance made by an Issuing Bank or a Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and a Swing Line Advance
made by a Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) on the occasion of each Borrowing (including the
initial Borrowing), the obligation of each Issuing Bank to issue a Letter of Credit (including the
initial issuance) or extend the expiration date of a Letter of Credit and the right of the Borrower
to request a Swing Line Borrowing or a Commitment Increase pursuant to Section 2.16 shall be
subject to the further conditions precedent that on the date of such Borrowing, issuance, extension
or increase (a) the following statements shall be true and the Administrative Agent shall have
received, for the account of such Lender, the Swing Line Bank or such Issuing Bank, a certificate
signed on behalf of the Borrower by a duly authorized officer of the Borrower, dated the date of
such Borrowing, issuance. extension or increase, stating that:
(i) the representations and warranties contained in each Loan Document are true and correct on
and as of such date, before and after giving effect to (A) such Borrowing, issuance, extension or
increase and (B) in the case of any Borrowing, issuance or extension, the application of the
proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such date;
(ii) no Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result from (A) such Borrowing,
issuance, extension or increase or (B) in the case of any Borrowing, issuance or extension, from
the application of the proceeds therefrom; and
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(iii) for each Revolving Credit Advance or Swing Line Advance made by the Swing Line Bank or
issuance or extension of any Letter of Credit, (A) the Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount equals or
exceeds the Facility Exposure after giving effect to such Advance or issuance or extension,
respectively, and (B) before and after giving effect to such Advance, issuance or extension, the
Parent Guarantor shall be in compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.04, together with
supporting information in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent showing the computations
used in determining compliance with such covenants;
(b) the Administrative Agent shall have received such other approvals, opinions or documents
as any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;
(c) at such times as Administrative Agent shall determine in its discretion prior to each
funding, to the extent available under applicable law, a “date down” endorsement to each Mortgage
Policy (or, with respect to the Sweet Home Property, a title update) indicating no change in the
state of title and containing no survey exceptions not approved by the Administrative Agent, which
endorsement shall, expressly or by virtue of a proper “revolving credit” clause or endorsement in
each Mortgage Policy, increase the coverage of each Mortgage Policy to the aggregate amount of all
Advances advanced and outstanding and Letters of Credit issued and outstanding on or before the
effective date of such endorsement (provided that the amount of coverage under an individual
Mortgage Policy for an individual Borrowing Base Property need not equal the aggregate amount of
all Advances and Letters of Credit issued and outstanding), or if such endorsement is not
available, such other evidence and assurances as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require
(which evidence may include, without limitation, an affidavit from the Borrower or Subsidiary
Guarantors stating that there have been no changes in title from the date of the last effective
date of the Mortgage Policy (or, with respect to the Sweet Home Property, a title update));
(d) as a condition precedent to any Lender’s obligations to make any Advances available to the
Borrower hereunder, the Borrower will pay or cause to be paid to the Administrative Agent any
mortgage, recording, intangible, documentary stamp or other similar taxes and charges which the
Administrative Agent reasonably determines to be payable as a result of such Advance to any state
or any county or municipality thereof in which any of the Borrowing Base Properties are located,
and deliver to the Agent such affidavits or other information which the Administrative Agent
reasonably determines to be necessary in connection with such payment in order to insure that the
Mortgages on Borrowing Base Properties located in such state secure the Borrower’s obligation with
respect to the Advances then being requested by the Borrower. The provisions of this Section
3.02(d) shall not limit the Borrower’s obligations under other provisions of the Loan Documents,
including without limitation Section 9.04 hereof; and
(e) in the case of any Commitment Increase, any modifications of or endorsements to the
Mortgages and the Mortgage Policies that the Administrative Agent shall deem reasonably necessary
or desirable in connection with such Commitment Increase shall have been made or obtained, and any
other actions, documents or instruments relating to the Collateral
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that the Administrative Agent shall deem reasonably necessary or desirable in connection with
such Commitment Increase shall have been taken, executed or delivered, as applicable.
SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01. For purposes of determining
compliance with the conditions specified in Section 3.01, each Lender Party shall be deemed to have
consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with each document or other matter required
thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lender Parties
unless an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated by the
Loan Documents shall have received notice from such Lender Party prior to the Initial Extension of
Credit specifying its objection thereto and, if the Initial Extension of Credit consists of a
Borrowing, such Lender Party shall not have made available to the Administrative Agent such Lender
Party’s Pro Rata Share of such Borrowing.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Loan Parties. Each Loan Party
represents and warrants as follows:
(a) Organization and Powers; Qualification and Good Standing. Each Loan Party and
each of its Subsidiaries and each general partner or managing member, if any, of each Loan Party
(i) is a corporation, limited liability company or partnership duly incorporated, organized or
formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation, organization or formation, (ii) is duly qualified and in good standing as a foreign
corporation, limited liability company or partnership in each other jurisdiction in which it owns
or leases property or in which the conduct of its business requires it to so qualify or be
licensed, except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed (A) would not be reasonably likely
to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (B) is not a jurisdiction in which a Borrowing Base Property
is located, and (iii) has all requisite corporate, limited liability company or partnership power
and authority (including, without limitation, all governmental licenses, permits and other
approvals) to own or lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as now conducted
and as proposed to be conducted. The Parent Guarantor has, beginning with its taxable year ended
December 31, 2004, been organized and operated in conformity with the requirements for
qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code, and the present and proposed
method of operation of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries will permit the Parent Guarantor
to continue to meet the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Internal
Revenue Code. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Parent Guarantor have been validly
issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, all of the general partner Equity Interests in the
Borrower are owned by the Parent Guarantor, and all such general partner Equity Interests are owned
by the Parent Guarantor free and clear of all Liens.
(b) Subsidiaries. Set forth on Schedule 4.01(b) hereto is a complete and
accurate list of all Subsidiaries of each Loan Party, showing as of the date hereof (as to each
such Subsidiary) the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation, the percentage
of each such class of its Equity Interests owned (directly or indirectly) by such Loan Party on the
date hereof and the number of shares (or the equivalent thereof) covered by all outstanding
options, warrants, rights of conversion or purchase and similar rights at the date hereof. All of
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the outstanding Equity Interests in each Loan Party’s Subsidiaries has been validly issued,
are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned by such Loan Party or one or more of its
Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens.
(c) Due Authorization; No Conflict. The execution and delivery by each Loan Party of
each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party (either individually or as the general
partner or managing member of another Loan Party), and the performance of its obligations
thereunder, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, are within
the corporate, limited liability company or partnership powers of such Loan Party, have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company or partnership action, and do not
(i) contravene the charter or bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other governing
document of such Loan Party, (ii) violate any law, rule, regulation (including, without limitation,
Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), order, writ, judgment,
injunction, decree, determination or award, (iii) conflict with or result in the breach of, or
constitute a default or require any payment to be made under, any material contract, loan
agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument binding on or affecting
any Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their properties, or (iv) except for the Liens
created under the Loan Documents, result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon
or with respect to any of the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries. No Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any such law, rule, regulation, order, writ,
judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award or in breach of any such contract, loan
agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument, the violation or breach
of which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) Governmental Consents. No authorization or approval or other action by, and no
notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any other third party is
required for (i) the due execution, delivery, recordation, filing or performance by any Loan Party
of any Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party (either individually or as the general
partner or managing member of another Loan Party) or for the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents, (ii) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it
pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (iii) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created
under the Collateral Documents (including the first priority nature thereof) or (iv) to the
knowledge of any Loan Party, the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party of its
rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the
Collateral Documents, except for the authorizations, approvals, actions, notices and filings listed
on Schedule 4.01(d) hereto, all of which have been duly obtained, taken, given, or made and
are in full force and effect.
(e) Binding Obligation. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document when
delivered hereunder will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is a party
thereto (either individually or as the general partner or managing member of another Loan Party).
This Agreement is, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will be, the legal, valid
and binding obligation of each Loan Party that is a party thereto, enforceable against such Loan
Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, in accordance with its terms.
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(f) Litigation. There is no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding
affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any general partner or managing member (if
any) of any Loan Party, including any Environmental Action, pending or threatened before any court,
governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect (other than the Disclosed Litigation) or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Loan Document and the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, and
there has been no adverse change in the status, or financial effect on any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries or any general partner or managing member (if any) of any Loan Party, of the Disclosed
Litigation from that described on Schedule 4.01(f) hereto.
(g) Financial Condition. The consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor and
its Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2008 and the related consolidated statement of income and
consolidated statement of cash flows of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal
year then ended, accompanied by an unqualified opinion of Ernst & Young LLP, independent public
accountants, the consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries as at June
30, 2009 and the related consolidated statement of income and consolidated statement of cash flows
of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for the three months then ended, duly certified by the
Chief Financial Officer of the Parent Guarantor, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender
Party, fairly present subject, in the case of said consolidated balance sheet as at June 30, 2009,
and said consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the three months then ended, to
year-end audit adjustments, the consolidated financial condition of the Parent Guarantor and its
Subsidiaries, as at such dates and the consolidated results of operations of the Parent Guarantor
and its Subsidiaries for the periods ended on such dates, all in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles applied on a consistent basis, and since June 30, 2009, there has been no
Material Adverse Change.
(h) Forecasts. The consolidated forecasted balance sheets, statements of income and
statements of cash flows of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries delivered to the Lender
Parties pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(viii) or 5.03 were prepared in good faith on the basis of the
assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were fair in light of the conditions existing at the
time of delivery of such forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the Parent
Guarantor’s best estimate of its future financial performance.
(i) Full Disclosure. No information, exhibit or report furnished by or on behalf of
any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party in connection with the negotiation
and syndication of the Loan Documents or pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements made therein not misleading.
(j) Margin Regulations. No Loan Party is engaged in the business of extending credit
for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, and no proceeds of any Advance or drawings
under any Letter of Credit will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit
to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock.
(k) Governmental Regulation. Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is an
“investment company”, or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or
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“principal underwriter” for, an “investment company”, as such terms are defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each
Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries: (i) is primarily engaged, directly or through a
wholly-owned subsidiary or subsidiaries, in a business or businesses other than that of
(A) investing, reinvesting, owning, holding or trading in securities or (B) issuing face-amount
certificates of the installment type; (ii) is not engaged in, does not propose to engage in and
does not hold itself out as being engaged in the business of (A) investing, reinvesting, owning,
holding or trading in securities or (B) issuing face-amount certificates of the installment type;
(iii) does not own or propose to acquire investment securities (as defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended) having a value exceeding forty percent (40%) of the value of such
company’s total assets (exclusive of government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated
basis; (iv) has not in the past been engaged in the business of issuing face-amount certificates of
the installment type; and (v) does not have any outstanding face-amount certificates of the
installment type. Neither the making of any Advances, nor the issuance of any Letters of Credit,
nor the application of the proceeds or repayment thereof by the Borrower, nor the consummation of
the other transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, will violate any provision of such Act
or any rule, regulation or order of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
(l) No Materially Adverse Agreements. Neither any Loan Party nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a party to any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any lease or other agreement
or instrument or subject to any charter, corporate, partnership, membership or other governing
restriction that would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Perfection and Priority of Security Interests. All filings and other actions
necessary to perfect and protect the security interest in the Collateral created under the
Collateral Documents (other than the financing statements with respect to the Pledge Agreement and
the Mortgages, which shall be recorded as soon as practicable after (i) the Closing Date, in the
case of the Initial Borrowing Base Properties (other than the Mortgage and Assignment of Leases and
Rents with respect to the Sweet Home Property), (ii) the date on which any other Student Housing
Property becomes an Additional Borrowing Base Property, with respect to such Student Housing
Property, and (iii) the date on which the Special Security Documents may be recorded by
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.17) have been duly made or taken and are in full force
and effect, and the Collateral Documents create in favor of the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Lender Parties a valid and, together with such filings and other actions, perfected
first priority security interest in the Collateral, securing the payment of the Obligations of the
Loan Parties under the Loan Documents and the Hedge Obligations, and all filings and other actions
necessary or desirable to perfect and protect such security interest have been duly taken. The
Loan Parties are the legal and beneficial owners of the Collateral free and clear of any Lien,
except for all Liens and other matters disclosed in the Mortgage Policies and the liens and
security interests created or permitted under the Loan Documents.
(n) Surviving Debt. Set forth on Schedule 4.01(n) hereto is a complete and
accurate list of all Surviving Debt, showing as of the date hereof the obligor, the principal
amount outstanding thereunder and the maturity date thereof.
(o) Existing Liens. Set forth on Schedule 4.01(o) hereto is a complete and
accurate list of all Liens on the property or assets of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries
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that secure Debt for Borrowed Money, showing as of the date hereof the lienholder thereof, the
principal amount of the obligations secured thereby and the property or assets of such Loan Party
or such Subsidiary subject thereto.
(p) Real Estate Assets. Set forth on Schedule 4.01(p) hereto is a complete
and accurate list of all Real Estate Assets owned and/or leased (as lessee) by any Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries as of the date hereof or, if applicable, the date of the most recent
supplement to such Schedule 4.01(p) delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(j), showing as of
such date the street address, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, and record owner
thereof. Each Loan Party or such Subsidiary has good, marketable and insurable fee simple title to
such Real Estate Assets, free and clear of all Liens, other than Liens created by the Loan
Documents and Permitted Liens.
(q) Tenancy Leases. The Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a true,
correct and complete copy of the form of residential Tenancy Lease for each Borrowing Base
Property, and true, correct and complete copies of the non-residential Tenancy Leases and any
amendments thereto relating to each Borrowing Base Property as of the date hereof. An accurate and
complete Rent Roll as of the date of inclusion of each Borrowing Base Property in the Collateral
with respect to all Tenancy Leases of any portion of the Borrowing Base Property has been provided
to the Administrative Agent, which Rent Roll reflects any concessions or rebates provided with
respect to any Tenancy Leases. The Tenancy Leases previously delivered to Agent as described in
the preceding sentence constitute as of the date thereof the sole agreements relating to leasing or
licensing of space at such Borrowing Base Property and in the buildings relating thereto. No
tenant under any Tenancy Lease is entitled to any free rent, partial rent, rebate of rent payments,
credit, offset or deduction in rent, including, without limitation, lease support payments or lease
buy-outs, except as reflected in such Tenancy Leases or such Rent Roll. Except as set forth in
Schedule 4.01(q), the Tenancy Leases reflected on the Rent Rolls delivered to the
Administrative Agent are, as of the date of inclusion of the applicable Borrowing Base Property in
the Collateral, in full force and effect in accordance with their respective terms, without any
payment default or any other material default thereunder, nor to Borrower’s knowledge are there any
defenses, counterclaims or offsets available to any tenant thereunder, and except as reflected in
Schedule 4.01(q), no Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor has given or made, any notice of any
payment or other material default, or any claim, which remains uncured or unsatisfied, with respect
to any of the Tenancy Leases, and to the best of the knowledge and belief of the Borrower and the
Subsidiary Guarantors, there is no basis for any such claim or notice of default by any tenant. No
property other than the Borrowing Base Property which is the subject of the applicable Tenancy
Lease is necessary to comply with the requirements (including, without limitation, parking
requirements) contained in such Tenancy Lease.
(r) Environmental Matters. (i) Except as otherwise set forth on Part I of Schedule
4.01(r) hereto, the operations and properties of each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries
comply in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits,
all past non-compliance with such Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits will have no
material ongoing obligations or costs, and to the knowledge of each Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries, no circumstances exist that could be reasonably likely to (A) form the basis of an
Environmental Action against any Loan Party or any of its
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Subsidiaries or any of their properties that could have a Material Adverse Effect or (B) cause
any such property to be subject to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability
under any Environmental Law that could have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) Except as otherwise set forth on Part II of Schedule 4.01(r) hereto, none of the
properties currently or to the knowledge of each Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries, formerly
owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is listed or to the knowledge of
each Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries, proposed for listing on the NPL or on the CERCLIS or
any analogous foreign, state or local list; any and all asbestos or asbestos-containing material on
any property currently owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in good
condition and is arranged in accordance with Environmental Laws; Hazardous Materials have not been
stored or otherwise located, released, discharged or disposed of on any property currently or
formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in a manner that could
reasonably be expected to result in a material liability, and no part of such property is presently
contaminated by Hazardous Materials (in each case excluding, with respect to any property formerly
owned or operated by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, any such storage, location,
release, discharge, disposal or contamination occurring after such Loan Party or Subsidiary ceased
to own or operate such property).
(iii) Except as otherwise set forth on Part III of Schedule 4.01(r) hereto, neither any
Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is undertaking, and has not completed, either individually
or together with other potentially responsible parties, any investigation or assessment or remedial
or response action relating to any actual or threatened release, discharge or disposal of Hazardous
Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any
governmental or regulatory authority or the requirements of any Environmental Law; no underground
tank or other underground storage receptacle for Hazardous Materials is located on any portion of
the Real Estate; and all Hazardous Materials generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or
transported to or from, any property currently or formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries have been disposed of in a manner not reasonably expected to result in
material liability to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.
(iv) Except as set forth on Part IV Schedule 4.01(r), to the knowledge of each Loan
Party and any of its Subsidiaries, neither Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries nor the Real
Estate is subject to any applicable Environmental Law requiring the performance of Hazardous
Materials site assessments, or the removal or remediation of Hazardous Materials, or the giving of
notice to any governmental agency or the recording or delivery to other Persons of an environmental
disclosure document or statement in each case by virtue of the transactions set forth herein and
contemplated hereby, or as a condition to the recording of the Mortgages or to the effectiveness of
any other transactions contemplated hereby except for such matters that shall be complied with as
of the Closing Date.
(s) Compliance With Laws. Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary is in compliance with
the requirements of all Laws (including, without limitation, the Securities Act and the Securities
Exchange Act, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder, state securities law and “Blue
Sky” laws) applicable to it and its business, where the failure to so comply could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(t) Force Majeure. Neither the business nor the properties of any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries are affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor
dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or other
casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that could be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(u) Loan Parties’ Credit Decisions. Each Loan Party has, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
this Agreement (and in the case of the Guarantors, to give the guaranty under this Agreement) and
each other Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, and each Loan Party has established
adequate means of obtaining from each other Loan Party on a continuing basis information pertaining
to, and is now and on a continuing basis will be completely familiar with, the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties and prospects of such other Loan
Party.
(v) Solvency. Each Loan Party is, individually and together with its Subsidiaries,
Solvent.
(w) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx. No Loan Party has made any extension of credit to any of its
directors or executive officers in contravention of any applicable restrictions set forth in
Section 402(a) of Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx.
(x) ERISA Matters. (i) Set forth on Schedule 4.01(x) hereto is a complete and
accurate list of all Plans and Welfare Plans.
(ii) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Plan
that has resulted in or is reasonably expected to result in a material liability of any Loan Party
or any ERISA Affiliate.
(iii) Schedule B, MB or SB (Actuarial Information) to the most recent annual report (Form 5500
Series) for each Plan, copies of which have been filed with the Internal Revenue Service and
furnished to the Lender Parties, is complete and accurate and fairly presents the funding status of
such Plan, and since the date of such Schedule B, MB or SB there has been no material adverse
change in such funding status.
(iv) Neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has contributed to or been required to
contribute to any Multiemployer Plan within the past six years prior to the date hereof.
(v) Neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has been notified by the sponsor of a
Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or has been terminated, within
the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, and no such Multiemployer Plan is reasonably expected to be in
reorganization or to be terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
(y) Borrowing Base Properties.
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(i) Each of the Mortgages, when properly recorded in the appropriate records, creates a valid,
perfected first lien on the respective Borrowing Base Property, subject only to the Liens and other
matters disclosed by the Mortgage Policies (or, with respect to the Sweet Home Property, the Sweet
Home Title Commitment). The Loan Parties, or with respect to the Student Housing Property owned by
1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC and Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC and
Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC, respectively, are the legal and beneficial owners of the
Borrowing Base Properties and ACC OP Sweet Home LLC and ACC OP (Village at Newark) LLC are the
legal and beneficial owners of equity interests in such persons respectively, free and clear of any
Lien, except for Permitted Liens described in clauses(a), (b), (d) and (e) of the definition of
“Permitted Liens”. Each of the Borrowing Base Properties satisfies the requirements in this
Agreement to being a Borrowing Base Property. To each Loan Party’s knowledge, except as set forth
on Schedule 4.01(y) hereto, there are no proceedings in condemnation or eminent domain
affecting any of the Borrowing Base Properties and, to the knowledge of each Loan Party, none is
threatened. No Person has any option or other right to purchase all or any portion of any of the
Borrowing Base Properties or any interest therein.
(ii) To each Loan Party’s knowledge, the Borrowing Base Properties and the use thereof comply
in all material respects with all applicable zoning, subdivision and land use laws, regulations and
ordinances, all applicable health, fire, building codes, parking laws and all other laws, statutes,
codes, ordinances, rules and regulations applicable to the Borrowing Base Properties, or any of
them, including without limitation the Americans with Disabilities Act. To each Loan Party’s
knowledge, all material permits, licenses and certificates for the lawful use, occupancy and
operation of each component of each of the Borrowing Base Properties in the manner in which it is
currently being used, occupied and operated, including, but not limited to liquor licenses and
certificates of occupancy, or the equivalent, have been obtained and are current and in full force
and effect. To each Loan Party’s knowledge, no legal proceedings are pending or threatened with
respect to the zoning of any Borrowing Base Property. To each Loan Party’s knowledge, neither the
zoning nor any other right to construct, use or operate any Borrowing Base Property is in any way
dependent upon or related to any real estate other than such Borrowing Base Property in any way
that has had or is reasonably likely to give rise to a materially adverse effect as to the value,
use of or ability to sell or finance such Borrowing Base Property. No tract map, parcel map,
condominium plan, condominium declaration, or plat of subdivision will be recorded by any Loan
Party with respect to any Borrowing Base Property without the Administrative Agent’s prior written
consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned.
(iii) [Intentionally omitted.]
(iv) The Loan Parties have delivered to the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of
each of the Management Agreements and Material Contracts to which they are a party that will be in
effect on the Closing Date, and such Management Agreements and Material Contracts have not been
modified or amended except pursuant to amendments or modifications delivered to Administrative
Agent. Such Management Agreements and Material Contracts are in full force and effect and no
default by any of the Loan Parties or Managers exists thereunder. Except for the rights of (x)
each of the property managers pursuant to any Management Agreements and (y) third-party vendors
(including, without
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limitation, landscapers, ATM lessors, vending machine lessors and the like), no Person has any
right or obligation to manage any of the Borrowing Base Properties or to receive compensation in
connection with such management. Except for the parties to any leasing brokerage agreement that
has been delivered to the Administrative Agent, no Person has any right or obligation to lease or
solicit tenants for any of the Borrowing Base Properties, or (except for cooperating outside
brokers) to receive compensation in connection with such leasing.
(v) To each Loan Party’s knowledge, all improvements on any Borrowing Base Property, including
without limitation the roof and all structural components, plumbing systems, HVAC systems, fire
protection systems, electrical systems, equipment, elevators, exterior doors, parking facilities,
sidewalks and landscaping, are in good condition and repair. The Loan Parties are not aware of any
latent or patent structural or other material defect or deficiency in any of the Borrowing Base
Properties and, to the Loan Parties’ knowledge, city water supply, storm and sanitary sewers, and
electrical, gas (if applicable) and telephone facilities are available to each of the Borrowing
Base Properties within the boundary lines of each of the Borrowing Base Properties (except in any
way that has not had and is reasonably likely to not give rise to a materially adverse effect as to
the value, use of or ability to sell or finance such Borrowing Base Property), are fully connected
to the improvements and are fully operational, are sufficient to meet the reasonable needs of each
of the Borrowing Base Properties as now used or presently contemplated to be used, and no other
utility facilities are necessary to meet the reasonable needs of any of the Borrowing Base
Properties as now used or presently contemplated. Except in any way that has not had and is
reasonably likely to not give rise to a materially adverse effect as to the value, use of or
ability to sell or finance such Borrowing Base Property, to the Loan Parties’ knowledge no part of
any of the Borrowing Base Properties is within a flood plain and none of the improvements thereon
create encroachments over, across or upon any of the Borrowing Base Properties’ boundary lines,
rights of way or easements, and no building or other improvements on adjoining land create such an
encroachment which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All public
roads and streets necessary for service of and access to each of the Borrowing Base Properties for
the current and contemplated uses thereof have been completed and are serviceable and are
physically and legally open for use by the public. To the Loan Parties’ knowledge after due
inquiry, any septic system located at any of the Borrowing Base Properties is in good and safe
condition and repair and in compliance with all applicable law.
(vi) Each of the Borrowing Base Properties is comprised of one (1) or more parcels which
constitute separate tax lots. No part of any of the Borrowing Base Properties is included or
assessed under or as part of another tax lot or parcel, and no part of any other property is
included or assessed under or as part of the tax lots or parcels comprising any of the Borrowing
Base Properties.
(vii) Neither the Borrower nor any of the Guarantors has received any outstanding notice from
any insurer or its agent requiring performance of any work with respect to any of the Borrowing
Base Properties or canceling or threatening to cancel any policy of insurance, and each of the
Borrowing Base Properties complies with the material requirements of all of the Borrower’s and the
Guarantor’s insurance carriers.
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(z) Ground Lease (Temple). (i) The Ground Lease (Temple) contains the entire
agreement of the Ground Lessor (Temple) and the applicable Loan Party pertaining to the Ground
Leased Property (Temple) covered thereby. The Loan Parties have no estate, right, title or
interest in or to the Ground Leased Property (Temple) except under and pursuant to the Ground Lease
(Temple). The Loan Parties have delivered a true and correct copy of the Ground Lease (Temple) to
the Administrative Agent and the Ground Lease (Temple) has not been modified, amended or assigned.
(ii) To the knowledge of the Loan Parties, the Ground Lessor (Temple) is the exclusive fee
simple owner of its Ground Leased Property (Temple), subject only to the Ground Lease (Temple) and
Liens and other matters disclosed in the applicable Mortgage Policy for the Student Housing
Property subject to the Ground Lease (Temple), and the Ground Lessor (Temple) is the sole owner of
the lessor’s interest in the Ground Lease (Temple).
(iii) There are no rights to terminate the Ground Lease (Temple) other than the Ground Lessor
(Temple)’s right to terminate by reason of default, casualty, condemnation or other reasons, in
each case as expressly set forth in the Ground Lease (Temple).
(iv) The Ground Lease (Temple) is in full force and effect and, to the Loan Parties’
knowledge, no breach or default or event that with the giving of notice or passage of time would
constitute a breach or default under the Ground Lease (Temple) (a “Ground Lease (Temple) Default”)
exists or has occurred on the part of the Loan Parties or on the part of the Ground Lessor (Temple)
under the Ground Lease (Temple). All base rent and additional rent due and payable under the
Ground Lease (Temple) has been paid through the date hereof and the Loan Parties are not required
to pay any deferred or accrued rent after the date hereof under the Ground Lease (Temple). The
Loan Parties have not received any written notice that a Ground Lease Default (Temple) has occurred
or exists, or that the Ground Lessor (Temple) or any third party alleges the same to have occurred
or exist.
(v) ACT-Village at Temple LLC is the exclusive owner of the Lessee’s interest under and
pursuant to the Ground Lease (Temple) and has not assigned, transferred or encumbered its interest
in, to, or under the Ground Lease (Temple).
(aa) Ground Lease (Newark). (i) The Ground Lease (Newark) contains the entire
agreement of the Ground Lessor (Newark) and the applicable Loan Party pertaining to the Ground
Leased Property (Newark) covered thereby. The Loan Parties have no estate, right, title or
interest in or to the Ground Leased Property (Newark) except under and pursuant to the Ground Lease
(Newark). The Loan Parties have delivered a true and correct copy of the Ground Lease (Newark) to
the Administrative Agent and the Ground Lease (Newark) has not been modified, amended or assigned.
(ii) To the knowledge of the Loan Parties, the Ground Lessor (Newark) is the exclusive fee
simple owner of its Ground Leased Property (Newark), subject only to the Ground Lease (Newark) and
all Liens and other matters disclosed in the applicable Mortgage Policy for the Student Housing
Property subject to the Ground Lease (Newark), and the Ground Lessor (Newark) is the sole owner of
the lessor’s interest in the Ground Lease (Newark).
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(iii) There are no rights to terminate the Ground Lease (Newark) other than the Ground Lessor
(Newark)’s right to terminate by reason of default, casualty, condemnation or other reasons, in
each case as expressly set forth in the Ground Lease (Newark).
(iv) The Ground Lease (Newark) is in full force and effect and, to the Loan Parties’
knowledge, no breach or default or event that with the giving of notice or passage of time would
constitute a breach or default under the Ground Lease (Newark) (a “Ground Lease (Newark) Default”)
exists or has occurred on the part of the Loan Parties or on the part of the Ground Lessor (Newark)
under the Ground Lease (Newark). All base rent and additional rent due and payable under the
Ground Lease (Newark) has been paid through the date hereof and the Loan Parties are not required
to pay any deferred or accrued rent after the date hereof under the Ground Lease (Newark). The
Loan Parties have not received any written notice that a Ground Lease Default (Newark) has occurred
or exists, or that the Ground Lessor (Newark) or any third party alleges the same to have occurred
or exist.
(v) Village at Newark Urban Renewal, LLC is the exclusive owner of the Lessee’s interest
under and pursuant to the Ground Lease (Newark) and has not assigned, transferred or encumbered its
interest in, to, or under the Ground Lease (Newark).
(bb) Ground Lease (Callaway Villas). (i) The Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) contains
the entire agreement of the Ground Lessor (Callaway Villas) and the applicable Loan Party
pertaining to the Ground Leased Property (Callaway Villas) covered thereby. The Loan Parties have
no estate, right, title or interest in or to the Ground Leased Property (Callaway Villas) except
under and pursuant to the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas). The Loan Parties have delivered a true
and correct copy of the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) to the Administrative Agent and the Ground
Lease (Callaway Villas) has not been modified, amended or assigned.
(ii) To the knowledge of the Loan Parties, the Ground Lessor (Callaway Villas) is the exclusive
fee simple owner of its Ground Leased Property (Callaway Villas), subject only to the Ground Lease
(Callaway Villas) and all Liens and other matters disclosed in the applicable Mortgage Policy for
the Student Housing Property subject to the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas), and the Ground Lessor
(Callaway Villas) is the sole owner of the lessor’s interest in the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas).
(iii) There are no rights to terminate the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) other than the Ground
Lessor (Callaway Villas)’s right to terminate by reason of default, casualty, condemnation or other
reasons, in each case as expressly set forth in the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas).
(iv) The Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) is in full force and effect and, to the Loan Parties’
knowledge, no breach or default or event that with the giving of notice or passage of time would
constitute a breach or default under the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) (a “Ground Lease (Callaway
Villas) Default”) exists or has occurred on the part of the Loan Parties or on the part of the
Ground Lessor (Callaway Villas) under the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas). All base rent and
additional rent due and payable under the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) has been paid through the
date hereof and the Loan Parties are not required to
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pay any deferred or accrued rent after the date hereof under the Ground Lease (Callaway
Villas). The Loan Parties have not received any written notice that a Ground Lease Default
(Callaway Villas) has occurred or exists, or that the Ground Lessor (Callaway Villas) or any third
party alleges the same to have occurred or exist.
(v) ACC OP (Callaway Villas) LP is the exclusive owner of the Lessee’s interest under and
pursuant to the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas) and has not assigned, transferred or encumbered its
interest in, to, or under the Ground Lease (Callaway Villas).
(cc) No Prohibited Persons. Neither any Loan Party nor any of their respective
officers, directors, partners, members, Affiliates or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties,
shareholders is an entity or person: (i) that is listed in the Annex to, or is otherwise subject to
the provisions of Executive Order 13224 issued on September 24, 2001 (“EO13224”); (ii) whose name
appears on the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) most
current list of “Specifically Designated National and Blocked Persons” (which list may be published
from time to time in various mediums including, but not limited to, the OFAC website,
http:xxx.xxxxx.xxx/xxxx/x00xxx.xxx); (iii) who commits, threatens to commit or supports
“terrorism”, as that term is defined in EO 13224; or (iv) who is otherwise affiliated with any
entity or person listed above (any and all parties or persons described in clauses (i) through (iv)
above are herein referred to as a “Prohibited Person”).
(dd) On-Campus Participating Entities. Set forth on Schedule 4.01(bb) hereto
is a complete and accurate list of all Debt of the On-Campus Participating Entities. None of the
Consolidated Entities (i) is directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect
to any of such Debt, except as provided in the ACCSI Guaranty and the Cullen Oaks Phase II
Guaranty, or (ii) has any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, to make any
additional Investment in any of the On-Campus Participating Entities.
(ee) Hampton Roads Joint Venture. None of the Consolidated Entities (i) is directly
or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to any Debt of Hampton Roads Joint
Venture, or (ii) has any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, to make any
additional Investment in Hampton Roads Joint Venture.
(ff) Setoff, Etc. The Collateral and the rights of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders with respect to the Collateral are not subject to any setoff, claims, withholdings or other
defenses by the Guarantors, Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or, to the best
knowledge of Borrower, any other Person other than Permitted Liens described in §8.2(i), (iv), (vi)
and (vii).
(gg) Franchises, Patents, Copyrights, Etc. The Borrower, the Guarantors and their
respective Subsidiaries possess all franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names,
service marks, licenses and permits, and rights in respect of the foregoing, adequate for the
conduct of their business substantially as now conducted without known conflict with any rights of
others except with respect to Subsidiaries of Borrower that are not the owners of the Borrowing
Base Properties where such failure individually or in the aggregate has not had and could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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ARTICLE V
COVENANTS OF THE LOAN PARTIES
SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation
of any Loan Party under any Loan Document or the Hedge Obligations shall remain unpaid, any Letter
of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, each Loan
Party will:
(a) Compliance with Laws, Etc. Comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply,
in all material respects, with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, such compliance
to include, without limitation, compliance with ERISA and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Chapter of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970; provided, however that the
failure to comply with the provisions of this Section 5.01(a) shall not constitute a default
hereunder so long as such non-compliance is the subject of a Good Faith Contest or would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Payment of Taxes, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
pay and discharge, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and
governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its property and (ii) all lawful claims
that, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon its property; provided, however that neither the
Loan Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax,
assessment, charge or claim that is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and as
to which appropriate reserves are being maintained, unless and until any Lien resulting therefrom
attaches to its property and becomes enforceable against its other creditors.
(c) Compliance with Environmental Laws. Comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries
and all lessees and other Persons operating or occupying its properties to comply, in all material
respects, with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; obtain and renew and
cause each of its Subsidiaries to obtain and renew all Environmental Permits necessary for its
operations and properties; and conduct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to conduct, any
investigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any cleanup, removal, remedial or other
action necessary to remove and clean up all Hazardous Materials from any of its properties, in
accordance with the requirements of all Environmental Laws, in each case to the extent the failure
to remove and/or clean up the same would be reasonably likely to result in a material liability to
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; provided, however that neither the Loan Parties nor any
of their Subsidiaries shall be required to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other
action to the extent that its obligation to do so is being contested in good faith and by proper
proceedings and appropriate reserves are being maintained with respect to such circumstances.
(d) Insurance; Condemnation.
(i) The Borrower will, at its expense, procure and maintain for the benefit of the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent, insurance policies issued by such insurance companies, in such
amounts, in such form and substance, and with such coverages, endorsements, deductibles and
expiration dates as are acceptable to the Administrative Agent, providing the following types of
insurance covering each Borrowing Base Property:
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(A) “All Risks” property insurance (including broad form flood, broad form earthquake,
coverage from loss or damage arising from acts of terrorism (with such coverage satisfactory to
Agent), and comprehensive boiler and machinery coverages) on each Building and the contents therein
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an amount not less than one hundred percent (100%) of the
full replacement cost of each Building and the contents therein of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries or such other amount as the Administrative Agent may approve, with deductibles not to
exceed $25,000.00 for any one occurrence, with a replacement cost coverage endorsement, an agreed
amount endorsement, and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, a contingent liability from
operation of building laws endorsement in such amounts as the Administrative Agent may require.
Full replacement cost as used herein means the cost of replacing the Building (exclusive of the
cost of excavations, foundations and footings below the lowest basement floor) and the contents
therein of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries without deduction for physical depreciation thereof;
(B) During the course of construction or repair of any Building, the insurance required by
clause (A) above shall be written on a builders risk, completed value, non-reporting form, meeting
all of the terms required by clause (A) above, covering the total value of work performed,
materials, equipment, machinery and supplies furnished, existing structures, and temporary
structures being erected on or near the Real Estate, including coverage against collapse and damage
during transit or while being stored off-site, and containing a soft costs (including loss of
rents) coverage endorsement and a permission to occupy endorsement;
(C) Flood insurance if at any time any Building is located in any federally designated
“special hazard area” (including any area having special flood, mudslide and/or flood-related
erosion hazards, and shown on a Flood Hazard Boundary Map or a Flood Insurance Rate Map published
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as Zone A, AO, Al-30, AE, A99, AH, VO, V1-30, VE, V, M
or E) and the broad form flood coverage required by clause (i) above is not available, in an amount
equal to not less than the greater of (1) $25,000,000 or (2) the maximum amount then available
under the National Flood Insurance Program;
(D) Rent loss insurance in an amount sufficient to recover at least the real business income
loss from all sources of income, including without limitation, rental income, for the Borrowing
Base Property for a twelve (12) month period;
(E) Commercial general liability insurance against claims for personal injury (to include,
without limitation, bodily injury and personal and advertising injury) and property damage
liability, all on an occurrence basis, if commercially available, with such coverages as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request (including, without limitation, contractual liability
coverage, completed operations coverage for a period of two (2) years following completion of
construction of any improvements on the Real Estate, and coverages equivalent to an ISO broad form
endorsement), with a general aggregate limit of not less than $2,000,000.00, a completed operations
aggregate limit of not less than $2,000,000.00, and a combined single “per occurrence” limit of not
less than $1,000,000.00 for bodily injury, property damage and medical payments;
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(F) During the course of construction or repair of any improvements on the Real Estate,
owner’s contingent or protective liability insurance covering claims not covered by or under the
terms or provisions of the insurance required by clause (E) above;
(G) Employer’s liability insurance with respect to the Borrower’s employees;
(H) Umbrella liability insurance with limits of not less than $25,000,000.00 to be in excess
of the limits of the insurance required by clauses (E), (F) and (G) above, with coverage at least
as broad as the primary coverages of the insurance required by clauses (E), (F) and (G) above, with
any excess liability insurance to be at least as broad as the coverages of the lead umbrella
policy. All such policies shall be endorsed to provide defense coverage obligations;
(I) Workers’ compensation insurance for all employees of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
engaged on or with respect to the Real Estate with limits as required by applicable law; and
(J) Such other commercially reasonably available insurance in such form and in such amounts as
may from time to time be reasonably required by the Agent against other insurable hazards and
casualties which at the time are commonly insured against in the case of properties of similar
character and location to the Real Estate.
The Borrower shall pay all premiums on insurance policies. The insurance policies with
respect to all Borrowing Base Property provided for in clauses (E), (F) and (H) above shall name
the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties as an additional insured and shall contain a cross
liability/severability endorsement. The insurance policies provided for in clauses (A), (B), (C)
and (D) above shall name the Administrative Agent as mortgagee and loss payee, shall be first
payable in case of loss to the Agent, and shall contain mortgage clauses and lender’s loss payable
endorsements in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent. The Borrower shall
deliver duplicate originals or certified copies of all such policies to the Administrative Agent,
and the Borrower shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent all renewal notices and
evidence that all premiums or portions thereof then due and payable have been paid. At least
thirty (30) days prior to the expiration date of the policies, the Borrower shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent evidence of continued coverage, including a certificate of insurance, as may
be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) All policies of insurance required by this Agreement shall contain clauses or
endorsements to the effect that (A) no act or omission of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or anyone
acting for the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including, without limitation, any representations made
in the procurement of such insurance), which might otherwise result in a forfeiture of such
insurance or any part thereof, no occupancy or use of the Student Housing Property for purposes
more hazardous then permitted by the terms of the policy, (B) the insurer waives any right of set
off, counterclaim, subrogation, or any deduction in respect of any liability of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary and the Administrative Agent, (C) such insurance is primary and without right of
contribution from any other insurance which may be available, (D) such
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policies shall not be materially modified, canceled or terminated prior to the scheduled
expiration date thereof without the insurer thereunder giving thirty (30) days’ prior written
notice to the Agent by certified or registered mail, and (E) that the Administrative Agent or the
Lenders shall not be liable for any premiums thereon or subject to any assessments thereunder, and
Borrower shall endeavor to submit property values sufficient to avoid any coinsurance liability.
(iii) In the event of any loss or damage to or Taking of any Borrowing Base Property, the
Borrower or the applicable Guarantor shall give prompt written notice to the insurance carrier, as
applicable, and the Administrative Agent. Each of the Borrower and the Guarantors hereby
irrevocably authorizes and empowers the Administrative Agent, at the Administrative Agent’s option
and in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion or at the request of the Required Lenders in
their sole discretion, as its attorney in fact, to make proof of such loss, to adjust and
compromise any claim under insurance policies or with respect to a Taking, to appear in and
prosecute any action arising from such insurance policies, or Taking, to collect and receive
Insurance Proceeds and Condemnation Proceeds, and to deduct therefrom the Administrative Agent’s
reasonable expenses incurred in the collection of such Insurance Proceeds or Condemnation Proceeds;
provided, however, that so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
and so long as the Borrower or any Guarantor shall in good faith diligently pursue such claim, the
Borrower or such Guarantor may make proof of loss and appear in any proceedings or negotiations
with respect to the adjustment of such claim, except that the Borrower or such Guarantor may not
settle, adjust or compromise any such claim without the prior written consent of the Administrative
Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, further, that the
Borrower or such Guarantor may make proof of loss and adjust and compromise any claim under
casualty insurance policies which is in an amount less than $1,000,000.00 so long as no Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and so long as the Borrower or such Guarantor shall
in good faith diligently pursue such claim. The Borrower and each Guarantor further authorize the
Administrative Agent, at the Agent’s option, to (i) apply the balance of such Insurance Proceeds
and Condemnation Proceeds to the payment of the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan
Documents whether or not then due, or (ii) if the Administrative Agent shall require the
reconstruction or repair of the applicable Borrowing Base Property, to hold the balance of such
proceeds as trustee to be used to pay taxes, charges, sewer use fees, water rates and assessments
which may be imposed on the applicable Borrowing Base Property and the Obligations of the Loan
Parties under the Loan Documents as they become due during the course of reconstruction or repair
of the applicable Borrowing Base Property and to reimburse the Borrower or such Guarantor, in
accordance with such terms and conditions as the Administrative Agent may prescribe, for the costs
of reconstruction or repair of the Borrowing Base Property, and upon completion of such
reconstruction or repair to apply any excess to the payment of the Obligations of the Loan parties
under the Loan Documents.
(iv) Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained in the Collateral
Documents, the Administrative Agent shall make net Insurance Proceeds and Condemnation Proceeds
available to the Borrower or such Guarantor to reconstruct and repair the applicable Borrowing Base
Property, in accordance with such terms and conditions as the Administrative Agent may prescribe in
the Administrative Agent’s discretion for the disbursement of the proceeds, provided that (i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the Borrower or such
Guarantor shall have provided to the
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Administrative Agent additional cash security in an amount equal to the amount reasonably
estimated by the Administrative Agent to be the amount in excess of such proceeds which will be
required to complete such repair or restoration, (iii) the Agent shall have approved the plans and
specifications, construction budget, construction contracts, and construction schedule for such
repair or restoration and reasonably determined that the repaired or restored Borrowing Base
Property will provide the Administrative Agent with adequate security for the Obligations of the
Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (provided that the Administrative Agent shall not disapprove
such plans and specifications if the Student Housing Property is to be restored to substantially
its condition immediately prior to such damage), (iv) the Administrative Agent shall reasonably
determine that such repair or reconstruction can be completed prior to the Termination Date, (v)
the Agent shall receive evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that any such restoration, repair or
rebuilding complies in all respects with any and all applicable state, federal and local laws,
ordinances and regulations, including without limitation, zoning laws, ordinances and regulations
and any franchise agreements relating to the Student Housing Property, and that all required
permits, licenses and approvals relative thereto have been or will be issued in a manner so as not
to materially impede the progress of restoration, (vi) the Administrative Agent shall receive
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that the insurer under such policies of fire or other
casualty insurance does not assert any defense to payment under such policies against the Borrower,
any Guarantor or the Administrative Agent, and (vii) the Administrative Agent in its reasonable
sole discretion shall have determined that such Borrowing Base Property can be restored to
substantially the same utility, condition and character as existed prior to the Taking. Any excess
Insurance Proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the
Loan Documents, unless by the terms of the applicable insurance policy the excess proceeds are
required to be returned to such insurer. Any excess Condemnation Proceeds shall be applied to the
payment of the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents. In no event shall the
provisions of this section be construed to extend the Termination Date or to limit in any way any
right or remedy of the Administrative Agent upon the occurrence of an Event of Default hereunder.
If the applicable Borrowing Base Property is sold or the applicable Borrowing Base Property is
acquired by the Administrative Agent, all right, title and interest of the Borrower and any
Guarantor in and to any insurance policies and unearned premiums thereon and in and to the proceeds
thereof resulting from loss or damage to the Borrowing Base Property prior to the sale or
acquisition shall pass to the Administrative Agent or any other successor in interest to the
Borrower or purchaser of the Borrowing Base Property.
(v) All policies of insurance required by this Agreement shall be issued by companies licensed
to do business in the state where the policy is issued and shall be issued by companies having a
rating in Best’s Key Rating Guide of at least “A” and a financial size category of at least “X”.
(vi) The Borrower and its Subsidiaries (as applicable) will, at their expense, procure and
maintain insurance covering the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (as applicable) and the Real Estate
other than the Borrowing Base Properties in such amounts and against such risks and casualties as
are customary for properties of similar character and location, due regard being given to the type
of improvements thereon, their construction, location, use and occupancy.
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(e) Preservation of Partnership or Corporate Existence, Etc. Preserve and maintain,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to preserve and maintain, its existence (corporate or
otherwise), rights (charter and statutory), permits, licenses, approvals and franchises except, in
the case of Subsidiaries of the Borrower only, if in the reasonable business judgment of such
Subsidiary it is in its best economic interest not to preserve and maintain such rights or
franchises and such failure to preserve and maintain such rights or franchises is not reasonably
likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect (it being understood that the foregoing shall not
prohibit, or be violated as a result of, any transactions by or involving any Loan Party or
Subsidiary thereof otherwise permitted under Section 5.02(d) or (e) below).
(f) Visitation Rights. At any reasonable time and from time to time, permit any of
the Administrative Agent or Lender Parties, or any agents or representatives thereof, to examine
and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of, and visit the properties
of, any Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries, and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts
of any Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries with any of their general partners, managing members,
officers or directors and with their independent certified public accountants.
(g) Keeping of Books. Keep, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to keep, proper books
of record and account, in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial
transactions and the assets and business of such Loan Party and each such Subsidiary in accordance
with GAAP.
(h) Maintenance of Properties, Etc. Maintain and preserve, and cause each of its
Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve, all of its properties that are used or useful in the conduct
of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and will from
time to time make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals and replacement thereof
except where failure to do so would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(i) Transactions with Affiliates. Conduct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
conduct, all transactions otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents with any of their Affiliates
(other than (i) in the case of any Loan Party, any other Loan Party, and (ii) in the case of any
other Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, any Consolidated Entity) on terms that are fair and
reasonable and no less favorable to such Loan Party or Subsidiary than it would obtain in a
comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate; provided that neither (A) the
charging of a guarantee fee or similar charge, in the amount of up to 2% of the guaranteed
obligation, by one Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor to another such Subsidiary as compensation
for providing a guarantee of an obligation of such other Subsidiary nor (B) the charging by ACCSI
of fees for services rendered to any other Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor in the amount of up
to 150% of the cost of providing such services nor (C) the incurrence by any Subsidiary of the
Parent Guarantor of obligations under a Customary Carve-Out Agreement relating to Non-Recourse Debt
of another such Subsidiary shall constitute a breach of this Section 5.02(i).
(j) Leases.
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(i) Without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, none of Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor, nor
their respective agents shall (A) enter into any non-residential Tenancy Leases, or (B) modify,
amend or terminate any non-residential Tenancy Lease. Borrower shall provide Administrative Agent
with a copy of all non-residential Tenancy Leases no less than ten (10) days prior to execution of
such Tenancy Leases. Borrower shall provide Administrative Agent with a copy of the fully executed
original of all non-residential Tenancy Leases promptly following their execution. At
Administrative Agent’s request, Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantors shall cause all non-residential
Tenants to execute Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreements reasonably satisfactory
to Administrative Agent. Administrative Agent reserves the right to subordinate the Mortgages to
any Tenancy Lease.
(ii) Without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, none of Borrower, any Subsidiary Guarantor, nor
their respective agents shall enter into any residential Tenancy Leases unless such residential
Tenancy Leases are (A) for a term of one year or less, (B) are written on a form reasonably
approved by Administrative Agent without material modification, and (C) contain a parental
guarantee unless (1) the tenant thereunder demonstrates income of not less than three (3) times the
amount of rent due under such residential Tenancy Lease, and (2) such residential Tenancy Leases
for all properties subject to Mortgages shall not exceed five percent (5.0%) of the total number of
residential Tenancy Leases.
(iii) Loan Parties shall not accept any prepayment of rents under any Tenancy Lease more than
one month in advance of its due date; provided that Loan Parties may collect prepaid rents under
residential Tenancy Leases provided that the aggregate amount of such prepaid rents for residential
Tenancy Leases shall not at any time exceed five percent (5%) of projected annual rental revenue
from residential Tenancy Leases.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any references to Tenancy Leases in this
Section 5.01(j) shall only refer to Tenancy Leases entered into with respect to the Borrowing Base
Properties.
(k) Further Assurances. (i) Promptly upon request by Administrative Agent, or any
Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, correct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries promptly
to correct, any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the
execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof.
(ii) Promptly upon request by Administrative Agent, or any Lender Party through the
Administrative Agent, do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register
and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, conveyances, pledge agreements, mortgages,
deeds of trust, trust deeds, assignments, financing statements and continuations thereof,
termination statements, notices of assignment, transfers, certificates, assurances and other
instruments as Administrative Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, may
reasonably require from time to time in order to (A) carry out more effectively the purposes of the
Loan Documents, (B) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, subject any Loan Party’s or
any of its Subsidiaries’ properties, assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter
intended to be covered by any of the Collateral Documents,
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(C) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral
Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created thereunder and (D) assure, convey, grant,
assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the Lender Parties the rights
granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Lender Parties under any Loan Document or
under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries is or is to be a party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.
(iii) Not less than once each calendar quarter, with respect to the Sweet Home Property,
Borrower shall (A) cause a “date down” endorsement (in the event a Mortgage Policy for the Sweet
Home Property exists) or other update confirming the status of title to the Sweet Home Property
indicating no change in the state of title to the Sweet Home Property from that shown on the Sweet
Home Property Commitment (except for taxes for the current year not yet due and payable) and
containing no survey exceptions (in the event a Mortgage Policy for the Sweet Home Property exists)
not approved by the Administrative Agent, and (B) certify to the Administrative Agent that there
have been no structures, additions, fences or other improvements made on or off of any portion of
the Sweet Home Property after the Closing Date which would cause such survey for the Sweet Home
Property delivered to Administrative Agent on or near the Closing Date to be an inaccurate
representation of such portion of the Sweet Home Property as of the date hereof in any material
respect;
(iv) Cooperate in a commercially reasonable manner with the relevant Appraiser in connection
with any Appraisal of a Borrowing Base Property (including any proposed Additional Borrowing Base
Property), such cooperation to include, without limitation, providing such Appraiser with access to
such information relating to such Borrowing Base Property as such Appraiser may reasonably request.
(l) Performance of Material Contracts. Perform and observe all the terms and
provisions of each Material Contract to be performed or observed by it, maintain each such Material
Contract in full force and effect (including, without limitation, not allowing any lease which
constitutes a Material Contract to lapse or be terminated or any rights to renew such lease to be
forfeited or cancelled), enforce each such Material Contract in accordance with its terms, take all
such action to such end as may be from time to time requested by the Administrative Agent
(including, without limitation, notifying the Administrative Agent of any default by any party with
respect to any lease which constitutes a Material Contract and cooperating with the Administrative
Agent in all respects to cure any such default) and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, make
to each other party to each such Material Contract such demands and requests for information and
reports or for action as any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is entitled to make under such
Material Contract, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.
(m) Maintenance of REIT Status. In the case of the Parent Guarantor, at all times,
conduct its affairs and the affairs of its Subsidiaries in a manner so as to qualify as a REIT and
elect to be treated as a REIT.
(n) NYSE Listing. In the case of the Parent Guarantor, at all times (i) cause its
common shares to be duly listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange and
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(ii) file all reports required to be filed by it in connection therewith in a timely manner,
after giving effect to any extensions allowed by the New York Stock Exchange or the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
(o) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx. Comply at all times with all applicable provisions of Section
402(a) of Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx.
(p) Hampton Roads Joint Venture. Promptly notify the Administrative Agent in the
event of any change in the structure, investment, return or other rights and obligations of
Borrower or its Subsidiaries with respect to the Hampton Roads Joint Venture. In the event of any
such change, Hampton Roads Joint Venture may, at the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be
considered a Consolidated Subsidiary or Unconsolidated Entity, as applicable, as determined by
Administrative Agent.
(q) Inspection of Properties and Books. The Borrower and the Guarantors will, and
will cause their respective Subsidiaries to, permit the Administrative Agent and the Lender
Parties, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect any of the Borrowing Base Properties of
the Borrower, each Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries, to examine the books of
account of the Borrower, each Guarantor and their respective Subsidiaries (and to make copies
thereof and extracts therefrom) and to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrower,
any Guarantor and their respective Subsidiaries with, and to be advised as to the same by, their
respective officers, all at such reasonable times and intervals as the Administrative Agent or any
Lender may reasonably request. The Lenders shall use good faith efforts to coordinate such visits
and inspections so as to minimize the interference with and disruption to the normal business
operations of the Borrower, the Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries.
(r) Appraisals. Administrative Agent shall have the right from time to time to obtain
a new or updated Appraisal of all the Borrowing Base Properties. However, in the event that Agent
reasonably believes that there has been a material diminution of the value of, or other material
adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or
prospects of a Borrowing Base Property, Administrative Agent shall have the right to obtain a new
or updated Appraisal of the individual Borrowing Base Property without having to obtain Appraisals
of all the Borrowing Base Properties. If Administrative Agent has not obtained a new or updated
Appraisal within the previous twelve (12) calendar months, then, upon the direction of the Required
Lenders, Administrative Agent shall obtain a new or updated Appraisal of all the Borrowing Base
Properties. The reasonable actual out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent in obtaining such Appraisals shall be paid by the Borrower forthwith upon billing or request
by the Agent for reimbursement therefor. Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantors shall cooperate with
Administrative Agent in this regard. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, all
Appraisals of the Borrowing Base Properties shall be at the sole cost and expenses of Borrower,
provided, however, so long as no Default exists or the Appraisal is obtained to comply with any
applicable law or regulatory requirement, or bank policy promulgated in connection therewith,
Borrower shall pay for any such Appraisal upon Administrative Agent’s request. Borrower shall only
be required to pay for one Appraisal of each Borrowing Base Property in any twelve (12) month
period unless it elects on its own to request that Agent order updated Appraisals. Borrower shall
have the right, at its sole cost and
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expense, to request that Agent obtain a new or updated Appraisal of all the Borrowing Base
Properties; provided that the Agent and the Required Lenders shall retain their independent right
to obtain Appraisals as provided above notwithstanding any Appraisals obtained at the request of
Borrower.
SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenants. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of
any Loan Party under any Loan Document or the Hedge Obligations shall remain unpaid, any Letter of
Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, no Loan Party
will, at any time:
(a) Liens, Etc. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of its
Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien on or with respect to any of its
properties of any character (including, without limitation, accounts) whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, or sign or file or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sign
or file or suffer to exist, under the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction, a financing
statement that names such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries as debtor, or sign or suffer to
exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sign or suffer to exist, any security agreement
authorizing any secured party thereunder to file such financing statement, or assign, or permit any
of its Subsidiaries to assign, any accounts or other right to receive income, except, in the case
of the Loan Parties (other than the Parent Guarantor) and their respective Subsidiaries:
(i) Liens created under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Permitted Liens;
(iii) Liens described on Schedule 4.01(o) hereto;
(iv) Liens arising in connection with Capitalized Leases permitted under Section
5.02(b)(ii)(B), provided that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any Collateral (including the
Sweet Home Property) or assets other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Leases;
(v) Liens on property of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged into or
consolidated with any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party or becomes a Subsidiary of any
Loan Party, provided that such Liens were not created in contemplation of such merger,
consolidation or acquisition and do not extend to any assets other than those of the Person so
merged into or consolidated with such Loan Party or such Subsidiary or acquired by such Loan Party
or such Subsidiary;
(vi) other Liens securing Non-Recourse Debt permitted under Section 5.02(b)(ii)(E) or Secured
Recourse Debt permitted under Section 5.02(b)(ii)(F), provided that no such Lien shall extend to or
cover any Collateral (including the Sweet Home Property);
(vii) the replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted by clause (iii) above upon
or in the same property theretofore subject thereto or the replacement, extension or renewal
(without increase in the amount or change in any direct or contingent obligor) of the Debt secured
thereby; and
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(viii) Liens securing the Cullen Oaks Phase II Loan and encumbering only the Student Housing
Properties located on the premises covered by the U of H ground lease.
Notwithstanding anything contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, no Loan Party will, at
any time, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any Lien on any direct or indirect
interest of Borrower or any Guarantor in any Borrowing Base Property.
(b) Debt. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries
to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Debt, except:
(i) in the case of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party, Debt owed to any other
Loan Party or any wholly-owned Subsidiary of any Loan Party, provided that, in each case, such Debt
(y) shall be on terms acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (z) shall be evidenced by
promissory notes in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, which promissory
notes shall (unless payable to the Borrower) by their terms be subordinated to the Obligations of
the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents and the Hedge Obligations;
(ii) in the case of each Loan Party (other than the Parent Guarantor) and its Subsidiaries,
(A) Debt under the Loan Documents,
(B) (1) Capitalized Leases not to exceed in the aggregate $5,000,000 at any time outstanding,
and (2) in the case of Capitalized Leases to which any Subsidiary of a Loan Party is a party, Debt
of such Loan Party of the type described in clause (i) of the definition of “Debt” guaranteeing the
Obligations of such Subsidiary under such Capitalized Leases,
(C) the Surviving Debt described on Schedule 4.01(o) hereto and any Refinancing Debt
that extends, refunds or refinances such Surviving Debt,
(D) Debt in respect of Hedge Agreements entered into by the Borrower and designed to hedge
against fluctuations in interest rates incurred in the ordinary course of business and consistent
with prudent business practice,
(E) Non-Recourse Debt the incurrence of which would not result in a Default under Section 5.04
or any other provision of this Agreement, and the obligations under any Customary Carve-Out
Agreements related thereto,
(F) Secured Recourse Debt the incurrence of which would not result in a Default under Section
5.04 or any other provision of this Agreement, provided that (1) each individual obligation
included within Secured Recourse Debt shall not exceed 80% of the value of the collateral securing
such Secured Recourse Debt as reasonably determined by Borrower and approved by Administrative
Agent, and (2) the aggregate amount of Secured Recourse Debt shall not exceed 15% of Consolidated
Total Asset Value,
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(G) Unsecured Debt the incurrence of which would not result in a Default under Section 5.04 or
any other provision of this Agreement, and
(H) Qualifying Trust Preferred Obligations;
(iii) In the case of the Parent Guarantor,
(A) (1) Debt under the Loan Documents and (2) Debt under the KeyBank/ACC Term Loan Agreement,
(B) Obligations under any Customary Carve-Out Agreements related to Non Recourse Debt
permitted under Section
5.02(b)(ii)(E),
(C) Debt in respect of Completion Guaranties,
(D) Debt in respect of Environmental Indemnities, and
(E) Debt under Xxxxxxx Mac/ACC Loan;
(iv) In the case of the Borrower;
(A) Debt in respect of Completion Guaranties, and
(B) Debt in respect of Environmental Indemnities; and
(v) endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions
in the ordinary course of business;
provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Loan Party shall, nor shall
it permit any of its Subsidiaries (including without limitation the On-Campus Participating
Entities) to, create, incur or assume any Debt relating to the On-Campus Participating Entities or
the On-Campus Participating Properties after the date hereof.
(c) Change in Nature of Business. Make, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make,
any material change in the nature of its business as carried on at the date hereof; or engage in,
or permit any of its Subsidiaries to engage in, any business other than ownership, development and
management of Student Housing Properties consistent in quality with the Borrowing Base Properties,
and other business activities incidental thereto.
(d) Mergers, Etc. Merge or consolidate with or into, or convey, transfer, lease or
otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or
substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to, any Person, or permit
any of its Subsidiaries to do so; provided, however that (i) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party may
merge or consolidate with or into, or dispose of assets to, any other Subsidiary of such Loan Party
(provided that if one or more of such Subsidiaries is also a Loan Party, any such Loan Party shall
be the surviving entity) or any other Loan Party (provided that such Loan Party or, in the case of
any Loan Party other than the Borrower, another Loan Party shall be the surviving entity), and
(ii) any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary of a Loan Party may merge with any
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other Person so long as such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, is the
surviving entity, provided, in each case, that no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at
the time of such proposed transaction or would result therefrom. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement, (y) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party (other than the Borrower) may
liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution
is in the best interests of the Borrower and the assets or proceeds from the liquidation or
dissolution of such Subsidiary are transferred to the Borrower or another Loan Party, provided that
(A) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
proposed transaction and (B) no Default or Event of Default would result therefrom, and (z) any
Loan Party or Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall be permitted to effect any Transfer of assets
through the sale of Equity Interests in the Subsidiary of such Loan Party that owns such assets so
long as Section 5.02(e) would otherwise permit the Transfer of all assets owned by such Subsidiary
at the time of such sale of Equity Interests.
(e) Sales, Etc. of Assets. (i) In the case of the Parent Guarantor, sell, lease,
transfer or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option or other right to purchase, lease or
otherwise acquire, any of its assets and (ii) in the case of the Loan Parties (other than the
Parent Guarantor), sell, lease (other than enter into Tenancy Leases), transfer or otherwise
dispose of, or grant any option or other right to purchase, lease (other than any option or other
right to enter into Tenancy Leases) or otherwise acquire, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to
sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option or other right to purchase,
lease or otherwise acquire (each action described in clause (ii) of this subsection (e) being a
“Transfer”), any asset or assets (or any Equity Interests in connection therewith) other than
(A) the Transfer of any asset or assets that are not Borrowing Base Properties from any Loan Party
to another Loan Party or from a Subsidiary of a Loan Party to another Subsidiary of such Loan Party
or any other Loan Party or (B) the Transfer of any asset or assets during any Fiscal Year of which
the aggregate Capitalized Value (or, in the case of any Real Estate Asset owned or in operation by
any Consolidated Entity for less than four full fiscal quarters as of the applicable date of
determination, the undepreciated book value), when added to the Capitalized Values (or
undepreciated book value, if applicable) of all other assets that had been the subject of any
previous Transfer or Transfers during such Fiscal Year (as determined at the time of each such
Transfer), is less than 20% of Consolidated Total Asset Value as of the beginning of such Fiscal
Year, or (C) the Transfer of the pledged Equity Interests pursuant to the Pledge Agreement;
provided that (1) no Transfer of any Borrowing Base Property or of any Equity Interests in any Loan
Party other than the Parent Guarantor shall be permitted except the pledge of Equity Interests
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement as set forth in Section 9.11 and (2) in the case of any Transfer
described in clause (B) above which individually or in a series of related transactions is in
excess of 10% of Consolidated Total Asset Value as of the beginning of such Fiscal Year, the Loan
Parties are in compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.04 (both before and after
giving effect to such Transfer), as evidenced by a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer (or
such person performing similar functions) of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent
prior to such Transfer demonstrating such compliance and that the Transfer does not otherwise cause
or result in a Default or Event of Default .
(f) Investments in Other Persons. Make or hold, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to
make or hold, any Investment in any Person other than:
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(i) Investments by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in their Subsidiaries outstanding
on the date hereof and additional Investments in Subsidiaries of the Loan Parties and, in the case
of the Loan Parties (other than the Parent Guarantor) and their respective Subsidiaries,
Investments in assets (including by asset or Equity Interest acquisitions), in each case subject,
where applicable, to the limitations set forth in Section 5.02(f)(v);
(ii) Investments in Cash Equivalents;
(iii) Investments consisting of intercompany Debt permitted under Section 5.02(b)(i);
(iv) Investments consisting of advances to officers and employees for moving, entertainment
and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in the ordinary course of business;
(v) Investments consisting of the following items so long as (y) the aggregate amount
outstanding, without duplication, of all Investments described in this clause (v) does not exceed,
at any time, 25% of Consolidated Total Asset Value at such time, and (z) the aggregate amount of
each of the following items of Investments does not exceed the specified percentage of Consolidated
Total Asset Value set forth below:
(A) unimproved Real Estate Assets not constituting Development Properties, so long as the
aggregate amount of such Investments, calculated on the basis of cost, does not at any time exceed
5% of Consolidated Total Asset Value at such time,
(B) Development Properties, so long as the aggregate amount of such Investments, calculated on
the basis of actual cost, does not at any time exceed 20% of Consolidated Total Asset Value at such
time, and
(C) Investments in Unconsolidated Entities so long as the aggregate amount of such Investments
outstanding does not at any time exceed 10% of Consolidated Total Asset Value at any time; and
(D) Investments in Mortgage Receivables secured by properties (excluding mezzanine loans
secured by equity interests in Persons owning properties) that meet the property type requirements
of a Student Housing Property so long as the aggregate amount of such Investments outstanding does
not at any time exceed 10% of the Consolidated Total Asset Value at any time.
(vi) Investments by the Borrower in Hedge Agreements permitted under Section 5.02(b)(ii)(D).
provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (A) no Loan Party shall make,
nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries (including without limitation the On-Campus
Participating Entities) to make, any Investment in the On-Campus Participating Entities or the
On-Campus Participating Properties after the date of the Existing Credit Agreement to the extent
the aggregate amount of all such Investments made after the date of the Existing Credit Agreement
would exceed $1,000,000, and (B) no Loan Party shall permit any of the On-Campus
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Participating Entities to make or hold any Investment in an Unconsolidated Entity, and (C) no
Loan Party shall make, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries (including, without limitation
the On-Campus Participating Entities) to make, without the prior written approval of the Required
Lenders, any Investment after the date hereof in any Person which is not an On-Campus Participating
Entity as of the Closing Date which engages in the development or ownership of a Student Housing
Property where it is intended that such Loan Party shall receive from such Student Housing Property
a share of excess cash flow with a college, university or other institution of higher learning.
(g) Restricted Payments. In the case of the Parent Guarantor and the Borrower only,
declare or pay any dividends, purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any
of its Equity Interests now or hereafter outstanding, return any capital to its stockholders,
partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) as such, make any distribution of assets,
Equity Interests, obligations or securities to its stockholders, partners or members (or the
equivalent Persons thereof) as such; provided, however that the Parent Guarantor and the Borrower
may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions solely in Cash or shares of their
respective common stock so long as, in the case of any such Cash dividends or distributions, (i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of declaration or
payment thereof and the aggregate amount of such Cash dividends or distributions, together with the
aggregate amount of Cash dividends or distributions made during the applicable period pursuant to
the immediately following clause (ii), (A) do not exceed 110% of Funds From Operations for the
current four fiscal quarter periods of Parent Guarantor ending March 31, 2009 and June 30, 2009;
(B) do not exceed 100% of Funds From Operations for the current four fiscal quarter periods of
Parent Guarantor ending September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2009, and (C) do not exceed 95% of
Funds from Operations during any other four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Parent Guarantor
thereafter, (ii) no Default or Event of Default of the type described in Section 6.01(a) or (f)
shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of declaration or payment thereof and such Cash
dividends or distributions are required to be made in order for the Parent Guarantor to comply with
Section 5.01(m), or (iii) such Cash dividends or distributions are made by the Borrower to the
Parent Guarantor to enable it to pay, and the Parent Guarantor uses the proceeds of such dividends
or distributions to pay, costs and expenses incurred by the Parent Guarantor in the ordinary course
of conducting its business in the manner permitted under Section 5.02(m).
(h) Amendments of Constitutive Documents. Amend, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to
amend, in each case in any material respect, its limited partnership agreement, certificate of
incorporation or bylaws or other constitutive documents, provided that any amendment to any such
constitutive document that would be adverse to any of the Administrative Agent or the Lender
Parties shall be deemed “material” for purposes of this Section.
(i) Accounting Changes. Make or permit, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make or
permit, any change in (i) accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required or
permitted by generally accepted accounting principles, or (ii) Fiscal Year.
(i) Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries. Directly or indirectly, enter into
or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into or suffer to
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exist, any agreement or arrangement limiting the ability of any of its Subsidiaries to declare
or pay dividends or other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests or repay or prepay any
Debt owed to, make loans or advances to, or otherwise transfer assets to or invest in, the Borrower
or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (whether through a covenant restricting dividends, loans, asset
transfers or investments, a financial covenant or otherwise), except (i) the Loan Documents,
(ii) any agreement or instrument evidencing Surviving Debt, (iii) any agreement or instrument
evidencing any Refinancing Debt that extends, refunds or refinances any Surviving Debt, so long as
the limitations contained in such Refinancing Debt are no more restrictive than those contained in
the Surviving Debt which is refinanced thereby, (iv) any agreement evidencing any Non-Recourse Debt
permitted under this Agreement so long as the limitations contained therein do not apply to any
Loan Party, (v) any agreement evidencing any Secured Debt permitted under this Agreement so long as
the limitations contained therein do not apply to any Loan Party (except there may be limitations
with respect to Borrower and Parent Guarantor so long as they are no more restrictive than the
limitations contained in this Agreement) or the KeyBank/ACC Term Loan Agreement, and (vi) any
agreement in effect at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower so long as
such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of
the Borrower.
(j) Amendment, Etc. of Material Contracts. Cancel or terminate any Material Contract
or consent to or accept any cancellation or termination thereof, amend or otherwise modify any
Material Contract or give any consent, waiver or approval thereunder, waive any default under or
breach of any Material Contract, agree in any manner to any other amendment, modification or change
of any term or condition of any Material Contract or take any other action in connection with any
Material Contract that would impair the value of the interest or rights of any Loan Party
thereunder or that would impair the interest or rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender
Party, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do any of the foregoing, in each case in a manner that
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, in each case taking into account
the effect of any agreements that supplement or serve to substitute for, in whole or in part, such
Material Contract.
(k) Negative Pledge. Enter into or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries
to enter into or suffer to exist, any agreement prohibiting or conditioning the creation or
assumption of any Lien upon any of its property or assets (including, without limitation, the Sweet
Home Property and any of the other Borrowing Base Properties), except (i) pursuant to the Loan
Documents or (ii) with respect to any property or assets other than the Sweet Home Property and any
of the other Borrowing Base Properties in connection with (A) any Surviving Debt and any
Refinancing Debt extending, refunding or refinancing such Surviving Debt, so long as the
prohibitions or conditions contained in such Refinancing Debt are no more restrictive than the
corresponding provisions contained in the Debt which is extended, refunded or refinanced thereby,
(B) any Non-Recourse Debt permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(E) solely to the extent that (1) the
Person incurring such Non-Recourse Debt has no Subsidiaries and (2) the agreements or instruments
governing such Non-Recourse Debt prohibit Liens on the property of the Person incurring such
Non-Recourse Debt and the Equity Interests in such Person, (C) any Secured Recourse Debt permitted
by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(F) solely to the extent that the agreements or instruments governing such
Secured Recourse Debt prohibit Liens on the property securing such Debt, and in connection with any
mezzanine financing Liens on any underlying real estate relating thereto (other than any Borrowing
Base Asset or interest therein),
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(D) any Capitalized Lease permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii)(B) solely to the extent that such
Capitalized Lease prohibits a Lien on the property subject thereto, or (E) any Debt outstanding on
the date any Subsidiary of the Borrower becomes such a Subsidiary (so long as such agreement was
not entered into solely in contemplation of such Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrower).
(l) Parent Guarantor as Holding Company. In the case of the Parent Guarantor, not
enter into or conduct any business, or engage in any activity (including, without limitation, any
action or transaction that is required or restricted with respect to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries under Sections 5.01 and 5.02 without regard to any of the enumerated exceptions to
such covenants), other than (i) the holding of the Equity Interests of the Borrower; (ii) the
performance of its duties as general partner of the Borrower; (iii) the performance of its
Obligations (subject to the limitations set forth in the Loan Documents) under each Loan Document
to which it is a party; (iv) the making of equity Investments in the Borrower; provided that each
such Investment shall be on terms acceptable to the Administrative Agent; (v) engaging in any
activity necessary to continue to qualify as a REIT and (vi) activities incidental to each of the
foregoing.
(m) Multiemployer Plans. Neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate will
contribute to or be required to contribute to any Multiemployer Plan.
(n) Borrowing Base Property Occupancy Level. Permit or suffer to exist the Borrowing
Base Properties in the aggregate to consist of Student Housing Properties which have an aggregate
occupancy level for the preceding four (4) calendar quarters of tenants in possession and paying
rent and which are not in default under their respective leases of less than eighty-five percent
(85%) of the aggregate rentable beds within such Borrowing Base Properties.
(o) Qualifying Trust Preferred Obligations. Make or permit any amendment or
modification to any indenture, note or other agreements evidencing or governing any Qualifying
Trust Preferred Obligations, or if any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
or would arise as a result thereof, directly or indirectly pay, prepay, defease or in substance
defease, purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire any Qualifying Trust Preferred Obligations.
(p) Management Agreements. The Borrower shall not and shall not permit any Guarantor
to enter into any Management Agreement with a third party manager after the date hereof for any
Borrowing Base Property without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (which shall
not be unreasonably withheld), and after such approval, no such Management Agreement shall be
modified in any material respect or terminated without Administrative Agent’s prior written
approval, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. Administrative Agent may condition any
approval of a new manager upon the execution and delivery to Agent of a collateral assignment of
such management agreement to Agent and a subordination of the manager’s rights thereunder to the
rights of the Agent and the Lender Parties under the Loan Documents.
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(q) Registered Servicemark. Without prior written notice to the Administrative Agent,
none of the Borrowing Base Properties shall be owned or operated by the Borrower or any Guarantor
under any registered or protected trademark, tradename, servicemark or logo. In the event any of
the Borrowing Base Properties shall be owned or operated under any registered or protected
tradename, trademark, servicemark or logo, Borrower or the applicable Guarantor shall enter into
such agreements as Administrative Agent may require, in form and substance satisfactory to
Administrative Agent, granting to Administrative Agent or any successful bidder at a foreclosure
sale of such Borrowing Base Property a perfected first priority security interest therein and to
grant to Administrative Agent the right and license to continue operating such Borrowing Base
Property under such tradename, trademark, servicemark or logo following the acquisition of such
Borrowing Base Property as determined by Administrative Agent.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the calculations for all of the covenants
contained in Sections 5.02(b), 5.02(f), 5.02(g) and 5.02(o) shall exclude the On-Campus
Participating Properties and the Hampton Roads Joint Venture.
SECTION 5.03. Reporting Requirements. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation
of any Loan Party under any Loan Document or the Hedge Obligations shall remain unpaid, any Letter
of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, the
Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent for transmission to the Lender Parties in
accordance with Section 9.02(b):
(a) Default Notice. As soon as possible and in any event within five calendar days
after obtaining knowledge of the occurrence of any Default or any event, development or occurrence
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect continuing on the date of such statement, a
statement of the Chief Financial Officer (or person performing similar functions) of the Parent
Guarantor setting forth details of such Default or such event, development or occurrence and the
action that the Parent Guarantor has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
(b) Annual Financials. As soon as available and in any event within 90 days after the
end of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the annual audit report for such year for the Parent Guarantor
and its Subsidiaries (which may be the Parent Guarantor’s annual report on Form 10-K for such
year), including therein consolidated balance sheets of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries
as of the end of such Fiscal Year and consolidated statements of income and a consolidated
statement of cash flows of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, in each
case accompanied by an unqualified opinion of Ernst & Young LLP or other independent public
accountants of recognized standing acceptable to the Required Lenders, together with (i) a
certificate of such accounting firm to the Lender Parties (to the extent providing such a
certificate does not violate generally-applicable policies of such accounting firm) stating that in
the course of the regular audit of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, which
audit was conducted by such accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards, such accounting firm has obtained no knowledge that a Default has occurred and is
continuing, or if, in the opinion of such accounting firm, a Default has occurred and is
continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof, (ii) a schedule in form satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent (to the extent providing such a schedule does not violate generally-
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applicable policies of such accounting firm) of the computations used by such accountants in
determining, as of the end of such Fiscal Year, compliance with the covenants contained in Section
5.04, and (iii) a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer (or person performing similar
functions) of the Parent Guarantor stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a
Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that
the Parent Guarantor has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
(c) Quarterly Financials. As soon as available and in any event within 45 days after
the end of each of the first three quarters of each Fiscal Year, consolidated balance sheets of the
Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and consolidated statements of
income of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the
previous fiscal quarter and ending with the end of such fiscal quarter and consolidated statements
of income and a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries
for the period commencing at the end of the previous Fiscal Year and ending with the end of such
quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the
corresponding date or period of the preceding Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and duly
certified (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments) by the Chief Financial Officer (or person
performing similar functions) of the Parent Guarantor as having been prepared in accordance with
GAAP, together with (i) a certificate of said officer stating that no Default has occurred and is
continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof
and the action that the Parent Guarantor has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and
(ii) a schedule in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the computations used by the
Parent Guarantor in determining compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.04.
(d) Borrowing Base Certificate. (i) As soon as available and in any event within 45
days after the end of each fiscal quarter of the Parent Guarantor, (ii) at the time any Additional
Borrowing Base Property is included in the definition of “Borrowing Base Property”, (iii) at the
time any Removed Borrowing Base Property is excluded from the definition of “Borrowing Base
Property”, and (iv) at any time that a Borrowing Base Property fails to satisfy all of the
Borrowing Base Conditions or the covenant set forth in Section 5.02(n), a Borrowing Base
Certificate, as at the end of such fiscal quarter or the date of such inclusion or exclusion, as
the case may be, in each case certified by the Chief Financial Officer (or person performing
similar functions) of the Parent Guarantor. Borrower shall immediately notify Administrative Agent
in the event that a Borrowing Base Property fails to satisfy any of the Borrowing Base Conditions.
In addition, at all times that the Student Housing Property owned by 1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC is a
Borrowing Base Property, then together with the Borrowing Base Certificate, Borrower shall deliver
to Administrative Agent a calculation of the Distribution Percentage, the SUNY Value and the SUNY
Allocable Net Operating Income, which calculation shall be in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Administrative Agent and shall be certified by the Chief Financial Officer (or
person performing similar functions) of the Parent Guarantor.
(e) Borrowing Base Financials. As soon as available and in any event within 45 days
after the end of each fiscal quarter of the Parent Guarantor, financial information in respect of
all Borrowing Base Properties (including, without limitation, with respect to each Borrowing Base
Property (i) a statement of revenues and expenses with respect to such
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Borrowing Base Property and all other information and operating statistics necessary to
calculate the Net Operating Income for such Borrowing Base Property and (ii) information on
occupancy levels and average rent levels with respect to such Borrowing Base Property), in form and
detail satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(f) Annual Budgets. As soon as available and in any event no later than 45 days after
the end of each Fiscal Year, (i) forecasts, prepared by management of the Parent Guarantor and in
form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow
statements on a monthly basis for the then current Fiscal Year and on an annual basis for each
Fiscal Year thereafter until the Termination Date and (ii) an operating budget, prepared by
management of the Parent Guarantor and in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, for each
Borrowing Base Property for such Fiscal Year.
(g) Reconciliation Statements. If, as a result of any change in accounting principles
and policies from those used in the preparation of the audited financial statements referred to in
Section 4.01(g), the consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries
delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(b), (c) or (f) will differ in any material respect from the
consolidated financial statements that would have been delivered pursuant to such Section had no
such change in accounting principles and policies been made, then (i) together with the first
delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 5.03(b), (c) or (f) following such change,
consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter immediately preceding the fiscal quarter in which such change is made, prepared on a pro
forma basis as if such change had been in effect during such fiscal quarter, and (ii) together with
each delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section 5.03(b), (c) or (f) following such
change, a written statement of the chief accounting officer or chief financial officer of the
Parent Guarantor setting forth the differences (including any differences that would affect any
calculations relating to the financial covenants set forth in Section 5.04) which would have
resulted if such financial statements had been prepared without giving effect to such change.
(h) Material Litigation. Promptly after the commencement thereof, notice of all
actions, suits, investigations, litigation and proceedings before any court or governmental
department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, affecting
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the type described in Section 4.01(f), and promptly
after the occurrence thereof, notice of any adverse change in the status or the financial effect on
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the Disclosed Litigation from that described on
Schedule 4.01(f) hereto.
(i) Securities Reports. Promptly after the sending or filing thereof, copies of all
proxy statements, financial statements and reports that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries
sends to its stockholders, and copies of all regular, periodic and special reports, and all
registration statements, that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries files with the Securities
and Exchange Commission or any governmental authority that may be substituted therefor, or with any
national securities exchange, which delivery may be made electronically, including via Syndtrak or
posting to the Parent Guarantor’s internet website.
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(j) Real Property. As soon as available and in any event within 30 days after the end
of each Fiscal Year, a report supplementing Schedule 4.01(p) and Schedule 4.01(q)
hereto, including an identification of all owned and leased real property disposed of by any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries during such Fiscal Year, a list and description (including the
street address, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, record owner, book value thereof and,
in the case of leases of property, lessor, lessee, expiration date and annual rental cost thereof)
of all real property acquired or leased by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries during such
Fiscal Year and a description of such other changes in the information included in such Schedules
as may be necessary for such Schedules to be accurate and complete.
(k) Environmental Conditions. Give notice in writing to the Administrative Agent
(i) promptly upon obtaining knowledge of any material violation of any Environmental Law affecting
any Real Estate Asset or the operations thereof or the operations of any of its Subsidiaries,
(ii) promptly upon obtaining knowledge of any known release, discharge or disposal of any Hazardous
Materials at, from, or into any Real Estate Asset which it reports in writing or is reportable by
it in writing to any governmental authority and which is material in amount or nature or which
could materially adversely affect the value of such Real Estate Asset, (iii) promptly upon its
receipt of any notice of material violation of any Environmental Laws or of any material release,
discharge or disposal of Hazardous Materials in violation of any Environmental Laws or any matter
that may result in an Environmental Action, including a notice or claim of liability or potential
responsibility from any third party (including without limitation any federal, state or local
governmental officials) and including notice of any formal inquiry, proceeding, demand,
investigation or other action with regard to (A) such Loan Party’s or any other Person’s operation
of any Real Estate Asset, (B) contamination on, from or into any Real Estate Asset, or
(C) investigation or remediation of off-site locations at which such Loan Party or any of its
predecessors are alleged to have directly or indirectly disposed of Hazardous Materials, or
(iv) upon such Loan Party’s obtaining knowledge that any expense or loss has been incurred by such
governmental authority in connection with the assessment, containment, removal or remediation of
any Hazardous Materials with respect to which such Loan Party or any Joint Venture may be liable or
for which a Lien may be imposed on any Real Estate Asset, provided that any of the events described
in clauses (i) through (iv) above would have a Material Adverse Effect or could reasonably be
expected to result in an Environmental Action with respect to any Borrowing Base Property.
(l) Borrowing Base Property Value. Promptly after discovery of any setoff, claim,
withholdings or other defenses to which any Borrowing Base Property is subject, which (i) would
have a material adverse effect on the value of such Borrowing Base Property, (ii) would have a
Material Adverse Effect or (iii) with respect to such Borrowing Base Property, would constitute a
Lien not shown on a Mortgage Policy (or otherwise approved by Administrative Agent in writing),
provide the Administrative Agent with notice thereof.
(m) Management Agreements and Material Contracts. As soon as available a copy of
any Management Agreement or Material Contract entered into with respect to any Borrowing Base
Property after the date hereof.
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(n) Defaults Under Organizational Documents. Within five (5) Business Days of notice
or receipt, copies of any and all notices of default under any of the organizational agreements of
1772 Sweet Home Road, LLC, or of any failure by the Borrower or such Pledgor to perform any
obligation under any of such organizational agreements.
(o) Other Information. Promptly, such other information respecting the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender Party through the
Administrative Agent, may from time to time reasonably request.
SECTION 5.04. Financial Covenants. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of
any Loan Party under any Loan Document or the Hedge Obligations shall remain unpaid, any Letter of
Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender Party shall have, at any time after the Initial Extension
of Credit, any Commitment hereunder, the Parent Guarantor will:
(a) Maximum Leverage Ratio: Maintain, as of the last day of each fiscal quarter of
the Parent Guarantor, a Leverage Ratio equal to or less than 65%.
(b) Minimum Consolidated Net Worth: Maintain at all times a Consolidated Net Worth of
not less than the sum of (i) $833,000,000 plus (ii) an amount equal to 80% of the Net Cash
Proceeds of all issuances or sales of Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or any of its
Subsidiaries consummated after the Closing Date.
(c) Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount. Not permit at any time (i) the Facility Exposure
to exceed (ii) the Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount.
(d) Minimum Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio: Maintain, as of the last day of
each fiscal quarter of the Parent Guarantor, a Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio equal to or
greater than 1.50:1.00.
(e) Minimum Fixed Rate/Hedged Debt Ratio: Maintain at all times a Consolidated Fixed
Rate/Hedged Debt Ratio equal to or greater than 70%.
(f) Corporate Debt Yield: Maintain a Corporate Debt Yield Ratio equal to or greater
than (i) 10% for the fiscal-quarter periods ended December 31, 2009, March 31, 2010, June 30, 2010
and September 30, 2010; (ii) 11% for the fiscal-quarter periods ended December 31, 2010, March 31,
2011, June 30, 2011 and September 30, 2011; and (iii) 12% for the fiscal-quarter period ended
December 31, 2011 and all subsequent ends to fiscal-quarter periods.
provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the calculations for all of the
financial covenants contained in Section 5.04 shall exclude the On-Campus Participating Properties
and the Hampton Roads Joint Venture.
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ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. If any of the following events (“Events of Default”)
shall occur and be continuing:
(a) Failure to Make Payments When Due. (i) The Borrower shall fail to pay any
principal of any Advance when the same shall become due and payable or (ii) the Borrower shall fail
to pay any interest on any Advance, or any Loan Party shall fail to make any other payment under
any Loan Document, in each case under this clause (ii) within three Business Days after the same
becomes due and payable; or
(b) Breach of Representations or Warranties. Any representation or warranty made by
any Loan Party (or any of its officers or the officers of its general partner or managing member,
as applicable) under or in connection with any Loan Document shall prove to have been incorrect in
any material respect when made; or
(c) Breach of Certain Covenants.
(i) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in
Xxxxxxx 0.00, Xxxxxxx 0.00(x), (x), (x), (x), (x) or (o), Section 5.02, Section 5.03(a) or 5.04, or
(ii) Any Loan Party shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained
in Section 1.05, Section 1.08 or Section 1.15 of the Mortgages; or
(d) Other Defaults Under Loan Documents. Any Loan Party shall fail to perform or
observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in any Loan Document on its part to be
performed or observed if such failure shall remain unremedied for 30 days after the earlier of the
date on which (i) a Responsible Officer becomes aware of such failure or (ii) written notice
thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party; or
(e) Cross-Defaults. (i) Any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to pay
any principal of, premium or interest on or any other amount payable in respect of (A) any Debt of
such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (as the case may be) which is Non-Recourse Debt that is
outstanding in a principal amount (or, in the case of any Hedge Agreement, an Agreement Value) of
at least $20,000,000 either individually or in the aggregate or (B) any Debt of such Loan Party or
such Subsidiary (as the case may be) other than Non-Recourse Debt that is outstanding in a
principal amount (or in the case of any Hedge Agreement, an Agreement Value) of at least
$2,000,000, either individually or in the aggregate (such Debt described under clauses (A) and (B),
whether the obligation of one or more of the Loan Parties or their respective Subsidiaries, and
whether the subject of one or more separate debt instruments or agreements, exclusive of Debt
outstanding hereunder is referred to herein as “Material Debt”), when the same becomes due and
payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise),
and following the expiration of the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or
instrument relating to such Debt or in such Hedge
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Agreement; or (ii) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any agreement or
instrument relating to any such Material Debt, if the effect of such event or condition is to
permit the acceleration of the maturity of such Material Debt or otherwise permit the holders
thereof to cause such Material Debt to mature, or (iii) the maturity of any such Material Debt
shall be accelerated or any such Material Debt shall be declared to be due and payable or required
to be prepaid or redeemed (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption),
purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Material Debt shall
be required to be made, in each case prior to the stated maturity thereof; or
(f) Insolvency Events. Any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall generally not
pay its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts
generally, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall
be instituted by or against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries seeking to adjudicate it a
bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment,
protection, relief, or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or
the appointment of a receiver, trustee, or other similar official for it or for any substantial
part of its property and, in the case of any such proceeding instituted against it (but not
instituted by it) that is being diligently contested by it in good faith, either such proceeding
shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 30 days or any of the actions sought in such
proceeding (including, without limitation, the entry of an order for relief against, or the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for, it or any substantial
part of its property) shall occur; or any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall take any
corporate action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in this subsection (f); provided
that, if any of the events or circumstances described in this clause (f) occur or exist with
respect to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is not a Loan Party, such event(s) or
circumstance(s) shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default so long as (i) such Person
has no Debt other than Non-Recourse Debt, (ii) such event(s) or circumstance(s) will not result in
any liability to any other Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor as a result of any Customary
Carve-Out Agreement relating to any Non-Recourse Debt of such Person, and (iii) the sum of the
amounts for such Person of the items listed in the definition of Consolidated Total Asset Value, as
determined for such Person on an unconsolidated basis, do not exceed 1.5% of Consolidated Total
Asset Value as of the date such event(s) occur or such circumstance(s) first exist; or
(g) Monetary Judgments. Any judgments or orders, either individually or in the
aggregate, for the payment of money in excess of $10,000,000 shall be rendered against any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced
by any creditor upon such judgment or order or (ii) there shall be any period of 30 consecutive
days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or
otherwise, shall not be in effect; provided, however that any such judgment or order shall not give
rise to an Event of Default under this Section 6.01(g) if and so long as (A) the amount of such
judgment or order which remains unsatisfied is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance
between the respective Loan Party and the insurer covering full payment of such unsatisfied amount
and (B) such insurer, which shall be rated at least “A-” by A.M. Best Company, has been notified,
and has not disputed the claim made for payment, of the amount of such judgment or order; or
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(h) Non-Monetary Judgments. Any non-monetary judgment or order shall be rendered
against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, and there shall be any period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay
of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be
in effect; or
(i) Unenforceability of Loan Documents. Any provision of any Loan Document, after
delivery thereof pursuant to Section 3.01 or otherwise, shall for any reason (other than pursuant
to the terms thereof) cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against any Loan Party party
to it, or any such Loan Party shall so state in writing; or
(j) Failure of Security. Any Collateral Document or financing statement after
delivery thereof, pursuant to Section 3.01 or otherwise, shall for any reason (other than pursuant
to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority lien on and security
interest in the Collateral purported to be covered thereby; or
(k) Change of Control. A Change of Control shall occur; or
(l) ERISA Events. Any ERISA Event shall have occurred with respect to a Plan and the
sum (determined as of the date of occurrence of such ERISA Event) of the Insufficiency of such Plan
and the Insufficiency of any and all other Plans with respect to which an ERISA Event shall have
occurred and then exist (or the liability of the Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates related to
such ERISA Event) exceeds $10,000,000; or
(m) Borrowing Base Properties. For any period of 30 consecutive days there shall be
fewer than five (5) Borrowing Base Properties (excluding the Sweet Home Property);
then, and in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or may with the
consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Commitments of each Lender
Party and the obligation of each Lender Party to make Advances (other than Letter of Credit
Advances by an Issuing Bank or a Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and Swing Line Advances by a
Lender to the Swing Line Bank for a prior Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) and of
each Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit to be terminated, whereupon the same shall forthwith
terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, (A) by
notice to the Borrower, declare the Notes, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the Notes,
all such interest and all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and payable, without
presentment, demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly
waived by the Borrower, and (B) by notice to each party required under the terms of any agreement
in support of which a Letter of Credit is issued, request that all Obligations under such agreement
be declared to be due and payable; provided, however that in the event of an actual or deemed entry
of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower or any other Loan Party under any Bankruptcy
Law, (y) the Commitments of each Lender Party and the obligation of each Lender Party to make
Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances by an Issuing Bank or a Lender pursuant to Section
2.03(c) and Swing Line Advances by a Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) and of each Issuing Bank
to issue Letters of
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Credit shall automatically be terminated and (z) the Notes, all such interest and all such amounts
shall automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any
notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
SECTION 6.02. Actions in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default. If any Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent may, or shall at the
request of the Required Lenders, irrespective of whether it is taking any of the actions described
in Section 6.01 or otherwise, make demand upon the Borrower to, and forthwith upon such demand the
Borrower will, pay to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lender Parties in same day funds at
the Administrative Agent’s office designated in such demand, for deposit in the L/C Cash Collateral
Account, an amount equal to the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then
outstanding. If at any time the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank determines that any funds
held in the L/C Cash Collateral Account are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than
the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties with respect to the Obligations of the Loan Parties
under the Loan Documents or the Hedge Obligations, or that the total amount of such funds is less
than the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit, the Borrower will, forthwith upon
demand by the Administrative Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be
deposited and held in the L/C Cash Collateral Account, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such
aggregate Available Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held in the L/C Cash
Collateral Account that the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, determines to be free and
clear of any such right and claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on
deposit in the L/C Cash Collateral Account, such funds shall be applied to reimburse the relevant
Issuing Bank or Lenders, as applicable, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
ARTICLE VII
GUARANTY
SECTION 7.01. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability. (a) Each Guarantor, jointly and
severally, hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the punctual payment when
due, whether at scheduled maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by acceleration,
demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the Borrower and each other Loan Party now or hereafter
existing under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any extensions,
modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all of the foregoing Obligations),
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, interest, premiums,
fees, indemnities, contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise and the performance of
any Hedge Obligations (such Obligations being the “Guaranteed Obligations”), and agrees to pay any
and all expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) incurred
by the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party in enforcing any rights under this Agreement
or any other Loan Document. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor’s
liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would
be owed by any other Loan Party to Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party under or in
respect of the Loan Documents but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to
the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving such other Loan
Party. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not merely of collection.
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(b) Each Guarantor, the Administrative Agent and each other Lender Party hereby confirms that
it is the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty and the Obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Bankruptcy Law, the
Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign,
federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Obligations of each
Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Guarantors, the Administrative
Agent and the other Lender Parties hereby irrevocably agree that the Obligations of each Guarantor
under this Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the
Obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent transfer or
conveyance.
(c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that in the event any payment
shall be required to be made to Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party under this Guaranty
or any other guaranty, such Guarantor will contribute, to the maximum extent permitted by law, such
amounts to each other Guarantor and each other guarantor so as to maximize the aggregate amount
paid to the Administrative Agent and the other Lender Parties under or in respect of the Loan
Documents.
SECTION 7.02. Guaranty Absolute. Each Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranteed
Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any
jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Administrative Agent or any other
Lender Party with respect thereto. The Obligations of each Guarantor under or in respect of this
Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any other Loan
Party under or in respect of this Agreement or the other the Loan Documents or the Hedge
Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor
to enforce this Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the Borrower or any
other Loan Party or whether the Borrower or any other Loan Party is joined in any such action or
actions. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and
unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now
have or hereafter acquire in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document, the Hedge Agreements or any
agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any
of the Guaranteed Obligations, any other Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of
the Loan Documents or the Hedge Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to
departure from any Loan Document or Hedge Agreement, including, without limitation, any increase in
the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to the Borrower, any
other Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries or otherwise;
(c) any taking, exchange, release or non-perfection of any collateral, or any taking, release
or amendment or waiver of, or consent to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or any of the
Guaranteed Obligations;
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(d) any manner of application of collateral, or proceeds thereof, to all or any of the
Guaranteed Obligations, or any manner of sale or other disposition of any collateral for all or any
of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents
or any Hedge Obligations or any other assets of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
(e) any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate structure or existence of any
Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) any failure of the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party to disclose to any Loan
Party any information relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations,
performance, properties or prospects of any other Loan Party now or hereafter known to the
Administrative Agent or such other Lender Party (each Guarantor waiving any duty on the part of the
Administrative Agent and each other Lender Party to disclose such information);
(g) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver this Agreement, any other Loan
Document, any Hedge Agreement, any Guaranty Supplement (as hereinafter defined) or any other
guaranty or agreement or the release or reduction of liability of any Guarantor or other guarantor
or surety with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; or
(h) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations) or any
existence of or reliance on any representation by the Administrative Agent or any other Lender
Party that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party or
any other guarantor or surety.
This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any
time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by
Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party or any other Person upon the insolvency, bankruptcy
or reorganization of the Borrower or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as though such payment
had not been made.
SECTION 7.03. Waivers and Acknowledgments. (a) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally
and irrevocably waives promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand for
performance, notice of nonperformance, default, acceleration, protest or dishonor and any other
notice with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty and any requirement that
the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien or
any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against any Loan Party or any
other Person or any collateral.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any right to revoke this
Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed
Obligations, whether existing now or in the future.
(c) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i) any defense arising by
reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by the Administrative Agent or
any other Lender Party that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects
the subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or
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indemnification rights of such Guarantor or other rights of such Guarantor to proceed against
any of the other Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person or any collateral and
(ii) any defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or in respect of the
Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
(d) Each Guarantor acknowledges that the Administrative Agent may, without notice to or demand
upon such Guarantor and without affecting the liability of such Guarantor under this Guaranty to
the extent permitted by law, foreclose under any Mortgage by nonjudicial sale, and to the extent
permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby waives any defense to the recovery by the Administrative
Agent and the other Lender Parties against such Guarantor of any deficiency after such nonjudicial
sale and any defense or benefits that may be afforded by applicable law.
(e) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any duty on the part of the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party to disclose to such Guarantor any matter, fact or
thing relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance,
properties or prospects of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their Subsidiaries now or
hereafter known by the Administrative Agent or such other Lender Party.
(f) Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits
from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and
that the waivers set forth in Section 7.02 and this Section 7.03 are knowingly made in
contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION 7.04. Subrogation. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably
agrees not to exercise any rights that it may now have or hereafter acquire against the Borrower,
any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor that arise from the existence, payment,
performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s Obligations under or in respect of this Guaranty,
the Hedge Agreements, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including, without limitation, any
right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to
participate in any claim or remedy of Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party against the
Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor or any collateral, whether or not
such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including,
without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any
other insider guarantor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any
other manner, payment or security on account of such claim, remedy or right, unless and until all
of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been
paid in full in cash, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated and the
Commitments shall have expired or been terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in
violation of the immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to the latest of (a) the payment
in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty,
(b) the Termination Date and (c) the latest date of expiration or termination of all Letters of
Credit, such amount shall be received and held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent
and the other Lender Parties, shall be segregated from other property and funds of such Guarantor
and shall forthwith be paid or delivered to the Administrative Agent in the same form as so
received (with any necessary endorsement or
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assignment) to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Loan
Documents. If (i) any Guarantor shall make payment to Administrative Agent or any other Lender
Party of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) all of the Guaranteed Obligations and
all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in cash, (iii) the
Termination Date shall have occurred and (iv) all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been
terminated, the Administrative Agent and the other Lender Parties will, at such Guarantor’s request
and expense, execute and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and
without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to such
Guarantor of an interest in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from such payment made by such
Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty.
SECTION 7.05. Guaranty Supplements. Upon the execution and delivery by any Person of
a Guaranty Supplement, (i) such Person shall be referred to as an “Additional Guarantor” and shall
become and be a Guarantor hereunder, and each reference in this Agreement to a “Guarantor” or a
“Loan Party” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and each reference in
any other Loan Document to a “Guarantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional
Guarantor, and (ii) each reference herein to “this Agreement”, “this Guaranty”, “hereunder”,
“hereof” or words of like import referring to this Agreement and this Guaranty, and each reference
in any other Loan Document to the “Loan Agreement”, “Guaranty”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of
like import referring to this Agreement and this Guaranty, shall mean and be a reference to this
Agreement and this Guaranty as supplemented by such Guaranty Supplement.
SECTION 7.06. Indemnification by Guarantors. (a) Without limitation on any other
Obligations of any Guarantor or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the other Lender Parties
under this Agreement, this Guaranty or the other Loan Documents, each Guarantor shall, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless the Administrative
Agent, each other Lender Party and each of their Affiliates and their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against, and
shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including,
without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded
against any Indemnified Party in connection with or as a result of any failure of any Guaranteed
Obligations to be the legal, valid and binding obligations of any Loan Party enforceable against
such Loan Party in accordance with their terms.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby also agrees that none of the Indemnified Parties shall have any
liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise) to any of the Guarantors or
any of their respective Affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees,
agents and advisors, and each Guarantor hereby agrees not to assert any claim against any
Indemnified Party on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive
damages arising out of or otherwise relating to the Facilities, the actual or proposed use of the
proceeds of the Advances or the Letters of Credit, the Loan Documents or any of the transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents.
SECTION 7.07. Subordination. (a) Each Guarantor hereby subordinates any and all
debts, liabilities and other Obligations owed to such Guarantor by each other Loan Party
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(the “Subordinated Obligations”) to the Guaranteed Obligations to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Section 7.07.
(b) Prohibited Payments, Etc. Except during the continuance of a Default (including
the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other
Loan Party), each Guarantor may receive regularly scheduled payments from any other Loan Party on
account of the Subordinated Obligations. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any
Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law
relating to any other Loan Party), however, unless the Administrative Agent otherwise agrees, no
Guarantor shall demand, accept or take any action to collect any payment on account of the
Subordinated Obligations.
(c) Prior Payment of Guaranteed Obligations. In any proceeding under any Bankruptcy
Law relating to any other Loan Party, each Guarantor agrees that the Administrative Agent and the
other Lender Parties shall be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of all Guaranteed
Obligations (including all interest and expenses accruing after the commencement of a proceeding
under any Bankruptcy Law, whether or not constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding (“Post
Petition Interest”)) before such Guarantor receives payment of any Subordinated Obligations.
(d) Turn-Over. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default
(including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to
any other Loan Party), each Guarantor shall, if the Administrative Agent so requests, collect,
enforce and receive payments on account of the Subordinated Obligations as trustee for the
Administrative Agent and the other Lender Parties and deliver such payments to the Administrative
Agent on account of the Guaranteed Obligations (including all Post Petition Interest), together
with any necessary endorsements or other instruments of transfer, but without reducing or affecting
in any manner the liability of such Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guaranty.
(e) Administrative Agent Authorization. After the occurrence and during the
continuance of any Default (including the commencement and continuation of any proceeding under any
Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party), the Administrative Agent is authorized and
empowered (but without any obligation to so do), in its discretion, (i) in the name of each
Guarantor, to collect and enforce, and to submit claims in respect of, Subordinated Obligations and
to apply any amounts received thereon to the Guaranteed Obligations (including any and all Post
Petition Interest), and (ii) to require each Guarantor (A) to collect and enforce, and to submit
claims in respect of, Subordinated Obligations and (B) to pay any amounts received on such
obligations to the Administrative Agent for application to the Guaranteed Obligations (including
any and all Post Petition Interest).
SECTION 7.08. Continuing Guaranty. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall
(a) remain in full force and effect until the latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the
Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, (ii) the Termination Date
and (iii) the latest date of expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit, (b) be binding
upon the Guarantors, their successors and assigns and (c) inure to the benefit of and be
enforceable by the Administrative Agent and the other Lender Parties and their successors,
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transferees and assigns; provided that at such time, if any, as any Guarantor ceases to have
any direct or indirect ownership interest in any Collateral or in any other Loan Party, such
Guarantor shall, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would
be caused thereby, be released from all obligations under this Guaranty and cease to be a party to
this Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
SECTION 8.01. Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender Party (in its capacities as a
Lender, the Swing Line Bank (if applicable) and as an Issuing Bank (if applicable)) hereby appoints
and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers and discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to
the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion
as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for by the Loan
Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the Notes), the
Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall
be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or
refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall
be binding upon all Lender Parties and all holders of Notes; provided, however that the
Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that exposes the Administrative Agent
to personal liability or that is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. The Administrative
Agent agrees to give to each Lender Party prompt notice of each notice given to it by the Borrower
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan
Document, no Person identified as a syndication agent, documentation agent, senior manager, lead
arranger or book running manager, in such Person’s capacity as such, shall have any obligations or
duties to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party under any of such Loan
Documents.
The obligations of Administrative Agent hereunder are primarily administrative in nature, and
nothing contained in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents shall be construed to
constitute the Administrative Agent as a trustee for any Lender Party or to create an agency or
fiduciary relationship. Administrative Agent shall act as the contractual representative of the
Lender Parties hereunder and notwithstanding the use of the term ‘Administrative Agent’, it is
understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent shall not have any fiduciary duties or
responsibilities to any Lender Party by reason of this Agreement or any other Loan Document and is
acting as an independent contractor, the rights and duties of which are limited to those expressly
set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(b) Duties in the Case of Enforcement. In case one or more Events of Default have
occurred and shall be continuing, and whether or not acceleration of the Facility shall have
occurred, the Administrative Agent may and, if (a) so requested by the Required Lenders and (b) the
Lenders have provided to the Administrative Agent such additional indemnities and assurances in
accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share against expenses and liabilities as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, shall proceed to exercise all or any legal and
equitable and other rights or remedies as it may have; provided, however, that unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative
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Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such
action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem to be in the best
interests of the Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if Administrative
Agent reasonably determines payment is in the best interest of all the Lenders, Administrative
Agent may without the approval of the Lenders pay taxes and insurance premiums and spend money for
maintenance, repairs or other expenses which may be necessary to be incurred, and Administrative
Agent shall promptly thereafter notify the Lenders of such action. Each Lender shall, within
thirty (30) days of request therefor, pay to the Administrative Agent its Pro Rata Share of the
reasonable costs incurred by the Administrative Agent in taking any such actions hereunder to the
extent that such costs shall not be promptly reimbursed to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower
or the Guarantors or out of the Collateral within such period. The Required Lenders may direct the
Administrative Agent in writing as to the method and the extent of any such exercise, the Lenders
hereby agreeing to indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent harmless in accordance with their
respective Pro Rata Share from all liabilities incurred in respect of all actions taken or omitted
in accordance with such directions, except to the extent that any of the same shall be directly
caused by the Administrative Agent’s willful misconduct or gross negligence as finally determined
by a court of competent jurisdiction after the expiration of all applicable appeal periods,
provided that the Administrative Agent need not comply with any such direction to the extent that
the Administrative Agent reasonably believes the Administrative Agent’s compliance with such
direction to be unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction or commercially unreasonable under the UCC
as enacted in any applicable jurisdiction. Prior to any foreclosure upon any Borrowing Base
Property, the Required Lenders shall use good faith efforts to approve and document a plan for the
management and disposition of such Borrowing Base Property.
SECTION 8.02. Administrative Agents’ Reliance, Etc. Neither Administrative Agent nor
any of its directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted
to be taken by it or them under or in connection with the Loan Documents, except for its or their
own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of the foregoing,
the Administrative Agent: (a) may treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof until the
Administrative Agent receives and accepts an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by the Lender
that is the payee of such Note, as assignor, and an Eligible Assignee, as assignee; (b) may consult
with legal counsel (including counsel for any Loan Party), independent public accountants and other
experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good
faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (c) makes no
warranty or representation to any Lender Party and shall not be responsible to any Lender Party for
any statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection
with the Loan Documents; (d) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the
performance, observance or satisfaction of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of any Loan
Document on the part of any Loan Party or the existence at any time of any Default under the Loan
Documents or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of any Loan Party; (e) shall
not be responsible to any Lender Party for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability,
genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security
interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any
other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; and (f) shall incur no liability under or
in respect of any Loan Document by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument
or writing (which may be by
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telegram, telecopy or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper
party or parties.
SECTION 8.03. Administrative Agent and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitments,
the Advances made by it and the Notes issued to it, the Lender acting as the Administrative Agent
shall have the same rights and powers under the Loan Documents as any other Lender Party and may
exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent; and the term “Lender Party” or
“Lender Parties” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include such Lender acting as
Administrative Agent in its individual capacity. The Lender acting as the Administrative Agent and
its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept
investment banking engagements from and generally engage in any kind of business with, any Loan
Party, any Subsidiary of any Loan Party and any Person that may do business with or own securities
of any Loan Party or any such Subsidiary, all as if such Lender acting as Administrative Agent were
not the Administrative Agent and without any duty to account therefor to the Lender Parties.
SECTION 8.04. Lender Party Credit Decision. Each Lender Party acknowledges that it
has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party and
based on the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
this Agreement. Each Lender Party also acknowledges that it will, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in
taking or not taking action under this Agreement.
SECTION 8.05. Indemnification by Lender Parties. (a) Each Lender Party severally
agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent (to the extent not promptly reimbursed by the
Borrower) from and against such Lender Party’s ratable share (determined as provided below) of any
and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or
asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan
Documents or any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents
(collectively, the “Indemnified Costs”); provided, however that no Lender Party shall be liable for
any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence
or willful misconduct as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender Party agrees to reimburse the
Administrative Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any costs and expenses
(including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) payable by the Borrower under Section
9.04, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not promptly reimbursed for such costs and
expenses by the Borrower. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise
to any Indemnified Costs, this Section 8.05 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or
proceeding is brought by any Lender Party or any other Person.
(b) Each Lender Party severally agrees to indemnify each Issuing Bank (to the extent not
promptly reimbursed by the Borrower) from and against such Lender Party’s Pro Rata Share
(determined as provided below) of any and all liabilities, obligations,
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losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any
kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against such Issuing
Bank in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any action taken or omitted by
such Issuing Bank under the Loan Documents; provided, however that no Lender Party shall be liable
for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from such Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender Party agrees to reimburse such
Issuing Bank promptly upon demand for its Pro Rata Share of any costs and expenses (including,
without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) payable by the Borrower under Section 9.04, to
the extent that such Issuing Bank is not promptly reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the
Borrower.
(c) For purposes of this Section 8.05, the Lender Parties’ respective ratable shares of any
amount shall be determined, at any time, according to their respective Revolving Credit Commitments
at such time. The failure of any Lender Party to reimburse the Administrative Agent or any Issuing
Bank, as the case may be, promptly upon demand for its Pro Rata Share of any amount required to be
paid by the Lender Parties to the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, as
provided herein shall not relieve any other Lender Party of its obligation hereunder to reimburse
the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for its Pro Rata Share of such
amount, but no Lender Party shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender Party to
reimburse the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such other Lender
Party’s Pro Rata Share of such amount. Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of
any Lender Party hereunder, the agreement and obligations of each Lender Party contained in this
Section 8.05 shall survive the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 8.06. Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign at
any time by giving 10 days’ prior written notice thereof to the Lender Parties and the Borrower
(provided that no Default has occurred and is continuing) and may be removed at any time with or
without cause by the Required Lenders; provided, however that any removal of the Administrative
Agent will not be effective until it (or its Affiliate) has been replaced as an Issuing Bank and
released from all obligations in respect thereof. Upon any such resignation or removal, the
Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which
appointment shall, provided that no Default has occurred and is continuing, be subject to the
consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If no successor
Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted
such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent’s giving of notice of
resignation or the Required Lenders’ removal of the retiring Administrative Agent, then the
retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lender Parties, appoint a successor
Administrative Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United
States or of any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000
and which appointment shall, provided that no Default has occurred and is continuing, be subject to
the consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Upon the
acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative
Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall succeed to and become vested
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with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative
Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
under the Loan Documents. If within 45 days after written notice is given of the retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal under this Section 8.06 no successor Administrative
Agent shall have been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment, then on such 45th day
(i) the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal shall become effective, (ii) the
retiring Administrative Agent shall thereupon be discharged from its duties and obligations under
the Loan Documents and (iii) the Required Lenders shall thereafter perform all duties of the
retiring Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents until such time, if any, as the Required
Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided above. After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent shall have become
effective, the provisions of this Article VIII shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken
or omitted to be taken by it while it was an Administrative Agent under this Agreement.
SECTION 8.07. Payments.
(a) A payment by the Borrower or any Guarantor to the Administrative Agent hereunder or under
any of the other Loan Documents for the account of any Lender shall constitute a payment to such
Lender. The Administrative Agent agrees to distribute to each Lender not later than one Business
Day after the Administrative Agent’s receipt of good funds, determined in accordance with the
Administrative Agent’s customary practices, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of payments received by
the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders except as otherwise expressly provided
herein or in any of the other Loan Documents. In the event that the Administrative Agent fails to
distribute such amounts within one Business Day as provided above, the Administrative Agent shall
pay interest on such amount at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time
in effect.
(b) If in the opinion of the Administrative Agent the distribution of any amount received by
it in such capacity hereunder, under the Notes or under any of the other Loan Documents might
involve it in liability, it may refrain from making such distribution until its right to make such
distribution shall have been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction. If a court of
competent jurisdiction shall adjudge that any amount received and distributed by the Administrative
Agent is to be repaid, each Person to whom any such distribution shall have been made shall either
repay to the Administrative Agent its proportionate share of the amount so adjudged to be repaid or
shall pay over the same in such manner and to such Persons as shall be determined by such court.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents, any Lender that fails (i) to make available to the Administrative Agent its Pro
Rata Share of any Advance, (ii) to comply with the provisions of Section 2.13 or Section 9.05 with
respect to making dispositions and arrangements with the other Lenders, where such Lender’s share
of any payment received, whether by setoff or otherwise, is in excess of its Pro Rata Share of such
payments due and payable to all of the Lenders, in each case as, when and to the full extent
required by the provisions of this Agreement, or (iii) to perform any other obligation within the
time period specified for performance, or if no time period is specified, if such failure continues
for a period of five (5) Business Days after notice
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from the Administrative Agent shall be deemed delinquent (a “Delinquent Lender”) and shall be
deemed a Delinquent Lender until such time as such delinquency is satisfied. In addition to the
rights and remedies that may be available to the Administrative Agent at law and in equity, a
Delinquent Lender’s right to participate in the administration of the Loan Documents, including,
without limitation, any rights to consent to or direct any action or inaction of the Administrative
Agent pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, or to be taken into account in the calculation of
Required Lenders or any matter requiring approval of all of the Lenders, shall be suspended while
such Lender is a Delinquent Lender. A Delinquent Lender shall be deemed to have assigned any and
all payments due to it from the Borrower or the Guarantors, whether on account of outstanding
Loans, interest, fees or otherwise, to the remaining nondelinquent Lenders for application to, and
reduction of, their respective Pro Rata Shares of all outstanding Advances, but only to the extent
of the amount necessary to cure the default by the Delinquent Lender. The Delinquent Lender hereby
authorizes the Administrative Agent to distribute such payments to the nondelinquent Lenders in
proportion to their respective Pro Rata Shares of all outstanding Advances. The provisions of this
Section shall apply and be effective regardless of whether a Default occurs and is then continuing,
and notwithstanding (i) any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary or (ii) any
instruction of Borrower as to its desired application of payments. The Administrative Agent shall
be entitled to (i) withhold or set off, and to apply to the payment of the obligations of any
Delinquent Lender any amounts to be paid to such Delinquent Lender under this Agreement, (ii) to
collect interest from such Lender for the period from the date on which the payment was due at the
rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus one percent (1%), for each day during such
period, and (iii) bring an action or suit against such Delinquent Lender in a court of competent
jurisdiction to recover the defaulted obligations of such Delinquent Lender. A Delinquent Lender
shall be deemed to have satisfied in full a delinquency when and if, as a result of application of
the assigned payments to all outstanding Advances of the nondelinquent Lenders or as a result of
other payments by the Delinquent Lenders to the nondelinquent Lenders, the Lenders’ respective Pro
Rata Shares of all outstanding Advances have returned to those in effect immediately prior to such
delinquency and without giving effect to the nonpayment causing such delinquency.
SECTION 8.08. Reliance on Hedge Provider. For purposes of applying payments received
in accordance with this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon the
trustee, paying agent or other similar representative (each, a “Representative”) or, in the absence
of such a Representative, upon the holder of the Hedge Obligations for a determination (which each
holder of the Hedge Obligations agrees (or shall agree) to provide upon request of the
Administrative Agent) of the outstanding Hedge Obligations owed to the holder thereof. Unless it
has actual knowledge (including by way of written notice from such holder) to the contrary, the
Administrative Agent, in acting hereunder, shall be entitled to assume that no Hedge Obligations
are outstanding.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01. Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement or the Notes or any other Loan Document, nor consent to any departure by any Loan Party
therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the
Required Lenders, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
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specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no
amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all of the Lenders, or the
Lenders affected thereby with respect to sub-part (viii) only, do any of the following at any time:
(i) waive any of the conditions specified in Section 3.01 or, in the case of the Initial Extension
of Credit, Section 3.02, (ii) amend the definition of “Required Lenders” or otherwise change the
number of Lenders or the percentage of (x) the Commitments, (y) the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the Advances or (z) the aggregate Available Amount of outstanding Letters of Credit that,
in each case, shall be required for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder,
(iii) release the Borrower with respect to any of its monetary Obligations under the Loan Documents
or reduce or limit the obligations of any Guarantor under Article VII or release such Guarantor or
otherwise limit such Guarantor’s liability with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations except in
accordance with Section 7.08, (iv) release any Borrowing Base Property (except as contemplated by
the definition of “Removed Borrowing Base Property”) or all or substantially all of the Collateral,
in each case in any transaction or series of related transactions, or permit the creation,
incurrence, assumption or existence of any Lien on any individual Borrowing Base Property, in each
case in any transaction or series of related transactions, to secure any Obligations other than
Obligations owing to the Lender Parties under the Loan Documents or the Hedge Obligations,
(v) amend this Section 9.01, (vi) increase the Commitments of the Lenders (except as provided in
Section 2.16) or subject the Lenders to any additional obligations, or amend Section 2.16,
(vii) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable
hereunder, (viii) extend the Termination Date (except as provided in Section 2.18) or otherwise
postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or
other amounts payable hereunder or amend Section 2.06, (ix) limit the liability of any Loan Party
under any of the Loan Documents; provided further that no amendment, waiver or consent shall,
unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Bank or each Issuing Bank, as the case may be, in
addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or obligations of the
Swing Line Bank or of the Issuing Banks, as the case may be, under this Agreement, (x) modify,
amend or delete the defined term “Change of Control”, or waive any Default with respect thereto,
(xi) modify, amend or delete the requirement in the defined term “Additional Borrowing Base
Property” or Section 9.16(a) that the Borrowing Base Property Condition in subpart (g) of such
definition must be satisfied, or (xii) modify, amend or delete Section 9.17; and provided further
that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative
Agent in addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or duties of
the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 9.02. Notices, Etc. (a) All notices and other communications provided for
hereunder shall be either (x) in writing (including telecopier or telegraphic communication) and
mailed, telecopied, telegraphed or delivered, (y) as and to the extent set forth in Section 9.02(b)
and in the proviso to this Section 9.02(a), in an electronic medium and delivered as set forth in
Section 9.02(b) or (z) as and to the extent expressly permitted in this Agreement, transmitted by
e-mail, provided that such e-mail shall in all cases include an attachment (in PDF format or
similar format) containing a legible signature of the person providing such notice, if to the
Borrower, at its address at 000 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, Attention:
Xxxxxx Xxxxx, or, if applicable, at xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx (and in the case of transmission by
e-mail, with a copy by U.S. mail to 000 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000,
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxx); if to any Initial Lender, at its
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Domestic Lending Office, or, if applicable, at the e-mail address specified opposite its name
on Schedule I hereto (and in the case of a transmission by e-mail, with a copy by U.S. mail
to its Domestic Lending Office); if to any other Lender Party, at its Domestic Lending Office, or,
if applicable, at the e-mail address specified in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which
it became a Lender Party (and in the case of a transmission by e-mail, with a copy by U.S. mail to
its Domestic Lending Office); if to the Initial Issuing Bank, at its address at 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx; Tel: 216/000-0000; Fax: 216/000-0000; E-mail
xxxx_x_xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx; and if to the Administrative Agent, at its address at 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx; Tel: 216/000-0000; Fax: 216/000-0000; E-mail
xxxx_x_xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx; or, as to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, at such other address
as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties and, as to each other
party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent. All such notices and communications shall, when mailed,
telecopied, telegraphed or e-mailed, be effective when deposited in the mails, telecopied,
delivered to the telegraph company or confirmed by e-mail, respectively, except that notices and
communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II, III or VIII shall not be
effective until received by the Administrative Agent. Delivery by telecopier of an executed
counterpart of any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Notes or of any
Exhibit hereto to be executed and delivered hereunder shall be effective as delivery of an original
executed counterpart thereof.
(b) So long as KeyBank is the Administrative Agent, materials required to be delivered
pursuant to Section 5.03(a), (b), (c) and (g) shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent in an
electronic medium in a format acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties by
e-mail at xxxx_x_xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx. The Borrower agrees that the Administrative Agent may make
such materials, as well as any other written information, documents, instruments and other material
relating to the Borrower, any Loan Party, any of their Subsidiaries or any other materials or
matters relating to this Agreement, the Notes or any of the transactions contemplated hereby
(collectively, the “Communications”) available to the Lender Parties by posting such notices on
Intralinks or a substantially similar electronic transmission system (the “Platform”). The
Borrower acknowledges that (i) the distribution of material through an electronic medium is not
necessarily secure and that there are confidentiality and other risks associated with such
distribution, (ii) the Platform is provided “as is” and “as available” and (iii) neither the
Administrative Agent nor any of its Affiliates warrants the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of
the Communications or the Platform and each expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions
in the Communications or the Platform. No warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory,
including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
non-infringement of third party rights or freedom from viruses or other code defects, is made by
the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in connection with the Platform.
(c) Each Lender Party agrees that notice to it (as provided in the next sentence) (a “Notice”)
specifying that any Communications have been posted to the Platform shall constitute effective
delivery of such information, documents or other materials to such Lender Party for purposes of
this Agreement, provided that if requested by any Lender Party, the Administrative Agent shall
deliver a copy of the Communications to such Lender Party by e-mail or telecopier. Each Lender
Party agrees (i) to notify the Administrative Agent in writing of such
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Lender Party’s e-mail address to which a Notice may be sent by electronic transmission
(including by electronic communication) on or before the date such Lender Party becomes a party to
this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on
record an effective e-mail address for such Lender Party) and (ii) that any Notice may be sent to
such e-mail address.
SECTION 9.03. No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any Lender Party or the
Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder or under any Note
shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
SECTION 9.04. Costs and Expenses. (a) Each Loan Party agrees jointly and severally to
pay on demand (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent, the
Arranger and each of their Affiliates (the “Agent Parties”) in connection with the preparation,
execution, delivery, administration, modification and amendment of the Loan Documents (including,
without limitation, (A) all due diligence, collateral review, syndication, transportation,
computer, duplication, appraisal, audit, insurance, consultant, search, filing and recording fees
and expenses, (B) the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for such Agent Parties with respect
thereto (including, without limitation, with respect to reviewing and advising on matters required
to be completed by the Loan Parties on a post-closing basis), with respect to advising such Agent
Parties as to their rights and responsibilities, or the perfection, protection or preservation of
rights or interests, under the Loan Documents, with respect to negotiations with any Loan Party or
with other creditors of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries arising out of any Default or any
events or circumstances that may give rise to a Default and with respect to presenting claims in or
otherwise participating in or monitoring any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding
involving creditors’ rights generally and any proceeding ancillary thereto and (C) the reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel for such Agent Parties with respect to the preparation, execution,
delivery and review of any documents and instruments at any time delivered in connection with the
inclusion of any Additional Borrowing Base Property within the definition of “Borrowing Base
Property”), (ii) all out-of-pocket costs and expenses of each Agent Party and each Lender Party in
connection with the enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of
the Loan Documents, whether in any action, suit or litigation, or any bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar proceeding affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, the
fees and expenses of counsel for such Agent Party and each Lender Party with respect thereto), and
(iii) any recording, mortgage, documentary or intangibles taxes in connection with the Mortgages
and other Loan Documents, or other taxes payable on or with respect to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
(b) Each Loan Party agrees to indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless each Indemnified
Party from and against, and shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities
and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by
or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection
with or by reason of (including, without limitation, in connection with any investigation,
litigation or proceeding or preparation of a defense in connection therewith) (i) the Facilities,
the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the
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Advances or the Letters of Credit, the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated
thereby or (ii) the actual or alleged presence of Hazardous Materials on any property of any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any Environmental Action relating in any way to any Loan Party
or any of its Subsidiaries, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is
found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. In the case of an
investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 9.04(b)
applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or
proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnified
Party, whether or not any Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not the
transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents are consummated. Each Loan Party also agrees not
to assert any claim against any Agent Party, any Lender Party or any of their Affiliates, or any of
their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors, on any theory of liability,
for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to
the Facilities, the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Advances or the Letters of
Credit, the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.
(c) If any payment of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurodollar Rate Advance is made by
the Borrower to or for the account of a Lender Party other than on the last day of the Interest
Period for such Advance, as a result of a payment or Conversion pursuant to Section 2.06,
2.09(b)(i) or 2.10(d), acceleration of the maturity of the Notes pursuant to Section 6.01 or for
any other reason, or if the Borrower fails to make any payment or prepayment of an Advance for
which a notice of prepayment has been given or that is otherwise required to be made, whether
pursuant to Section 2.04, 2.06 or 6.01 or otherwise, the Borrower shall, upon demand by such Lender
Party (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of such Lender Party any amounts required to compensate such Lender Party for any
additional losses, costs or expenses that it may reasonably incur as a result of such payment or
Conversion or such failure to pay or prepay, as the case may be, including, without limitation, any
loss, cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other
funds acquired by any Lender Party to fund or maintain such Advance; provided that such
compensation shall not include loss of margin or profits.
(d) If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it
under any Loan Document, including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel and
indemnities, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent or
any Lender Party, in its sole discretion.
(e) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any Loan Party hereunder or
under any other Loan Document, the agreements and obligations of the Borrower and the other Loan
Parties contained in Sections 2.10 and 2.12, Section 7.06 and this Section 9.04 shall survive the
payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable hereunder and under any of the
other Loan Documents.
SECTION 9.05. Right of Set-off. Upon (a) the occurrence and during the continuance of
any Event of Default and (b) the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by
Section 6.01 to authorize the Administrative Agent to declare the Notes due
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and payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Administrative Agent and each
Lender Party and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time
to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and otherwise apply any and all
deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other
indebtedness at any time owing by the Administrative Agent, such Lender Party or such Affiliate to
or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any other Loan Party against any and all of the
Obligations of the Borrower or such Loan Party now or hereafter existing under the Loan Documents
or the Hedge Obligations, irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party
shall have made any demand under this Agreement or such Note or Notes and although such obligations
may be unmatured; provided that no Lender Party shall exercise its right of set-off under this
Section 9.05 without the prior written approval of the Administrative Agent. The Administrative
Agent and each Lender Party agrees promptly to notify the Borrower or such Loan Party after any
such set-off and application; provided, however that the failure to give such notice shall not
affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of the Administrative Agent and
each Lender Party and their respective Affiliates under this Section 9.05 are in addition to other
rights and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) that the
Administrative Agent, such Lender Party and their respective Affiliates may have.
SECTION 9.06. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall
have been executed by the Borrower, each Guarantor named on the signature pages hereto and the
Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Initial Lender
and each Initial Issuing Bank that such Initial Lender or such Initial Issuing Bank, as the case
may be, has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the
Borrower, the Guarantors named on the signature pages hereto and the Administrative Agent and each
Lender Party and their respective successors and assigns, except that neither the Borrower nor any
other Loan Party shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without
the prior written consent of the Lender Parties.
SECTION 9.07. Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may assign to one or
more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment or Commitments, the Advances
owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it); provided, however that (i) each such assignment
shall be of a uniform, and not a varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under and in
respect of one or more of the Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person
that, immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender or a Fund
Affiliate of any Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitments being assigned to such Eligible Assignee
pursuant to such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with
respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than $5,000,000 under each Facility or an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or such lesser amount as shall be approved by
the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the
time of effectiveness of such assignment, the Borrower), (iii) each such assignment shall be to an
Eligible Assignee, (iv) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that, immediately prior to
such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender or a Fund Affiliate of any Lender, in
which case notice of such assignment shall be provided to the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower, no such assignments shall be permitted without the
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consent, which such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, of (A) the Administrative
Agent and (B) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at
the time of the effectiveness of such assignment, the Borrower and (v) the parties to each such
assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording
in the Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Note or Notes subject to such
assignment and, except if such assignment is being made by a Lender to an Affiliate or Fund
Affiliate of such Lender, a processing and recordation fee of $3,500.
(b) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date
specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, (i) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto
and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such
Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case
may be, hereunder and (ii) the Lender or Issuing Bank assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and
Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than its rights under Sections 2.10, 2.12, 7.06, 8.05 and
9.04 to the extent any claim thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and
be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Acceptance covering all of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s rights
and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender or Issuing Bank shall cease to be a party
hereto).
(c) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, each Lender Party assignor
thereunder and each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties
thereto and hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, such
assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with
respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with any Loan
Document or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value
of, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to be
created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant thereto; (ii) such assigning Lender Party makes no representation or warranty
and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any Loan Party or the
performance or observance by any Loan Party of any of its obligations under any Loan Document or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it
has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to
in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its
own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee
will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender Party
or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate
at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints
and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers and discretion under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by
the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental
thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of
the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender
or Issuing Bank, as the case may be.
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(d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section 9.02 a copy
of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the
recordation of the names and addresses of the Lender Parties and the Commitment under each Facility
of, and principal amount of the Advances owing under each Facility to, each Lender Party from time
to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all
purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties
may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party hereunder for all
purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent or any Lender Party at any reasonable time and from time to time upon
reasonable prior notice.
(e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender Party and
an assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment, the Administrative Agent
shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance has been completed and is in substantially the form of
Exhibit E hereto, (i) accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information
contained therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower. In the
case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the
Borrower, at its own expense, shall, if requested by the applicable Lender, execute and deliver to
the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or Notes a new Note to the order of
such Eligible Assignee in an amount equal to the Commitment assumed by it under each Facility
pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if any assigning Lender has retained a Commitment
hereunder under such Facility, a new Note to the order of such assigning Lender in an amount equal
to the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes, if any, shall be in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such surrendered Note or
Notes, shall be dated the effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance and shall otherwise be
in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto.
(f) Each Issuing Bank may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its
rights and obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any time;
provided, however that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that immediately prior
to such assignment was an Issuing Bank or an assignment of all of an Issuing Bank’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement, the amount of the Letter of Credit Commitment of the assigning
Issuing Bank being assigned pursuant to each such assignment (determined as of the date of the
Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment) shall in no event be less than
$5,000,000 and shall be in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) each such
assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and (iii) the parties to each such assignment shall
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register,
an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, provided
that such fee shall not be payable if the assigning Issuing Bank is making such assignment
simultaneously with the assignment in its capacity as a Lender of all or a portion of its Revolving
Credit Commitment to the same Eligible Assignee.
(g) Each Lender Party may sell participations to one or more Persons (other than any Loan
Party or any of its Affiliates) in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing
to it and the Note or Notes (if any) held by it); provided,
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however that (i) such Lender Party’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without
limitation, its Commitments) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender Party shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, (iii) such Lender
Party shall remain the holder of any such Note for all purposes of this Agreement, (iv) the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and
directly with such Lender Party in connection with such Lender Party’s rights and obligations under
this Agreement, (v) no participant under any such participation shall have any right to approve any
amendment or waiver of any provision of any Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by any
Loan Party therefrom, except to the extent that such amendment, waiver or consent would reduce the
principal of, or interest on, the Notes or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each
case to the extent subject to such participation, or release all or substantially all of the
Collateral or postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes or
any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, in each case to the extent subject to such
participation, and (vi) if, at the time of such sale, such Lender Party was entitled to payments
under Section 2.12(a) in respect of United States withholding tax with respect to interest paid at
such date, then, to such extent, the term Taxes shall include (in addition to withholding taxes
that may be imposed in the future or other amounts otherwise includable in Taxes) United States
withholding tax, if any, applicable with respect to such participant on such date, provided that
such participant complies with the requirements of Section 2.12(e).
(h) Any Lender Party may, in connection with any assignment or participation or proposed
assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 9.07, disclose to the assignee or participant
or proposed assignee or participant any information relating to the Borrower furnished to such
Lender Party by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided, however that, prior to any such disclosure,
the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the
confidentiality of any Confidential Information received by it from such Lender Party.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in this Agreement, any Lender Party may at
any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement
(including, without limitation, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes held by it) in favor
of any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
SECTION 9.08. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and
the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by
telecopier shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION 9.09. No Liability of the Issuing Banks. The Borrower assumes all risks of
the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit with respect to its
use of such Letter of Credit. Neither any Issuing Bank nor any of its officers or directors shall
be liable or responsible for: (a) the use that may be made of any Letter of Credit or any acts or
omissions of any beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith; (b) the validity, sufficiency
or genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents should
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prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; (c) payment by
such Issuing Bank against presentation of documents that do not comply with the terms of a Letter
of Credit, including failure of any documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to the
Letter of Credit; or (d) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or failing to make payment
under any Letter of Credit, except that the Borrower shall have a claim against such Issuing Bank,
and such Issuing Bank shall be liable to the Borrower, to the extent of any direct, but not
consequential, damages suffered by the Borrower that the Borrower proves were caused by (i) such
Issuing Bank’s willful misconduct or gross negligence as determined in a final, non-appealable
judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction in determining whether documents presented under any
Letter of Credit comply with the terms of the Letter of Credit or (ii) such Issuing Bank’s willful
failure to make lawful payment under a Letter of Credit after the presentation to it of a draft and
certificates strictly complying with the terms and conditions of the Letter of Credit. In
furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, such Issuing Bank may accept documents that
appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless
of any notice or information to the contrary.
SECTION 9.10. Confidentiality. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender Party
shall disclose any Confidential Information to any Person without the consent of the Borrower,
other than (a) to such Administrative Agent’s or such Lender Party’s Affiliates and their officers,
directors, employees, agents and advisors and to actual or prospective Eligible Assignees and
participants, and then only on a confidential basis, (b) as required by any law, rule or regulation
or judicial process, (c) as requested or required by any state, Federal or foreign authority or
examiner regulating such Lender Party and (d) to any rating agency when required by it, provided
that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the
confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from
such Lender Party.
SECTION 9.11. Release of Collateral. Upon the Borrowing Base Property satisfying the
conditions of becoming a Removed Borrowing Base Property, the Administrative Agent will, at the
Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to such Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may
reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of such Borrowing Base Property, as the
case may be, from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Document in
accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents.
SECTION 9.12. Patriot Act Notification. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent (for
itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Loan Parties that pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub.L. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001))
(the “Patriot Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each
Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other
information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify
such Loan Party in accordance with the Patriot Act. The Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall,
and shall cause each of their Subsidiaries to, provide, to the extent commercially reasonable, such
information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any
Lenders in order to assist the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in maintaining compliance with
the Patriot Act.
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SECTION 9.13. Jurisdiction, Etc. (a) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any
New York State court or Federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City, and
any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to
this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition or
enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in
any such New York State court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of
the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other
manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that any party may
otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(b) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent
it may legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying
of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents to which it is a party in any New York State or Federal court. Each of
the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense
of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
SECTION 9.14. Governing Law. This Agreement and the Notes shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 9.15. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE BORROWER, EACH OTHER LOAN PARTY, THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDER PARTIES IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY
ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATING TO ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, THE ADVANCES OR THE ACTIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR
ANY LENDER PARTY IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT THEREOF.
SECTION 9.16. Addition of Borrowing Base Properties. After the Closing Date, the
Borrower shall have the right, subject to the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders (which consent may be withheld in their sole and absolute discretion) and the satisfaction
by the Borrower of the conditions set forth in this Section 9.16, to add an Additional Borrowing
Base Property to the Collateral. The Borrower from time to time after the Closing Date may also
request that certain Student Housing Properties of one or more Subsidiary Guarantors (collectively,
the “Guarantor Collateral”) be included as a Borrowing Base Property for the purpose of increasing
the Aggregate Borrowing Base Amount. In the event the Borrower desires to add an Additional
Borrowing Base Property as aforesaid, the Borrower shall provide written notice to the
Administrative Agent of such request (which the Administrative Agent shall promptly furnish to the
Lenders), together with all documentation and other information required to permit the
Administrative Agent to determine whether such Student Housing Property satisfies the Borrowing
Base Property Conditions. Thereafter, the Administrative Agent shall have ten
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advise the Borrower whether the Administrative Agent and Required Lenders consent to the acceptance
of such Student Housing Property as an Additional Borrowing Base Property. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, no Student Housing Property shall be included as Collateral unless and until the
following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied:
(a) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Required Lenders, such Student Housing Property
shall satisfy all the Borrowing Base Property Conditions; provided, however, that unless otherwise
agreed to in writing by all of the Lenders, the Borrowing Base Property Condition in subpart (g) of
such definition must be satisfied;
(b) the Borrower or the owner of the Guarantor Collateral, as applicable, shall have executed
and delivered to the Administrative Agent all the Borrowing Base Qualification Documents, all of
which instruments, documents or agreements shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Agent;
(c) after giving effect to the inclusion of such Student Housing Property as an Additional
Borrowing Base Property, each of the representations and warranties made by or on behalf of the
Borrower or the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries contained in this Agreement, the
other Loan Documents or in any document or instrument delivered pursuant to or in connection with
this Agreement shall be true in all material respects both as of the date as of which it was made
and shall also be true as of the time of the addition of Student Housing Property as an Additional
Borrowing Base Property, with the same effect as if made at and as of that time (it being
understood and agreed that any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a
specified date shall be required to be true and correct only as of such specified date), and no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and the Administrative Agent shall have received a
certificate of the Borrower to such effect; and
(d) the Administrative Agent shall have consented to, and the Administrative Agent shall have
received the prior written consent of the Required Lenders to, the inclusion of such Student
Housing Property as an Additional Borrowing Base Property.
SECTION 9.17. Special Security Documents. The Special Security Documents have been
delivered and are effective, but shall not be recorded until the occurrence of a Monetary Event of
Default. Upon the occurrence of a Monetary Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall upon
receipt of all costs, fees, intangible tax, documentary or mortgage tax, assessments or charges as
are demanded by any governmental authority by reason of the Special Security Documents prior to the
recording of the same (“Special Security Recording Costs”) record the Special Security Documents in
the public records without any further action of or notice to the Borrower or any other Loan Party
and without waiving such Monetary Event of Default. Following a Monetary Event of Default,
Administrative Agent shall elect to request either (a) that Borrower fund the Special Security
Recording Costs, or (b) that each Lender fund such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Special Security
Recording Costs in accordance with Section 2.02(a), and which Advances by the Lenders shall bear
interest at the rate for overdue payments set forth in this Agreement. In the event that
Administrative Agent requests that Borrower fund the Special Security Recording Costs following a
Monetary Event of Default, the Borrower shall pay all Special Security Recording Costs within five
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In the event that the Borrower fails to pay the Special Security Recording Costs within such five
(5) day period, then Administrative Agent shall request that each Lender shall fund such Lender’s
Pro Rata Share of the Special Security Recording Costs in accordance with Section 2.02(a), and
which Advances by the Lenders shall bear interest at the rate for overdue payments set forth in
this Agreement. In addition, the Borrower shall, or cause any other Loan Party, to promptly
deliver to the Administrative Agent such further documents as may be reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent relating to the Sweet Home Property, including without limitation, owner’s
affidavits, updated legal opinions and copies of leases and such changes to the Special Security
Documents as may be necessary or desirable to comply with changes in applicable law. In connection
therewith, Borrower and each Loan Party appoint Administrative Agent as its attorney in fact to
make such changes to the Special Security Documents on behalf of Borrower or the applicable Loan
Party as may be necessary or desirable to comply with changes in applicable law, such power of
attorney being coupled with an interest and being irrevocable. In connection with the recording of
the Special Security Documents, the Administrative Agent may obtain, at the Borrower’s sole cost
and expense, a mortgagee’s title insurance policy with respect to the Sweet Home Property in such
amount as is determined by the Administrative Agent. The Borrower shall upon demand pay the cost
of any such mortgagee’s title insurance policy and the cost of any updated UCC searches. The
Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree that, provided no Default or Event of Default shall have
theretofore occurred hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents and shall continue to
exist, Administrative Agent shall release the Sweet Home Property from the lien of the Special
Security Documents and return the Special Security Documents to the Borrower upon the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in §9.11; provided, however, the Administrative Agent shall not be
obligated to release the Sweet Home Property or return the Special Security Documents if, as a
result of the release of the Sweet Home Property, a Default or Event of Default shall exist or
would arise hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their
respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.
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AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES, INC. |
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AMERICAN CAMPUS COMMUNITIES HOLDINGS LLC |
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RAP STUDENT HOUSING PROPERTIES LLC |
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RSVP–ACT, LLC |
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TITAN INVESTMENTS II LLC |
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ACT–VILLAGE AT TEMPLE LLC |
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SHP–THE VILLAGE AT SCIENCE DRIVE, LLC, a Delaware limited
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1772 SWEET HOME ROAD, LLC |
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ACC OP SWEET HOME LLC, its managing member |
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VILLAGE AT NEWARK URBAN RENEWAL, LLC |
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ACC OP (VILLAGE AT NEWARK) LLC, its managing member |
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SOUTHEAST REGION II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
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College Park Investments LLC, its sole member |
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LYNCHBURG ASSOCIATES, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company |
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Lynchburg Associates Intermediate, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company, its sole member |
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College Park Investments LLC, its sole member |
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LENDERS: |
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, individually as a Lender and as
Administrative Agent, Swing Line Bank and Issuing Bank. |
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. |
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. |
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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS |
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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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COMPASS BANK, an Alabama state banking corporation |
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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. |
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XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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