Dated 24 April 2015 TASMAN MARINE LLC, HUDSON MARINE LLC, DRAKE MARINE LLC, MERCATOR MARINE LLC and BARENTSZ MARINE LLC as joint and several Borrowers and POSEIDON CONTAINERS HOLDINGS LLC as Corporate Guarantor and THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS...
Exhibit 10.19
Dated 24 April 2015
TASMAN MARINE LLC,
XXXXXX MARINE LLC,
DRAKE MARINE LLC,
MERCATOR MARINE LLC and
BARENTSZ MARINE LLC
as joint and several Borrowers
and
POSEIDON CONTAINERS HOLDINGS LLC
as Corporate Guarantor
and
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
listed in Schedule 1
as Lenders
and
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.
as Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee
and
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.
as Swap Bank
AMENDING AND RESTATING AGREEMENT
relating to a loan facility of (originally) up to US$62,500,000
Index
Clause | Page | |||||
1 |
Interpretation |
2 | ||||
2 |
Agreement of Creditor Parties |
3 | ||||
3 |
Conditions Precedent |
4 | ||||
4 |
Representations and Warranties |
4 | ||||
5 |
Amendment of Loan Agreement |
5 | ||||
6 |
Further Assurances |
5 | ||||
7 |
Expenses |
6 | ||||
8 |
Notices |
6 | ||||
9 |
Supplemental |
7 | ||||
10 |
Law and Jurisdiction |
7 | ||||
Schedule 1 Lenders |
8 | |||||
Execution Page |
9 | |||||
Appendix Form of Amended and Restated Loan Agreement marked to indicate amendments to the Loan Agreement |
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THIS AGREEMENT is made on 24 April 2015
BETWEEN
(1) | TASMAN MARINE LLC, XXXXXX MARINE LLC, DRAKE MARINE LLC, MERCATOR MARINE LLC, and BARENTSZ MARINE LLC, each a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands MH96960 (each a “Borrower” and, together, the “Borrowers”); |
(2) | POSEIDON CONTAINERS HOLDINGS LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Republic of the Xxxxxxxx Islands whore registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands MH96960 as Corporate Guarantor; |
(3) | THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1, as Lenders; |
(4) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V. acting through its office at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as Agent; |
(5) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V. acting through its office at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as Arranger; |
(6) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V. acting through its office at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, as Security Trustee; and |
(7) | HSH NORDBANK AG acting through its office at Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx 00, XX-0000 XX, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx as Swap Bank. |
BACKGROUND
(A) | By a loan agreement dated 17 December 2014 (as amended and supplemented by a supplemental letter dated 9 March 2015, the “Loan Agreement”) and made between (i) the Borrowers as joint and several borrowers, (ii) the Lenders, (iii) the Agent, (iv) the Arranger and (vi) the Security Trustee, the Lenders made available to the Borrowers a secured term loan facility of (originally) up to $62,500,000 upon the terms and conditions therein contained of which US$24,680,000 is outstanding by way of principal as at the date hereof. |
(B) | By a master agreement (on the 2002 ISDA form together with the schedule attached thereto (as amended)) dated as of 17 December 2014 (the “Master Agreement”) and made between (i) the Borrowers and (ii) the Swap Bank, it was agreed that the Swap Bank would enter into Designated Transactions with the Borrowers from time to time to hedge the Borrowers’ exposure to under the Loan Agreement to interest rate fluctuations and exchange rate risks. |
(C) | By an agency and trust deed (the “Agency and Trust Deed”) entered into pursuant to the Loan Agreement, it was agreed that the Security Trustee would hold the Trust Property (as defined therein) on trust for the Lenders and the Swap Bank. |
(D) | By a corporate guarantee dated 17 December 2014 (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Corporate Guarantee”) and made between (i) the Corporate Guarantor and (ii) the Security Trustee, the Corporate Guarantor has guaranteed the obligations of the Borrowers under the Loan Agreement and the Master Agreement. |
(E) | By a loan agreement dated 29 November 2011 (as amended and supplemented by a supplemental letter dated 30 July 2014 and two supplemental agreements dated respectively 15 January 2015 and 24 April 2015 and as the same may be further amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement”) made between (i) Platon Marine LLC (“Platon”), Rea Marine LLC (“Rea”), Kronos Marine LLC (“Kronos”) and Socrates Marine LLC (“Socrates”) as joint and several borrowers (together, the “Platon Collateral Owners” and each a “Platon Collateral Owner”), (ii) the banks and |
financial institutions listed therein as lenders (the “Platon Lenders”), (iii) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as agent and (iv) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. security agent (in such capacity, the “Platon Security Agent”), the Platon Lenders made available to the Platon Collateral Owners a loan facility of (originally) up to $97,371,000 upon the terms and conditions therein contained. |
(F) | By a loan agreement dated 10 February 2011 (as amended and supplemented by a first supplemental agreement dated 30 July 2014, a second supplemental and release agreement dated 15 January 2015 and a third supplemental agreement dated 24 April 2015 and as the same may be further amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Zeus Loan Agreement”) and made between (i) Zeus One Marine LLC as borrower (“Zeus”) and (ii) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as lender (in such capacity, the “Zeus Lender”), the Zeus Lender made available to Zeus a loan facility of (originally) up to $31,500,000 upon the terms and conditions therein contained. |
(G) | The Borrowers and the Corporate Guarantor have requested that the Creditor Parties agree to the execution and (where required) registration by each of the Borrowers of (i) the Platon Second Priority Documents (as defined below) in favour of the Platon Security Agent as additional security for the obligations of the Platon Collateral Owners under the Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement and (ii) the Zeus Third Priority Security Documents (as defined below) in favour of the Zeus Lender as additional security for the obligations of Zeus under the Zeus Loan Agreement, in consideration of the Platon Collateral Owners and Zeus executing and (where applicable) registering the Collateral Finance Documents (as defined below) to which each is a party in favour of the Security Trustee as additional security for the obligations of the Borrowers under the Loan Agreement, the Master Agreement and the other Finance Documents to which each Borrower is a party. |
(H) | This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions on which the Creditor Parties agree, with effect on and from the Effective Date, to the Borrowers’ request (the “Request”) referred to in Recital (G) and to the consequential amendments of the Loan Agreement, the Corporate Guarantee and the other Finance Documents in connection with the Request. |
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1 | INTERPRETATION |
1.1 | Defined expressions |
Words and expressions defined in the Loan Agreement and the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement shall have the same meanings when used in this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires.
1.2 | Definitions |
In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears:
“Amended and Restated Loan Agreement” means the Loan Agreement as amended and restated by this Agreement in the form set out in Appendix 1;
“Collateral Finance Documents” has the meaning given to such term in the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement;
“Collateral Owners” means, together, the Platon Collateral Owners and Zeus and, in the singular, means any of them;
“Effective Date” means the date on which the Agent notifies the Borrowers and the Creditor Parties that the conditions precedent in Clause 3 have been fulfilled;
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“Intercreditor Agreement” means the intercreditor agreement made or to be made between (inter alia) the Security Trustee, the Platon Security Agent and the Zeus Lender in the Agreed Form;
“Loan Agreement” means the loan agreement dated 17 December 2014 (as amended and supplemented by a supplemental letter dated 9 March 2015) as referred to in Recital (A);
“Master Agreement” means the master agreement (together with the schedule thereto) as referred to in Recital (B);
“Platon Second Security Documents” means, together, in relation to each Borrower:
(a) | a guarantee; |
(b) | a second priority or, as the case may be, preferred mortgage (and if required by the relevant Approved Flag State, a second priority deed of covenant collateral thereto) over the Ship owned by that Borrower; and |
(c) | a second priority general assignment of the earnings, insurances, any requisition compensation and any charter of a duration exceeding 24 months in respect of that Ship, |
executed or to be executed by that Borrower in favour of the Platon Security Agent as security for the obligations of the Platon Collateral Owners under the Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement and, in the singular, means any of them; and
“Zeus Third Security Documents” means, together, in relation to each Borrower:
(a) | a guarantee; |
(b) | a third priority or, as the case may be, preferred mortgage (and if required by the relevant Approved Flag State, a third priority deed of covenant collateral thereto) over the Ship owned by that Borrower; and |
(c) | a third priority general assignment of the earnings, insurances, any requisition compensation and any charter of a duration exceeding 24 months in respect of that Ship, |
executed or to be executed by that Borrower in favour of the Zeus Lender as security for the obligations of the Zeus under the Zeus Loan Agreement and, in the singular, means any of them.
1.3 | Application of construction and interpretation provisions of Loan Agreement |
Clauses 1.2 and 1.5 of the Loan Agreement and the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement apply, with any necessary modifications, to this Agreement.
2 | AGREEMENT OF CREDITOR PARTIES |
2.1 | Agreement of the Creditor Parties |
The Creditor Parties agree, subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to the Request and the consequential amendment of the Loan Agreement and the other Finance Documents in connection with the Request.
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2.2 | Effective Date |
The agreement of the Lenders and the other Creditor Parties contained in Clause 2.1 shall have effect on and from the Effective Date.
3 | CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
3.1 | General |
The agreement of the Creditor Parties contained in Clause 2.1 is subject to the fulfilment of the conditions precedent in Clause 3.2.
3.2 | Conditions precedent |
The conditions referred to in Clause 3.1 are that the Agent shall have received the following documents and evidence in all respects in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers on or before the date of this Agreement or such later date as the Agent may agree with the Borrowers:
(a) | in relation to each Borrower, each Collateral Owner and the Corporate Guarantor, documents of the kind specified in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A of the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement, the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, the Collateral Finance Documents, the Platon Second Security Documents and the Zeus Third Security Documents, as applicable. |
(b) | an original of this Agreement duly executed by the parties to it and counter-signed by the Approved Managers; |
(c) | an original of the Intercreditor Agreement duly executed by the parties to it; |
(d) | each of the documents referred to in Part C of Schedule 3 to the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement; |
(e) | documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in clause 32 of the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement has accepted its appointment in respect of this Agreement; |
(f) | favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the laws of the Xxxxxxxx Islands and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require; and |
(g) | any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with this Agreement and the Finance Documents (as defined in the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement) which the Agent may request by notice to the Borrowers prior to the date of this Agreement. |
4 | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
4.1 | Repetition of Loan Agreement representations and warranties |
Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Agent that the representations and warranties in clause 10 of the Loan Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement and, where appropriate, each other Finance Document which is being amended by this Agreement, remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this Agreement with reference to the circumstances now existing.
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4.2 | Repetition of Corporate Guarantee representations and warranties |
The Corporate Guarantor represents and warrants to the Lender that the representations and warranties in clause 10 of the Corporate Guarantee, as amended and restated by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement and, where appropriate, each other Finance Document which is being amended by this Agreement, remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this Agreement with reference to the circumstances now existing.
5 | AMENDMENT OF LOAN AGREEMENT |
5.1 | Amendments to Loan Agreement |
With effect on and from the Effective Date:
(a) | the Loan Agreement shall be, and shall be deemed by this Agreement to be, amended and restated in the form of the Amended and Restated Loan Agreement; and |
(b) | as so amended and restated pursuant to (a) above, the Loan Agreement shall continue to be binding on each of the parties to it in accordance with its terms as so amended and restated. |
5.2 | Amendments to Finance Documents |
With effect on and from the Effective Date each of the Finance Documents (other than the Loan Agreement), shall be, and shall be deemed by this Agreement to be, amended as follows:
(a) | the definition of, and references throughout each of the Finance Documents to, the Loan Agreement and any of the other Finance Documents shall be construed as if the same referred to the Loan Agreement and those Finance Documents as amended and restated by this Agreement; and |
(b) | by construing references throughout each of the Finance Documents to “this Agreement”, “this Deed”, “hereunder” and other like expressions as if the same referred to such Finance Documents as amended and supplemented by this Agreement. |
5.3 | The Finance Documents to remain in full force and effect |
The Finance Documents shall remain in full force and effect, as amended by:
(a) | the amendments contained or referred to in Clause 5.2; and |
(b) | such further or consequential modifications as may be necessary to give full effect to the terms of this Agreement. |
6 | FURTHER ASSURANCES |
6.1 | Borrowers’ and Corporate Guarantor’s obligations to execute further documents etc. |
Each Borrowers and the Corporate Guarantor shall:
(a) | execute and deliver to the Agent (or as it may direct) any assignment, mortgage, power of attorney, proxy or other document, governed by the law of England or such other country as the Agent may, in any particular case, specify; and |
(b) | effect any registration or notarisation, give any notice or take any other step, |
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which the Agent may, by notice to the Borrowers or the Corporate Guarantor specify for any of the purposes described in Clause 6.2 or for any similar or related purpose.
6.2 | Purposes of further assurances |
Those purposes are:
(a) | validly and effectively to create any Security Interest or right of any kind which the Agent intended should be created by or pursuant to the Loan Agreement or any other Finance Document, each as amended and restated or supplemented by this Agreement; and |
(b) | implementing the terms and provisions of this Agreement. |
6.3 | Terms of further assurances |
The Agent may specify the terms of any document to be executed by the Borrowers or, as the case may be, the Corporate Guarantor, under Clause 6.1, and those terms may include any covenants, powers and provisions which the Agent considers appropriate to protect its interests.
6.4 | Obligation to comply with notice |
The Borrowers and the Corporate Guarantor shall comply with a notice under Clause 6.1 by the date specified in the notice.
6.5 | Additional limited liability company action |
At the same time as the Borrowers or the Corporate Guarantor deliver to the Agent any document executed under Clause 6.1(a), the Borrowers shall also deliver to the Agent a certificate signed by an officer of each Borrower or, as the case may be, the Corporate Guarantor which shall:
(a) | set out the text of a resolution of that Borrower’s or the Corporate Guarantor’s director specifically authorising the execution of the document specified by the Agent; and |
(b) | state that either the resolution was duly passed at a meeting of the directors validly convened and held throughout which a quorum of directors entitled to vote on the resolution was present or that the resolution has been signed by all the directors and is valid under that Borrower’s or the Corporate Guarantor’s articles of association or other constitutional documents. |
7 | EXPENSES |
7.1 | Reimbursement of expenses |
The Borrowers shall reimburse to the Agent on demand all reasonable costs, fees and expenses (including, but not limited to, legal fees and expenses) and taxes thereon incurred by the Agent or any other Creditor Party in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement and each of the Collateral Finance Documents, the Platon Second Security Documents and the Zeus Third Security Documents.
8 | NOTICES |
8.1 | General |
The provisions of clause 28 (Notices) of the Loan Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, shall apply to this Agreement as if they were expressly incorporated in this Agreement with any necessary modifications.
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9 | SUPPLEMENTAL |
9.1 | Counterparts |
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts.
9.2 | Third party rights |
A person (other than a Creditor Party) who is not a party to this Agreement has any right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
10 | LAW AND JURISDICTION |
10.1 | Governing law |
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
10.2 | Incorporation of the Loan Agreement provisions |
The provisions of clause 32 (Law and Jurisdiction) of the Loan Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, shall apply to this Agreement as if they were expressly incorporated in this Agreement with any necessary modifications.
This Agreement has been duly executed as a Deed on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.
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SCHEDULE 1
LENDERS
Lender | Lending Office | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | c/o Loans Administration – Transportation Clients 93 Xxxxxxxxxx 0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx |
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EXECUTION PAGE
BORROWERS | ||
SIGNED by Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
/s/ Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
TASMAN MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
/s/ Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
XXXXXX MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
/s/ Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
DRAKE MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
/s/ Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
MERCATOR MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
/s/ Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
BARENTSZ MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
CORPORATE GUARANTOR | ||
SIGNED by Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
/s/ Filanthi Katsafadou | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
POSEIDON CONTAINERS HOLDINGS LLC | ) |
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LENDERS | ||
SIGNED by Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
AGENT | ||
SIGNED by Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
ARRANGER | ||
SIGNED by Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
SECURITY TRUSTEE | ||
SIGNED by Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
SWAP BANK | ||
SIGNED by Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | ) | |
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
Witness to all the | ) | |
above signatures | ) |
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/s/ Eirini Portokalaki | ||
Name: | Eirini Portokalaki |
Address: | Attorney-at-law | |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx | ||
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
000 00 Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Xxxxxx - Xxxxxx |
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COUNTERSIGNED this 24th day of April 2015 for and on behalf of the below companies each of which, by its execution hereof, confirms and acknowledges that it has read and understood the terms and conditions of this amending and restating agreement, that it agrees in all respects to the same and that the Finance Documents to which it is a party shall remain in full force and effect and shall continue to stand as security for the obligations of the Borrowers under the Loan Agreement (as amended and restated by this amending and restating agreement) and the other Finance Documents (as amended and supplemented by this amending and restating agreement).
/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx |
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx |
for and on behalf of |
TECHNOMAR SHIPPING INC. |
/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Tsiaklagkanos |
Xxxxxxxxx Tsiaklagkanos |
for and on behalf of |
CONCHART COMMERCIAL INC. |
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APPENDIX
FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN AGREEMENT MARKED TO INDICATE AMENDMENTS TO
THE LOAN AGREEMENT
Amendments are indicated as follows:
1 | additions are indicated by underlined text; and |
2 | deletions are shown by the relevant text being struck out. |
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Dated 17 December 2014
as amended and restated by an
Amending and Restating Agreement dated 24 April 2015
TASMAN MARINE LLC,
XXXXXX MARINE LLC,
DRAKE MARINE LLC,
MERCATOR MARINE LLC, and
BARENTSZ MARINE LLC
as joint and several Borrowers
and
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
listed in Schedule 1
as Lenders
and
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.
as Agent, Arranger, Swap Bank
and Security Trustee
LOAN AGREEMENT
relating to a secured term loan facility of up to US$62,500,000
to finance part of the acquisition cost of five container vessels named
“NEDLLOYD TASMAN” (tbr “TASMAN”), “NEDLLOYD XXXXXX” (tbr
“HUDSONDIMITRIS Y”),
“NEDLLOYD MERCATOR”
(tbr “MERCATOR IFLEUR”), “NEDLLOYD BARENTSZ” (tbr “BARENTSZMARCO
R”)
and “NEDLLOYD DRAKE” (tbr
“DRAKEIAN H”)
Index
Clause | Page | |||||
1 |
Interpretation |
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2 |
Facility |
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3 |
Position of the Lenders, the Swap Bank and the Majority Lenders |
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4 |
Drawdown |
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5 |
Interest |
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6 |
Interest Periods |
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7 |
Default Interest |
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8 |
Repayment and Prepayment |
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9 |
Conditions Precedent |
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10 |
Representations and Warranties |
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11 |
General Undertakings |
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12 |
Corporate Undertakings |
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13 |
Insurance |
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14 |
Ship Covenants |
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15 |
Security Cover |
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16 |
Payments and Calculations |
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17 |
Application of Receipts |
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18 |
Application of Earnings; Swap Payments |
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19 |
Events of Default |
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20 |
Fees and Expenses |
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21 |
Indemnities |
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22 |
No Set-Off or Tax Deduction |
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23 |
Illegality, etc. |
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24 |
Increased Costs |
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25 |
Set-Off |
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26 |
Transfers and Changes in Lending Offices |
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27 |
Variations and Waivers |
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28 |
Notices |
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29 |
Joint and Several Liability |
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30 |
Supplemental |
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31 |
Confidentiality |
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32 |
Law and Jurisdiction |
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Schedule 1 Lenders and Commitments |
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Schedule 2 Drawdown Notice |
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Schedule 3 Condition Precedent Documents |
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Schedule 4 Designation Notice |
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Schedule 5 Transfer Certificate |
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Execution Pages |
THIS AGREEMENT is made on 17 December 2014 as amended and restated by an Amending and Restating Agreement dated 24 April 2015
BETWEEN
(1) | TASMAN MARINE LLC, XXXXXX MARINE LLC, DRAKE MARINE LLC, MERCATOR MARINE LLC, and BARENTSZ MARINE LLC, as joint and several Borrowers; |
(2) | THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1, as Lenders; |
(3) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Agent; |
(4) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Arranger; |
(5) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Security Trustee; and |
(6) | ABN AMRO BANK N.V, as Swap Bank. |
BACKGROUND
(A) | The Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrowers a term loan facility of up to the lesser of (a) $62,500,000 and (b) 70 per cent of the aggregate Initial Market Values of the Ships, in five Tranches for the purpose of financing part of the acquisition cost of the Ships |
(B) | The Swap Bank has agreed to enter into interest rate swap transactions with the Borrowers (at the Borrowers’ option) from time to time to hedge the Borrowers’ exposure under this Agreement to interest rate fluctuations and/or exchange rate risks. |
(C) | The Lenders and the Swap Bank have agreed to share pari passu in the security to be granted to the Security Trustee pursuant to this Agreement. |
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1 | INTERPRETATION |
1.1 | Definitions |
Subject to Clauses 1.2 through 1.4, in this Agreement:
“Accounts” means, together, the Earnings Accounts and the Retention Accounts and, in the singular, means any of them;
“Account Pledges” means, together, the Earnings Account Pledges and the Retention Account Pledges and, in the singular, means any of them;
“Affected Lender” has the meaning given in Clause 5.7;
“Affiliate” means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company;
“Agency and Trust Agreement” means the agency and trust agreement dated the same date as this Agreement and made between the same parties;
“Agent” means ABN Amro
AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and
Trust Agreement;
“Agreed Form” means in relation to any document, that document in the form approved in writing by the Agent or as otherwise approved in accordance with any other approval procedure specified in any relevant provisions of any Finance Document;
“Amending and Restating Agreement” means the amending and restating agreement dated 24 April 2015 and made between (i) the Borrowers, (ii) the Corporate Guarantor, (iii) the Lenders, (iv) the Agent, (v) the Security Trustee, (vi) the Arranger and (v) the Swap Bank setting out the terms and conditions upon which this Agreement and certain other Finance Documents have been amended and restated and/or supplemented;
“Annex VI” means Annex VI (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (as modified in 1978 and 1997);
“Approved Broker” means any of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Breamar Seascope Ltd., Fearnleys A/S, X. Xxxxxxxx & Company Limited, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Kontiki Shipbrokers, Maersk Brokers and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx & Young or any other reputable sale and purchase broker nominated by the Borrowers and, approved and appointed by the Agent and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Approved Charter” means, in relation to a Ship, a time charterparty in respect of that Ship of a duration of equal to or more than 12 months at a daily hire rate acceptable to the Agent but in any case not less than the aggregate of the Breakeven Amount relevant to that Ship, made on terms and with a charterer acceptable in all respects to Agent;
“Approved Charterparty Assignment” means, in relation to each Approved Charter, a specific deed of assignment of the rights of the Borrower who is a party to that Approved Charter executed or to be executed by that Borrower in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all or any of them;
“Approved Flag” means the Xxxxxxxx Islands flag, Liberian flag, Panamanian flag or any other flag which the Agent may approve as the flag on which a Ship or Collateral Ship may be registered;
“Approved Flag State” means the Xxxxxxxx Islands
, Liberia, Panama or any other state in which the Agent may at the request of the Borrowers, approve that a Ship or
Collateral Ship be registered;
“Approved Manager” means, in relation to each Ship and Collateral Ship, Conchart Commercial Inc., a corporation organised and existing under the laws of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands MH96960 as commercial manager (the “Commercial Manager”) and Technomar Shipping Inc., a corporation organised and existing under the laws of the Republic of Liberia, having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx and each with management office at 0-0 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 000 00, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx as technical manager (the “Technical Manager”), or any other company which the Agent may, at the request of the Borrower owning that Ship or, as the case may be, the Collateral Owner, approve from time to time as the technical and/or commercial manager of that Ship or Collateral Ship and, in the plural, means both of them;
“Approved Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to each Ship, a letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by each Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee, agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the relevant Ship and subordinating its rights against that Ship and the Borrower owning that Ship to the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means both of them;
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“Arranger” means ABN Amro
AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, or any successor;
“Availability Period” means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on:
(a) | the earlier of: |
(i) | the Delivery Date in respect of the last Ship to occur; and |
(ii) | 10 October 2015 (or such later date as the Agent may, with the authorisation of all the Lenders, approve (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or (other than in the case where board and/or credit approval is required) delayed)); or |
(b) | if earlier, the date on which the Total Commitments are fully borrowed, fully (or partially as the case may be) cancelled or terminated; |
“Balloon Instalment” has the meaning given in Clause 8.1(b);
“Basel III” means:
(a) | the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in “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, each as amended, supplemented or restated; and |
(b) | any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to “Basel III”; |
“Borrower” means each of Borrower A, Borrower B, Borrower C, Borrower D and Borrower E and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Borrower A” means Tasman Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands, whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Islands, MH96960, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands;
“Borrower B” means Xxxxxx Marine LLC. a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands, whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Islands, MH96960, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands;
“Borrower C” means Mercator Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands, whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Islands, MH96960, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands;
“Borrower D” means Barentsz Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands, whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX00000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx;
“Borrower E” means Drake Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands, whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Islands, MH96960, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Islands;
“Breakeven Amount” means, in respect of each Ship, the aggregate of the Operating Expenses and the Debt Service relevant to that Ship;
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“Business Day” means a day on which banks are open in London, Athens, and Rotterdam and, in respect of a day on which a payment is required to be made under a Finance Document, also in New York City;
“Change of Control” has the meaning given in Clause 8.14;
“Charter” means, in relation to a Ship or a Collateral Ship, any charter or other contract of employment or any consecutive voyage charter or contract of affreightment in respect of that Ship having a duration (or capable of exceeding a duration) of at least 12 months in the case of a Ship and exceeding 24 months in the case of a Collateral Ship;
“Charterparty Assignment” means, in relation to a Ship, a specific assignment of the rights of the Borrower who is the owner of that Ship under the Charter relative thereto executed or to be executed by that Borrower in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
“Collateral Finance Documents” means, together, the Platon Finance Documents, the Kronos Finance Documents, the Socrates Finance Documents, the Rea Finance Documents and the Zeus Finance Documents and, in the singular, means any of them;
“Collateral Loan Agreement” means each of the Zeus Loan
Agreement, and the Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement and the Ikaros Loan Agreement, and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Collateral Mortgages” means each of the Platon Mortgage, the Kronos Mortgage, the Socrates Mortgage, the Rea Mortgage and the Zeus Mortgage and in the singular, means any of them;
“Collateral Owners” means, together, Platon, Kronos, Socrates, Rea and Zeus and, in the singular, means any of them;
“Collateral Ships” means, together, the Platon Ship, the Rea Ship, the Kronos Ship, the Socrates Ship and the Zeus Ship and, in the singular, means any of them;
“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, 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);
“Confidential Information” means all information relating to the Loan, any Borrower, any Security Party, any member of the Group or the Finance Documents of which the Creditor Parties becomes aware in its capacity as Creditor Party or which is received by the Creditor Parties in relation to the Finance Documents from any member of the Group or any of its advisers in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes information that:
(a) | is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by a Creditor Party of Clause 31; or |
(b) | is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by any member of the Group or Security Party or any of its advisers; or |
(c) | is known by the Creditor Parties before the date the information is disclosed to it or is lawfully obtained by the Creditor Parties after that date, from a source which is, as |
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far as the Creditor Parties are aware, unconnected with the Group and which, in either case, as far as the Lender is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality; |
“Confirmation” and “Early Termination Date”, in relation to any continuing Designated Transaction, have the meanings given in the Master Agreement;
“Contract Price” means, in relation to each Ship, the purchase price payable by each Borrower for the Ship to be acquired by it pursuant to the Sale Agreement relative thereto;
“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;
“Corporate Guarantee” means a corporate guarantee executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by the Corporate Guarantor of the obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents to which each Borrower is a party in the Agreed Form;
“Corporate Guarantor” means Poseidon Containers Holdings LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Islands, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, XX00000;
“Corresponding Debt” means any amount which a Borrower owes to a Creditor Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents;
“CRD IV” means Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Union on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms;
“CRR” means and Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Union on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms;
“Creditor Party” means the Agent, the Arranger, the Security Trustee, any Lender or the Swap Bank, whether as at the date of this Agreement or at any later time;
“Debt Service” has the meaning given in Clause 8.16;
“Delivery Date” means, in relation to a Ship, the date on which title and possession of that Ship is transferred to the Borrower which will be the owner thereof pursuant to terms of the Sale Agreement relative to that Ship;
“Designated Transaction” means a Transaction which fulfills the following requirements:
(a) | it is entered into by the Borrowers pursuant to the Master Agreement with the Swap Bank; |
(b) | its purpose is the hedging all of or part of the Borrowers’ 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 Maturity Date; and |
(c) | it is designated by the Borrowers, by delivery by the Borrowers to the Agent of a notice of designation in the form set out in Schedule 4, 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;
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“Drawdown Date” means, in relation to a Tranche, the date requested by the Borrowers for the Tranche to be made, or (as the context requires) the date on which the Tranche is actually made;
“Drawdown Notice” means a notice in the form set out in Schedule 2 (or in any other form which the Agent approves or reasonably requires);
“Earnings” means, in relation to a Ship or a Collateral Ship, all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the relevant Borrower owning that Ship or the Collateral Owner owning that Collateral Ship or the Security Trustee and which arise out of the use or operation of that Ship or, as the case may be, Collateral Ship, including (but not limited to):
(a) | all freight, hire and passage moneys, compensation payable to that Borrower or the Collateral Owner or the Security Trustee in the event of requisition of that Ship or Collateral 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 that Ship or Collateral Ship; |
(b) | all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in respect of loss of hire; and |
(c) | if and whenever that Ship or Collateral Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) 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 |
“Earnings Account” means, in relation to a Ship, an account in the name of the Borrower owning that Ship with the Agent in Rotterdam designated “[name of relevant Borrower] -Earnings Account”, or any other account (with that or another office of the Agent) which is designated by the Agent as the Earnings Account in relation to that Ship for the purposes of this Agreement and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Earnings Account Pledge” means, in relation to each Earnings Account, a deed creating security in respect of that Earnings Account in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“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 or a Collateral Ship as a result of a collision between a Ship or a |
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Collateral Ship and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, in connection with which a Ship or a Collateral Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or a Ship and/or any Borrower and/or Collateral Owner and/or any operator or manager of a Ship or a Collateral Ship 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 or a Collateral Ship and in connection with which a Ship or a Collateral Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested and/or where any Borrower and/or Collateral Owner and/or any operator or manager of a Ship or a Collateral Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; |
“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;
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any successor thereto;
“ERISA Affiliate” means each person (as defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA) which together with the Borrowers or any of them would be deemed to be a “single employer” within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Uniform Commercial Code (as from time to time in effect in any applicable jurisdiction;
“Event of Default” means any of the events or circumstances described in Clause 19.1;
“FATCA” means sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code and any US Treasury regulations thereunder;
“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;
“Fee Letter” means any letter dated on or about the date of this Agreement between the Agent and the Borrowers setting out the amount of the agency fee referred to in Clause 20.1(c) and the terms on which such fee is payable by the Borrowers;
“Final Maturity Date” means the date falling on the earlier of (i) the fourth anniversary of the last Drawdown Date to occur under this Agreement and (ii) 10 October 2019;
“Finance Documents” means:
(a) | this Agreement; |
(b) | the Master Agreement; |
(c) | the Agency and Trust Agreement; |
(d) | the Master Agreement Assignment; |
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(e) | the Corporate Guarantee; |
(f) | the General Assignments; |
(g) | the Mortgages; |
(h) | the Account Pledges; |
(i) | the Shares Security Deeds; |
(j) | the Approved Charterparty Assignments; |
(k) | any Charterparty Assignments; |
(l) | each Approved Manager’s Undertakings; |
(m) | any Subordination and Assignment Agreement; |
(n) | the Fee Letter; |
(o) | the Collateral Finance Documents; |
(p) | the Intercreditor Agreement; and |
(q) |
“Financial Indebtedness” means, in relation to a person (the “debtor”), a 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 or dematerialised equivalent 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 foreign exchange transaction, 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; or |
(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 paragraphs (a) to (e) if the references to the debtor referred to the other person; |
“Financial Year” means, in relation the each Borrower and the Corporate Guarantor, each period of 1 year commencing on 1 January in respect of which its annual audited accounts are or ought to be prepared;
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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 first priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Green Award” means The Green Award Foundation, an independent foundation, established 1994 on the initiative of the Rotterdam Municipal Port Management and the Dutch Ministry of Transport;
“Green Award Incentive Provider” means the name of any entity that has been appointed as such by the Green Award Foundation;
“Group” means the Corporate Guarantor and its Subsidiaries (including but not limited to the Borrowers and the Collateral Owners) from time to time during the Security Period and “member of the Group” shall be construed accordingly;
“Holding Company” means, in relation to a person, any other person in respect of which it is a Subsidiary;
“IACS” means the International Association of Classification Societies;
“IAPPC” means a valid international air pollution prevention certificate issued under Annex VI;
“Ikaros Loan Agreement” means the loan agreement dated 15 April 2013 and made between (i) Ikaros Marine LLC
as borrower (ii) the banks and financial institutions listed therein as lenders, (iii) ABN Amro Bank N.V. as swap provider, agent and security agent and (iv) ABN Amro, Singapore branch as K-Sure Agent in respect of a loan facility of
up to $52,703,000 secured on (inter alia) m.v. “SAFMARINE HIGHVELD”;
“IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board, as amended from time to time, together with its pronouncements thereon from time to time;
“Initial Lender” means ABN Amro AMRO Bank N.V.,
acting in such capacity through its office at Xxxxxxxxxx 00, 0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx, or any successor;
“Initial Market Value” means, in relation to each Ship, the Market Value thereof calculated in accordance with the valuations relative thereto referred to in paragraph 4 of Schedule 3, Part B;
“Insurances” means, in relation to a Ship or a Collateral Ship:
(a) | all policies and contracts of insurance, including entries |
(b) | all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium and any rights in respect of any claim whether or not the relevant policy, contract of insurance or entry has expired on or before the date of this Agreement; |
“Intercreditor Agreement” means the intercreditor agreement made or to be made between (inter alia) the Security Trustee, the Platon Security Agent and the Zeus Lender in the Agreed Form;
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“Interest Period” means a period determined in accordance with Clause 6;
“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;
“Kronos” means Kronos Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX00000;
“Kronos Charter Assignment” means, in relation to the Kronos Ship, a third priority specific assignment of the rights of Kronos under the Charter relative thereto executed or to be executed by Kronos in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Kronos Finance Documents” means, together, the Kronos Guarantee, the Kronos Mortgage, the Kronos General Assignment, the Kronos Charter Assignment and the Kronos Manager’s Undertaking and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Kronos General Assignment” means, in relation to the Kronos Ship, a third priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in the Agreed Form;
“Kronos Guarantee” means a guarantee executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by Kronos in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;
“Kronos Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to the Kronos Ship, a third priority letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by each Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee, agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the Kronos Ship and subordinating its rights against the Kronos Ship and Kronos the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form;
“Kronos Mortgage” means in relation to the Kronos Ship, a third priority or, as the case may be, preferred ship mortgage (and, if required, pursuant to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto), in the Agreed Form;
“Legal Reservations” means:
(a) | the limitations on enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganisation and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors; and |
(b) | any other matters which are set out as qualifications or reservations as to matters of law of general application in any legal opinion delivered as a condition precedent under this Agreement; |
“Kronos Ship” means the 1997-built 5,500 TEU Panamax container carrier vessel having the name “OOCL NETHERLANDS” with IMO number 9143075 and everything now or in the future belonging to it on board and ashore, currently registered under the flag of Hong Kong in the ownership of Kronos;
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“Lender” means 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 Agent under Clause 26.14) or its transferee, successor or assign and, in the plural, means all of them;
“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, or as near as possible equal to, the relevant Interest Period which appears on the Screen Rate; or |
(b) | if no rate is quoted on the Screen Rate, the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the rate per annum notified to the Agent by the Reference Bank as the rate at which deposits in Dollars are offered to the Reference Bank by leading banks in the London Interbank Market at the 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, |
and, if any such rate is below zero, LIBOR will be deemed to be zero;
“Loan” means the principal amount for the time being outstanding under this Agreement;
“Major Casualty” means, in relation to a Ship or a Collateral
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 $500,000 or the equivalent in any other
currency;
“Majority Lenders” means:
(a) | before a Tranche has been made, Lenders whose Commitments total 66.66 per cent. of the Total Commitments; and |
(b) | after a Tranche has been made, Lenders whose Contributions total 66.66 per cent. of the Loan; |
“Mandatory Cost” means any cost calculated by the Agent pursuant to Clause 21.9;
“Margin” means 4.00 per cent. per annum;
“Market Value” means, in relation to:
(a) | each Ship and each other Fleet Vessel (if not subject to a mortgage), the market value thereof determined in accordance with Clause 15.3; and |
(b) | each Fleet Vessel (other than the Ships and the Fleet Vessels referred to in paragraph (a) above), the market value thereof determined in accordance with the relevant provisions of the loan agreement financing such Fleet Vessel; |
“Master Agreement” means the master agreement (on the 2002 ISDA (Multicurrency-Crossborder) form) in the Agreed Form made between the Borrowers 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;
“Master Agreement Assignment” means the assignment of the Master Agreement in the Agreed Form;
“Material Adverse Change” means any event or series of events which, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, has or is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect;
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“Material Adverse Effect” means, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, a material adverse effect on:
(a) | the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospect of any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor and/or the Group taken as a whole; or |
(b) | the ability of a Borrower or the Corporate Guarantor to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents; and |
(c) | the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any Security Interest granted or purported to be granted pursuant to any of the Finance Documents or the rights or remedies of any Creditor Party under any of the finance Documents; |
“Minimum Liquidity Amount” has the meaning given in Clause 11.19;
“Mortgage” means, in relation to a Ship, the first priority or, as the case may be, preferred ship mortgage on that Ship (and, if required pursuant to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto) in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Mortgage Addenda” means, in relation to each Mortgage registered over Ship A and Ship C, the first addendum to that Mortgage, in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Negotiation Period” has the meaning given in Clause 5.10;
“Notifying Lender” has the meaning given in Clause 23.1 or Clause 24.1 as the context requires;
“Operating Expenses” means, in respect of each Ship, the aggregate expenditure necessarily incurred by each Borrower in operating, insuring, maintaining, repairing and generally trading the Ships (including, but not limited to, any expenses in respect of dry-docking, special survey and general and administrative expenses paid in respect of each Ship, any anticipated voyage expenses, as well as any other capitalised expenses as same are defined as per IFRS);
“Parallel Debt” means any amount which a Borrower owes to the Security Trustee under Clause 3.7;
“Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Union that has the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union;
“PATRIOT Act” means the United States Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (H.R. 3199);
“Payment Currency” has the meaning given in Clause 21.4;
“Permitted Loan” means a loan made to a Borrower by any Affiliate, Holding Company or Subsidiary of the Corporate Guarantor or any other person:
(a) | which is unsecured; |
(b) | in relation to which no interest, fees, costs or expenses are payable during the Security Period; |
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(c) | in relation to which no repayment or prepayment of principal is capable of being made to the relevant lender in accordance with its terms and conditions during the Security Period; |
(d) | which is fully subordinated in all respects to the Secured Liabilities; and |
(e) | any creditor’s rights thereunder have been assigned in favour of the Creditor Parties, |
and, in the plural means, any or all of them;
“Permitted Security Interests” means:
(a) | Security Interests created by the Finance Documents and the Collateral Finance Documents; |
(b) | Security Interests created by the Borrowers in relation to the Collateral Loan Agreements pursuant to Clause 11.25; |
(c) | liens for unpaid master’s and crew’s wages; |
(d) | liens for salvage; |
(e) | 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; |
(f) | 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 trading, chartering, operation, repair or maintenance of a Ship or a Collateral Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the relevant Borrower or Collateral Owner in good faith by appropriate steps) and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 14.12(f); |
(g) | 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 while a Borrower or, as the case may be, the Collateral Owner is prosecuting or defending such action in good faith by appropriate steps; |
(h) | Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment or in respect of taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made; and |
(i) | a right of pledge (and set-off) under and pursuant to the general conditions of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. |
“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); |
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“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 in 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; |
(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); |
“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;
“Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to Title IV of ERISA which is or was sponsored, maintained or contributed to by, or required to be contributed to by any Creditor Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates;
“Platon” means Platon Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX00000;
“Platon Charter Assignment” means, in relation to the Platon Ship, a third priority specific assignment of the rights of Platon under the Charter relative thereto executed or to be executed by Platon in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Platon Finance Documents” means, together, the Platon Guarantee, the Platon Mortgage, the Platon General Assignment, the Platon Charter Assignment and the Platon Manager’s Undertaking and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Platon General Assignment” means, in relation to the Platon Ship, a third priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in the Agreed Form;
“Platon Guarantee” means a guarantee executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by Platon in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;
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“Platon Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to the Platon Ship, a third priority letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by each Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee, agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the Platon Ship and subordinating its rights against the Platon Ship and Platon to the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form;
“Platon Mortgage” means in relation to the Platon Ship, a third priority or, as the case may be, preferred ship mortgage (and, if required, pursuant to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto), in the Agreed Form;
“Platon Ship” means the 1996-built 5,500 TEU Panamax container carrier vessel having the name “JAPAN” with IMO number 0000000 and everything now or in the future belonging to it on board and ashore, currently registered under the flag of the Xxxxxxxx Islands in the ownership of Platon;
“Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement” means the loan agreement dated 29 November 2011 (as amended and supplemented
from time to time) and made between (i) Platon Marine LLC, Rea Marine LLC, Kronos Marine LLC and Socrates Marine LLC as joint and several borrowers (ii) the banks and
financial institutions listed therein as lenders and (iii) ABN Amro AMRO Bank N.V. as swap bank, arranger, agent and security trustee]
agent (is such capacity the “Platon Security Agent”) in respect of a loan facility of (originally) up
to $97,371,000 secured on (inter alia) m.v.’s “JAPAN”, “SINGAPORE”, “OOCL NETHERLANDS” and “OOCL BRITAIN”the Platon Ship, the Rea
Ship, the Kronos Ship and the Socrates Ship;
“Potential Event of Default” means an event or circumstance which, with the giving of any notice, the lapse of time, a reasonable determination of the Majority Lenders and/or the satisfaction of any other condition, would constitute an Event of Default;
“Prepayment Fee” has the meaning given in Clause 8.13;
“Prohibited Person” means any person (whether designated by name or by reason of being included in a class of persons) against whom Sanctions are directed;
“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 which is 2 Business Days before the first day of that Interest Period or any other period, unless market practice differs in the London Interbank Market for a currency, in which case the Quotation Date will be determined by the Agent in accordance with market practice in the London Interbank Market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the London Interbank Market on more than one day, the Quotation Date will be the last of those days);
“Rea” means Rea Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX00000;
“Rea Charter Assignment” means, in relation to the Rea Ship, a third priority specific assignment of the rights of Rea under the Charter relative thereto executed or to be executed by Rea in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Rea Finance Documents” means, together, the Rea Guarantee, the Rea Mortgage, the Rea General Assignment, the Rea Charter Assignment and the Rea Manager’s Undertaking and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Rea General Assignment” means, in relation to the Rea Ship, a third priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in the Agreed Form;
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“Rea Guarantee” means a guarantee executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by Rea in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;
“Rea Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to the Rea Ship, a third priority letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by each Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee, agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the Rea Ship and subordinating its rights against the Rea Ship and Rea to the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form;
“Rea Mortgage” means in relation to the Rea Ship, a third priority or, as the case may be, preferred ship mortgage (and, if required, pursuant to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto), in the Agreed Form;
“Rea Ship” means the 1997-built 5,500 TEU Panamax container carrier vessel having the name “SINGAPORE” with IMO number 9143063 and everything now or in the future belonging to it on board and ashore, currently registered under the flag of Hong Kong in the ownership of Rea;
“Reference Banks” means, subject to Clause 26.16, the branch of ABN Amro
AMRO Bank N.V. at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and the London branch or any other bank or financial institution selected by the Agent;
“Related Fund” in relation to a fund (the “first fund”), means a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as the first fund or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of the first fund;
“Relevant Charter” means, in relation to a Ship, a time charterparty in respect of that Ship of a duration of equal to or more than 6 months at a daily hire rate acceptable to the Agent but in any case not less than the aggregate of the Breakeven Amount relevant to that Ship, made on terms and with a charterer acceptable in all respects to Agent;
“Relevant Charter Period” means the period commencing on the Drawdown Date of the second Tranche to be drawn under this Agreement and ending 12 months after the commencement date of the Relevant Charter;;
“Relevant Percentage” has the meaning given in Clause 15.1;
“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;
“Representative” means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or custodian;
“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”;
“Restricted Person” means a person that is (i) listed on, or owned or controlled by a person listed on any Sanctions List; (ii) located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organised under the laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide Sanctions (including, without limitation, at the date of this Agreement Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Sudan but excluding Myanmar (Burma); or (iii) otherwise a target of Sanctions;
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“Retention Account” means, in relation to each Borrower, an account in the name of each Borrower with the Agent in Rotterdam designated “name of relevant Borrower – Retention Account”, or any other account (with that or another office of the Agent or with a bank or financial institution other than the Agent) which is designated by the Agent as the Retention Account for the purposes of this Agreement and, in the plural means any or all of them;
“Retention Account Pledge” means, in relation to each Retention Account, a deed creating security in respect of that Retention Account in the Agreed Form and, in the plural means any or all of them;
“Sale Agreement” means:
(a) | in relation to Ship A, the sale agreement (as amended and supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) entered or to be entered into between Borrower A as buyer and the Seller; |
(b) | in relation to Ship B, the sale agreement (as amended and supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) entered or to be entered into between Borrower B as buyer and the Seller; |
(c) | in relation to Ship C, the sale agreement (as amended and supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) entered or to be entered into between Borrower B as buyer and the Seller; |
(d) | in relation to Ship D, the sale agreement (as amended and supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) entered or to be entered into between Borrower D as buyer and the Seller; and |
(e) | in relation to Ship E, the sale agreement (as amended and supplemented from time to time, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) entered or to be entered into between Borrower E as buyer and the Seller, |
and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Sanctions” means any economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the United States government; (ii) the United Nations; (iii) the European Union or its Member States; (iv) any country to which the Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor, any other Security Party, any member of the Group or any Affiliate of any of them is bound; or (v) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (OFAC) and the United States Department of State (together “Sanctions Authorities”);
“Sanctions List” means the “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list issued by OFAC or any similar list issued or maintained or made public by any of the Sanctions Authorities.
“Screen Rate” means the London interbank offered rate administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for Dollars for the relevant period displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen (or any replacement Reuters page which displays that rate) or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrowers and the Lenders;
“Secured Liabilities” means all liabilities which the Borrowers, the Corporate Guarantor, the Security Parties or any of them have, at the date of this Agreement or at any later time or
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times, under or in connection with any Finance Document or any judgment relating to any Finance Document; 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;
“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 a 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 this paragraph (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 the Corporate Guarantor, either Approved Manager
, any Collateral Owner and any other person (except a Creditor Party) 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 Agent notifies the Borrowers, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties that:
(a) | all amounts which have become due for payment by any 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 a Borrower nor any Security Party has any future or contingent liability under Clauses 20, 21 or 22 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; and |
(d) | the Agent, the Arranger, 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 a 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 ABN Amro
AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at 93 Coolsingel, 3012 AE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and
Trust Agreement;
“Seller” means Bank of Scotland Structured Asset Finance Limited;
“Servicing Bank” means the Agent or the Security Trustee;
“Shares Security Deed” means, in relation to each Borrower, a document creating securities over the limited liability company interests in that Borrower to be executed by the Corporate Guarantor in the Agreed Form;
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“Ship” means each of Ship A, Ship B, Ship C, Ship D and Ship E and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Ship A” means the 2000-built container vessel of 5,468 TEU currently registered in the ownership of the Seller with IMO No. 9189342 under UK flag with the name “NEDLLOYD TASMAN” which is to be purchased by Borrower A and upon delivery to be registered in its ownership under an Approved Flag with the name “TASMAN”;
“Ship B” means the 2000-built container vessel of 5,468 TEU currently registered in the ownership of
the Seller with IMO No. 9189354 under UK flag with the name “NEDLLOYD XXXXXX” which is to be purchased by Borrower B and upon delivery to be registered in its ownership under an Approved Flag with the name
“HUDSONDIMITRIS Y”;
“Ship C” means
the 2000-built container vessel of 5,468 TEU currently registered in the ownership of the Seller with IMO No. 9189495 under Bahamas flag with the name “NEDLLOYD MERCATOR” which is to be purchased by Borrower C and upon delivery to be
registered in its ownership under an Approved Flag with the name “MERCATOR IFLEUR”;
“Ship D” means the 2000-built container vessel of 5,468 TEU currently registered in the ownership of the Seller with IMO
No. 9189366 under Bahamas flag with the name “NEDLLOYD BARENTSZ” which is to be purchased by Borrower D and upon delivery to be registered in its ownership under an Approved Flag with the name
“BARENTSZMARCO R”;
“Ship E” means
the 2000-built container vessel of 5,468 TEU currently registered in the ownership of the Seller with IMO No. 9189500 under UK flag with the name “NEDLLOYD DRAKE” which is to be purchased by Borrower E and upon delivery to be
registered in its ownership under an Approved Flag with the name “DRAKE” IAN H”;
“Socrates” means Socrates Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX00000;
“Socrates Charter Assignment” means, in relation to the Socrates Ship, a third priority specific assignment of the rights of Socrates under the Charter relative thereto executed or to be executed by Socrates in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Socrates Finance Documents” means, together, the Socrates Guarantee, the Socrates Mortgage, the Socrates General Assignment, the Socrates General Assignment and the Socrates Manager’s Undertaking and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Socrates General Assignment” means, in relation to the Socrates Ship, a third priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in the Agreed Form;
“Socrates Guarantee” means a guarantee executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by Socrates in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;
“Socrates Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to the Socrates Ship, a third priority letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by each Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee, agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the Socrates Ship and subordinating its rights against the Socrates Ship and Socrates to the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form;
“Socrates Mortgage” means in relation to the Socrates Ship, a third priority or, as the case may be, preferred ship mortgage (and, if required, pursuant to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto), in the Agreed Form;
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“Socrates Ship” means the 1996-built 5,500 TEU Panamax container carrier vessel having the name “BRITAIN” with IMO number 9102318 and everything now or in the future belonging to it on board and ashore, currently registered under the flag of The Xxxxxxxx Islands in the ownership of Socrates;
“Subordination and Assignment Agreement” means an agreement to be made between the creditor under a Permitted Loan, the Borrower or Borrowers who have received credit under such Permitted Loan and the Security Trustee, in the Agreed Form;
“Subsidiary” means a subsidiary within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Xxx 0000;
“Swap Bank” means ABN Amro AMRO Bank N.V., acting
in such capacity through its office at Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx 00, XX-0000 XX, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx;
“Swap Exposure” means, as at any relevant date, the amount certified by the Swap Bank to the Agent to be the aggregate net amount in Dollars which would be payable by a Borrower to the Swap Bank under (and calculated in accordance with) section 6(e)(i) (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;
“Syndication” means a syndication of any part the Total Commitments by ABN Amro
AMRO Bank N.V. to other banks or financial Institutions;
“Total Loss” means, in relation to a Ship or a Collateral Ship:
(a) | actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of that Ship or Collateral Ship; |
(b) | any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of that Ship or Collateral Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its 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 (excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding 1 year without any right to an extension) unless it is within 30 days redelivered to the full control of the Borrower owning that Ship or any Collateral Owner; |
(c) | any condemnation of that Ship or Collateral Ship by any tribunal or by any person or person claiming to be a tribunal; and |
(d) | any arrest, capture, seizure or detention of that Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless it is within 45 days redelivered to the full control of the Borrower owning that Ship or any Collateral Owner; |
“Total Loss Date” means, in relation to a Ship or Collateral Ship:
(a) | in the case of an actual loss of that Ship or Collateral Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when that Ship or Collateral Ship was last heard of; |
(b) | in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of that Ship, the earliest of: |
(i) | 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 Borrower owning that Ship with that Ship’s insurers in which the insurers agree to treat that Ship as a total loss; and |
(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 Agent that the event constituting the total loss occurred; |
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“Tranche” means, in relation to each Ship, an amount equal to the lesser of (i) $12,500,000 and (ii) 70 per cent. of the Initial Market Value of that Ship and in the plural means any or all 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;and
“Zeus” means Zeus One Marine LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Xxxxxxxx Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX00000;
“Zeus Charter Assignment” means, in relation to the Zeus Ship, a third priority specific assignment of the rights of Zeus under the Charter relative thereto executed or to be executed by Zeus favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means any or all of them;
“Zeus Finance Documents” means, together, the Zeus Guarantee, the Zeus Mortgage, the Zeus General Assignment, the Zeus Charter Assignment and the Zeus Manager’s Undertaking and, in the plural, means all of them;
“Zeus General Assignment” means, in relation to the Zeus Ship, a third priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in the Agreed Form;
“Zeus Guarantee” means a guarantee executed or, as the context may require, to be executed by Zeus in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;
“Zeus Loan Agreement” means the
loan agreement dated 10 February 2011 (as amended and supplemented from time to time) and made between (i) Zeus One Marine LLC, as borrower, and
(ii) the banks and financial institutions listed therein as lenders and (iii) ABN Amro ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as
lender (in such capacity, the “Zeus Lender”), in respect of a loan facility of (originally) up to $31,500,000
secured on (inter alia) m.v. “ORCA I”;the Zeus Ship;
“Zeus Manager’s Undertaking” means, in relation to the Zeus Ship, a third priority letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by each Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee, agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the Zeus Ship and subordinating its rights against the Zeus Ship and Zeus to the rights of the Lenders under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form;
“Zeus Mortgage” means in relation to the Zeus Ship, a third priority or, as the case may be, preferred ship mortgage (and, if required, pursuant to the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto), in the Agreed Form; and
“Zeus Ship” means the 2007-built 5,100 TEU Panamax container carrier vessel having the name “ORCA I” with IMO number 9318113, currently registered under the flag of Panama in the ownership of Zeus and everything now or in the future belonging to her on board and ashore.
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1.2 | Construction of certain terms |
In this Agreement:
“administration notice” means a notice appointing an administrator, a notice of intended appointment and any other notice which is required by law (generally or in the case concerned) to be filed with the court or given to a person prior to, or in connection with, the appointment of an administrator;
“approved” means, for the purposes of Clause 13, approved in writing by the Agent;
“asset” includes every kind of property, asset, interest or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment;
“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 or a Collateral 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 its insured value being less than the value at which the
a Ship or a Collateral 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;
“law” includes any order or decree, any form of delegated legislation, 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 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;
“person” includes 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;
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“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) (1/10/83) 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) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
“successor” includes any person who is entitled (by assignment, novation, merger or otherwise) to any 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, blocking and trapping, terrorism, piracy and confiscation and all other 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)(1/11/95) 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) |
(b) |
and “month” and “monthly” shall be construed accordingly.
1.4 | General Interpretation |
In this Agreement:
(a) | 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; |
(b) | 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; |
(c) | words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa; and |
(d) | Clauses 1.1 to 1.4 apply unless the contrary intention appears. |
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1.5 | Headings |
In interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all clause, sub-clause and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded.
1.6 | Accounting Terms |
(a) | All accounting terms not specifically defined herein or in any other Finance Document shall be construed in accordance with IFRS and all financial data submitted pursuant to this Agreement or any other Finance Document shall be prepared in accordance with IFRS; provided however that if a member of the Group notifies the Agent that such person wishes to amend any covenant or any related definition to eliminate the effect of any change in IFRS occurring after the date of this Agreement on the operating of such covenants (or if the Agent notifies the Group that the Majority Lenders wish to amend the covenants or any related definition for such purpose), then the Groups’ compliance with such covenant shall be determined on the basis of IFRS in effect immediately before the relevant change in IFRS became effective until either such notice is withdrawn or such covenant is amended in a manner satisfactory to the members of the Group and the Majority Lenders. Provided that if such notice is not withdrawn or such covenant is not amended within 45 Business Days following the service of such notice then the Group’s compliance with such covenant shall be determined on the basis of IFRS as in effect at the relevant time. |
2 | FACILITY |
2.1 | Amount of facility |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders shall make available to the Borrowers a loan facility, in five Tranches, not exceeding in aggregate the lesser of (a) $62,500,000 and (b) 70 per cent. of the aggregate of the Initial Market Values of the Ships, one Tranche to be made available in respect of each Ship.
2.2 | Lenders’ participations in Tranches |
Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall participate in each Tranche in the proportion which, as at the relevant Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.
2.3 | Purpose of Tranches |
The Borrowers undertake with each Creditor Party to use each Tranche only for the purpose stated in the preamble to this Agreement.
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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers to it under the Master Agreement, without joining the Agent, the Security Trustee, any other Lender and 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 nor the Swap Bank may bring proceedings in respect of:
(a) | any other liability or obligation of any Borrower or a Security Party under or connected with a Finance Document; or |
(b) | any misrepresentation or breach of warranty by any Borrower or a Security Party in or connected with a Finance Document. |
3.3 | Obligations several |
The obligations of the Lenders and the Swap Bank under this Agreement and of the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement are several; and a failure of a Lender or the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement or of the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under the Master Agreement shall not result in:
(a) | the obligations of the other Lenders or (as the case may be) the Swap Bank being increased; nor |
(b) | any 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, each 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 Agent or the Security Trustee under or in connection with any Finance Document (subject always to Clause 27.2); and |
(c) | any action taken (or in good faith purportedly taken) by the Agent or the Security Trustee in accordance with such an instruction or authorisation. |
3.5 | Reliance on action of Agent |
However, each 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 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. |
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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.
3.7 | Parallel debt |
(a) | Each Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Security Trustee amounts equal to, and in the currency or currencies of, its Corresponding Debt. |
(b) | The Parallel Debt of a Borrower: |
(i) |
(ii) |
(c) | For the purposes of this Clause, the Security Trustee: |
(i) | is the independent and separate creditor of all the Parallel Debt; |
(ii) | acts in its own name and not as agent, representative or trustee of the Creditor Parties and its claims in respect of the Parallel Debt shall not be held on trust; and |
(iii) | shall have the independent and separate right to demand payment of any or all the Parallel Debt in its own name (including, without limitation, through any suit, execution, enforcement of security, recovery of guarantees and applications for and voting in any kind of insolvency proceeding). |
(d) | The Parallel Debt of a Borrower shall be: |
(i) | decreased to the extent that its Corresponding Debt has been irrevocably and unconditionally paid or discharged; and |
(ii) | increased to the extent that its Corresponding Debt has increased. |
(e) | The Corresponding Debt of a Borrower shall be: |
(i) | decreased to the extent that its Parallel Debt has been irrevocable and unconditionally paid or discharged; and |
(ii) | increased to the extent that its Parallel Debt has increased, |
(f) | in each case provided that the Parallel Debt of a Borrower shall never exceed its Corresponding Debt. |
(g) |
3.8 | Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany |
On any matter referred to in Clause 11.21 in respect of which the Lenders are to vote but in respect of which a Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany to whom Clause 11.21(d) applies shall not vote in accordance with such paragraph:
(a) | for the purposes of determining whether approval of the Majority Lenders is obtained the references in the definition of “Majority Lenders” to 66.66 per cent. of the Total Commitments and to 66.66 per cent. of the Loan shall for this purpose be construed to refer |
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to 66.66 per cent. of the Total Commitments or, as the case may be, the Loan only taking account of the other Commitments of, or as the case may be, the participation in the Loan of, the Lenders and ignoring the Commitment of or, as the case may be, the participation in the Loan of, the Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany; and an action taken by the Majority Lenders as such definition is modified by this paragraph (a) shall be valid in the applicable circumstances and binding all parties; and |
(b) | for the purposes of determining whether the approval of all Lenders is obtained, all Lenders shall be construed to mean the other Lenders ignoring the Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany and an action taken by all Lenders as modified by this paragraph (b) shall be valid in the applicable circumstances and binding on all the parties of this Agreement. |
4 | DRAWDOWN |
4.1 | Request for Tranche |
Subject to the following conditions, the Borrowers may request a Tranche to be made available by ensuring that the Agent receives a completed Drawdown Notice not later than 11.00 a.m. (Rotterdam time) 2 (two) Business Days prior to the intended Drawdown Date or within such shorter period as the Agent may approve.
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) | the amount of each Tranche shall not exceed the lesser of (a) $12,500,000 and (b) 70 per cent. of the Initial Market Value of the Ship which is financed by that Tranche, shall be made available on the Delivery Date relevant to that Ship and shall be applied in financing part of the Contract Price for the relevant Ship payable pursuant to the Sale Agreement relative to that Ship; and |
(c) | the aggregate amount of the Tranches shall not exceed the Total Commitments. |
4.3 | Notification to Lenders of receipt of a Drawdown Notice |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders that it has received a Drawdown Notice and shall inform each Lender of:
(a) | the amount of the Tranche and the Drawdown Date; |
(b) | the amount of that Lender’s participation in the Tranche; and |
(c) | the duration of the first Interest Period. |
4.4 | Drawdown Notice irrevocable |
A Drawdown Notice must be signed by a duly authorised representative of a Borrower; and once served, a Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Agent, acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders.
4.5 | 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 Agent for the account of the Borrowers the amount due from that Lender on that Drawdown Date under Clause 2.2.
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4.6 | Disbursement of Tranche |
Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent shall on each Drawdown Date pay to the Borrowers the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.5; and that payment to the Borrowers shall be made:
(a) | to the account which the Borrowers specify in the Drawdown Notice; and |
(b) | in the like funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders. |
4.7 | Disbursement of Tranche to third party |
The payment by the Agent under Clause 4.6 shall constitute the making of the Tranche and the Borrowers shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligors, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender’s Contribution.
5 | INTEREST |
5.1 | Payment of normal interest |
Subject to Clause 5.3 and the other provisions of this Agreement, interest on each Tranche or the Loan in respect of each Interest Period applicable thereto shall be paid by the Borrowers 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 Tranche or the Loan in respect of an Interest Period shall be the aggregate of (i) the Margin, (ii) the Mandatory Cost (if any) and (iii) 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 Agent shall notify the Borrowers and each Lender of:
(a) | each rate of interest; and |
(b) | the duration of each Interest Period, |
as soon as reasonably practicable after each is determined.
5.5 | Obligation of Reference Banks to quote |
A Reference Bank which is a Lender shall use all reasonable efforts to supply the quotation required of it for the purposes of fixing a rate of interest under this Agreement.
5.6 | Absence of quotations by Reference Banks |
If any Reference Bank fails to supply a quotation, the Agent shall determine the relevant rate of interest in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 5.
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5.7 | Market disruption |
The following provisions of this Clause 5 apply if:
(a) | no screen rate is quoted in the Screen Rate and the Reference Banks (or, if there is only one Reference Bank at the relevant time, that Reference Bank) do not or, as the case may be, does not, before 1.00 p.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for an Interest Period, provide quotations to the Agent in order to fix LIBOR; or |
(b) | at least 1 Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, a Lender may notify the Agent that LIBOR fixed by the Agent would not accurately reflect the cost to that Lender of funding its respective Contribution (or any part of it) 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 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 Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and each of the Lenders and the Swap Bank stating the circumstances falling within Clause 5.7 which have caused its notice to be given.
5.9 | Suspension of drawdown |
If the Agent’s notice under Clause 5.8 is served before a Tranche is made:
(a) | in a case falling within Clauses 5.7(a) or 5.7(b), the Lenders’ obligations to make the Tranche; and |
(b) | in a case falling within Clause 5.7(c), the Affected Lender’s obligation to participate in the Tranche, |
shall be suspended while the circumstances referred to in the Agent’s notice continue.
5.10 | Negotiation of alternative rate of interest |
If the Agent’s notice under Clause 5.8 is served after a Tranche is made, the Borrowers, the Agent, the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender and the Swap Bank shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, within 30 days after the date on which the 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 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 Agent shall, with the agreement of each Lender or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender, set an interest period, not exceeding 3 months, 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 plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any) applicable to each Lender’s or (as the case may be) to the Affected Lender’s Contribution in that Tranche; 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 Agent.
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5.13 | Notice of prepayment |
If the Borrowers do not agree with an interest rate set by the Agent under Clause 5.12, the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than 30 days’ notice of their intention to prepay the Loan at the end of the interest period set by the Agent.
5.14 | Prepayment; termination of Commitments |
A notice under Clause 5.13 shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders or (as the case may require) the Affected Lender of the Borrowers’ notice of intended prepayment; and:
(a) | on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Total Commitments or (as the case may require) the Commitment of the Affected Lender shall be cancelled; and |
(b) | on the last Business Day of the interest period set by the Agent, the Borrowers 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) applicable to the Affected Lender’s Contribution. |
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 a Tranche shall commence on the Drawdown Date in respect of such Tranche and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.
6.2 | Duration of normal Interest Periods |
Subject to Clauses 6.3 and 6.4, each Interest Period shall be:
(a) | 3, 6, 9 or 12 months as notified by the Borrowers to the Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. (Rotterdam time) 2 Business Days before the commencement of the Interest Period; or |
(b) | in the case of the first Interest Period applicable to the second and each subsequent Tranche, a period ending on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the first Tranche then current, whereupon all Tranches shall be consolidated and treated as the Loan; |
(c) | 3 months, if the Borrowers fail to notify the Agent by the time specified in paragraph (a); or |
(d) | such other period as the Agent may, with the authorisation of all the Lenders, agree with the Borrowers. |
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 shall end on that Repayment Date.
6.4 | Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected |
If, after the Borrowers have selected and the Lenders have agreed an Interest Period longer than 6 months, any Lender notifies the Agent by 11.00 a.m. (Rotterdam time) on the third 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 6 months.
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7 | DEFAULT INTEREST |
7.1 | Payment of default interest on overdue amounts |
The Borrowers shall pay interest in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 7 on any amount payable by the Borrowers under any Finance Document which the 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 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 Clauses 7.3(a) and 7.3(b); or |
(b) | in the case of any other overdue amount, the rate set out at Clause 7.3(b). |
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 applicable to it); and |
(b) | the aggregate of the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any) plus, in respect of successive periods of any duration (including at call) up to 3 months which the Agent may select from time to time: |
(i) | LIBOR; or |
(ii) | if the Agent (after consultation with the Reference Banks) determines that Dollar deposits for any such period are not being made available to any Reference Bank by leading banks in the London Interbank Market in the ordinary course of business, a rate from time to time determined by the Agent by reference to the cost of funds to the Reference Banks from such other sources as the Agent (after consultation with the Reference Banks) may from time to time determine. |
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7.4 | Notification of interest periods and default rates |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrowers of each interest rate determined by the Agent under Clause 7.3 and of each period selected by the Agent for the purposes of paragraph 7.3(b) of that Clause; but this shall not be taken to imply that the Borrowers are liable to pay such interest only with effect from the date of the 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 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 Transaction as to which section 2(e) (Default Interest and Compensation) of the Master Agreement shall apply.
8 | REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT |
8.1 | Amount of repayment instalments |
The Borrowers shall repay each Tranche by:
(a) | 16 equal consecutive quarterly instalments in the amount of $320,000 each (each a “Repayment Instalment”); and |
(b) | a balloon instalment in the amount of $7,380,000 (the “Balloon Instalment”) |
Provided that if the amount drawn down in respect of a Tranche is less than $12,500,000, the Repayment Instalments and the Balloon Instalment in respect of that Tranche will be reduced pro rata by an amount in aggregate equal to such shortfall.
8.2 | Repayment Dates |
The first instalment for each Tranche shall be repaid on the date falling 3 months after the Drawdown Date relating to that Tranche, each subsequent instalment shall be repaid at three-monthly intervals thereafter and the last instalment for each Tranche together with the Balloon Instalment in respect thereof shall be repaid not later than the Final Maturity Date.
8.3 | Final Repayment Date |
On the Final Maturity Date, the Borrowers shall additionally pay to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Parties all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.
8.4 | Voluntary prepayment |
Subject to the following conditions, the Borrowers may prepay the whole or any part of the Loan on the last day of an Interest Period.
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8.5 | Conditions for voluntary prepayment |
The conditions referred to in Clause 8.4 are that:
(a) | a partial prepayment shall be $250,000 or a higher integral multiple of $250,000; |
(b) | the Agent has received from the Borrowers at least (i) 15 Business Days’ prior written indicative notice and (ii) 10 Business Days’ prior written confirmative and irrevocable notice, in each case specifying the amount to be prepaid and the date on which the prepayment is to be made (such date shall be the last day of the Interest Period then current); |
(c) | the Borrowers have provided evidence satisfactory to the Agent that any consent required by any 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 any Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with; and |
(d) | the Borrowers have complied with Clauses 8.12 and 8.13 (if applicable) on or prior to the date of prepayment. |
8.6 | Effect of notice of prepayment |
A prepayment notice may not be withdrawn or amended without the consent of the Agent, given with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, and the amount specified in the prepayment notice shall become due and payable by the Borrowers on the date for prepayment specified in the prepayment notice.
8.7 | Notification of notice of prepayment |
The 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 Borrowers under Clause 8.5(c).
8.8 | Mandatory prepayment |
The Borrowers shall be obliged to prepay the Relevant Amount (subject to Clauses 8.9, 8.12 and, if applicable, 8.13) if a Ship is sold (including, without limitation, if it is sold for scrap) or refinanced by another bank or financial institution or becomes a Total Loss:
(a) | in the case of a sale, on or before the earlier of (i) the date on which the sale is completed by delivery of |
(b) | in the case of a refinancing, on the date on which the refinancing is completed; or |
(c) | in the case of a Total Loss, on the earlier of (i) the date falling 120 days after the Total Loss Date in respect of that Ship and (ii) the date of
receipt by the Security Trustee of the proceeds of insurance or requisition compensation relating to such Total Loss |
In this Clause 8.8, “Relevant Amount” means the greater of (i) the amount of the Tranche relative to the Ship which is to
be sold and/or refinanced and/or has become Total Loss and (ii) an amount which after the application of the prepayment to be made pursuant to this Clause 8.8, results in the security cover ratio under Clause 15.1 in respect of each of the
remaining Tranches being at least equal to the applicable Relevant Percentage.; and
8.9 | Amounts payable on prepayment |
A prepayment shall be made together with accrued interest (and any other amount payable under Clause 21 or otherwise) in respect of the amount prepaid and, if the prepayment is
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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 other than, if applicable, the Prepayment Fee pursuant to Clause 8.13.
8.10 | Application of partial prepayment |
Each partial prepayment made pursuant to:
(a) | Clause 8.4 shall be applied pro rata against the then outstanding repayment instalments and the Balloon Instalment of the Tranche being prepaid as specified in Clause 8.1; and |
(b) | Clause 8.8 shall be applied in full repayment of the Tranche used to finance the Ship which has been sold, become a Total Loss or has been refinanced and any balance shall be applied against the remaining Tranches on a pro rata basis (in the manner described in paragraph (a) of this Clause 8.10). |
8.11 | No reborrowing |
No amount repaid or prepaid may be reborrowed.
8.12 | 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, each Borrower shall wholly or partially reverse, offset, unwind or otherwise terminate one or more of the continuing Designated Transactions so 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.
8.13 | Prepayment Fee |
If the Loan is prepaid in full through a refinancing by any bank of financial institution other than ABN AMRO Bank N.V., at any time during the period commencing from the Drawdown Date of the last Tranche to be drawn under this Agreement and ending on the first anniversary thereof, the Borrowers shall pay to the Lenders on the date on which such prepayment is effected pursuant to Clause 8 a prepayment fee (the “Prepayment Fee”) of 1 per cent of the Loan outstanding at the relevant time.
8.14 | Mandatory Prepayment in case of Change of Control |
(a) | If a Change of Control occurs, the Agent may, and on the instructions of the Lenders shall, serve on the Borrowers a notice demanding the Borrowers to prepay the Loan and all other amounts then outstanding under the Finance Documents and upon receipt of which: |
(b) |
(c) |
(d) | In this Clause 8.14 “Change of Control” means if any of the following occurs in relation to the Borrowers and/or the Corporate Guarantor: |
(i) | subject to paragraph (ii) below, without the prior consent of the Lenders, a change has occurred after the date of this Agreement in the direct or ultimate, legal or beneficial ownership of any of the limited liability company interests in any of the Borrowers or in the direct or ultimate control of the voting rights attaching to any of those interests; or |
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(ii) | other than in the case of an initial public offering of the limited liability company interests of the Corporate Guarantor on any stock exchange (with the Agent’s prior written consent (to be given with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders) such consent not to be unreasonably withheld)), the members disclosed to the Agent prior to the date of this Agreement cease to own in aggregate at least 50 per cent. of the limited liability company interests (with a right to vote) of the Corporate Guarantor; or |
(iii) | Xx Xxxxxx Yiouroukos ceases to have a key position in the executive management of the Corporate Guarantor; or |
(iv) | any Borrower ceases to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Corporate Guarantor. |
8.15 | Prepayment out of Excess Earnings |
If on an Excess Cash Flow Date, the aggregate of the daily Earnings of the Ships then subject to a Mortgage for the preceding Cash Sweep Period exceeds the aggregate of:
(a) | the aggregate of the Operating Expenses in respect of the Ships; and |
(b) | the sums incurred by the Borrowers in respect of the payment of principal of, and accrued interest on, the Loan pursuant to this Agreement and any sums paid by the Borrowers pursuant to the Master Agreement (the “Debt Service”), during such six month period, |
the Borrowers shall pay such excess amount (the “Excess Cash Flow”), as evidenced in the relevant Excess Cash Flow Notice, to the Agent, on the next Repayment Instalment falling due after receipt of such relevant Excess Cash Flow Notice, for application towards pro rata prepayment of the then outstanding Repayment Instalments.
In this Cause 8.15:
“Cash Sweep Period” means, in relation to each Ship, each six-month period commencing on 1 January and 1 July in each financial year of the Borrowers, during the period commencing on the date falling six months after the Drawdown Date of the Tranche relevant to that Ship and ending on the date that the outstanding amount of the Loan is equal to the aggregate amount of the Balloon Instalments;
“Excess Cash Flow Date” means the last day of each Cash Sweep Period; and
“Excess Cash Flow Notice” means a certificate to be provided by the Borrowers to the Agent within 45 days from each Excess Cash Flow Date evidencing the Excess Cash Flow available on such date.
9 | CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
9.1 | Documents, fees and no default |
Each Lender’s obligation to contribute to a Tranche is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) | that, on or before the service of the first Drawdown Notice, the Agent receives the documents described in Part A of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers; |
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(b) | that, on each Drawdown Date but prior to the making of the Tranche to be advanced on that Drawdown Date, the Agent receives or is satisfied that it will receive on the making of such Tranche or the Delivery Date of the Ship financed by that Tranche the documents described in Part B of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to it and its lawyers; |
(c) | that on or before the date of this Agreement, the Agent receives the arrangement fee and, if applicable, the agency fee referred to in Clauses 20.1(a) and 20.1(c) respectively; |
(d) | that |
(e) | that on or before: |
(i) | the Drawdown Date of the Tranche financing Ship B, the Agent
(in its capacity as Zeus Lender and Platon Security Agent) receives or is satisfied that it will receive on the Delivery Date of Ship B, a second |
(ii) | the Drawdown Date of each subsequent Tranche, the Agent receives (in its capacity as Lender in the case of the Zeus Loan Agreement and Security Trustee in the case
of Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socreates Loan Agreement) or is satisfied that it will receive on the Delivery Date of the Ship being financed by that Tranche a second |
in form and substance acceptable to the Agent (in its capacity as Zeus Lender and
Platon Security Trustee) and cause that mortgage to be permanently registered in accordance with the laws of the relevant Approved Flag State as security for the obligations of the relevant borrowers under each of
Platon, Rea, Kronos and Socrates under the Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement and Zeus under the Zeus Loan
Agreement, or, if required by the Agent (in its capacity as Zeus Lender and Platon Security Trustee), to secure a guarantee given by that Borrower owning that Ship of the obligations of
the borrowers of each of Platon, Rea, Kronos and Socrates under the Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos-Socrates Loan Agreement and
Zeus under the Zeus Loan Agreement) together with such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A as the Agent may require;
(f) | that on or before the Drawdown Date of the Tranche financing Ship B, the Agent receives or is satisfied that it will receive on the making of such Tranche or on the Delivery Date of Ship B, the additional documents described in Part C of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to it and its lawyers; |
(g) |
(i) | no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the borrowing of the relevant Tranche; |
(ii) | the representations and warranties in Clause 10 and those of any 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 |
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(iii) | none of the circumstances contemplated by Clause 5.7 has occurred and is continuing; and |
(iv) | there has been no Material Adverse Change; and |
(h) |
9.2 | Waiver of conditions precedent |
If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, permit a Tranche to be borrowed before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 9.1 are satisfied, the Borrowers shall ensure that those conditions are satisfied within 10 Business Days after the relevant Drawdown Date (or such longer period as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, specify).
9.3 | Condition Subsequent |
(a) | As soon as possible and in any case not later than the date falling 3 months following drawdown of each of the first and the second Tranche drawndown under this Agreement respectively, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Agent: |
(i) |
(ii) | in the case of each Approved Charter, |
(iii) |
(b) | as soon as possible and in any case not later than 3 months, in the case of Kronos and 5 months, in the case of Rea, from the date of the Amending and Restating Agreement, the Borrowers shall procure that each of Rea and Kronos shall deliver to the Agent the following documents: |
(i) | a duly executed original of each of the Rea Mortgage, the Rea General Assignment, the Rea Manager’s Undertakings, the Kronos Mortgage, the Kronos General Assignment and the Kronos Manager’s Undertaking and, as the case may be, the Rea Charter Assignment and/or the Kronos Charter Assignment and of each document to be delivered under each of them; |
(ii) | documentary evidence showing that: |
(A) | each of Rea Ship and Kronos Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered (save for any Security Interest created pursuant to the Xxxxxx-Xxx-Kronos- Socrates Loan Agreement and the Zeus Loan Agreement) ownership of the Collateral Owner which is the owner thereof save as contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
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(B) | each of Rea Ship and Kronos Ship maintains the highest available class with a first class classification society which is a member of IACS as the Agent may approve free of all overdue recommendations and conditions of such classification society; |
(C) | each of the Rea Mortgage and Kronos Mortgage has been duly registered against the Collateral Ship relevant thereto as a valid third preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of an Approved Flag Stage; |
(D) | each of the Rea Ship and the Kronos Ship is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with; and |
(E) | documents establishing that each the Rea Ship and the Kronos Ship is managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Agent together with copies of the Safety Management Certificate and ISSC (together with any other details of the applicable safety management system which the Agent requires) and ISSC; and |
(iii) | if applicable, certifies true copies of the Charters in respect of the Rea Ship or, as the case may be, the Kronos Ship duly executed by the parties to it together with such documentary evidence as the Agent and its legal advisers may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution of Rea or, as the case may be, Kronos and the charterer to which each a party; |
(iv) | favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the law of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, the Approved Flag State on which the Rea Ship or, as the case may be, the Kronos Ship is registered and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require; |
(v) | a favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Agent on such matters relating to the insurances for the Rea Ship or, as the case may be, the Kronos Ship as the Agent may require; and |
(vi) | such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A as the Agent may require. |
10 | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
10.1 | General |
Each Borrower represents and warrants to each Creditor Party as follows.
10.2 | Status |
Each Borrower is a limited liability company duly formed and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the Xxxxxxxx Islands.
10.3 | Limited Liability Company Interests and ownership |
As of the date of this Agreement, each Borrower is authorized to issue 500 limited liability company interests, all of which have been issued to the Corporate Guarantor and are owned free of any Security Interest or other claim except the Security Interests created in favour of the Security Trustee under the Finance Documents.
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10.4 | Limited Liability Company power |
Each Borrower has the limited liability capacity, and has taken all limited liability company action and obtained all consents necessary for it:
(a) | to carry out its business carried on or to be carried out by it and own its assets owned or to be owned by it; |
(b) | to execute the Sale Agreement to which it is a party, to purchase and pay for the relevant Ship under the Sale Agreement in relation to that Ship and register the relevant Ship in its name under the applicable Approved Flag; |
(c) | to execute the Finance Documents to which that 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 it 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 each 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) | are in full force and effect; |
(b) | constitute that Borrower’s legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against that Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and |
(c) | 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 the Legal Reservations.
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 a Borrower is a party:
(a) | each Borrower which is a party to that Finance Document 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 each Borrower of each Finance Document to which it is a party, and the borrowing by that 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 applicable law or regulation; or |
(b) | the constitutional documents of that Borrower; or |
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(c) | any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on that Borrower or any of its assets, |
(d) | which in each case has, or is likely to have, a Material Adverse Effect. |
10.9 | No withholding taxes |
All payments which each Borrower is liable to make under the Finance Documents to which it is a party may be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any Pertinent Jurisdiction. No Finance Document is subject to any filing or stamp duty in any Pertinent Jurisdiction.
10.10 | No default |
No Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred.
10.11 | Information |
All information which has been provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrowers 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.
10.12 | No litigation |
No legal or administrative action against any Borrower (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code) has been commenced or taken or, to any Borrower’s knowledge, is likely to be commenced or taken which legal or administrative action has or is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
10.13 | Validity and completeness of the Sale Agreements |
(a) | the copies of the Sale Agreements delivered to the Agent before the date of this Agreement are true and complete copies; |
(b) | each Sale Agreement constitutes valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the parties thereto in accordance with its terms; and |
(c) | other than those amendments, additions and waivers to the Sale Agreements disclosed to the Agent before the date of this Agreement or otherwise entered into in accordance with this Agreement, no amendments or additions to any Sale Agreement have been agreed nor has a Borrower or the Seller relative to that Sale Agreement waived any of their respective rights under the Sale Agreement to which it is a party. |
10.14 | No rebates etc. |
There is no agreement or understanding to allow or pay any rebate, premium, commission, discount or other benefit or payment (howsoever described) to any Borrower, the Seller or a third party in connection with the purchase by any Borrower of the relevant Ship, other than as disclosed to the Lenders in writing on or prior to the date of this Agreement.
10.15 | Compliance with certain undertakings |
At the date of this Agreement, the Borrowers are in compliance with Clauses 11.2, 11.4, 11.9 and 11.13.
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10.16 | Taxes paid |
Each Borrower has paid all taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to that Borrower, its business or the Ship owned by it.
10.17 | ISM Code and ISPS Code compliance |
All requirements of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code as they relate to the Borrowers, the Approved Managers and the Ships have been or, will be, on or before the Delivery Date of the relevant Ship, complied with.
10.18 | No money laundering; anti-bribery |
(a) | Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 2.3, in relation to the borrowing by each Borrower, the performance and discharge of its obligations and liabilities under the Finance Documents, and the transactions and other arrangements affected or contemplated by the Finance Documents to which each Borrower is a party, each Borrower confirms (i) it is acting for its own account; (ii) it will use the proceeds of the Loan for its own benefit, under its full responsibility and exclusively for the purposes specified in this Agreement; and (iii) that the foregoing will not involve or lead to a contravention of any law, official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat “money laundering” (as defined in Article 1 of Directive (2005/60/EC) of the European Parliament and of the Council). |
(b) | Each Borrower will promptly inform the 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. |
(c) | The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any written notice it receives under this Clause 10.18. |
10.19 | No immunity |
None of the Borrowers, nor any of their assets are entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (which shall include, without limitation, suit attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement).
10.20 | Pari passu ranking |
The obligations of each Security Party under the Finance Documents to which it is a party rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.
10.21 | Patriot Act |
To the extent applicable each Borrower is in compliance with (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 C.F.R., Subtitle B, Chapter V) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto and (ii) the PATRIOT Act. No part of the proceeds of the Loan will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any government official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
10.22 | Repetition |
The representations and warranties in this Clause 10 shall be deemed to be repeated by the Borrowers:
(a) | on the date of service of each Drawdown Notice; |
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(b) | on each Drawdown Date; and |
(c) | with the exception of Clauses 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 and 10.13, on the first day of each Interest Period and on the date of any Compliance Certificate issued pursuant to clause 11.20 of the Corporate Guarantee, |
(d) | as if made with reference to the facts and circumstances existing on each such day. |
11 | GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS |
11.1 | General |
Each 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 Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit in writing (and in the case of Clauses 11.3 and 11.13 such permission not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
11.2 | Title; negative pledge |
Each Borrower will:
(a) | as from the relevant Delivery Date, hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in the Ship owned by it, her Insurances and Earnings, 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 (except for Permitted Security Interests) over any other asset, present or future (including, but not limited to, that Borrower’s rights against the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement or all or any part of that Borrower’s interest in any amount payable to that Borrower by the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement); 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 and unsubordinated liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatorily preferred by law. |
11.3 | No disposal of assets |
None of the Borrowers will 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; 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 14.13 applies. |
11.4 | No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred |
None of the Borrowers will incur any liability or obligation except:
(a) | liabilities and obligations under the Sale Agreement and the Finance Documents to which it is a party; |
(b) | liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the normal course of its business of trading, operating and chartering the Ship owned by it; |
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(c) | in respect of the Designated Transactions; and |
(d) | liabilities or obligations under any Permitted Loans. |
11.5 | Information provided to be accurate |
All financial and other information which is provided in writing by or on behalf of a 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 |
Each Borrower will send or procure that are sent to the Agent:
(a) | as soon as available, but in no event later than 180 days after the end of the Financial Year of the Corporate Guarantor, the annual audited consolidated financial statements of the Corporate Guarantor for that Financial Year (commencing with accounts for the year ending 31 December 2014); |
(b) | as soon as available, but in no event later than 90 days after the end of the 6-month period ending on 30 June in each Financial Year of the Borrowers, the management accounts of each Borrower which show the operation of its Ship for the preceding 6-month period (commencing with the 6-month period ending 30 June 2015) which are certified as to their correctness by an authorised officer of the Corporate Guarantor to which the accounts relate; |
(c) | as soon as available, but in no event later than 90 days after the end of the 6-month period ending on 30 June in each Financial Year of the Corporate Guarantor, the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Corporate Guarantor in respect of the preceding 6-month period (commencing with the 6-month period ending 30 June 2015) which are certified as to their correctness by an authorised officer of the Corporate Guarantor to which the accounts relate; and |
(d) | promptly after each request by the Agent, such further information regarding the financial condition, business and operation of the Borrowers, the Ships and the Corporate Guarantor as the Agent may reasonably require. |
11.7 | Form of financial statements |
All accounts delivered under Clause 11.6 will:
(a) | be prepared in accordance with all applicable laws and IFRS consistently applied; |
(b) | give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the relevant Borrower and the Guarantor 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 Borrower and the Guarantor. |
11.8 | Shareholder and creditor notices |
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default each Borrower will send to the Agent, at the same time as they are despatched, copies of all communications which are despatched to that Borrower’s members or creditors or any class of them.
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11.9 | Consents |
Each Borrower will maintain in force and promptly obtain or renew, and will promptly send certified copies to the Agent of, all consents required:
(a) | for that Borrower to perform its obligations under the Sale Agreement and any Finance Document to which it is a party; |
(b) | for the validity or enforceability under the Sale Agreement and any Finance Document to which it is a party; and |
(c) | for that Borrower to continue to own and operate the Ship owned by it, |
and that Borrower will comply with the terms of all such consents.
11.10 | Maintenance of Security Interests |
Each Borrower will:
(a) | at its own cost, do all that it is necessary 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), at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol 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 |
Each Borrower will provide the Agent with details of any legal or administrative action involving that Borrower, any Security Party, an Approved Manager or the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances as soon as such action is instituted or it becomes apparent to that Borrower that it is likely to be instituted, unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered material in the context of any Finance Document and the Borrowers shall procure that reasonable measures are taken to defend any such legal or administrative action.
11.12 | No amendment to Master Agreement |
None of the Borrowers will agree to any amendment or supplement to, or waive or fail to enforce, the Master Agreement or any of its provisions.
11.13 | No amendment to Sale Agreement |
None of the Borrowers will agree to any material amendment or supplement to, or waive or fail to enforce, the Sale Agreement to which it is a party or any of its provisions.
11.14 | Principal place of business |
Each Borrower will maintain a place of business, and keep its corporate documents (or copies thereof) and records (or copies thereof), at the address stated in Clause 28.2(a); and none of the Borrowers will establish, or do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in any country other than Greece or United States of America.
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11.15 | Confirmation of no default |
Each Borrower will, within 5 Business Days after service by the Agent of a written request, serve on the Agent a notice which is signed by the authorised representative or a director of that Borrower and which:
(a) | states that no Potential Event of Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; or |
(b) | states that no Potential Event of Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given. |
The 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 (if no Tranches have been made) Commitments exceeding 10 per cent. of the Total Commitments; and this Clause 11.15 does not affect the Borrowers’ obligations under Clause 11.16.
11.16 | Notification of default |
Each Borrower will notify the Agent as soon as that Borrower becomes aware of:
(a) | the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default; or |
(b) | any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred, |
and will keep the Agent fully up-to-date with all developments.
11.17 | Provision of further information |
(a) |
(i) | to the Borrowers, the Group, the Ships, the other Fleet Vessels, their Insurances or their Earnings (including, but not limited to, any sales or purchases of any Fleet Vessels, the incurrence of Financial Indebtedness by members of the Group, the refinancing or restructuring of any loan or credit facilities to which any members of the Group are a party (to the extent permitted to disclose information under the terms of such loan or credit facilities) as the Agent may reasonably require; or |
(ii) | to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document, |
which may be requested by the Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender at any time; and
(b) | Each Borrower will immediately notify the Agent if, prior to the delivery of the Compliance Certificate pursuant to clause 11.20 of the Corporate Guarantee, it becomes aware that the financial covenants included in clause 11.19 of the Corporate Guarantee will not be complied with. |
11.18 | Provision of copies and translation of documents |
Each Borrower will supply the Agent with a sufficient number of copies of the documents referred to above to provide 1 copy for each Creditor Party; and if the Agent so requires in respect of any of those documents, the Borrowers will provide a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent.
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11.19 | Minimum Liquidity |
Each Borrower undertakes to maintain in its Earnings Account from the Drawdown Date of the Tranche financing the Ship owned or to be owned by it and at all times thereafter, a credit balance of not less than $500,000 (the “Minimum Liquidity Amount”).
11.20 | “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 any 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 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 Borrowers shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or the Lender concerned supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the 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 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, including without limitation obtaining, verifying and recording certain information and documentation that will allow the Agent and each of the Lenders to identify each Borrower and any Security Party in accordance with the requirements of the PATRIOT Act.
11.21 | Sanctions and compliance with laws |
(a) | Compliance with laws |
Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each Security Party and each other member of the Group and each Affiliate of any of them shall, comply in all respect with all Sanctions.
(b) | Sanctions |
(i) | Each Borrower undertakes that it, and shall procure that each Security Party and any other member of the Group or any Affiliate of any of them, or any director, officer, agent, employee or person acting on behalf of the foregoing, is not a Restricted Person and does not act directly or indirectly on behalf of a Restricted Person. |
(ii) | Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each Security Party and any other member of the Group and each Affiliate of any of them shall, not use any revenue or benefit derived from any activity or dealing with a Restricted Person in discharging any obligation due or owing to the Creditor Parties. |
(iii) | Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each Security Party shall, procure that no proceeds from any activity or dealing with a Restricted Person are credited to any bank account held with any Creditor Party in its name or in the name of any Security Party or any other member of the Group or any Affiliate of any of them. |
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(iv) | Each Borrower undertakes that it, and shall procure that each Security Party and other member of the Group and each Affiliate of any of them, has taken reasonable measures to ensure compliance with Sanctions. |
(v) | Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each Security Party and each other member of the Group shall, to the extent permitted by law promptly upon becoming aware of them supply to the Agent details of any claim, action, suit, proceedings or investigation against it with respect to Sanctions by any Sanctions Authority. |
(vi) | Each Borrower shall not accept, and shall procure that no Security Party shall, obtain or receive any goods or services from any Restricted Person, except (without limiting paragraph (i) of Clause 11.19)), to the extent relating to any warranties and/or guarantees given and/or liabilities incurred in respect of an activity or dealing with a Restricted Person by any Security Party in accordance with this Agreement. |
(c) | Use of proceeds |
The Borrowers shall not, and shall procure that no Security Party or member of the Group and any Affiliate of any of them shall not, permit or authorise any other person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of, contribute or otherwise make available, all or any part of the proceeds of the Loan or other transactions contemplated by this Agreement to fund or facilitate trade, business or other activities: (a) involving or for the benefit of any Restricted Person; or (b) in any other manner that could result in any Security Party or a Creditor Party being in breach of any Sanctions or becoming a Restricted Person.
(d) | Each party to this Agreement acknowledges and agrees that the Borrower does not undertake under paragraphs (a) to (c) (inclusive) above in favour of any Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany and no such Lender shall have any right thereunder and shall be deemed not to be a party to the provisions of this Clause 11.21 |
11.22 | Subordination and assignment of Permitted Loans |
Each Borrower shall cause (i) all Permitted Loans to be fully subordinated to the Secured Liabilities and (ii) any creditor’s rights under such Permitted Loans to be assigned in favour of the Creditor Parties.
11.23 | Ownership |
Each Borrower shall procure that there is no change in the legal ownership of its limited liability company interests throughout the Security Period.
11.24 | Employees and ERISA Compliance |
None of the Borrowers shall employ any individuals (other than the master and crew members of the Ship), or sponsor, maintain or become obligated to contribute to any Plan. Each Borrower shall provide prompt written notice to the Agent in the event that that Borrower becomes aware that it has incurred or is reasonably likely to incur any liability with respect to any Plan, that, individually or in the aggregate with any other such liability, would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
11.25 | Additional security |
Each Borrower undertakes, promptly following the written request of the Agent, to execute and deliver to the Agent a second priority or, as the case may be, preferred mortgage (and if required by the relevant Approved Flag State, a deed of covenant collateral thereto) and a collateral second priority general assignment over and in respect of each Ship in form and substance acceptable to the Agent and cause the mortgage to be permanently registered in
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accordance with the laws of the relevant Approved Flag State as security for the obligations of the borrowers under the Collateral Loan Agreements (or any of them), or, if required by the Agent, to secure a guarantee given by that Borrower of the obligations of the borrowers of the Collateral Loan Agreements) together with such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A as the Agent may require.
11.26 | Additional Minimum Liquidity |
The Borrowers undertake to maintain in the Retention Account held in the name of Borrower A an amount of not less than $900,000 at all times during the Relevant Charter Period.
12 | CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS |
12.1 | General |
Each 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 Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit in writing (such permission not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
12.2 | Maintenance of status |
Each Borrower will maintain its separate corporate existence and remain in good standing under the laws of The Xxxxxxxx Islands.
12.3 | Negative undertakings |
None of the Borrowers will:
(a) | change the nature of its business; or |
(b) |
(c) | provide any form of credit or financial assistance to: |
(i) | a person who is directly or indirectly interested in that Borrower’s limited liability company interests 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 that Borrower than those which it could obtain in a bargain made at arms’ length;
(d) | open or maintain any account with any bank or financial institution except accounts with the Agent for the purposes of the Finance Documents; |
(e) | issue, allot or grant any person any limited liability company interests other than the Corporate Guarantor; |
(f) | acquire any shares or other securities other than US or UK Treasury bills and certificates of deposit issued by major North American or European banks, or enter into any transaction in a derivative other than the Designated Transactions; |
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(g) | enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation; |
(h) | change its constitutional documents; or |
(i) | acquire any vessel other than the Ship owned or to be owned by it. |
13 | INSURANCE |
13.1 | General |
Each Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply (following the Delivery Date applicable to its Ship and while that Ship is subject to a Mortgage) with the following provisions of this Clause 13 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit.
13.2 | Maintenance of obligatory insurances |
Each Borrower shall keep the Ship owned by it insured at the expense of that Borrower against:
(a) | fire and usual marine risks (including increased value, hull and machinery and excess risks); |
(b) | war risks; |
(c) | protection and indemnity risks (including excess war risk P&I cover); and |
(d) | any other risks (other than loss of hire) against which the Security Trustee considers, having regard to practices and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, it would in the opinion of the Security Trustee be reasonable for that Borrower to insure and which are specified by the Security Trustee by notice to that Borrower. |
13.3 | Terms of obligatory insurances |
Each Borrower shall effect such insurances:
(a) | in Dollars; |
(b) | in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, in such amount as shall from time to time be approved by the Security Trustee but in any event in an amount not less than the greater of (i) an amount which when aggregated with the insured aggregate value of the other Ships, 120 per cent. of the Loan and (ii) the aggregate Market Value of the Ships; |
(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 and in the international marine insurance market; |
(d) | in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the full tonnage of the Ship owned by it; |
(e) | on such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Security Trustee (including, without limitation, a blocking and trapping clause); |
(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. |
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13.4 | Further protections for the Creditor Parties |
In addition to the terms set out in Clause 13.3, each Borrower shall procure that the obligatory insurances effected by it shall:
(a) | subject always to paragraph (b), name that Borrower as the sole named assured and the Approved Manager so co-assured unless the interest of every other named assured is limited: |
(i) | in respect of any obligatory insurances for hull and machinery and war risks; |
(ii) | to any provable out-of-pocket expenses that it has incurred and which form part of any recoverable claim on underwriters; and |
(iii) | to any third party liability claims where cover for such claims is provided by the policy (and then only in respect of discharge of any claims made against it); and |
(iv) | in respect of any obligatory insurances for protection and indemnity risks, to any recoveries it is entitled to make by way of reimbursement following discharge of any third party liability claims made specifically against it; |
and every other named assured has undertaken in writing to the Security Trustee (in such form as it requires) that any deductible shall be apportioned between that Borrower and every other named assured in proportion to the gross claims made or paid by each of them and that it 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;
(b) | whenever the Security Trustee requires, 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; |
(c) | name the Security Trustee as loss payee with such directions for payment as the Security Trustee may specify; |
(d) | 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; |
(e) | provide that the obligatory insurances shall be primary without right of contribution from other insurances which may be carried by the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party; and |
(f) | provide that the Security Trustee may make proof of loss if that Borrower fails to do so. |
13.5 | Renewal of obligatory insurances |
Each Borrower shall:
(a) | at least 14 days (or such other shorter period as the Agent may approve) before the expiry of any obligatory insurance effected by it: |
(b) | notify the Security Trustee of the brokers (or other insurers) and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom that Borrower proposes to renew that obligatory insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and |
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(c) | obtain the Security Trustee’s approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i); |
(d) | at least 5 Business Days (or such other shorter period as the Agent may approve) before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew that obligatory insurance in accordance with the Security Trustee’s approval pursuant to paragraph (a); and |
(e) | 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. |
13.6 | Copies of policies; letters of undertaking |
Each Borrower shall ensure that all approved brokers provide the Security Trustee with pro forma copies of all policies relating to the obligatory insurances which they are to effect or renew and of a letter or letters of undertaking in a form required by the Security Trustee 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 Borrower 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 Borrower 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 |
Each Borrower shall ensure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations in which the Ship owned by it is entered provides the Security Trustee with:
(a) | a certified copy of the certificate of entry for that Ship; |
(b) | a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as may be required by the Security Trustee; |
(c) | where required to be issued under the terms of insurance/indemnity provided by a Borrower’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 Borrower 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. |
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13.8 | Deposit of original policies |
Each Borrower shall ensure that all policies relating to obligatory insurances effected by it are deposited with the approved brokers through which the insurances are effected or renewed.
13.9 | Payment of premiums |
Each Borrower shall punctually pay all premiums or other sums payable in respect of the obligatory insurances effected by it and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Security Trustee.
13.10 | Guarantees |
Each Borrower 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 | Compliance with terms of insurances |
None of the Borrowers shall do nor omit to do (nor permit 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 under an obligatory insurance repayable in whole or in part; and, in particular:
(a) | each Borrower 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 13.6(c)) 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) | none of the Borrowers 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) | each Borrower shall make (and promptly supply copies to the Agent 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 |
(d) | none of the Borrowers shall employ the Ship owned by it, nor 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. |
13.12 | Alteration to terms of insurances |
None of the Borrowers shall either make or agree to any alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance nor waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance.
13.13 | Settlement of claims |
None of the Borrowers shall settle, compromise or abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty, and 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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13.14 | Provision of copies of communications |
Each Borrower shall provide the Security Trustee if so required by the Security Trustee, at the time of each such communication, copies of all written communications between that Borrower and:
(a) | the approved brokers; |
(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: |
(d) | that Borrower’s obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional premiums or calls; |
(e) | any credit arrangements made between that Borrower and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) relating wholly or partly to the effecting or maintenance of the obligatory insurances; and |
(f) | a claim under any obligatory insurances of the Ship. |
13.15 | Provision of information |
In addition, each Borrower 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 or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any such insurances, |
and the Borrowers shall, forthwith upon demand, indemnify the Security Trustee in respect of all 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).
13.16 | Mortgagee’s interest marine insurance and additional perils insurance |
The Security Trustee shall be entitled from time to time to effect, maintain and renew a mortgagee’s interest marine insurance and mortgagee’s interest additional perils insurance in an amount not less than 120 per cent. of the Loan on such terms, through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Security Trustee may from time to time consider appropriate and each Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Creditor Parties 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.
13.17 | Review of insurance requirements |
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Security Trustee 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 Security Trustee, significant and capable of affecting the Borrowers, the Ships and their Insurances (including, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance coverage or the risks to which each Borrower may be subject), and may appoint insurance consultants in relation to this review at the cost of the relevant Borrower.
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13.18 | Modification of insurance requirements |
The Security Trustee shall notify the Borrowers of any proposed modification under Clause 13.17 to the requirements of this Clause 13 which the Security Trustee reasonably consider appropriate in the circumstances, and such modification shall take effect on and from the date it is notified in writing to the relevant Borrower as an amendment to this Clause 13 and shall bind that Borrower accordingly.
13.19 | 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 Borrower owning that Ship implements any amendments to the terms of the obligatory insurances and any operational changes required as a result of a notice served under Clause 13.18.
14 | SHIP COVENANTS |
14.1 | General |
Each Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 14 at all times during the Security Period (following the Delivery Date applicable to its Ship except as the Agent, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may otherwise permit in writing (and in case of Clauses 14.2 and 14.12(d) such permission not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
14.2 | Ship’s name and registration |
Each Borrower shall keep the Ship owned by it registered in its name under an 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 the Ship owned by it.
14.3 | Repair and classification |
Each Borrower shall keep the Ship owned by it in a good and safe condition and state of repair:
(a) | consistent with first-class ship ownership and management practice; |
(b) | so as to maintain the highest class free of overdue recommendations and conditions with a first-class classification society which is a member of IACS acceptable to the Agent (such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld); |
(c) | so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered at ports in the applicable 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 and the ISPS Code. |
14.4 | Modification |
None of the Borrowers shall make any modification or repairs to, or replacement of, any Ship or equipment installed on it which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of that Ship or materially reduce its value.
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14.5 | Removal of parts |
None of the Borrowers 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 Borrower and subject to the security constituted by the relevant Mortgage Provided that a Borrower may install and, subject to the Agent’s consent, remove (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, if such removal will not, in the opinion of the Agent, affect the value of the Ship) equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any risk of damage to the Ship owned by it.
14.6 | Surveys |
Each Borrower 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 Security Trustee provide the Security Trustee, with copies of all survey reports prepared by surveyors appointed by the Borrowers and, if required by the Security Trustee, by a surveyor appointed by the Security Trustee at the Borrowers’ cost.
14.7 | Inspection |
Each Borrower 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 without interfering with the Ship’s trading schedule at the cost of the Borrowers for inspections not more than once in any calendar year to inspect its condition or to satisfy themselves about proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections Provided that if an Event of Default occurs which is continuing the Security Trustee may, by surveyors or other persons appointed by it, board the Ship and carry out such inspection at all times as it deems fit at the Borrowers’ cost.
14.8 | Prevention of and release from arrest |
Each Borrower shall promptly discharge (or, in the case of paragraph (a) below, shall provide evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such liabilities are being contested by that Borrower in good faith by appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made):
(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 its detention in exercise or purported exercise of any such lien or claim, that Borrower shall procure its release by providing bail or otherwise as the circumstances may require.
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14.9 | Compliance with laws etc. |
Each Borrower shall:
(a) | comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws and all other laws or regulations applicable to the Ship owned by it, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of that Borrower; |
(b) | not employ the Ship owned by it nor allow its employment in any manner contrary to any applicable law or regulation in any relevant jurisdiction including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code; |
(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 war risk insurers has been given and that Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the war risk insurers may require; and |
(d) | comply with the PATRIOT Act and the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. |
14.10 | Provision of information |
Each Borrower shall promptly provide the Security Trustee with any information which it requests regarding:
(a) | the Ship owned by it, its 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, the Approved Managers’ 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, of any current charter guarantee and copies of that Borrower’s or the Approved Managers’ Document of Compliance.
14.11 | Notification of certain events |
Each Borrower shall immediately notify the Security Trustee by fax and email, of:
(a) | any entry into any time or consecutive voyage charter in respect of the Ship owned by it for a term which exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed, 12 months; |
(b) | any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty; |
(c) | 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; |
(d) | any requirement or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with; |
(e) | any arrest or detention of the Ship owned by it, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on that Ship or its Earnings or any requisition of that Ship for hire; |
(f) | any intended dry docking of the Ship owned by it; |
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(g) | any Environmental Claim made against that Borrower or in connection with the Ship owned by it, or any Environmental Incident; |
(h) | any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against that Borrower, an Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship owned by it; or |
(i) | 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 Borrower shall keep the Security Trustee advised in writing on a regular basis and in such detail as the Security Trustee shall require of that Borrower’s, the Approved Managers or any other person’s response to any of those events or matters.
14.12 | Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc. |
None of the Borrowers shall, in relation to the Ship owned by it:
(a) | let that Ship on demise charter for any period; |
(b) | enter into any charter in relation to that Ship under which more than 2 months’ hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance; |
(c) | charter that Ship otherwise than on bona fide arm’s length terms at the time when that Ship is fixed; |
(d) | appoint a manager of that Ship other than the Approved Managers or agree to any alteration to the terms of the Approved Managers’ appointment; |
(e) | de-activate or lay up that Ship; or |
(f) | put that Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon it in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed $500,000 (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 its Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other reason. |
14.13 | Notice of Mortgage |
Each Borrower shall keep the relevant Mortgage registered against the Ship owned by it as a valid first priority or 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 Borrower to the Security Trustee.
14.14 | Sharing of Earnings |
None of the Borrowers 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 a Borrower to any Earnings. |
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14.15 | ISPS Code |
Each Borrower shall comply with the ISPS Code and in particular, without limitation, shall:
(a) | procure that the Ship owned by that Borrower 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 Agent immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC. |
14.16 | Charterparty Assignment |
If a Borrower or, as the case may be, a Collateral Owner enters into any Charter, that Borrower or, as the case may be, Collateral Owner shall at the request of the Agent, execute in favour of the Security Trustee a Charterparty Assignment and shall procure to use its best endeavors:
(a) | serve notice of the Charterparty Assignment on the charterer and use its best endeavours to procure that the charterer acknowledges such notice in such form as the Agent may approve or require; and |
(b) | deliver to the Agent such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A as the Agent may require. |
14.17 | Green Award |
If and for so long as the Initial Lender is a Green Award Incentive Provider and a Creditor Party under this Agreement, in the event that any of the Borrowers or either of the Approved Managers complies with the requisite application, auditing and surveying process of Green Award and receives the Green Award certification and the Ship owned by that Borrower or managed by that Approved Manager becomes Green Award certified, the Initial Lender shall reimburse the Borrowers up to an amount equal to 25 per cent of the auditing and annual membership fees required in respect of that Ship (for the avoidance of doubt, such reimbursement shall not be applicable to any application fees).
14.18 | Responsible Ship Recycling |
If a Ship is sold for scrapping, the Borrower owning that Ship shall ensure that that Ship shall be dismantled in a safe, sustainable and socially and environmentally responsible way.
15 | SECURITY COVER |
15.1 | Minimum required security cover |
Clause 15.2 applies if the Agent notifies the Borrowers that:
(a) | the Market Value (determined as provided in Clause 15.3) of any of the Ships; plus |
(b) | the net realisable value of any additional security provided under this Clause 15 divided by the number of the Ships; plus |
(c) | the aggregate of the Minimum Liquidity Amount maintained in the Earnings Account relevant to that Ship in accordance with Clause 11.19 at the relevant time, |
is below the Relevant Percentage of the Tranche which has been used to finance that Ship and the Swap Exposure relevant thereto. |
In this Clause 15.1 “Relevant Percentage” means in relation to each Tranche: |
(i) | 130 per cent. during the period commencing on the Drawdown Date in respect of that Tranche and ending on the third anniversary thereof; and |
(ii) | 135 per cent. at all times thereafter. |
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15.2 | Provision of additional security; prepayment |
If the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) serves a notice on the Borrowers under Clause 15.1, the Borrowers shall prepay such part at least of the Loan as will eliminate the shortfall on or before the date falling 10 Business Days after the date on which the Agent’s notice is served under Clause 15.1 (the “Prepayment Date”) unless at least 1 Business Day before the Prepayment Date the Borrowers have 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 Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, reasonably approve or require.
15.3 | Valuation of Ships |
The Market Value of a Ship at any date is that shown by taking the arithmetic means of two valuations addressed to the Agent, each valuation to be prepared:
(a) | as at a date not more than 30 days previously; |
(b) | by an Approved Broker nominated by the Borrowers and approved by the Agent; |
(c) | with or without physical inspection of the Ship (as the Agent may require); and |
(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. |
15.4 | Value of additional vessel 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 15.3.
15.5 | Valuations binding |
Any valuation under Clause 15.2, 15.3 or 15.4 shall be binding and conclusive as regards the Borrowers, as shall be any valuation which the Majority Lenders make of any additional security which does not consist of or include a Security Interest.
15.6 | Provision of information |
The Borrowers shall promptly provide the Agent and any Approved Broker or expert acting under Clause 15.3 or 15.4 with any information which the Agent or the Approved Broker or expert may request for the purposes of the valuation; and, if the Borrowers fail 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.
15.7 | Frequency of valuations |
Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Agent may commission valuation(s) of the Ship at such times as the Agent shall deem necessary.
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15.8 | Payment of valuation expenses |
Without prejudice to the generality of the
Borrowers’ obligations under Clauses 20.1, 20.3 and 21.3, the Borrowers shall, on demand, pay to the Agent the amount of the fees and expenses of any Approved Broker or expert
instructed by the Agent under this Clause and all legal and other expenses incurred by any Creditor Party in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause Provided that so long as (i) no Event of Default has occurred which is
continuing and (ii) no mandatory prepayment is required to be made pursuant to Clauses 8.8(a(a) and
8.8(c(c), the Borrowers shall not be obliged to pay any such fees or expenses in respect of more than two sets of valuations of each Ship in any calendar year.
15.9 | Application of prepayment |
Clause 8.10(a) shall apply in relation to any prepayment pursuant to Clause 15.2.
16 | PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS |
16.1 | Currency and method of payments |
All payments to be made by the Lenders or by any Borrower under a Finance Document shall be made to the Agent or to the Security Trustee, in the case of an amount payable to it:
(a) | by not later than 11.00 a.m. (New York City time) on the due date; |
(b) | 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 Agent shall specify as being customary at the time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement); |
(c) | in the case of an amount payable by a Lender to the Agent or by any Borrower to the Agent or any Lender, to the account of the Agent with correspondent bank Bank of America Intl. New York (correspondent bank SWIFT:
BOFAUS3N (SWIFT: XXXXXX0X, beneficiary: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Amsterdam and account number: XX00XXXX0000000000) with reference “$62,500,000 facility re |
(d) | in the case of an amount payable to the Security Trustee, to such account as it may from time to time notify to the Borrowers and the other Creditor Parties. |
16.2 | Payment on non-Business Day |
If any payment by any 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. |
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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 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 Agent to that Lender, the Swap Bank or, as the case may be, 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 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 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 Agent |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent may, before making an amount available to a Lender or the Swap Bank, deduct and withhold from that amount any sum which is then due and payable to the Agent from that Lender or the Swap Bank under any Finance Document or any sum which the Agent is then entitled under any Finance Document to require that Lender or the Swap Bank to pay on demand.
16.6 | Agent only obliged to pay when monies received |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent shall not be obliged to make available to any Borrower or any Lender or the Swap Bank any sum which the Agent is expecting to receive for remittance or distribution to that Borrower or that Lender or the Swap Bank until the Agent has satisfied itself that it has received that sum.
16.7 | Refund to Agent of monies not received |
If and to the extent that the Agent makes available a sum to a Borrower or a Lender or the Swap Bank, without first having received that sum, that 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 Agent; and |
(b) | pay to the Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any funding or other loss, liability or expense incurred by the Agent as a result of making the sum available before receiving it. |
16.8 | Agent may assume receipt |
Clause 16.7 shall not affect any claim which the Agent has under the law of restitution, and applies irrespective of whether the Agent had any form of notice that it had not received the sum which it made available.
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16.9 | Creditor Party accounts |
Each Creditor Party shall maintain accounts showing the amounts owing to it by the Borrowers and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrowers and any Security Party.
16.10 | Agent’s memorandum account |
The Agent shall maintain a memorandum account showing the amounts advanced by the Lenders and all other sums owing to the Agent, the Security Trustee and each Lender from the Borrowers and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrowers 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 a Borrower or a Security Party to a Creditor Party, those accounts shall 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 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 those amounts referred to at paragraphs (ii) and (iii) (including, but without limitation, all amounts payable by any Borrower under Clauses 20, 21 and 22 of this Agreement or by any Borrower or any Security Party under any corresponding or similar provision in any other Finance Document); |
(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 (and, for this purpose, the expression “interest” shall include any net amount which any 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 pro rata of the Loan and the Swap Exposure (in the case of the latter, 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); |
(b) | SECONDLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document but which the Agent, by notice to the Borrowers, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties, states in its opinion will either 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 provisions of Clause 17.1(a); and |
(c) | THIRDLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrowers or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it. |
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17.2 | Variation of order of application |
The Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders and the Swap Bank, by notice to the Borrowers, 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 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.
17.4 | Appropriation rights overridden |
This Clause 17 and any notice which the Agent gives under Clause 17.2 shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by any Borrower or any Security Party.
18 | APPLICATION OF EARNINGS; SWAP PAYMENTS |
18.1 | Payment of Earnings and Swap Payments |
Each Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to ensure that, throughout the Security Period (and subject only to the provisions of the General Assignments):
(a) | all Earnings of the Ship owned by it are paid to the Earnings Account for that Ship; and |
(b) | all payments by the Swap Bank to any Borrower under each Designated Transaction are paid to the Earnings Account of that Borrower. |
18.2 | Application of Earnings |
1.2 | Each Borrower undertakes with the Lenders that any funds from time to time credited to, or standing to the credit of, its Earnings Account shall, unless and until an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing (whereupon the provisions of Clause 17.1 shall apply), be available for application in the following manner: |
(a) | in or towards making payments of all amounts due and payable by the Borrowers under this Agreement and the Master Agreement (other than payments of principal and interest pursuant to Clauses 5.1, 7.2 and/or 8.1); |
(b) | in or towards making the transfers to the Retention Accounts required pursuant to Clause 18.3; and |
(c) | any surplus shall be applied in accordance with Clause 8.16 and once Clause 8.16 is no longer applicable, any surplus shall be released to the Borrowers. |
18.3 | Monthly retentions |
Each Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to ensure that, in each calendar month of the Security Period after the Ship owned or to be owned by it has been delivered to it under the relevant Sale Agreement, on such dates as the Agent may from time to time specify, there is transferred to the Retention Account in respect of that Borrower out of the Earnings received in its Earnings Account during the preceding calendar month:
(a) | one-third of the amount of the repayment instalment in respect of the Tranche applicable to its Ship falling due under Clause 8.1 on the next Repayment Date in respect of that Tranche; |
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(b) | the relevant fraction of the aggregate amount of interest on that Tranche which is payable on the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement; and |
(c) | the relevant fraction of the net amount which is payable by the Borrowers to the Swap Bank in respect of any Designated Transaction on the next due date for payment of such amount under the relevant Confirmation. |
The “relevant fraction” is: |
(i) | in relation to paragraph (b) a fraction of which the numerator is 1 and the denominator the number of months comprised in the then current Interest Period applicable to the relevant Tranche (or, if the current Interest Period ends after the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement for the relevant Tranche, the number of months from the later of the commencement of the current Interest Period for the relevant Tranche or the last due date for payment of interest for that Tranche to the next due date for payment of interest for that Tranche under this Agreement); and |
(ii) | in relation to paragraph (c), a fraction of which the numerator is one and the denominator is the number of months between fixed rate payments specified in the relevant Confirmation. |
18.4 | Shortfall in Earnings |
If the aggregate Earnings of a Ship received in the Earnings Account applicable to it are insufficient in any month for the required amount to be transferred to the Retention Account of the Borrower owning that Ship under Clause 18.3, the Borrower owning that Ship shall make up the amount of the insufficiency on demand from the Agent; but, without thereby prejudicing the Agent’s right to make such demand at any time, the Agent may, if so authorised by the Majority Lenders, permit that Borrower to make up all or part of the insufficiency by increasing the amount of any transfer under Clause 18.3 from the Earnings received in the next or subsequent months.
18.5 | Application of retentions |
Until an Event of Default occurs which is continuing, the Agent shall on each Repayment Date and on each due date for the payment of interest under this Agreement distribute to the Lenders in accordance with Clause 16.4 so much of the then balance on the relevant Retention Account as equals:
(a) | the repayment instalment in respect of the relevant Tranche due on that Repayment Date; or |
(b) | the amount of interest in respect of the relevant Tranche payable on that interest payment date, |
(c) | in discharge of the Borrowers’ liability for that repayment instalment or that interest. |
18.6 | Interest accrued on Accounts |
Any credit balance on the Accounts shall bear interest at the rate from time to time offered by the Agent to its customers for Dollar deposits of similar amounts and for periods similar to those for which such balances appear to the Agent likely to remain on the Accounts.
18.7 | No release of accrued interest |
Interest arising under Clause 18.6 shall be credited to the Retention Accounts, respectively but shall not be released to the Borrowers until the end of the Security Period.
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18.8 | Location of accounts |
Each Borrower shall promptly:
(a) | comply with any requirement of the Agent as to the location or re-location of the Accounts (or any of them); and |
(b) | execute any documents which the 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. |
18.9 | Debits for expenses etc. |
The Agent shall be entitled (but not obliged) from time to time to debit any Earnings Account without prior notice in order to discharge any amount due and payable under Clause 20 or 21 to a Creditor Party or payment of which any Creditor Party has become entitled to demand under Clause 20 or 21.
18.10 | Borrowers’ obligations unaffected |
The provisions of this Clause 18 (as distinct from a distribution effected under Clause 18.5) do not affect:
(a) | the liability of the Borrowers to make payments of principal and interest on the due dates; or |
(b) | any other liability or obligation of the Borrowers or any Security Party under any Finance Document. |
19 | EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
19.1 | Events of Default |
An Event of Default occurs if:
(a) | any 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 unless payment is made within 3 Business Days of its due date due to an administrative or technical error or a disruption event in the payment and/or communication system which, in each case, is beyond the control of the Creditor Parties; or |
(b) | any breach occurs of Clause 9.2, 9.3, 10.19, 10.20, 11.2, 11.3, 11.19, 11.21, 11.22, 12.2, 12.3, 13.2, 13.4, 14.2, 18.1 or 18.3 or of clause 11.19 of the Corporate Guarantee; or |
(c) | any breach by any Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraphs (a) or (b)) which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is capable of remedy, and such default continues unremedied 10 days after written notice from the Agent requesting action to remedy the same; or |
(d) | (subject to any applicable grace period specified in any Finance Document) any breach by any Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach falling within paragraphs (a), (b) or (c)); or |
(e) | any representation, warranty or statement made by, or by an officer of, a 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 |
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(f) | any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person (any Financial Indebtedness, exceeding in aggregate, in the case of the Corporate Guarantor $3,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency or currencies) and, in the case of a Borrower, $1,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency or currencies)): |
(i) | any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is not paid when due; or |
(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 or hire purchase agreement (other than a time charter in connection with a Ship, including but not limited to an Approved Charter or a Relevant 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 opinion of the Majority Lenders, unable to pay its debts as they fall due (in respect of a sum of, or sums aggregating, $1,000,000 (in the case of a Borrower)) or $3,000,000 (in the case of the Corporate Guarantor) or more or the equivalent in another currency or currencies, Provided that no Event of Default will occur under this paragraph if that debt is paid by that Relevant Person within 3 Business Days); or |
(ii) | any assets of a Relevant Person are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress or any form of freezing
order |
(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 |
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(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 a Borrower or the Corporate Guarantor 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 |
(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 |
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(h) | any Borrower 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 any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor 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 Agent, the Security Trustee, the Lenders or the Swap Bank 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 Borrower or Collateral Owner to own, operate or charter the Ship or, as the case may be, a Collateral Ship owned by it or to enable any Borrower or any Security Party to comply with any provision which the Majority Lenders consider material of a Finance Document or a Sale Agreement 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) | without the prior written consent of the Agent (to be given with the authorisation of all the Majority Lenders (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld)) the Corporate Guarantor is listed on any stock exchange; |
(l) | any provision which the Majority Lenders 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 except the Permitted Security Interests; or |
(m) | the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or |
(n) | an Event of Default (as defined in section 14 of the Master Agreement) occurs; or |
(o) | 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 Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders; or |
(p) | a default occurs under or in connection with a creditor agreement entered into by a Borrower and/or the Corporate Guarantor; |
(q) |
(r) | any breach occurs of Clauses 11.19, 15.2 and clause 11.19 of the Corporate Guarantee, and such default continues un-remedied 14 days after written notice from the Agent requesting action to remedy the same; |
(s) | any Collateral Owner fails to pay when due any sum representing principal or interest payable under the Collateral Loan Agreement to which it is a party; |
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(t) |
(i) | a change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of any Borrower or the Corporate Guarantor; or |
(ii) | any accident or any Environmental Incident or other event involving any Ship, any Collateral Ship or another vessel owned, chartered or operated by a Relevant Person, |
which 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 Agent may, and if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, the Agent shall: |
(i) | serve on the Borrowers a notice stating that all or part of the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrowers under this Agreement are cancelled; and/or |
(ii) | serve on the Borrowers a notice stating that all or part of the Loan together with 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), the Agent and/or the Lenders are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law; and/or |
(b) |
19.3 | Termination of Commitments |
On the service of a notice under Clause 19.2(a)(i), the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrowers under this Agreement shall be cancelled.
19.4 | Acceleration of Loan |
On the service of a notice under Clause 19.2(a)(ii), all or, as the case may be, part of the Loan, specified in the notice together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing from the Borrowers 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.
19.5 | Multiple notices; action without notice |
The Agent may serve notices under Clauses 19.2(a)(i) or 19.2(a)(ii) simultaneously or on different dates and it and/or the Security Trustee may take any action referred to in Clause 19.2 if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of both or either of such notices.
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19.6 | Notification of Creditor Parties and Security Parties |
The 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 Agent serves on the Borrowers under Clause 19.2; but the notice shall become effective when it is served on the Borrowers, and no failure or delay by the Agent to send a copy or the text of the notice to any other person shall invalidate the notice or provide any Borrower or any Security Party with any form of claim or defence.
19.7 | Creditor Party’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 a 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 and mainly caused by 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 Corporate Guarantor, a Borrower, any other Security Party (other than an Approved Manager and a Collateral Owner).
19.10 | Interpretation |
In Clause
19.1(g(g) 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 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.
20 | FEES AND EXPENSES |
20.1 | Commitment, arrangement and agency fees |
The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent:
(a) | a non-refundable arrangement fee equal to 1.25 per cent. of the Total Commitments (being an amount equal to $781,250) in five equal instalments of $156,250, each payable on or |
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prior to the Drawdown Date of each Tranche (for the avoidance of doubt if a Tranche is not drawdown the relevant arrangement fee applicable to that Tranche shall not be payable by the Borrowers; |
(b) | a non-refundable commitment fee, payable quarterly in arrears at the rate of 0.90 per cent. per annum on the undrawn or un-cancelled amount of the Loan for distribution among the Lenders pro rata to their Commitments during the period from (and including) 16 December 2014 (being the date of the Borrowers’ acceptance of the Agent’s commitment letter) to the earlier of (i) the last day of the Availability Period and (ii) the Drawdown Date in respect of the last Tranche to be drawn hereunder (and on the last day of such period); and |
(c) | an agency fee payable from the date on which a Syndication is completed (as evidenced by a Transfer Certificate duly executed between ABN |
20.2 | Costs of negotiation, preparation etc. |
The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent on its demand the amount of all expenses reasonably and properly incurred by the Agent or the Security Trustee in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution or registration of any Finance Document or any related document or with any transaction contemplated by a Finance Document or a related document (including, but not limited to, any costs incurred by the Agent in connection with the insurance opinion to be provided to it in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part B, Schedule 3).
20.3 | Costs of variations, amendments, enforcement etc. |
The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, on the Agent’s demand, for the account of the Creditor Party concerned the amount of all expenses reasonably and properly incurred by a Creditor Party in connection with:
(a) | any amendment or supplement to a Finance Document, or any proposal for such an amendment to be made; |
(b) | any consent or waiver by the Lenders, the Swap Bank, the Majority Lenders or the Creditor Party concerned under or in connection with a Finance Document, or any request for such a consent or waiver; |
(c) | the valuation of any security provided or offered under Clause 15 or any other matter relating to such security; or |
(d) | where the Security Trustee, in its absolute opinion, considers that there has been a material change to the insurances in respect of a Ship, the review of the insurances of that Ship pursuant to Clause 13.18; and |
(e) | any step taken by the Creditor Party concerned with a view to the protection, exercise or enforcement of any right or Security Interest created by a Finance Document or for any similar purpose. |
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 Borrowers shall promptly pay any tax payable on or by reference to any Finance Document, and shall, on the Agent’s demand, fully indemnify each Creditor Party against any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses resulting from any failure or delay by the Borrowers to pay such a tax.
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20.5 | 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 20 and is accompanied by a breakdown which indicates 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 | INDEMNITIES |
21.1 | Indemnities regarding borrowing and repayment of Loan |
The Borrowers shall fully indemnify the Agent and each Lender on the 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) | a Tranche not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender claiming the indemnity; |
(b) | the receipt or recovery of payment in respect 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 or any FATCA deduction) 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 | Breakage costs |
Without limiting its generality, Clause 21.1 covers any claim, expense, liability or loss, including a loss of a prospective profit, incurred by a Lender:
(a) | in liquidating or employing deposits from third parties acquired or arranged to fund 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); and |
(b) | in terminating, or otherwise in connection with, any interest and/or currency swap or any other transaction entered into (whether with another legal entity or with another office or department of the Lender concerned) to hedge any exposure arising under this Agreement or that part which the Lender concerned determines is fairly attributable to this Agreement of the amount of the liabilities, expenses or losses (including losses of prospective profits) incurred by it in terminating, or otherwise in connection with, a number of transactions of which this Agreement is one. |
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21.3 | Miscellaneous indemnities |
The Borrowers shall fully indemnify each Creditor Party severally on their respective demands in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which may be made or brought against 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 Agent, the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party or by any receiver appointed under a Finance Document; or |
(b) | any other Pertinent Matter, |
other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Creditor Party concerned.
Without prejudice to its generality, this Clause 21.3 covers 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.
21.4 | 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.
21.5 | Currency indemnity |
If any sum due from any Borrower or any Security Party to a Creditor Party under a Finance Document or under any order or judgment relating to a Finance Document 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 or lodging any claim or proof against any Borrower or any Security Party, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or |
(b) | obtaining an order or judgment from any court or other tribunal; or |
(c) | enforcing any such order or judgment, |
the Borrowers shall indemnify the Creditor Party concerned against the loss arising when the amount of the payment actually received by that Creditor Party is converted at the available rate of exchange into the Contractual Currency.
In this Clause 21.4 the “available rate of exchange” means the rate at which the Creditor Party concerned is able at the opening of business (Rotterdam time) on the Business Day after it receives the sum concerned to purchase the Contractual Currency with the Payment Currency.
This Clause 21.4 creates a separate liability of the Borrowers which is distinct from their other liabilities under the Finance Documents and which shall not be merged in any judgment or order relating to those other liabilities.
21.6 | Application to Master Agreement |
For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 21.4 does not apply in respect of sums due from a 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.
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21.7 | 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 is accompanied by a breakdown which indicates 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.
21.8 | Sums deemed due to a Lender |
For the purposes of this Clause 21, a sum payable by the Borrowers to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender.
21.9 | Mandatory cost |
The Borrowers shall, on demand by the Agent, pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Lender, such amount which any Lender certifies in a notice to the Agent to be its good faith determination of the amount necessary to compensate it for complying with:
(a) | in the case of a Lender lending from a lending office in a Participating Member State, the minimum reserve requirements (or other requirements having the same or similar purpose) of the European Central Bank or any other authority or agency which replaces all or any of its functions) in respect of loans made from that facility office; and |
(b) | in the case of any Lender lending from a lending office in the United Kingdom, any reserve asset, special deposit or liquidity requirements (or other requirements having the same or similar purpose) of the Bank of England (or any other governmental authority or agency) and/or paying any fees to the Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority (or any other governmental authority or agency which replaces all or any of their functions), which, in each case, is referable to that Lender’s participation in the Loan. |
21.10 | Notice of prepayment |
If the Borrowers are not willing to continue to indemnify the
Creditor Parties for any tax for which the Creditor Parties liable under Clause 21.1, the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than [14] 14 days’ notice of their
intention to prepay the Loan at the end of an Interest Period.
21.11 | Prepayment. |
A notice under Clause 21.10 shall be irrevocable; and on the date specified in the Borrowers’ notice of intended prepayment, the Commitments shall terminate and the Borrowers shall prepay the Loan, (without premium or penalty) together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any).
22 | NO SET-OFF OR TAX DEDUCTION |
22.1 | No deductions |
All amounts due from the Borrowers under a Finance Document shall be paid:
(a) | without any form of set-off, cross-claim or condition; and |
(b) | free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which a Borrower is required by law to make. |
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22.2 | Grossing-up for taxes |
If a Borrower is required by law to make a tax deduction from any payment:
(a) | that Borrower shall notify the Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement; |
(b) | that Borrower shall pay the tax deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises; |
(c) | the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that 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 otherwise have received. |
22.3 | Evidence of payment of taxes |
Within 1 month after making any tax deduction, the Borrower concerned shall deliver to the Agent documentary evidence satisfactory to the 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 for or on account of any present or future tax, excluding any FATCA Deduction, 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 a 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.
22.6 | Notice of prepayment |
If the Borrowers are not willing to continue to make a tax
deduction under Clause 22.2, the Borrower may give the Lender not less than [14] 14 days’ notice of its intention to prepay the Loan at the end of an Interest Period.
22.7 | Prepayment |
A notice under Clause 22.6 shall be irrevocable; and on the date specified in the Borrowers’ notice of intended prepayment, the Commitments shall terminate and the Borrowers shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Loan, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any).
22.8 | 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 |
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“passthru percentage” or other information required under the US 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 22.6(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 Withholding |
(i) | Each party to any Finance Document may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. |
(ii) | Each party to any Finance Document shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction) notify the party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Borrower, the Agent and the other Creditor Parties. |
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23 | ILLEGALITY, ETC. |
23.1 | Illegality |
This Clause 23 applies if a Lender (for the purposes of this Clause 23, a “Notifying Lender”) notifies the 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 and applicable law, an amendment to an existing and applicable law or a change in the manner in which an existing and applicable law is or will be interpreted or applied; or |
(b) | contrary to, or inconsistent with, any applicable regulation, |
for the Notifying Lender to maintain or give effect to any of its obligations under this Agreement in the manner contemplated by this Agreement.
23.2 | Notification of illegality |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and the other Lenders of any notice under Clause 23.1 which the Agent receives from the Notifying Lender.
23.3 | Prepayment; termination of Commitment |
On the Agent notifying the Borrowers under Clause 23.2, the relevant 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 Borrowers shall prepay the Notifying Lender’s Contribution in accordance with Clause 8.
23.4 | Mitigation |
If circumstances arise which would result in a notification under Clause 23.1 then, without in any way limiting the rights of the Lenders under Clause 23.3, the Notifying Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to transfer its obligations, liabilities and rights under this Agreement and the Finance Documents to another office or financial institution not affected by the circumstances but the Notifying Lender shall not be under any obligation to take any such action if, in its opinion, to do would or might:
(a) | have an adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition; or |
(b) | involve it in any activity which is unlawful or prohibited or any activity that is contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation; or |
(c) | involve it in any expense (unless indemnified to its satisfaction) or tax disadvantage. |
24 | INCREASED COSTS |
24.1 | Increased costs |
This Clause 24 applies if a Lender (the “Notifying Lender”) notifies the 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 the 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 introduction, implementation, application, administration 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, in the form existing on the date of this Agreement (“Basel II”) or any other law or regulation which implements Basel II (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, Finance Party or any of its Affiliates); or |
(ii) | Basel III, CRD IV or CRR or any law or regulation which implements or applies Basel III, CRD IV or CRR (regardless of the date on which it is enacted, adopted or issued and regardless of whether any such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, the Finance Party or any of its Affiliates) after the date of this Agreement, |
the Notifying Lender (or its Holding Company) has incurred or will incur an “increased cost”,
(in each case when compared to the cost of complying with such regulations as determined by the Notifying Lender (or Holding 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),
24.2 | Meaning of “increased cost” |
In this Clause 24, “increased cost” 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, 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 (i) a change in the rate of tax on the overall net income of the Notifying Lender (or a Holding Company of it), (ii) a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a party to a Finance Document or (iii) 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 Borrowers of claim for increased costs |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Security Parties of the notice which the Agent received from the Notifying Lender under Clause 24.1.
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24.4 | Payment of increased costs |
The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, on the Agent’s demand, for the account of the Notifying Lender the amounts which the Agent from time to time notifies the Borrowers 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 Borrowers are not willing to continue to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost under Clause 24.4, the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than 14 days’ notice of their 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 Agent shall promptly notify the Notifying Lender of the Borrowers’ notice of intended prepayment; and:
(a) | on the date on which the 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 Borrowers shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Notifying Lender’s Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any). |
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 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 a Borrower at any office in any country of that Creditor Party in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from that Borrower to that Creditor Party under any of the Finance Documents; and |
(b) | for that purpose: |
(c) | break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of that Borrower; |
(d) | convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars; and |
(e) | 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 Borrowers to the 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 any Borrower.
26 | TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICES |
26.1 | Transfer by Borrowers |
None of the Borrowers may, without the consent of the Agent, given on the instructions of all the Creditor Parties, transfer any of its rights, liabilities or obligations under any Finance Document and the Master Agreement.
26.2 | Transfer by a Lender |
Subject to Clause 26.4, a Lender (the “Transferor Lender”) may at any time, with consultation with the Borrowers but without the consent of the Borrowers or any Security Party, 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), |
to be (in the case of its rights) transferred to, or (in the case of its obligations) assumed by, another bank or financial institution or a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (a “Transferee Lender”) by delivering to the Agent a completed certificate in the form set out in Schedule 5 with any modifications approved or required by the Agent (a “Transfer Certificate”) executed by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender. The Transferee Lender shall be selected by the Transferor Lender with prior consultation with the Borrowers.
However any rights and obligations of the Transferor Lender in its capacity as Agent or Security Trustee will have to be dealt with separately in accordance with the Agency and Trust Agreement
26.3 | Transfer Certificate, delivery and notification |
As soon as reasonably practicable after a Transfer Certificate is delivered to the Agent, it shall (unless it has reason to believe that the Transfer Certificate may be defective):
(a) | sign the Transfer Certificate on behalf of itself, the Borrowers, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and each of the other Lenders and the Swap Bank; |
(b) | on behalf of the Transferee Lender, send to each Borrower and each Security Party letters or faxes notifying them of the Transfer Certificate and attaching a copy of it; and |
(c) | send to the Transferee Lender copies of the letters or faxes sent under paragraph (b) above, but the Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer to that Transferee Lender. |
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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 Agent under Clause 26.3 on or before that date.
26.5 | No transfer without Transfer Certificate |
Except as provided in Clause 26.17, no assignment or transfer of any right or obligation of a Lender under any Finance Document is binding on, or effective in relation to, any Borrower, any Security Party, the 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 Agent may, if it sees fit, by notice to the successor and the Borrowers and the Security Trustee waive the need for the execution and delivery of a Transfer Certificate; and, upon service of the 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 any 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 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; |
(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 any 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 |
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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, 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 any 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 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 the effective date (in accordance with Clause 26.4) of the Transfer Certificate; and the Agent shall make the register available for inspection by any Lender, the Security Trustee and the Borrowers 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 and may be relied upon by the Agent and the other parties to the Finance Documents for all purposes relating to the Finance Documents.
26.10 | Authorisation of Agent to sign Transfer Certificates |
Each Borrower, the Security Trustee and each Lender and the Swap Bank irrevocably authorise the Agent to sign Transfer Certificates on its behalf.
26.11 | Registration fee |
In respect of any Transfer Certificate, the Agent shall be entitled to recover a registration fee of $2,500 from the Transferor Lender or (at the Agent’s option) the Transferee Lender.
26.12 | Sub-participation; securitisation; subrogation assignment |
(a) | A Lender may sub-participate or include in a securitisation or similar transaction all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with the Finance Documents without the consent of, or any notice to, any Borrower, any Security Party, the 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 Agent and the Security Trustee, all or any part of those rights to an insurer or surety who has become subrogated to them. |
(b) | The Borrowers shall, and shall procure that each Security Party shall, do everything desirable or necessary to assist a Lender to achieve a successful (in the opinion of that Lender) securitisation (or similar transaction). |
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26.13 | Disclosure of information |
(a) | In relation to any information which a Lender has received in relation to any Borrower, any Security Party or their affairs under or in connection with any Finance Document, that Lender may disclose any such information without the prior irrevocable authorisation of or notice to that Borrower and the Corporate Guarantor to: |
(b) | a potential transferee lender, sub-participant, Affiliate, any other assignee or transferee or any other person who may propose entering into a contractual relation with that Lender in relation to this Agreement; and/or |
(c) | any direct or indirect Subsidiary, any direct or indirect Holding Company, any Affiliate or any other company in its group; and/or |
(d) | any authorities (including, without limitation, any private, public or internationally recognised authorities) or any party to any Finance Document or any professional adviser to that Lender; and/or |
(e) | a rating agency or their professional advisors; and/or |
(f) | any other person regarding the funding, refinancing, transfer, assignment, sale, sub-participation, operational arrangement or other transaction in relation thereto including without limitation any enforcement, preservation, assignment, transfer, sale or sub-participation of that Lender’s rights and obligations, |
(g) | and including, without limitation, (x) for purposes in connection with (1) any enforcement or (2) assignment or transfer of that Lender’s rights or obligations under any Finance Document or (y) to the extent desirable or necessary in connection with or in contemplation of a securitisation (or similar transaction). |
26.14 | Change of lending office |
A Lender may change its lending office by giving notice to the Agent and the change shall become effective on the later of:
(a) | the date on which the 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 Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Security Trustee; and, until the Agent receives such a notice, it shall be entitled to assume that a Lender is acting through the lending office of which the Agent last had notice.
26.16 | Replacement of Reference Bank |
If any 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 Borrowers, the Agent and the Majority Lenders otherwise agree, the Agent, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, and after consulting the Borrowers, 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.
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26.17 | 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 any 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 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 that Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or |
(ii) | require any payments to be made by any 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. |
27 | VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS |
27.1 | Variations, waivers etc. by Majority Lenders |
Subject to Clause 27.2, a document shall be effective to vary, waive, suspend or limit any provision of a Finance Document, or any Creditor Party’s rights or remedies under such a provision or the general law, only if the document is signed, or specifically agreed to by fax, by the Borrowers, by the Agent on behalf of the Majority Lenders, by the Agent and the Security Trustee in their own rights, and, if the document relates to a Finance Document to which a Security Party is party, by that Security Party.
27.2 | Variations, waivers etc. requiring agreement of all Lenders |
However, as regards the following, Clause 27.1 applies as if the words “by the Agent on behalf of the Majority Lenders” were replaced by the words “by or on behalf of every Lender and the Swap Bank”:
(a) | a reduction in the Margin; |
(b) | a postponement to the date for, or a reduction in the amount of, any payment of principal, interest, fees or other sum payable under this Agreement; |
(c) | an increase in any Lender’s Commitment; |
(d) | a change to the definition of “Majority Lenders”; |
(e) | a change to Clause 3 or this Clause 27; |
(f) | any release of, or material variation to, a Security Interest, guarantee, indemnity or subordination arrangement set out in a Finance Document (except to the extent expressly provided for in any Finance Document); and |
(g) | any other change or matter as regards which this Agreement or another Finance Document expressly provides that each Lender’s consent is required. |
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 |
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(b) | an Event of Default; or |
(c) | a breach by a 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, |
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 by letter or fax shall be sent:
(a) | to the Borrowers: | c/o the Technical Manager | ||
0-0 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||
000 00 Xxxxxxxx | ||||
Xxxxxx | ||||
Facsimile No: x00 000 00 00 000 | ||||
(b) | to a Lender: | At the address below its name in Schedule 1 or (as | ||
the case may require) in the relevant Transfer Certificate. | ||||
(c) | to the Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee: | ABN 00 Xxxxxxxxxx, | ||
0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx | ||||
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx | ||||
Fax No: x00 00000 0000 | ||||
(d) | to the Swap Bank: | ABN | ||
x/x Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx | ||||
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx 00 | ||||
NL-1082PP Amsterdam | ||||
The Netherlands | ||||
xxx@xx.xxxxxxx.xxx | ||||
Fax No: x00 00 000 0000 |
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or to such other address as the relevant party may notify the Agent or, if the relevant party is the Agent or the Security Trustee, the Borrowers, the Lenders and the Security Parties.
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 1 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 Agent and a Lender or Swap Bank or the Agent and the Borrowers under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means, if the Agent and the relevant Creditor Party and the Borrower:
(a) | agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication; |
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(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 Agent and a Lender or the Swap Bank or the Borrowers will be effective only when actually received in readable form and, in the case of any electronic communication made by a Creditor Party or the Borrowers to the Agent, only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose.
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 | JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY |
29.1 | General |
All liabilities and obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement shall, whether expressed to be so or not, be several and, if and to the extent consistent with Clause 29.2, joint.
29.2 | No impairment of Borrower’s obligations |
The liabilities and obligations of a Borrower shall not be impaired by:
(a) | this Agreement being or later becoming void, unenforceable or illegal as regards any other Borrower; |
(b) | any Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee entering into any rescheduling, refinancing or other arrangement of any kind with any other Borrower; |
(c) | any Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee releasing any other Borrower or any Security Interest created by a Finance Document; or |
(d) | any combination of the foregoing. |
29.3 | Principal debtors |
Each Borrower declares that it is and will, throughout the Security Period, remain a principal debtor for all amounts owing under this Agreement and the Finance Documents and none of the Borrowers shall in any circumstances be construed to be a surety for the obligations of any other Borrower under this Agreement.
29.4 | Subordination |
Subject to Clause 29.5, during the Security Period, none of the Borrowers shall:
(a) | claim any amount which may be due to it from any other Borrower whether in respect of a payment made, or matter arising out of, this Agreement or any Finance Document, or any matter unconnected with this Agreement or any Finance Document; or |
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(b) | take or enforce any form of security from any other Borrower for such an amount, or in any other way seek to have recourse in respect of such an amount against any asset of any other Borrower; or |
(c) | set off such an amount against any sum due from it to any other Borrower; or |
(d) | prove or claim for such an amount in any liquidation, administration, arrangement or similar procedure involving any other Borrower or other Security Party; or |
(e) | exercise or assert any combination of the foregoing. |
29.5 | Borrower’s required action |
If during the Security Period, the Agent, by notice to a Borrower, requires it to take any action referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) of Clause 29.4, in relation to any other Borrower, that Borrower shall take that action as soon as practicable after receiving the Agent’s notice.
30 | SUPPLEMENTAL |
30.1 | 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. |
30.2 | 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.
30.3 | Counterparts |
A Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts.
30.4 | 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.
30.5 | PATRIOT Act Notice |
Each of the Agent and the Lenders hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act and the policies and practices of the Agent and each Lender, the Agent and each of the Lenders is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies each Borrower and any Security Party, which information includes the name and address of each Security Party and such other information that will allow the Agent and each of the Lenders to identify each Security Party in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.
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31 | CONFIDENTIALITY |
31.1 | Confidential Information |
The Creditor Parties agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by Clause 31.2, and to ensure that all Confidential Information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply to its own confidential information.
31.2 | Disclosure of Confidential Information |
The Creditor Parties may disclose:
(a) | to any of its Affiliates and Related Funds and any of their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives such Confidential Information as the Creditor Parties shall consider appropriate if any person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this paragraph (a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information; |
(b) | to any person (if that person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and undertakes in writing not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third party and/or make use of it in case the dealings contemplated below are not concluded): |
(i) | to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Finance Documents and to any of that person’s Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers; |
(ii) | with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by reference to, one or more Finance Documents and/or the Borrower and/or any Security Party and to any of that person’s Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers; |
(iii) | appointed by the Creditor Parties or by a person to whom paragraphs (i) or (ii) applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf; |
(iv) | who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in paragraphs (i) or (ii); |
(v) | 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; |
(vi) | to whom or for whose benefit a Creditor Parties charges, assigns or otherwise creates security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 26.17; |
(vii) | 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; |
(viii) | 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; |
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(ix) | to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any insurance to be effected by a Creditor Party in relation to or in connection with any Finance Document; |
(x) | who is a party to this Agreement; or |
(xi) | with the consent of the Borrowers, |
in each case, such Confidential Information as the Creditor Parties shall consider appropriate;
(c) | to any person appointed by a Creditor Party by a person to whom paragraphs (b)(i) or (b)(ii) of Clause 31.2 applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents including without limitation, in relation to the trading of participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services referred to in this paragraph (c) provided always that such person will undertake in writing not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third party; |
(d) | to any rating agency (including its profession advisers) such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such rating agency to carry out its normal rating activities in relation to the Finance Documents, the Borrower and/or the Security Parties provided always that such rating agency will undertake in writing not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third party. |
31.3 | Entire agreement |
This Clause 31 constitutes the entire agreement between the parties to this Agreement in relation to the obligations of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.
31.4 | Inside Information |
The Creditor Parties acknowledge that some or all of the Confidential Information is or may be price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and the Creditor Parties undertake not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.
31.5 | Notification of disclosure |
The Creditor Parties agree (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Borrowers and the Security Parties:
(a) | of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to paragraph (b)(v) of Clause 31.2 except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and |
(b) | upon becoming aware that Confidential Information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 31. |
31.6 | Continuing obligations |
The obligations of this Clause 31 are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain binding on the Creditor Parties for a period of twelve months from the earlier of:
(a) | the date on which all amounts payable by the Borrower and the Security Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been paid in full and all obligations of the Creditor Parties have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and |
(b) | the date on which a Creditor Party otherwise ceases to be a party to this Agreement. |
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32 | LAW AND JURISDICTION |
32.1 | English law |
This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
32.2 | Exclusive English jurisdiction |
Subject to Clause 32.3, the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any Dispute.
32.3 | Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties |
Clause 32.2 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. |
None of the Borrowers shall commence any proceedings in any country other than England in relation to a Dispute.
32.4 | Process agent |
Each Borrower irrevocably appoints Xxxxxxx & Co. at its registered office for the time being presently at Xxx Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx, XX0X 0XX, Xxxxxxx 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.
32.5 | Creditor Party rights unaffected |
Nothing in this Clause 32 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.
32.6 | Meaning of “proceedings” and “Dispute” |
In this Clause 32, “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 SCHEDULE
1
LENDERS AND COMMITMENTS
Lender | Lending Office | Commitment (US Dollars) |
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ABN AMRO BANK N.V. |
c/o Loans Administration – | 62,500,000 | ||||
Transportation Clients | ||||||
93 Xxxxxxxxxx | ||||||
0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx | ||||||
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx |
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SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE
2
DRAWDOWN NOTICE
To: | ABN AMRO BANK X.X. | |
00 Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
0000 XX Rotterdam | ||
The Netherlands | ||
Attention: Loans Administration |
[●]
DRAWDOWN NOTICE
1 | We refer to the loan agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) dated [●] 2014 and made between ourselves, as Borrowers, the Lenders referred to therein, and yourselves as Agent, Arranger, Security Trustee and Swap Bank in connection with a facility of up to US$62,500,000. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown Notice. |
2 | We request to borrow the Tranche financing Ship [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] as follows: |
(a) | Amount of Tranche: US$[12,500,000]; |
(b) | Drawdown Date: [●]; |
(c) | Duration of the first Interest Period shall be [●] months; and |
(d) | Payment instructions: account in our name 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 Tranche. |
4 | This notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders. |
5 | [We authorise you to deduct any accrued [commitment][agency] fee referred to in Clause 20 from the amount of the Tranche.] |
[Name of Signatory]
for and on behalf of
TASMAN MARINE LLC
XXXXXX MARINE LLC
DRAKE MARINE LLC
MERCATOR MARINE LLC
BARENTSZ MARINE LLC
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SCHEDULE 3 SCHEDULE
3
CONDITION PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS
PART A
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(a) required before service of the first Drawdown Notice.
1 | A duly executed original of: |
(a) | this Agreement; |
(b) | the Master Agreement; |
(c) | the Master Agreement Assignment; |
(d) | the Corporate Guarantee; |
(e) | the Agency and Trust Agreement; |
(f) |
(g) | the Shares Security Deeds, |
each document required to be delivered under each Finance Document referred to in paragraphs (a) to (g) inclusive above and any other Finance Document that the Agent may require, in the Agreed Form.
2 | Copies of the certificate of formation and constitutional documents of each Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor and any other Security Party. |
3 | Copies of appropriate evidence of authorisation by the members (or, as the case may be, the directors) of each Borrower and each Security Party authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents and the Master Agreement to which that Borrower or that Security Party is a party and, in the case of a Borrower, authorising named officers to give the Drawdown Notices and other notices under this Agreement. |
4 | The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document and the Master Agreement is executed on behalf of a Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or any other Security Party. |
5 | Copies of all consents which any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or any Security Party requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Finance Document and the Master Agreement. |
6 | The originals of any mandates or other documents required in connection with the opening or operation of the Earnings Accounts and the Retention Accounts. |
7 | Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 32 has accepted its appointment. |
8 | Such documents and other evidence in such form as is requested by the Agent in order for the Lenders to comply with all necessary “know your customer” or “client acceptance” or other similar identification procedures (including, but not limited to, specimen signatures of all the members or directors, as the case may be, and other officers of the Borrowers and each Security Party) in relation to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents. |
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9 | Evidence of the ultimate beneficial ownership in respect of each Borrower and the Approved Manager. |
10 | A survey report to the satisfaction of the Agent, addressed to the Agent and prepared for the purposes of this Agreement from an independent marine surveyor selected by the Agent in respect of the physical condition of each Ship. |
11 | Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the laws of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, the Netherlands and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require. |
12 | If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent. |
PART B
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(b) required before each Drawdown Date.
In this Part B of Schedule 3, the following definitions have the following meanings:
(a) | “Relevant Borrower” means the Borrower which is the buyer of the Relevant Ship; and |
(b) | “Relevant Ship” means the Ship which is to be acquired by using the proceeds of the Tranche being advanced on the relevant Drawdown Date. |
1 | A duly executed original of the Mortgage, the General Assignment and, as the case may be, the Charterparty Assignment or (if the Relevant Ship is a Ship financed by the third, fourth or fifth Advance to be drawn down under this Agreement) the Approved Charterparty Assignment (if applicable), (and of each document to be delivered by each of them). |
2 | Documentary evidence that: |
(a) | the Relevant Ship has been unconditionally delivered by the Seller to, and accepted by, the Relevant Borrower under the Sale Agreement relative thereto, and the full Contract Price payable under that Sale Agreement (in addition to the part to be financed by the relevant Tranche) has been duly paid (together with a copy of each of the documents delivered by the Seller to the Relevant Borrower under the Sale Agreement to which it is a party, including, but not limited to the xxxx of sale, the commercial invoice and the protocol of delivery and acceptance) relating to the Relevant Ship; |
(b) | the Relevant Ship is definitively and permanently registered in the name of the Relevant Borrower under an Approved Flag; |
(c) | the Relevant Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Relevant Borrower save as contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
(d) | the Relevant Ship maintains the class with a first class classification society which is a member of IACS (as the Agent may approve) free of all overdue recommendations and conditions of such classification society; |
(e) | the Mortgage relating to the Relevant Ship has been duly registered or recorded against the Relevant Ship as a valid first preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State; and |
(f) | 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. |
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3 | Documents establishing that the Relevant Ship will, as from the Drawdown Date relating thereto, be managed by the Approved Managers on terms acceptable to the Lenders, together with: |
(a) | the Approved Managers’ Undertakings relative thereto; and |
(b) | copies of the Technical Manager’s Document of Compliance and of the Relevant Ship’s Safety Management Certificate (together with any other details of the applicable safety management system which the Agent requires), the ISSC and the IAPPC. |
4 | Two valuations of the Relevant Ship, each prepared by an Approved Broker addressed to the Agent and otherwise prepared in accordance with Clause 15.3, dated not earlier than 30 days before the relevant Drawdown Date. |
5 | if the Relevant Ship is a Ship financed by the third, fourth or fifth Advance to be drawn down under this Agreement: |
(a) | a certified true copies of the Approved Charter in respect of the Relevant Ship duly executed by the parties thereto; and |
(b) | such documentary evidence as the Agent and its legal advisers may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution by the relevant Borrower and charterer of the Approved Charter to which each is a party. |
6 | Copies of the relevant Sale Agreement and of all relevant documents signed or issued by each Borrower and the Seller (or any of them) under or in connection with them. |
7 | Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the law of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, the Approved Flag State on which the relevant Ship is registered and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require. |
8 | A favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Agent on such matters relating to the insurances for the Relevant Ship as the Agent may require. |
9 | Documentary evidence that the Agent for service of process named in Clause 32 has accepted its appointment. |
10 | Evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the Minimum Liquidity Amount is standing to the credit of each Earnings Account in respect of the Relevant Ship pursuant to Clause 11.19. |
13 | Such documentary evidence as the Agent and its legal advisers may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution by the relevant Borrower and the Seller of the Sale Agreement to which each is a party. |
11 | If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent. |
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PART C
The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(f) required before the Drawdown Date of the Tranche financing Ship B.
In this Part C of Schedule 3, the following definition has the following meaning:
“Collateral Ship” means any Collateral Ship which, at any relevant time, is registered in the ownership of the relevant Collateral Owner (save for the Rea Ship and the Kronos Ship).
1 | A duly executed original of each of the Platon Finance Documents, the Socrates Finance Documents, the Zeus Finance Documents, the Rea Guarantee and the Kronos Guarantee (and of each document to be delivered by each of them). |
2 | Copies of the certificate of formation and constitutional documents of each Collateral Owner. |
3 | Copies of appropriate evidence of authorisation by the members (or, as the case may be, the directors) of each Collateral Owner authorising the execution of each of the Collateral Finance Document to which that Collateral Owner is a party. |
4 | The original of any power of attorney under which any Collateral Finance Finance Document is executed on behalf of a Collateral Owner. |
5 | Copies of all consents which any Collateral Owner requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Collateral Finance Document. |
6 | Documentary evidence showing that: |
(a) | each Collateral Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered (save for any Security Interest created pursuant to the Collateral Loan Agreements) ownership of the Collateral Owner which is the owner thereof save as contemplated by the Finance Documents; |
(b) | each Collateral Ship maintains the highest available class with a first class classification society which is a member of IACS as the Agent may approve free of all recommendations and conditions of such classification society; |
(c) | each Collateral Mortgage has been duly registered against the Collateral Ship relevant thereto as a valid third preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of an Approved Flag Stage; |
(d) | each Collateral Ship is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with; and |
(e) | documents establishing that each Collateral Ship is managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Agent together with copies of the Collateral Ship’s Safety Management Certificate and ISSC (together with any other details of the applicable safety management system which the Agent requires) and ISSC. |
7 | Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the law of the Xxxxxxxx Islands, the Approved Flag State on which the relevant Collateral Ship is registered and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require. |
8 | A favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Agent on such matters relating to the insurances for the Collateral Ship as the Agent may require. |
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9 | if the Collateral Ship is subject a Charter: |
(a) | a certified true copies of the Charter in respect of the Collateral Ship duly executed by the parties thereto; and |
(b) | such documentary evidence as the Agent and its legal advisers may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution by the relevant Collateral Owner and charterer of the Collateral Charter to which each is a party; |
10 | Documentary evidence that the Agent for service of process named in Clause 32 has accepted its appointment. |
11 | If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent. |
Each of the documents specified in paragraphs 2, 3, 5 and 6 of Part A and every other 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 a Borrower.
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SCHEDULE 4 SCHEDULE
4
DESIGNATION NOTICE
To: | ABN AMRO BANK X.X. | |
00 Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
0000 XX Rotterdam | ||
The Netherlands | ||
as Agent | ||
Attn: [Ship Finance Portfolio Management] |
[date]
Dear Sirs
Loan Agreement dated [●] 2014 (the “Loan Agreement”) and made between (i) [●], [●], [●], [●] and [●] as joint and several Borrowers, (ii) the Lenders, (iii) the Swap Bank, (iv) and yourselves as Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee
We refer to:
1 | the Loan Agreement; |
2 | the Master Agreement dated as of [●] made between ourselves and the Swap Bank; and |
3 | a Confirmation delivered pursuant to the said Master Agreement dated [●] and addressed by the Swap Bank 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 |
|
for and on behalf of
[●]
[●]
[●]
[●]
[●]
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SCHEDULE 5 SCHEDULE
5
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
1 |
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: | ABN |
[●]
1 | This Certificate relates to a Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) dated [●] 2014 and made between (1) [●], [●], [●], [●] and [●] as joint and several
Borrowers, (2) the banks and financial institutions named therein as Lenders, (3) ABN |
2 | In this Certificate, terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meanings and: |
“Relevant Parties” means the Agent, each Borrower, each Security Party, the Security Trustee, each Lender and the Swap Bank;
“Transferor” means [full name] of [lending office]; and
“Transferee” means [full name] of [lending office].
3 | The effective date of this Certificate is [●] Provided that this Certificate shall not come into effect unless it is signed by the 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 (other than the Master Agreement) in relation to [●] per cent. of its Contribution, which percentage represents $[●]. |
5 | By virtue of this 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 (other than the Master Agreement) which Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement provides will become binding on it upon this Certificate taking effect. |
7 | The Agent, at the request of the Transferee (which request is hereby made) accepts, for the 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. |
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8 | The Transferor: |
(a) | warrants to the Transferee and each Relevant Party that: |
(i) | 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) | 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; and |
(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 of the other Finance Documents; |
(b) | agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against either the Transferor, the Agent, the Security Trustee, any Lender or the Swap Bank in the event that: |
(i) | any of the Finance Documents prove to be invalid or ineffective; |
(ii) |
(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 Borrowers or Security Party under the Finance Documents; |
(c) | agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against the Agent, the Security Trustee, any Lender or the Swap Bank in the event that this Certificate proves to be invalid or ineffective; |
(d) | warrants to the Transferor and each Relevant Party that: |
(i) | it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which it needs to take or obtain in connection with this transaction; and |
(ii) | 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 Agent and the Security Trustee severally, on demand, fully to indemnify the 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 Agent’s or the Security Trustee’s own officers or employees. |
11 | The Transferee shall repay to the Transferor on demand so much of any sum paid by the Transferor under paragraph 10 as exceeds one-half of the amount demanded by the Agent or the Security Trustee in respect of a claim, proceeding, liability or expense which was not |
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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 Agent or the Security Trustee for the full amount demanded by it. |
[Name of Transferor] | [Name of Transferee] | |||
By: | By: | |||
Date: | Date: |
Agent
Signed for itself and for and on behalf of itself as Agent and for every other Relevant Party ABN | ||
By: | ||
Date: |
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Administrative Details of Transferee
Name of Transferee:
Lending Office:
Contact Person
(Loan Administration Department):
Telephone:
Fax:
Contact Person
(Credit Administration Department):
Telephone:
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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EXECUTION PAGES
BORROWERS | ||
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
TASMAN MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
XXXXXX MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
DRAKE MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
MERCATOR MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
BARENTSZ MARINE LLC | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
LENDERS | ||
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) |
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SWAP BANK | ||
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
AGENT | ||
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
ARRANGER | ||
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) | |
SECURITY TRUSTEE | ||
SIGNED by | ) | |
) | ||
for and on behalf of | ) | |
ABN AMRO BANK N.V. | ) | |
in the presence of: | ) |
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