Dated 6 September 2013 amended and restated on 27 December 2013 CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P. as Borrower - and - THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 as Lenders - and - ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH HSH NORDBANK AG as Mandated...
Exhibit 4.18
Dated 6 September 2013
amended and restated on 27 December 2013
as Borrower
- and -
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
listed in Schedule 1
as Lenders
- and -
ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH
HSH NORDBANK AG
as Mandated Lead Arrangers
- and -
ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH
as Facility Agent and Security Trustee
- and -
ING BANK N.V.
as Swap Bank
relating to a term loan facility not exceeding US$225,000,000
to initially part-finance the acquisition cost of three container
vessels and further part-finance the acquisition cost of
certain additional vessels
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx
Index
Clause |
Page | |||||
1 |
Interpretation |
1 | ||||
2 |
Facility and Increase of Total Commitments |
20 | ||||
3 |
Position of the Lenders, the Swap Bank and the Majority Lenders |
22 | ||||
4 |
Drawdown |
24 | ||||
5 |
Interest |
25 | ||||
6 |
Interest Periods |
27 | ||||
7 |
Default Interest |
28 | ||||
8 |
Repayment and Prepayment |
29 | ||||
9 |
Conditions Precedent /Subsequent |
33 | ||||
10 |
Representations and Warranties |
34 | ||||
11 |
General Undertakings |
37 | ||||
12 |
Corporate Undertakings |
42 | ||||
13 |
Insurance |
43 | ||||
14 |
Ship covenants |
50 | ||||
15 |
Security Cover |
55 | ||||
16 |
Payments and Calculations |
56 | ||||
17 |
Application of Receipts |
58 | ||||
18 |
Application of Earnings |
60 | ||||
19 |
Event of Default |
61 | ||||
20 |
Fees and Expenses |
67 | ||||
21 |
Indemnities |
68 | ||||
22 |
No Set-Off or Tax Deduction |
71 | ||||
23 |
Illegality, etc. |
75 | ||||
24 |
Increased Costs |
75 | ||||
25 |
Set-Off |
77 | ||||
26 |
Transfers and Changes in Lending Offices |
78 | ||||
27 |
Variations and Waivers |
82 | ||||
28 |
Notices |
84 | ||||
29 |
Supplemental |
86 | ||||
30 |
Law and Jurisdiction |
86 | ||||
Schedule 1 Lenders and Commitments |
88 | |||||
Schedule 2 Drawdown Notice |
89 | |||||
Schedule 3 Conditions Precedent Documents |
90 | |||||
Schedule 4 Transfer Certificate |
93 | |||||
Schedule 5 Designation Notice |
97 | |||||
Schedule 6 Form of Compliance Certificate |
98 | |||||
Schedule 7 Power of Attorney |
100 | |||||
Schedule 8 Additional Lender’s Certificate |
101 | |||||
Execution pages |
104 |
THIS LOAN AGREEMENT is made on 6 September 2013 as amended and restated by the Deed of Amendment and Restatement (as defined below).
BETWEEN:
(1) | CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P. being a limited partnership formed in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company House, Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, The Xxxxxxxx Islands as Borrower. |
(2) | THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1, as Lenders. |
(3) | ING BANK N.V. as Swap Bank. |
(4) | ING BANK N.V., London Branch and HSH NORDBANK AG as Mandated Lead Arrangers. |
(5) | ING BANK N.V., London Branch as Facility Agent and Security Trustee. |
WHEREAS
(A) | The Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower a term loan facility (divided into 2 tranches) of up to US$225,000,000 in aggregate for the purpose of: |
(i) | in the case of Tranche A (being in an amount of up to US$75,000,000 already advanced in a single Advance on 11 September 2013, being the Drawdown Date for that Tranche), to refinance part of the cost of acquiring the issued share capital of the Existing Owners being the owners of the 2013-built 5,000 TEU container vessels “CCNI ANGOL”, “HYUNDAI PRIVILEGE” and “HYUNDAI PLATINUM” or the cost of acquiring such ships; and |
(ii) | in the case of Tranche B (being in an amount of up to US$150,000,000 and to be made available in multiple Advances, none of which has been drawn down as at the date of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement), to part-finance or refinance the acquisition cost of certain Additional Ships or to part-finance or refinance the cost of acquiring the issued share capital of an Additional Ship Owner. |
(B) | The Swap Bank has agreed to enter into interest rate swap transactions with the Borrower from time to time to hedge the Borrower’s exposure under this Agreement to interest rate fluctuations. |
(C) | The Lenders and the Swap Bank have agreed to share in the security to be granted to the Security Trustee pursuant to this Agreement with the obligations of the Borrower to the Swap Bank being subordinated to those of the Borrower to the Lenders. |
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1 | INTERPRETATION |
1.1 | Definitions |
Subject to Clause 1.5, in this Agreement:
“Account” means each of the Earnings Accounts and the Debt Service Reserve Account and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Accounting Information” means the annual audited consolidated accounts to be provided by the Borrower to the Facility Agent in accordance with Clause 11.6(a)(i) of this Agreement or the quarterly unaudited management accounts of the Borrower to be provided by the Borrower to the Facility Agent in accordance with Clause 11.6(b)(i) of this Agreement (as the context may require);
“Accounts Pledge” means, in respect of each Account, a pledge agreement creating security in respect of that Account, in the Agreed Form, and in the plural means all of them;
“Additional Lender” means each of NBG and SEB and, in the plural, means both of them;
“Additional Lender’s Certificate” has the meaning given in Clause 2.1(b)(ii);
“Additional Ship” means any ship which is, or is to be, purchased by an Additional Ship Owner, each of which (unless all of the Lenders acting in their absolute discretion agree otherwise) must satisfy all the Additional Ship Requirements;
“Additional Ship MOA” means, in relation to an Additional Ship, a memorandum of agreement or a shipbuilding contract to be made between the Additional Ship Seller of that Additional Ship and the Additional Ship Owner which is the buyer thereof on terms and conditions acceptable to the Lenders and, in the plural, mean all of them;
“Additional Ship Owner” means a company which is or will be a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Borrower incorporated in a jurisdiction acceptable to the Lenders (in their absolute discretion however the Xxxxxxxx Islands, Liberia and Panama, are considered as acceptable to the Lenders) which shall be the owner of an Additional Ship and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Additional Ship Requirements” means, in relation to any Ship which is, or is to be, purchased by an Additional Ship Owner; a ship which satisfies the following requirements:
(a) | it is an LR1 or LR2 or modern MR product carrier or a 5,000 TEU-14,000 TEU “Eco-vessel/Eco-design” container carrier in each case having an Age of not more than 5 years and being subject on the relevant Drawdown Date to a Charterparty; |
(b) | it maintains the highest available class with a first class classification society which is a member of IACS except (i) China Classification Society, P.R. of China and (ii) Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, Russia, free of any overdue recommendations and conditions of such classification society; and |
(c) | it is to be registered on an Approved Flag; |
“Additional Ship Seller” means, in relation to an Additional Ship, the seller of such Additional Ship and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Advance” means the principal amount of each borrowing by the Borrower under this Agreement;
“Affected Lender” has the meaning given in Clause 5.5;
“Age” means, in relation to a Ship, the number of integral years from the year in which the construction of that Ship was completed and ending on the Drawdown Date which relates to the Advance in respect of that Ship;
“Agency and Trust Agreement” means the agency and trust agreement executed or to be executed between the Borrower, the Lenders, the Swap Bank and the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;
“Agreed Form” means, in relation to any document, that document in the form approved in writing by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) or as otherwise approved in accordance with any other approval procedure specified in any relevant provision of any Finance Document;
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“Anax” means Anax Container Carrier S.A., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of Liberia and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx;
“Approved Broker” means:
(a) | in the case of container Fleet Vessels, each of Arrow Valuations (London), H. Clarksons & Co. Ltd., Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Sales, Maersk Brokers K/S, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx & Co. Ltd Shipbrokers and SSY Valuation Services Ltd.; and |
(b) | in the case of tanker Fleet Vessels, each of Arrow Valuations (London), Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Sales, Fearnleys A/S, H. Clarksons & Co. Ltd., Pareto Shipbrokers A/S, XX Xxxxxx A.S. and SSY Valuation Services Ltd. |
and in the plural means all of them;
“Approved Charterer” means a charterer acceptable in all respects to the Lenders (including, without limitation, Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. (“CMTC”) or any wholly owned subsidiary of CMTC (subject to a full performance guarantee of CMTC)) such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned;
“Approved Flag” means the Liberian or Xxxxxxxx Islands or Panama or Greek or Malta flag or such flag as the Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of all the Lenders, approve as the flag on which a Ship shall be registered, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld;
“Approved Flag State” means any country in which the Facility Agent may with the authorisation of all the Lenders, approve that a Ship be registered, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld;
“Approved Manager” means, in relation to a Ship, Capital Ship Management Corp., a company incorporated in Panama having its registered office at Hong Kong Bank Building, 6th floor, Xxxxxx Xxxxx Avenue, Panama, Republic of Panama, or any other company which the Lenders may approve (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) from time to time as the commercial, technical and/or operational manager of that Ship;
“Approved Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to each Ship, a letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee in the terms required by the Security Trustee agreeing certain matters in relation to the Approved Manager serving as the manager of the Ship and subordinating the rights of the Approved Manager against such Ship and the Owner thereof to the rights of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form and in the plural means all of them;
“Availability Period” means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on:
(a) | in the case of Tranche A, 31 December 2013 (with such Tranche having been drawn down in full, in a single Advance, on 11 September 2013 being the Drawdown Date for that Tranche) and in the case of Xxxxxxx X, 00 Xxxxx 0000; or |
(b) | if earlier, the date on which the Total Commitments are cancelled or terminated; |
“Balloon Instalment” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 8.1(b)(ii);
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“Bareboat Charter Security Agreement” means, in relation to any Ship which is subject to a bareboat charter (which charter may be entered into by the relevant Owner in accordance with Clause 14.17), an agreement or agreements whereby the Security Trustee receives an assignment of the rights of the relevant Owner under the bareboat charter and certain undertakings from that Owner and the relevant Approved Charterer and, if so agreed by the Security Trustee (acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders including for the avoidance of doubt in the case where a quiet enjoyment undertaking is requested from the Lenders by the Approved Charterer), agrees to give certain undertakings to that Approved Charterer, in each case, in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Borrower” means Capital Product Partners L.P., a limited partnership formed under the laws of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company House, Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, the Xxxxxxxx Islands;
“Break Costs” has the meaning given in Clause 21.2;
“Business Day” means a day on which banks are open in London, Hamburg, Athens and Piraeus and in respect of a day on which a payment is required to be made under a Finance Document, also in New York City;
“CCNI ANGOL” means the 2013-built container vessel of 5,000 TEU registered in the ownership of Anax under the Liberian flag with the name CCNI ANGOL”;
“Charterparty” means any bareboat charterparty or any time charterparty (including, without limitation, any Existing Charter) in respect of a Ship of a duration of 12 months or more (excluding options to extend contained therein), made with an Approved Charterer on terms acceptable in all respects to the Lenders, such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld;
“Charterparty Assignment” means, in relation to:
(a) | a Ship (at all times during the term of the Existing Charter relative thereto), an assignment of the rights of the Owner of that Ship under the Existing Charter relative to that Ship executed or to be executed by the relevant Owner in favour of the Security Trustee; and |
(b) | each Ship (in the case of the Existing Ships, after the expiry of the Existing Charter relative thereto), an assignment of the rights of the relevant Owner under any Charterparty in respect of such Ship with a duration of at least 11 consecutive months executed or to be executed by the relevant Owner in favour of the Security Trustee, |
in each case, in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Code” means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
“Commitment” means, in relation to a Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1, or, as the case may require, the amount specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate and/or the relevant Additional Lender’s Certificate, as that amount may be reduced, cancelled or terminated in accordance with this Agreement (and “Total Commitments” means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders);
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate in the form set out in Schedule 6 (or in any other form which the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of all the Lenders, approves or requires);
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“Confirmation” and “Early Termination Date”, in relation to any continuing Designated Transaction, have the meanings given in the Master Agreement;
“Contractual Currency” has the meaning given in Clause 21.5;
“Contribution” means, in relation to a Lender, the part of the Loan which is owing to that Lender;
“Creditor Party” means the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee, either Mandated Lead Arranger, the Swap Bank or any Lender, whether as at the date of this Agreement or at any later time;
“Cronus” means Cronus Container Carrier S.A., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of Liberia and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx;
“Debt Service Reserve Account” means an account in the name of the Borrower with the Facility Agent in London designated “Capital Product Partners L.P. – Debt Service Reserve Account” which is designated by the Facility Agent in writing as the Debt Service Reserve Account for the purposes of this Agreement;
“Deed of Amendment and Restatement” means the deed of amendment and restatement dated 27 December 2013 and made between (i) the Borrower, (ii) the Existing Owners, (iii) the Lenders, (iv) the Agent, (v) the Mandated Lead Arrangers, (vi) the Swap Bank and (vii) the Security Trustee setting out the terms and conditions upon which this Agreement is amended and restated;
“Deed of Covenant” means, in relation to a Ship registered or to be registered under Bahamas or Malta flag, a deed of covenant collateral to the Mortgage of that Ship creating charges over the Ship, executed or to be executed by the Owner of that Ship in favour of the Security Trustee, in the Agreed Form, and in the plural means all of them;
“Designated Transaction” means a Transaction which fulfils the following requirements:
(a) | it is entered into by the Borrower pursuant to the Master Agreement with the Swap Bank which, at the time the Transaction is entered into, is also a Lender (or an affiliate of a Lender; |
(b) | its purpose is the hedging of the Borrower’s exposure under this Agreement to fluctuations in LIBOR arising from the funding of the Loan (or any part thereof) for a period expiring no later than the final Repayment Date; and |
(c) | it is designated by the Borrower, by delivery by the Swap Bank to the Facility Agent and the Borrower of a notice of designation in the form set out in Schedule 5, as a Designated Transaction for the purposes of the Finance Documents; |
“Dollars” and “$” means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America;
“Drawdown Date” means, in relation to an Advance, the date requested by the Borrower for the Advance to be made, or (as the context requires) the date on which the Advance is actually made;
“Drawdown Notice” means a notice in the form set out in Schedule 2 (or in any other form which the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of all the Lenders, approves or reasonably requires);
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“Earnings” means, in relation to a Ship, all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the Owner owning the Ship or the Security Trustee and which arise out of the use or operation of the Ship, including (but not limited to):
(a) | all freight, hire and passage moneys, compensation payable to the Owner owning the Ship or the Security Trustee in the event of requisition of the Ship for hire, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys and damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Ship; |
(b) | all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in respect of loss of hire; and |
(c) | if and whenever the Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement which is attributable to the Ship; |
“Earnings Account” means, with respect to an Owner, an account in the name of that Owner with the Facility Agent in London which is designated by the Facility Agent in writing as the Earnings Account with respect to that Owner for the purposes of this Agreement and in the plural means all of them;
“EBITDA” means, in respect of the relevant period, the aggregate amount of consolidated or combined pre-tax profits of the Group before extraordinary or exceptional items, depreciation, interest, repayment of principal in respect of any loan, rentals under finance leases and similar charges payable;
“Environmental Claim” means:
(a) | any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which relates to any Environmental Law; or |
(b) | any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident or to an alleged Environmental incident, |
and “claim” means a claim for damages, compensation, fines, penalties or any other payment of any kind whether or not similar to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain action or to desist from or suspend certain action; and any form of enforcement or regulatory action, including the arrest or attachment of any asset;
“Environmental Incident” means:
(a) | any release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from a Ship; or |
(b) | any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released from a vessel other than a Ship and which involves a collision between a Ship and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, in connection with which a Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or a Ship or an Owner and/or any operator or manager is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; or |
(c) | any other incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released otherwise than from a Ship and in connection with which a Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested and/or where an Owner and/or any operator or manager of a Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; |
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“Environmental Law” means any law relating to pollution or protection of the environment, to the carriage of Environmentally Sensitive Material or to actual or threatened releases of Environmentally Sensitive Material;
“Environmentally Sensitive Material” means oil, oil products and any other substance (including any chemical, gas or other hazardous or noxious substance) which is (or is capable of being or becoming) polluting, toxic or hazardous;
“Event of Default” means any of the events or circumstances described in Clause 19.1;
“Existing Charter” means, in relation to each Existing Ship, a time charter in respect of that Existing Ship dated 18 July 2011 and made between the Owner of that Existing Ship and HMM and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Existing Lenders” means the banks and financial institutions acting as Lenders prior to the Increased Commitment Date;
“Existing Owner” means, together Anax, Cronus and Thiseas and, in the singular, means any of them;
“Existing Ships” means, together, “HYUNDAI PLATINUM”, “CCNI ANGOL” and “HYUNDAI PRIVILEGE” and in the singular means any of them;
“FATCA” means:
(a) | sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code and any Treasury regulations thereunder: |
(b) | any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph(a) above; or |
(c) | any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction; |
“FATCA Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under any Finance Document required by or under FATCA;
“FATCA Exempt Party” means a party to a Finance Document that is entitled under FATCA to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction;
“FATCA FFI” means a foreign financial institution as defined in section 1471(d)(4) of the Code which could be required to make a FATCA Deduction;
“FATCA Non-Exempt Lender” means any Lender who is not a FATCA Exempt Party;
“Fee Letter” means a letter issued or to be issued by the Borrower to the Facility Agent in which the Borrower agrees to pay certain fees to the Facility Agent in connection with this Agreement;
“Finance Documents” means:
(a) | this Agreement; |
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(b) | the Master Agreement; |
(c) | the Agency and Trust Agreement; |
(d) | the Guarantees; |
(e) | the Guarantee Confirmations; |
(f) | the Deed of Amendment and Restatement; |
(g) | the Master Agreement Assignment; |
(h) | the General Assignments; |
(i) | the Mortgages and the Mortgage Addenda; |
(j) | the Deeds of Covenant; |
(k) | the Accounts Pledges; |
(l) | the Swap Account Pledge; |
(m) | the Negative Pledges; |
(n) | the Fee Letter; |
(o) | any Charterparty Assignments; |
(p) | any Bareboat Charter Security Agreements; |
(q) | the Approved Manager’s Undertakings; and |
(r) | any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by the Borrower, an Owner or any other person as security for, or to establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lenders under this Agreement or any of the documents referred to in this definition and, in the singular, means any of them; |
“Final Maturity Date” means 31 December 2020;
“Financial Indebtedness” means, in relation to a person (the “debtor”), any liability of the debtor:
(a) | for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor; |
(b) | under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor; |
(c) | under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility made available to the debtor; |
(d) | under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money by the debtor; |
(e) | under any interest or currency swap or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the agreement under which any such transaction is entered into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; |
(f) | under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within (a) to (e) if the references to the debtor referred to the other person; |
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“Fleet Vessels” means all of the vessels (including, but not limited to, the Ships) from time to time wholly owned by members of the Group (each a “Fleet Vessel”);
“General Assignment” means, in relation to a Ship, a general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation, in the Agreed Form and in the plural means all of them;
“Group” means the Borrower and its subsidiaries (whether direct or indirect and including, but not limited to, each Owner) from time to time during the Security Period and “member of the Group” shall be construed accordingly;
“Guarantee” means, in relation to an Owner, the guarantee to be given by that Owner in favour of the Security Trustee (in the case of the guarantees executed by Existing Owners, each as supplemented by the Guarantee Confirmation to which that Existing Owner is a party), guaranteeing the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form and in the plural means all of them;
“Guarantee Confirmation” means, in relation to each Existing Owner, a written confirmation by that Existing Owner in the Agreed Form in respect of the guarantee of the Borrowers’ rights, obligations and liabilities under this Agreement, the Master Agreement and the other Finance Documents, each as amended, supplemented or, as the case may be, restated by the Deed of Amendment and Restatement) and, in the plural, means all of them;
“HMM” means Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Ltd., a company incorporated in Korea whose registered office is at 0-0 Xxxxxx-Xxxx, Xxxxxx-Xx, Xxxxx, Xxxxx;
“HYUNDAI PLATINUM” means the 2013-built container vessel of 5,000 TEU registered in the ownership of Cronus under the Liberian flag with the name HYUNDAI PLATINUM”;
“HYUNDAI PRIVILEGE” means the 2013-built container vessel of 5,000 TEU registered in the ownership of Thiseas under the Liberian flag with the name HYUNDAI PRIVILEGE”;
“Increased Commitment” has the meaning given in Clause 2.1(b);
“Increased Commitment Date” means the date on which each Additional Lender becomes a Lender in accordance with Clause 2.1(b) and each Additional Lender’s Certificate (being the effective date specified in such certificate);
“Insurances” means, in relation to a Ship:
(a) | all policies and contracts of insurance or reinsurance, including entries of such Ship in any protection and indemnity or war risks association, which are effected in respect of such Ship, her Earnings or otherwise in relation to her; and |
(b) | all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium or under any cut-through clause; |
“Instalments” has the meaning given in Clause 8.1(b)(i);
“Interest Period” means a period determined in accordance with Clause 6;
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“ISM Code” means the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (and the terms “safety management system”, “Safety Management Certificate” and “Document of Compliance” have the same meanings as are given to them in the ISM Code);
“ISPS Code” means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code as adopted by the International Maritime Organisation, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time;
“ISSC” means a valid and current International Ship Security Certificate issued under the ISPS Code;
“Lender” means, subject to Clause 26.6, a bank or financial institution listed in Schedule 1 and acting through its branch indicated in Schedule 1 (or through another branch notified to the Borrower under Clause 26.14) or its transferee, successor or assign and, subject to Clause 2.1(b), includes an Additional Lender or its transferee, successor or assign;
“LIBOR” means, for an Interest Period:
(a) | the rate per annum equal to the offered quotation for deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the relevant Interest Period which appears on REUTERS BBA Page LIBOR 01 at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for that Interest Period (and, for the purposes of this Agreement, “REUTERS BBA Page LIBOR 01” means the display designated as the “REUTERS BBA Page LIBOR 01” on the Reuters Money News Service or such other page as may replace REUTERS BBA Page LIBOR 01 on that service for the purpose of displaying rates comparable to that rate or on such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers’ Association (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) as the information vendor for the purpose of displaying British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates for Dollars (or the settlement rates of the person which takes over the administration of LIBOR)); or |
(b) | if no rate is quoted on REUTERS BBA Page LIBOR 01, the rate per annum determined by the Facility Agent to be the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest one-sixteenth of one per cent.) of the rates per annum notified to the Facility Agent by each Reference Bank as the rate at which deposits in Dollars are offered to that Reference Bank by leading banks in the London Interbank Market at that Reference Bank’s request at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for that Interest Period for a period equal to that Interest Period and for delivery on the first Business Day of it; or |
(c) | if any of the above rates is below zero, LIBOR will be deemed to be zero; |
“Liquid Assets” means, at any relevant time hereunder, the aggregate of:
(a) | cash in hand or held with banks or other financial institutions of the Borrower and/or any other member of the Group in Dollars or another currency freely convertible into Dollars,; |
(b) | the market value of transferable certificates of deposit in a freely convertible currency acceptable to the Lenders (being for the purposes of this Agreement, Dollars, Japanese Yen, Swiss Francs, Euros or Sterling) issued by a prime international bank; and |
(c) | the market value of equity securities (if and to the extent that the Facility Agent is satisfied that such equity securities are readily saleable for cash and that there is a ready market therefor) and investment grade debt securities which are publicly traded on a major stock exchange or investment market (valued at market value as at any applicable date of determination), |
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in each case owned by the Borrower or any other member of the Group where:
(i) | the market value of any asset specified in paragraph (b) and (c) shall be the bid price quoted for it on the relevant calculation date by the Facility Agent: and |
(ii) | the amount or value of any asset denominated in a currency other than Dollars shall be converted into Dollars using the Facility Agent’s spot rate for the purchase of Dollars with that currency on the relevant calculation date. |
“LSW 1189” means the London Standard Wording for marine insurances which incorporates the German direct mortgage clause;
“Loan” means the principal amount for the time being outstanding under this Agreement;
“Major Casualty” means, in relation to a Ship, any casualty to the Ship in respect of which the claim or the aggregate of the claims against all insurers, before adjustment for any relevant franchise or deductible, exceeds $750,000 or the equivalent in any other currency;
“Majority Lenders” means:
(a) | at any time when no Advances are outstanding, Lenders whose Commitments exceed in total 66 2/3 per cent. of the Total Commitments; and |
(b) | at any other time, Lenders whose Contributions exceed in total 66 2/3 per cent. of the Loan; |
“Management Agreement” means, in relation to each Ship, an agreement made or to be made between (i) the Owner of that Ship and (ii) the Approved Manager in respect of the commercial and technical management of the Ship to be in form and substance in all respects reasonably acceptable to the Lenders and, in the plural, means both of them;
“Management Agreement Assignment” means, in relation to each Management Agreement, the first priority assignment of the rights and interests of the relevant Owner under that Management Agreement in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Mandated Lead Arranger” means each of:
(a) | ING Bank N.V., London Branch acting in such capacity through its office at 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx; and |
(b) | HSH Nordbank AG, acting in such capacity through its office at Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, 00000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, |
or, in each case, any successor and, in the plural, means both of them;
“Mandatory Cost” means, in relation to the Loan, the cost calculated as a percentage rate per annum incurred by a Lender as a result of compliance with (a) the requirements of the Bank of England and/or the Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority (or, in any case, any other authority which replaces all or any of its functions) or (b) the requirements of the European Central Bank, as may be determined by a Lender to the Facility Agent from time to time and notified to the Borrower;
“Margin” means 3.50 per cent. per annum;
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“Market Value” means, in respect of each Ship and each Fleet Vessel, the market value thereof determined from time to time in accordance with Clause 15.4;
“Master Agreement” means a master agreement (on the 1992 or, as the case may be, 2002 ISDA (Multicurrency - Crossborder) form) made between the Borrower and the Swap Bank and includes all Designated Transactions from time to time entered into and Confirmations from time to time exchanged under the master agreement;
“Material Adverse Change” means any event or series of events which, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on:
(a) | the business, property, assets, liabilities, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and/or any Security Party taken as a whole; |
(b) | the ability of the Borrower and/or any Security Party to (i) perform any of its obligations or (ii) discharge any of its liabilities, under any Finance Document as they fall due; or |
(c) | the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document; |
“Mortgage” means, in relation to a Ship, the first preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship mortgage on that Ship (in the case of each mortgage on an Existing Ship, as that mortgage is amended and supplemented by the relevant Mortgage Addendum) under the relevant Approved Flag executed by the Owner of that Ship in favour of the Security Trustee, in the Agreed Form;
“Mortgage Addendum” means, in the case of each Mortgage in respect of an Existing Ship, the first addendum to that Mortgage and, in the plural, means all of them;
“NBG” means the National Bank of Greece S.A., a company organised and existing in the Hellenic Republic acting through its branch at 0 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxx Xxxxxxx, 000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx;
“Negative Pledge” means, in relation to each Owner, a negative pledge in respect of the share capital of that Owner, in the Agreed Form, and in the plural means, all of them;
“Negotiation Period” has the meaning given in Clause 5.10;
“Net Interest Expenses” means, in respect of the relevant period:
(a) | the aggregate of all interest payable by any member of the Group on any Financial Indebtedness (excluding any amounts owing by one member of the Group to another member of the Group) and any net amounts payable under interest rate hedge agreements, less |
(b) | the aggregate of all interest received by any member of the Group arising from any Liquid Assets and any net amounts received by any member of the Group under interest rate hedge agreements; |
“Notifying Lender” has the meaning given in Clause 23.1 or Clause 24.1 as the context requires;
“Owner” means:
(a) | in relation to each Existing Ship, the Existing Owner thereof; and |
(b) | in relation to each Additional Ship, the Additional Ship Owner thereof, |
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and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Payment Currency” has the meaning given in Clause 21.6
“Permitted Security Interests” means:
(a) | Security Interests created by the Finance Documents; |
(b) | liens for unpaid crew’s wages in accordance with usual maritime practice; |
(c) | liens for salvage; |
(d) | liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months’ prepaid hire under any charter in relation to a Ship not prohibited by this Agreement; |
(e) | liens for master’s disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading and any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary course of the operation, repair or maintenance of a Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 45 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the relevant Owner in good faith by appropriate steps) and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 14.13(e); |
(f) | any Security Interest created in favour of a plaintiff or defendant in any action of the court or tribunal before whom such action is brought as security for costs and expenses where the Borrower is prosecuting or defending such action in good faith by appropriate steps; and |
(g) | Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment other than taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made; |
“Pertinent Document” means:
(a) | any Finance Document; |
(b) | any policy or contract of insurance contemplated by or referred to in Clause 13 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; |
(c) | any other document contemplated by or referred to in any Finance Document; and |
(d) | any document which has been or is at any time sent by or to a Servicing Bank in contemplation of or in connection with any Finance Document or any policy, contract or document falling within paragraphs (b) or (c); |
“Pertinent Jurisdiction”, in relation to a company, means:
(a) | England and Wales; |
(b) | the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed; |
(c) | a country in which the company has the centre of its main interests or which the company’s central management and control is or has recently been exercised; |
(d) | a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax; |
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(e) | a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which the company maintains a branch or permanent place of business, or in which a Security Interest created by the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority; and |
(f) | a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up, administration or similar order in relation to the company, whether as a main or territorial or ancillary proceedings, or which would have such jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c) above; |
“Pertinent Matter” means:
(a) | any transaction or matter contemplated by, arising out of, or in connection with a Pertinent Document; or |
(b) | any statement relating to a Pertinent Document or to a transaction or matter falling within paragraph (a), |
and covers any such transaction, matter or statement, whether entered into, arising or made at any time before the signing of this Agreement or on or at any time after that signing;
“Potential Event of Default” means an event or circumstance which, with the giving of any notice, the lapse of time, a determination of the Majority Lenders and/or the satisfaction of any other condition, would constitute an Event of Default;
“Quotation Date” means, in relation to any Interest Period (or any other period for which an interest rate is to be determined under any provision of a Finance Document), the day on which quotations would ordinarily be given by leading banks in the London Interbank Market for deposits in the currency in relation to which such rate is to be determined for delivery on the first day of that Interest Period or other period;
“Reference Banks” means, subject to Clause 26.17, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, HSH Nordbank AG (acting through its office in Hamburg) and/or the London branch of any other bank or financial institution selected by the Facility Agent;
“Relevant Person” has the meaning given in Clause 19.9;
“Repayment Date” means a date on which a repayment is required to be made under Clause 8;
“Repayment Instalment” has the meaning given to that item in Clause 8.2(b)(i);
“Requisition Compensation” includes all compensation or other moneys payable by reason of any act or event such as is referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of “Total Loss”;
“SEB” means Skandinaviska Enskilda Xxxxxx XX (publ), a company incorporated and existing in Sweden acting through its office at Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 0, XX-000 00, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx;
“Secured Liabilities” means all liabilities which the Borrower, the Security Parties or any of them have, at the date of this Agreement or at any later time or times, under or by virtue of the Finance Documents or any judgment relating to the Finance Documents; and for this purpose, there shall be disregarded any total or partial discharge of these liabilities, or variation of their terms, which is effected by, or in connection with, any bankruptcy, liquidation, arrangement or other procedure under the insolvency laws of any country;
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“Security Cover Ratio” means the ratio which is determined at any time by comparing the aggregate Market Value of the Ships subject to a Mortgage at the relevant time against the Loan;
“Security Interest” means:
(a) | a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind; |
(b) | the rights of the plaintiff under an action in rem in which the vessel concerned has been arrested or a writ has been issued or similar step taken; and |
(c) | any arrangement entered into by a person (A) the effect of which is to place another person (B) in a position which is similar, in economic terms, to the position in which B would have been had he held a security interest over an asset of A; but (c) does not apply to a right of set off or combination of accounts conferred by the standard terms of business of a bank or financial institution; |
“Security Party” means each of the Owners and any other person (except a Creditor Party and any Approved Charterer of any Ship or the Approved Manager (in case it is not Capital Ship Management Corp. (or an affiliate of Capital Ship Management Corp.))) who, as a surety or mortgagor, as a party to any subordination or priorities arrangement, or in any similar capacity, executes a document falling within the final paragraph of the definition of “Finance Documents”;
“Security Period” means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date on which the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower, the Security Parties and the Lenders that:
(a) | all amounts which have become due for payment by the Borrower or any Security Party under the Finance Documents have been paid; |
(b) | no amount is owing or has accrued (without yet having become due for payment) under any Finance Document; |
(c) | neither the Borrower nor any Security Party has any future or contingent liability under Clause 20, 21 or 22 below or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; and |
(d) | the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee and the Majority Lenders do not consider that there is a significant risk that any payment or transaction under a Finance Document would be set aside, or would have to be reversed or adjusted, in any present or possible future bankruptcy of the Borrower or a Security Party or in any present or possible future proceeding relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document; |
“Security Trustee” means ING Bank N.V, London Branch, acting in such capacity through its office at 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and Trust Agreement;
“Servicing Bank” means the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee;
“Ships” means, together, the Existing Ships and the Additional Ships, and in the singular means any of them;
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“Swap Account” means an account in the name of the Borrower with the Facility Agent designated “Capital Product Partners L.P. - Swap Account”, which is designated by the Facility Agent as the Swap Account for the purposes of this Agreement;
“Swap Account Pledge” means a pledge agreement creating security in favour of the Security Trustee in respect of the Swap Account in the Agreed Form;
“Swap Bank” means ING Bank N.V. acting through its office at Treasury Building, Foppingadreef 7,1102 BD Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
“Swap Exposure” means, as at any relevant date, the amount certified by the Swap Bank to the Facility Agent to be the aggregate net amount in Dollars which would be payable by the Borrower to the Swap Bank under (and calculated in accordance with) section 6(e) (Payments on Early Termination) of the Master Agreement if an Early Termination Date had occurred on the relevant date in relation to all continuing Designated Transactions in respect of the Master Agreement entered into between the Borrower and the Swap Bank;
“Thiseas” means Thiseas Container Carrier S.A., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of Liberia and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx;
“Total Indebtedness” means the aggregate Financial Indebtedness of the Group as stated in the most recent Accounting Information;
“Total Loss” means, in relation to a Ship:
(a) | actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship; |
(b) | any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of the Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than her proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority, unless it is within 1 month from the date of such occurrence redelivered to the full control of the Borrower owning that Ship, excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding 360 days without any right to an extension; |
(c) | any condemnation of the Ship by any tribunal or by any person or persons claiming to be a tribunal; and |
(d) | any arrest, capture, seizure, confiscation or detention of the Ship (including any hijacking (piracy) or theft) unless she is within 90 days redelivered to the full control of the Owner owning the Ship; |
“Total Loss Date” means, in relation to a Ship:
(a) | in the case of an actual loss of the Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when the Ship was last heard of; |
(b) | in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship, the earliest of: |
(i) | 30 days after the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and |
(ii) | the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Owner owning the Ship, with the Ship’s insurers in which the insurers agree to treat the Ship as a total loss; and |
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(c) | in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Facility Agent that the event constituting the total loss occurred; |
“Tranche A” means the amount of $75,000,000 made available by the Lenders to the Borrower on the Drawdown Date in respect of that Tranche pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and on-lent on that date by the Borrower to the Existing Owners to assist each Existing Owner in part-financing the acquisition cost by the Borrower of all shares in that Existing Owner (with such acquisition cost being on that Drawdown Date not more than 50 per cent. of the then current Market Value of that Existing Ship in accordance with the terms of this Agreement);
“Tranche B” means, subject to Clause 2.1(b) an amount of up to $150,000,000 to be made available by the Lenders to the Borrower in multiple Advances (which shall not exceed the number of Additional Ships at any relevant time subject to a Mortgage) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and, each such Advance shall be on-lent by the Borrower to each Additional Ship Owner to assist such Owner in financing up to 50 per cent. of the Market Value of the Additional Ship to be owned by that Additional Ship Owner or in part-financing the acquisition cost of all the shares in that Additional Ship Owner subject to such acquisition cost being not more than 50 per cent. of the then current Market Value of that Additional Ship;
“Tranches” mean together, Tranche A and Tranche B, and in the singular means either of them;
“Transaction” has the meaning given in the Master Agreement;
“Transfer Certificate” has the meaning given in Clause 26.2;
“Trust Property” has the meaning given in clause 3.1 of the Agency and Trust Agreement;
“Twelve Months’ Debt Service” means, in respect of each financial year of the Borrower and a Ship, the aggregate amount in respect of the principal and interest payments under the Loan Agreement during that financial year which is attributable to that Ship (by reference to the amount of the Advance in respect of that Ship and the applicable “D” and, as the case may be, “F” (each as defined in Clause 8.1));
“US GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as from time to time in effect in the United States of America; and
“US Tax Obligor” means:
(a) | the Borrower or any Security Party, in each case, which is a “United States person” within the meaning of section 7701(a)(30) of the Code; or |
(b) | the Borrower or any Security Party, in each case, some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the United States for United States federal income tax purposes. |
1.2 | Construction of certain terms |
In this Agreement:
“approved” means, for the purposes of Clause 13, approved in writing by the Facility Agent;
“asset” includes every kind of property, asset, interest or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment;
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“company” includes any partnership, joint venture and unincorporated association;
“consent” includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration, notarisation and legalisation;
“contingent liability” means a liability which is not certain to arise and/or the amount of which remains unascertained;
“document” includes a deed; also a letter or fax;
“excess risks” means, in relation to a Ship, the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies in respect of the Ship in consequence of her insured value being less than the value at which the Ship is assessed for the purpose of such claims;
“expense” means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any applicable value added or other tax;
“gross negligence” means a form of negligence which is distinct from ordinary negligence, in which the due diligence and care which are generally to be exercised have been disregarded to a particularly high degree, in which the plainest deliberations have not been made and that which should be most obvious to everybody has not been followed;
“law” includes any form of delegated legislation, any order or decree, any treaty or international convention and any regulation or resolution of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the United Nations or its Security Council;
“legal or administrative action” means any legal proceeding or arbitration and any administrative or regulatory action or investigation;
“liability” includes every kind of debt or liability (present or future, certain or contingent), whether incurred as principal or surety or otherwise;
“months” shall be construed in accordance with Clause 1.3;
“obligatory insurances” means, in relation to a Ship, all insurances effected, or which the Borrower owning the Ship is obliged to effect, under Clause 13 below or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;
“parent company” has the meaning given in Clause 1.4;
“person” includes any individual, any partnership, any company; any state, political sub-division of a state and local or municipal authority; and any international organisation;
“policy”, in relation to any insurance, includes a slip, cover note, certificate of entry or other document evidencing the contract of insurance or its terms;
“protection and indemnity risks” means the usual risks covered by a protection and indemnity association managed in London, including pollution risks and the proportion (if any) of any sums payable to any other person or persons in case of collision which are not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies by reason of the incorporation in them of clause 6 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)(1/11/95) or clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/183) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71) or any equivalent provision;
“regulation” includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (either having the force of law or compliance with which is reasonable in the ordinary course of business of the party concerned) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
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“subsidiary” has the meaning given in Clause 1.4;
“successor” includes any person who is entitled (by assignment, novation, merger or otherwise) to any other person’s rights under this Agreement or any other Finance Document (or any interest in those rights) or who, as administrator, liquidator or otherwise, is entitled to exercise those rights; and in particular references to a successor include a person to whom those rights (or any interest in those rights) are transferred or pass as a result of a merger, division, reconstruction or other reorganisation of it or any other person;
“tax” includes any present or future tax, duty, impost, levy or charge of any kind which is imposed by any state, any political sub-division of a state or any local or municipal authority (including any such imposed in connection with exchange controls), and any connected penalty, interest or fine; and
“war risks” includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded by clause 29 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 24 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)(1/11/1995) or clause 23 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83).
1.3 | Meaning of “month” |
A period of one or more “months” ends on the day in the relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started (“the numerically corresponding day”), but:
(a) | on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day preceding the numerically corresponding day; or |
(b) | on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of the period has no numerically corresponding day, |
and “month” and “monthly” shall be construed accordingly.
1.4 | Meaning of “subsidiary” |
A company (S) is a subsidiary of another company (P) if:
(a) | a majority of the issued shares in S (or a majority of the issued shares in S which carry unlimited rights to capital and income distributions) are directly owned by P or are indirectly attributable to P; or |
(b) | P has direct or indirect control over a majority of the voting rights attached to the issued shares of S; or |
(c) | P has the direct or indirect power to appoint or remove a majority of the directors of S, |
and any company of which S is a subsidiary is a parent company of S.
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1.5 | General Interpretation |
(a) | In this Agreement: |
(i) | references to, or to a provision of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended or supplemented, whether before the date of this Agreement or otherwise; |
(ii) | references to, or to a provision of, any law include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or otherwise; and |
(iii) | words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa. |
(b) | Clauses 1.1 to 1.4 and paragraph (a) of this Clause 1.5 apply unless the contrary intention appears. |
(c) | References in Clause 1.1 to a document being in the form of a particular Appendix include references to that form with any modifications to that form which the Facility Agent (with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders in the case of substantial modifications) approves or reasonably requires. |
(d) | The clause headings shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement. |
2 | FACILITY AND INCREASE OF TOTAL COMMITMENTS |
2.1 | Amount of facility |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders shall make available to the Borrower a term loan facility not exceeding $225,000,000 in aggregate which, in the case of Tranche A, was and, in the case of Tranche B, shall be made available in two Tranches each in the following amounts:
(a) | Tranche A was made available on the Drawdown Date of that Tranche in the amount of $75,000,000; |
(b) | Tranche B shall be in an amount not exceeding $75,000,000 Provided that that amount may be increased (the “Increase”) by $75,000,000 (the “Increased Commitment”) if each Additional Lender becomes a Lender in accordance with this Clause 2.1(b) and Clauses 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 26.8, 26.9 and 26.13 of this Agreement, subject to: |
(i) | the aggregate of the Additional Lenders’ Commitments being equal to the Increased Commitment; |
(ii) | each Additional Lender delivering to the Facility Agent a completed certificate in the form set out in Schedule 8 with any modifications approved or required by the Facility Agent (in relation to that Additional Lender, the “Additional Lender’s Certificate”) executed by the Existing Lenders and that Additional Lender; |
(iii) | the Borrower or any Security Party executing, delivering and/or registering any additional document in accordance with the terms of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement and this Agreement required by the Facility Agent to effect the Increase in accordance with Clauses 2.1(b), 26.8, 26.9 and 26.13; |
(iv) | on the Increased Commitment Date, each Additional Lender acquiring a Contribution in Tranche A already drawn down in the proportion which, as at the Increased Commitment Date, its Commitment bears to the original Total Commitments as increased pursuant to Clause 2.1(b). For the avoidance of doubt, on the Increased Commitment Date, each Existing Lender’s remaining Commitment shall be increased in an amount equal to the Contribution assigned by that Existing Lender to that Additional Lender on the same day; |
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(v) | all costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution or registration of any documents to give effect to the Increase pursuant to this Clause 2.1(b) shall be borne by the Borrower (other than any breakage costs incurred by the Existing Lenders which shall be borne by the Additional Lenders (on a pro rata basis)); |
(c) | Tranche A may be drawn in up to three Advances (all of which have been drawn down, simultaneously, on the Drawdown Date of that Tranche) and Tranche B may be drawn in multiple Advances, with each Additional Ship (or the acquisition of the shares in an Additional Ship Owner) being part-financed by not more than one Advance. |
2.2 | Lenders’ participations in an Advance |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall participate in an Advance in the proportion which, as at the Drawdown Date applicable to that Advance, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.
2.3 | Purpose of Loan |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to use each Advance only for the purpose stated in the preamble to this Agreement.
2.4 | Additional Lender’s Certificate, delivery and notification |
As soon as reasonably practicable after each Additional Lender’s Certificate is delivered to the Facility Agent, it shall (unless it has reason to believe that that Additional Lender’s Certificate may be defective):
(a) | ensure that all relevant “know your customer” requirements in connection with that Additional Lender are complied with under all applicable laws and regulations and shall promptly notify the other Lenders and that Additional Lender accordingly; |
(b) | sign that Additional Lender’s Certificate on behalf of itself the Borrower, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and each of the other Lenders and the Swap Bank; |
(c) | on behalf of that Additional Lender, send to the Borrower and each Security Party letters or faxes notifying them of that Additional Lender’s Certificate and attaching a copy of it; and |
(d) | send to that Additional Lender copies of the letters or faxes sent under paragraph (b) above. |
2.5 | Effective Date of each Additional Lender’s Certificate |
Each Additional Lender’s Certificate becomes effective on the date, if any, specified in the relevant Additional Lender’s Certificate as its effective date Provided that it is signed by the Facility Agent under Clause 2.4 on or before that date.
2.6 | No Increase of Total Commitments without Additional Lender’s Certificate |
The Increase of the Total Commitments shall not be binding and effective unless it is effected, evidenced or perfected by each Additional Lender’s Certificate.
2.7 | Effect of Additional Lender’s Certificate |
Each Additional Lender’s Certificate takes effect in accordance with English law as follows:
(a) | the relevant Additional Lender becomes a Lender with a Commitment of an amount of up to: |
(i) | in the case of NBG, $25,000,000; and |
(ii) | in the case of SEB, $50,000,000, |
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a proportion of which shall be used to acquire part of each Existing Lender’s Contribution pursuant to Clause 2.1(b)(iv);
(b) | to the extent specified in that Additional Lender’s Certificate, all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which each Existing Lender has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) are assigned to the Transferee Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the relevant Existing Lender’s title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower or any Security Party had against that Existing Lender; |
(c) | that Additional Lender becomes bound by all the provisions of the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including those about pro-rata sharing and the exclusion of liability on the part of, and the indemnification of, the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee; |
(d) | any part of the Loan which that Additional Lender advances on or after the effective date specified in the relevant Additional Lender’s Certificate ranks in point of priority and security in the same way as it would have ranked had it been advanced by the Existing Lenders, assuming that any defects in the Existing Lender’s title and any rights or equities of the Borrower or any Security Party against the Existing Lenders had not existed; |
(e) | that Additional Lender becomes entitled to all the rights under the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including but not limited to those relating to the Majority Lenders and those under Clause 5.7 and Clause 20; and |
(f) | in respect of any breach of a warranty, undertaking, condition or other provision of a Finance Document or any misrepresentation made in or in connection with a Finance Document (other than the Maser Agreement), that Additional Lender shall be entitled to recover damages by reference to the loss incurred by it as a result of the breach or misrepresentation, irrespective of whether the original Lender would have incurred a loss of that kind or amount. |
The rights and equities of the Borrower or any Security Party referred to above include, but are not limited to, any right of set off and any other kind of cross-claim.
3 | POSITION OF THE LENDERS, THE SWAP BANK AND THE MAJORITY LENDERS |
3.1 | Interests of Lenders and Swap Bank several |
The rights of the Lenders and the Swap Bank under this Agreement and the Master Agreement are several; accordingly:
(a) | each Lender shall be entitled to xxx for any amount which has become due and payable by the Borrower to it under this Agreement; and |
(b) | the Swap Bank shall be entitled to xxx for any amount which has become due and payable by the Borrower to it under the Master Agreement, |
without joining the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee, any other Lender or the Swap Bank as additional parties in the proceedings.
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3.2 | Proceedings by individual Lender or Swap Bank |
However, without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders, no Lender and the Swap Bank may bring proceedings in respect of:
(a) | any other liability or obligation of the Borrower or a Security Party under or connected with a Finance Document or the Master Agreement; or |
(b) | any misrepresentation or breach of warranty by the Borrower or a Security Party in or connected with a Finance Document or the Master Agreement without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders. |
3.3 | Obligations several |
The obligations of the Lenders under this Agreement and of the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement are several; and a failure of a Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement or a failure of the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under the Master Agreement shall not result in:
(a) | the obligations of the other Lenders or the Swap Bank being increased; nor |
(b) | the Borrower, any Security Party or any other Creditor Party being discharged (in whole or in part) from its obligations under any Finance Document |
and in no circumstances shall a Lender or the Swap Bank have any responsibility for a failure of another Lender or the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Master Agreement.
3.4 | Parties bound by certain actions of Majority Lenders |
Every Lender, the Swap Bank, the Borrower and each Security Party shall be bound by:
(a) | any determination made, or action taken, by the Majority Lenders under any provision of a Finance Document; |
(b) | any instruction or authorisation given by the Majority Lenders to the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee under or in connection with any Finance Document; |
(c) | any action taken (or in good faith purportedly taken) by the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee in accordance with such an instruction or authorisation. |
3.5 | Reliance on action of Facility Agent |
However, the Borrower and each Security Party:
(a) | shall be entitled to assume that the Majority Lenders have duly given any instruction or authorisation which, under any provision of a Finance Document, is required in relation to any action which the Facility Agent has taken or is about to take; and |
(b) | shall not be entitled to require any evidence that such an instruction or authorisation has been given. |
3.6 | Construction |
In Clauses 3.4 and 3.5 references to action taken include (without limitation) the granting of any waiver or consent, an approval of any document and an agreement to any matter.
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4 | DRAWDOWN |
4.1 | Request for Advance |
Subject to the following conditions, the Borrower may request an Advance to be made by ensuring that the Facility Agent receives a completed Drawdown Notice not later than 11.00 a.m. (London time) 3 Business Days prior to the intended Drawdown Date. For the avoidance of doubt, as at the date of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement Tranche A has been drawn down in full, in a single Advance on the relevant Drawdown Date, in accordance with Clause 4.2(b).
4.2 | Availability |
The conditions referred to in Clause 4.1 are that:
(a) | a Drawdown Date has to be a Business Day during the Availability Period; |
(b) | each Advance under Tranche A shall be used in refinancing the acquisition cost of an Existing Ship or in part-financing the acquisition cost of the whole of the issued share capital of the Existing Owners; |
(c) | each Advance under Tranche B shall be used in part-financing or refinancing the acquisition of an Additional Ship or in part-financing or refinancing the acquisition cost of the whole of the issued share capital (free of any encumbrances or charges, except those permitted by the Majority Lenders) in an Additional Ship Owner Provided that: |
(i) | the Borrower may draw down an Advance under Tranche B to finance or refinance the acquisition cost of an Additional Ship or the whole of the issued share capital of an Additional Ship Owner if, after such Advance is drawn down, the then outstanding amount of the Loan does not exceed 60 per cent. of the aggregate Market Value of all Ships then subject to a Mortgage; |
(ii) | an Advance under Tranche B may only be used to part-finance or refinance in part (i) the acquisition cost of the whole of the issued share capital of an Additional Ship Owner or (ii) if the Additional Ship Owner has entered into an Additional Ship MOA to acquire an Additional Ship, the acquisition cost of that Additional Ship; and |
(iii) | an Advance under Tranche B shall not exceed 50 per cent. of the Market Value (determined no later than 14 days before the Drawdown Date for that Advance) of the Ship owned or to be owned by the relevant Additional Ship Owner; |
(d) | if any part of the Total Commitments has not been borrowed before the end of the Availability period, the Total Commitments shall on that date be permanently cancelled by an amount equal to such undrawn amount. |
4.3 | Purpose of Advances |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to use each Advance only for the purposes stated in the Recitals to this Agreement.
4.4 | Notification to Lenders of receipt of a Drawdown Notice |
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders that it has received a Drawdown Notice and the Facility Agent shall inform each Lender of:
(a) | the amount of the Advance and the Drawdown Date; |
(b) | the amount of that Lender’s participation in the Advance; and |
(c) | the duration of the first Interest Period. |
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4.5 | Drawdown Notice irrevocable |
A Drawdown Notice must be duly signed by a director or other authorised person of the Borrower; and once served, a Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Facility Agent, acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders.
4.6 | Lenders to make available Contributions |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall, on and with value on each Drawdown Date, make available to the Facility Agent for the account of the Borrower the amount due from that Lender on that Drawdown Date under Clause 2.1.
4.7 | Disbursement of Advance |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Facility Agent shall on each Drawdown Date pay to the Borrower the amounts which the Facility Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.6; and that payment to the Borrower shall be made:
(a) | to such account which the Borrower specifies in the Drawdown Notice; and |
(b) | in the like funds as the Facility Agent received the payments from the Lenders. |
4.8 | Disbursement of Advance to third party |
The payment by the Facility Agent under Clause 4.7 to an Additional Ship Seller or any other third party shall constitute the making of the Advance and the Borrower shall thereupon become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender’s Contribution.
5 | INTEREST |
5.1 | Payment of normal interest |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, interest on each Advance in respect of each Interest Period shall be paid by the Borrower in arrears on the last day of that Interest Period.
5.2 | Normal rate of interest |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the rate of interest on each Advance in respect of an Interest Period shall be the aggregate of:
(a) | the Margin; |
(b) | the Mandatory Cost (if any); and |
(c) | LIBOR for that Interest Period. |
5.3 | Payment of accrued interest |
In the case of an Interest Period longer than 3 months, accrued interest shall be paid every 3 months during that Interest Period and on the last day of that Interest Period.
5.4 | Notification of Interest Periods and rates of normal interest |
The Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of:
(a) | each rate of interest; and |
(b) | the duration of each Interest Period, |
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as soon as reasonably practicable after each is determined.
5.5 | Obligation of Reference Bank to quote |
A Reference Bank shall use all reasonable efforts to supply the quotation required of it for the purposes of fixing a rate of interest under this Agreement unless such Reference Bank ceases to be a Lender pursuant to Clause 26.17.
5.6 | Absence of quotations by Reference Banks |
If any Reference Bank fails to supply a quotation by 12 p.m. (London time) on a Quotation Date, the Facility Agent shall determine the relevant LIBOR on the basis of the quotations supplied by the other Reference Bank or Banks; but if 2 or more of the Reference Banks fail to provide a quotation, the relevant rate of interest shall be set in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 5.
5.7 | Market disruption |
The following provisions of this Clause 5 apply if:
(a) | no rate is quoted on REUTERS BBA Page LIBOR 01 (or any substitute page thereof) and the Reference Banks do not, before 1.00 p.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for an Interest Period, provide quotations to the Facility Agent in order to fix LIBOR; or |
(b) | at least 1 Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, a Lender notifies the Facility Agent that LIBOR fixed by the Facility Agent would not accurately reflect the cost to that Lender of funding its Contributions (or any part of them) during the Interest Period in the London Interbank Market at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for the Interest Period; or |
(c) | at least 1 Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, the Facility Agent is notified by a Lender (the “Affected Lender”) that for any reason it is unable to obtain Dollars in the London Interbank Market in order to fund its Contribution (or any part of it) during the Interest Period. |
5.8 | Notification of market disruption |
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and each of the Lenders stating the circumstances failing within Clause 5.7 which have caused its notice to be given.
5.9 | Suspension of drawdown |
If the Facility Agent’s notice under Clause 5.8 is served before an Advance is made:
(a) | in a case falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) of Clause 5.7, the Lenders’ obligations to make the Advance; |
(b) | in a case falling within paragraph (c) of Clause 5.7, the Affected Lender’s obligation to participate in the Advance, |
shall be suspended while the circumstances referred to in the Facility Agent’s notice continue.
5.10 | Negotiation of alternative rate of interest |
If the Facility Agent’s notice under Clause 5.8 is served after an Advance is made, the Borrower, the Facility Agent and the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, within the 30 days after the date on which the
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Facility Agent serves its notice under Clause 5.8 (the “Negotiation Period”), an alternative interest rate or (as the case may be) an alternative basis for the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender to fund or continue to fund their or its Contribution to the relevant Advance or Advances during the Interest Period concerned.
5.11 | Application of agreed alternative rate of interest |
Any alternative interest rate or an alternative basis which is agreed during the Negotiation Period shall take effect in accordance with the terms agreed.
5.12 | Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement |
If an alternative interest rate or alternative basis is not agreed within the Negotiation Period, and the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the Negotiation Period, then the Facility Agent shall, with the agreement of each Lender or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender, set an interest period and interest rate representing the cost of funding of the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender in Dollars or in any available currency of their or its Contribution to the relevant Advance or Advances plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any); and the procedure provided for by this Clause 5.12 shall be repeated if the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the interest period so set by the Facility Agent.
5.13 | Notice of prepayment |
If the Borrower does not agree with an interest rate set by the Facility Agent under Clause 5.12, the Borrower may give the Facility Agent not less than 15 Business Days’ notice of its intention to prepay the relevant Advance or Advances at the end of the interest period set by the Facility Agent.
5.14 | Prepayment; termination of Commitments |
A notice under Clause 5.13 shall be irrevocable; the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders or (as the case may require) the Affected Lender of the Borrower’ notice of intended prepayment; and:
(a) | on the date on which the Facility Agent serves that notice, the Total Commitments or (as the case may require) the Commitment of the Affected Lender so far as they relate to the relevant Advance shall be cancelled; and |
(b) | on the last Business Day of the interest period set by the Facility Agent, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Loan or, as the case may be, the Affected Lender’s Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any). |
5.15 | Application of prepayment |
The provisions of Clause 8 shall apply in relation to the prepayment.
6 | INTEREST PERIODS |
6.1 | Commencement of Interest Periods |
The first Interest Period applicable to an Advance shall commence on the relevant Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.
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6.2 | Duration of normal Interest Periods |
Subject to Clauses 6.3 and 6.4, each Interest Period in respect of each Advance shall be:
(a) | 3, 6 or 12 months as notified by the Borrower to the Facility Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. (London time) 3 Business Days before the commencement of the Interest Period; |
(b) | in the case of the first Interest Period applicable to the second and any subsequent Advance of a Tranche, a period ending on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable to such Tranche, whereupon all of the Advances in respect of such Tranche shall be consolidated and treated as a single advance; |
(c) | 3 months, if the Borrower fail to notify the Facility Agent by the time specified in paragraph (a) above; or |
(d) | such other period as the Borrower may request from the Facility Agent, which may be agreed by the Facility Agent. |
6.3 | Duration of Interest Periods for Repayment Instalments |
In respect of an amount due to be repaid under Clause 8 on a particular Repayment Date, an Interest Period in relation to the relevant Tranche shall end on that Repayment Date.
6.4 | Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected |
If, after the Borrower has selected and the Lenders have agreed an Interest Period longer than 3 months, any Lender notifies the Facility Agent by 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the second Business Day before the commencement of the Interest Period that it is not satisfied that deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Period will be available to it in the London Interbank Market when the Interest Period commences, the Interest Period shall be of 3 months.
7 | DEFAULT INTEREST |
7.1 | Payment of default interest on overdue amounts |
The Borrower shall pay interest in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 7 on any amount payable by the Borrower under any Finance Document which the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or the other designated payee does not receive on or before the relevant date, that is:
(a) | the date on which the Finance Documents provide that such amount is due for payment; or |
(b) | if a Finance Document provides that such amount is payable on demand, the date on which the demand is served; or |
(c) | if such amount has become immediately due and payable under Clause 19.4, the date on which it became immediately due and payable. |
7.2 | Default rate of interest |
Interest shall accrue on an overdue amount from (and including) the relevant date until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the rate per annum determined by the Facility Agent to be 2 per cent. above:
(a) | in the case of an overdue amount of principal, the higher of the rates set out at paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 7.3; or |
(b) | in the case of any other overdue amount, the rate set out at paragraph (b) of Clause 7.3. |
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7.3 | Calculation of default rate of interest |
The rates referred to in Clause 7.2 are:
(a) | the rate applicable to the overdue principal amount immediately prior to the relevant date (but only for any unexpired part of any then current Interest Period); |
(b) | the Margin, any Mandatory Cost plus, in respect of successive periods of any duration (including at call) up to 3 months which the Facility Agent may select from time to time: |
(i) | LIBOR; or |
(ii) | if the Facility Agent determines that Dollar deposits for any such period are not being made available to a Lender or (as the case may be) Lenders by leading banks in the London Interbank Market in the ordinary course of business, a rate from time to time determined by the Facility Agent by reference to the cost of funds to the Facility Agent from such other sources as the Facility Agent may from time to time determine. |
7.4 | Notification of interest periods and default rates |
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrower of each interest rate determined by the Facility Agent under Clause 7.3 and of each period selected by the Facility Agent for the purposes of paragraph (b) of that Clause; but this shall not be taken to imply that the Borrower is liable to pay such interest only with effect from the date of the Facility Agent’s notification.
7.5 | Payment of accrued default interest |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, any interest due under this Clause shall be paid on the last day of the period by reference to which it was determined; and the payment shall be made to the Facility Agent for the account of the Creditor Party to which the overdue amount is due.
7.6 | Compounding of default interest |
Any such interest which is not paid at the end of the period by reference to which it was determined shall thereupon be compounded.
7.7 | Application to Master Agreement |
For the avoidance of doubt, this Clause 7 does not apply to any amount payable under the Master Agreement in respect of any continuing Designated Transaction as to which section 2(e) (Default Interest; Other Amounts) of the Master Agreement shall apply.
8 | REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT |
8.1 | Repayment Instalments |
The Borrower shall repay:
(a) | Tranche A by: |
(i) | 20 equal consecutive quarterly repayment instalments (each a “Tranche A Instalment” and together, the “Tranche A Instalments”), each in the amount of Y; and |
(ii) | a balloon instalment (the “Balloon Instalment A”) in the amount of Z; |
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(b) | Tranche B by: |
(i) | 20 equal consecutive quarterly repayment instalments (the “Tranche B Instalment” and together with the Tranche A Instalments, the “Instalments”), each in the amount of Y; and |
(ii) | a balloon instalment (the “Balloon Instalment B” and together with the Balloon Instalment A, the “Balloon Instalments” and each a “Balloon Instalment”) in the amount of Z. |
In this clause 8.1:
“A” means:
(a) in the case of Tranche A, the amount of the Advance in respect of an Existing Ship; and
(b) in the case of Tranche B, the amount of the Advance in respect of an Additional Ship;
“Age” means, in relation to a Ship, the number of integral years from the year in which the construction of that Ship was completed and ending on 31 March 2016;
“B” means, in respect of a Ship:
(a) in the case of Tranche A, 13; and
(b) in the case of Tranche B, 16,
minus, in each case, the Age of that Ship;
“C” means A divided by the applicable B;
“D” means C divided by 4;
“E” means D multiplied by 20;
“F” means, in respect of each Ship, A for that Ship minus E;
“Y” means, in relation to each Tranche, the aggregate of D for all Ships in respect of that Tranche as at the end of the relevant Availability Period; and
“Z” means, in relation to each Tranche, the aggregate of F for all Ships applicable to that Tranche.
8.2 | Repayment Dates |
The first Repayment Instalment in respect of each Tranche shall be repaid on 30 March 2016, each subsequent Repayment Instalment in respect of that Tranche shall be repaid at 3-monthly intervals thereafter and the last Repayment Instalment in respect of that Tranche shall be repaid, together with the relevant Balloon Instalment, on 31 December 2020
8.3 | Final Repayment Date |
On the final Repayment Date, the Borrower shall additionally pay to the Facility Agent for the account of the Creditor Parties all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.
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8.4 | Optional facility cancellation |
The Borrower shall be entitled, upon giving to the Facility Agent not less than 5 Business Days prior written notice (which notice shall be irrevocable), to cancel, in whole or in part, and, if in part, by an amount not less than $1,000,000 or a higher multiple of $1,000,000, the undrawn balance of the Total Commitments. Upon such cancellation taking effect on expiry of such notice the several obligations of the Lenders to make their respective Commitments available in relation to the portion of the Total Commitments to which such notice relates shall terminate and the commitment fee referred to in Clause 20.1) on such portion shall cease to accrue.
8.5 | Voluntary prepayment |
Subject to the following conditions, the Borrower may prepay the whole or any part of the Loan on the last day of an Interest Period in respect thereof.
8.6 | Conditions for voluntary prepayment |
The conditions referred to in Clause 8.5 are that:
(a) | a partial prepayment shall be $1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000; |
(b) | the Facility Agent has received from the Borrower at least 5 Business Days’ prior written notice specifying: |
(i) | the amount to be prepaid and the date on which the prepayment is to be made; and |
(ii) | whether such prepayment will be applied against a Tranche, in which case the Borrower will specify the Tranche against which that prepayment should be applied. A failure by the Borrower to make such a designation shall result in the prepayment being applied against each Tranche in accordance with Clause 8.11(a); and |
(c) | the Borrower has provided evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent that any consent required by the Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the prepayment has been obtained and remains in force, and that any requirement relevant to this Agreement which affects the Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with. |
8.7 | Effect of notice of prepayment |
A prepayment notice may not be withdrawn or amended without the consent of the Facility Agent, given with the authority of the Majority Lenders, and the amount specified in the prepayment notice shall become due and payable by the Borrower on the date for prepayment specified in the prepayment notice.
8.8 | Notification of notice of prepayment |
The Facility Agent shall notify the Lenders promptly upon receiving a prepayment notice, and shall provide any Lender which so requests with a copy of any document delivered by the Borrower under Clause 8.6(c).
8.9 | Mandatory prepayment |
The Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the Relevant Amount if a Ship is sold or becomes a Total Loss:
(a) | in the case of a sale, on or before the date on which the sale is completed by delivery of that Ship to the buyer; or |
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(b) | in the case of a Total Loss, on the earlier of the date falling 180 days after the Total Loss Date and the date of receipt by the Security Trustee of the proceeds of insurance relating to such Total Loss. |
In this Clause 8.9, “Relevant Amount” means an amount which, after giving credit for the amount of the prepayment made pursuant to this Clause 8.9, results in the Security Cover Ratio being equal to the higher of (i) the Security Cover Ratio maintained immediately prior to the prepayment made pursuant to this Clause 8.9 and (ii) the Security Cover Ratio referred to in Clause 15.1.
8.10 | Amounts payable on prepayment |
A prepayment shall be made together with accrued interest (and any other amount payable under Clause 21 below or otherwise) in respect of the amount prepaid and, if the prepayment is not made on the last day of an Interest Period together with any sums payable under Clause 21.1(b) but without premium or penalty.
8.11 | Application of partial prepayment |
Each partial prepayment shall be applied:
(a) | if made pursuant to Clause 8.5, first against Tranche B pro rata against the Repayment Instalments in respect of that Tranche which are at the time being outstanding and the relevant Balloon Instalment and hereafter against Tranche A pro rata against the Repayment Instalments from that Tranche which are at the time being outstanding and thereafter against the relevant Balloon Instalment Provided that the Borrower may, at its option, request that a prepayment made in accordance with Clause 8.5 be applied against one Tranche only in which case such prepayment shall be applied pro rata against the Repayment Instalments in respect of that Tranche which are at that time being outstanding and the relevant Balloon Instalment or in any other manner of application requested by the Borrower and agreed by the Lenders (in the Lenders’ absolute discretion); and |
(b) | if made pursuant to Clause 8.9 first towards reduction of the Tranche related to the Ship being sold or which has become a Total Loss and then towards pro rata reduction of the Repayment Instalments of the other Tranche which are at the time being outstanding and the Balloon Instalment in respect of that Tranche. |
8.12 | No reborrowing |
No amount prepaid or cancelled may be reborrowed.
8.13 | Prepayment fee |
If, at any time during the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date falling on the first anniversary thereof, (inclusive):
(a) | the Borrower makes a voluntary prepayment pursuant to Clause 8.5; or |
(b) | the Borrower cancels in whole or in part the undrawn balance of the Total Commitments pursuant to Clause 8.4, |
the Borrower shall pay to the Lenders on the date of the relevant prepayment or cancellation, a prepayment fee equal to 1.5 per cent. of the amount prepaid.
8.14 | Unwinding of Designated Transactions |
On or prior to any repayment or prepayment of the Loan under this Clause 8 or any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall wholly or partially reverse, offset, unwind or
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otherwise terminate one or more of the continuing Designated Transactions to the extent necessary to ensure that the notional principal amount of the continuing Designated Transactions thereafter remaining does not and will not in the future (taking into account the scheduled amortisation) exceed the amount of the Loan as reducing from time to time thereafter pursuant to Clause 8.1.
8.15 | Prepayment of Swap Benefit |
If a Designated Transaction is terminated in circumstances where the Swap Bank would be obliged to pay an amount to the Borrower under the Master Agreement, the Borrower hereby agrees that such payment shall be applied in prepayment of the Loan in accordance with Clause 8.11 and authorises the Swap Bank to pay such amount to the Facility Agent for such purpose.
9 | CONDITIONS PRECEDENT/SUBSEQUENT |
9.1 | Documents, fees and no default |
Each Lender’s obligation to contribute to an Advance in respect of Tranche B is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) | that on or before the date of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement, the Facility Agent receives the documents described in Part A of Schedule 3 in loan and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent and its lawyers; |
(b) | that, on or before the service of the Drawdown Notice in respect of each Advance of Tranche B, the Facility Agent receives the documents described in Part B of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent and its lawyers; |
(c) | that both at the date of each Drawdown Notice and at each Drawdown Date: |
(i) | no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the borrowing of the relevant Advance; and |
(ii) | the representations and warranties in Clause 10 and those of the Borrower or any Security Party which are set out in the other Finance Documents would be true and not misleading if repeated on each of those dates with reference to the circumstances then existing; and |
(iii) | none of the circumstances contemplated by Clause 5.7 has occurred and is continuing; and |
(iv) | there is no Material Adverse Change in existence; and |
(v) | the Borrower has entered into Designated Transactions with the Swap Bank in order to hedge all the interest rate risk under this Agreement as at the relevant Drawdown Date (immediately following the drawdown of the relevant Advance); and |
(vi) | the Facility Agent receives any fees referred to in Clause 20.1 which are due and payable at that time; |
(d) | that, if the ratio set out in Clause 15.1 were applied immediately following the making of the relevant Advance, the Borrower would not be obliged to provide additional security or prepay part of the Loan under that Clause; and |
(e) | that the Facility Agent has received, and found to be acceptable to it, any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with the Finance Documents which the Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, request by notice to the Borrower prior to the relevant Drawdown Date. |
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9.2 | Waiver of conditions precedent |
If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, permit an Advance to be borrowed before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 9.1 are satisfied, the Borrower shall ensure that those conditions are satisfied within 5 Business Days after the relevant Drawdown Date (or such longer period as the Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, specify).
10 | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
10.1 | General |
The Borrower represents and warrants to each Creditor Party as follows.
10.2 | Status |
The Borrower is a limited partnership (comprised of a single general partner and multiple limited partners) formed and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Republic of Xxxxxxxx Islands.
10.3 | Capital |
The Borrower’s capital consists of at least 86,507,376 common units held by public unitholders, including 17,692,891 common units held by Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. and a general partner interest held by Capital GP L.L.C.
10.4 | Corporate power |
The Borrower (or, in the case of paragraphs (a) and (b), each Existing Owner) has the partnership or corporate capacity, and has taken all partnership or corporate action and obtained all consents necessary for it:
(a) | to own and register the Existing Ship owned by it under the relevant Approved Flag; |
(b) | to enter into, and perform its obligations under, the Existing Charter to which it is a party; |
(c) | to execute the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party; and |
(d) | to borrow under this Agreement, to enter into Designated Transactions under the Master Agreement and to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, those Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party. |
10.5 | Consents in force |
All the consents referred to in Clause 10.4 remain in force and nothing has occurred which makes any of them liable to revocation.
10.6 | Legal validity; effective Security Interests |
The Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party, do now or, as the case may be, will, upon execution and delivery (and, where applicable, registration as provided for in the Finance Documents):
(a) | constitute the Borrower’s legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and |
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(b) | create legal, valid and binding Security Interests enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets to which they, by their terms, relate, |
subject to any relevant insolvency laws affecting creditors’ rights generally.
10.7 | No third party Security Interests |
Without limiting the generality of Clause 10.6, at the time of the execution and delivery of each Finance Document to which the Borrower is a party:
(a) | the Borrower will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to create; and |
(b) | no third party will have any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) or any other interest, right or claim over, in or in relation to any asset to which any such Security Interest, by its terms, relates. |
10.8 | No conflicts |
The execution by the Borrower of each Finance Document to which it is a party, and the borrowing by the Borrower of the Loan, and its compliance with each Finance Document to which it is a party will not involve or lead to a contravention of:
(a) | any law or regulation; or |
(b) | the constitutional documents of the Borrower; or |
(c) | any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on the Borrower or any of its assets, |
and will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
10.9 | No withholding taxes |
All payments which the Borrower is liable to make under the Finance Documents may be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any Pertinent Jurisdiction.
10.10 | No default |
No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
10.11 | Information |
All information which has been provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Security Party to any Creditor Party in connection with any Finance Document satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.5; all audited and unaudited accounts which have been so provided satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.7; and there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or state of affairs of the Borrower from that disclosed in the latest of those accounts which is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
10.12 | No litigation |
No legal or administrative action involving the Borrower or any Security Party (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or the ISPC Code) has been commenced or taken or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, is likely to be commenced or taken which would, in either case, be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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10.13 | Validity and completeness of Existing Charters |
(a) | Each Existing Charter constitutes valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the parties thereto respectively in accordance with its terms; and |
(b) | No amendments or additions to any Existing Charter have been agreed (other than those notified to the Facility Agent prior to the date of this Agreement) nor has any party thereto waived any of their respective rights under any Existing Charter. |
10.14 | Compliance with certain undertakings |
At the date of this Agreement, the Borrower is in compliance with Clauses 11.2, 11.4, 11.9 and 11.14.
10.15 | Taxes paid |
The Borrower has paid all taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to the Borrower and its business.
10.16 | ISM and ISPS Code compliance |
All requirements of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code as they relate to the Borrower, any Owner, the Approved Manager and any Existing Ship have been complied with.
10.17 | No Money laundering |
The Borrower:
(a) | will not, and will procure that no Security Party, to the extent applicable, will, in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents, contravene or permit any subsidiary to contravene, any law, official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat “money laundering” (as defined in Article 1 of the Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union of 26 October 2005) and comparable United States Federal and state laws. The Borrower shall further submit any documents and declarations on request, if such documents or declarations are required by any Creditor Party to comply with its domestic money laundering and/or legal identification requirements; and |
(b) | confirms that it is the beneficiary within the meaning of the German Anti Money Laundering Act (Gesetz über das Aufspüren von Gewinnen aus schweren Straftaten (Geldwäschegesetz)), acting for its own account and not for or on behalf of any other person for each part of the Loan made or to be made available to it under this Agreement. That is to say, it acts for its own account and not for or on behalf of anyone else. |
The Borrower will promptly inform the Facility Agent by written notice, if it is not or ceases to be the beneficiary and will provide in writing the name and address of the beneficiary.
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any written notice it receives under this Clause 10.17.
10.18 | No Immunity |
The Borrower is subject to suit and to commercial law and neither it nor any of its properties have any right of immunity from suit, execution, attachment or other legal process in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands.
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10.19 | Choice of law |
The choice of the laws of England to govern the Loan Agreement and those other Finance Documents which are expressed to be governed by the laws of England constitutes a valid choice of law and the submission by the Borrower thereunder to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England is a valid submission and does not contravene the laws of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands and the laws of England will be applied by the Courts of The Xxxxxxxx Islands if the Loan Agreement or those other Finance Documents or any claim thereunder comes under their jurisdiction upon proof of the relevant provisions of the laws of England.
10.20 | Repetition |
The representations and warranties in this Clause 10 shall be deemed to be repeated by the Borrower:
(a) | on the date of service of each Drawdown Notice; |
(b) | on each Drawdown Date; |
(c) | with the exception of Clauses 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 and 10.12, on the first day of each Interest Period; and |
(d) | on the date of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement, |
as if made with reference to the facts and circumstances existing on each such day.
10.21 | FATCA |
Neither the Borrower nor any Security Party is a FATCA FFI or a US Tax Obligor.
11 | GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS |
11.1 | General |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 11 at all times during the Security Period except as the Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit (which permission shall not be unreasonably withheld in connection with Clause 11.13).
11.2 | Title; negative pledge and pari passu ranking |
The Borrower will:
(a) | hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in, each Owner free from all Security Interests and other interests and rights of every kind, except for those created by the Finance Documents and the effect of assignments contained in the Finance Documents and except for Permitted Security Interests; |
(b) | not create or permit to arise any Security Interest over any other asset, present or future other than in the normal course of its business of acquiring and financing vessels; and |
(c) | procure that its liabilities under the Finance Documents to which it is a party do and will rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatorily preferred by law. |
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11.3 | No disposal of assets |
The Borrower will not transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of:
(a) | all or a substantial part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a number of transactions, whether related or not if such transfer, lease or disposal results in the Borrower being in breach of any of the financial covenants referred to in Clause 12.5 or in the occurrence of an Event of Default; or |
(b) | any debt payable to it or any other right (present, future or contingent right) to receive a payment, including any right to damages or compensation, |
but paragraph (a) does not apply to any charter of a Ship as to which Clause 14.14 applies.
11.4 | No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred |
The Borrower will not incur any liability or obligation except liabilities and obligations under the Finance Documents and liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the ordinary course of its business of acquiring, operating and financing vessels, acquiring shares in vessel owning companies and financing such acquisitions and all other matters reasonably incidental thereto (which shall include, without limitation, but subject to Clause 12.8, any Financial Indebtedness which may be incurred by the Borrower in the ordinary course of its business).
11.5 | Information provided to be accurate |
All financial and other information, including, but not limited to factual information, exhibits and reports, which is provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower under or in connection with any Finance Document will be true and not misleading and will not omit any material fact or consideration.
11.6 | Provision of financial statements |
The Borrower will send or procure there are sent to the Facility Agent:
(a) | as soon as possible, but in no event later than 180 days after the end of each financial year of the Borrower (commencing with the financial statements for the year which ended on 31 December 2012), the audited consolidated annual accounts of the Group; |
(b) | as soon as possible, but in no event later than 90 days after the end of each 3-month period in each financial year of the Borrower (commencing with the financial statements for the 3- month period which ended on 30 June 2013): |
(i) | the unaudited consolidated management accounts of the Group for that 3-month period certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of the Borrower; and |
(ii) | the management accounts of each Owner for that 3-month period certified as to their correctness by an officer of the Borrower; |
(c) | promptly after each request by the Facility Agent, such further financial information about the Borrower, the Ships and the Owners (including, but not limited to, charter arrangements, Financial Indebtedness and operating expenses) as the Facility Agent may require. |
11.7 | Form of financial statements |
All accounts (audited and unaudited) delivered under Clause 11.6 will:
(a) | be prepared in accordance with all applicable laws and US GAAP consistently applied; |
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(b) | give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the relevant person at the date of those accounts and of its profit for the period to which those accounts relate; and |
(c) | fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the relevant person and its subsidiaries. |
11.8 | Creditor notices |
The Borrower will send to the Facility Agent, at the same time as they are despatched, copies of all communications which are despatched to all of its creditors or to the whole or any class of them.
11.9 | Consents |
The Borrower will maintain in force and promptly obtain or renew, and will promptly send certified copies to the Facility Agent of, all consents required:
(a) | for the Borrower to perform its obligations under any Finance Document to which it is party; |
(b) | for the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document to which it is party; and |
(c) | for each Owner to continue to own and operate the Ship owned by it, |
and the Borrower will comply (or procure compliance as the case may be) with the terms of all such consents.
11.10 | Maintenance of Security Interests |
The Borrower will:
(a) | at its own cost, do all that it reasonably can to ensure that any Finance Document validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it purports to create; and |
(b) | without limiting the generality of paragraph (a) above, at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enroll any Finance Document with any court or authority in all Pertinent Jurisdictions, pay any stamp, registration or similar tax in all Pertinent Jurisdictions in respect of any Finance Document, give any notice or take any other step which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is or has become necessary or desirable for any Finance Document to be valid, enforceable or admissible in evidence or to ensure or protect the priority of any Security Interest which it creates. |
11.11 | Notification of litigation |
The Borrower will provide the Facility Agent with details of any legal or administrative action involving the Borrower, any Security Party, the Approved Manager or the Ships, their Earnings or their Insurances as soon as such action is instituted unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered material in the context of any Finance Document.
11.12 | No amendment to Master Agreement; Transactions |
The Borrower will not:
(a) | agree to any amendment or supplement to, or waive or fail to enforce, the Master Agreement or any of its provisions; or |
(b) | enter into any Transaction pursuant to the Master Agreement except Designated Transactions. |
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11.13 | No amendment to the Existing Charters and of the Charterparty |
The Borrower will ensure that no Owner shall agree to any material amendment or supplement to, or waive or fail to enforce, any Existing Charter or any Charterparty or any of its provisions.
11.14 | Principal place of business |
The Borrower will maintain its place of business, and keep its corporate documents and records, at the address stated at Clause 28.2(a) and the Borrower will not establish nor do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in England or the United States of America.
11.15 | Confirmation of no default |
The Borrower will, within 2 Business Days after service by the Facility Agent of a written request, serve on the Facility Agent a notice which is signed by 2 directors of the Borrower and which:
(a) | states that no Event of Default has occurred; or |
(b) | states that no Event of Default has occurred, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given, |
the Facility Agent may serve requests under this Clause 11.15 from time to time but only if asked to do so by a Lender or Lenders having Contributions exceeding 10 per cent. of the Loan or Commitments exceeding 10 per cent. of the Total Commitments; this Clause 11.15 does not affect the Borrower’s obligations under Clause 11.16.
11.16 | Notification of default |
The Borrower will notify the Facility Agent as soon as the Borrower becomes aware of:
(a) | the occurrence of an Event of Default; or |
(b) | any matter which indicates that an Event of Default may have occurred, |
and will thereafter keep the Facility Agent fully up-to-date with all developments.
11.17 | Provision of further information |
The Borrower will, as soon as practicable after receiving the request, provide the Facility Agent with any additional financial or other information relating:
(a) | to the Borrower, the Ships, their Insurances, their Earnings or the Owners; or |
(b) | to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document, |
which may be requested by the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender at any time.
11.18 | General and administrative costs |
The Borrower shall ensure that the payment of all the general and administrative costs of the Borrower and the Owners in connection with the ownership and operation of the Ships
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(including, without limitation, the payment of the management fees pursuant to the Management Agreements) shall be fully subordinated to the payment obligations of the Borrower and the Owners under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents throughout the Security Period.
11.19 | Provision of copies of SEC filings |
The Borrower will send to the Facility Agent copies of all filings made with, and reports submitted to, the US Securities and Exchange Commission promptly after making such filings or submitting such reports Provided that any such filings or reports which are made available to the public shall be considered to have been delivered to the Facility Agent subject to the Borrower first having notified the Facility Agent that such filings or reports have been made or submitted.
11.20 | Provision of copies and translation of documents |
The Borrower will supply the Facility Agent with a sufficient number of copies of the documents referred to above to provide 1 copy for each Creditor Party; and if the Facility Agent so requires in respect of any of those documents, the Borrower will provide a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Facility Agent.
11.21 | Hedging of interest rate risks |
The Borrower shall from time to time enter into Designated Transactions with the Swap Bank in order to hedge all the interest rate risk under this Agreement.
11.22 | FATCA |
The Borrower shall not and shall ensure that none of the Security Parties shall become a FATCA FFI or a US Tax Obligor.
11.23 | “Know your customer” checks |
If:
(a) | the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement; |
(b) | any change in the status of the Borrower or any Security Party after the date of this Agreement; or |
(c) | a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer, |
obliges the Facility Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender) to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Borrower shall promptly upon the request of the Facility Agent or the Lender concerned supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Facility Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or the Lender concerned (for itself or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Facility Agent, the Lender concerned or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.
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12 | CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS |
12.1 | General |
The Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 12 at all times during the Security Period except as the Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit (such permission not to be unreasonably withheld in the case of Clause 12.3(d)).
12.2 | Maintenance of status |
The Borrower will maintain its separate existence as a limited partnership and remain in good standing under the laws of the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands.
12.3 | Negative undertakings |
The Borrower will not:
(a) | change the nature of its business; or |
(b) | pay any dividend or make any other form of distribution or effect any form of redemption, purchase or return of share capital Provided that the Borrower may make a distribution if: |
(i) | the Borrower has first submitted to the Facility Agent a Compliance Certificate (with supporting evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent) which confirms that (A) no Event of Default has occurred or is continuing and (B) the making of such distribution will not result in the Borrower being in breach of any of the financial covenants referred to in Clause 12.5 or in the occurrence of an Event of Default; and |
(ii) | the Security Cover Ratio referred to in Clause 15.1 is maintained at the time the distribution is made; |
(c) | provide any form of credit or financial assistance to: |
(i) | a person who is directly or indirectly interested in the Borrower’s share or loan capital; or |
(ii) | any company in or with which such a person is directly or indirectly interested or connected, |
or enter into any transaction with or involving such a person or company on terms which are, in any respect, less favourable to the Borrower than those which it could obtain in a bargain made at arms’ length Provided that this shall not prevent or restrict the Borrower from on-lending the Loan to the Owners;
(d) | allow any Owner to open or maintain any account with any bank or financial institution except accounts with the Facility Agent or any other Creditor Party for the purposes of the Finance Documents; and |
(e) | cause the common units of the Borrower to cease to be listed on the Nasdaq National Market in New York unless the common units of the Borrower are listed instead on any other internationally recognised stock exchange acceptable to the Lenders, such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld. |
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12.4 | Subordination of rights of Borrower |
All rights which the Borrower at any time has against any Owner or its assets shall be fully subordinated to the rights of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents; and in particular, the Borrower shall not during the Security Period:
(a) | claim, or in a bankruptcy of any Owner prove for, any amount payable to the Borrower by any Owner, whether in respect of the on-lending of the Loan or any other transaction; |
(b) | take or enforce any Security Interest for any such amount; or |
(c) | claim to set-off any such amount against any amount payable by the Borrower to any Owner. |
12.5 | Financial Covenants |
The Borrower shall ensure that at all times:
(a) | the ratio of Total Indebtedness less unencumbered cash and cash equivalents to the aggregate Market Value of all the Fleet Vessels shall not exceed 0.725:1; |
(b) | the ratio of EBITDA to Net Interest Expenses (calculated on a trailing 4-quarter basis (or such other period as the Facility Agent (acting upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders) may otherwise reasonably require)) shall be no less than 2:1; and |
(c) | at all times the Borrower and all the other members of the Group shall maintain immediately freely available and unencumbered bank or cash deposits in an amount of not less than $500,000 per Fleet Vessel. |
12.6 | Compliance Check |
Compliance with the undertakings contained in Clause 12.5 shall be determined by reference to the unaudited consolidated accounts for the first 3 financial quarters in each Financial Year of the Borrower and for the fourth financial quarter in each Financial Year of the Borrower, the audited consolidated accounts for that Financial Year of the Group delivered to the Facility Agent pursuant to this Agreement. At the same time as it delivers those consolidated accounts, the Borrower shall deliver to the Facility Agent a Compliance Certificate signed by the chief financial officer of the Borrower.
12.7 | Maintenance of ownership of Owners |
The Borrower shall remain the ultimate legal owner of the entire issued and allotted share capital of each Owner which at the relevant time is party to a Guarantee free from any Security Interest.
13 | INSURANCE |
13.1 | General |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to procure that each Owner will comply with the following provisions of this Clause 13 at all times during the Security Period (after the Ship which is owned or to be owned by that Owner has been delivered to it under the relevant Shipbuilding Contract) except as the Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit.
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13.2 | Maintenance of obligatory insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner will keep the Ship owned by it insured at the expense of that Owner against:
(a) | fire and usual marine risks (including hull and machinery and excess risks); and |
(b) | war risks (including protection and indemnity war risks with a separate limit not less than hull value); |
(c) | protection and indemnity risks (including, without limitation, pollution risks and protection and indemnity war risks in excess of the amount of war risks (hull) each in the highest amount available in the international insurance market); and |
(d) | any other risks against which the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, having regard to practices, recommendations and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time may from time to time require by notice to the Borrower. |
13.3 | Terms of obligatory insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner will effect such insurances:
(a) | in Dollars; |
(b) | in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, on an agreed value basis in approved amounts but not in any event less than to the higher of (i) an amount which when aggregated with the insured amounts for the other Ships which are then subject to a Mortgage is equal to 120 per cent. of the Loan and (ii) the Market Value of that Borrower’s Ship; |
(c) | in the case of oil pollution liability risks, for an aggregate amount equal to the highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection and indemnity club entry (with the international group of protection and indemnity clubs) and the international marine insurance market (currently $1,000,000,000); |
(d) | in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the full value and tonnage of the Ship owned by that Owner; |
(e) | in relation to war risks insurance, extended to cover piracy and terrorism where piracy or, as the case may be, terrorism, are excluded under the fire and usual marine risks insurance; |
(f) | on approved terms; and |
(g) | through approved brokers and with approved insurance companies and/or underwriters or, in the case of war risks and protection and indemnity risks, in approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations which are members of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Associations, and have a Standard & Poor’s rating of at least BBB or a comparable rating by any other rating agency acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders). |
13.4 | Further protections for the Creditor Parties |
In addition to the terms set out in Clause 13.3, the Borrower shall procure that:
(a) | it and any and all third parties who are named assured or co-assured under any obligatory insurance shall assign their interest in any and all obligatory insurances and other Insurances if so required by the Facility Agent; |
(b) | whenever the Security Trustee requires, the obligatory insurance name (or be amended to name) the Security Trustee as additional named assured for its rights and interests, warranted no operational interest and with full waiver of rights of subrogation against the Security Trustee, but without the Security Trustee thereby being liable to pay (but having the right to pay) premiums, calls or other assessments in respect of such insurance; |
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(c) | the interest of the Security Trustee as assignee and as loss payee shall be duly endorsed on all slips, cover notes, policies, certificates of entry or other instruments of insurance in respect of the obligatory insurances; |
(d) | the obligatory insurances shall name the Security Trustee as sole loss payee with such directions for payment as the Security Trustee may specify; |
(e) | the obligatory insurances shall provide that all payments by or on behalf of the insurers under the obligatory insurances to the Security Trustee shall be made without set-off, counterclaim or deductions or condition whatsoever; |
(f) | the obligatory insurances shall provide that the insurers shall waive, to the fullest extent permitted by English law, their entitlement (if any) (whether by statute, common law, equity, or otherwise) to be subrogated to the rights and remedies of the Security Trustee in respect of any rights or interests (secured or not) held by or available to the Security Trustee in respect of the Secured Liabilities, until the Secured Liabilities shall have been fully repaid and discharged, except that the insurers shall not be restricted by the terms of this paragraph (f) from making personal claims against persons (other than the Owners or any Creditor Party) in circumstances where the insurers have fully discharged their liabilities and obligations under the relevant obligatory insurances; |
(g) | the obligatory insurances shall provide that such obligatory insurances shall be primary without right of contribution from other insurances which may be carried by the Security Trustee; |
(h) | the obligatory insurances shall provide that the Security Trustee may make proof of loss if the Owners fail to do so; and |
(i) | the obligatory insurances shall provide that if any obligatory insurance is cancelled, or if any substantial change is made in the coverage which adversely affects the interest of the Security Trustee, or if any obligatory insurance is allowed to lapse for non-payment of premium, such cancellation, charge or lapse shall not be effective with respect to the Security Trustee for 30 days (or 7 days in the case of war risks) after receipt by the Security Trustee of prior written notice from the insurers of such cancellation, change or lapse. |
13.5 | Renewal of obligatory insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall:
(a) | at least 21 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance: |
(i) | notify the Security Trustee of the brokers, underwriters, insurance companies and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom that Owner proposes to renew that insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and |
(ii) | in case of any substantial change in insurance cover, obtain the Majority Lenders’ approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i) above; |
(b) | at least 14 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew that obligatory insurance in accordance with the Majority Lenders’ approval pursuant to paragraph (a); and |
(c) | procure that the approved brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity associations with which such a renewal is effected shall promptly after the renewal notify the Security Trustee in writing of the terms and conditions of the renewal. |
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13.6 | Copies of policies; letters of undertaking |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall ensure that all approved brokers provide the Security Trustee with copies of all policies relating to the obligatory insurances which they effect or renew and of a letter or letters of undertaking in a form required by the Majority Lenders and including undertakings by the approved brokers that:
(a) | they will have endorsed on each policy, immediately upon issue, a loss payable clause and a notice of assignment complying with the provisions of Clause 13.4; |
(b) | they will hold such policies, and the benefit of such insurances, to the order of the Security Trustee in accordance with the said loss payable clause; |
(c) | they will advise the Security Trustee immediately of any material change to the terms of the obligatory insurances; |
(d) | they will notify the Security Trustee, not less than 14 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances, in the event of their not having received notice of renewal instructions from that Owner or its agents and, in the event of their receiving instructions to renew, they will promptly notify the Security Trustee of the terms of the instructions; and |
(e) | they will not set off against any sum recoverable in respect of a claim relating to the Ship owned by that Owner under such obligatory insurances any premiums or other amounts due to them or any other person whether in respect of that Ship or otherwise, they waive any lien on the policies or, any sums received under them, which they might have in respect of such premiums or other amounts, and they will not cancel such obligatory insurances by reason of non-payment of such premiums or other amounts, and will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of that Ship forthwith upon being so requested by the Security Trustee. |
13.7 | Copies of certificates of entry |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall ensure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations in which the Ship owned by that Owner is entered provides the Security Trustee with:
(a) | a certified copy of the certificate of entry for that Ship; and |
(b) | a letter or letters of undertaking in the Agreed Form; and |
(c) | where required to be issued under the terms of insurance/indemnity provided by that Owner’s protection and indemnity association, a certified copy of each United States of America voyage quarterly declaration (or other similar document or documents) made by that Owner in relation to its Ship in accordance with the requirements of such protections and indemnity association; and |
(d) | a certified copy of each certificate of financial responsibility for pollution by oil or other Environmentally Sensitive Material issued by the relevant certifying authority in relation to that Ship. |
13.8 | Deposit of original policies |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall ensure that all policies relating to obligatory insurances are deposited with the approved brokers through which the insurances are effected or renewed.
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13.9 | Payment of premiums |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall punctually pay all premiums or other sums payable in respect of the obligatory insurances and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Security Trustee.
13.10 | Guarantees |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall ensure that any guarantees required by a protection and indemnity or war risks association are promptly issued and remain in full force and effect.
13.11 | Restrictions on employment |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall employ the Ship owned by it, nor shall permit her to be employed, outside the cover provided by any obligatory insurances.
13.12 | Compliance with terms of insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall do or omit to do (or permits to be done or not to be done) any act or thing which would or might render any obligatory insurance invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable or render any sum payable thereunder repayable in whole or in part; and in particular:
(a) | the Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall take all necessary action and comply with all requirements which may from time to time be applicable to the obligatory insurances, and (without limiting the obligation contained in Clause 13.7(c) above) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Security Trustee has not given its prior approval; |
(b) | the Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall make any changes relating to the classification or classification society or manager or operator of the Ship owned by it approved by the underwriters of the obligatory insurances; |
(c) | the Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall make (and promptly supply copies to the Facility Agent (upon its request)) of all quarterly or other voyage declarations which may be required by the protection and indemnity risks association in which the Ship owned by it is entered to maintain cover for trading to the United States of America and Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other applicable legislation) and, if applicable, shall procure that the Approved Manager complies with this requirement; and |
(d) | the Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall employ the Ship owned by it, nor shall allow it to be employed, otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of the obligatory insurances, without first obtaining the consent of the insurers and complying with any requirements (as to extra premium or otherwise) which the insurers specify. |
13.13 | Alteration to terms of insurances |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall either make or agree to any alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance or waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance without the prior written consent of the Security Trustee.
13.14 | Settlement of claims |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall settle, compromise or abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty, and shall procure that the relevant Owner shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances.
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13.15 | Provision of copies of communications |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall provide the Security Trustee, at the time of each such communication, copies of all written communications between that Owner and:
(a) | the approved brokers; and |
(b) | the approved protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations; and |
(c) | the approved insurance companies and/or underwriters, which relate directly or indirectly to: |
(i) | that Owner’s obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional premiums or calls; and |
(ii) | any credit arrangements made between that Owner and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above relating wholly or partly to the effecting or maintenance of the obligatory insurances. |
13.16 | Provision of information and further undertakings |
In addition, the Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall promptly provide the Security Trustee (or any persons which it may designate) with any information which the Security Trustee (or any such designated person) requests for the purpose of:
(a) | obtaining or preparing any report from an independent marine insurance broker as to the adequacy of the obligatory insurances effected or proposed to be effected; and/or |
(b) | effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurances as are referred to in Clause 13.17 below or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any such insurances, |
and shall procure that each Owner shall:
(c) | do all things necessary and provide the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee with all documents and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys in respect of the Insurances which are payable to the Security Trustee pursuant to the Finance Documents; and |
(d) | promptly provide the Facility Agent with full information regarding any Major Casualty or in consequence whereof the Ship owned by that Owner has become or may become a Total Loss and agree to any settlement of such casualty or other accident or damage to that Ship only with the Facility Agent’s prior written consent, |
and the Borrower shall procure that each Owner and the Borrower shall, forthwith upon demand, indemnify the Security Trustee in respect of all reasonable fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Security Trustee in connection with any such report as is referred to in paragraph (a) above.
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13.17 | Mortgagee’s interest, additional perils |
The Security Trustee shall be entitled from time to time to effect, maintain and renew all or any of the following insurances in an amount equal to 120 per cent. of the Loan in the case of the mortgagee’s interest marine insurance referred to in paragraph (a) below and in an amount equal to 110 per cent. of the Loan and in the case of the mortgagee’s interest additional perils insurance referred to in paragraph (b) below, on such terms, through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Majority Lenders may from time to time consider appropriate:
(a) | a mortgagee’s interest marine insurance in relation to each Ship in such amount as the Security Trustee may consider appropriate, providing for the indemnification of the Security Trustee for any losses under or in connection with any Finance Document which directly or indirectly result from loss of or damage to any Ship or a liability of any Ship or of any Owner, being a loss or damage which is prima facie covered by an obligatory insurance but in respect of which there is a non-payment (or reduced payment) by the underwriters by reason of, or on the basis of an allegation concerning: |
(i) | any act or omission on the part of an Owner, of any operator, charterer, manager or sub-manager of the Ship owned by it or of any officer, employee or agent of that Owner or of any such person, including any breach of warranty or condition or any non-disclosure relating to such obligatory insurance; |
(ii) | any act or omission, whether deliberate, negligent or accidental, or any knowledge or privity of an Owner, any other person referred to in paragraph (i) above, or of any officer, employee or agent of that Owner or of such a person, including the casting away or damaging of the Ship owned by it and/or the Ship owned by it being unseaworthy; and/or |
(iii) | any other matter capable of being insured against under a mortgagee’s interest marine insurance whether or not similar to the foregoing; |
(b) | a mortgagee’s interest additional perils insurance in relation to each Ship in such amount as the Security Trustee may consider appropriate, providing for the indemnification of the Security Trustee against, among other things, any possible losses or other consequences of any Environmental Claim, including the risk of expropriation, arrest or any form of detention of a Ship, the imposition of any Security Interest over a Ship and/or any other matter capable of being insured against under a mortgagee’s interest additional perils insurance whether or not similar to the foregoing, |
and the Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Security Trustee in respect of all premiums and other expenses which are incurred in connection with or with a view to effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurance or dealing with, or considering, any matter arising out of any such insurance.
13.18 | Review of insurance requirements |
The Majority Lenders shall be entitled to review the requirements of this Clause 13 from time to time in order to take account of any changes in circumstances after the date of this Agreement which are, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, significant and capable of affecting the Borrower or any Ship and its or their insurance (including, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance coverage or the risks to which the Owners may be subject), and may appoint insurance consultants in relation to this review at the cost of the Borrower and the Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Facility Agent in respect of all fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Facility Agent in appointing an independent marine insurance broker or adviser to conduct such review.
13.19 | Modification of insurance requirements |
The Security Trustee shall notify the Borrower of any proposed modification under Clause 13.18 to the requirements of this Clause 13 which the Majority Lenders reasonably consider appropriate in the circumstances, and such modification shall take effect on and from the date it is notified in writing to the Borrower as an amendment to this Clause 13 and shall bind the Borrower accordingly.
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13.20 | Compliance with mortgagee’s instructions |
The Security Trustee shall be entitled (without prejudice to or limitation of any other rights which it may have or acquire under any Finance Document) to require a Ship to remain at any safe port or to proceed to and remain at any safe port designated by the Security Trustee until the relevant Owner implements any amendments to the terms of the obligatory insurances and any operational changes required as a result of a notice served under Clause 13.19.
14 | SHIP COVENANTS |
14.1 | General |
The Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to procure that each Owner complies with the following provisions of this Clause 14 at all times during the Security Period (after the Ship has been delivered to it under the Shipbuilding Contract) except as the Facility Agent, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may otherwise permit (in the case of the Clauses 14.2, 14.3(b) and 14.13(e), such permission not to be unreasonably withheld).
14.2 | Ship’s name and registration |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall keep the Ship owned by it registered in its name under the relevant Approved Flag; shall not do, omit to do or allow to be done anything as a result of which such registration might be cancelled or imperilled; and shall not change the name or port of registry of that Ship.
14.3 | Repair and classification |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall keep the Ship owned by it in a good and safe condition and state of repair, sea and cargo worthy in all respects:
(a) | consistent with first-class ship ownership and management practice; |
(b) | so as to maintain the highest class with an Approved Classification Society acceptable to the Majority Lenders free of overdue recommendations and conditions and, upon the Security Trustee’s request, the Approved Classification Society shall provide the Security Trustee with any information and documentation required in respect of the Ship as the same is maintained in the records of the Approved Classification Society; and |
(c) | so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered at ports in the relevant Approved Flag State or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction to which that Ship may trade from time to time, including but not limited to the ISM Code, the ISM Code Documentation and the ISPS Code, |
and the Facility Agent shall be given power of attorney in the form attached as Schedule 7 to act on behalf of that Owner in order to, inspect the class records and any files held by the classification society and to require the classification society to provide the Facility Agent or any of its nominees with any information, document or file, it might reasonably request and the classification society shall be fully entitled to rely hereon without any further inquiry.
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14.4 | Classification society undertaking |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner instructs the classification society referred to in Clause 14.3 (and procure that the classification society undertakes with the Security Trustee) in relation to the Ship owned by it:
(a) | to send to the Security Trustee, following receipt of a written request from the Security Trustee, certified true copies of all original class records and any other related records held by the classification society in relation to that Ship; |
(b) | to allow the Security Trustee (or its agents), at any time and from time to time, to inspect the original class and related records of that Ship at the offices of the classification society and to take copies of them; |
(c) | to notify the Security Trustee immediately in writing if the classification society: |
(i) | receives notification from that Owner or any person that that Ship’s classification society is to be changed; |
(ii) | becomes aware of any facts or matters which may result in or have resulted in a change, suspension, discontinuance, withdrawal or expiry of that Ship’s class under the rules or terms and conditions of that Borrower’s or that Ship’s membership of the classification society; |
(d) | following receipt of a written request from the Security Trustee: |
(i) | to confirm that that Owner is not in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society and, without limiting the foregoing, that it has paid in full all fees or other charges due and payable to the classification society; or |
(ii) | if that Owner is in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society, to specify to the Security Trustee in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances of such default, the consequences thereof, and any remedy period agreed or allowed by the classification society. |
14.5 | Modification |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall make any modification or repairs to, or replacement of, any Ship or equipment installed on her which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of that Ship or materially reduce her value.
14.6 | Removal of parts |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall remove any material part of any Ship, or any item of equipment installed on, any Ship unless the part or item so removed is forthwith replaced by a suitable part or item which is in the same condition as or better condition than the part or item removed, is free from any Security Interest or any right in favour of any person other than the Security Trustee and becomes on installation on the relevant Ship the property of the relevant Owner and subject to the security constituted by the Mortgage and the Deed of Covenant Provided that an Owner may install equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any risk of damage to the Ship owned by it.
14.7 | Surveys |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall submit the Ship owned by it regularly to all periodical or other surveys which may be required for classification purposes and, if so required by the Majority Lenders provide the Security Trustee, with copies of all survey reports.
14.8 | Technical Survey |
Without prejudice to the Owners’ obligations pursuant to Clause 14.6, if the survey report to be delivered as a condition to the drawdown of the Advance which shall be used to (inter
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alia) finance or refinance a Ship (as referred to in the applicable paragraph of Schedule 3) is not satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting reasonably), the Borrower shall procure that the relevant Owner shall promptly following the request of the Facility Agent (to be made within 6 months of the Drawdown Date relative to the Advance which was used (inter alia) to finance or refinance such Ship) submit; the Ship owned by it for a technical survey by an independent surveyor or surveyors appointed by the Facility Agent. All fees and expenses incurred in relation to the appointment of the surveyor or surveyors and the preparation and issue of all technical reports pursuant to this Clause 14.7 shall be for the account of the Borrower.
14.9 | Inspection |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall permit the Security Trustee (by surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) to board the Ship owned by it at all reasonable times to inspect her condition or to satisfy themselves about proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections Provided that so long as a Ship is found to be in a satisfactory condition to the Facility Agent (acting reasonably) and no continuing Event of Default or Potential Event of Default shall be in existence, the Borrower or the relevant Owner, as the case may be, shall not be obliged to pay the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the inspection of the relevant Ship more than once in any twelve-month period.
14.10 | Prevention of and release from arrest |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall promptly discharge:
(a) | all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances; |
(b) | all taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances; and |
(c) | all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances, |
and, forthwith upon receiving notice of the arrest of the Ship owned by it, or of her detention in exercise or purported exercise of any lien or claim, the Borrower shall procure her release by providing bail or otherwise as the circumstances may require.
14.11 | Compliance with laws etc. |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall:
(a) | comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, all Environmental Laws, and all other laws or regulations relating to the Ship owned by it, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of that Owner; |
(b) | not employ the Ship owned by it nor allow her employment in any manner contrary to any law or regulation in any relevant jurisdiction including, but not limited, to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code; and |
(c) | in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), not cause or permit the Ship owned by it to enter or trade to any zone which is declared a war zone by any government or by the Ship’s war risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders has been given and that Owner has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the Majority Lenders may require. |
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14.12 | Provision of information |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall promptly provide the Security Trustee with any information which the Majority Lenders request regarding:
(a) | the Ship owned by it, her employment, position and engagements; |
(b) | the Earnings and payments and amounts due to the master and crew of the Ship owned by it; |
(c) | any expenses incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the operation, maintenance or repair of the Ship owned by it and any payments made in respect of that Ship; |
(d) | any towages and salvages; and |
(e) | its compliance, and the compliance of the Ship owned by it with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code, |
and, upon the Security Trustee’s request, provide copies of any current charter relating to the Ship owned by it and of any current charter guarantee, and copies of the ISM Code Documentation and the ISCC.
14.13 | Notification of certain events |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall immediately notify the Security Trustee by letter of:
(a) | any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty; |
(b) | any occurrence as a result of which the Ship owned by it has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss; |
(c) | any requirement, overdue condition or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with; |
(d) | any arrest or detention of the Ship owned by it, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on that Ship or her Earnings or any requisition of that Ship for hire, |
(e) | any intended dry docking of the Ship owned by it where the cost of the dry docking will, or is likely to, exceed $500,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) in aggregate; |
(f) | any Environmental Claim made against that Owner or in connection with the Ship owned by it, or any Environmental Incident; |
(g) | any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against that Owner, the Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship owned by it; or |
(h) | any other matter, event or incident, actual or threatened, the effect of which will or could lead to the ISM Code or the ISPS Code not being complied with, |
and that Owner shall keep the Security Trustee advised in writing on a regular basis and in such detail as the Security Trustee shall require of that Owner’s, the Approved Manager’s or any other person’s response to any of those events or matters.
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14.14 | Restrictions on, appointment of managers etc. |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall:
(a) | enter into any time charter in relation to the Ship owned by it under which more than 2 months’ hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance; |
(b) | charter the Ship owned by it otherwise than on bona fide arm’s length terms at the time when the Ship is fixed; |
(c) | appoint a manager of the Ship owned by it other than the Approved Manager; |
(d) | de-activate or lay up the Ship owned by it; or |
(e) | put the Ship owned by it into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon her in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed $750,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first given to the Security Trustee and in terms satisfactory to it a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on that Ship or her Earnings for the cost of such work or otherwise. |
14.15 | Notice of Mortgage |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall keep the Mortgage registered against the Ship owned by it as a valid first priority or, as the case may be, preferred mortgage, carry on board that Ship a certified copy of the relevant Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the Master’s cabin of that Ship a framed printed notice stating that that Ship is mortgaged by that Owner to the Security Trustee.
14.16 | Sharing of Earnings |
The Borrower shall procure that no Owner shall:
(a) | enter into any agreement or arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings; |
(b) | enter into any agreement or arrangement for the postponement of any date on which any Earnings are due; the reduction of the amount of any Earnings or otherwise for the release or adverse alteration of any right of that Owner to any Earnings; or |
(c) | enter into any agreement or arrangement for the release of, or adverse alteration to, any guarantee or Security Interest relating to any Earnings. |
14.17 | ISPS Code |
The Borrower shall procure that each Owner shall comply with the ISPS Code and in particular, without limitation, shall:
(a) | procure that the Ship owned by that Owner and the company responsible for that Ship’s compliance with the ISPS Code comply with the ISPS Code; and |
(b) | maintain for that Ship an ISSC; and |
(c) | notify the Facility Agent immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC. |
14.18 | Time Charter Assignment |
If any Owner enters into any Charterparty in respect of its Ship, the Borrower shall procure that the relevant Owner shall, at the request of the Facility Agent, execute in favour of the Security Trustee a Charterparty Assignment (other than in the case of an Existing Charter the assignment of which is contemplated pursuant to the Charterparty Assignment relative thereto to be delivered pursuant to paragraph 2 of Part B, Schedule 3) or, in the case of a bareboat charter, a Bareboat Charter Security Agreement, and shall deliver to the Facility Agent such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 3, 4, 5 and 7 of Part A of Schedule 3 hereof as the Facility Agent may require.
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15 | SECURITY COVER |
15.1 | Minimum required security cover |
Clause 15.2 applies if the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower that:
(a) | the aggregate Market Value of the Ships subject to a Mortgage; plus |
(b) | the net realisable value of any additional security previously provided under this Clause 15, |
is below 125 per cent. of the Loan.
15.2 | Provision of additional security; prepayment |
If the Facility Agent serves a notice on the Borrower under Clause 15.1, the Borrower shall prepay such part (at least) of the outstanding amount of the Loan as will eliminate the shortfall on or before the date falling 1 month after the date on which the Facility Agent’s notice is served under Clause 15.1 (the “Prepayment Date”) unless at least 1 Business Day before the Prepayment Date it has provided, or ensured that a third party has provided, additional security which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, has a net realisable value at least equal to the shortfall and is documented in such terms as the Facility Agent may, with authorisation from the Majority Lenders, approve or require
15.3 | Requirement for additional documents |
The Borrower shall not be deemed to have complied with Clause 15.2 above until the Facility Agent has received in connection with the additional security certified copies of documents of the kinds referred to in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A and such legal opinions in terms acceptable to the Majority Lenders from such lawyers as they may select.
15.4 | Valuation of Ships |
The market value of a Ship at any date is that shown by the arithmetic average of two valuations each prepared:
(a) | as at a date not more than 14 days previously and, for the purposes of Clause 12.6 and 15.9, each Compliance Date; |
(b) | by an Approved Broker nominated and appointed by the Borrower; |
(c) | with or without physical inspection of the relevant Ship (as the Facility Agent may require); |
(d) | on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash on normal arm’s length commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer, free of any existing charter or other contract of employment; and |
(e) | after deducting the estimated amount of the usual and reasonable expenses which would be incurred in connection with the sale, |
Provided that if the difference between the 2 valuations obtained at any one time pursuant to this Clause 15.4 is greater than 15 per cent. a valuation shall be commissioned from a third Approved Broker appointed by the Facility Agent. Such valuation shall be conducted in accordance with this Clause 15.4 and the Market Value of the Ship in such circumstances shall be the average of the initial 2 valuations and the valuation provided by the third Approved Broker.
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In this clause 15.4 “Compliance Date” means 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December in each financial year of the Borrower.
15.5 | Value of additional security |
The net realisable value of any additional security which is provided under Clause 15.2 and which consists of a Security Interest over a vessel shall be that shown by a valuation complying with the requirements of Clause 15.4.
15.6 | Valuations binding |
Any valuation under Clause 15.2, 15.4 or 15.5 shall be binding and conclusive as regards the Borrower, as shall be any valuation which the Majority Lenders make of a security which does not consist of or include a Security Interest.
15.7 | Provision of information |
The Borrower shall promptly provide the Facility Agent and any Approved Broker or expert acting under Clause 15.4 or 15.5 with any information which the Facility Agent or the Approved Broker or expert may request for the purposes of the valuation; and, if the Borrower fails to provide the information by the date specified in the request, the valuation may be made on any basis and assumptions which the Approved Broker or the Majority Lenders (or the expert appointed by them) consider prudent Provided that so long as no Event of Default has occurred, the Borrower shall not be obliged to pay for more than one set of valuations of each Ship during each calendar year.
15.8 | Payment of valuation expenses |
Without prejudice to the generality of the Borrower’s obligations under Clauses 20.2, 20.3 and 21.3, the Borrower shall, on demand, pay the Facility Agent the amount of the reasonable fees and expenses of any Approved Broker or expert instructed by the Facility Agent under this Clause and all reasonable legal and other expenses incurred by any Creditor Party in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause.
15.9 | Frequency of valuations |
The Borrower shall provide the Facility Agent with valuations of the Ships at such times as the Majority Lenders shall reasonably deem necessary and, in any event, on the dates on which the Borrower provides a Compliance Certificate in accordance with Clause 12.5.
16 | PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS |
16.1 | Currency and method of payments |
All payments to be made:
(a) | by the Lenders to the Facility Agent; or |
(b) | by the Borrower to the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender, |
under a Finance Document shall be made to the Facility Agent or to the Security Trustee, in the case of an amount payable to it:
(i) | by not later than 11.00 a.m. (New York City time) on the due date; |
(ii) | in same day Dollar funds settled through the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds and/or settled in such other manner as the Facility Agent shall specify as being customary at the time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement); |
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(iii) | in the case of an amount payable by a Lender to the Facility Agent or by the Borrower to the Facility Agent or any Lender, to the account of the Facility Agent at XX Xxxxxx Xxxxx Bank, New York, N.Y., USA (SWIFT Code: XXXX US33; Account No. 001-1-938123) with reference “Capital Product Partners L.P. – US$225m facility, or to such other account with such other bank as the Facility Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the other Creditor Parties; and |
(iv) | in the case of an amount payable to the Security Trustee, to such account as it may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the other Creditor Parties. |
16.2 | Payment on non-Business Day |
If any payment by the Borrower under a Finance Document would otherwise fall due on a day which is not a Business Day:
(a) | the due date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; or |
(b) | if the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the due date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day, |
and interest shall be payable during any extension under paragraph (a) at the rate payable on the original due date.
16.3 | Basis for calculation of periodic payments |
All interest and commitment fee and any other payments under any Finance Document which are of an annual or periodic nature shall accrue from day to day and shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360 day year.
16.4 | Distribution of payments to Creditor Parties |
Subject to Clauses 16.5, 16.6 and 16.7:
(a) | any amount received by the Facility Agent under a Finance Document for distribution or remittance to a Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee shall be made available by the Facility Agent to that Lender, the Swap Bank or, as the case may be or the Security Trustee by payment, with funds having the same value as the funds received, to such account as the Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee may have notified to the Facility Agent not less than 5 Business Days previously; and |
(b) | amounts to be applied in satisfying amounts of a particular category which are due to the Lenders and/or the Swap Bank generally shall be distributed by the Facility Agent to each Lender and the Swap Bank pro rata to the amount in that category which is due to it. |
16.5 | Permitted deductions by Facility Agent |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Facility Agent may, before making an amount available to a Lender or the Swap Bank, deduct and withhold from that amount (i) any sum which is then due and payable to the Facility Agent from that Lender or the Swap Bank under any Finance Document or any sum which the Facility Agent is then entitled under any Finance Document to require that Lender or the Swap Bank to pay on demand and (ii) any amount the Facility Agent determines is required to be deducted and withheld under FATCA.
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16.6 | Facility Agent only obliged to pay when monies received |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to make available to the Borrower or any Lender or the Swap Bank any sum which the Facility Agent is expecting to receive for remittance or distribution to the Borrower or that Lender or the Swap Bank until the Facility Agent has satisfied itself that it has received that sum.
16.7 | Refund to Facility Agent of monies not received |
If and to the extent that the Facility Agent makes available a sum to the Borrower or a Lender or the Swap Bank, without first having received that sum, the Borrower or (as the case may be) the Lender or the Swap Bank concerned shall, on demand:
(a) | refund the sum in full to the Facility Agent; and |
(b) | pay to the Facility Agent the amount (as certified by the Facility Agent) which will indemnify the Facility Agent against any funding or other loss, liability or expense incurred by the Facility Agent as a result of making the sum available before receiving it. |
16.8 | Facility Agent may assume receipt |
Clause 16.7 shall not affect any claim which the Facility Agent has under the law of restitution, and applies irrespective of whether the Facility Agent had any form of notice that it had not received the sum which it made available.
16.9 | Creditor Party accounts |
Each Creditor Party shall maintain accounts showing the amounts owing to it by the Borrower and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrower and any Security Party.
16.10 | Facility Agent’s memorandum account |
The Facility Agent shall maintain a memorandum account showing the amounts advanced by the Lenders and all other sums owing to the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee and each Lender from the Borrower and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrower and any Security Party.
16.11 | Accounts prima facie evidence |
If any accounts maintained under Clauses 16.9 and 16.10 show an amount to be owing by the Borrower or a Security Party to a Creditor Party, those accounts shall, absent manifest error, be prima facie evidence that that amount is owing to that Creditor Party.
17 | APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS |
17.1 | Normal order of application |
Except as any Finance Document may otherwise provide, any sums which are received or recovered by any Creditor Party under or by virtue of any Finance Document shall be applied:
(a) | FIRST: in or towards satisfaction of any amounts then due and payable under the Finance Documents (other than under the Master Agreement) in the following order and proportions: |
(i) | first, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of all amounts then due and payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) other than those amounts referred to at paragraphs (ii) and (iii) (including, but |
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without limitation, all amounts payable by the Borrower under Clauses 20, 21 and 22 of this Agreement or by the Borrower or any Security Party under any corresponding or similar provision in any other Finance Document (other than the Master Agreement)); |
(ii) | secondly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of any and all amounts of interest or default interest payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents (other than under the Master Agreement); and |
(iii) | thirdly, in or towards satisfaction of the Loan; |
(b) | SECONDLY: in or towards satisfaction of any amounts then due and payable under the Master Agreement in the following order and proportions: |
(i) | first, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of all amounts then due and payable to the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement other than those amounts referred to at paragraphs (ii) and (iii); |
(ii) | secondly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of any and all amounts of interest or default interest payable to the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement (and, for this purpose, the expression “interest” shall include any net amount which the Borrower shall have become liable to pay or deliver under section 2(e) (Obligations) of the Master Agreement but shall have failed to pay or deliver to the Swap Bank at the time of application or distribution under this Clause 17); and |
(iii) | thirdly, in or towards satisfaction of the Swap Exposure of the Swap Bank calculated as at the actual Early Termination Date applying to each particular Designated Transaction, or if no such Early Termination Date shall have occurred, calculated as if an Early Termination Date occurred on the date of application or distribution hereunder); |
(c) | THIRDLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document (other than the Master Agreement) but which the Facility Agent, by notice to the Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties, states in its opinion will or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Clause; |
(d) | FOURTHLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due under and payable under the Master Agreement but which the Swap Bank, by notice to the Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties, states in its opinion will or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Clause; and |
(e) | FIFTHLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrower or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it. |
17.2 | Variation of order of application |
The Facility Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties provide for a different manner of application from that set out in Clause 17.1 either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories.
17.3 | Notice of variation of order of application |
The Facility Agent may give notices under Clause 17.2 from time to time; and such a notice may be stated to apply not only to sums which may be received or recovered in the future, but also to any sum which has been received or recovered on or after the third Business Day before the date on which the notice is served.
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17.4 | Appropriation rights overridden |
This Clause 17 and any notice which the Facility Agent gives under Clause 17.2 shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by the Borrower or any Security Party.
18 | APPLICATION OF EARNINGS |
18.1 | Payment of Earnings |
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to ensure that, throughout the Security Period (subject only to the provisions of the General Assignments), all the Earnings of each Ship are paid to the Earnings Account for that Ship and ail payments by the Swap Bank to the Borrower under a Designated Transaction are paid to the Swap Account. Any monies standing to the credit of the Earnings Accounts shall be freely available to the Owners subject to there not being any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default in existence at the relevant time.
18.2 | Debt Service Reserve Account |
If at any time:
(a) | a Ship is not subject to a Charterparty and a replacement Charterparty is not in place within 180 days therefrom (the “Approved Period”); or |
(b) | a Charterparty relative to a Ship is terminated (other than by effluxion of time) and a replacement Charterparty is not in place within the Approved Period, |
the Borrower shall maintain (either by transferring sums from the balance of the Earnings Accounts (or any of them) or otherwise) to the credit of the Debt Service Reserve Account, the Twelve Months’ Debt Service relative to the Advance which has been used to finance that Ship (the “Affected Ship”) for the 12-month period following that date, and in the event that the Twelve Months’ Debt Service in respect of that Advance for that period differs from the Twelve Months’ Debt Service in respect of the Advance of the Affected Ship for the immediately preceding 12-month period an adjustment will be made (whether upwards or downwards) to the balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account. If a replacement Charterparty is effected after the last day of the Approved Period, the credit balance of the Debt Service Reserve Account shall become freely available to the Borrower.
If the Borrower fails to pay when due any sum representing principal on, or interest in respect of, the Loan (or any part thereof) pursuant to this Agreement, the Facility Agent shall be entitled (acting upon the instructions of all the Lenders) to apply any balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account towards payment of any such unpaid amount and the Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to make such application. If any of the monies on the Debt Service Reserve Account are applied in the manner aforesaid, the Borrower shall ensure that promptly following such application monies are transferred to the Debt Service Reserve Account so that the balance thereon is at least equal to the balance which the Borrower is required to maintain pursuant to this Clause 18.2.
18.3 | Interest accrued on Debt Service Reserve Account |
Any credit balance on the Debt Service Reserve Account shall bear interest at the rate from time to time offered by the Facility Agent to its customers for Dollar deposits of similar amounts and for periods similar to those for which such balances appear to the Facility Agent likely to remain on that Account.
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18.4 | Release of accrued interest |
Interest accruing on each Account under Clause 18.3 shall be released to the Borrower on each Repayment Date unless an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default has occurred or the then credit balance thereon is less than what would have been the balance had the full amount required by Clause 18.2 been debited to that Account.
18.5 | Location of accounts |
The Borrower shall promptly:
(a) | comply with any requirement of the Facility Agent as to the location or re-location of the Accounts (or any of them); and |
(b) | execute any documents which the Facility Agent specifies to create or maintain in favour of the Security Trustee a Security Interest over (and/or rights of set-off, consolidation or other rights in relation to) the Accounts (or any of them). |
18.6 | Debits for expenses etc. |
The Facility Agent shall be entitled (but not obliged) from time to time to debit the Earnings Account, with no later than 10 Business Days prior notice to the Borrower, in order to discharge any amount due and payable under Clause 19.11, 20.1 or 21 to a Creditor Party or payment of which any Creditor Party has become entitled to demand under these Clauses.
19 | EVENT OF DEFAULT |
19.1 | Events of Default |
An Event of Default occurs if:
(a) | the Borrower or any Security Party fails to pay when due or (if so payable) on demand any sum payable under a Finance Document or under any document relating to a Finance Document; or |
(b) | any breach occurs of Clause 9.2, 11.2, 11.3, 12.2, 12.3, 12.5, 13.2, 13.3, 15.2, 18.1 or 18.2; or |
(c) | any breach by the Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraphs (a) or (b) above) if, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, such default is capable of remedy, and such default continues unremedied 14 days after written notice from the Facility Agent requesting action to remedy the same; or |
(d) | (subject to any applicable grace period specified in the Finance Document) any breach by the Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above); or |
(e) | any representation, warranty or statement made or repeated by, or by an officer of, the Borrower or a Security Party in a Finance Document or in a Drawdown Notice or any other notice or document relating to a Finance Document is untrue or misleading when it is made or repeated; or |
(f) | any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person (in the case of the Borrower, in an amount exceeding, in aggregate, $5,000,000 or the equivalent in any other currency), in aggregate: |
(i) | any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is not paid when due or, if so payable, on demand; or |
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(ii) | any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date as a consequence of any event of default; or |
(iii) | a lease, hire purchase agreement or charter creating any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is terminated by the lessor or owner or becomes capable of being terminated as a consequence of any termination event; or |
(iv) | any overdraft, loan, note issuance, acceptance credit, letter of credit, guarantee, foreign exchange or other facility, or any swap or other derivative contract or transaction, relating to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person ceases to be available or becomes capable of being terminated as a result of any event of default, or cash cover is required, or becomes capable of being required, in respect of such a facility as a result of any event of default; or |
(v) | any Security Interest securing any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes enforceable; or |
(g) | any of the following occurs in relation to a Relevant Person: |
(i) | a Relevant Person becomes, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or |
(ii) | any assets of a Relevant Person are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress in respect of a sum of, or sums (in the case of the Borrower, in respect of an amount exceeding, $5,000,000 or the equivalent in another currency unless such execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress is dismissed, withdrawn, released or lifted within 15 Business Days of the occurrence of such event; or |
(iii) | any administrative or other receiver is appointed over any asset of a Relevant Person; or |
(iv) | an administrator is appointed (whether by the court or otherwise) in respect of a Relevant Person; or |
(v) | any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that a Relevant Person is insolvent or likely to become insolvent is made by a Relevant Person or by the directors of a Relevant Person or, in any proceedings, by a lawyer acting for a Relevant Person; or |
(vi) | a provisional liquidator is appointed in respect of a Relevant Person, a winding up order is made in relation to a Relevant Person or a winding up resolution is passed by a Relevant Person; or |
(vii) | a resolution is passed, an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by (aa) a Relevant Person, (bb) the members or directors of a Relevant Person, (cc) a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person, or (dd) a government minister or public or regulatory authority of a Pertinent Jurisdiction for or with a view to the winding up of that or another Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of that or another Relevant Person, or that or another Relevant Person ceasing or suspending business operations or payments to creditors, save that this paragraph does not apply to a fully solvent winding up of a Relevant Person other than the Borrower or any Owner which is, or is to be, effected for the purposes of an amalgamation or reconstruction previously approved by the Majority Lenders and effected not later than 3 months after the commencement of the winding up; or |
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(viii) | an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by a creditor of a Relevant Person (other than a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person) for the winding up of a Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of a Relevant Person in any Pertinent Jurisdiction, unless the proposed winding up, appointment of a provisional liquidator or administration is being contested in good faith, on substantial grounds and not with a view to some other insolvency law procedure being implemented instead and either (aa) the application or petition is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of being made or presented, or (bb) within 30 days of the administration notice being given or filed, or the other relevant steps being taken, other action is taken which will ensure that there will be no administration and (in both cases (aa) or (bb)) the Relevant Person will continue to carry on business in the ordinary way and without being the subject of any actual, interim or pending insolvency law procedure; or |
(ix) | a Relevant Person or its directors take any steps (whether by making or presenting an application or petition to a court, or submitting or presenting a document setting out a proposal or proposed terms, or otherwise) with a view to obtaining, in relation to that or another Relevant Person, any form of moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of debt (or certain debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of creditors or of any class of them or any such moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by court order, by the filing of documents with a court, by means of a contract or in any other way at all; or |
(x) | any meeting of the members or directors, or of any committee of the board or senior management, of a Relevant Person is held or summoned for the purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any action of a type described in paragraphs (iv) to (ix) or a step preparatory to such action, or (with or without such a meeting) the members, directors or such a committee resolve or agree that such an action or step should be taken or should be taken if certain conditions materialise or fail to materialise; or |
(xi) | in a country other than England, any event occurs, any proceedings are opened or commenced or any step is taken which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders is similar to any of the foregoing; or |
(xii) | a Relevant Person makes any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that it is insolvent or likely to become insolvent, or a winding up or administration order is made in relation to a Relevant Person, or the members or directors of a Relevant Person pass a resolution to the effect that it should be wound up, placed in administration or cease to carry on business, save that this paragraph does not apply to a fully solvent winding up of a Relevant Person other than the Borrower or an Owner which is, or is to be, effected for the purposes of an amalgamation or reconstruction previously approved by the Majority Lenders and effected not later than 3 months after the commencement of the winding up; or |
(xiii) | a petition is presented in any Pertinent Jurisdiction for the winding up or administration, or the appointment of a provisional liquidator, of a Relevant Person unless the petition is being contested in good faith and on substantial grounds and is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of the presentation of the petition; or |
(xiv) | a Relevant Person petitions a court, or presents any proposal for, any form of judicial or non-judicial suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of its debt (or certain of its debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of its creditors or of any class of them or any such suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by court order, contract or otherwise; or |
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(xv) | any meeting of the members or directors of a Relevant Person is summoned for the purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any action of a type described in paragraphs (iii), (iv), (v) or (vi) above; or |
(xvi) | in a Pertinent Jurisdiction other than England, any event occurs or any procedure is commenced which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is similar to any of the foregoing; or |
(h) | the Borrower or any Owner ceases or suspends carrying on its business or a part of its business which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is material in the context of this Agreement; or |
(i) | it becomes unlawful in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or impossible: |
(i) | for the Borrower or any Security Party to discharge any liability under a Finance Document or to comply with any other obligation which the Majority Lenders consider material under a Finance Document; or |
(ii) | for the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or the Lenders to exercise or enforce any right under, or to enforce any Security Interest created by, a Finance Document; or |
(j) | any official consent necessary to enable any Owner to own, operate or charter the Ship owned by it or to enable any Owner or any Security Party to comply with any provision which the Majority Lenders consider material of a Finance Document is not granted, expires without being renewed, is revoked or becomes liable to revocation or any condition of such a consent is not fulfilled; or |
(k) | if the common units of the Borrower cease to be quoted on the Nasdaq National Market in New York or any other internationally recognised stock exchange acceptable to the Lenders or if the whole of the issued share capital of any Owner whose Ship is at the relevant time subject to a Mortgage is not wholly owned by the Borrower; or |
(l) | any provision which the Majority Lenders reasonably consider material of a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable, or a Security Interest created by a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable or such a Security Interest proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, another Security Interest or any other third party claim or interest; or |
(m) | it evidently appears to the Majority Lenders that, without their prior consent, a change has occurred after the date of this Agreement in the legal and beneficial ownership of any of the shares in any Owner or the ultimate beneficial ownership of the Borrower, in the control of the voting rights attaching to any of those shares or in Capital Partners GP LLC not being the Borrower’s general partner unless such change results in the ultimate beneficial owner of the shares in that Owner and the Borrower (the identity of which has been disclosed to the Facility Agent in writing on the date of this Agreement) owning more common units in the capital of e the Borrower than any other person (save for any passive institutional investor)) and holding executive power in that Owner and the Borrower; or |
(n) | the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or |
(o) | any of the following occurs in relation to the Master Agreement: |
(i) | notice of an Early Termination Date is given by the Swap Bank under Section 6(a) of the Master Agreement; or |
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(ii) | a person entitled to do so gives notice of Early Termination Date under Section (b) of the Master Agreement; or |
(iii) | an Event of Default (as defined in Section 14 of the Master Agreement) occurs; or |
(iv) | the Master Agreement is terminated, cancelled, suspended, rescinded or revoked or otherwise ceases to remain in full force and effect for any reason except with the consent of the Swap Bank; or |
(p) | any other event occurs or any other circumstances arise or develop including, without limitation: |
(i) | a change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of the Borrower or the Owners; or |
(ii) | any accident or other event involving a Ship or another vessel owned, chartered or operated by a Relevant Person; or |
(iii) | the commencement of legal or administrative action involving the Borrower, its Ship, or any Security Party, |
which in the reasonable opinion of the Lenders constitutes a Material Adverse Change.
19.2 | Actions following an Event of Default |
On, or at any time after, the occurrence of an Event of Default:
(a) | the Facility Agent may, and if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, the Facility Agent shall: |
(i) | serve on the Borrower a notice stating that the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement are terminated; and/or |
(ii) | serve on the Borrower a notice stating that the Loan, all accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing under this Agreement are immediately due and payable or are due and payable on demand; and/or |
(iii) | take any other action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (i) or (ii) above, the Facility Agent and/or the Lenders are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law; and/or |
(b) | the Security Trustee may, and if so instructed by the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, the Security Trustee shall take any action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (a) (i) or (ii) above, the Security Trustee, the Facility Agent, the Lenders and/or the Swap Bank are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law. |
19.3 | Termination of Commitments |
On the service of a notice under paragraph (a)(i) of Clause 19.2, the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement shall terminate.
19.4 | Acceleration of Loan |
On the service of a notice under paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 19.2, the Loan, all accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing from the Borrower or any Security Party under this Agreement and every other Finance Document shall become immediately due and payable or, as the case may be, payable on demand.
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19.5 | Multiple notices; action without notice |
The Facility Agent may serve notices under paragraphs (a) (i) and (ii) of Clause 19.2 simultaneously or on different dates and it and/or the Security Trustee may take any action referred to in that Clause if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of both or either of such notices.
19.6 | Notification of Creditor Parties and Security Parties |
The Facility Agent shall send to each Lender, the Swap Bank, the Security Trustee and each Security Party a copy or the text of any notice which the Facility Agent serves on the Borrower under Clause 19.2; but the notice shall become effective when it is served on the Borrower, and no failure or delay by the Facility Agent to send a copy or the text of the notice to any other person shall invalidate the notice or provide the Borrower or any Security Party with any form of claim or defence.
19.7 | Lender’s rights unimpaired |
Nothing in this Clause shall be taken to impair or restrict the exercise of any right given to individual Lenders or the Swap Bank under a Finance Document or the general law; and, in particular, this Clause is without prejudice to Clause 3.1.
19.8 | Exclusion of Creditor Party Liability |
No Creditor Party, and no receiver or manager appointed by the Security Trustee, shall have any liability to the Borrower or a Security Party:
(a) | for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of a Security Interest created by, a Finance Document or by any failure or delay to exercise such a right or to enforce such a Security Interest; or |
(b) | as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset comprised in such a Security Interest or for any reduction (however caused) in the value of such an asset, |
except that this does not exempt a Creditor Party or a receiver or manager from liability for losses shown to have been directly or mainly caused by the gross negligence, the dishonesty or the wilful misconduct of such Creditor Party’s own officers and employees or ( as the case may be) such receiver’s or manager’s own partners or employees.
19.9 | Relevant Persons |
In this Clause 19 “a Relevant Person” means the Borrower, an Owner and any company which is a subsidiary of the Borrower or an Owner.
19.10 | Interpretation |
In Clause 19.1(f) references to an event of default or a termination event include any event, howsoever described, which is similar to an event of default in a facility agreement or a termination event in a finance lease; and in Clause 19.1(g) “petition” includes an application.
19.11 | Position of Swap Bank |
Neither the Facility Agent nor the Security Trustee shall be obliged, in connection with any action taken or proposed to be taken under or pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Clause 19, to have any regard to the requirements of the Swap Bank except to the extent that the Swap Bank is also a Lender.
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20 | FEES AND EXPENSES |
20.1 | Commitment, arrangement and agency fees |
The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent the fees, each in the amounts, at the rates, and on the dates and to the Creditor Parties referred to in the Fee Letter.
20.2 | Costs of negotiation, preparation etc. |
The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent on its demand the amount of all expenses incurred by the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution or registration of any Finance Document or any related document (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any expenses incurred by the Lenders in obtaining the legal opinions referred to in Schedule 3) or with any transaction contemplated by a Finance Document or a related document.
20.3 | Costs of variations, amendments, enforcement etc. |
The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent, on the Facility Agent’s demand, for the account of the Creditor Party concerned, the amount of all expenses incurred by a Lender in connection with:
(a) | any amendment or supplement (or any proposal for such an amendment or supplement) requested (or, in the case of a proposal, made) by or on behalf of the Borrower and relating to a Finance Document or any other Pertinent Document; |
(b) | any consent, waiver or suspension of rights by the Lenders, the Swap Bank, the Majority Lenders or the Creditor Party concerned or any proposal for any of the foregoing requested (or, in the case of a proposal, made) by or on behalf of the Borrower under or in connection with a Finance Document or any other Pertinent Document; |
(c) | the valuation of any security provided or offered under Clause 15 or any other matter relating to such security; or |
(d) | any step taken by the Lender concerned or the Swap Bank with a view to the preservation, protection, exercise or enforcement of any rights or Security Interest created by a Finance Document or for any similar purpose including, without limitation, any proceedings to recover or retain proceeds of enforcement or any other proceedings following enforcement proceedings until the date all outstanding indebtedness to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents, the Master Agreement and any other Pertinent Document is repaid in full. |
There shall be recoverable under paragraph (d) the full amount of all legal expenses, whether or not such as would be allowed under rules of court or any taxation or other procedure carried out under such rules.
20.4 | Documentary taxes |
The Borrower shall promptly pay any tax payable on or by reference to any Finance Document, and shall, on the Facility Agent’s demand, fully indemnify each Creditor Party against any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses resulting from any failure or delay by the Borrower to pay such a tax.
20.5 | Certification of amounts |
A notice which is signed by two officers of a Creditor Party, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 20 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.
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21 | INDEMNITIES |
21.1 | Indemnities regarding borrowing and repayment of Loan |
The Borrower shall fully indemnify the Facility Agent and each Lender on the Facility Agent’s demand and the Security Trustee on its demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are made or brought against or incurred by that Creditor Party, or which that Creditor Party reasonably and with due diligence estimates that it will incur, as a result of or in connection with:
(a) | an Advance not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender claiming the indemnity after the Drawdown Notice has been served in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; |
(b) | the receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan or an overdue sum otherwise than on the last day of an Interest Period or other relevant period; |
(c) | any failure (for whatever reason) by the Borrower to make payment of any amount due under a Finance Document on the due date or, if so payable, on demand (after giving credit for any default interest paid by the Borrower on the amount concerned under Clause 7); and |
(d) | the occurrence and/or continuance of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default and/or the acceleration of repayment of the Loan under Clause 19, |
and in respect of any tax (other than tax on its overall net income) for which a Creditor Party is liable in connection with any amount paid or payable to that Creditor Party (whether for its own account or otherwise) under any Finance Document.
21.2 | Break Costs |
If a Lender (the “Notifying Lender”) notifies the Facility Agent that as a consequence of receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan (a “Payment”) on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable to the sum received or recovered the Notifying Lender has or will, with effect from a specified date, incur Break Costs:
(a) | the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of a notice it receives from a Notifying Lender under this Clause 21.2; |
(b) | the Borrower shall, within 3 Business Days of the Facility Agent’s demand, pay to the Facility Agent for the account of the Notifying Lender the amount of such Break Costs; and |
(c) | the Notifying Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, following a request by the Borrower, provide a certificate confirming the amount of the Notifying Lender’s Break Costs for the Interest Period in which they accrue, such certificate to be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive and binding on the Borrower. |
In this Clause 21.2, “Break Costs” means, in relation to a Payment the amount (if any) by which:
(i) | the interest which the Notifying Lender, should have received in respect of the sum received or recovered from the date of receipt or recovery of such Payment to the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable to the sum received or recovered had such Payment been made on the last day of such interest Period; |
exceeds
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(ii) | the amount which the Notifying Lender, would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to such Payment on deposit with a leading bank in the London Interbank Market for a period commencing on the Business Day following receipt or recovery of such Payment (as the case may be) and ending on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable to the sum received or recovered. |
21.3 | Other breakage costs |
Without limiting its generality, Clause 21.1 covers any claim, expense, liability or loss, including a loss of prospective profit, incurred by a Lender in borrowing, liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired, contracted for or arranged to fund, effect or maintain all or any part of its Contribution and/or any overdue amount (or an aggregate amount which includes its Contribution or any overdue amount) other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Creditor Party concerned.
21.4 | Miscellaneous indemnities |
The Borrower shall fully indemnify each Creditor Party severally on their respective demands, without prejudice to any of their other rights under any of the Finance Documents, in respect of all claims, proceedings, liabilities, taxes, losses and expenses of every kind which may be made or brought against or sustained or incurred by a Creditor Party, in any country, as a result of or in connection with:
(a) | any action taken, or omitted or neglected to be taken, under or in connection with any Finance Document by the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party or by any receiver appointed under a Finance Document; |
(b) | investigating any event which the Creditor Party concerned reasonably believes constitutes an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default; |
(c) | acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which the Creditor Party concerned reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; or |
(d) | any other Pertinent Matter, |
other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty, gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Creditor Party concerned.
Without prejudice to its generality, Clause 21.1 and this Clause 21.4 cover any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, the ISM Code, the ISPS Code or any Environmental Law.
21.5 | Environmental Indemnity |
Without prejudice to its generality, Clause 21.3 covers any claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, taxes, losses or expenses of every kind which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, pollution or the protection of the environment, the ISM Code or the ISPS Code.
21.6 | Currency indemnity |
If any sum due from the Borrower or any Security Party to a Creditor Party under a Finance Document or under any order, award or judgment relating to a Finance Document (a “Sum”) has to be converted from the currency in which the Finance Document provided for the Sum to be paid (the “Contractual Currency”) into another currency (the “Payment Currency”) for the purpose of:
(a) | making, filing or lodging any claim or proof against the Borrower or any Security Party, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or |
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(b) | obtaining an order, judgment or award from any court or other tribunal in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings; or |
(c) | enforcing any such order, judgment or award, |
the Borrower shall as an independent obligation, within 3 Business Days of demand, indemnify the Creditor Party to whom that Sum is due against any cost, loss or liability arising when the payment actually received by that Creditor Party is converted at the available rate of exchange back into the Contractual Currency including any discrepancy between (A) the rate of exchange actually used to convert the Sum from the Payment Currency into the Contractual Currency and (B) the available rate of exchange.
In this Clause 21.6, the “available rate of exchange” means the rate at which the Creditor Party concerned is able at the opening of business (London time) on the Business Day after it receives the Sum to purchase the Contractual Currency with the Payment Currency.
The Borrower waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.
If any Creditor Party receives any Sum in a currency other than the Contractual Currency, the Borrower shall indemnify the Creditor Party concerned against any cost, loss or liability arising directly or indirectly from any conversion of such Sum to the Contractual Currency.
This Clause 21.6 creates a separate liability of the Borrower which is distinct from its other liabilities under the Finance Documents and which shall not be merged in any judgment or order relating to those other liabilities.
21.7 | Application to Master Agreement |
For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 21.4 does not apply in respect of sums due from the Borrower to the Swap Bank under or in connection with the Master Agreement as to which sums the provisions of section 8 (Contractual Currency) of the Master Agreement shall apply.
21.8 | Certification of amounts |
A notice which is signed by 2 officers of a Creditor Party, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 21 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.
21.9 | Sums deemed due to a Lender |
For the purposes of this Clause 21, a sum payable by the Borrower to the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender.
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22 | NO SET-OFF OR TAX DEDUCTION |
22.1 | No deductions |
All amounts due from the Borrower under a Finance Document shall be paid:
(a) | without any form of set-off, counter-claim or condition; and |
(b) | free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which the Borrower is required by law to make. |
22.2 | Grossing-up for taxes |
If the Borrower is required by law, regulation or regulatory requirement to make a tax deduction from any payment due under a Finance Document:
(a) | the Borrower shall notify the Facility Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement; |
(b) | the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that, after the making of such tax deduction, each Creditor Party receives and retains (free from any liability relating to the tax deduction) a net amount which, after the tax deduction, is equal to the full amount which it would have received had no such tax deduction been required to be made; and |
(c) | the Borrower shall pay the full amount of the tax required to be deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly in accordance with the relevant law, regulation or regulatory requirement, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises. |
22.3 | Indemnity and evidence of payment of taxes |
The Borrower shall fully indemnify each Creditor Party on the Facility Agent’s demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses incurred by any Creditor Party by reason of:
(a) | any failure of the Borrower to make any tax deduction; or |
(b) | any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment in accordance with Clause 22.2; or |
(c) | without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 22.2, any payment on account of tax required to be made by a Creditor Party solely as a result of that Creditor Party’s entry into any Finance Document (not being a tax imposed on the net income of that Creditor Party by the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, or the jurisdiction in which it is located or on the capital of that Creditor Party employed in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions) on any sum received or receivable under the Finance Documents (including, without limitation, any sum received or receivable under this Clause 22.3) or any liability in respect of any such payment is asserted, imposed, levied or assessed against that Creditor Party. |
Within 30 days after making any tax deduction, the Borrower shall deliver to the Facility Agent any receipts, certificates or other documentary evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent that the tax had been paid to the appropriate taxation authority.
22.4 | Exclusion of tax on overall net income |
In this Clause 22 “tax deduction” means any deduction or withholding from any payment due under a Finance Document for or on account of any present or future tax except tax on a Creditor Party’s overall net income.
22.5 | Application to Master Agreement |
For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 22 does not apply in respect of sums due from the Borrower to the Swap Bank under or in connection with the Master Agreement as to which sums the provisions of section 2(d) (Deduction or Withholding for Tax) of the Master Agreement shall apply.
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22.6 | FATCA |
(a) | FATCA information |
(i) | Subject to paragraph (iii) below, each party to a Finance Document shall, within 10 Business Days of a reasonable request by another party to the Finance Documents: |
(A) | confirm to that other party whether it is a FATCA Exempt Party or is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and |
(B) | supply to the requesting party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable “passthru percentage” or other information required under the Treasury regulations or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as the requesting party reasonably requests for the purposes of such requesting party’s compliance with FATCA. |
(ii) | If a party to any Finance Document confirms to another party pursuant to Clause 22.5(a)(i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that party shall notify that other party reasonably promptly. |
(iii) | Sub-clause (i) above shall not oblige any Creditor Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation, any policy of that party, any fiduciary duty or any duty of confidentiality, or to disclose any confidential information (including, without limitation, its tax returns and calculations); provided, however, that information required (or equivalent to the information so required) by United States Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8 or W-9 (or any successor forms) shall not be treated as confidential information of such party for purposes of this Sub-clause (iii). |
(iv) | If a party to any Finance Document fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with sub-clause (i) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where sub-clause (iii) above applies), then: |
(A) | if that party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party then such party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and |
(B) | if that party failed to confirm its applicable passthru percentage then such party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made thereunder) as if its applicable passthru percentage is 100 per cent., |
until (in each case) such time as the party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.
(b) | FATCA Gross-Up |
(i) | If the Borrower or any Security Party making a payment under a Finance Document is required to make a FATCA Deduction, the Borrower or Security Party shall make that FATCA Deduction and shall make a payment to the United States government within the time allowed and in the amount required by FATCA. |
(ii) | If a FATCA Deduction is required to be made by the Borrower or any Security Party, the amount of the payment due from the Borrower or any Security Party shall be increased to an amount which (after making any FATCA Deductions) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no FATCA Deduction had been required. |
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(iii) | Each of the Borrower and the Security Parties shall promptly upon becoming aware that a FATCA Deduction is required (or that there is any change in the rate or basis of a FATCA Deduction) notify the Facility Agent accordingly. A Lender shall notify the Facility Agent on becoming aware that a FATCA Deduction (or that a change in the rate or basis of a FATCA Deduction) may be required on a payment to such Lender. |
(iv) | Within 30 days of making either a FATCA Deduction or any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, the Borrower or any Security Party, as applicable, shall deliver to the Facility Agent for the party entitled to the payment evidence reasonably satisfactory to that party that the FATCA Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the IRS. |
(v) | Each Creditor Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make under FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and none of the Creditor Parties shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction. A Creditor Party which becomes aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment to another party (or that there is any change in the rate or basis of such FATCA Deduction) shall notify that party and the Facility Agent. |
(vi) | If the Facility Agent is required to make a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment to a Creditor Party which relates to a payment by the Borrower or any Security Party, the amount of the payment due from the Borrower or Security Party, as the case may be, shall be increased to an amount which (after the Facility Agent has made such FATCA Deduction) leaves the Facility Agent with an amount equal to the payment which would have been made by the Facility Agent if no FATCA Deduction had been required. |
(vii) | The Facility Agent shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment to a Lender which relates to a payment by the Borrower or any Security Party (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such a FATCA Deduction) notify the Borrower and the relevant Lender. |
(c) | FATCA Indemnity |
(i) | The Borrower shall (within 3 Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent) indemnify each Creditor Party and pay to each such Creditor Party an amount equal to the taxes, losses, liabilities or costs which such Creditor Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly) suffered by such party as a result of the Borrower or any Security Party making a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment due to such Creditor Party under a Finance Document, or any taxes, penalties, interest or other amounts being asserted against or imposed on such Creditor Party by any taxing authority of or in the United States under FATCA. |
(ii) | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, if any Creditor Party is a FATCA Exempt Party, and after reasonable request of the Borrower at least 60 days prior to the next interest payment date, such Creditor Party has not provided the Borrower with written confirmation that it is a FATCA Exempt Party on or prior to the next Interest payment date after such request, then, unless the status of such party under FATCA is publicly published by the United States Government or is otherwise publicly available in connection with FATCA, the Borrower shall not be required to indemnify such Creditor Party for United States Federal taxes imposed under FATCA pursuant to this Clause 22.5 until such time as such Creditor Party shall have provided written notification of its status as a FATCA Exempt Party. |
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(iii) | A Creditor Party making, or intending to make, a claim under sub-clause (i) above shall promptly notify the Facility Agent of the FATCA Deduction which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower. |
(d) | No Double FATCA Indemnity |
This Clause 22.5 shall be the sole remedy for the payment of any United States Federal taxes imposed under FATCA and no such FATCA taxes shall be paid or indemnified under Clause 21 or any other sub-clause of Clause 22.
(e) | FATCA Mitigation |
(i) | If a FATCA Deduction is or will be required to be made by the Borrower under Clause 22.5(b) or (c) in respect of a payment to any FATCA Non-Exempt Lender, the Borrower may (but shall not be required to), in addition to making any FATCA Deductions already required and any associated gross-up and indemnity payments under this Clause 22.5, elect to either: |
(A) | Prepay in full the Contribution of the FATCA Non-Exempt Lender (plus accrued and unpaid interest, the Mandatory Cost, if any, and all other amounts then due the FATCA Non-Exempt Lender) in accordance with and subject to the conditions of Clause 8 upon 15 days’ written notice to the Facility Agent and such FATCA Non-Exempt Lender, specifying the amount to be prepaid, the date on which the prepayment is to be made and the basis for the FATCA Deduction, or |
(B) | if no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, nominate one or more Transferee Lenders who upon becoming a Lender would be an Exempt FATCA Party, by notice in writing to the Facility Agent and the FATCA Non-Exempt Lender specifying the terms of the proposed transfer, and, subject to sub-clause (ii) below, cause such Transferee Lender(s) to purchase all of the FATCA Non-Exempt Lender’s Contribution and Commitment. |
(ii) | If the Borrower elects to nominate one or more Transferee Lenders under Clause 22.5(e)(i)(B), the relevant FATCA Non-Exempt Lender shall transfer its Contribution and Commitment to such Transferee Lender(s), but only after such FATCA Non-Exempt Lender has received one or more payments from the Borrower and such Transferee Lender(s) in an aggregate amount at least equal to the aggregate outstanding Contribution of such FATCA Non-Exempt Lender, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of payment of such Contribution and all other amounts payable to such FATCA Non-Exempt Lender under the Finance Documents. |
(iii) | If a FATCA Deduction is or will be required to be made by the Borrower under Clause 22.5(b) or (c) in respect of a payment to any Creditor Party as a result of the Facility Agent not being a FATCA Exempt Party, at the written request of the Creditor Party, the Facility Agent shall resign and a successor Facility Agent who is a FATCA Exempt Party shall be appointed pursuant to the Agency and Trust Deed. |
22.7 | Stamp taxes |
The Borrower must pay and indemnify each Creditor Party against any stamp duty, registration or other similar Tax payable by that Creditor Party in connection with the entry into, performance or enforcement of any Finance Document.
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22.8 | Value added taxes |
Any amount (including costs and expenses) payable under a Finance Document by the Borrower is exclusive of any value added tax or any other tax of a similar nature which might be chargeable in connection with that amount. If any such tax is chargeable, the Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent (in addition to and at the same time as paying that amount) an amount equal to the amount of that tax.
23 | ILLEGALITY, ETC |
23.1 | Illegality |
This Clause 23 applies if a Lender (the “Notifying Lender”) notifies the Facility Agent that it has become, or will with effect from a specified date, become:
(a) | unlawful or prohibited as a result of the introduction of a new law, an amendment to an existing law or a change in the manner in which an existing law is or will be interpreted or applied; or |
(b) | contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation, |
for the Notifying Lender to perform, maintain or give effect to any of its obligations under this Agreement in the manner contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain the Loan.
23.2 | Notification of illegality |
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and the other Lenders of the notice under Clause 23.1 which the Facility Agent receives from the Notifying Lender.
23.3 | Prepayment; termination of Commitment |
On the Facility Agent notifying the Borrower under Clause 23.2, the Notifying Lender’s Commitment shall terminate; and thereupon or, if later, on the date specified in the Notifying Lender’s notice under Clause 23.1 as the date on which the notified event would become effective the Borrower shall prepay the Notifying Lender’s Contribution on the last day of the then current Interest Period accordance with Clause 8.
24 | INCREASED COSTS |
24.1 | Increased costs |
This Clause 24 applies if a Lender (the “Notifying Lender”) notifies the Facility Agent that the Notifying Lender considers that as a result of:
(a) | the introduction or alteration after the date of this Agreement of a law or an alteration after the date of this Agreement in the manner in which a law is interpreted or applied (disregarding any effect which relates to the application to payments under this Agreement of a tax on a Lender’s overall net income); or |
(b) | complying with any regulation (including any which relates to capital adequacy or liquidity controls or which affects the manner in which the Notifying Lender allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement) which is introduced, or altered, or the interpretation or application of which is altered, after the date of this Agreement; or |
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(c) | the implementation or application of or compliance with: |
(i) | the “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004 (“Basel II”) or any other law or regulation which implements Basel II (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator or the Notifying Lender or a parent company or affiliate of it; or |
(ii) | the “Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems”, “Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring” and “Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010 (“Basel III”) or any other law or regulation which implements Basel III (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator or the Notifying Lender or a parent company or affiliate of it), |
(d) | in each case when compared to the cost of complying with such regulations as determined by the Notifying Lender (or parent company or affiliate of it) on the date of this Agreement (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, supervisory authority, the Notifying Lender or its holding company), |
the Notifying Lender (or a parent company or affiliate of it) has incurred or will incur an “increased cost”.
24.2 | Meaning of “increased costs” |
In this Clause 24, “increased costs” means, in relation to a Notifying Lender:
(a) | an additional or increased cost incurred as a result of, or in connection with, the Notifying Lender having entered into, or being a party to, this Agreement or a Transfer Certificate or an Additional Lender’s Certificate or having taken an assignment of rights under this Agreement, of funding or maintaining its Commitment or Contribution or performing its obligations under this Agreement, or of having outstanding all or any part of its Contribution or other unpaid sums; |
(b) | a reduction in the amount of any payment to the Notifying Lender under this Agreement or in the effective return which such a payment represents to the Notifying Lender or on its capital; |
(c) | an additional or increased cost of funding all or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including the Notifying Lender’s Contribution or (as the case may require) the proportion of that cost attributable to the Contribution; or |
(d) | a liability to make a payment, or a return foregone, which is calculated by reference to any amounts received or receivable by the Notifying Lender under this Agreement, |
but not an item attributable to a change in the rate of tax on the overall net income of the Notifying Lender (or a parent company or affiliate of it) or an item covered by the indemnity for tax in Clause 21.1 or by Clause 22.
For the purposes of this Clause 24.2 the Notifying Lender may in good faith allocate or spread costs and/or losses among its assets and liabilities (or any class of its assets and liabilities) on such basis as it considers appropriate.
24.3 | Notification to Borrower of claim for increased costs |
The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Security Parties of the notice which the Facility Agent received from the Notifying Lender under Clause 24.1.
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24.4 | Payment of increased costs |
The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent, on the Facility Agent’s demand, for the account of the Notifying Lender the amounts which the Facility Agent from time to time notifies the Borrower that the Notifying Lender has specified to be necessary to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost.
24.5 | Notice of prepayment |
If the Borrower is not willing to continue to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost under Clause 24.4, the Borrower may give the Facility Agent not less than 15 days’ notice of its intention to prepay the Notifying Lender’s Contribution at the end of an Interest Period.
24.6 | Prepayment; termination of Commitment |
A notice under Clause 24.5 shall be irrevocable; the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Notifying Lender of the Borrower’s notice of intended prepayment; and:
(a) | on the date on which the Facility Agent serves that notice, the Commitment of the Notifying Lender shall be cancelled; and |
(b) | on the date specified in its notice of intended prepayment, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Notifying Lender’s Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin. |
24.7 | Application of prepayment |
Clause 8 shall apply in relation to the prepayment.
25 | SET-OFF |
25.1 | Application of credit balances |
Each Creditor Party may following the occurrence of an Event of Default and without prior notice:
(a) | apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of the Borrower at any office in any country of that Creditor Party in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from the Borrower to that Creditor Party under any of the Finance Documents; and |
(b) | for that purpose: |
(i) | break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of the Borrower; |
(ii) | convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars; and |
(iii) | enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Creditor Party concerned considers appropriate. |
25.2 | Existing rights unaffected |
No Creditor Party shall be obliged to exercise any of its rights under Clause 25.1; and those rights shall be without prejudice and in addition to any right of set-off, combination of accounts, charge, lien or other right or remedy to which a Creditor Party is entitled (whether under the general law or any document).
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25.3 | Sums deemed due to a Lender |
For the purposes of this Clause 25, a sum payable by the Borrower to the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to, or for the account of, a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender; and each Lender’s proportion of a sum so payable for distribution to, or for the account of, the Lenders shall be treated as a sum due to such Lender.
25.4 | No Security Interest |
This Clause 25 gives the Creditor Parties a contractual right of set-off only, and does not create any equitable charge or other Security Interest over any credit balance of the Borrower.
26 | TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICES |
26.1 | Transfer by the Borrower |
The Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights, liabilities or obligations under any Finance Document.
26.2 | Transfer by a Lender |
Subject to Clause 26.4, a Lender (the “Transferor Lender”) may, at any time, cause:
(a) | its rights in respect of all or part of its Contribution; or |
(b) | its obligations in respect of all or part of its Commitment; or |
(c) | a combination of (a) and (b); or |
(d) | all or part of its credit risk under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, |
to be syndicated to or, (in the case of its rights) assigned, pledged or transferred to, or (in the case of its obligations) pledged or assumed by, any third party (a “Transferee Lender”) by delivering to the Facility Agent a completed certificate in the form set out in Schedule 4 with any modifications approved or required by the Facility Agent (a “Transfer Certificate”) executed by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender.
However any rights and obligations of the Transferor Lender in its capacity as Facility Agent or Security Trustee will have to be dealt with separately in accordance with the Agency and Trust Agreement. All costs and expenses relating to a transfer effected pursuant to this Clause 26.2 shall be borne by the Transferee Lender.
A transfer pursuant to this Clause 26.2 shall:
(i) | be effected without the consent of the Borrower: |
(1) | following the occurrence of an Event of Default; |
(2) | if such transfer is to a subsidiary or any other company or financial institution which is in the same ownership or control as one of the Lenders; and |
(ii) | in all other circumstances, require the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) which should be provided within 10 days otherwise such consent shall be deemed to have been provided. |
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26.3 | Transfer Certificate, delivery and notification |
As soon as reasonably practicable after a Transfer Certificate is delivered to the Facility Agent, it shall (unless it has reason to believe that the Transfer Certificate may be defective):
(a) | ensure that all relevant “know your customer” requirements in connection with the Transferee Lender are complied with under all applicable laws and regulations and shall promptly notify the other Lenders and the Transferee Lender accordingly; |
(b) | sign the Transfer Certificate on behalf of itself the Borrower, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and each of the other Lenders and the Swap Bank; |
(c) | on behalf of the Transferee Lender, send to the Borrower and each Security Party letters or faxes notifying them of the Transfer Certificate and attaching a copy of it; and |
(d) | send to the Transferee Lender copies of the letters or faxes sent under paragraph (b) above. |
26.4 | Effective Date of Transfer Certificate |
A Transfer Certificate becomes effective on the date, if any, specified in the Transfer Certificate as its effective date Provided that it is signed by the Facility Agent under Clause 26.3 on or before that date.
26.5 | No transfer without Transfer Certificate |
No assignment or transfer of any right or obligation of a Lender under any Finance Document is binding on, or effective in relation to, the Borrower, any Security Party, the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee unless it is effected, evidenced or perfected by a Transfer Certificate.
26.6 | Lender re-organisation; waiver of Transfer Certificate |
However, if a Lender enters into any merger, de-merger or other reorganisation as a result of which all its rights or obligations vest in another person (the “successor”), the Facility Agent may, if it sees fit, by notice to the successor and the Borrower and the Security Trustee waive the need for the execution and delivery of a Transfer Certificate; and, upon service of the Facility Agent’s notice, the successor shall become a Lender with the same Commitment and Contribution as were held by the predecessor Lender.
26.7 | Effect of Transfer Certificate |
A Transfer Certificate takes effect in accordance with English law as follows:
(a) | to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate, all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor Lender has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) are assigned to the Transferee Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the Transferor Lender’s title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower or any Security Party had against the Transferor Lender; |
(b) | the Transferor Lender’s Commitment is discharged to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate; |
(c) | the Transferee Lender becomes a Lender with the Contribution previously held by the Transferor Lender and a Commitment of an amount specified in the Transfer Certificate; |
(d) | the Transferee Lender becomes bound by all the provisions of the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including those about pro-rata sharing and the exclusion of liability on the part of, and the indemnification of, the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee and, to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes bound by those provisions (other than those relating to exclusion of liability), the Transferor Lender ceases to be bound by them; |
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(e) | any part of the Loan which the Transferee Lender advances after the Transfer Certificate’s effective date ranks in point of priority and security in the same way as it would have ranked had it been advanced by the transferor, assuming that any defects in the transferor’s title and any rights or equities of the Borrower or any Security Party against the Transferor Lender had not existed; |
(f) | the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to all the rights under the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including but not limited to those relating to the Majority Lenders and those under Clause 5.7 and Clause 20, and to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to such rights, the Transferor Lender ceases to be entitled to them; and |
(g) | in respect of any breach of a warranty, undertaking, condition or other provision of a Finance Document or any misrepresentation made in or in connection with a Finance Document (other than the Maser Agreement), the Transferee Lender shall be entitled to recover damages by reference to the loss incurred by it as a result of the breach or misrepresentation, irrespective of whether the original Lender would have incurred a loss of that kind or amount. |
The rights and equities of the Borrower or any Security Party referred to above include, but are not limited to, any right of set off and any other kind of cross-claim.
26.8 | Maintenance of register of Lenders |
During the Security Period the Facility Agent shall maintain a register in which it shall record the name, Commitment, Contribution and administrative details (including the lending office) from time to time of each Lender holding a Transfer Certificate and each Additional Lender and the effective date (in accordance with Clause 26.4 or, as the case may be, Clause 2.5) of the Transfer Certificate or, as the case may be, each Additional Lender’s Certificate; and the Facility Agent shall make the register available for inspection by any Lender, the Security Trustee and the Borrower during normal banking hours, subject to receiving at least 3 Business Days prior notice.
26.9 | Reliance on register of Lenders |
The entries on that register shall, in, the absence of manifest error, be conclusive in determining the identities of the Lenders and the amounts of their Commitments and Contributions and the effective dates of Transfer Certificates or, as the case may be, each Additional Lender’s Certificate and may be relied upon by the Facility Agent and the other parties to the Finance Documents for all purposes relating to the Finance Documents.
26.10 | Authorisation of Facility Agent and conditions to sign Transfer Certificates |
The Borrower, the Security Trustee, each Lender and the Swap Bank irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent to sign Transfer Certificates on its behalf. The Borrower and each Security Party irrevocably agree to the transfer procedures set out in this Clause 26 and to the extent the cooperation of the Borrower and/or any Security Party shall be required to effect any such transfer, the Borrower and such Security Party shall take all necessary steps to afford such cooperation.
The Facility Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate as soon as it is satisfied that ail “know your customer” requirements are complied with under all applicable laws and regulations in connection with the Transferee Lender.
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26.11 | Registration fee |
In respect of any Transfer Certificate, the Facility Agent shall be entitled to recover a registration fee of $2,500 from the Transferor Lender or (at the Facility Agent’s option) the Transferee Lender.
26.12 | Sub-participation; subrogation assignment |
A Lender may sub-participate all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) without the consent of, or any notice to, the Borrower, any Security Party, the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party; and the Lenders may assign, in any manner and terms agreed by the Majority Lenders, the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee, all or any part of those rights to an insurer or surety who has become subrogated to them.
26.13 | Disclosure of information |
A Lender may, without the prior consent of the Borrower or any Security Party, disclose to:
(a) | a potential Transferee Lender or sub participant as well as, where relevant, to rating agencies, trustees and accountants; |
(b) | any person to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation; |
(c) | to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes; or |
(d) | to whom or for whose benefit that Lender charges, assigns or otherwise creates a Security Interest (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 26.16, |
any financial or other information which that Lender has received in relation to the Loan, the Borrower, any Security Party or their affairs and collateral or security provided under or in connection with any Finance Document, their financial circumstances and any other information whatsoever, as that Lender may deem reasonably necessary or appropriate in connection with the potential syndication, the assessment of the credit risk and the ongoing monitoring of the Loan by any potential Transferee Lender and that Lender shall be released from its obligation of secrecy and from banking confidentiality. The Lender concerned and the Borrower shall require that any such potential Transferee Lender, sub-participant, rating agency, trustee or accountant signs a confidentiality agreement. The Borrower shall, and shall procure that any other Security Party shall:
(i) | provide the Creditor Parties (or any of them) with all information deemed, reasonably, necessary by the Creditor Parties (or any of them) for the purposes of any transfer or sub-participation to be effected pursuant to this Clause 26; |
(ii) | procure that the directors and offices of the Borrower or any Security Party are available to participate in any meeting with any Transferee Lender or any rating agency at such times and places as the Creditor Parties may reasonably request on notice (to be served on the Borrower reasonably in advance) to the Borrower or that Security Party; and |
(iii) | permit any Transferee Lender to board any Ship at all reasonable times to inspect its condition with reasonable notice to the Borrower (after taking into consideration the relevant Ship’s schedule). |
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26.14 | Change of lending office |
A Lender may change its lending office by giving notice to the Facility Agent and the change shall become effective on the later of:
(a) | the date on which the Facility Agent receives the notice; and |
(b) | the date, if any, specified in the notice as the date on which the change will come into effect. |
26.15 | Notification |
On receiving such a notice, the Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Security Trustee; and, until the Facility Agent receives such a notice, it shall be entitled to assume that a Lender is acting through the lending office of which the Facility Agent last had notice.
26.16 | Security over Lenders’ rights |
In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 26, each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from the Borrower or any Security Party at any time charge, assign or otherwise create a Security Interest in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document (other than the Master Agreement) to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation:
(a) | any charge, assignment or other Security interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and |
(b) | in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities; |
except that no such charge, assignment or Security Interest shall:
(i) | release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security Interest for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or |
(ii) | require any payments to be made by the Borrower or any Security Party or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents. |
26.17 | Replacement of Reference Bank |
If the Reference Bank ceases to be a Lender or is unable on a continuing basis to supply quotations for the purposes of Clause 5 then, unless the Borrower, the Facility Agent and the Majority Lenders otherwise agree, the Facility Agent, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, and after consulting the Borrower, shall appoint another bank (whether or not a Lender) to be a replacement Reference Bank; and, when that appointment comes into effect, the first-mentioned Reference Bank’s appointment shall cease to be effective.
27 | VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS |
27.1 | Required consents |
(a) | Subject to Clause 27.2 (Exceptions) any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Creditor Parties and the Borrower. |
(b) | Any instructions given by the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Creditor Parties. |
(c) | The Facility Agent may effect, on behalf of any Creditor Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause. |
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27.2 | Exceptions |
(a) | However, Clause 27.1 applies as if the words “the Majority Lenders” were replaced therein by the words “all Lenders” as regards an amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which relates to: |
(i) | the definition of “Majority Lenders” or “Finance Documents” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions); |
(ii) | an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents; |
(iii) | a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest fees, commission or other amount payable under any of the Finance Documents; |
(iv) | an increase in or an extension of any Lender’s Commitment; |
(v) | any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders; or |
(vi) | Clause 3 (Position of the Lenders and Swap Bank), Clause 11.5, 11.6 and 11.7, Clause 26 (Transfers and Changes in Lending Offices) or this Clause 27.2; |
(vii) | any release of any Security Interest, guarantee, indemnities or subordination arrangement created by any Finance Document; |
(viii) | any change of the currency in which the Loan is provided or any amount is payable under any of the Finance Documents; |
(ix) | extend the Availability Period; and |
(x) | change Clauses 22 (grossing-up) and 16.4 (distribution of payment to Creditor Parties). |
(b) | an amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Facility Agent, the Arranger or the Security Trustee may not be effected without the consent of the Facility Agent, the Arranger or the Security Trustee, as the case may be. |
27.3 | Exclusion of other or implied variations |
Except for a document which satisfies the requirements of Clauses 27.1 and 27.2, no document, and no act, course of conduct, failure or neglect to act, delay or acquiescence on the part of the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of them) shall result in the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of them) being taken to have varied, waived, suspended or limited, or being precluded (permanently or temporarily) from enforcing, relying on or exercising:
(a) | a provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; or |
(b) | an Event of Default; or |
(c) | a breach by the Borrower or a Security Party of an obligation under a Finance Document or the general law; or |
(d) | any right or remedy conferred by any Finance Document or by the general law, |
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and there shall not be implied into any Finance Document any term or condition requiring any such provision to be enforced, or such right or remedy to be exercised, within a certain or reasonable time.
28 | NOTICES |
28.1 | General |
Unless otherwise specifically provided, any notice under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be given by letter or fax; and references in the Finance Documents to written notices, notices in writing and notices signed by particular persons shall be construed accordingly.
28.2 | Addresses for communications |
A notice shall be sent:
(a) to the Borrower: |
Capital Product Partners L.P c/o Capital Ship Management Corp. 3 lassonos Xxxxxx 000 00 - Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | |
Fax No: x00 000 0000 000 for the attention of the Chief Financial Officer | ||
(b) to a Lender: |
at the address below its name in Schedule 1 or (as the case may require) in the relevant Transfer Certificate or the relevant Additional Lender’s Certificate. | |
(c) to the Swap Bank: |
ING Bank N.V. Foppingadreef 7 XX Xxx 0000, XX-0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | |
Fax No: x00 00 000 0000 and (additionally) x00 00 000 0000 | ||
Attn: Operations/Derivatives/TRC 00.13, Financial Markets/Operations/Forex/Money Markets TRC 01.003 and Head of Legal Financial Markets | ||
(d) to the Facility Agent and Security Trustee: |
ING Bank N.V., London Branch 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX Xxxxxxx | |
Fax No: x00 000 000 0000 |
or to such other address as the relevant party may notify the Facility Agent or, if the relevant party is the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Security Parties.
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28.3 | Effective date of notices |
Subject to Clauses 28.4 and 28.5:
(a) | a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered; and |
(b) | a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, 2 hours after its transmission is completed. |
28.4 | Service outside business hours |
However, if under Clause 28.3 a notice would be deemed to be served:
(a) | on a day which is not a business day in the place of receipt; or |
(b) | on such a business day, but after 5 p.m. local time, |
the notice shall (subject to Clause 28.5) be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at 9 a.m. on the next day which is such a business day.
28.5 | Illegible notices |
Clauses 28.3 and 28.4 do not apply if the recipient of a notice notifies the sender within one hour after the time at which the notice would otherwise be deemed to be served that the notice has been received in a form which is illegible in a material respect.
28.6 | Valid notices |
A notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall not be invalid by reason that its contents or the manner of serving it do not comply with the requirements of this Agreement or, where appropriate, any other Finance Document under which it is served if:
(a) | the failure to serve it in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or other Finance Document, as the case may be, has not caused any party to suffer any significant loss or prejudice; or |
(b) | in the case of incorrect and/or incomplete contents, it should have been reasonably clear to the party on which the notice was served what the correct or missing particulars should have been. |
28.7 | Electronic communication |
Any communication to be made between the Facility Agent and a Lender or Swap Bank under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means, if the Facility Agent and the relevant Creditor Party:
(a) | agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication; |
(b) | notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and |
(c) | notify each other of any change to their respective addresses or any other such information supplied to them. |
Any electronic communication made between the Facility Agent and a Lender or the Swap Bank will be effective only when actually received in readable form and, in the case of any electronic communication made by a, Creditor Party to the Facility Agent, only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Facility Agent shall specify for this purpose.
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28.8 | English language |
Any notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall be in English.
28.9 | Meaning of “notice” |
In this Clause 28, “notice” includes any demand, consent, authorisation, approval, instruction, waiver or other communication.
29 | SUPPLEMENTAL |
29.1 | Rights cumulative, non-exclusive |
The rights and remedies which the Finance Documents give to each Creditor Party are:
(a) | cumulative; |
(b) | may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and |
(c) | shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so, be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law. |
29.2 | Severability of provisions |
If any provision of a Finance Document is or subsequently becomes void, unenforceable or illegal, that shall not affect the validity, enforceability or legality of the other provisions of that Finance Document or of the provisions of any other Finance Document.
29.3 | Third party rights |
A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
29.4 | Benefit and binding effect |
The terms of this Agreement shall be binding upon, and shall enure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective (including subsequent) successors and permitted assigns and transferees.
30 | LAW AND JURISDICTION |
30.1 | English law |
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
30.2 | Exclusive English jurisdiction |
Subject to Clause 30.3, the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any Dispute.
30.3 | Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties |
Clause 30.2 is for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties, each of which reserves the right:
(a) | to commence proceedings in relation to any Dispute in the courts of any country other than England and which have or claim jurisdiction to that Dispute; and |
(b) | to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing proceedings in England. |
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The Borrower shall not commence any proceedings in any country other than England in relation to a Dispute.
30.4 | Process agent |
The Borrower irrevocably appoints Curzon Maritime Ltd. at its office for the time being, presently at 00/00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xx. Xxxxx House, London EC3N 1DJ, England, to act as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf any process or other document relating to any proceedings in the English courts which are connected with a Dispute.
30.5 | Creditor Party rights unaffected |
Nothing in this Clause 30 shall exclude or limit any right which any Creditor Party may have (whether under the law of any country, an international convention or otherwise) with regard to the bringing of proceedings, the service of process, the recognition or enforcement of a judgment or any similar or related matter in any jurisdiction.
30.6 | Meaning of “proceedings” |
In this Clause 30, “proceedings” means proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure and a “Dispute” means any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement) or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.
THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 1
LENDERS AND COMMITMENTS
Lender | Lending Office | Commitment ($) |
Percentage of Commitments (%) |
Percentage of Total and after, availability (%) |
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ING Bank N.V., London Branch |
00 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX Xxxxxxx |
100,000,000 | 66.66 | 44.4444444444444 | ||||||||||
HSH Nordbank XX |
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00 00000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
50,000,000 | 33.33 | 22.2222222222222 | ||||||||||
National Bank of Greece S.A. |
0 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxx & Xxxx Xxxxxxx 000 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
25,000,000 | 11.1111111111111 | |||||||||||
Skandinaviska Enskilda Xxxxxx XX (publ) |
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 0 XX-000 00 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
50,000,000 | 22.2222222222222 |
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SCHEDULE 2
DRAWDOWN NOTICE
To: | ING BANK N.V., London Branch |
00 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX
Xxxxxxx
Attention: [Loans Administration]
DRAWDOWN NOTICE
1 | We refer to the loan agreement (as amended and restated on [—] 2013, the “Loan Agreement”) dated [—] 2013 and made between us, as Borrower, the Lenders referred to therein, ING Bank N.V. as Swap Bank, yourselves and HSH Nordbank AG as Mandated Lead Arrangers and yourselves as Facility Agent and Security Trustee and in connection with a term loan facility of up to US$225,000,000 in aggregate. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown Notice. |
2 | We request to borrow an Advance under Tranche B as follows: |
(a) | Amount: US$[ ]; |
(b) | Drawdown Date: [ ]; |
(c) | Duration of the first Interest Period shall be [ ] months; |
(d) | Payment instructions: account of [ ] and numbered [ ] with [ ] of [ ]. |
3 | We represent and warrant that: |
(a) | the representations and warranties in Clause 10 of the Loan Agreement would remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this notice with reference to the circumstances now existing; and |
(b) | no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the Loan. |
4 | This notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders. |
5 | [We authorise you to deduct any facility fees referred to in Clause 20.1 from the amount of the Advance]. |
Attorney-in-Fact
for and on behalf of
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SCHEDULE 3
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS
PART A
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(a) required before the date of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement.
1 | A duly executed original of each of: |
(a) | the Deed of Amendment and Restatement; |
(b) | each Mortgage Addendum; |
(c) | the Guarantee Confirmations; and |
(d) | any Additional Transfer Certificates. |
2 | Copies of resolutions of the directors of the Borrower and the directors and shareholders of each Existing Owner authorising the execution of the Deed of Amendment and Restatement and, in the case of each Existing Owner, the Mortgage Addendum and the Guarantee Confirmation to which it is a party. |
3 | The original of any power of attorney under which the Deed of Amendment and Restatement, each Mortgage Addendum and each Guarantee Confirmation is executed on behalf of the Borrower or the applicable Existing Owner. |
4 | Copies of all consents which the Borrower or any Existing Owner requires to enter into the Deed of Amendment and Restatement and, in the case of the Existing Owners, the Mortgage Addendum and the Guarantee Confirmation to which each is a party. |
5 | Documentary evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent that each Mortgage Addendum has been duly recorded against the relevant Existing Ship as a valid addendum to the Mortgage over that Existing Ship according to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State. |
6 | Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Facility Agent on such matters concerning the laws of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, Liberia and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Facility Agent may require. |
7 | If the Facility Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Facility Agent. |
PART B
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(b) required before the Drawdown Date of each Advance under Tranche B.
In Part B of Schedule 3, the following definitions shall have the following meanings:
“Relevant Owner” means the owner of the Relevant Ship; and
“Relevant Ship” means, in relation to each Advance under Tranche B, the Additional Ship in respect of such Advance.
1 | Copies of resolutions of the shareholders and directors of each Relevant Owner and the Borrower authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents to which such Owner |
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is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, approving the borrowing of the relevant Advance and authorising named directors or attorneys to give the Drawdown Notices and other notices under this Agreement. |
2 | The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document is executed on behalf of the Relevant Owner. |
3 | Copies of all consents which each Relevant Owner or the Borrower requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Finance Document. |
4 | A duly executed original of the Guarantee of the Relevant Owner and of the Mortgage and the General Assignment relative to the Relevant Ship, the Owner’s Earnings Account Pledge and of each document to be delivered pursuant to each such Finance Document. |
5 | A duly executed original of a Charterparty Assignment or, if applicable, a Bareboat Charter Security Agreement in respect of the Relevant Ship and of each document to be delivered pursuant to each such Finance Document. |
6 | Evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent that the Relevant Owner is a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Borrower. |
7 | The originals of any documents required in connection with the opening of the Earnings Account in respect of the Relevant Ship. |
8 | Documentary evidence that: |
(a) | the Relevant Ship is registered in the ownership of the Relevant Owner under an Approved Flag; |
(b) | the Relevant Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Relevant Owner save as contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
(c) | the Relevant Ship maintains the highest available class with an Approved Classification Society as the Facility Agent may approve free of all overdue recommendations and conditions of such classification society; |
(d) | the Mortgage relating to the Relevant Ship has been duly registered or recorded against the Relevant Ship as a valid first preferred ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of the relevant Approved Flag State; and |
(e) | the Relevant Ship is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with. |
9 | A copy of the Management Agreement and a duly executed original of the Approved Manager’s Undertaking in relation to the Relevant Ship. |
10 | Copies of: |
(a) | the document of compliance (DOC) and safety management certificate (SMC) referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of the ISM Code Documentation in respect of the Relevant Ship and the Approved Manager certified as true and in effect by the Relevant Owner; and |
(b) | the ISPS Code Documentation in respect of the Relevant Ship and the Relevant Owner certified as true and in effect by the Relevant Owner. |
11 | Two valuations (at the cost of the Borrower) of the Relevant Ship, addressed to the Facility Agent, stated to be for the purposes of this Agreement and dated not earlier than 4 weeks before the Drawdown Date relative to the relevant Advance, each from an Approved Broker (such valuations to be made in accordance with Clause 15.4). |
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12 | A survey report in respect of the Relevant Ship prepared (at the cost of the Borrower) by an independent marine surveyor appointed by the Facility Agent dated no later than 20 days prior to the Drawdown Date of the relevant Advance in form, scope and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent and its technical advisers. |
13 | At the cost of the Borrower, a favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Lenders on such matters relating to the insurances for each Relevant Ship as the Facility Agent may require. |
14 | Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Lender on such matters concerning the laws of the Approved Flag State in which the Relevant Ship is registered and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Facility Agent may require. |
15 | If the Facility Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Facility Agent. |
Every copy document delivered under this Schedule shall be certified as a true and up to date copy by a director or the secretary (or equivalent officer) of the Borrower.
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SCHEDULE 4
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
The Transferor and the Transferee accept exclusive responsibility for ensuring that this Certificate and the transaction to which it relates comply with all legal and regulatory requirements applicable to them respectively.
To: | ING BANK N.V., London Branch for itself and for and on behalf of the Borrower, each Security Party, the Security Trustee and each Lender, as defined in the Loan Agreement referred to below. |
[ ] 201[ ]
1 | This Certificate relates to a Loan Agreement (as amended and restated on [—] 2013, the “Loan Agreement”) dated [—] 2013 and made between (1) Capital Product Partners L.P. (the “Borrower”), (2) the banks and financial institutions named therein, (3) ING Bank N.V. as Swap Bank, (4) ING Bank N.V., London Branch and HSH Nordbank AG as Mandated Lead Arrangers and (5) ING Bank N.V., London Branch as Facility Agent and Security Trustee and, for a term loan facility of up to US$225,000,000 in aggregate. |
2 | In this Certificate: |
“the Relevant Parties” means the Facility Agent, the Borrower, [each Security Party], the Security Trustee, and each Lender;
“the Transferor” means [full name] of [lending office];
“the Transferee” means [full name] of [lending office].
Terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meanings when used in this Certificate.
3 | The effective date of this Certificate is ………201[ ] Provided that this Certificate shall not come into effect unless it is signed by the Facility Agent on or before that date. |
4 | The Transferor assigns to the Transferee absolutely all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor has as Lender under or by virtue of the Loan Agreement and every other Finance Document in relation to [ ] per cent. of the Contribution outstanding to the Transferor (or its predecessors in title) which is set out below: |
Contribution | Amount transferred | |
5 | By virtue of this Transfer Certificate and Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement, the Transferor is discharged [entirely from its Commitment which amounts to $[ ]] [from [ ] per cent. of its Commitment, which percentage represents $[ ]] and the Transferee acquires a Commitment of $[ ]. |
6 | The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the Relevant Parties that the Transferee will observe and perform all the obligations under the Finance Documents which Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement provides will become binding on it upon this Certificate taking effect. |
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7 | The Facility Agent, at the request of the Transferee (which request is hereby made) accepts, for the Facility Agent itself and for and on behalf of every other Relevant Party, this Certificate as a Transfer Certificate taking effect in accordance with Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement. |
8 | The Transferor: |
(a) | warrants to the Transferee and each Relevant Party: |
(i) | that the Transferor has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which are in connection with this transaction; and |
(ii) | that this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferor; |
(b) | warrants to the Transferee that the Transferor is absolutely entitled, free of encumbrances, to all the rights and interests covered by the assignment in paragraph 4 above; |
(c) | undertakes with the Transferee that the Transferor will, at its own expense, execute any documents which the Transferee reasonably requests for perfecting in any relevant jurisdiction the Transferee’s title under this Certificate or for a similar purpose. |
9 | The Transferee: |
(a) | confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement and each other Finance Document; |
(b) | agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against either the Transferor, the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee, any Lender in the event that: |
(i) | the Finance Documents prove to be invalid or ineffective, |
(ii) | the Borrower or any Security Party fails to observe or perform its obligations, or to discharge its liabilities, under the Finance Documents; |
(iii) | it proves impossible to realise any asset covered by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document, or the proceeds of such assets are insufficient to discharge the liabilities of the Borrower or Security Party under the Finance Documents; |
(c) | agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender in the event that this Certificate proves to be invalid or ineffective; |
(d) | warrants to the Transferor and each Relevant Party (i) that it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all official consents which it needs to take or obtain in connection with this transaction; and (ii) that this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferee; and |
(e) | confirms the accuracy of the administrative details set out below regarding the Transferee. |
10 | The Transferor and the Transferee each undertake with the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee severally, on demand, fully to indemnify the Facility Agent and/or the Security Trustee in respect of any claim, proceeding, liability or expense (including all legal expenses) which they or either of them may incur in connection with this Certificate or any matter arising out of it, except such as are shown to have been mainly and directly caused by the gross and culpable negligence or dishonesty of the Facility Agent’s or the Security Trustee’s own officers or employees. |
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11 | The Transferee shall repay to the Transferor on demand so much of any sum paid by the Transferor under paragraph 10 above as exceeds one-half of the amount demanded by the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee in respect of a claim, proceeding, liability or expense which was not reasonably foreseeable at the date of this Certificate; but nothing in this paragraph shall affect the liability of each of the Transferor and the Transferee to the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee for the full amount demanded by it. |
[Name of Transferor] |
[Name of Transferee] | |||
By: |
By: | |||
Date: |
Date: |
Facility Agent
Signed for itself and for and on behalf of itself as Facility Agent and for every other Relevant Party
ING Bank N.V., London Branch |
By: |
Date: |
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Administrative Details of Transferee
Name of Transferee:
Lending Office:
Contact Person
(Loan Administration Department):
Telephone:
Telex:
Fax:
Contact Person
(Credit Administration Department):
Telephone:
Telex:
Fax:
Account for payments:
Note: |
This Transfer Certificate alone may not be sufficient to transfer a proportionate share of the Transferor’s interest in the security constituted by the Finance Documents in the Transferor’s or Transferee’s jurisdiction. It is the responsibility of each Lender to ascertain whether any other documents are required for this purpose. |
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SCHEDULE 5
DESIGNATION NOTICE
To: |
c/o Capital Ship Management Corp.
3 lassonos Xxxxxx
000 00 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
- and -
[—] |
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[—] |
Dear Sirs
Loan Agreement dated [—] September 2013 (as amended and restated on [—] 2013) made between (inter alia) (i) yourselves as Borrower, (ii) the Lenders, (iii) ING Bank N.V., London Branch and HSH Nordbank AG as Mandated Lead Arrangers, (iv) ourselves as Swap Bank and (v) ING Bank N.V., London Branch as Facility Agent and Security Trustee in respect of a term loan facility of up to US$225,000,000 in aggregate (the “Loan Agreement”)
We refer to:
1 | the Loan Agreement; |
2 | the Master Agreement dated [—] made between ourselves and yourselves; and |
3 | a Confirmation delivered pursuant to the said Master Agreement dated [—] and addressed by [—] to us. |
In accordance with the terms of the Loan Agreement, we hereby give you notice of the said Confirmation and hereby confirm that the Transaction evidenced by it will be designated as a “Designated Transaction” for the purposes of the Loan Agreement and the Finance Documents.
Yours faithfully, |
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for and on behalf of |
ING BANK N.V. |
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SCHEDULE 6
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To: |
ING BANK N.V., London Branch 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX Xxxxxxx | |
From: |
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Dated: |
[—] |
Dear Sirs
USD225,000,000 Loan Agreement
dated [—] September 2013 (as amended and restated on [—] 2013, the “Agreement”)
1 | We refer to the Agreement. This is a Compliance Certificate and attached hereto are the calculations which will provide evidence of compliance. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Compliance Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Compliance Certificate. |
2 | We refer to clauses 12.5 and 15.1 of the Agreement and hereby certify that: |
(a) | Leverage Ratio |
Requirement: Leverage Ratio of not more than 72.50%.
Satisfied [YES] : [NO]
(b) | Minimum Liquidity |
Requirement: maintain on a consolidated basis liquidity in a minimum amount determined in accordance with Clause 12.5(c) of the Agreement.
Satisfied [YES] : [NO]
(c) | Interest Coverage |
Requirement: maintain a ratio of EBITDA to Net Interest Expenses on a trailing 4-quarter basis of not less than 2.00 to 1.00.
Satisfied [YES] : [NO]
(d) | Collateral Maintenance |
Requirement: Market Value of the Ships subject to a Mortgage is not less than 125% of the Loan.
Satisfied [YES] : [NO]
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3 | We confirm that no Event of Default is continuing and that no Event of Default would occur out of the distribution or dividend [made][to be made].1* |
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Chief Financial Officer | ||
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[name of auditors of the Company]2** |
1* | If this statement cannot be made, the certificate should identify any Event of Default that is continuing and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it. |
2** | Only applicable if the Compliance Certificate accompanies the audited financial statements and is to be signed by the auditors. To be agreed with the Company’s auditors prior to signing the Agreement. |
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SCHEDULE 7
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all men by these presents that [name of Owner] (the “Company”), a company incorporated in the [Liberia][Xxxxxxxx Islands] and having its registered address at [80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia][Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, The Xxxxxxxx Islands] irrevocably and by way of security appoints ING Bank N.V., London Branch (the “Attorney”) of 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx its attorney, to act in the name of the Company and to exercise any right, entitlement or power of the Company in relation to [name of classification society] (the “Classification Society”) and/or to the classification records of any vessel owned, controlled or operated by the Company including, without limitation, such powers or entitlement as the Company may have to inspect the class records and any files held by the Classification Society in relation to any such vessel and to require the Classification Society to provide to the Attorney or to any of its nominees any information, document or file which the Attorney may request
Ratification of actions of attorney. For the avoidance of doubt and without limiting the generality of the above, it is confirmed that the Company hereby ratifies any action which the Attorney takes or purports to take under this Power of Attorney and the Classification Society shall be entitled to rely hereon without further enquiry.
Delegation. The Attorney may exercise its powers hereunder through any officer or through any nominee and/or may sub-delegate to any person or persons (including a Receiver and persons designated by him) all or any of the powers (including the discretions) conferred on the Attorney hereunder, and may do so on terms authorising successive sub-delegations.
This Power of Attorney was executed by the Company as a Deed on [date].]
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acting by two directors or one director and the company secretary |
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SCHEDULE 8
ADDITIONAL LENDER’S CERTIFICATE
Each Existing Lender and the Additional Lender accept exclusive responsibility for ensuring that this Certificate and the transaction to which it relates comply with all legal and regulatory requirements applicable to them respectively.
To: | ING BANK N.V., London Branch for itself and for and on behalf of the Borrower, each Security Party, the Security Trustee and each Lender, as defined in the Loan Agreement referred to below. |
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1 | This Certificate relates to a Loan Agreement (as amended and restated on [—] 2013, the “Loan Agreement”) dated [—] 2013 and made between (1) Capital Product Partners L.P. (the “Borrower”), (2) the banks and financial institutions named therein, (3) ING Bank N.V. as Swap Bank, (4) ING Bank N.V., London Branch and HSH Nordbank AG as Mandated Lead Arrangers and (5) ING Bank N.V., London Branch as Facility Agent and Security Trustee and, for a term loan facility of up to US$225,000,000 in aggregate. |
2 | In this Certificate: |
“the Relevant Parties” means the Facility Agent, the Borrower, [each Security Party], the Security Trustee, and each Lender;
“the Existing Lenders” means [full name] of [lending office] and [full name] of [lending office];
“the Additional Lender” means [full name] of [lending office].
Terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meanings when used in this Certificate.
3 | The effective date of this Certificate is .........201[ ] Provided that this Certificate shall not come into effect unless it is signed by the Facility Agent on or before that date. |
4. | The Additional Lender agrees to become a party to the Loan Agreement and the Agency and Trust Agreement, in each case, as a Lender, to assume the same rights and obligations as the Existing Lenders thereunder and to be bound by their respective terms. |
5. | Subject to the provisions of the Loan Agreement, the Additional Lender agrees to make available to the Borrower its Commitment a proportion of which shall be used on the Increased Commitment Date to acquire part of each Existing Lender’s Contribution as set out in paragraph 6 below. |
6. | Each Existing Lender assigns to the Additional Lender absolutely all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which each Existing Lender has as Lender under or by virtue of the Loan Agreement and every other Finance Document in relation to [ ] per cent. of the Contribution outstanding to that Existing Lender (or its predecessors in title) which is set out below: |
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ING Bank N.V., London Branch $[—] |
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HSH Nordbank AG $[—] |
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7. | By virtue of this Additional Lender’s Certificate and Clause 2.1(b) of the Loan Agreement, and following the reduction of the existing Contributions pursuant to paragraph 6 above, each Existing Lender’s remaining Commitment shall be increased by an amount equal to the Contribution assigned by that Existing Lender to the Additional Lender on the same date. |
8. | The Additional Lender undertakes with each Existing Lender and each of the Relevant Parties it will observe and perform all the obligations under the Finance Documents which Clause 2 of the Loan Agreement provides will become binding on it upon this Certificate taking effect. |
9. | The Facility Agent, at the request of the Additional Lender (which request is hereby made) accepts, for the Facility Agent itself and for and on behalf of every other Relevant Party, this Certificate as the Additional Lender’s Certificate taking effect in accordance with Clause 2 of the Loan Agreement. |
10. | Each Existing Lender: |
(a) | warrants to the Additional Lender and each Relevant Party: |
(i) | that it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which are in connection with this transaction; and |
(ii) | that this Certificate is valid and binding as regards that Existing Lender; |
(b) | warrants to the Additional Lender that it is absolutely entitled, free of encumbrances, to all the rights and interests covered by the assignment in paragraph 6 above. |
11. | The Additional Lender: |
(a) | confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement and each other Finance Document; |
(b) | agrees, subject to the provisions of the Loan Agreement, to make available its Commitment; |
(c) | agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against either Existing Lender, the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee in the event that: |
(i) | the Finance Documents prove to be invalid or ineffective, |
(ii) | the Borrower or any Security Party fails to observe or perform its obligations, or to discharge its liabilities, under the Finance Documents; |
(iii) | it proves impossible to realise any asset covered by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document, or the proceeds of such assets are insufficient to discharge the liabilities of the Borrower or Security Party under the Finance Documents; |
(d) | agrees to fully indemnify each Existing Lender on its demand in respect of any breakage costs incurred by that Existing Lender if the Increased Commitment Date is not a date falling on the last day of an Interest Period or a Drawdown Date. |
(e) | agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender in the event that this Certificate proves to be invalid or ineffective; |
(f) | warrants to each Existing Lender and each Relevant Party (i) that it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all official consents which it needs to take or obtain in connection with this transaction; and (ii) that this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Additional Lender; and |
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(g) | confirms the accuracy of the administrative details set out below regarding the Additional Lender. |
12 | Each Existing Lender and the Additional Lender each undertake with the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee severally, on demand, fully to indemnify the Facility Agent and/or the Security Trustee in respect of any claim, proceeding, liability or expense (including all legal expenses) which they or any of them may incur in connection with this Certificate or any matter arising out of it, except such as are shown to have been mainly and directly caused by the gross and culpable negligence or dishonesty of the Facility Agent’s or the Security Trustee’s own officers or employees. |
13. | The Additional Lender shall repay to each Existing Lender on demand so much of any sum paid by that Existing Lender under paragraph 12 above as exceeds one-half of the amount demanded by the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee in respect of a claim, proceeding, liability or expense which was not reasonably foreseeable at the date of this Certificate; but nothing in this paragraph shall affect the liability of each of the Existing Lenders and the Additional Lender to the Facility Agent or the Security Trustee for the full amount demanded by it. |
[Name of Existing Lenders] |
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[Name of Existing Lenders] |
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Facility Agent
Signed for itself and for and on behalf of itself
as Facility Agent and for every other Relevant Party
ING Bank N.V., London Branch |
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EXECUTION PAGES
BORROWER | ||||||
SIGNED by Xxxxxx Kouleri |
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for and on behalf of |
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CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS L.P. |
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in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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LENDERS | ||||||
SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH | ) | |||||
in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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HSH NORDBANK AG | ) | |||||
in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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SWAP BANK | ||||||
SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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ING BANK N.V. | ) | |||||
in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH | ) | |||||
in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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HSH NORDBANK AG | ) | |||||
in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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FACILITY AGENT | ||||||
SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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/s/ Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ||||
ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH | ) |
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in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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SECURITY TRUSTEE | ||||||
SIGNED by Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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for and on behalf of |
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/s/ Xxxxxx Elektra X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ||||
ING BANK N.V., LONDON BRANCH | ) |
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in the presence of /s/ Ileana-Emmanouela Loudarou |
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