Exhibit 10.1
dated as of June 11, 2010
among
THE LENDING INSTITUTIONS NAMED HEREIN,
as the Lenders,
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as a LC Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and the Global Agent,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
as Co-Syndication Agents
and
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
and
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,
as Co-Documentation Agents
and
PNC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC,
as the Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner
$350,000,000 Credit Facility
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I — DEFINITIONS AND TERMS |
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Section 1.01 |
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Certain Defined Terms |
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Section 1.02 |
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Computation of Time Periods |
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Section 1.03 |
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Accounting Terms |
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Section 1.04 |
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Terms Generally |
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Section 1.05 |
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Currency Equivalents |
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ARTICLE II — THE TERMS OF THE CREDIT FACILITY |
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Section 2.01 |
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Establishment of the Credit Facility |
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Section 2.02 |
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Revolving Facility |
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Section 2.03 |
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Canadian Sub-Facility |
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Section 2.04 |
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Reserved |
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Section 2.05 |
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Swing Line Facility |
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Section 2.06 |
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Revolving Facility Letters of Credit |
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Section 2.07 |
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Canadian Letters of Credit |
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Section 2.08 |
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Notice of Borrowing |
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Section 2.09 |
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Funding Obligations; Disbursement of Funds |
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Section 2.10 |
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Adjustment of Loans and Certain Other Obligations |
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Section 2.11 |
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Evidence of Obligations |
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Section 2.12 |
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Interest; Default Rate |
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Section 2.13 |
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Conversion and Continuation of Loans |
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Section 2.14 |
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Fees |
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Section 2.15 |
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Termination and Reduction of Commitments |
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Section 2.16 |
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Payments and Prepayments of Loans |
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Section 2.17 |
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Method and Place of Payment |
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Section 2.18 |
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Authority of Company; Liability of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers |
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Section 2.19 |
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Eligibility and Addition/Release of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers |
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Section 2.20 |
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Collateral and Collateral Release Date |
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Section 2.21 |
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Liability of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers |
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ARTICLE III — TAXES, INCREASED COSTS AND ILLEGALITY |
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Section 3.01 |
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Interest Rate Unascertainable; Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available |
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Section 3.02 |
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Increased Costs |
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Section 3.03 |
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Taxes |
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Section 3.04 |
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Indemnity |
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Section 3.05 |
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Mitigation Obligations |
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ARTICLE IV — CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
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Section 4.01 |
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Conditions Precedent at Closing Date |
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Section 4.02 |
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Conditions Precedent to Addition of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers |
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(i)
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Section 4.03 |
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Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events |
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Section 4.04 |
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Post-Closing Covenants |
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ARTICLE V — REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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Section 5.01 |
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Corporate Status, etc. |
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Section 5.02 |
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Corporate Power and Authority, etc. |
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Section 5.03 |
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No Violation |
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Section 5.04 |
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Governmental Approvals |
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Section 5.05 |
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Litigation |
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Section 5.06 |
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Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations |
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Section 5.07 |
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Financial Statements, etc. |
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Section 5.08 |
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Solvency |
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Section 5.09 |
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No Material Adverse Change |
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Section 5.10 |
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Tax Returns and Payments |
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Section 5.11 |
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Title to Properties, etc. |
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Section 5.12 |
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Lawful Operations, etc. |
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Section 5.13 |
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Environmental Matters |
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Section 5.14 |
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Compliance with ERISA |
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Section 5.15 |
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Investment Company Act, etc. |
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Section 5.16 |
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Insurance |
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Section 5.17 |
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Burdensome Contracts; Labor Relations |
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Section 5.18 |
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Security Interests |
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Section 5.19 |
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True and Complete Disclosure |
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Section 5.20 |
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Certain Indentures |
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Section 5.21 |
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Defaults |
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Section 5.22 |
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Anti-Terrorism Law Compliance |
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107 |
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ARTICLE VI — AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 6.01 |
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Reporting Requirements |
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Section 6.02 |
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Books, Records and Inspections |
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Section 6.03 |
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Insurance |
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Section 6.04 |
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Payment of Taxes and Claims |
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Section 6.05 |
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Corporate Franchises |
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Section 6.06 |
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Good Repair |
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Section 6.07 |
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Compliance with Statutes, etc. |
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Section 6.08 |
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Compliance with Environmental Laws |
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Section 6.09 |
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Certain Subsidiaries to Join in Subsidiary Guaranty |
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Section 6.10 |
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Additional Security; Further Assurances |
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Section 6.11 |
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[Reserved] |
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Section 6.12 |
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Senior Debt |
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ARTICLE VII — NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 7.01 |
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Changes in Business |
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Section 7.02 |
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Consolidation, Merger, Acquisitions, Asset Sales, etc. |
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Section 7.03 |
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Liens |
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Section 7.04 |
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Indebtedness |
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Section 7.05 |
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Investments and Guaranty Obligations |
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(ii)
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Section 7.06 |
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Restricted Payments |
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Section 7.07 |
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Financial Covenants |
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Section 7.08 |
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Limitation on Certain Restrictive Agreements |
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Section 7.09 |
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Amendments to Certain Documents |
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Section 7.10 |
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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Section 7.11 |
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[Reserved] |
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Section 7.12 |
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Capital Expenditures |
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Section 7.13 |
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Anti-Terrorism Laws |
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ARTICLE VIII — EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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Section 8.01 |
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Events of Default |
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126 |
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Section 8.02 |
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Remedies |
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Section 8.03 |
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Application of Certain Payments and Proceeds |
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Section 8.04 |
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Equalization |
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Section 8.05 |
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Set-Off |
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ARTICLE IX — THE GLOBAL AGENT |
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Section 9.01 |
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Appointment and Authority |
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Section 9.02 |
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Rights as a Lender |
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Section 9.03 |
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Exculpatory Provisions |
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Section 9.04 |
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Reliance by Global Agent |
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135 |
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Section 9.05 |
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Delegation of Duties |
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136 |
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Section 9.06 |
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Resignation of Global Agent |
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136 |
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Section 9.07 |
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Non-Reliance on Global Agent and Other Lenders |
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137 |
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Section 9.08 |
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Other Agents |
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137 |
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Section 9.09 |
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Global Agent's Fee |
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Section 9.10 |
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Authorization to Release Collateral and Guarantors |
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Section 9.11 |
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No Reliance on Global Agent's Customer Identification Program |
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ARTICLE X — GUARANTY |
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Section 10.01 |
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Guaranty by the Company |
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Section 10.02 |
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Additional Undertaking |
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Section 10.03 |
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Guaranty Unconditional |
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139 |
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Section 10.04 |
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Company Obligations to Remain in Effect; Restoration |
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139 |
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Section 10.05 |
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Waiver of Acceptance, etc |
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140 |
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Section 10.06 |
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Subrogation |
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Section 10.07 |
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Effect of Stay |
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ARTICLE XI — MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 11.01 |
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Reserved |
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Section 11.02 |
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Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
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Section 11.03 |
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Holidays |
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Section 11.04 |
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Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication |
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Section 11.05 |
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Successors and Assigns |
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Section 11.06 |
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No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative |
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(iii)
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Section 11.07 |
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CHOICE OF LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF VENUE; |
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SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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Section 11.08 |
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Counterparts |
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Section 11.09 |
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Integration |
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Section 11.10 |
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Headings Descriptive |
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Section 11.11 |
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Amendment or Waiver |
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149 |
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Section 11.12 |
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Survival of Indemnities |
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151 |
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Section 11.13 |
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Domicile of Loans |
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151 |
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Section 11.14 |
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Confidentiality |
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Section 11.15 |
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[Reserved] |
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Section 11.16 |
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No Duty |
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Section 11.17 |
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Lenders and Agent Not Fiduciary to Borrowers, etc. |
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152 |
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Section 11.18 |
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Survival of Representations and Warranties |
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Section 11.19 |
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Severability |
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Section 11.20 |
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Independence of Covenants |
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Section 11.21 |
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Interest Rate Limitation |
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Section 11.22 |
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Judgment Currency |
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Section 11.23 |
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USA Patriot Act Notification |
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Section 11.24 |
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Amendment and Restatement; No Novation |
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EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit A-1 |
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Form of Revolving Facility Note |
Exhibit A-2 |
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Form of CDOR Note |
Exhibit A-3 |
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Form of Canadian Base Rate Note |
Exhibit A-4 |
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Form of Swing Line Note |
Exhibit A-5 |
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Form of New Lender Joinder |
Exhibit B-1 |
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Form of Notice of Borrowing |
Exhibit B-2 |
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Form of Notice of Continuation or Conversion |
Exhibit B-3 |
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Form of Revolving Facility LC Request |
Exhibit B-4 |
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Form of Canadian LC Request |
Exhibit C-1 |
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Form of Subsidiary Guaranty |
Exhibit C-2 |
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Form of Security Agreement |
Exhibit D |
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Form of Joinder Agreement |
Exhibit E |
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Form of Compliance Certificate |
Exhibit F |
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Form of Closing Certificate |
Exhibit G |
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Form of Assignment Agreement |
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SCHEDULES |
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Schedule 1 |
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Lenders, Commitments and Addresses for Notices |
Schedule 2 |
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Reserved |
Schedule 3 |
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Subsidiary Guarantors |
Schedule 4 |
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Existing Letters of Credit |
Schedule 4.01(iv) |
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Closing Date Control Agreements |
Schedule 4.01(xxi) |
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Closing Date Landlord’s Agreements |
Schedule 4.04(i) |
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Post-Closing Control Agreements |
Schedule 4.04(ii) |
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Post-Closing Landlord’s Agreements |
(iv)
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Schedule 5.01 |
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Corporate Status |
Schedule 7.03 |
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Liens |
Schedule 7.04 |
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Indebtedness |
Schedule 7.05 |
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Investments |
Schedule 7.10 |
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Affiliate Transactions |
(v)
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of June 11, 2010 among the
following: (i)
AMERICAN GREETINGS CORPORATION, an Ohio corporation (the “
Company”);
(ii) the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers (as hereinafter defined) from time to time party hereto;
(iii) the lenders from time to time party hereto (each a “
Lender” and collectively, the
“
Lenders”); and (iv) PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, the global administrative agent (the
“
Global Agent”), as the Swing Line Lender, a LC Issuer and the Collateral Agent (each term
as hereafter defined).
RECITALS:
A. The Company has requested that the Lenders extend credit to the Borrowers to refinance the
Existing
Credit Agreement (as herein defined) and to provide working capital and funds for general
corporate purposes, including without limitation Permitted Acquisitions, Share Repurchases and the
World Headquarters Initiative, and capital expenditures, in each case, not inconsistent with the
terms of this Agreement.
B. Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Lenders, the Swing Line
Lender and each LC Issuer are willing to amend and restate the Existing
Credit Agreement to extend
credit and make available to the Borrowers the credit facility provided for herein for the
foregoing purposes.
AGREEMENT:
In consideration of the premises and mutual agreements contained herein and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by each of the
parties hereto, the parties hereto amend and restate the Existing
Credit Agreement in its entirety
as follows:
ARTICLE I — DEFINITIONS AND TERMS
Section 1.01 Certain Defined Terms.
As used herein, the following terms shall have the meanings herein specified unless the
context otherwise requires:
“Accepting Lender” has the meaning provided in Section 2.02(b).
“Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose
of or resulting, directly or indirectly, in (i) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the
assets of any Person, or any business unit or division of any Person (other than the purchase of
Receivables Related Assets by the Receivables Subsidiary in connection with the Permitted
Receivables Facility), (ii) the acquisition of in excess of 50% of the stock (or other equity
interest) of any Person, or (iii) the acquisition of another Person by a merger or consolidation or
any other combination with such Person.
“Additional Security Document” has the meaning provided in Section 6.10(a).
“Adjusted Commitment Percentage” means, at any time for any Lender, the percentage
obtained by dividing such Lender’s Unutilized Commitment at such time by the Unutilized Total
Commitment at such time.
“Adjusted Eurodollar Rate” means with respect to each Interest Period for a Eurodollar
Loan, the interest rate per annum determined by the Global Agent by dividing (the resulting
quotient rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1% per annum) (i) the rate which
appears on the Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or on such other substitute Bloomberg page that displays rates
at which US dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market),
or the rate which is quoted by another source selected by the Global Agent which has been approved
by the British Bankers’ Association as an authorized information vendor for the purpose of
displaying rates at which US dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank
deposit market (for purposes of this definition, an “Alternate Source”), at approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period as
the London interbank offered rate for U.S. Dollars for an amount comparable to such Eurodollar Loan
and having a borrowing date and a maturity comparable to such Interest Period (or if there shall at
any time, for any reason, no longer exist a Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or any substitute page) or any
Alternate Source, a comparable replacement rate determined by the Global Agent at such time (which
determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error)), by (ii) a number equal to 1.00 minus the
LIBOR Reserve Percentage. The Adjusted Eurodollar Rate may also be expressed by the following
formula:
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London interbank offered rates quoted by Bloomberg |
Adjusted Eurodollar Rate = |
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or appropriate successor as shown on Bloomberg Page BBAM1 |
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1.00 - LIBOR Reserve Percentage |
The Adjusted Eurodollar Rate shall be adjusted with respect to any Loan to which the Adjusted
Eurodollar Rate applies that is outstanding on the effective date of any change in the LIBOR
Reserve Percentage as of such effective date. The Global Agent shall give prompt notice to the
Borrowers of the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate as determined or adjusted in accordance herewith, which
determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
“Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate” means with respect to each Interest Period for any
Foreign Currency Loan, the interest rate per annum determined by the Global Agent by dividing (the
resulting quotient rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1% per annum) (i) the
rate which appears on the Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or on such other substitute Bloomberg page that
displays rates at which deposits in the applicable Designated Foreign Currency are offered by
leading banks in the London interbank deposit market), or the rate which is quoted by another
source selected by the Global Agent which has been approved by the British Bankers’ Association as
an authorized information vendor for the purpose of displaying rates at which deposits in the
applicable Designated Foreign Currency are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit
market (for purposes of this definition, an “Alternate Source”), at approximately 11:00
a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period as the
London interbank offered rate for such Designated Foreign Currency for an amount comparable to such
Foreign Currency Loan and having a borrowing date and a maturity comparable to such Interest Period
(or if there shall at any time, for any reason, no longer exist a Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or any
substitute page) or any Alternate Source, a
2
comparable replacement rate determined by the Global Agent at such time (which determination
shall be conclusive absent manifest error)), by (ii) a number equal to 1.00 minus the LIBOR Reserve
Percentage. The Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate may also be expressed by the following formula:
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London interbank offered rates quoted by Bloomberg |
Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate =
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or appropriate successor as shown on Bloomberg Page BBAM1 |
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1.00 — LIBOR Reserve Percentage |
The Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate shall be adjusted with respect to any Loan to which
the Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate applies that is outstanding on the effective date of any change
in the LIBOR Reserve Percentage as of such effective date. The Global Agent shall give prompt
notice to the Borrowers of the Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate as determined or adjusted in
accordance herewith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
“Adjustment Date” means any day prior to the Equalization Date that any of the
following occur: (i) the date of any Borrowing (either before or simultaneously with such
Borrowing), (ii) the date any payment is made with respect to any Loan (whether by a Borrower or
from the application of the proceeds of any of the Collateral or otherwise), (iii) any Purchase
Date with respect to any Swing Loan Participation, (iv) the date any Revolving Facility LC
Participation is funded pursuant to Section 2.06(i)(iii) or any Canadian LC Participation is funded
pursuant to Section 2.07(h)(iii), (v) the date any Letter of Credit expires undrawn or is drawn and
the amount so drawn is reimbursed by the applicable LC Obligor in accordance with this Agreement,
or (vi) any other date selected by the Global Agent in its discretion.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with such Person, or, in the
case of any Lender that is an investment fund, the investment advisor thereof and any investment
fund having the same investment advisor. A Person shall be deemed to control a second Person if
such first Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power (i) to vote 10% or more of the
securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or managers of such second
Person or (ii) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such second
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Global Agent nor any Lender shall in any event be
considered an Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (i) the
Dollar Equivalent of the principal amounts of all Canadian Revolving Loans outstanding at such
time, and (ii) the amount of the Canadian LC Outstandings at such time.
“Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (i) the Aggregate
Revolving Facility Exposure at such time, and (ii) the Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure at
such time.
“Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (i) the Dollar
Equivalent of the principal amounts of all Revolving Loans made by all Lenders and outstanding at
such time, (ii) the amount of the Revolving Facility LC Outstandings at such time, and (iii) the
principal amount of Swing Loans outstanding at such time.
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“
Agreement” means this Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement, as the same may be from
time to time further modified, amended, restated or supplemented.
“AGSC” means American Greetings Service Corp.
“Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Laws relating to terrorism or money laundering,
including Executive Order No. 13224, the USA Patriot Act, the Laws comprising or implementing the
Bank Secrecy Act, and the Laws administered by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of
Foreign Asset Control (as any of the foregoing Laws may from time to time be amended, renewed,
extended, or replaced).
“Applicable Commitment Fee Rate” means:
(i) On the Closing Date and thereafter until changed in accordance with the provisions set
forth in this definition, the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be 50.00 basis points;
(ii) Commencing with the fiscal quarter of the Company ended on May 28, 2010, and continuing
with each fiscal quarter thereafter, the Global Agent shall determine the Applicable Commitment Fee
Rate in accordance with the following matrix, based on the Leverage Ratio:
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Leverage Ratio |
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Applicable Commitment Fee Rate |
Greater than or equal to 0.50 to 1.00
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50.00 bps |
Less than 0.50 to 1.00
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37.50 bps |
(iii) Changes in the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate based upon changes in the Leverage Ratio
shall become effective on the third Business Day following the receipt by the Global Agent pursuant
to Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b), as the case may be, of the financial statements of the
Company for the Testing Period most recently ended, and a Compliance Certificate required pursuant
to Section 6.01(c), demonstrating the computation of the Leverage Ratio. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, during any period when (A) the Company has failed to deliver timely its consolidated
financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b), accompanied by a Compliance
Certificate required pursuant to Section 6.01(c) or (B) an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be the highest number of basis points
indicated therefor in the above matrix, regardless of the Leverage Ratio at such time; provided
that upon delivery of such financial statements and/or cure or waiver of such Event of Default in
accordance with Section 11.11, the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be the number of basis
points indicated therefor in the above matrix based on the Leverage Ratio at such time. The above
matrix does not modify or waive, in any respect, the rights of the Global Agent and the Lenders to
charge any default rate of interest or any of the other rights and remedies of the Global Agent and
the Lenders hereunder.
“Applicable Margin” means
(i) On the Closing Date and thereafter, until changed in accordance with the following
provisions, the Applicable Margin shall be (A) 150.00 basis points for Revolving Loans that are
Base Rate Loans, and (B) 250.00 basis points for Revolving Loans that are Fixed Rate Loans;
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(ii) Commencing with the fiscal quarter of the Company ended on May 28, 2010, and continuing
with each fiscal quarter thereafter, the Global Agent shall determine the Applicable Margin in
accordance with the following matrix, based on the Leverage Ratio:
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Applicable Margin for |
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Applicable Margin for |
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Revolving Loans that |
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Revolving Loans that |
Leverage Ratio |
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are Base Rate Loans |
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are Fixed Rate Loans |
Greater than or equal
to 2.50 to 1.00
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250.00 bps
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350.00 bps |
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Greater than or equal
to 2.00 to 1.00, but
Less than 2.50 to 1.00
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200.00 bps
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300.00 bps |
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Greater than or equal
to 1.50 to 1.00, but
Less than 2.00 to 1.00
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175.00 bps
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275.00 bps |
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Greater than or equal
to 0.50 to 1.00 but
less than 1.50 to 1.00
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150.00 bps
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250.00 bps |
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Less than 0.50 to 1.00
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125.00 bps
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225.00 bps |
(iii) Changes in the Applicable Margin based upon changes in the Leverage Ratio shall become
effective on the third Business Day following the receipt by the Global Agent pursuant to
Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) of the financial statements of the Company for the Testing
Period most recently ended, and a Compliance Certificate in accordance with Section 6.01(c),
demonstrating the computation of the Leverage Ratio. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions,
during any period when (A) the Company has failed to deliver timely its consolidated financial
statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b), accompanied by a Compliance
Certificate in accordance with Section 6.01(c), or (B) an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Applicable Margin shall be the highest number of basis points indicated therefor in
the above matrix, regardless of the Leverage Ratio at such time; provided that upon delivery of
such financial statements and/or cure or waiver of such Event of Default in accordance with
Section 11.11, the Applicable Margin shall be the number of basis points indicated therefor in the
above matrix based on the Leverage Ratio at such time. The above matrix does not modify or waive,
in any respect, the rights of the Global Agent and the Lenders to charge any default rate of
interest or any of the other rights and remedies of the Global Agent and the Lenders hereunder.
“Approved Bank” has the meaning provided in clause (i)(B) of the definition of “Cash
Equivalents.”
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“Approved Fund” means a fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or
otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and that is administered or
managed by a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender.
“ASC” means Accounting Standards Codification.
“Asset Sale” means the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition (including by means
of Sale and Lease-Back Transactions, and by means of mergers, consolidations, and liquidations of a
corporation, partnership or limited liability company of the interests therein of the Company or
any Subsidiary) by the Company or any Subsidiary to any Person of any of the Company’s or such
Subsidiary’s respective assets, provided that the term Asset Sale specifically excludes (i) any
sales, transfers, abandonments or other dispositions of inventory, or obsolete or excess furniture,
fixtures, equipment or other property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, in each case in
the ordinary course of business, (ii) the actual or constructive total loss of any property or the
use thereof resulting from destruction, damage beyond repair, or the rendition of such property
permanently unfit for normal use from any casualty or similar occurrence whatsoever, and (iii) any
license or sublicense of any intellectual property and related rights granted in the ordinary
course of business.
“Assignment Agreement” means an Assignment Agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit G.
“Augmenting Lender” has the meaning provided in Section 2.02(b).
“Authorized Officer” means (i) with respect to the Company, any of the following
officers: the Chairman, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief or Deputy Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer or the Controller, and (ii) with respect
to any Subsidiary of the Company, the President, any Vice President, the Chief or Deputy Chief
Financial Officer or the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of such Subsidiary or such other Person
as is authorized in writing to act on behalf of such Subsidiary and is acceptable to the Global
Agent. Unless otherwise qualified, all references herein to an Authorized Officer shall refer to
an Authorized Officer of the Company.
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled
“Bankruptcy,” as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto, as hereafter
amended.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, a fluctuating per annum rate of interest equal to the
highest of (a) the Federal Funds Open Rate, plus 50 basis points (0.5%), and (b) the Prime
Rate, and (c) the Daily LIBOR Rate, plus 100 basis points (1.0%). Any change in the Base
Rate (or any component thereof) shall take effect at the opening of business on the day such change
occurs.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Canadian Base Rate Loan or US Base Rate Loan.
“Benefited Creditors” means, with respect to the Company’s Guaranty Obligations
pursuant to Article X, each of the Global Agent, the Lenders, each LC Issuer and the Swing Line
Lender and each Designated Hedge Creditor, and the respective successors and assigns of each of the
foregoing.
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“Borrower” means the Company or any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower.
“Borrowers” means, collectively, the Company and all of the Foreign Subsidiary
Borrowers.
“Borrowing” means a Revolving Borrowing, a Canadian Borrowing, or the incurrence of a
Swing Loan.
“Business Day” means (i) any day other than Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which
commercial banks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are authorized or required by law to close and (ii)
with respect to any matters relating to (A) Eurodollar Loans, any day on which dealings in U.S.
dollars are carried on in the London interbank market, (B) Canadian Revolving Loans or Canadian LC
Issuances, any day other than a day on which commercial banks in Toronto, Ontario and Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania are authorized or required by law to close, and (C) Foreign Currency Loans or
Revolving Facility LC Issuances in a Designated Foreign Currency or any other matters relating to
Loans denominated in Designated Foreign Currency, such day also shall be a day on which (y)
dealings in deposits in the relevant Designated Foreign Currency are carried on in the applicable
interbank market, and (z) all applicable banks into which Loan proceeds may be deposited are open
for business.
“Canadian Administrative Branch” means, with respect to the Global Agent in its
capacity as such, PNC Bank Canada Branch acting as the sub-agent of the Global Agent in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement or such other branch or affiliate of the Global Agent as the
Global Agent shall have designated in writing to the Borrowers and the Lenders.
“Canadian Base Rate” means, for any day, with respect to a Canadian Base Rate Loan,
the greater of (i) the annual rate of interest established from time to time by the Canadian
Administrative Branch of the Global Agent as its “prime” rate then in effect for determining
interest rates on Canadian Dollar denominated commercial loans in Canada, and (ii) the annual rate
of interest equal to the sum of (A) the CDOR Rate on that day for bankers’ acceptances issued on
that day with a term to maturity of one month and (B) 0.50% per annum. Any change in the “prime”
rate established by the Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent shall take effect at the
opening of business on the day of such change.
“Canadian Base Rate Loan” means each Canadian Revolving Loan bearing interest at a
rate based upon the Canadian Base Rate in effect from time to time.
“Canadian Base Rate Note” means a promissory note executed by the Canadian Borrowers
to evidence the Canadian Revolving Loans that are Canadian Base Rate Loans substantially in the
form of Exhibit A-3.
“Canadian Borrower” means any Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of Canada or
any province thereof that becomes a Canadian Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19; provided, however,
that a Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower shall not be eligible to be a Canadian Borrower
hereunder.
“Canadian Borrowing” means the incurrence of Canadian Revolving Loans consisting of
one Type of Canadian Revolving Loan by the Canadian Borrowers from all of the Canadian
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Lenders on a given date (or resulting from Conversions or Continuations on a given date),
having, in the case of any Fixed Rate Loans, the same Interest Period.
“Canadian Commitment” means, with respect to each Canadian Lender, the amount, if any,
set forth opposite such Canadian Lender’s name in Schedule 1as its “Canadian Sub-Facility
Commitment” as the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.15(c) and as
adjusted from time to time as a result of assignments to or from such Lender pursuant to
Section 11.05.
“Canadian Commitment Percentage” means, at any time for any Canadian Lender, the
percentage obtained by dividing such Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment by the Total Canadian
Commitment; provided, however, that if the Total Canadian Commitment has been terminated, the
Canadian Commitment Percentage for each Canadian Lender shall be determined by dividing such
Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment immediately prior to such termination by the Total Canadian
Commitment in effect immediately prior to such termination. The Canadian Commitment Percentage of
each Canadian Lender as of the Closing Date is set forth on Schedule 1.
“Canadian Dollars” or “C$” means the lawful currency of Canada.
“Canadian LC Commitment Amount” means, at any time, the amount of the Total Canadian
Commitment.
“Canadian LC Issuance” means the issuance of any Canadian Letter of Credit by a LC
Issuer for the account of a Canadian Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and
shall include any amendment thereto that increases the Stated Amount thereof or extends the expiry
date of such Canadian Letter of Credit.
“Canadian LC Outstandings” means, at any time, the sum, without duplication, of
(i) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Stated Amount of all outstanding Canadian Letters of
Credit and (ii) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of all Unpaid Drawings with respect
to Canadian Letters of Credit.
“Canadian LC Participant” has the meaning provided in Section 2.07(h)(i).
“Canadian LC Participation” has the meaning provided in Section 2.07(h)(i).
“Canadian LC Request” has the meaning provided in Section 2.07(b).
“Canadian Lender” means each Lender that has a Canadian Commitment or, if applicable,
the Canadian Lending Installation of any Lender that has a Canadian Commitment; provided, however,
that (i) if a Canadian Commitment is being provided by a Canadian Lending Installation of any
Lender, then, except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, such Lender and its Canadian
Lending Installation shall constitute a single “Lender” under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a Canadian Commitment is
being provided by a Canadian Lending Installation of any Lender, each such Canadian Lending
Installation shall be entitled to all of the benefits, indemnifications and protections set forth
in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including, but not limited
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to, those set forth in Article III, Section 11.01 and Section 11.02, and (ii) no Lender, and
no Canadian Lending Installation of any Lender, may be or become a Canadian Lender hereunder unless
such Lender or the Canadian Lending Installation of such Lender, as the case may be, is a resident
of Canada within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) for the purposes of the withholding tax
provisions in Part XIII of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
“Canadian Lending Installation” means, with respect to any Lender, any office, branch,
subsidiary or Affiliate of such Lender that is designated in writing by such Lender to the Global
Agent as being responsible for funding or maintaining a Canadian Commitment.
“Canadian Letter of Credit” means any Standby Letter of Credit or Commercial Letter of
Credit issued by a LC Issuer under this Agreement pursuant to Section 2.07 for the account of any
Canadian Borrower.
“Canadian Obligations” means all amounts, indemnities and reimbursement obligations,
direct or indirect, contingent or absolute, of every type or description, and at any time existing,
owing by the Canadian Borrowers to the Global Agent, any Canadian Lender or each LC Issuer pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including, but not limited to, interest
and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Credit Party of any insolvency
proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding).
“Canadian Payment Office” means, with respect to all matters relating to the making
and repayment of Canadian Obligations, and all interest thereon, the office of the Canadian
Administrative Branch of the Global Agent at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx M5X 1E4, Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxx (facsimile: (000) 000-0000) or such other office(s), as the
Global Agent may designate to the Borrowers in writing from time to time.
“Canadian Revolving Loan” means, with respect to each Canadian Lender, any Loan made
by such Canadian Lender pursuant to Section 2.03.
“Canadian Sub-Facility” means the credit facility established under Section 2.03
hereof pursuant to the Canadian Commitment of each Canadian Lender; provided, however, that the
Canadian Sub-Facility shall not be available unless and until such date, if any, that a Canadian
Borrower has become a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement in accordance with
Section 2.19.
“Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure” means, for any Canadian Lender at any time, the
Dollar Equivalent of (i) the principal amount of Canadian Revolving Loans made by such Canadian
Lender and outstanding at such time, and (ii) such Canadian Lender’s share of the Canadian LC
Outstandings at such time.
“Canadian Sub-Facility Note” means a CDOR Note or a Canadian Base Rate Note.
“Capital Distribution” means a payment made, liability incurred or other consideration
given for the purchase, acquisition, repurchase, redemption or retirement of any capital stock or
other equity interest of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or as a dividend, return of capital
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or other distribution in respect of the Company or such Subsidiary’s capital stock or other
equity interest.
“Capital Lease” as applied to any Person means any lease of any property (whether
real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is accounted for
as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means all obligations under Capital Leases of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, without duplication, in each case taken at the amount thereof
accounted for as liabilities identified as “capital lease obligations” (or any similar words) on a
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Dividend” means a Capital Distribution of the Company payable in cash to the
shareholders of the Company with respect to any class or series of stock of the Company.
“Cash Equivalents” means,
(i) with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any of the following:
(A) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of
America or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the
United States of America is pledged in support thereof) having maturities of not more than one year
from the date of acquisition;
(B) U.S. dollar denominated time deposits, certificates of deposit and bankers’ acceptances of
(x) any Lender, (y) any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing having capital and surplus
in excess of $500,000,000 or (z) any bank (or the parent company of such bank) whose short-term
commercial paper rating from S&P is at least X-0, X-0 or the equivalent thereof or from Xxxxx’x is
at least P-1, P-2 or the equivalent thereof (any such bank, an “Approved Bank”), in each
case with maturities of not more than six months from the date of acquisition;
(C) commercial paper issued by any Lender or Approved Bank or by the parent company of any
Lender or Approved Bank and commercial paper issued by, or guaranteed by, any industrial or
financial company with a short-term commercial paper rating of at least A-1 or the equivalent
thereof by S&P or at least P-1 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s, or guaranteed by any
industrial company with a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least A or A2, or the equivalent of
each thereof, from S&P or Moody’s, as the case may be, and in each case maturing within 180 days
after the date of acquisition;
(D) fully collateralized repurchase agreements entered into with any Lender or Approved Bank
having a term of not more than 30 days and covering securities described in clause (A) above;
(E) investments in money market funds substantially all the assets of which are comprised of
securities of the types described in clauses (A) through (D) above;
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(F) investments in money market funds access to which is provided as part of “sweep” accounts
maintained with a Lender or an Approved Bank;
(G) investments in industrial development revenue bonds that (1) “re-set” interest rates not
less frequently than quarterly, (2) are entitled to the benefit of a remarketing arrangement with
an established broker dealer, and (3) are supported by a direct pay letter of credit covering
principal and accrued interest that is issued by an Approved Bank;
(H) investments in pooled funds or investment accounts consisting of investments of the nature
described in the foregoing clause (G); and
(I) investments in auction rate securities that (1) are money market or debt instruments with
a long term nominal maturity issued by a municipality or mutual fund company or other similar
entity, (2) re-set interest through a “dutch auction” process, and (3) are rated AAA or AA by S&P
or the equivalent rating by Moody’s; and
(ii) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company, the approximate equivalent of any
of clauses (i)(A) through (I) above in the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Subsidiary is
organized.
“Cash Management Agreements” has the meaning provided in Section 2.09(d)(iv)(B).
“Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to (i) any Asset Sale, the aggregate cash payments
(including any cash received by way of deferred payment pursuant to a note receivable issued in
connection with such Asset Sale, other than the portion of such deferred payment constituting
interest, but only as and when so received) received by the Company or any Subsidiary from such
Asset Sale, and (ii) any Event of Loss, the aggregate cash payments, including all insurance
proceeds and proceeds of any award for condemnation or taking, received in connection with such
Event of Loss.
“CDOR Loan” means each Canadian Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate based upon
the CDOR Rate.
“CDOR Note” means a promissory note executed by the Canadian Borrowers to evidence the
Canadian Revolving Loans that are CDOR Loans substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.
“CDOR Rate” means, on any day, with respect to each Interest Period for a CDOR Loan,
the rate per annum determined by the Global Agent as being the arithmetic average (rounded to the
nearest one-thousandth of 1%, with five ten-thousandths of 1% being rounded upwards) of the rates
applicable to Canadian Dollar bankers’ acceptances for the appropriate term displayed and
identified on the “Reuters Screen CDOR Page” (as defined in the International Swaps and Derivatives
Association, Inc. definitions, as modified and amended from time to time) at approximately 10:00
a.m. (Toronto time) on such day or, if such day is not a Business Day then on the immediately
preceding Business Day (as adjusted by the Global Agent after 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) to reflect
any error in a posted rate of interest or in the posted average annual rate of interest); provided,
however, if such rates do not appear on the Reuters Screen CDOR Page as contemplated, then the CDOR
Rate on any day shall be the discount rate applicable to Canadian Dollar bankers’ acceptances for
the appropriate term of The Bank of Nova Scotia at
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approximately 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on such day or, if such day is not a Business Day,
then on the immediately preceding Business Day.
“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980, as the same may be amended from time to time, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the
following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any Law, (b) any change in any Law or in the
administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the
making or issuance of any written request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force
of Law) by any Governmental Authority.
“Change of Control” means (i) the acquisition of, or, if earlier, the shareholder or
director approval of the acquisition of, ownership or voting control, directly or indirectly,
beneficially or of record, on or after the Closing Date, by any Person or group (within the meaning
of Rule 13d-3 of the SEC under the 1934 Act, as then in effect), of shares representing more than
33% of the aggregate ordinary Voting Power represented by the issued and outstanding capital stock
of the Company; provided, however, that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to the Permitted
Holders so long as the acquisition by the Permitted Holders of such Voting Power shall not result,
directly or indirectly, in a “going private transaction” within the meaning of the 1934 Act;
(ii) the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats where vacant seats shall
not count for purposes of determining the majority) on the board of directors of the Company by
Persons who were neither (A) nominated by the Board of Directors of the Company nor (B) appointed
by directors so nominated; or (iii) the occurrence of a change in control, or other similar
provision, under or with respect to any Material Indebtedness.
“Charges” has the meaning provided in Section 11.22(a).
“CIP Regulations” has the meaning provided in Section 9.11.
“Claims” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Environmental Claims.”
“Closing Date” means the date upon which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are
satisfied.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the
regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder. Section references to the Code are to
the Code, as in effect at the Closing Date and any subsequent provisions of the Code, amendatory
thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.
“Collateral” means any collateral covered by any Security Document.
“Collateral Agent” means PNC in its capacity as collateral agent under the Security
Documents, together with any successor collateral agent appointed pursuant to Section 9.22 of the
Security Agreement.
“Collateral Assignment Agreement” has the meaning provided in the Security Agreement.
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“Collateral Release Date” has the meaning provided in Section 2.20.
“Commercial Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit or similar instrument issued
for the purpose of providing the primary payment mechanism in connection with the purchase of
materials, goods or services in the ordinary course of business.
“Commitment” means (i) with respect to each Revolving Lender, its obligation to make
Revolving Loans and participate in Revolving Facility LC Issuances under the Revolving Facility
pursuant to its Revolving Commitment, (ii) the obligation of each Canadian Lender to make Canadian
Revolving Loans and participate in Canadian LC Issuances under the Canadian Sub-Facility pursuant
to its Canadian Commitment, (iii) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, its obligations to make
Swing Loans under the Swing Line Facility pursuant to its Swing Line Commitment, and (iv) with
respect to each LC Issuer, its obligation to issue Letters of Credit under and in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement.
“Commitment Fees” has the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a)(i).
“Commodities Hedge Agreement” means a commodities contract purchased by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, and not for speculative purposes, with
respect to paper or other raw materials necessary to the manufacturing or production of goods in
connection with the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“Company” has the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Company Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning provided in Section 10.01.
“Compliance Certificate” has the meaning provided in Section 6.01(c).
“Computation Date” means each of the following dates, as applicable, on which the
Global Agent will determine the Dollar Equivalent amount of (i) proposed Revolving Loans or
Revolving Facility Letters of Credit to be denominated in a Designated Foreign Currency as of the
requested date of Borrowing or issuance, as the case may be, and (ii) outstanding Revolving Loans
and Revolving Facility Letters of Credit denominated in a Designated Foreign Currency as of the end
of each Interest Period or the scheduled renewal or expiration, as the case may be.
“Confidential Information” has the meaning provided in Section 11.14(b).
“Consideration” means, in connection with an Acquisition, the aggregate consideration
paid for such Acquisition, including borrowed funds, cash, the issuance of securities or notes, the
assumption or incurring of liabilities (direct or contingent), the payment of consulting fees
(excluding any fees payable to any investment banker, accountant, lawyer or other advisor in
connection with such Acquisition) or fees for a covenant not to compete and any other consideration
paid for the purchase.
“Consolidated Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, as determined for the
Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, the aggregate of all
expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) made by the Company and its
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Subsidiaries to acquire or lease (pursuant to a Capital Lease) fixed or capital assets, or
additions to equipment (including replacements, capitalized repairs and improvements during such
period).
“Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means, for any period, all
depreciation and amortization expenses of the Company and its Subsidiaries, all as determined for
the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, provided,
however, that in the event the Company is required under ASC Topic 810 to consolidate the results
of an entity that is not otherwise a Subsidiary, Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense
shall only include the portion of such depreciation and amortization expense for such period equal
to the Company’s percentage equity interest in such entity.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period;
plus (i) (A) the sum of the amounts for such period included in determining such
Consolidated Net Income of (1) Consolidated Interest Expense, (2) Consolidated Income Tax Expense,
(3) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense, and (4) extraordinary non-cash losses and
charges and other non-recurring non-cash losses and charges, (B) the applicable non-cash Scheduled
Add-Backs for such period and (C) fees, costs and expenses in connection with the World
Headquarters Initiative in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000 in the aggregate during the term of
this Agreement; less (ii) gains on sales of assets, extraordinary gains, and non-recurring
non-cash gains in excess, for any such gain, of $5,000,000; all as determined for the Company and
its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that
Consolidated EBITDA for any Testing Period shall (x) for any Person or business unit that has been
acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries during such Testing Period, include the EBITDA
of such Person or business unit for any portion of such Testing Period prior to the date of
acquisition, so long as such EBITDA has been verified by appropriate audited financial statements
or other financial statements acceptable to the Global Agent and (y) for any Person or business
unit that has been disposed of by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries during such Testing
Period, exclude the EBITDA of such Person or business unit for the portion of such Testing Period
prior to the date of disposition.
“Consolidated Income Tax Expense” means, for any period, all provisions for taxes
based on the net income of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including, without limitation,
any additions to such taxes, and any penalties and interest with respect thereto), all as
determined for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP,
provided, however, that in the event the Company is required under ASC Topic 810 to consolidate the
results of an entity that is not otherwise a Subsidiary, Consolidated Income Tax Expense shall only
include the portion of such income tax expense for such period equal to the Company’s percentage
equity interest in such entity.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, total interest expense
(including, without limitation, that which is capitalized and that which is attributable to the
Permitted Receivables Facility, Capital Leases or Synthetic Leases) of the Company and its
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Company
and its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that Consolidated Interest Expense shall exclude
(a) premiums, write-offs of original issue discount and deferred financing costs, (b) transactional
expenses associated with any Permitted Note Purchase made pursuant to Section 7.06(e),
(c) transactional expenses associated with the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of
the Loan
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Documents and the Receivables Facility Documents, (d) transactional expenses and other
issuance costs associated with securities issued pursuant to any Indenture, and (e) pay-in-kind
interest expense or other non-cash interest expense (including as a result of the effects of
purchase accounting), provided, however, further, that in the event the Company is required under
ASC Topic 810 to consolidate the results of an entity that is not otherwise a Subsidiary,
Consolidated Interest Expense shall only include the portion of such interest expense for such
period equal to the Company’s percentage equity interest in such entity.
“Consolidated Net Income” means for any period, the net income (or loss) of the
Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for such period taken as a single accounting
period determined in conformity with GAAP, provided, however, that (a) in the event the Company is
required under ASC Topic 810 to consolidate the results of an entity that is not otherwise a
Subsidiary, Consolidated Net Income shall only include the portion of such net income (or loss) for
such period equal to the Company’s percentage equity interest in such entity, and (b) the net
income for such period of any Person that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting,
shall be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments
paid in cash (or to the extent converted into cash) to the Company or a Subsidiary thereof in
respect of such period.
“Consolidated Total Debt” means the sum (without duplication) of all Indebtedness of
the Company and of its Subsidiaries, all as determined on a consolidated basis, provided, however,
that in the event the Company is required under ASC Topic 810 to consolidate the results of an
entity that is not otherwise a Subsidiary, Consolidated Total Debt shall only include the portion
of such Indebtedness equal to the Company’s percentage equity interest in such entity (except, and
without duplication, to the extent it is also Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries).
“Continue,” “Continuation” and “Continued” each refers to a
continuation of a Fixed Rate Loan for an additional Interest Period as provided in Section 2.13.
“Control Agreement” has the meaning provided in the Security Agreement.
“Convert,” “Conversion” and “Converted” each refers to a conversion of
Loans of one Type into Loans of another Type.
“Credit Event” means the making of any Borrowing, any Conversion or Continuation or
any LC Issuance.
“Credit Facility” means the credit facility established under this Agreement pursuant
to the Commitments of the Lenders.
“Credit Facility Exposure” means, for any Lender at any time, the Dollar Equivalent of
the sum of, (i) such Lender’s Revolving Facility Exposure at such time, and (ii) such Lender’s
(whether directly or by its Canadian Lending Installation), Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure at such
time.
“Credit Party” means any Domestic Credit Party or Foreign Credit Party.
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“Daily LIBOR Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum determined by the Global
Agent by dividing (y) the Published Rate by (z) a number equal to 1.00 minus the LIBOR Reserve
Percentage on such day.
“Declining Lender” has the meaning provided in Section 2.02(b).
“Default” means any event, act or condition that with notice or lapse of time, or
both, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to (i) the Base Rate (or if
the Default Rate is being determined in connection with a Canadian Revolving Loan, the Canadian
Base Rate) in effect on such day, plus (ii) the Applicable Margin in effect on such day,
plus (iii) 2%.
“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the
Loans, participations with respect to Letters of Credit, or participations in Swing Loans required
to be funded by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it
hereunder unless such failure has been cured and all interest accruing as a result of such failure
has been fully paid in accordance with the terms hereof, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to
the Global Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within
one Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute or unless such
failure has been cured and all interest accruing as a result of such failure has been fully paid in
accordance with the terms hereof, (c) has failed at any time to comply with the provisions of
Section 8.04 with respect to purchasing participations from the other Lenders, whereby such
Lender’s share of any payment received, whether by setoff or otherwise, is in excess of its ratable
share of such payments due and payable to all of the Lenders, (d) has since the date of this
Agreement been deemed insolvent by a Governmental Authority or become the subject of a bankruptcy,
receivership, conservatorship or insolvency proceeding, or has a parent company that since the date
of this Agreement been deemed insolvent by a Governmental Authority or become the subject of a
bankruptcy, receivership, conservatorship or insolvency proceeding, (e) has notified the Global
Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this
Agreement, or (f) has failed within three (3) Business Days after request by the Global Agent, to
confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations to fund
prospective Loans and participations in the Letters of Credit and Swing Loans.
“Designated Foreign Currency” means Euros, Canadian Dollars, British pounds,
Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, or Yen.
“Designated Hedge Agreement” means any Hedge Agreement (other than a Commodities Hedge
Agreement) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party and as to which a Lender or
any of its Affiliates (including any Person who is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender as of the
Closing Date but subsequently, whether before or after entering into a Hedge Agreement, ceases to
be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender) is a counterparty.
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“Designated Hedge Creditor” means each Lender or Affiliate of a Lender that
participates as a counterparty to any Credit Party pursuant to any Designated Hedge Agreement with
such Lender or Affiliate of such Lender.
“Dollars,” “U.S. dollars” and the sign “$” each means lawful money of
the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent” means, (i) with respect to an amount in Dollars, such amount,
(ii) with respect to a Foreign Currency Loan to be made, the Dollar equivalent of the amount of
such Foreign Currency Loan, determined by the Global Agent (which determination shall be conclusive
absent manifest error) using the average spot rate quoted to the Global Agent (based on market
rates then prevailing and available to the Global Agent) or the commercial market rate of exchange,
as determined by the Global Agent and at a time determined by the Global Agent on the date two
Business Days before the date such Foreign Currency Loan is to be made, for the purchase of the
relevant Designated Foreign Currency with Dollars for delivery on the date such Foreign Currency
Loan is to be made, (iii) with respect to any Letter of Credit to be issued in any Designated
Foreign Currency, the Dollar equivalent of the Stated Amount of such Letter of Credit, determined
by the applicable LC Issuer (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) using
the average spot rate quoted to the LC Issuer (based on market rates then prevailing and available
to the LC Issuer) or the commercial market rate of exchange, as determined by the LC Issuer and at
a time determined by the LC Issuer on the date two Business Days before the issuance of such Letter
of Credit, for the purchase of the relevant Designated Foreign Currency with Dollars for delivery
on such date of issuance, and (iv) with respect to any other amount, and with respect to Foreign
Currency Loans and Letters of Credit issued in any Designated Foreign Currency at any other time,
the Dollar equivalent of such amount, Foreign Currency Loan or Letter of Credit, as the case may
be, determined by the Global Agent (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error)
using the average spot rate quoted to the Global Agent (based on market rates then prevailing and
available to the Global Agent) or the commercial market rate of exchange, as determined by the
Global Agent and at a time determined by the Global Agent on the date for which the Dollar
equivalent amount of such amount, Foreign Currency Loan or Letter of Credit, as the case may be, is
being determined, for the purchase of the relevant Designated Foreign Currency with Dollars for
delivery on such date.
“Domestic Credit Party” means the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to each Lender, the office designated by
such Lender to the Global Agent as such Lender’s lending office for all purposes of this Agreement
other than those matters managed by such Lender’s Foreign Lending Office.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary organized under the laws of the United
States of America, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, or any United States possession.
“EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the net income for such
Person for such period plus (i) the sum of the amounts for such period included in
determining such net income in respect of (A) interest expense, (B) income tax expense, (C)
depreciation and amortization expense, and (D) extraordinary non-cash losses and charges and other
non-recurring non-cash losses and charges; less (ii) gains on sales of assets and other
extraordinary gains and other non-recurring non-cash gains, in each case as determined in
accordance with GAAP.
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“Eligible Assignee” means (i) a Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender), (ii) an
Affiliate of a Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender), (iii) an Approved Fund, and (iv) any other
Person (other than a natural Person) approved by (A) the Global Agent, (B) each LC Issuer, and (C)
unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company (each such approval not to
be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing,
“Eligible Assignee” shall not include (y) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (z) any other
Person, a substantial part of whose business, directly or indirectly through an Affiliate of such
Person, on the date such Person intends to become an “Eligible Assignee” hereunder, is the design,
manufacture or distribution of greeting cards, stationary, party supplies, gift-wrapping supplies,
photo products or any other products related to any of the foregoing; and any prospective Eligible
Assignee shall certify that it is an Eligible Assignee (as defined above) in the Assignment
Agreement which it is required to deliver pursuant to Section 11.05(c), upon which certification
the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and each Lender may conclusively rely without investigation,
liability or other obligation whatsoever.
“Environmental Claims” means any and all global, regulatory or judicial actions,
suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of non-compliance or violation,
investigations or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued
under any such law (hereafter “Claims”), including, without limitation, (i) any and all
Claims by any Governmental Authority for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other
actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law, and (ii) any and all Claims by any
third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or
injunctive relief resulting from the storage, treatment or Release (as defined in CERCLA) of any
Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to health, safety or the
environment.
“Environmental Law” means any applicable Federal, state, foreign or local statute,
law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, binding and enforceable guideline, binding and enforceable
written policy and rule of common law now or hereafter in effect and in each case as amended, and
any binding and enforceable judicial or global interpretation thereof, including any judicial or
global order, consent, decree or judgment issued to or rendered against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries relating to the environment, employee health and safety or Hazardous Materials,
including, without limitation, CERCLA; RCRA; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. §
1251 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §
300f et seq.; the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.; the Emergency Planning and
the Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq., the Hazardous Material
Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq. and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C.
§ 651 et seq. (to the extent it regulates occupational exposure to Hazardous Materials); and any
state and local or foreign counterparts or equivalents, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Equalization Date” means the date upon the earliest to occur of (i) the termination
of the Commitments pursuant to Section 8.02(a), (ii) the acceleration of the Obligations pursuant
to Section 8.02(b), (iii) the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.01(h), or
(iv) the Revolving Facility Termination Date, to the extent that any of the Obligations remain
outstanding as of the close of business (local time in the Notice Office) as of such date.
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“Equalization Percentage” means, with respect to each Lender, a percentage determined
for such Lender on the Equalization Date obtained by dividing the Credit Facility Exposure of such
Lender on the Equalization Date by the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure on the Equalization Date,
in each case as calculated, with respect to any amounts outstanding in a Designated Foreign
Currency, using the Dollar Equivalent of such amount in effect on the Equalization Date, as the
forgoing percentage may be adjusted as a result of any assignments made pursuant to Section 11.05
after the Equalization Date.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from
time to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. Section references to
ERISA are to ERISA, as in effect at the Closing Date and any subsequent provisions of ERISA,
amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.
“ERISA Affiliate” means each Person (as defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA), which
together with the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, would be deemed to be a “single employer”
(i) within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or (ii) as a result of the
Company or a Subsidiary of the Company being or having been a general partner of such Person.
“Eurodollar Loan” means each Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate based upon the
Adjusted Eurodollar Rate.
“Event of Default” has the meaning provided in Section 8.01.
“Event of Loss” means, with respect to any property, (i) the actual or constructive
total loss of such property or the use thereof, resulting from destruction, damage beyond repair,
or the rendition of such property permanently unfit for normal use from any casualty or similar
occurrence whatsoever, (ii) the destruction or damage of a portion of such property from any
casualty or similar occurrence whatsoever under circumstances in which such damage cannot
reasonably be expected to be repaired, or such property cannot reasonably be expected to be
restored to its condition immediately prior to such destruction or damage, within 270 days after
the occurrence of such destruction or damage, or (iii) the condemnation, confiscation or seizure
of, or requisition of title to or use of, any property by any Governmental Authority.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Global Agent, any Lender, any LC Issuer or
any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower
hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and
franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political
subdivision thereof) under the Laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal
office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located,
(b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by
any other jurisdiction in which any Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender,
any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such
Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to
such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply
with Section 3.03(e), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was
entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or
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assignment), to receive additional amounts from the applicable Borrower with respect to such
withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.03(a).
“Executive Order No. 13224” means the Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist
Financing, effective September 24, 2001, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed,
extended, amended or replaced.
“Exemption Certificate” has the meaning provided in Section 3.03(e)(iv).
“
Existing Credit Agreement” means that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of April 4,
2006 among the Company, the Lenders party thereto, the Global Agent and the other parties and
agents set forth therein, as amended.
“Existing Letters of Credit” means each of the letters of credit described on
Schedule 4.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” for any day means the rate per annum (based on a year
of 360 days and actual days elapsed and rounded upward to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) announced by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any successor) on such day as being the weighted average of
the rates on overnight federal funds transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous
trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank (or any successor) in
substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank computes and announces the weighted
average it refers to as the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” as of the date of this Agreement;
provided, if such Federal Reserve Bank (or its successor) does not announce such rate on any day,
the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” for such day shall be the Federal Funds Effective Rate for the
last day on which such rate was announced.
“Federal Funds Open Rate” for any day means the rate per annum (based on a year of 360
days and actual days elapsed) which is the daily federal funds open rate as quoted by ICAP North
America, Inc. (or any successor) as set forth on the Bloomberg Screen BTMM for that day opposite
the caption “OPEN” (or on such other substitute Bloomberg Screen that displays such rate), or as
set forth on such other recognized electronic source used for the purpose of displaying such rate
as selected by the Global Agent (for purposes of this definition, an “Alternate Source”)
(or if such rate for such day does not appear on the Bloomberg Screen BTMM (or any substitute
screen) or on any Alternate Source, or if there shall at any time, for any reason, no longer exist
a Bloomberg Screen BTMM (or any substitute screen) or any Alternate Source, a comparable
replacement rate determined by the Global Agent at such time (which determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error); provided however, that if such day is not a Business Day, the
Federal Funds Open Rate for such day shall be the “open” rate on the immediately preceding Business
Day. If and when the Federal Funds Open Rate changes, the rate of interest with respect to any
advance to which the Federal Funds Open Rate applies will change automatically without notice to
the Borrowers, effective on the date of any such change.
“Fee Letter” means the Fee Letter, dated as of May 11, 2010, by and among PNC, PNC
Capital Markets LLC and the Company, as amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to
time.
“Fees” means all amounts payable pursuant to, or referred to in, Section 2.14.
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“Financial Projections” has the meaning provided in Section 5.07(b).
“Fitch” means Fitch, Inc. and its successors.
“Fixed Commitment Percentage” means, at any time for any Revolving Lender, the
percentage obtained by dividing such Lender’s Revolving Commitment by the Total Revolving
Commitment; provided, however, that if the Total Revolving Commitment has been terminated, the
Fixed Commitment Percentage for each Lender shall be determined by dividing such Lender’s Revolving
Commitment immediately prior to such termination by the Total Revolving Commitment immediately
prior to such termination. The Fixed Commitment Percentage of each Revolving Lender as of the
Closing Date is set forth on Schedule 1.
“Fixed Rate Loan” means any Eurodollar Loan, Foreign Currency Loan or CDOR Loan.
“Foreign Credit Party” means any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower or any Foreign Subsidiary
that has executed and delivered to the Global Agent a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty.
“Foreign Currency Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (i) the Aggregate Canadian
Sub-Facility Exposure at such time, and (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure at such time
that is denominated in any Designated Foreign Currency.
“Foreign Currency Loan” means each Revolving Loan denominated in a Designated Foreign
Currency and bearing interest at a rate based upon the Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate.
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is organized under the Laws of a jurisdiction
other than that in which the Company is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this
definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be
deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“Foreign Lending Office” means, with respect to each Lender, in the case of matters
relating to the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers, the office(s) designated by such Lender to the Global
Agent as such Lender’s lending office(s) for purposes of making Loans to each such Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower.
“Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower” means any Foreign Subsidiary that becomes a
Revolving Facility Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19; provided, however, that a Canadian Borrower
shall not be eligible to be a Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower hereunder.
“Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower Obligations” means all amounts, indemnities and
reimbursement obligations, direct or indirect, contingent or absolute, of every type or
description, and at any time existing, owing by any Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower to the
Global Agent, any Lender or any LC Issuer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document (including, but not limited to, interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or
against any Credit Party of any insolvency proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees
are allowed claims in such proceeding).
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
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“Foreign Subsidiary Borrower” means any Canadian Borrower or Foreign Revolving
Facility Borrower.
“Foreign Subsidiary Borrower Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (i) the
Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure at such time, and (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Facility
Exposure in respect of the Foreign Revolving Facility Borrowers at such time.
“Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty” means, with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary, a
guaranty of payment, in form and substance satisfactory to the Global Agent, executed by such
Foreign Subsidiary under which such Foreign Subsidiary guarantees payment of the Obligations owing
by such Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers that own (directly or indirectly) equity interests in such
Foreign Subsidiary.
“Funding Amount” means, with respect to any Revolving Borrowing or Revolving Facility
LC Issuance, such Lender’s pro rata share of such Revolving Borrowing or Revolving Facility LC
Issuance based upon such Lender’s applicable Funding Percentage in effect at the time such
Revolving Borrowing is to be made or of such Revolving Facility LC Issuance.
“Funding Percentage” means, for each Lender at the time of any Revolving Borrowing or
Revolving Facility LC Issuance, (i) if there is no Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure, such
Lender’s Fixed Commitment Percentage, or (ii) if there is any Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility
Exposure, such Lender’s Adjusted Commitment Percentage.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America
as in effect from time to time.
“Global Agent” has the meaning provided in the first paragraph of this Agreement and
shall include any successor to the Global Agent appointed pursuant to Section 9.06.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political
subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, global
tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing,
regulatory or global powers or functions of or pertaining to government, including any
supranational bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank.
“Guaranty Obligations” means as to any Person (without duplication) any obligation of
such Person guaranteeing any Indebtedness (“Primary Indebtedness”) of any other Person (the
“Primary Obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without
limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such
Primary Indebtedness or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to
advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of any such Primary Indebtedness or to maintain
working capital or equity capital of the Primary Obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or
solvency of the Primary Obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for
the purpose of assuring the owner of any such Primary Indebtedness of the ability of the Primary
Obligor to make payment of such Primary Indebtedness, or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless
the owner of such Primary Indebtedness against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the
definition of Guaranty Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or
collection in the ordinary course of business or customary and
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reasonable indemnity obligations entered into in connection with any acquisition or
disposition of assets in effect on the Closing Date or permitted under this Agreement. The amount
of any Guaranty Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable
amount of the Primary Indebtedness in respect of which such Guaranty Obligation is made or, if not
stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming
such Person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Hazardous Materials” means (i) any petrochemical or petroleum products, radioactive
materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation,
transformers or other equipment that contain dielectric fluid containing levels of polychlorinated
biphenyls, and radon gas; and (ii) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in
the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous wastes,” “hazardous materials,” “restricted
hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous wastes,” “restrictive hazardous wastes,” “toxic
substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants” or “pollutants,” or words of similar meaning and
regulatory effect, under any applicable Environmental Law.
“Hedge Agreement” means (i) any interest rate swap agreement, any interest rate cap
agreement, any interest rate collar agreement or other similar interest rate management agreement
or arrangement, (ii) any currency swap or option agreement, foreign exchange contract, forward
currency purchase agreement or similar currency management agreement or arrangement or (iii) any
Commodities Hedge Agreement.
“Increasing Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.02(c).
“Indebtedness” of any Person means without duplication (i) all indebtedness of such
Person for borrowed money; (ii) all bonds, notes, debentures and similar debt securities of such
Person; (iii) the deferred purchase price of capital assets or services that in accordance with
GAAP would be shown on the liability side of the balance sheet of such Person; (iv) the face amount
of all letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and, without duplication, all drafts
drawn thereunder; (v) the principal component of all obligations of such Person in respect of
bankers’ acceptances; (vi) all Indebtedness of a second Person secured by any Lien on any property
owned by such first Person, whether or not such indebtedness has been assumed; (vii) all
Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person; (viii) the present value, determined on the basis of
the implicit interest rate, of all basic rental obligations under all Synthetic Leases of such
Person; (ix) all obligations of such Person with respect to asset securitization financing,
including, but not limited to, in the case of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, all
obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under the Permitted Receivables Facility;
(x) all obligations of such Person to pay a specified purchase price for goods or services whether
or not delivered or accepted, i.e., take-or-pay and similar obligations in excess of the aggregate
for all such obligations of $10,000,000; (xi) all net obligations of such Person under Hedge
Agreements; (xii) the full outstanding balance of trade receivables, notes or other instruments
sold with full recourse (and the portion thereof subject to potential recourse, if sold with
limited recourse), other than in any such case any thereof sold solely for purposes of collection
of delinquent accounts; and (xiii) all Guaranty Obligations of such Person; provided, however that
(x) no trade payables, deferred revenue, taxes nor other similar accrued expenses, in each case
arising in the ordinary course of business, obligations in respect of insurance policies or
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performance or surety bonds that themselves are not guarantees of Indebtedness (nor drafts,
acceptances or similar instruments evidencing the same nor obligations in respect of letters of
credit supporting the payment of the same) or obligations to pay royalty fees or other payments
under license agreements, shall constitute Indebtedness; and (y) the Indebtedness of any Person
shall in any event include (without duplication) the Indebtedness of any other entity (including
any general partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is
liable thereon as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such
entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide expressly that such Person is
not liable thereon.
“Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“Indemnitees” has the meaning provided in Section 11.02.
“Indentures” means, collectively, the Senior Indenture (1998), the Senior Indenture
(2006) and the Subordinated Indenture.
“Insolvency Event” means, with respect to any Person, (i) the commencement of a
voluntary case by such Person under the Bankruptcy Code or the seeking of relief by such Person
under any bankruptcy or insolvency or analogous law in any jurisdiction outside of the United
States (including, without limitation, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies’
Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act (Canada); (ii) the
commencement of an involuntary case against such Person under the Bankruptcy Code and the petition
is not controverted within 10 days, or is not dismissed within 60 days, after commencement of the
case; (iii) a custodian (as defined in the Bankruptcy Code) is appointed for, or takes charge of,
all or substantially all of the property of such Person; (iv) such Person commences (including by
way of applying for or consenting to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a
rehabilitator, receiver, custodian, trustee, conservator or liquidator (collectively, a
“conservator”) of such Person or all or any substantial portion of its property) any other
proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors,
dissolution, insolvency, liquidation, rehabilitation, conservatorship or similar law of any
jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to such Person; (v) any such proceeding of
the type set forth in clause (iv) above is commenced against such Person to the extent such
proceeding is consented to by such Person or remains undismissed for a period of 60 days; (vi) such
Person is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; (vii) any order of relief or other order approving any
such case or proceeding is entered; (viii) such Person suffers any appointment of any conservator
or the like for it or any substantial part of its property that continues undischarged or unstayed
for a period of 60 days; (ix) such Person makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors
or generally does not pay its debts as such debts become due; or (x) any corporate (or similar
organizational) action is taken by such Person for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.
“Interest Coverage Ratio” means, for any Testing Period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated
EBITDA to (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to each Fixed Rate Loan, a period of one, two,
three or six months as selected by the applicable Borrower; provided, however, that (i) the initial
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Interest Period for any Borrowing of such Fixed Rate Loan shall commence on the date of
such Borrowing (the date of a Borrowing resulting from a Conversion or Continuation shall be the
date of such Conversion or Continuation) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in respect
of such Borrowing shall commence on the day on which the next preceding Interest Period expires;
(ii) if any Interest Period begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in
the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last
Business Day of such calendar month; (iii) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day
that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day;
provided, however, that if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a
Business Day but is a day of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in such month,
such Interest Period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day; (iv) no Interest Period for
any Fixed Rate Loan may be selected that would end after the Revolving Facility Termination Date;
and (v) if, upon the expiration of any Interest Period, the applicable Borrower has failed to (or
may not) elect a new Interest Period to be applicable to the respective Borrowing of Fixed Rate
Loans as provided above, such Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to Convert such Borrowing to
Base Rate Loans effective as of the expiration date of such current Interest Period or, in the case
of any Foreign Currency Loan, such Borrower shall be required to repay the same in full.
“Investment” means (i) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by a
Person of any of the capital stock or other equity interest of any other Person, including any
partnership or joint venture interest in such Person; (ii) any loan, advance (other than deposits
with financial institutions available for withdrawal on demand) or extension of credit to,
guarantee or assumption of debt or purchase or other acquisition of any other Indebtedness of, any
Person by any other Person, or (iii) the purchase, acquisition or investment of or in any stocks,
bonds, mutual funds, notes, debentures or other securities, or any deposit account, certificate of
deposit or other investment of any kind.
“Investment Grade Rating” means that the Company’s unsecured non-credit enhanced
rating from Xxxxx’x is at least Baa3, from S&P is at least BBB- and from Fitch is at least BBB-.
“Joinder Agreement” has the meaning provided in Section 4.02(i).
“Judgment Amount” has the meaning provided in Section 11.24.
“Landlord’s Agreement” means a landlord’s waiver or mortgagee’s waiver, each in form
and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, delivered by a Credit Party with respect to
Material Leased Locations in connection with this Agreement, as the same may from time to time be
amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Law” means any law (including common law), constitution, statute, treaty, regulation,
rule, ordinance, opinion, release, ruling, order, injunction, writ, decree, bond, judgment,
authorization or approval, lien or award by or settlement agreement with any Governmental
Authority.
“LC Documents” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, any documents executed in
connection with such Letter of Credit, including the Letter of Credit itself.
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“LC Fee” means any of the fees payable pursuant to Section 2.14(b) or (c) in respect
of Letters of Credit.
“LC Issuance” means any Canadian LC Issuance or Revolving Facility LC Issuance.
“LC Issuer” means (i) with respect to any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, PNC or
any of its Affiliates or such other Lender that is requested by the Company and agrees to be a LC
Issuer hereunder and is approved by the Global Agent, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed, and (ii) with respect to any Canadian Letter of Credit, PNC Bank Canada Branch
or any of its Affiliates that meet the requirements of a Canadian Lender or such other Canadian
Lender that is approved by the Company and agrees to be a LC Issuer hereunder and is approved by
the Global Agent, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
“LC Obligor” means (i) with respect to any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, the
Company, any other Revolving Facility Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, and (ii) with respect
to any Canadian Letter of Credit, any Canadian Borrower.
“Leaseholds” of any Person means all the right, title and interest of such Person as
lessee or licensee in, to and under leases or licenses of land, improvements and/or fixtures.
“Lender” and “Lenders” have the meaning provided in the first paragraph of
this Agreement and includes any other Person that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment
Agreement, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment
Agreement. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swing
Line Lender.
“Lender Register” has the meaning provided in Section 2.11(b).
“Letter of Credit” means any (i) Canadian Letter of Credit or (ii) Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit.
“Leverage Ratio” means, for any Testing Period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated Total
Debt minus the Company’s unrestricted cash on hand to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA.
“LIBOR Reserve Percentage” means as of any day the maximum percentage in effect on
such day, as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor)
for determining the reserve requirements (including supplemental, marginal and emergency reserve
requirements) with respect to Eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency
Liabilities”).
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of
any kind (including any agreement to give any of the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement or any lease in the nature thereof).
“Loan” means any Revolving Loan, Canadian Revolving Loan or Swing Loan.
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“Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Subsidiary Guaranty, each
Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty, the Security Documents, the Fee Letter, any Joinder Agreement and any
LC Document.
“Loss” has the meaning provided in Section 11.24.
“Margin Stock” has the meaning provided in Regulation U.
“Material Adverse Effect” means any or all of the following: (i) any material adverse
effect on the business, operations, property, assets, liabilities, financial or other condition of
the Company, any other Borrower, or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole); (ii) any
material adverse effect on the ability of the Company, any other Borrower, or the Company and its
Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to perform its or their obligations under the Loan Documents to
which it or they are a party; (iii) any material adverse effect on the ability of the Company, any
other Borrower, or the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to pay their liabilities and
obligations as they mature or become due; or (iv) any material adverse effect on the validity,
effectiveness or enforceability, as against the Company, any other Borrower, or the other Credit
Parties (taken as a whole) of any of the Loan Documents to which it or they are a party.
“Material Indebtedness” means, as to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any
particular Indebtedness of the Company or such Subsidiary (including any Guaranty Obligations) in
excess of the aggregate principal amount of $20,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof).
“Material Leased Location” has the meaning provided in Section 6.10(d).
“Maximum Credit Facility Amount” means the Dollar Equivalent of $350,000,000, as such
amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 2.15 or increased pursuant to Section 2.02(c).
“Maximum Dividend Amount” means $50,000,000.
“Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount” means the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000,000, as such
amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 2.15.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning provided in Section 11.22.
“Maximum Share Repurchase Amount” means $100,000,000.
“Minimum Borrowing Amount” means (i) with respect to any US Base Rate Loan, $5,000,000
(or the Dollar Equivalent thereof in any Designated Foreign Currency), with minimum increments
thereafter of $1,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof in any Designated Foreign Currency),
(ii) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan or Foreign Currency Loan, $5,000,000 (or the Dollar
Equivalent thereof in any Designated Foreign Currency), with minimum increments thereafter of
$1,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof in any Designated Foreign Currency), (iii) with
respect to any Canadian Base Rate Loan, C$1,000,000, with minimum increments thereafter of
C$100,000, (iv) with respect to any CDOR Loan C$5,000,000, with minimum increments thereafter of
C$1,000,000, and (v) with respect to Swing Loans, $500,000, with minimum increments thereafter of
$100,000.
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“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.
“Xxxxx’x Rating” means the rating accorded to the Company’s senior credit facilities
by Moody’s.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA, to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make
contributions or has within any of the preceding three plan years made or accrued an obligation to
make contributions.
“Multiple Employer Plan” means an employee benefit plan, other than a Multiemployer
Plan, to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, and one or more employers other than the Company
or an ERISA Affiliate, is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or, in the event
that any such plan has been terminated, to which the Company or an ERISA Affiliate made or accrued
an obligation to make contributions during any of the five plan years preceding the date of
termination of such plan.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means, with respect to (i) any Asset Sale by any Person, the Cash
Proceeds resulting therefrom net of (A) reasonable and customary expenses of sale (including,
without limitation, brokers’ fees, fees of counsel, accountants and other advisors and filing fees)
incurred in connection with such Asset Sale, and other reasonable and customary fees and expenses
incurred, and all taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable by such Person as a consequence
of such Asset Sale and the payment of principal, premium and interest of Indebtedness (other than
the Obligations) secured by the asset which is the subject of the Asset Sale and required to be,
and which is, repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such Asset Sale, and (B) (without
duplication of amounts set forth in clause (A)) incremental federal, state and local income taxes
paid or payable as a result thereof; and (ii) any Event of Loss, the Cash Proceeds resulting
therefrom net of (A) reasonable and customary expenses incurred in connection with such Event of
Loss, and taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable by such person as a consequence of such
Event of Loss and the payment of principal, premium and interest of Indebtedness (other than the
Obligations) secured by the asset which is the subject of the Event of Loss and required to be, and
which is, repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such Event of Loss, and (B) (without
duplication of amounts set forth in clause (A)) incremental federal, state and local income taxes
paid or payable as a result thereof.
“New Lender” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.02(c).
“1934 Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Non-Canadian Lender” means any Lender that does not have a Canadian Commitment either
directly or by its Canadian Lending Installation.
“Non-Consenting Lender” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.11.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means each Lender other than a Defaulting Lender.
“Note” means a Revolving Facility Note, a Canadian Sub-Facility Note, or a Swing Line
Note, as applicable.
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“Notice of Adjustment” has the meaning provided in Section 2.10(b).
“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning provided in Section 2.08(b).
“Notice of Continuation or Conversion” has the meaning provided in Section 2.13(c).
“Notice of Swing Line Refunding” has the meaning provided in Section 2.05(b).
“Notice Office” means the office of the Global Agent at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000, Attention: Agency Services, or such other office as the Global Agent may designate in
writing to the Company from time to time.
“Obligations” means all amounts, indemnities and reimbursement obligations, direct or
indirect, contingent or absolute, of every type or description, and at any time existing, owing by
the Borrowers or any other Credit Party to the Global Agent, the Collateral Agent (including but
not limited to Administrative Obligations (as defined in the Security Agreement)), any Lender, the
Swing Line Lender or any LC Issuer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document (including, but not limited to, interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or
against any Credit Party of any insolvency proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable
in such proceeding or subject to an automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code).
“Operating Lease” as applied to any Person means any lease of any property (whether
real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is not accounted
for as a Capital Lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person (other than an
individual), such Person’s Articles (Certificate) of Incorporation, or equivalent formation
documents, and Regulations (Bylaws), or equivalent governing documents, and any amendments to any
of the foregoing.
“Original Due Date” has the meaning provided in Section 11.24.
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other
excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or
under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with
respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“Payment Office” means, with respect to all matters other than those relating to the
making and repayment of Canadian Revolving Loans or other Canadian Obligations, the office of the
Global Agent at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Agency Services, or such other
office(s), as the Global Agent may designate to the Company in writing from time to time.
“Payment Sharing Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender or Canadian Lender at
any time (i) with respect to any payment relating to the Revolving Facility, (A) if there is no
Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure, such Lender’s Fixed Commitment Percentage or (B) if there
is any Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure and/or Foreign Currency Loan
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outstanding at such time, the percentage obtained by dividing such Lender’s Revolving Facility Exposure immediately
prior to such payment by the Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure immediately prior to such
payment, and (ii) with respect to any payment relating to the Canadian Sub-Facility, such Canadian
Lender’s Canadian Commitment Percentage in effect at such time.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to
Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor thereto.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition as to which all of the following
conditions are satisfied:
(i) such Acquisition involves a line or lines of business that is or are complementary to the
lines of business in which the Company and its Subsidiaries, considered as an entirety, are engaged
on the Closing Date;
(ii) the aggregate Consideration paid in connection with such Acquisition shall not exceed the
Permitted Acquisition Amount; provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, if at the time of any
Acquisition the Leverage Ratio for both (a) the most recent Testing Period then ended and (b) after
giving effect to such Acquisition, on a pro forma basis, is less than 2.25 to 1.00, then the
limitation in this clause (ii) shall not apply;
(iii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist prior to or immediately after giving effect
to such Acquisition;
(iv) the Company would, after giving effect to such Acquisition, on a pro forma basis, be in
compliance with the financial covenants contained in Section 7.07; and
(v) at least five Business Days prior to the consummation of any such Acquisition in which the
Consideration exceeds $50,000,000, the Company shall have delivered to the Global Agent and the
Lenders (A) a certificate of an Authorized Officer demonstrating, in reasonable detail, the
computation of the financial covenants referred to in Section 7.07 on a pro forma basis, such pro
forma ratios being determined as if (x) such Acquisition had been completed at the beginning of the
most recent Testing Period for which financial information for the Company and the business or
Person to be acquired, is available, and (y) any such Indebtedness, or other Indebtedness incurred
to finance such Acquisition, had been outstanding for such entire Testing Period, and (B)
historical financial statements, if available, or such other financial information reasonably
satisfactory to the Global Agent, relating to the business or Person to be acquired and such other
information as the Global Agent may reasonably request.
“Permitted Acquisition Amount” means $200,000,000.
“Permitted Asset Dispositions” means the sale of the Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears,
and/or Sushi Pak properties, including any contracts, obligations, intellectual property rights and
other assets used in connection therewith or otherwise attendant thereto.
“Permitted Creditor Investment” means any securities (whether debt or equity) received
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of
any customer or supplier of the Company or any such Subsidiary and in settlement of delinquent
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obligations of, and other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of
business.
“Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Loans and Investments” means (i) the investments,
existing as of the Closing Date, by the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary (other than the
Receivables Subsidiary) in Foreign Subsidiaries; (ii) loans and investments by a Domestic Credit
Party to or in a Foreign Subsidiary made on or after the Closing Date, so long as the aggregate
amount of all such loans and investments by all Domestic Credit Parties does not, at any time,
exceed (A) $50,000,000, minus (B) the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of Indebtedness of Foreign
Subsidiaries guaranteed by the Domestic Credit Parties pursuant to subpart (iii) of this
definition; and (iii) loans to a Foreign Subsidiary by any Person (other than the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries), and any guaranty of such loans by a Domestic Credit Party, so long as the
aggregate principal amount of all such loans does not at any time exceed $30,000,000.
“
Permitted Holders” means Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxx, and any other family member of Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx (including
lineal descendants, spouses of such descendants, the lineal descendants of any such spouse, the
spouses of any such spouses’ lineal descendants), and trusts for estate planning purposes where any
of the foregoing persons are beneficiaries or trustees of any such trust or trusts, including
without limitation, voting trusts, the Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx Limited Liability Co., The Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Irrevocable Trust originally dated April 21, 1947, as amended, and the Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx Oversight
Trust, the Xxxxxx Xxxxx Support Foundation, The Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx Foundation, the 540 Investment
Company Limited Partnership, and the
American Greetings Corporation Retirement Profit Sharing and
Savings Plan or any Person controlled by, or any successor Person to, any of the foregoing.
“Permitted Lien” means any Lien permitted by Section 7.03.
“Permitted Note Purchase” means the purchase by the Company of any notes or other
securities issued by the Company pursuant to the Senior Indenture (1998), the Senior Indenture
(2006) or the Subordinated Indenture.
“Permitted Receivables Facility” means the accounts receivable facility established
pursuant to the Receivables Facility Documents whereby the Company and certain of its Subsidiaries
shall have sold or transferred, or hereafter sell or transfer, the Receivables Related Assets
directly or indirectly to the Receivables Subsidiary which in turn transfers to a buyer, purchaser
or lender undivided fractional interests in such accounts receivable, so long as (i) no portion of
the Indebtedness or any other obligation (contingent or otherwise) under such Permitted Receivables
Facility shall be guaranteed by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) there shall be
no recourse or obligation to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the
Receivables Subsidiary) whatsoever other than pursuant to customary representations, warranties,
covenants and indemnities entered into in the ordinary course of business in connection with such
Permitted Receivables Subsidiary, and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (other
than the Receivables Subsidiary) shall have provided, either directly or indirectly, any other
credit support of any kind in connection with such Permitted Receivables Facility, other than as
set forth in subpart (ii) of this definition.
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“Person” means any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, limited
liability company, association, trust or other enterprise or any government or political
subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.
“Plan” means any multiemployer or single-employer plan, as defined in Section 4001 of
ERISA, that is maintained or contributed to by (or to which there is an obligation to contribute
by) the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or an ERISA Affiliate, and each such plan for the
five-year period immediately following the latest date on which the Company, or a Subsidiary of the
Company or an ERISA Affiliate maintained, contributed to or had an obligation to contribute to such
plan.
“PNC” means PNC Bank, National Association, a national banking association, its
successors and assigns.
“Primary Indebtedness” has the meaning provided in the definition of “Guaranty
Obligations.”
“Primary Obligor” has the meaning provided in the definition of “Guaranty
Obligations.”
“Prime Rate” means the interest rate per annum announced from time to time by PNC or
other financial institution then serving as the Global Agent at its Principal Office as its then
prime rate, which rate may not be the lowest or most favorable rate then being charged commercial
borrowers or others by PNC or other financial institution. Any change in the Prime Rate shall take
effect at the opening of business on the day such change is announced.
“Principal Office” means the main banking office of, as applicable, PNC in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A or the Global Agent.
“Published Rate” means the rate of interest published each Business Day in The Wall
Street Journal “Money Rates” listing under the caption “London Interbank Offered Rates” for
a one month period (or, if no such rate is published therein for any reason, then the Published
Rate shall be the rate at which U.S. dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London
interbank deposit market for a one month period as published in another publication selected by the
Global Agent).
“Purchase Date” has the meaning provided in Section 2.05(c).
“Quoted Rate” means, with respect to any Swing Loan, the interest rate quoted to the
Company by the Swing Line Lender and agreed to by the Company as being the interest rate applicable
to such Swing Loan.
“Ratings Agencies” means S&P, Xxxxx’x and Fitch.
“RCRA” means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as the same may be amended
from time to time, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.
“Real Property” of any Person means all of the right, title and interest of such
Person in and to land, improvements and fixtures, including Leaseholds.
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“Receivables Facility Documents” means, collectively, the Amended and Restated
Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 24, 2006, among the Receivables Subsidiary, the
members of various purchase groups, as Purchasers, the Company, as Servicer, and PNC, as
Administrator, together with each other document, instrument or agreement executed in connection
with the foregoing (including without limitation intercompany notes customary in such
transactions), as any of the foregoing may, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, be
amended, restated or otherwise modified or replaced from time to time.
“Receivables Related Assets” means, collectively, (i) any indebtedness and other
obligations owed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by, or any right of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries to payment from or on behalf of, the Person obligated with respect to such
indebtedness or other obligations, arising in connection with the sale of goods or the rendering of
services by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (in each case, an “Account Receivable”)
that is subject to the Permitted Receivables Facility, and the following to the extent that they
are proceeds of or relate to the Accounts Receivable that are subject to the Permitted Receivables
Facility: (A) accounts, (B) instruments, (C) chattel paper, (D) general intangibles, (E) the
merchandise or goods (including returned goods), the sale or lease of which gave rise to such
Accounts Receivable, and the insurance proceeds thereof, (F) contractual rights (including any
agreement, lease, invoice or other writing), guaranties, insurance, claims and indemnities, (G)
books and records, (H) all documentation of title evidencing the shipment or storage of any goods
(including returned goods), (I) guaranties and collections of such Accounts Receivable, (J) any
security interest or liens and property thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment of
such Accounts Receivable, (K) lock-box accounts and amounts on deposit therein, (L) monies due or
to become due, and (M) all proceeds and products of and all amounts received or receivable under
any of the foregoing; (ii) the Sale and Contribution Agreement (as defined in the Receivables
Facility Documents); and (iii) the Receivables Sale Agreement (as defined in the Receivables
Facility Documents) and all rights of the Company thereunder.
“Receivables Subsidiary” means AGC Funding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and
any other wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company that shall have been established as a “bankruptcy
remote” Subsidiary for the sole purpose of acquiring Accounts Receivable under the Permitted
Receivables Facility and that shall not engage in any activities other than in connection with the
Permitted Receivables Facility.
“Regulation D” means Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing
reserve requirements.
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing
margin requirements.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the
directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates,
other than, in the case of any Lender or any of its Affiliates, any of the shareholders of the
ultimate parent company of such Lender or such Lender’s Affiliates.
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“Reportable Event” means an event described in Section 4043 of ERISA or the
regulations thereunder with respect to a Plan, other than those events as to which the notice
requirement is waived under subsections .22, .23, .25, .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34, .35, .62,
.63, .64, .65 or .67 of PBGC Regulation Section 4043.
“Required Lenders” means (i) at any time prior to the termination of the Commitments
(whether pursuant to Section 8.02(a) or otherwise), Non-Defaulting Lenders whose Revolving
Commitments constitute more than 50% of the Maximum Credit Facility Amount, and (ii) at any time
thereafter, Non-Defaulting Lenders whose Credit Facility Exposure constitutes more than 50% of the
Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure.
“Restricted Payment” means (i) any Capital Distribution; (ii) any amount paid by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries in repayment, redemption, retirement, repurchase or purchase,
direct or indirect, of any Subordinated Indebtedness; (iii) any amount paid by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries in repayment, redemption, retirement, repurchase or purchase, direct or
indirect, of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the notes or securities issued in connection
with any Indenture; or (iv) the exercise by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any right of
defeasance or covenant defeasance or similar right with respect to (A) any Subordinated
Indebtedness, or (B) the Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the notes or securities issued in
connection with the Senior Indenture(1998) or Senior Indenture(2006).
“Revolving Borrowing” means the incurrence of Revolving Loans consisting of one Type
of Revolving Loan, by a Revolving Facility Borrower from the Lenders on a given date (or resulting
from Conversions or Continuations on a given date) in the same currency, having in the case of any
Fixed Rate Loans the same Interest Period.
“Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the amount set forth
opposite such Lender’s name in Schedule 1as its “Revolving Commitment” as the same may be
reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.15(c) or adjusted from time to time as a result of
assignments to or from such Lender pursuant to Section 11.05.
“Revolving Facility” means the credit facility established under Section 2.02 pursuant
to the Revolving Commitment of each Lender.
“Revolving Facility Availability Period” means the period commencing on the Closing
Date until the Revolving Facility Termination Date.
“Revolving Facility Borrower” means the Company or any Foreign Revolving Facility
Borrower.
“Revolving Facility Exposure” means, for any Lender at any time, the Dollar Equivalent
of the sum of (i) the principal amount of Revolving Loans made by such Lender and outstanding at
such time, (ii) such Lender’s share of the Revolving Facility LC Outstandings at such time, and
(iii) in the case of the Swing Line Lender, the principal amount of Swing Loans outstanding at such
time.
“Revolving Facility LC Commitment Amount” means $100,000,000 or the Dollar Equivalent
thereof in Designated Foreign Currency.
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“Revolving Facility LC Issuance” means the issuance of any Revolving Facility Letter
of Credit by any LC Issuer for the account of an LC Obligor or any other Subsidiary of the Company
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and shall include any amendment thereto that
increases the Stated Amount thereof or extends the expiry date of such Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit.
“Revolving Facility LC Outstandings” means, at any time, the sum, without duplication,
of (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate Stated Amount of all outstanding Revolving Facility
Letters of Credit and (ii) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of all Unpaid Drawings
with respect to Revolving Facility Letters of Credit.
“Revolving Facility LC Participant” has the meaning provided in Section 2.06(i)(i).
“Revolving Facility LC Participation” has the meaning provided in Section 2.06(i).
“Revolving Facility LC Request” has the meaning provided in Section 2.06(b).
“Revolving Facility Letter of Credit” means (i) any Existing Letter of Credit or
(ii) any Standby Letter of Credit or Commercial Letter of Credit, in each case issued by any LC
Issuer under this Agreement pursuant to Section 2.06 for the account of any LC Obligor.
“Revolving Facility Note” means a promissory note substantially in the form of
Exhibit A-1.
“Revolving Facility Termination Date” means the earlier of (i) June 11, 2015, or
(ii) the date that the Commitments have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02.
“Revolving Lender” means each Lender with a Revolving Commitment.
“Revolving Loan” means, with respect to each Lender, any Loan made by such Lender
pursuant to Section 2.02.
“Revolving/Canadian Facility Exposure” means, for any Lender at any time, the Dollar
Equivalent of the sum of (i) such Lender’s Revolving Facility Exposure at such time, and (ii) such
Lender’s (whether directly or by its Canadian Lending Installation) Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure
at such time.
“Sale and Lease-Back Transaction” means any arrangement with any Person providing for
the leasing by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of any property (except for temporary
leases for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than one year and except for leases
between the Company and a Subsidiary or between Subsidiaries), which property has been or is to be
sold or transferred by the Company or such Subsidiary to such Person.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of McGraw Hill, Inc., and its
successors.
“S&P Rating” means the rating accorded to the Company’s senior credit facilities by
S&P.
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“Scheduled Add-Backs” means expenses related to scan-based trading arrangements of the
Company and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $20,000,000 during any fiscal
year.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“SEC Regulation D” means Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, as the same may be in effect from time to time.
“Security Agreement” has the meaning provided in Section 4.01(iv).
“Security Documents” means the Security Agreement, each Landlord’s Agreement, each
Control Agreement, each Collateral Assignment Agreement, each Additional Security Document, any UCC
financing statement, and each other document pursuant to which any Lien is granted or perfected by
any Credit Party to the Global Agent, or the Collateral Agent as security for any of the
Obligations.
“Senior Indenture (1998)” means the Indenture between the Company and JPMorgan Trust
Company, N.A. (successor to NBD Bank), as trustee, dated as of July 27, 1998, pursuant to which
$181,000 in principal amount of 6.10% senior notes are issued and outstanding on the Closing Date,
as the same may, in accordance with the terms hereof, from time to time be amended, supplemented,
restated or otherwise modified or replaced.
“Senior Indenture (2006)” means the Indenture between the Company and The Bank of Nova
Scotia Trust Company of New York, as trustee, dated as of May 24, 2006, pursuant to which the
$221,993,000 in principal amount of 7-3/8% senior notes due 2016 are issued and outstanding on the
Closing Date, as the same may, in accordance with the terms hereof, from time to time be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified or replaced.
“Share Repurchase” means the repurchase or redemption or retirement of any capital
stock or other equity interest of the Company by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Standard Permitted Lien” means any of the following: (i) Liens for taxes, assessments
or governmental charges not yet delinquent or Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges
being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves in
accordance with GAAP have been established; (ii) Liens in respect of property or assets imposed by
law that were incurred in the ordinary course of business, such as carriers’, suppliers’,
warehousemen’s, materialmen’s and mechanics’ Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary
course of business, that do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of such property
or assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the business of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries and do not secure any Indebtedness; (iii) Liens created by this Agreement
or the other Loan Documents; (iv) Liens arising from judgments, decrees or attachments in
circumstances not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(g); (v) Liens (other than any
Lien imposed by ERISA) incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection
with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security; and
mechanic’s Liens, carrier’s Liens, and other Liens to secure the performance of tenders, statutory
obligations, contract bids, government contracts, surety, appeal, customs, performance and
return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations, incurred
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in the ordinary course of business
(exclusive of obligations in respect of the payment for borrowed money), whether pursuant to
statutory requirements, common law or consensual arrangements; (vi) leases or subleases granted in
the ordinary course of business to others not interfering in any material respect with the business
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any interest or title of a lessor under any lease not
in violation of this Agreement; (vii) easements, rights-of-way, zoning or other restrictions,
charges, encumbrances, defects in title, prior rights of other persons, and obligations contained
in similar instruments, in each case that do not secure Indebtedness and do not involve, and are
not likely to involve at any future time, either individually or in the aggregate, (A) a
substantial and prolonged interruption or disruption of the business activities of the Company and
its Subsidiaries considered as an entirety, or (B) a Material Adverse Effect; (viii) Liens arising
from the rights of lessors under leases (including financing statements regarding the equipment or
other property subject to lease) not in violation of the requirements of this Agreement, provided
that such Liens are only in respect of the property subject to, and secure only, the respective
lease (and any other lease with the same or an affiliated lessor); (ix) rights of consignors of
goods or bailors of equipment, whether or not perfected by the filing of a financing statement
under the UCC; (x) statutory rights of setoff in favor of depositary institutions in funds of the
Company and its Subsidiaries held in operating accounts at such institutions, together with Liens
that are contractual rights of setoff in such funds relating to the relating to the establishment
of depository relations with banks, and not given in connection with the issuance of Indebtedness;
and (xi) any license or sublicense of any intellectual property and related rights granted in the
ordinary course of business.
“Standby Letter of Credit” means any standby letter of credit issued for the purpose
of supporting workers’ compensation, liability insurance, releases of contract retention
obligations, contract performance guarantee requirements and other bonding obligations or for other
lawful purposes.
“Stated Amount” of each Letter of Credit means the maximum amount available to be
drawn thereunder (regardless of whether any conditions or other requirements for drawing could then
be met).
“Subordinated Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness that has been subordinated to the
prior payment in full of all of the Obligations and containing subordination terms substantially
consistent with or more favorable to the Lenders than those set forth in the Subordinated Indenture
as in effect on the Closing Date.
“Subordinated Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of February 24, 2009 between the
Company and The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, pursuant to which $32,693,000 in
principal amount of 7-3/8% notes due 2016 are issued and outstanding as of the Closing Date, as the
same may, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, from time to time be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified or replaced.
“Subsidiary” of any Person means and includes (i) any corporation more than 50% of
whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary Voting Power to elect a
majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of
any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have Voting Power by reason of the
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happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person directly or indirectly through
Subsidiaries, and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or
other entity in which such Person directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries, has more than a 50%
equity interest at the time or in which the Company, one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company
or the Company and one or more Subsidiaries of the Company, directly or indirectly, has the power
to direct the policies, management and affairs thereof; provided, however, that The Hatchery, LLC
shall not be deemed a Subsidiary hereunder unless and/or until the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries owns at least 80% of its equity interests and it has total assets of $5,000,000 or
more; and provided, however, further, that no Person shall be deemed to have the power to direct
the policies, management and affairs of another Person solely because such other Person is required
to be consolidated with the referent Person under ASC Topic 810. Unless otherwise expressly
provided, all references herein to “Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means any Subsidiary that is or hereafter becomes a party to
the Subsidiary Guaranty. Schedule 3 lists each Subsidiary Guarantor as of the Closing
Date; and provided, however, further, that no Person shall be deemed to have the power to direct
the policies, management and affairs of another Person because such other Person is required to be
consolidated with the referent Person under ASC Topic 810.
“Subsidiary Guaranty” has the meaning provided in Section 4.01(iii).
“Swing Line Commitment” means $25,000,000.
“Swing Line Facility” means the credit facility established under Section 2.05
pursuant to the Swing Line Commitment of the Swing Line Lender.
“Swing Line Lender” means PNC.
“Swing Line Note” means a promissory note substantially in the form of
Exhibit A-4.
“Swing Line Participation Amount” has the meaning provided in Section 2.05(c).
“Swing Loan” means any loan made by the Swing Line Lender under the Swing Line
Facility pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Swing Loan Participation” has the meaning provided in Section 2.05(c).
“Synthetic Lease” means any lease (i) that is accounted for by the lessee as an
Operating Lease, and (ii) under which the lessee is intended to be the “owner” of the leased
property for Federal income tax purposes.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions,
withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including
any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Testing Period” means a single period consisting of the four consecutive fiscal
quarters of the Company then last ended (whether or not such quarters are all within the same
fiscal year),
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except that if a particular provision of this Agreement indicates that a Testing
Period shall be of a different specified duration, such Testing Period shall consist of the
particular fiscal quarter or quarters then last ended that are so indicated in such provision.
“Total Canadian Commitment” means the sum of the Canadian Commitments of the Canadian
Lenders as the same may be decreased pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. As of the Closing
Date, the Total Canadian Commitment is $95,000,000.
“Total Revolving Commitment” means the sum of the Revolving Commitments of the Lenders
as the same may be decreased or increased pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. As of the
Closing Date, the amount of the Total Revolving Commitment is $350,000,000.
“Type” means any type of Loan determined with respect to the interest option and
currency denomination applicable thereto, which (y) in the case of the Revolving Facility, shall be
a US Base Rate Loan, a Eurodollar Loan or a Foreign Currency Loan, and (z) in the case of the
Canadian Sub-Facility, shall be a Canadian Base Rate Loan or a CDOR Loan.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time. Unless
otherwise specified, the UCC shall refer to the UCC as in effect in the State of Ohio.
“Unfunded Plan Status” of any Plan means the amount, if any, by which the actuarial
present value of the accumulated plan benefits under the Plan as of the close of its most recent
plan year exceeds the fair market value of the assets allocable thereto, each determined in
accordance with ASC Topic 715-20, based upon the actuarial assumptions used by the Plan’s actuary
in the most recent annual valuation of the Plan.
“United States” and “U.S.” each means United States of America.
“Unpaid Drawing” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the aggregate Dollar or
Dollar Equivalent amount, as applicable, of the draws made on such Letter of Credit that have not
been reimbursed by the Company or the applicable LC Obligor or, in the case of any Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit, converted to a Revolving Loan pursuant to Section 2.06(h)(i), or in the
case of any Canadian Letter of Credit, converted to a Canadian Revolving Loan pursuant to
Section 2.07(g)(i).
“Unutilized Commitment” means, for any Lender at any time, the excess of (i) such
Lender’s Commitment at such time over (ii) such Lender’s Credit Facility Exposure at such time.
“Unutilized Revolving Commitment” means, at any time, the excess of (i) the Total
Revolving Commitment at such time over (ii) the sum of (A) the Dollar Equivalent of the principal
amounts of all Revolving Loans made by all Lenders and outstanding at such time and of all Swing
Loans made by the Swing Line Lender and outstanding at such time, and (B) the amount of the
Revolving Facility LC Outstandings at such time.
“Unutilized Total Commitment” means, at any time, the excess of (i) the Maximum Credit
Facility Amount at such time over (ii) the sum of (A) the Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure at
such time, and (B) the Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure at such time.
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“Unutilized Total Revolving Commitment” means, at any time, the excess of (i) the
Total Revolving Commitment at such time over (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure at such
time.
“US Base Rate Loan” means each Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate based upon
the Base Rate in effect from time to time.
“USA Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), Public Law
107-56, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed, extended, amended or replaced.
“Voting Power” means, with respect to any Person, the exclusive ability to control,
through the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or
otherwise, the election of members of the board of directors or other similar governing body of
such Person, and the holding of a designated percentage of Voting Power of a Person means the
ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other
interests of such Person sufficient to control exclusively the election of that percentage of the
members of the board of directors or similar governing body of such Person.
“World Headquarters Initiative” means the possible sale/leaseback or other similar
transaction, after the Closing Date, of the Company’s world headquarters or the possible
relocation, after the Closing Date, of the Company’s world headquarters from its location, as of
the Closing Date, to another location in the United States of America.
Section 1.02 Computation of Time Periods.
In this Agreement in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later
specified date, the word “from” means “from and including,” the words “to” and “until” each means
“to but excluding” and the word “through” means “through and including.”
Section 1.03 Accounting Terms.
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial
nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time, provided that if
the Company notifies the Global Agent and the Lenders that the Company wishes to amend any covenant
in Article VII to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP that occurs after the Closing Date or
of the required adoption by the Company of international financial reporting standards that occurs
after the Closing Date on the operation of such covenant (or if the Global Agent notifies the
Company that the Required Lenders wish to amend Article VII for either such purpose), then the
Company’s compliance with such covenant shall be determined on the basis of GAAP in effect
immediately before the relevant change in GAAP or required adoption of international financial
reporting standards became effective, and the Company, the Global Agent and the Required Lenders
agree to endeavor, in good faith, to agree upon an amendment to this Agreement that would adjust
such covenant in a manner that would preserve the original intent thereof, but would allow
compliance therewith to be determined in accordance with the Company’s financial statements at that
time, provided that, until so amended such financial
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covenant shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein or
such adoption of international reporting standards.
Section 1.04 Terms Generally.
The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the
terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding
masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be
deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to
have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” Unless the context requires otherwise,
(a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be
construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such
amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person
shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein,”
“hereof’ and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this
Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to
Sections, Schedules and Exhibits shall be construed to refer to Sections of, and Schedules and
Exhibits to, this Agreement, (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the
same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all Real Property, tangible and intangible assets
and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights, and interests in any of
the foregoing, and (f) any reference to a statute, rule or regulation is to that statute, rule or
regulation as now enacted or as the same may from time to time be amended, re-enacted or expressly
replaced.
Section 1.05 Currency Equivalents.
Except as otherwise specified herein, all references herein or in any other Loan Document to a
dollar amount shall mean such amount in U.S. Dollars or, if the context so requires, the Dollar
Equivalent of such amount in any Designated Foreign Currency on the applicable Computation Date.
The Dollar Equivalent of any amount shall be determined in accordance with the definition of
“Dollar Equivalent”; provided, however, that (a) notwithstanding the foregoing or anything
elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, in calculating the Dollar Equivalent of any amount for
purposes of determining (i) any Borrower’s obligation to prepay Loans or cash collateralize Letters
of Credit pursuant to Section 2.15(b), (ii) any Borrower’s ability to request additional Loans or
Letters of Credit pursuant to the Commitments, or (iii) whether or not the Dollar Equivalent of the
Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure is equal to or greater than the Total Revolving Commitments
as a result of a change in exchange rates between one (1) or more Designated Foreign Currencies and
Dollars for the purposes of Section 2.16(c)(iii), the Global Agent may, in its discretion,
calculate the Dollar Equivalent of such amount on the applicable Computation Date, and (b) in
determining whether or not the Company and its Subsidiaries have exceeded any basket limitation set
forth in Section 7.02, Section 7.04 or Section 7.05, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be
deemed to have exceeded any such basket limitation to the extent that, and only to the extent that,
any such basket limitation was exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate
applicable to any Designated Foreign Currency.
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ARTICLE II — THE TERMS OF THE CREDIT FACILITY
Section 2.01 Establishment of the Credit Facility.
On the Closing Date, and subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the Global Agent, the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and
each LC Issuer agree to establish the Credit Facility for the benefit of the Borrowers pursuant to
which (a) subject to Section 2.02(b), the Revolving Lenders shall make Revolving Loans to each
Revolving Facility Borrower, and shall participate in Revolving Facility LC Issuances, under the
Revolving Facility pursuant to the Revolving Commitment of each such Lender, (b) the Canadian
Lenders shall make Canadian Revolving Loans to the Canadian Borrowers, and shall participate in
Canadian LC Issuances, under the Canadian Sub-Facility pursuant to the Canadian Commitment, and
(c) the Swing Line Lender shall make Swing Loans to the Company under the Swing Line Facility
pursuant to the Swing Line Commitment; provided, however that at no time will (i) the Aggregate
Credit Facility Exposure exceed the Maximum Credit Facility Amount, (ii) the Credit Facility
Exposure of any Lender exceed the aggregate amount of such Lender’s Commitment, (iii) for any
Lender which is also a Canadian Lender, the sum of such Lender’s Revolving Facility Exposure and
Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, or (iv) for any Lender
which is also the Swing Line Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Facility Exposure exceed such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment. All such Loans shall be made, and such Letters of Credit shall be issued, as
set forth in this Article II.
Section 2.02 Revolving Facility.
(a) In General. Subject to Section 2.02(b), during the Revolving Facility
Availability Period, each Revolving Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions set forth
in this Agreement, to make a Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans to each Revolving Facility Borrower
from time to time pursuant to such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, which Revolving Loans (i) may,
except as set forth herein, at the option of each Revolving Facility Borrower, be incurred and
maintained as, or Converted into, Revolving Loans that are US Base Rate Loans, Eurodollar Loans or
Foreign Currency Loans, in each case denominated in Dollars or a Designated Foreign Currency,
provided that all Revolving Loans made as part of the same Revolving Borrowing shall, unless
otherwise specifically provided herein, be made to the same Revolving Facility Borrower and consist
of Revolving Loans of the same Type; (ii) may be repaid or prepaid and re-borrowed in accordance
with the provisions hereof; and (iii) shall not be made if, after giving effect to any such
Revolving Loan: (A) the Revolving Facility Exposure of any Lender would exceed such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment, (B) the Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure would exceed the Total
Revolving Commitment, (C) the Foreign Currency Exposure would exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure
Amount, (D) the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower Exposure would exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure
Amount, or (E) any Borrower would be required to prepay Loans or cash collateralize Letters of
Credit pursuant to Section 2.16(c). The Revolving Loans (other than Foreign Currency Loans) to be
made by each Lender will be made by such Lender in the Funding Amount applicable to such Lender at
the time of the making of such Revolving Loan on a pro rata basis based upon such Lender’s Funding
Percentage of the Revolving Borrowing at the time of such Revolving Borrowing, in each case in
accordance with Section 2.09.
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(b) Foreign Currency Loans. Any Revolving Facility Borrower may request Foreign
Currency Loans in an amount, when added to all then outstanding Foreign Currency Loans, not to
exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount by delivering to the Global Agent a Notice of Borrowing
in accordance with Section 2.08(b). The Global Agent shall deliver a copy of such Notice of
Borrowing to each Revolving Lender. Each Revolving Lender shall, by notice to the Company and the
Global Agent given not more than five Business Days after the date of the Global Agent’s notice,
either agree to make the Foreign Currency Loans requested in such Notice of Borrowing (each such
Lender so agreeing being an “Accepting Lender”) or decline to make such Foreign Currency
Loans (and any such Lender that does not deliver such a notice within such period of five Business
Days shall be deemed to have declined to make such Foreign Currency Loans and each Lender so
declining or being deemed to have declined being a “Declining Lender”). No Revolving
Lender is obligated to make any Foreign Currency Loan. If, on the second Business Day after the
Global Agent shall have delivered notice as set forth above, either there are no Accepting Lenders
or the Accepting Lenders have agreed pursuant to the preceding sentence to fund less than the full
amount of the Foreign Currency Loans requested in such Notice of Borrowing, the Company may arrange
for one or more banks or other entities that are Eligible Assignees, in each case reasonably
acceptable to the Global Agent (each such Person so agreeing being an “Augmenting Lender”),
to commit to making Foreign Currency Loans pursuant to a Revolving Commitment, provided that at the
time such Augmenting Lender commits to making such Foreign Currency Loans the Company arranges for
one or more Revolving Lenders to assign all or a portion of its Revolving Commitment to such
Accepting Lender or Augmenting Lender, as applicable, in accordance with Section 11.05(c). No
Revolving Lender is obligated to make any such assignment. Each of the parties hereto agrees that
the Global Agent may take any and all actions as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that after
giving effect to the making of any Foreign Currency Loan the outstanding Revolving Loans (if any)
are held by the Revolving Lenders in accordance with their new Fixed Commitment Percentages.
(c) Increase in Revolving Commitments.
(i) Increasing Lenders and New Lenders. The Company may, at any time prior to the
180th day before the then scheduled Revolving Facility Termination Date, request that (1) the
current Lenders increase their Revolving Commitments (any current Lender which elects to increase
its Revolving Commitment shall be referred to as an “Increasing Lender”) or (2) one or more
new lenders (each a “New Lender”) join this Agreement and provide a Revolving Commitment
hereunder, subject to the following terms and conditions:
(A) No Obligation to Increase. No current Lender shall be obligated to increase its
Revolving Commitment and any increase in the Revolving Commitment by any current Lender shall be in
the sole discretion of such current Lender.
(B) Defaults. There shall exist no Events of Default or Defaults on the effective
date of such increase after giving effect to such increase.
(C) Aggregate Revolving Commitments. After giving effect to such increase, the total
Revolving Commitments shall not exceed $400,000,000.
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(D) Minimum Revolving Commitments. After giving effect to such increase, the amount
of the Revolving Commitments provided by each of the New Lenders and each of the Increasing Lenders
shall be at least $5,000,000.
(E) Notes. The Company shall execute and deliver (1) to each Increasing Lender that
shall so request, a replacement Revolving Facility Note reflecting the new amount of such
Increasing Lender’s Revolving Commitment after giving effect to the increase (and the prior
Revolving Facility Note issued to such Increasing Lender shall be deemed to be terminated) and (2)
to each New Lender a Revolving Facility Note reflecting the amount of such New Lender’s Revolving
Commitment.
(F) Approval of New Lenders. Any New Lender shall be subject to the approval of the
Global Agent pursuant to Section 11.5.
(G) Increasing Lenders. Each Increasing Lender shall confirm its agreement to
increase its Revolving Commitment pursuant to an acknowledgement in a form acceptable to the Global
Agent, signed by it and the Company and delivered to the Global Agent at least five (5) days before
the effective date of such increase.
(H) New Lenders—Joinder. Each New Lender shall execute a lender joinder in
substantially the form of Exhibit A-5 pursuant to which such New Lender shall join and
become a party to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with a Revolving Commitment in the
amount set forth in such lender joinder.
(ii) Treatment of Outstanding Loans and Letters of Credit.
(A) Repayment of Outstanding Loans; Borrowing of New Loans. On the effective date of
such increase, the Company shall repay all Revolving Loans then outstanding, subject to the
Company’s indemnity obligations under Article III [Taxes, Increased Costs and Illegality]; provided
that they may borrow new Revolving Loans with a date on which such new Revolving Loan shall be
made, on such date. Each of the Lenders shall participate in any new Revolving Loans made on or
after such date on a pro rata basis based upon such Lender’s Funding Percentage of the Revolving
Borrowing after giving effect to the increase in Revolving Commitments contemplated by this
Section 2.02(c).
(B) Outstanding Letters of Credit;Repayment of Outstanding Loans; Borrowing of
New Loans. On the effective date of such increase, each Increasing Lender and each New Lender
(i) will be deemed to have purchased a participation in each then outstanding Letters of Credit on
a pro rata basis based upon such Lender’s Funding Percentage of such Letters of Credit and the
participation of each other Lender in such Letters of Credit shall be adjusted accordingly and
(ii) will acquire, (and will pay to the Global Agent, for the account of each Lender, in
immediately available funds, an amount equal to) its pro rata share based upon such Lender’s
Funding Percentage of the outstanding Revolving Facility LC Participation.
Section 2.03 Canadian Sub-Facility.
At any time after a Canadian Borrower has become a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower under this
Agreement in accordance with Section 2.19 and thereafter but prior to the Revolving Facility
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Termination Date, each Canadian Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions set forth
in this Agreement, to make a Canadian Revolving Loan or Canadian Revolving Loans to the Canadian
Borrowers from time to time pursuant to such Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment, which Canadian
Revolving Loans (i) may, except as set forth herein, at the option of the Canadian Borrowers, be
incurred and maintained as, or Converted into, Canadian Revolving Loans that are Canadian Base Rate
Loans or CDOR Loans, in each case denominated in Canadian Dollars, provided that all Canadian
Revolving Loans made as part of the same Canadian Borrowing shall, unless otherwise specifically
provided herein, be made to the same Canadian Borrower and consist of Canadian Revolving Loans of
the same Type; (ii) may be repaid or prepaid and re-borrowed in accordance with the provisions
hereof; and (iii) shall not be made if, after giving effect to any such Canadian Revolving Loan:
(A) the Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure of any Canadian Lender would exceed such Canadian Lender’s
Canadian Commitment, (B) the Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure would exceed the Total
Canadian Commitment, (C) the Foreign Currency Exposure would exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure
Amount, (D) the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower Exposure would exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure
Amount, or (E) any Borrower would be required to prepay Loans or cash collateralize Letters of
Credit pursuant to Section 2.16(c). The Canadian Revolving Loans to be made by each Canadian
Lender will be made on a pro rata basis based upon each Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment
Percentage of each Canadian Borrowing, in each case in accordance with Section 2.09.
Section 2.04 Reserved.
Section 2.05 Swing Line Facility.
(a) Swing Loans. During the Revolving Facility Availability Period up to but not
including the Revolving Facility Termination Date, the Swing Line Lender may, at its option,
cancellable at any time for any reason whatsoever, on the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, make a Swing Loan or Swing Loans to the Company from time to time, which Swing Loans
(i) shall be payable on demand, and if not demanded earlier, demand shall be deemed to be made on
the Revolving Facility Termination Date; (ii) [reserved]; (iii) shall be made only in Dollars;
(iv) may be repaid or prepaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof; (v) may only
be made if after giving effect thereto: (A) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans
outstanding does not exceed the Swing Line Commitment, or (B) the Aggregate Revolving Facility
Exposure would not exceed the Total Revolving Commitment; and (vi) shall not be made if, after
giving effect thereto, any Borrower would be required to prepay Loans or cash collateralize Letters
of Credit pursuant to Section 2.16(c).
(b) Swing Loan Refunding. At any time, the Swing Line Lender may, in its sole and
absolute discretion, direct that the Swing Loans owing to it be refunded by delivering a notice to
such effect to the Global Agent, specifying the aggregate principal amount thereof (a “Notice
of Swing Line Refunding”). Promptly upon receipt of a Notice of Swing Line Refunding, the
Global Agent shall give notice of the contents thereof to the Revolving Lenders and, unless an
Event of Default specified in Section 8.01(h) in respect of the Company has occurred, the Company.
Each such Notice of Swing Line Refunding shall be deemed to constitute delivery by the Company of a
Notice of Borrowing requesting Revolving Loans consisting of US Base Rate Loans in the principal
amount of the Swing Loans to which it relates.
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Each Revolving Lender (including the Swing Line Lender) hereby unconditionally agrees
(notwithstanding that any of the conditions specified in Section 4.03 or elsewhere in this
Agreement shall not have been satisfied, but subject to the provisions of paragraph (d) below) to
make a Revolving Loan to the Company in the Funding Amount applicable to such Lender based on such
Lender’s Funding Percentage of the aggregate amount of the Swing Loans to which such Notice of
Swing Line Refunding relates. Each such Lender shall make the amount of such Revolving Loan
available to the Global Agent in immediately available funds at the Payment Office not later than
2:00 P.M. (local time at the Payment Office), if such notice is received by such Lender prior to
11:00 A.M. (local time at its Domestic Lending Office), or not later than 2:00 P.M. (local time at
the Payment Office) on the next Business Day, if such notice is received by such Lender after such
time. The proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be made immediately available to the Swing Line
Lender and applied by it to repay the principal amount of the Swing Loans to which such Notice of
Swing Line Refunding related.
(c) Swing Loan Participation. If, prior to the time a Revolving Loan would otherwise
have been made as provided above as a consequence of a Notice of Swing Line Refunding, any of the
events specified in Section 8.01(h) shall have occurred in respect of the Company or one or more of
the Revolving Lenders shall determine that it is legally prohibited from making a Revolving Loan
under such circumstances, each Revolving Lender (other than the Swing Line Lender), or each
Revolving Lender (other than such Swing Line Lender) so prohibited, as the case may be, shall, on
the date such Revolving Loan would have been made by it (the “Purchase Date”), purchase an
undivided participating interest (a “Swing Loan Participation”) in the outstanding Swing
Loans to which such Notice of Swing Line Refunding related, in an amount (the “Swing Line
Participation Amount”) equal to such Lender’s Funding Percentage of such outstanding Swing
Loans. On the Purchase Date, each such Lender or each such Lender so prohibited, as the case may
be, shall pay to the Swing Line Lender, in immediately available funds, such Lender’s Swing Line
Participation Amount, and promptly upon receipt thereof the Swing Line Lender shall, if requested
by such other Lender, deliver to such Lender a participation certificate, dated the date of the
Swing Line Lender’s receipt of the funds from, and evidencing such Lender’s Swing Loan
Participation in, such Swing Loans and its Swing Line Participation Amount in respect thereof. If
any amount required to be paid by a Lender to the Swing Line Lender pursuant to the above
provisions in respect of any Swing Loan Participation is not paid on the date such payment is due,
such Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender on demand interest on the amount not so paid at the
greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Global Agent in accordance
with industry rules on interbank compensation from the due date until such amount is paid in full.
Whenever, at any time after the Swing Line Lender has received from any other Lender such Lender’s
Swing Line Participation Amount, the Swing Line Lender receives any payment from or on behalf of
the Company on account of the related Swing Loans, the Swing Line Lender will promptly distribute
to such Lender its ratable share of such amount based on its Payment Sharing Percentage of such
amount in effect on such date on account of its Swing Loan Participation (appropriately adjusted,
in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s
participating interest was outstanding and funded); provided, however, that if such payment
received by the Swing Line Lender is required to be returned, such Lender will return to the Swing
Line Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swing Line Lender.
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(d) Obligations Unconditional. Each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make Revolving
Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) and/or to purchase Swing Loan Participations in connection with a
Notice of Swing Line Refunding shall be subject to the condition that (i) such Lender shall have
received a Notice of Swing Line Refunding complying with the provisions hereof and (ii) at the time
the Swing Loans that are the subject of such Notice of Swing Line Refunding were made, the Swing
Line Lender making the same had no actual written notice from another Lender that an Event of
Default had occurred and was continuing, but otherwise shall be absolute and unconditional, shall
be solely for the benefit of the Swing Line Lender that gives such Notice of Swing Line Refunding,
and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (A) any set-off,
counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Lender may have against any other
Lender, any Credit Party, or any other Person, or any Credit Party may have against any Lender or
other Person, as the case may be, for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a
Default or Event of Default; (C) any event or circumstance involving a Material Adverse Effect upon
the Borrowers; (D) any breach of any Loan Document by any party thereto; or (E) any other
circumstance, happening or event, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
Section 2.06 Revolving Facility Letters of Credit.
(a) Revolving Facility LC Issuance. At any time prior to the Revolving Facility
Termination Date, the Company may request a LC Issuer at any time and from time to time to issue,
for the account of the Company, any other Revolving Facility Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor,
and subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, each LC Issuer agrees to issue
from time to time Revolving Facility Letters of Credit denominated and payable in Dollars or any
Designated Foreign Currency and in each case in such form as may be approved by such LC Issuer and
the Global Agent; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, no Revolving Facility LC
Issuance shall be made if, after giving effect thereto: (A) the Revolving Facility LC Outstandings
would exceed the Revolving Facility LC Commitment Amount, (B) the Revolving Facility Exposure of
any Lender would exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, (C) the Aggregate Revolving Facility
Exposure would exceed the Total Revolving Commitment, (D) the Foreign Currency Exposure would
exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount, (E) the Foreign Subsidiary Borrower Exposure would
exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount, or (F) any Borrower would be required to prepay Loans
or cash collateralize Revolving Facility Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.16(c). Subject to
Section 2.06(c) below, each Revolving Facility Letter of Credit shall have an expiry date
(including any renewal periods) occurring not later than the earlier of (x) thirteen (13) months
from the date of issuance (or renewal) thereof, and (y) ten (10) Business Days prior to the
Revolving Facility Termination Date.
(b) Revolving Facility LC Requests. Whenever the Company desires that a Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit be issued for its account or the account of any eligible LC Obligor, the
Company shall give the applicable LC Issuer, and shall give or cause to be given to the Global
Agent, written or telephonic notice (in the case of telephonic notice, promptly confirmed in
writing if so requested by the Global Agent) which, if in the form of written notice shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit B-3 (each such request, a “Revolving Facility LC
Request”), or transmit by electronic communication (if arrangements for doing so have been
approved by the applicable LC Issuer), prior to 11:00 A.M. (local time at the Notice Office) at
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least three (3) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be acceptable to the relevant LC
Issuer) prior to the proposed date of issuance (which shall be a Business Day), which Revolving
Facility LC Request shall include such supporting documents that such LC Issuer customarily
requires in connection therewith (including, a completed application and agreement for, and if
applicable a reimbursement agreement with respect to, such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit).
In the event of any inconsistency between any of the terms or provisions of any LC Document
relating to any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit and the terms and provisions of this Agreement
respecting Revolving Facility Letters of Credit, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall
control. Unless the applicable LC Issuer has received notice from any Lender, the Global Agent or
any Credit Party, at least one day prior to the requested date of issuance of the applicable
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions specified in
Section 4.03 is not satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in reliance on
the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.06, such LC Issuer or any of such
LC Issuer’s Affiliates will issue a Revolving Facility Letter of Credit. Each request by the
Company or any LC Obligor for the issuance of a Revolving Facility Letter of Credit shall be deemed
to be a representation by the Company and such LC Obligor that they shall be in compliance with the
preceding sentence and with Section 4.03 after giving effect to the requested issuance of such
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit.
(c) Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit. If an LC Obligor so requests in any applicable
Revolving Facility LC Request, each LC Issuer shall agree to issue a Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit that has automatic renewal provisions; provided, however, that any Revolving Facility Letter
of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions must permit such LC Issuer to prevent any such
renewal at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later
than a day in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit is issued. Once any such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit that has automatic
renewal provisions has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not
require) such LC Issuer to permit the renewal of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit at any
time to an expiry date not later than 30 Business Days prior to the Revolving Facility Termination
Date; provided, however, that such LC Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (i) such LC
Issuer has determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof, or (ii) it has received
notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is two Business Days
before the date that such LC Issuer is permitted to send a notice of non-renewal from the Global
Agent, any Lender or any Credit Party that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in
Section 4.03 is not then satisfied.
(d) Existing Letters of Credit. On and after the Closing Date, each Existing Letter
of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued by the Lender that issued such Existing Letter of
Credit and such Lender shall be deemed to be the “LC Issuer” with respect to such Existing Letter
of Credit pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and each Existing Letter of Credit shall
constitute a Revolving Facility Letter of Credit for all purposes hereof and under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents. The Company agrees that it shall be liable with respect to any
drawing made under any of the Existing Letters of Credit in accordance with this Section and the
other provisions of this Agreement. Each LC Issuer of an Existing Letter of Credit agrees that on
and after the Closing Date (i) the fees applicable to each Existing Letter of
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Credit shall be the fees set forth in Section 2.14, and (ii) any reimbursement agreement in
effect with respect to each Existing Letter of Credit shall be deemed terminated and each Existing
Letter of Credit shall be governed by and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
(e) Reserved.
(f) Notice of Revolving Facility LC Issuance. Each LC Issuer shall, on the date of
each Revolving Facility LC Issuance by it, give the Global Agent, each applicable Lender and the
Company written notice of such Revolving Facility LC Issuance which shall specify whether such
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit is a Commercial Letter of Credit or a Standby Letter of Credit
and be accompanied by a copy to the Global Agent of the Revolving Facility Letter of Credit or
Revolving Facility Letters of Credit issued by it. Each LC Issuer shall provide to the Global
Agent and each Lender a quarterly (or monthly if requested by any applicable Lender) summary
describing each Revolving Facility Letter of Credit issued by such LC Issuer and then outstanding
and an identification for the relevant period of the daily aggregate Revolving Facility LC
Outstandings represented by Revolving Facility Letters of Credit issued by such LC Issuer.
(g) Defaulting Lender. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that at any time
one or more Lenders is a Defaulting Lender, no LC Issuer shall be required to make any Revolving
Facility LC Issuance unless either (i) such LC Issuer has entered into arrangements satisfactory to
it and the Company to eliminate such LC Issuer’s risk with respect to the Revolving Facility LC
Participations of the Defaulting Lender or Defaulting Lenders, including by cash collateralizing
such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ Funding Percentage of the Revolving Facility LC
Outstandings (it being understood that such LC Issuer would consider the Company or such Defaulting
Lender or Defaulting Lenders providing cash collateral to the Global Agent, for the benefit of such
applicable LC Issuer, to secure such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ Funding Percentage
of the applicable Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, a satisfactory arrangement); or (ii) such
Revolving Facility LC Issuance, taking into account the potential failure of the Defaulting Lender
or Defaulting Lenders to risk participate therein, will not cause such LC Issuer to incur aggregate
credit exposure hereunder with respect to Revolving Loans and Revolving Facility LC Outstandings in
excess of its Commitments, and the Company has undertaken, for the benefit of such LC Issuer,
pursuant to an instrument satisfactory in form and substance to such LC Issuer, not to thereafter
incur Loans or Revolving Facility LC Outstandings hereunder that would cause such LC Issuer to
incur aggregate credit exposure hereunder with respect to Revolving Loans and Revolving Facility LC
Outstandings in excess of its Commitments.
(h) Reimbursement Obligations.
(i) Revolving Facility Borrowers Obligations Generally; Effect as Borrowing. Each
Revolving Facility Borrower hereby agrees to reimburse (or cause any LC Obligor for whose account a
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit was issued to reimburse) each LC Issuer, by making payment
directly to such LC Issuer in immediately available funds at the payment office of such LC Issuer,
for any Unpaid Drawing with respect to any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit immediately after,
and in any event on the date on which, such LC Issuer notifies the Company (or any such other LC
Obligor for whose account such Revolving
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Facility Letter of Credit was issued) of such payment or disbursement (which notice to the
Company (or such other LC Obligor) shall be delivered reasonably promptly after any such payment or
disbursement, such payment to be made in Dollars or in the applicable Designated Foreign Currency
in which such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit is denominated, with interest on the amount so
paid or disbursed by such LC Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed prior to 1:00 P.M. (local time at
the payment office of the applicable LC Issuer) on the date of such payment or disbursement, from
and including the date paid or disbursed to but not including the date such LC Issuer is reimbursed
therefor at a rate per annum that shall be the rate then applicable to Revolving Loans that are US
Base Rate Loans (plus an additional 2% per annum if not reimbursed on the date of such payment or
disbursement), any such interest also to be payable on demand. If by 11:00 A.M. on the Business
Day immediately following notice to it of its obligation to make reimbursement in respect of an
Unpaid Drawing, the Company or the relevant LC Obligor has not made such reimbursement out of its
available cash on hand or a contemporaneous Borrowing hereunder (if such Borrowing is otherwise
available to the Company or such LC Obligor), (x) the Company, or if the LC Obligor is a Foreign
Revolving Facility Borrower, such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower, will in each case be deemed
to have given a Notice of Borrowing for Revolving Loans that are US Base Rate Loans in an aggregate
Dollar Equivalent principal amount sufficient to reimburse such Unpaid Drawing (and the Global
Agent shall promptly give notice to the Lenders of such deemed Notice of Borrowing), (y) the
Lenders shall (subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 4.03
(other than the delivery of a Notice of Borrowing)), unless they are legally prohibited from doing
so, make the Revolving Loans contemplated by such deemed Notice of Borrowing (which Revolving Loans
shall be considered made under Section 2.02), and (z) the proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be
disbursed directly to the applicable LC Issuer to the extent necessary to effect such
reimbursement, with any excess proceeds to be made available to the applicable Borrower in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement. Any notice given by the Global Agent
or applicable LC Issuer pursuant to this Section 2.06(h)(i) may be oral if immediately confirmed in
writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the
conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Obligations Absolute. Each LC Obligor’s obligation under this Section to
reimburse each LC Issuer with respect to Unpaid Drawings (including, in each case, interest
thereon) shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of
any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that such LC Obligor may have or have had against
such LC Issuer, the Global Agent or any Lender, including, without limitation, any circumstances
described in Section 2.06(i)(v), and any defense based upon the failure of any drawing under a
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit to conform to the terms of the Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit or any non-application or misapplication by the beneficiary of the proceeds of such drawing,
it being understood and agreed that such LC Issuer shall not be liable for any error, negligence
and/or mistakes, whether of omission or commission, in following any LC Obligor’s or the Company’s
instructions or those contained in the Revolving Facility Letters of Credit or any modifications,
amendments or supplements thereto; provided, however, that no LC Obligor shall be obligated to
reimburse a LC Issuer for any wrongful payment made by such LC Issuer under a Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross
negligence on the part of such LC Issuer, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction.
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(iii) Determinations to Honor Drawing Requests. In determining whether to honor any
request for drawing under any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit by the beneficiary thereof, the
applicable LC Issuer shall be responsible only to determine that the documents and certificates
required to be delivered under such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit have been delivered and
that they comply on their face with the requirements of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit.
(iv) Indemnity. The Company and each LC Obligor hereby agrees to protect, indemnify,
pay and save harmless each LC Issuer and any of its Affiliates that has issued a Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, taxes,
penalties, interest, judgments, losses, costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable fees,
expenses and disbursements of counsel and allocated costs of internal counsel unless the allocated
costs resulting from services provided by such internal counsel are duplicative of services then
being provided by outside counsel) which such LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates may incur or be
subject to as a consequence, direct or indirect, of the issuance of any Revolving Facility Letter
of Credit, other than as a result of (A) the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of
such LC Issuer as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction or (B) the wrongful dishonor by such LC Issuer or any of such LC Issuer’s Affiliates
of a proper demand for payment made under any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, except if such
dishonor resulted from any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future
de jure or de facto government or Governmental Authority.
(v) Liability for Acts and Omissions. As between any Credit Party and the applicable
LC Issuer, or such LC Issuer’s Affiliates, such Credit Party assumes all risks of the acts and
omissions of, or misuse of the Letters of Credit by, the respective beneficiaries of such Revolving
Facility Letters of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, such LC Issuer
shall not be responsible for any of the following, including any losses or damages to any Credit
Party or other Person or property relating therefrom: (i) the form, validity, sufficiency,
accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in connection with the
application for an issuance of any such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, even if it should in
fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged
(even if such LC Issuer or its Affiliates shall have been notified thereof); (ii) the validity or
sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign any
such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof,
in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) the failure
of the beneficiary of any such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, or any other party to which
such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit may be transferred, to comply fully with any conditions
required in order to draw upon such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit or any other claim of any
Credit Party against any beneficiary of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, or any such
transferee, or any dispute between or among any Credit Party and any beneficiary of any Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit or any such transferee; (iv) errors, omissions, interruptions or delays
in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable, telegraph, telex or otherwise, whether
or not they be in cipher; (v) errors in interpretation of technical terms; (vi) any loss or delay
in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under any such
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; (vii) the misapplication by the
beneficiary of any such Revolving Facility Letter of
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Credit of the proceeds of any drawing under such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit; or
(viii) any consequences arising from causes beyond the control of such LC Issuer or its Affiliates,
as applicable, including any act or omission of any Governmental Authority, and none of the above
shall affect or impair, or prevent the vesting of, any of such LC Issuer’s or its Affiliates rights
or powers hereunder. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall relieve such LC Issuer from liability
for such LC Issuer’s bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct in connection with actions
or omissions described in such clauses (i) through (viii) of such sentence. In no event shall such
LC Issuer or its Affiliates be liable to any Credit Party for any indirect, consequential,
incidental, punitive, exemplary or special damages or expenses (including without limitation
attorneys’ fees), or for any damages resulting from any change in the value of any property
relating to a Revolving Facility Letter of Credit.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the applicable LC Issuer and each of its
Affiliates (i) may rely on any oral or other communication believed in good faith by such LC Issuer
or such Affiliate to have been authorized or given by or on behalf of the applicant for a Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit, (ii) may honor any presentation if the documents presented appear on
their face substantially to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit; (iii) may honor a previously dishonored presentation under a Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit, whether such dishonor was pursuant to a court order, to settle or compromise any
claim of wrongful dishonor, or otherwise, and shall be entitled to reimbursement to the same extent
as if such presentation had initially been honored, together with any interest paid by such LC
Issuer or its Affiliate; (iv) may honor any drawing that is payable upon presentation of a
statement advising negotiation or payment, upon receipt of such statement (even if such statement
indicates that a draft or other document is being delivered separately), and shall not be liable
for any failure of any such draft or other document to arrive, or to conform in any way with the
relevant Revolving Facility Letter of Credit; (v) may pay any paying or negotiating bank claiming
that it rightfully honored under the laws or practices of the place where such bank is located; and
(vi) may settle or adjust any claim or demand made on such LC Issuer or its Affiliate in any way
related to any order issued at the applicant’s request to an air carrier, a letter of guarantee or
of indemnity issued to a carrier or any similar document (each an “Order”) and honor any
drawing in connection with any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit that is the subject of such
Order, notwithstanding that any drafts or other documents presented in connection with such
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit fail to conform in any way with such Revolving Facility Letter
of Credit.
In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific provisions set forth above,
any action taken or omitted by any LC Issuer or its Affiliates under or in connection with the
Letters of Credit issued by it or any documents and certificates delivered thereunder, if taken or
omitted in good faith, shall not put such LC Issuer or its Affiliates under any resulting liability
to the Company, any other Borrower or any Lender.
(i) Revolving Facility LC Participations.
(i) Immediately upon each Revolving Facility LC Issuance, the LC Issuer of such Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Lender,
and each such Lender (each a “Revolving Facility LC Participant”) shall be deemed
irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such LC Issuer,
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without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (a “Revolving
Facility LC Participation”), to the extent of such Lender’s Funding Percentage of the Stated
Amount of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit in effect at such time of issuance, in such
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, each substitute letter of credit, each drawing made
thereunder, the obligations of any LC Obligor under this Agreement with respect thereto (although
LC Fees relating thereto shall be payable directly to the Global Agent for the account of the
Lenders as provided in Section 2.14 and the Revolving Facility LC Participants shall have no right
to receive any portion of any fees of the nature contemplated by Section 2.14(e)), the obligations
of any LC Obligor under any LC Documents pertaining thereto, and any security for, or guaranty
pertaining to, any of the foregoing.
(ii) In determining whether to pay under any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, a LC Issuer
shall not have any obligation relative to the Revolving Facility LC Participants other than to
determine that any documents required to be delivered under such Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit have been delivered and that they appear to comply on their face with the requirements of
such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by a LC Issuer
under or in connection with any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, if taken or omitted in the
absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall not create for such LC Issuer any
resulting liability.
In the event that a LC Issuer makes any payment under any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit
and the applicable LC Obligor shall not have reimbursed such amount in full to such LC Issuer
pursuant to Section 2.06(h) (by a Revolving Loan or otherwise), such LC Issuer shall promptly
notify the Global Agent, and the Global Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Facility LC
Participant, of such failure, and upon such notice each Revolving Facility LC Participant shall
promptly and unconditionally pay to the Global Agent for the account of such LC Issuer, the amount
of such Revolving Facility LC Participant’s Funding Percentage of such payment in Dollars or in the
applicable Designated Foreign Currency (unless the Global Agent agrees to payment in Dollars) in
which such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit is denominated and in same day funds; provided,
however, that no Revolving Facility LC Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Global Agent
its Funding Percentage of such unreimbursed amount for any wrongful payment made by such LC Issuer
under a Revolving Facility Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful
misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such LC Issuer as determined by a final
non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. If the Global Agent so notifies any
Revolving Facility LC Participant required to fund a payment under a Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit prior to 11:00 A.M. (local time at its Notice Office) on any Business Day, such Revolving
Facility LC Participant shall make available to the Global Agent for the account of the relevant LC
Issuer such Revolving Facility LC Participant’s Funding Percentage of the amount of such payment on
such Business Day in same day funds. If and to the extent such Revolving Facility LC Participant
shall not have so made its Funding Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Global
Agent for the account of the relevant LC Issuer, such Revolving Facility LC Participant agrees to
pay to the Global Agent for the account of such LC Issuer forthwith on demand such amount, together
with interest thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Global
Agent for the account of such LC Issuer as follows: (i) at a rate per annum equal to the Federal
Funds Effective Rate during the first three (3) days following the date and (ii) at a rate per
annum equal to the rate applicable to Loans under the Base Rate on and after the fourth day
following the date on which the applicable
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Letter of Credit was drawn. The failure of any Revolving Facility LC Participant to make
available to the Global Agent for the account of the relevant LC Issuer its Funding Percentage of
any payment under any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other Revolving
Facility LC Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Global Agent for the
account of such LC Issuer its Funding Percentage of any payment under any Revolving Facility Letter
of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no Revolving Facility LC Participant shall
be responsible for the failure of any other Revolving Facility LC Participant to make available to
the Global Agent for the account of such LC Issuer such other Revolving Facility LC Participant’s
Funding Percentage of any such payment. The failure of the Global Agent or the applicable LC
Issuer to give any such notice of a drawing of the applicable Revolving Facility Letter of Credit
or in sufficient time to enable any Revolving Facility LC Participant to effect such payment on the
date therefor shall not relieve any such Revolving Facility LC Participant from its obligations
under this Section 2.06(i).
(iii) Whenever a LC Issuer receives a payment of a reimbursement obligation from an LC Obligor
as to which the Global Agent has received for the account of such LC Issuer any payments from the
Revolving Facility LC Participants pursuant to subpart (ii) above, such LC Issuer shall pay to the
Global Agent and the Global Agent shall promptly pay to each Revolving Facility LC Participant that
has paid its applicable Funding Percentage thereof, in same day funds, an amount equal to such
Revolving Facility LC Participant’s applicable Payment Sharing Percentage of the principal amount
thereof and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective Revolving Facility LC
Participations, as and to the extent so received.
(iv) If the Global Agent is required at any time to return to the Company, any LC Obligor or
any other Credit Party, or to a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian, or any official in any
proceeding related to an Insolvency Event, any portion of any payment made by the Company, any LC
Obligor or any other Credit Party to the Global Agent for the account of the applicable LC Issuer
pursuant to this Section in reimbursement of a payment made under the Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit or interest or fee thereon, each Lender shall, on demand of the Global Agent, forthwith
return to the Global Agent for the account of such LC Issuer the amount of its Funding Percentage
of any amounts so returned by the Global Agent plus interest thereon from the date such demand is
made to the date such amounts are returned by such Lender to the Global Agent, at a rate per annum
equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect from time to time.
(v) The obligations of the Revolving Facility LC Participants to make payments to the Global
Agent for the account of each LC Issuer with respect to Revolving Facility Letters of Credit shall
be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification
or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement under all circumstances, including, without limitation, any of the following
circumstances:
(A) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents or any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit;
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(B) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that (y) such Lender may have
against the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates, the Company, any LC Obligor or any other
Person for any reason whatsoever, or which the Company or any LC Obligor may have against such LC
Issuer or any of its Affiliates, any Lender or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; or (z)
any LC Obligor may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit, any transferee of any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such
transferee may be acting), the Global Agent, any LC Issuer, any Lender, or other Person, whether in
connection with this Agreement, any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, the transactions
contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the
applicable LC Obligor and the beneficiary named in any such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit),
other than any claim that the applicable LC Obligor may have against any applicable LC Issuer for
gross negligence or willful misconduct of such LC Issuer in making payment under any applicable
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit;
(C) the lack of power or authority of any signer of (or any defect in or forgery of any
signature or endorsement on) or the form of or lack of validity, sufficiency, accuracy,
enforceability or genuineness of any draft, demand, instrument, certificate or other document
presented under or in connection with any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, or any draft,
certificate or other document presented under the Revolving Facility Letter of Credit proving to be
forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or
inaccurate in any respect; or the transport of any property or provision of services relating to a
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, in each case even if the applicable LC Issuer or any of its
Affiliates has been notified thereof;
(D) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of
the terms of any of the Loan Documents;
(E) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by any party thereto, or the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(F) any claim of breach of warranty that might be made by the Company, any LC Obligor or any
other Credit Party or any Lender against any beneficiary of a Revolving Facility Letter of Credit,
or the existence of any claim, set-off, recoupment, counterclaim, crossclaim, defense or other
right which the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party or any Lender may have at any time
against a beneficiary, successor beneficiary any transferee or assignee of any Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit or the proceeds thereof (or any Persons for whom any such transferee may be
acting), the applicable LC Issuer or its Affiliates or any Lender or any other Person, whether in
connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transaction
(including any underlying transaction between the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party
or Subsidiaries of the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party and the beneficiary for
which any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit was procured);
(G) payment by the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates under any Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit against presentation of a demand, draft or
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certificate or other document which does not comply with the terms of such Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit;
(H) the solvency of, or any acts or omissions by, any beneficiary of any Revolving Facility
Letter of Credit, or any other Person having a role in any transaction or obligation relating to a
Revolving Facility Letter of Credit, or the existence, nature, quality, quantity, condition, value
or other characteristic of any property or services relating to a Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit;
(I) any failure by the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates to issue any Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit in the form requested by the Company or any LC Obligor, unless such LC
Issuer has received written notice from the Company or such LC Obligor of such failure within three
Business Days after such LC Issuer shall have furnished the Company or such LC Obligor and the
Global Agent a copy of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit and such error is material and no
drawing has been made thereon prior to receipt of such notice;
(J) any adverse change in the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial
or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party or Subsidiaries
of the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party;
(K) the occurrence or continuance of any proceeding related to an Insolvency Event with
respect to the Company, any LC Obligor or any other Credit Party;
(L) the fact that the Revolving Facility Termination Date shall have passed or this Agreement
or the Revolving Commitments hereunder shall have been terminated; and
(M) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing.
(vi) To the extent any LC Issuer is not indemnified by the Company or any LC Obligor, the
Revolving Facility LC Participants will reimburse and indemnify such LC Issuer, in proportion to
their respective Fixed Commitment Percentages (determined at the time such indemnity is sought),
for and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions,
judgments, costs, expenses or disbursements of whatsoever kind or nature that may be imposed on,
asserted against or incurred by such LC Issuer in performing its respective duties in any way
related to or arising out of Revolving Facility LC Issuances by it; provided, however, that no
Revolving Facility LC Participants shall be liable for (A) any portion of such liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, costs, expenses or
disbursements resulting from such LC Issuer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined
by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (B) any portion of such
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, costs, expenses
or disbursements resulting from the failure of any other Revolving Facility LC Participant to fund
any Revolving Facility LC Participation pursuant to this Section.
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Section 2.07 Canadian Letters of Credit.
(a) Canadian LC Issuance. At any time after a Canadian Borrower has become a Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower under this Agreement in accordance with Section 2.19 and thereafter but prior
to the Revolving Facility Termination Date, the Company may request a LC Issuer at any time and
from time to time to issue, for the account of any Canadian Borrower, and subject to and upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth, each LC Issuer agrees to issue from time to time Canadian
Letters of Credit denominated and payable in Canadian Dollars and in each case in such form as may
be approved by such LC Issuer and the Global Agent; provided, however, that notwithstanding the
foregoing, no Canadian LC Issuance shall be made if after giving effect thereto: (A) the Canadian
LC Outstandings would exceed the Canadian LC Commitment Amount, (B) the Canadian Sub-Facility
Exposure of any Canadian Lender would exceed such Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment, (C) the
Aggregate Canadian Sub-Facility Exposure would exceed the Total Canadian Commitment, (D) the
Foreign Currency Exposure would exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount, (E) the Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower Exposure would exceed the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount, or (F) any Borrower
would be required to prepay Loans or cash collateralize Letters of Credit pursuant to
Section 2.16(c). Subject to Section 2.07(c) below, each Canadian Letter of Credit shall have an
expiry date (including any renewal periods) occurring not later than the earlier of (x) thirteen
(13) months from the date of issuance (or renewal) thereof, and (y) ten (10) Business Days prior to
the Revolving Facility Termination Date.
(b) Canadian LC Requests. Whenever the Company desires that a Letter of Credit be
issued for the account of a Canadian Borrower, the Company shall give the applicable LC Issuer, and
shall give or cause to be given to the Global Agent, written or telephonic notice (in the case of
telephonic notice, promptly confirmed in writing if so requested by the Global Agent) which, if in
the form of written notice shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit B-4 (each such
request, a “Canadian LC Request”), or transmit by electronic communication (if arrangements
for doing so have been approved by such LC Issuer), prior to 11:00 A.M. (local time at the Notice
Office) at least three Business Days (or such shorter period as may be acceptable to the relevant
LC Issuer) prior to the proposed date of issuance (which shall be a Business Day), which Canadian
LC Request shall include such supporting documents that such LC Issuer customarily requires in
connection therewith. In the event of any inconsistency between any of the terms or provisions of
any LC Document relating to any Canadian Letter of Credit and the terms and provisions of this
Agreement respecting Canadian Letters of Credit, the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall
control. Unless the applicable LC Issuer has received notice from any Lender, the Global Agent or
any Credit Party, at least one day prior to the requested date of issuance of the applicable
Canadian Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions specified in Section 4.03 is not
satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in reliance on the agreements of
the other Canadian Lenders set forth in this Section 2.07, such LC Issuer or any of such LC
Issuer’s Affiliates will issue a Canadian Letter of Credit. Each request by the Company or any LC
Obligor for the issuance of a Canadian Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by
the Company and such LC Obligor that they shall be in compliance with the preceding sentence and
with Section 4.03 after giving effect to the requested issuance of such Canadian Letter of Credit.
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(c) Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit. If an LC Obligor so requests in any applicable
Canadian LC Request, each LC Issuer shall agree to issue a Canadian Letter of Credit that has
automatic renewal provisions; provided, however, that any Canadian Letter of Credit that has
automatic renewal provisions must permit such LC Issuer to prevent any such renewal at least once
in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Canadian Letter of
Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day in each such
twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Canadian Letter of Credit is issued. Once
any such Canadian Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions has been issued, the
Canadian Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) such LC Issuer to permit
the renewal of such Canadian Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than 30
Business Days prior to the Revolving Facility Termination Date; provided, however, that such LC
Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (i) such LC Issuer has determined that it would have no
obligation at such time to issue such Canadian Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms
hereof, or (ii) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the
day that is two Business Days before the date that such LC Issuer is permitted to send a notice of
non-renewal from the Global Agent, any Lender or any Credit Party that one or more of the
applicable conditions specified in Section 4.03 is not then satisfied.
(d) Reserved.
(e) Notice of Canadian LC Issuance. Each LC Issuer shall, on the date of each
Canadian LC Issuance by it, give the Global Agent, each applicable Lender and the Company written
notice of such Canadian LC Issuance which shall specify whether such Canadian Letter of Credit is a
Commercial Letter of Credit or a Standby Letter of Credit and be accompanied by a copy to the
Global Agent of the Canadian Letter of Credit or Canadian Letters of Credit issued by it. Each LC
Issuer shall provide to the Global Agent and each Canadian Lender a quarterly (or monthly if
requested by any applicable Lender) summary describing each Canadian Letter of Credit issued by
such LC Issuer and then outstanding and an identification for the relevant period of the daily
aggregate Canadian LC Outstandings represented by Canadian Letters of Credit issued by such LC
Issuer.
(f) Defaulting Lender. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that at any time
one or more Lenders is a Defaulting Lender, no LC Issuer shall be required to make any Canadian LC
Issuance unless either (i) such LC Issuer has entered into arrangements satisfactory to it and the
Company to eliminate such LC Issuer’s risk with respect to the Canadian LC Participations of the
Defaulting Lender or Defaulting Lenders, including by cash collateralizing such Defaulting Lender’s
or Defaulting Lenders’ Canadian Commitment Percentage of the Canadian LC Outstandings (it being
understood that such LC Issuer would consider the Company or such Defaulting Lender or Defaulting
Lenders providing cash collateral to the Global Agent, for the benefit of such LC Issuer, to secure
such Defaulting Lender’s or Defaulting Lenders’ Funding Percentage of the Canadian Letter of
Credit, a satisfactory arrangement); or (ii) such Canadian LC Issuance, taking into account the
potential failure of the Defaulting Lender or Defaulting Lenders to risk participate therein, will
not cause such LC Issuer to incur aggregate credit exposure hereunder with respect to Revolving
Loans and Canadian LC Outstandings in excess of its Commitments, and the Company has undertaken,
for the benefit of such LC Issuer, pursuant to an instrument satisfactory in form and substance to
such LC Issuer, not to thereafter incur Revolving Loans or Canadian LC Outstandings hereunder that
would cause such LC Issuer
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to incur aggregate credit exposure hereunder with respect to Revolving Loans and Canadian LC
Outstandings in excess of its Commitments.
(g) Reimbursement Obligations.
(i) Canadian Borrowers Obligations Generally; Effect as Borrowing. Each Canadian
Borrower hereby agrees to reimburse each LC Issuer, by making payment directly to such LC Issuer in
immediately available funds at the payment office of such LC Issuer in Canada, for any Unpaid
Drawings with respect to any Canadian Letter of Credit immediately after, and in any event on the
date on which, such LC Issuer notifies the Company and the applicable LC Obligor of such payment or
disbursement (which notice to the Company or such Obligor shall be delivered reasonably promptly
after any such payment or disbursement), such payment to be made in Canadian Dollars, with interest
on the amount so paid or disbursed by such LC Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed prior to 1:00
P.M. (local time at the payment office of the applicable LC Issuer in Canada) on the date of such
payment or disbursement, from and including the date paid or disbursed to but not including the
date such LC Issuer is reimbursed therefor at a rate per annum that shall be the rate then
applicable to Canadian Revolving Loans that are Canadian Base Rate Loans (plus an additional 2% per
annum if not reimbursed on the date of such payment or disbursement), any such interest also to be
payable on demand. If by 11:00 A.M. on the Business Day immediately following notice to it of its
obligation to make reimbursement in respect of an Unpaid Drawing, the relevant LC Obligor has not
made such reimbursement out of its available cash on hand or a contemporaneous Canadian Borrowing
hereunder (if such Canadian Borrowing is otherwise available to such LC Obligor), (x) the LC
Obligor will in each case be deemed to have given a Notice of Borrowing for Canadian Revolving
Loans that are Canadian Base Rate Loans in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount
sufficient to reimburse such Unpaid Drawing (and the Global Agent shall promptly give notice to the
Canadian Lenders of such deemed Notice of Borrowing), (y) the Canadian Lenders shall, unless they
are legally prohibited from doing so, make the Canadian Revolving Loans contemplated by such deemed
Notice of Borrowing (which Canadian Revolving Loans shall be considered made under Section 2.03),
and (z) the proceeds of such Canadian Revolving Loans shall be disbursed directly to the applicable
LC Issuer to the extent necessary to effect such reimbursement, with any excess proceeds to be made
available to the applicable Canadian Borrower in accordance with the applicable provisions of this
Agreement. Any notice given by the Global Agent or applicable LC Issuer pursuant to this
Section 2.07(g)(i) may be oral if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such
an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Obligations Absolute. Each LC Obligor’s obligation under this Section to
reimburse each LC Issuer with respect to Unpaid Drawings (including, in each case, interest
thereon) shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of
any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that such LC Obligor may have or have had against
such LC Issuer, the Global Agent or any Lender, including, without limitation, any of the
circumstances described in Section 2.07(h)(v) and any defense based upon the failure of any drawing
under a Canadian Letter of Credit to conform to the terms of the Canadian Letter of Credit or any
non-application or misapplication by the beneficiary of the proceeds of such drawing, it being
understood and agreed that such LC Issuer shall not be liable for any error, negligence and/or
mistakes, whether of omission or commission, in following any LC Obligor’s
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or the Company’s instructions or those contained in the Canadian Letters of Credit or any
modifications, amendments or supplements thereto; provided, however, that no LC Obligor shall be
obligated to reimburse a LC Issuer for any wrongful payment made by such LC Issuer under a Canadian
Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross
negligence on the part of such LC Issuer as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction.
(iii) Determinations to Honor Drawing Requests. In determining whether to honor any
request for drawing under any Canadian Letter of Credit by the beneficiary thereof, the applicable
LC Issuer shall be responsible only to determine that the documents and certificates required to be
delivered under such Canadian Letter of Credit have been delivered and that they comply on their
face with the requirements of such Canadian Letter of Credit.
(iv) Indemnity. The Company and each LC Obligor hereby agrees to protect, indemnify,
pay and save harmless each LC Issuer and any of its Affiliates that has issued a Canadian Letter of
Credit from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, taxes, penalties,
interest, judgments, losses, costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable fees, expenses and
disbursements of counsel and allocated costs of internal counsel unless the allocated costs
resulting from services provided by such internal counsel are duplicative of services then being
provided by outside counsel) which such LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates may incur or be subject
to as a consequence, direct or indirect, of the issuance of any Canadian Letter of Credit, other
than as a result of (A) the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such LC Issuer as
determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or (B) the
wrongful dishonor by such LC Issuer or any of such LC Issuer’s Affiliates of a proper demand for
payment made under any Canadian Letter of Credit, except if such dishonor resulted from any act or
omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de facto government or
Governmental Authority.
(v) Liability for Acts and Omissions. As between any Credit Party and the applicable
LC Issuer, or such LC Issuer’s Affiliates, such Credit Party assumes all risks of the acts and
omissions of, or misuse of the Letters of Credit by, the respective beneficiaries of such Canadian
Letters of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, such LC Issuer shall not
be responsible for any of the following, including any losses or damages to any Credit Party or
other Person or property relating therefrom: (i) the form, validity, sufficiency, accuracy,
genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in connection with the
application for an issuance of any such Canadian Letter of Credit, even if it should in fact prove
to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged (even if such
LC Issuer or its Affiliates shall have been notified thereof); (ii) the validity or sufficiency of
any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign any such Canadian
Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part,
which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) the failure of the beneficiary
of any such Canadian Letter of Credit, or any other party to which such Canadian Letter of Credit
may be transferred, to comply fully with any conditions required in order to draw upon such
Canadian Letter of Credit or any other claim of any Credit Party against any beneficiary of such
Canadian Letter of Credit, or any such transferee, or any dispute between or among any Credit Party
and any beneficiary of any Canadian Letter of Credit or any such transferee; (iv) errors,
omissions, interruptions or delays in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable,
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telegraph, telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher; (v) errors in interpretation
of technical terms; (vi) any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document
required in order to make a drawing under any such Canadian Letter of Credit or of the proceeds
thereof; (vii) the misapplication by the beneficiary of any such Canadian Letter of Credit of the
proceeds of any drawing under such Canadian Letter of Credit; or (viii) any consequences arising
from causes beyond the control of such LC Issuer or its Affiliates, as applicable, including any
act or omission of any Governmental Authority, and none of the above shall affect or impair, or
prevent the vesting of, any of such LC Issuer’s or its Affiliates rights or powers hereunder.
Nothing in the preceding sentence shall relieve such LC Issuer from liability for such LC Issuer’s
bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct in connection with actions or omissions described
in such clauses (i) through (viii) of such sentence. In no event shall such LC Issuer or its
Affiliates be liable to any Credit Party for any indirect, consequential, incidental, punitive,
exemplary or special damages or expenses (including without limitation attorneys’ fees), or for any
damages resulting from any change in the value of any property relating to a Canadian Letter of
Credit.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the applicable LC Issuer and each of its
Affiliates (i) may rely on any oral or other communication believed in good faith by such LC Issuer
or such Affiliate to have been authorized or given by or on behalf of the applicant for a Canadian
Letter of Credit, (ii) may honor any presentation if the documents presented appear on their face
substantially to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant Canadian Letter of Credit;
(iii) may honor a previously dishonored presentation under a Canadian Letter of Credit, whether
such dishonor was pursuant to a court order, to settle or compromise any claim of wrongful
dishonor, or otherwise, and shall be entitled to reimbursement to the same extent as if such
presentation had initially been honored, together with any interest paid by such LC Issuer or its
Affiliate; (iv) may honor any drawing that is payable upon presentation of a statement advising
negotiation or payment, upon receipt of such statement (even if such statement indicates that a
draft or other document is being delivered separately), and shall not be liable for any failure of
any such draft or other document to arrive, or to conform in any way with the relevant Canadian
Letter of Credit; (v) may pay any paying or negotiating bank claiming that it rightfully honored
under the laws or practices of the place where such bank is located; and (vi) may settle or adjust
any claim or demand made on such LC Issuer or its Affiliate in any way related to any order issued
at the applicant’s request to an air carrier, a letter of guarantee or of indemnity issued to a
carrier or any similar document (each an “Order”) and honor any drawing in connection with
any Canadian Letter of Credit that is the subject of such Order, notwithstanding that any drafts or
other documents presented in connection with such Canadian Letter of Credit fail to conform in any
way with such Canadian Letter of Credit.
In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific provisions set forth above,
any action taken or omitted by any LC Issuer or its Affiliates under or in connection with the
Letters of Credit issued by it or any documents and certificates delivered thereunder, if taken or
omitted in good faith, shall not put such LC Issuer or its Affiliates under any resulting liability
to the Company, any Canadian Borrower or any Lender.
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(h) Canadian LC Participations.
(i) Immediately upon each Canadian LC Issuance, the LC Issuer of such Canadian Letter of
Credit shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Canadian Lender, and each such Canadian
Lender (each a “Canadian LC Participant”) shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally
to have purchased and received from such LC Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided
interest and participation (a “Canadian LC Participation”), to the extent of such Lender’s
Canadian Commitment Percentage of the Stated Amount of such Canadian Letter of Credit in effect at
such time of issuance, in such Canadian Letter of Credit, each substitute letter of credit, each
drawing made thereunder, the obligations of any LC Obligor under this Agreement with respect
thereto (although LC Fees relating thereto shall be payable directly to the Global Agent for the
account of the Lenders as provided in Section 2.14 and the Canadian LC Participants shall have no
right to receive any portion of any fees of the nature contemplated by Section 2.14(e)), the
obligations of any LC Obligor under any LC Documents pertaining thereto, and any security for, or
guaranty pertaining to, any of the foregoing.
(ii) In determining whether to pay under any Canadian Letter of Credit, a LC Issuer shall not
have any obligation relative to the Canadian LC Participants other than to determine that any
documents required to be delivered under such Canadian Letter of Credit have been delivered and
that they appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Canadian Letter of Credit.
Any action taken or omitted to be taken by a LC Issuer under or in connection with any Canadian
Letter of Credit, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct,
shall not create for such LC Issuer any resulting liability.
In the event that a LC Issuer makes any payment under any Canadian Letter of Credit and the
applicable LC Obligor shall not have reimbursed such amount in full to such LC Issuer pursuant to
Section 2.07(g), such LC Issuer shall promptly notify the Global Agent, and the Global Agent shall
promptly notify each Canadian LC Participant of such failure, and each Canadian LC Participant
shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Global Agent at the Canadian Payment Office for the
account of such LC Issuer, the amount of such Canadian LC Participant’s Canadian Commitment
Percentage of such payment in Canadian Dollars and in same day funds; provided, however, that no
Canadian LC Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Global Agent its Canadian Commitment
Percentage of such unreimbursed amount for any wrongful payment made by such LC Issuer under a
Canadian Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross
negligence on the part of such LC Issuer as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction. If the Global Agent so notifies any Canadian LC Participant
required to fund a payment under a Canadian Letter of Credit prior to 11:00 A.M. (local time at its
Notice Office) on any Business Day, such Canadian LC Participant shall make available to the Global
Agent at the Canadian Payment Office for the account of the relevant LC Issuer such Canadian LC
Participant’s Canadian Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment on such Business Day in
same day funds. If and to the extent such Canadian LC Participant shall not have so made its
Canadian Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Global Agent for the
account of the relevant LC Issuer, such Participant agrees to pay to the Global Agent for the
account of such LC Issuer, forthwith on demand such amount, together with interest thereon, for
each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Global Agent for the account of
such LC Issuer at (i) at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate
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during the first three (3) days following the date and (ii) at a rate per annum equal to the
rate applicable to Loans under the Canadian Base Rate on and after the fourth day following the
date on which the applicable Letter of Credit was drawn. The failure of any Canadian LC
Participant to make available to the Global Agent for the account of the relevant LC Issuer its
Canadian Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Canadian Letter of Credit shall not relieve
any other Canadian LC Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Global Agent
for the account of such LC Issuer its Canadian Commitment Percentage of any payment under any
Canadian Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no Canadian LC Participant
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Canadian LC Participant to make available to the
Global Agent for the account of such LC Issuer such other Canadian LC Participant’s Canadian
Commitment Percentage of any such payment. The failure of the Global Agent or the applicable LC
Issuer to give any such notice of a drawing of the applicable Canadian Letter of Credit or in
sufficient time to enable any Canadian LC Participant to effect such payment on the date therefor
shall not relieve any such Canadian LC Participant from its obligations under this Section 2.07(h).
(iii) Whenever a LC Issuer receives a payment of a reimbursement obligation from an LC Obligor
as to which the Global Agent has received for the account of such LC Issuer any payments from the
Canadian LC Participants pursuant to subpart (ii) above, such LC Issuer shall pay to the Global
Agent at the Canadian Payment Office and the Global Agent shall promptly pay to each Canadian LC
Participant that has paid its applicable Canadian Commitment Percentage thereof, in same day funds,
an amount equal to such Canadian LC Participant’s applicable Canadian Commitment Percentage of the
principal amount thereof and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective
Canadian LC Participations, as and to the extent so received.
(iv) If the Global Agent is required at any time to return to the Company, any LC Obligor or
any other Credit Party, or to a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian, or any official in any
proceeding related to an Insolvency Event, any portion of any payment made by the Company, any LC
Obligor or any other Credit Party to the Global Agent for the account of the applicable LC Issuer
pursuant to this Section in reimbursement of a payment made under the Canadian Letter of Credit or
interest or fee thereon, each Lender shall, on demand of the Global Agent, forthwith return to the
Global Agent for the account of such LC Issuer the amount of its Funding Percentage of any amounts
so returned by the Global Agent plus interest thereon from the date such demand is made to the date
such amounts are returned by such Lender to the Global Agent, at a rate per annum equal to the
Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect from time to time.
(v) The obligations of the Canadian LC Participants to make payments to the Global Agent for
the account of each LC Issuer with respect to Canadian Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and
not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception
whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under
all circumstances, including, without limitation, any of the following circumstances :
(A) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents or any Canadian Letter of Credit;
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(B) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that (y) such Lender may have
against the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates, the Company, any LC Obligor or any other
Person for any reason whatsoever, or which the Company or any LC Obligor may have against such LC
Issuer or any of its Affiliates, any Lender or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; or (z)
any LC Obligor may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Canadian Letter of Credit, any
transferee of any Canadian Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be
acting), the Global Agent, any LC Issuer, any Lender, or other Person, whether in connection with
this Agreement, any Canadian Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any
unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the applicable LC Obligor and
the beneficiary named in any such Canadian Letter of Credit), other than any claim that the
applicable LC Obligor may have against any applicable LC Issuer for gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such LC Issuer in making payment under any applicable Canadian Letter of Credit;
(C) the lack of power or authority of any signer of (or any defect in or forgery of any
signature or endorsement on) or the form of or lack of validity, sufficiency, accuracy,
enforceability or genuineness of any draft, demand, instrument, certificate or other document
presented under or in connection with any Canadian Letter of Credit, or any draft, certificate or
other document presented under the Canadian Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent,
invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any
respect; or the transport of any property or provision of services relating to a Canadian Letter of
Credit, in each case even if the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates has been notified
thereof;
(D) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of
the terms of any of the Loan Documents;
(E) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by any party thereto, or the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(F) any claim of breach of warranty that might be made by the Company, any LC Obligor or any
other Credit Party or any Lender against any beneficiary of a Canadian Letter of Credit, or the
existence of any claim, set-off, recoupment, counterclaim, crossclaim, defense or other right which
the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party or any Lender may have at any time against a
beneficiary, successor beneficiary any transferee or assignee of any Canadian Letter of Credit or
the proceeds thereof (or any Persons for whom any such transferee may be acting), the applicable LC
Issuer or its Affiliates or any Lender or any other Person, whether in connection with this
Agreement, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transaction (including any
underlying transaction between the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party or Subsidiaries
of the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party and the beneficiary for which any Canadian
Letter of Credit was procured);
(G) payment by the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates under any Canadian Letter of
Credit against presentation of a demand, draft or certificate or other document which does not
comply with the terms of such Canadian Letter of Credit;
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(H) the solvency of, or any acts or omissions by, any beneficiary of any Canadian Letter of
Credit, or any other Person having a role in any transaction or obligation relating to a Canadian
Letter of Credit, or the existence, nature, quality, quantity, condition, value or other
characteristic of any property or services relating to a Canadian Letter of Credit;
(I) any failure by the applicable LC Issuer or any of its Affiliates to issue any Canadian
Letter of Credit in the form requested by the Company or any LC Obligor, unless such LC Issuer has
received written notice from the Company or such LC Obligor of such failure within three Business
Days after such LC Issuer shall have furnished the Company or such LC Obligor and the Global Agent
a copy of such Canadian Letter of Credit and such error is material and no drawing has been made
thereon prior to receipt of such notice;
(J) any adverse change in the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial
or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party or Subsidiaries
of the Company, any LC Obligor, any other Credit Party;
(K) the occurrence or continuance of any proceeding related to an Insolvency Event under the
Bankruptcy Code or any similar other Law with respect to the Company, any LC Obligor or any other
Credit Party;
(L) the fact that the Revolving Credit Termination Date shall have passed or this Agreement or
the Revolving Commitments hereunder shall have been terminated; and
(M) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing.
(vi) To the extent any LC Issuer is not indemnified by the Company or any LC Obligor, the
Canadian LC Participants will reimburse and indemnify such LC Issuer, in proportion to their
respective Canadian Commitment Percentages, for and against any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, costs, expenses or disbursements of
whatsoever kind or nature that may be imposed on, asserted against or incurred by such Issuer in
performing its respective duties in any way related to or arising out of LC Issuances by it;
provided, however, that no Canadian LC Participants shall be liable for (A) any portion of such
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments, costs, expenses
or disbursements resulting from such LC Issuer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as
determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (B) any
portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, judgments,
costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the failure of any other Canadian LC Participant to
fund any Canadian LC Participation pursuant to this Section.
Section 2.08 Notice of Borrowing.
(a) Time of Notice. Subject to Section 2.02(b), each Borrowing of a Loan shall be
made upon notice in the form provided for below which shall be provided by the applicable Borrower
to the Global Agent at its Notice Office not later than (i) in the case of each Borrowing of a
Fixed Rate Loan, 11:00 A.M. (local time at its Notice Office), or 1:00 P.M.
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(local time at its Notice Office) if the Global Agent has provided a Notice of Adjustment
pursuant to Section 2.10(b) on such day, at least three Business Days prior to the date of such
Borrowing, (ii) in the case of each Borrowing of a Base Rate Loan, prior to 11:00 A.M. (local time
at its Notice Office), or 1:00 P.M. (local time at its Notice Office) if the Global Agent has
provided a Notice of Adjustment pursuant to Section 2.10(b) on such day, on the proposed date of
such Borrowing, and (iii) in the case of any Borrowing under the Swing Line Facility, prior to 1:00
P.M. (local time at its Notice Office) on the proposed date of such Borrowing.
(b) Notice of Borrowing. Each request for a Borrowing shall be made by an Authorized
Officer of the Borrower requesting such Borrowing by delivering written notice of such request
substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 (each such notice, a “Notice of
Borrowing”) or by telephone (to be confirmed immediately in writing by delivery by an
Authorized Officer of such Borrower of a Notice of Borrowing by letter, facsimile or telex), and in
any event each such request shall be irrevocable and shall specify (i) the aggregate principal
amount of the Loans to be made pursuant to such Borrowing, (ii) the date of the Borrowing (which
shall be a Business Day), (iii) the Type of Loans such Borrowing will consist of, (iv) whether such
Loan is a Revolving Loan, and (v) if applicable, the initial Interest Period, and Designated
Foreign Currency applicable thereto. Without in any way limiting the obligation of any Borrower to
confirm in writing any telephonic notice permitted to be given hereunder, the Global Agent may act
prior to receipt of written confirmation without liability upon the basis of such telephonic notice
believed by the Global Agent in good faith to be from an Authorized Officer of the applicable
Borrower entitled to give telephonic notices under this Agreement on behalf of such Borrower. In
each such case, the Global Agent’s record of the terms of such telephonic notice shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
(c) Minimum Borrowing Amount. The aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing by any
Borrower shall not be less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount.
(d) Maximum Borrowings. More than one Borrowing may be incurred by a Borrower on any
day; provided, however, that (i) if there are two or more Borrowings on a single day by the same
Borrower that consist of Fixed Rate Loans, each such Borrowing shall have a different initial
Interest Period, (ii) at no time shall there be more than 12 Borrowings of Fixed Rate Loans
outstanding hereunder for all of the Borrowers, and (iii) at no time shall there be more than three
Borrowings of Canadian Revolving Loans outstanding hereunder.
Section 2.09 Funding Obligations; Disbursement of Funds.
(a) Several Nature of Funding Obligations. The Commitments of each Lender hereunder
and the obligation of each Lender to make Loans, acquire and fund Swing Loan Participations,
Revolving Facility LC Participations and Canadian LC Participations, as the case may be, are
several and not joint obligations. No Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other
Lender in its obligation to make Loans or fund any participation hereunder and each Lender shall be
obligated to make the Loans provided to be made by it and fund its participations required to be
funded by it hereunder, regardless of the failure of any other Lender to fulfill any of its
Commitments hereunder and no such failure, or any other failure to perform its obligations
hereunder, by any Lender shall affect the Obligations of any Borrower to any other party. Nothing
herein and no subsequent termination of the Commitments pursuant to
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Section 2.15 shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its
commitments hereunder and in existence from time to time or to prejudice any rights that the
Borrowers may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
(b) Funding Obligations. Except with respect to the making of Swing Loans by the
Swing Line Lender and Foreign Currency Loans by an Accepting Lender or Augmenting Lender, all Loans
hereunder shall be funded as follows: (i) all Revolving Loans made, and Revolving Facility LC
Participations acquired by each Revolving Lender, shall be made or acquired, as the case may be, on
a pro rata basis based upon each Revolving Lender’s Funding Percentage of the amount of such
Revolving Borrowing or Revolving Facility Letter of Credit in effect on the date the applicable
Revolving Borrowing is to be made or the Revolving Facility Letter of Credit is to be issued, and
(ii) all Canadian Revolving Loans made, and Canadian LC Participations acquired by each Canadian
Lender, shall be made or acquired, as the case may be, on a pro rata basis based upon each Canadian
Lender’s Canadian Commitment Percentage of the amount of such Canadian Borrowing or Canadian LC
Participation in effect on the date the applicable Canadian Borrowing is to be made. Each Foreign
Currency Loan shall be funded by one or more Accepting Lenders and/or Augmenting Lenders in such
proportions agreed to among such Accepting Lenders, Augmenting Lenders, the Company and the Global
Agent immediately prior to the time of the making of such Foreign Currency Loan.
(c) Notice to Lenders. The Global Agent shall promptly give each Lender written
notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) of each proposed Borrowing applicable
to such Lender, or Conversion or Continuation thereof, and LC Issuance, and of such Lender’s
proportionate share thereof or participation therein and of the other matters covered by the Notice
of Borrowing, Notice of Continuation or Conversion, Revolving Facility LC Request or Canadian LC
Request, as the case may be, relating thereto.
(d) Funding of Loans.
(i) Revolving Loans. Promptly on the date specified in each Notice of Borrowing, each
Revolving Lender will make available its Funding Amount, if any, of each Revolving Borrowing (other
than a Revolving Borrowing of Foreign Currency Loans) requested to be made on such date to the
Global Agent at the Payment Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds and the Global
Agent promptly will make available to the appropriate Borrower by depositing to its account at the
Payment Office (or such other account as such Borrower shall specify) the aggregate of the amounts
so made available in the type of funds received. With respect to any Foreign Currency Loan, each
Accepting Lender and/or Augmenting Lender that has agreed to make such Foreign Currency Loan in
accordance with Section 2.02(b) shall make available its proportionate amount of such Loan, as
determined in accordance with Section 2.09(b), on the date agreed to among such Accepting Lenders,
Augmenting Lenders, the Company and the Global Agent prior to the time of the making of such
Foreign Currency Loan, to the Global Agent at the Payment Office in the applicable Designated
Foreign Currency (or, if the Global Agent agrees, in Dollars) and in immediately available funds
and the Global Agent promptly will make available to the appropriate Borrower by depositing to its
account at the Payment Office (or such other account as such Borrower shall specify) the aggregate
of the amounts so made available in the type of funds received. Notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary, the Global Agent may, with respect to notices by the Borrowers for
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Foreign Currency Loans, engage in reasonable rounding of the applicable Designated Foreign
Currency amounts requested to be loaned, and the Borrowers’ request or notice shall thereby be
deemed to reflect such rounded amounts.
(ii) Canadian Revolving Loans. Promptly on the date specified in each Notice of
Borrowing, each Canadian Lender will make available its proportionate share, if any, of each
Canadian Borrowing requested to be made on such date to the Global Agent at the Canadian Payment
Office in Canadian Dollars and in immediately available funds and the Canadian Administrative
Branch of the Global Agent promptly will make available to the appropriate Canadian Borrower by
depositing to its account at the Canadian Payment Office (or such other account in Canada as such
Canadian Borrower shall specify) the aggregate of the amounts so made available in the type of
funds received.
(iii) Reserved.
(iv) Swing Loans.
(A) So long as the Swing Line Lender elects to make Swing Loans, promptly on the date
specified in each Notice of Borrowing, the Swing Line Lender will make available to the Company by
depositing to its account at the Payment Office (or such other account as the Company shall
specify) the aggregate of Swing Loans requested in such Notice of Borrowing.
(B) In addition to making Swing Loans pursuant to the foregoing provisions of Section 2.05(a),
without the requirement for a specific request from the Company pursuant to Section 2.08(b), the
Swing Line Lender may make Swing Loans to the Company in accordance with the provisions of any
agreements between the Company and the Swing Line Lender relating to the Company’s deposit, sweep
and other accounts with the Swing Line Lender and related arrangements and agreements regarding the
management and investment of the Company’s cash assets as in effect from time to time (the
“Cash Management Agreements”) to the extent of the daily aggregate net negative balance in
the Company’s accounts which are subject to the provisions of the Cash Management Agreements.
Swing Loans made pursuant to this Section 2.09(d)(iv)(B) in accordance with the provisions of the
Cash Management Agreements shall (i) be subject to the limitations as to aggregate amount set forth
in Section 2.05(a), (ii) be subject to any limitations as to individual amount set forth in the
Cash Management Agreement, (iii) be payable by the Company, both as to principal and interest, at
the times set forth in the Cash Management Agreements (but in no event later than the Revolving
Facility Termination Date), (iv) not be made at any time after the Swing Line Lender has notice of
the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default, (v) if not repaid by
the Company in accordance with the provisions of the Cash Management Agreements, be subject to each
Lender’s obligation to purchase participating interests therein pursuant to Section 2.05(c) and
(vi) except as provided in the foregoing subsections (i) through (v), be subject to all of the
terms and conditions of Section 2.05.
(e) Advance Funding. Unless the Global Agent shall have been notified by any Lender
prior to the date of Borrowing that such Lender does not intend to make available to the Global
Agent its portion of the Borrowing or Borrowings to be made on such date, the Global
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Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to the Global Agent or the
Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent, as the case may be, on such date of Borrowing,
and the Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent, in reliance upon
such assumption, may (in their sole discretion and without any obligation to do so) make available
to the applicable Borrower a corresponding amount. If such corresponding amount is not in fact
made available to the Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent, as
the case may be, by such Lender and the Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative Branch of the
Global Agent has made the same available to such Borrower, the Global Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Branch of the Global Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount
from such Lender. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon the Global
Agent’s demand therefor, the Global Agent shall promptly notify such Borrower, and such Borrower
shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to the Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative
Branch of the Global Agent, as appropriate. The Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative Branch
of the Global Agent, as applicable, shall also be entitled to recover from such Lender or such
Borrower, as the case may be, interest on such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the
date such corresponding amount was made available by the Global Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Branch of the Global Agent to such Borrower to the date such corresponding amount is
recovered by the Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent, at a rate
per annum equal to (x) if paid by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and
a rate determined by the Global Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation or (y) if paid by such Borrower, the then applicable rate of interest, calculated in
accordance with Section 2.12, for the respective Loans at the Base Rate for payments to the Global
Agent and at the Canadian Base Rate for payments to the Canadian Administrative Branch of the
Global Agent (but without any requirement to pay any amounts in respect thereof pursuant to
Section 3.04).
Section 2.10 Adjustment of Loans and Certain Other Obligations.
(a) Requirement for Adjustment. If on any Adjustment Date (i) (A) the
Revolving/Canadian Facility Exposure of any Canadian Lender (whether directly or by its Canadian
Lending Installation) is in excess of an amount equal to such Lender’s Fixed Commitment Percentage
of the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure and (B) such Lender has any Revolving Facility Exposure
owing to it, or (ii) (A) the Revolving/Canadian Facility Exposure of any Canadian Lender (whether
directly or by its Canadian Lending Installation) is less than an amount equal to such Lender’s
Fixed Percentage of the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure and (B) the Non-Canadian Lenders have
Revolving Facility Exposure owing to them, then, in the case of each of the foregoing, the
Obligations owing to all of the Revolving Lenders shall be adjusted through a repayment and
re-advancement of the Revolving Loans and a sale of Revolving Facility LC Outstandings in
accordance with this Section, such that the Revolving Facility Exposure of each Lender is equal to
its Fixed Commitment Percentage of the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure, or as close thereto as
possible without exceeding the amount of any Lender’s Revolving Commitment or the Total Revolving
Commitment.
(b) Notice of Adjustment. The Global Agent shall provide to each Lender and the
Company, on each Adjustment Date (or, if the Global Agent is aware of an adjustment that is going
to occur as a result of a notice received by the Global Agent pursuant to Section 2.06(b),
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Section 2.08(b), Section 2.13(c) or Section 2.16(a), on the date any such notice is received
by the Global Agent) notice by 12:00 noon (local time at its Notice Office) of any adjustment to be
made pursuant to this Section and shall specify therein for each Lender the details regarding the
adjustments to be made (a “Notice of Adjustment”).
(c) Manner of Adjustment. On each Adjustment Date, to the extent necessary, the
Revolving Loans and Revolving Facility LC Outstandings shall be adjusted as hereinafter set forth
such that the Revolving/Canadian Facility Exposure of each applicable Lender is equal to its Fixed
Commitment Percentage of the Aggregate Revolving/Canadian Facility Exposure, or as close thereto as
possible without exceeding the amount of any Lender’s Revolving Commitment or the Total Revolving
Commitment. Any adjustment of the Revolving Loans and Revolving Facility LC Outstandings shall be
made by the Global Agent on the applicable Adjustment Date in the following manner:
(i) the Revolving Borrowings (and all the Revolving Loans comprising such Borrowings)
designated by the Global Agent in the Notice of Adjustment relating to such adjustment, as
determined in accordance with Section 2.10(d) below, as being required to be repaid, shall be
repaid in full by the Revolving Facility Borrowers out of the proceeds of new Revolving Borrowings
to be made as set forth in this Section;
(ii) the Revolving Facility Borrowers shall pay on such Adjustment Date all of the accrued and
unpaid interest owing on all of the Revolving Loans made to each Revolving Facility Borrower that
are being repaid in accordance with this Section, together with any amounts that may be due
pursuant to Section 2.10(h) below;
(iii) the new Revolving Borrowings (and the Revolving Loans comprising such Revolving
Borrowings) to be made pursuant to this Section shall, except as set forth below, be in the same
aggregate principal amount (except in the case of an adjustment being made as a result of a request
for a new Revolving Borrowing in which case the amount of the Revolving Loans shall be increased
appropriately to reflect the amount of such new Revolving Borrowing), of the same Type, have the
same Interest Period (or as close thereto as possible), and be in the same currency as the original
Revolving Borrowings to which they relate; provided, however, that (A) the principal amount of the
Revolving Loans to be made by each Lender pursuant to each such Revolving Borrowing shall be in the
amount specified in the Notice of Adjustment sent by the Global Agent, and (B) unless the
applicable Revolving Facility Borrowers have properly submitted a Notice of Borrowing or Notice of
Conversion or Continuation in accordance with this Agreement, all such Revolving Loans comprising
such new Revolving Borrowings shall be US Base Rate Loans unless and until Converted in accordance
with Section 2.13 by the applicable Revolving Facility Borrower to Fixed Rate Loans or, in the case
of any Foreign Currency Loan, shall be repaid by the applicable Revolving Facility Borrower in full
on the Adjustment Date unless the applicable Revolving Facility Borrower has Continued such Foreign
Currency Loan in accordance with Section 2.13;
(iv) if specified by the Global Agent in the Notice of Adjustment, each Lender or the
applicable Lenders shall purchase from the other Lenders or other applicable Lenders the amount of
the Revolving Facility LC Outstandings of such other Lenders or other applicable Lenders as
specified in such Notice of Adjustment; and
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(v) the Revolving Facility Borrowers shall pay on such Adjustment Date all of the accrued and
unpaid LC Fees with respect to any Revolving Facility LC Outstandings that are being sold pursuant
to subpart (iv) above, together with any amounts that may be due pursuant to Section 2.10(h) below.
(d) Determination of Loans to be Repaid. In determining which Revolving Loans are
required to be repaid pursuant to this Section, the Global Agent shall designate such Revolving
Loans in the following order (in each case to the extent Revolving Loans of such Type are
outstanding and in an amount necessary to effect the adjustments required pursuant to this
Section): (i) first, US Base Rate Loans, (ii) second, Eurodollar Loans (with Interest Periods
ending closest to the Adjustment Date on which such Eurodollar Loans are to be repaid having
preference over Interest Periods ending later), and (iii) third, Foreign Currency Loans (with
Interest Periods ending closest to the Adjustment Date on which such Foreign Currency Loans are to
be repaid having preference over Interest Periods ending later).
(e) Payment Obligations. To the extent necessary, each Lender shall pay to the Global
Agent, for distribution to the appropriate Lenders, the amounts required to be paid by it pursuant
to each Notice of Adjustment. Each such Lender shall make such amounts available to the Global
Agent at the times and in the manner set forth in Section 2.09(d), provided that any amounts
payable pursuant to Section 2.10(c)(iv) above shall be paid by the appropriate Lenders on the
applicable Adjustment Date to the Global Agent or for the account of the Lenders to which such
payment is due in immediately available funds at the Payment Office.
(f) Participations. If any Lender determines that it is legally prohibited from
making any Revolving Loans when required to do so pursuant to this Section, such Lender shall
purchase an undivided participating interest in the Revolving Credit Exposure of the other Lenders
as appropriate in an amount equal to the amount of the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans such
prohibited Lender was required to fund. On the date that any prohibited Lender is required to
purchase a participation pursuant to the preceding sentence, each such Lender shall pay to each
other Lender, in immediately available funds, the amount due to each such other Lender. If any
amount required to be paid by any Lender to any other Lender pursuant to the above provisions is
not paid on the date such payment is due, such Lender shall pay to each other Lender on demand
interest on the amount not so paid at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate
determined by the Global Agent in accordance with industry rules on interbank compensation from the
due date until such amount is paid in full.
(g) Obligations Unconditional. Each Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Loans
and/or to purchase Revolving Facility LC Outstandings or participations pursuant to this
Section shall be subject to the conditions that (i) such Lender shall have received a Notice of
Adjustment complying with the provisions hereof and (ii) in the case of an adjustment being made as
a result of a request by a Revolving Facility Borrower for a new Revolving Borrowing, that such
Revolving Facility Borrower has satisfied all of the conditions to the making of such new Revolving
Facility Borrowing pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, but otherwise shall be absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (A) any
set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Lender may have against any
other Lender, any Credit Party, or any other Person, or any Credit Party may have against any
Lender or other Person, as the case may be, for any reason whatsoever; (B)
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the occurrence or continuance of a Default or Event of Default; (C) any event or circumstance
involving a Material Adverse Effect upon the Borrowers; (D) any breach of any Loan Document by any
party thereto; or (E) any other circumstance, happening or event, whether or not similar to any of
the foregoing.
(h) Breakage Compensation. Each Borrower shall be required to pay any breakage
compensation or other prepayment costs associated with the adjustment of any of the Obligations
pursuant to this Section, in each case in accordance with Article III. The Global Agent shall use
its best efforts to effect any adjustment of the Obligations pursuant to this Section in a manner
that minimizes any such breakage compensation or prepayment costs, but shall not be liable to the
Borrowers for failing to do so.
Section 2.11 Evidence of Obligations.
(a) Loan Accounts of Lenders. Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing the Obligations of the Borrowers to such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest
payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(b) Loan Accounts of Global Agent; Lender Register. The Global Agent shall maintain
accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan and Borrowing made hereunder, the
Type thereof, the currency in which such Loan is denominated, the Interest Period and applicable
interest rate, (ii) the amount and other details with respect to each Letter of Credit issued
hereunder, (iii) the amount of any principal due and payable or to become due and payable from the
Borrowers to each Lender hereunder, (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Global Agent
hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof, and (v) the other details
relating to the Loans and Letters of Credit to be made or issued hereunder. In addition, the
Global Agent shall maintain a register (the “Lender Register”) on or in which it will
record the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments from time to time of each of the
Lenders. The Global Agent will make the Lender Register available to any Lender or the Company
upon its request.
(c) Effect of Loan Accounts, etc. The entries made in the accounts maintained
pursuant to Section 2.11(a) and (b) shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of
the Obligations recorded therein, provided, that the failure of any Lender or the Global Agent to
maintain such accounts or any error (other than manifest error) therein shall not in any manner
affect the obligation of any Credit Party to repay or prepay the Loans or the other Obligations in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(d) Notes. Upon request of any Lender or the Swing Line Lender, (i) the Company will
execute and deliver to such Lender a Revolving Facility Note with blanks appropriately completed in
conformity herewith to evidence the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of, and interest on,
the Revolving Loans made to it by such Lender, (ii) each Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower will
execute and deliver to such Lender a Revolving Facility Note with blanks appropriately completed in
conformity herewith to evidence its obligation to pay the principal of, and interest on, the
Revolving Loans made to it by such Lender, (iii) if applicable, the Canadian Borrowers will execute
and deliver to each Canadian Lender a CDOR Note and a
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Canadian Base Rate Note with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith to evidence
their obligation to pay the principal of, and interest on, the Canadian Revolving Loans made to
them by such Lender, and (iv) the Company will execute and deliver to the Swing Line Lender a Swing
Line Note with blanks appropriately completed in conformity herewith to evidence the Company’s
obligation to pay the principal of, and interest on, the Swing Loans made to it by the Swing Line
Lender; provided, however, that the decision of any Lender or the Swing Line Lender to not request
a Note shall in no way detract from any Borrower’s obligation to repay the Loans and other amounts
owing by such Borrower to such Lender or the Swing Line Lender.
Section 2.12 Interest; Default Rate.
(a) Interest on Revolving Loans. The outstanding principal amount of each Revolving
Loan made by each Lender shall bear interest at a fluctuating rate per annum that shall at all
times be equal to (i) during such periods as such Revolving Loan is a US Base Rate Loan, the Base
Rate plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, (ii) during such periods as
such Revolving Loan is a Eurodollar Loan, the relevant Adjusted Eurodollar Rate for such Eurodollar
Loan for the applicable Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time to
time, and (iii) during such periods as a Revolving Loan is a Foreign Currency Loan, the relevant
Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate for such Foreign Currency Loan for the applicable Interest Period
plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time.
(b) Interest on Canadian Revolving Loans.
(i) Each Canadian Base Rate Loan made by each Canadian Lender shall bear interest on the
outstanding principal amount thereof at a fluctuating rate per annum that shall at all times be
equal to the Canadian Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time.
(ii) Each CDOR Loan made by each Canadian Lender shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof at a fluctuating rate per annum that shall at all times be equal to the
CDOR Rate for the applicable Interest Period, plus the applicable Margin in effect from time to
time.
(c) Reserved.
(d) Interest on Swing Loans. The outstanding principal amount of each Swing Loan
shall bear interest from the date of the Borrowing at a rate per annum that shall be equal to the
Quoted Rate applicable thereto.
(e) Default Interest. Notwithstanding the above provisions, if an Event of Default is
in existence, upon written notice by the Global Agent (which notice the Global Agent shall give at
the direction of the Required Lenders), (i) all outstanding amounts of principal and, to the extent
permitted by law, all overdue interest, in respect of each Loan shall bear interest, payable on
demand, at a rate per annum equal to the Default Rate, and (ii) the fees applicable to any
Revolving Facility LC Outstandings and Canadian LC Outstandings shall be increased by an additional
2% per annum in excess of the fees otherwise applicable thereto. In addition, if any amount (other
than amounts as to which the foregoing subparts (i) and (ii) are applicable)
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payable by any Borrower under the Loan Documents is not paid when due, upon written notice by
the Global Agent (which notice the Global Agent shall give at the direction of the Required
Lenders), such amount shall bear interest, payable on demand, at a rate per annum equal to 2% per
annum above the interest rate that is or would be applicable from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.12(a)(i) above.
(f) Accrual and Payment of Interest. Interest shall accrue from and including the
date of any Borrowing to but excluding the date of any prepayment or repayment thereof and shall be
payable by the applicable Borrower: (i) in respect of each US Base Rate Loan, quarterly in arrears
on the last Business Day of each June, September, December and March, (ii) in respect of each
Canadian Base Rate Loan, monthly in arrears on the last Business Day of each month, (iii) in
respect of each Fixed Rate Loan, on the last day of each Interest Period applicable thereto and, in
the case of an Interest Period in excess of three months, on the dates that are successively three
months after the commencement of such Interest Period, (iv) in respect of any Swing Loan, quarterly
in arrears on the last Business Day of each June, September, December and March, and (v) in respect
of all Loans, on any repayment, prepayment or Conversion (on the amount repaid, prepaid or
Converted), on each Adjustment Date if required pursuant to Section 2.10, at maturity (whether by
acceleration or otherwise), and, after such maturity, on demand.
(g) Computations of Interest and Discounts. All computations of interest on Fixed
Rate Loans and Swing Loans hereunder shall be made on the actual number of days elapsed over a year
of 360 days and all computations of interest on Base Rate Loans and Unpaid Drawings hereunder shall
be made on the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable. For
purposes of this Agreement, whenever interest to be paid on a Canadian Revolving Loan is to be
calculated on the basis of a period of time that is less than a calendar year, the yearly rate of
interest to which the rate determined pursuant to such calculation is equivalent is the rate so
determined multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the same is to be
ascertained and divided by such lesser period of time.
(h) Information as to Interest Rates. The Global Agent upon determining the interest
rate for any Borrowing shall promptly notify the applicable Borrowers and the Lenders thereof.
Section 2.13 Conversion and Continuation of Loans.
(a) Conversion and Continuation of Revolving Loans. The Company and each other
Revolving Facility Borrower shall have the right, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, to (i) Convert all or a portion of the outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans
of one Type made to it into a Borrowing or Borrowings of another Type of Loan that can be made to
it pursuant to Section 2.02 and (ii) Continue a Borrowing of Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency
Loans, as the case may be, at the end of the applicable Interest Period as a new Borrowing of
Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency Loans (in the same Designated Foreign Currency as the original
Foreign Currency Loan) with a new Interest Period; provided, however, that (A) no Foreign Currency
Loan may be Converted into a US Base Rate Loan, Eurodollar Loan or a Foreign Currency Loan that is
denominated in a different Designated Foreign Currency, and (B) any Conversion of Eurodollar Loans
into US Base Rate Loans shall be made on, and only on, the last day of an Interest Period for such
Eurodollar Loans.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Borrower delivers a Notice of Continuation or Conversion
requesting that the Lenders renew the Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate with respect to an outstanding
Revolving Borrowing of Revolving Loans denominated in a Designated Foreign Currency, the Lenders
shall be under no obligation to renew such Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate if any Lender delivers to
the Global Agent a notice by 5:00 p.m., Pittsburgh time, four (4) Business Days prior to effective
date of such renewal that such Lender cannot continue to provide Revolving Loans in such Designated
Foreign Currency. In the event the Global Agent timely receives a notice from a Lender pursuant to
the preceding sentence, the Global Agent will notify the Borrowers promptly, but no later than
12:00 noon, Pittsburgh time, three (3) Business Days prior to the renewal date that the renewal of
such Revolving Loans in such Designated Foreign Currency is not then available, and the Global
Agent shall promptly thereafter notify the Lenders of the same. If the Global Agent shall have so
notified the Borrowers that any such continuation of Designated Foreign Currency Loans is not then
available, any notice of renewal with respect thereto shall be deemed withdrawn, and such
Designated Foreign Currency Loans shall be redenominated into the Base Rate in Dollars with effect
from the last day of the Interest Period with respect to any such Designated Foreign Currency
Loans. The Global Agent will promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of any such
redenomination, and in such notice, the Global Agent will state the aggregate Dollar Equivalent
amount of the redenominated Designated Foreign Currency Loans as of the Computation Date with
respect thereto and such Lender’s ratable share thereof. If the Borrowers fail to select a new
Interest Period or Designated Foreign Currency to apply to any Revolving Borrowing of Loans under
the Adjusted Foreign Currency Rate at the expiration of an existing Interest Period applicable to
such Revolving Borrowing in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.12 [Interest; Default
Rate], the Borrowers shall be deemed to have continued such Revolving Borrowing at the same
Designated Foreign Currency for an Interest Period of the same duration, as applicable, commencing
upon the last day of the existing Interest Period.
(b) Conversion and Continuation of Canadian Revolving Loans. The Canadian Borrowers
shall have the right, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to (i) Convert all or
a portion of the outstanding principal amount of Canadian Revolving Loans of one Type made to them
into a Borrowing or Borrowings of another Type of Loan that can be made to them pursuant to the
Canadian Sub-Facility and (ii) Continue a Borrowing of CDOR Loans at the end of the applicable
Interest Period as a new Borrowing of CDOR Loans with a new Interest Period, provided, however,
that any Conversion of CDOR Loans into Canadian Base Rate Loans shall be made on, and only on, the
last day of an Interest Period for such CDOR Loans.
(c) Notice of Continuation and Conversion. Each Continuation or Conversion of a Loan
shall be made upon notice in the form provided for below provided by the applicable Borrower to the
Global Agent at its Notice Office not later than (i) in the case of each Continuation of or
Conversion into a Fixed Rate Loan, prior to 11:00 A.M. (local time at its Notice Office), or 1:00
P.M. (local time at its Notice Office) if the Global Agent has provided a Notice of Adjustment
pursuant to Section 2.10(b) on such day, at least three Business Days prior to the date of such
Continuation or Conversion, and (ii) in the case of each Conversion to a Base Rate Loan, prior to
11:00 A.M. (local time at its Notice Office), or 1:00 P.M. (local time at its Notice Office) if the
Global Agent has provided a Notice of Adjustment pursuant to Section 2.10(b) on such day, on the
proposed date of such Conversion. Each such request shall
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be made by an Authorized Officer of the applicable Borrower delivering written notice of such
request substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 (each such notice, a “Notice of
Continuation or Conversion”) or by telephone (to be continued immediately in writing by
delivery by an Authorized Officer of such Borrower of a Notice of Continuation or Conversion), and
in any event each such request shall be irrevocable and shall specify (A) the Borrowings to be
Continued or Converted, (B) the date of the Continuation or Conversion (which shall be a Business
Day), and (C) the Interest Period or, in the case of a Continuation, the new Interest Period.
Without in any way limiting the obligation of each Borrower to confirm in writing any telephonic
notice permitted to be given hereunder, the Global Agent may act prior to receipt of written
confirmation without liability upon the basis of such telephonic notice believed by the Global
Agent in good faith to be from an Authorized Officer of such Borrower entitled to give telephonic
notices under this Agreement on behalf of such Borrower. In each such case, the Global Agent’s
record of the terms of such telephonic notice shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Section 2.14 Fees.
(a) Commitment Fees.
(i) The Company agrees to pay to the Global Agent, for the ratable benefit of each Lender that
is a Revolving Lender as consideration for its Revolving Commitment, nonrefundable commitment fees
(the “Commitment Fees”) accruing from the date hereof until the Revolving Facility
Termination Date based upon such Lender’s Fixed Commitment Percentage of the Total Revolving
Commitment in effect on each day, computed for each day at a rate per annum equal to (A) the
Applicable Commitment Fee Rate in effect on such day (computed on the basis of a year of 365 or 366
days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed) times (B) the average daily Unutilized
Revolving Commitment (for purposes of this computation, PNC’s Swing Loans shall be deemed to be
borrowed amounts under its Revolving Credit Commitment); provided, however, that any Commitment Fee
accrued with respect to the Revolving Commitment of a Defaulting Lender during the period prior to
the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not be payable by the
Company so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the extent that such
Commitment Fee shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Company prior to such time; and
provided further that no Commitment Fee shall accrue with respect to the Revolving Commitment of a
Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(ii) Accrued Commitment Fees shall be due and payable in arrears on the last Business Day of
each June, September, December and March and on the Revolving Facility Termination Date.
(b) [Reserved]
(c) LC Fees for Revolving Facility Letters of Credit.
(i) The Company agrees to pay a fee in respect of each Revolving Facility Letter of Credit
issued hereunder that is a Standby Letter of Credit for the period from the date of issuance of
such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit until the expiration date thereof
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(including any extensions of such expiration date that may be made at the election of the
account party or the beneficiary), computed for each day at a rate per annum equal to (A) the
Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Loans in effect on such day times
(B) the Stated Amount of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit on such day. The foregoing fees
shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each June, September, December
and March and on each Adjustment Date as set forth in Section 2.10 and on the Revolving Facility
Termination Date. Such fees shall be payable to the Global Agent, for the ratable benefit of the
Lenders.
(ii) The Company agrees to pay a fee in respect of each Revolving Facility Letter of Credit
issued hereunder that is a Commercial Letter of Credit in an amount equal to (A) one-half of the
Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Loans in effect on the date of issuance
times (B) the Stated Amount of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit. The foregoing
fees shall be payable on the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit (or such other date as is
agreed to by the Global Agent and the applicable LC Issuer, but in any case not later than the
expiry date of such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit), to the applicable LC Issuer for the
ratable benefit of the Lenders based on each Lender’s Funding Percentage in effect on the date of
issuance.
(iii) Fees under this Section 2.14(c) accrued with respect to a Defaulting Lender during the
period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not
be payable by the Company so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the extent
that such fees shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Company prior to such time; and
provided further that no such fees shall accrue with respect to a Defaulting Lender so long as such
Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(d) LC Fees for Canadian Facility Letters of Credit.
(i) The Canadian Borrowers agree to pay a fee in respect of each Canadian Letter of Credit
issued hereunder that is a Standby Letter of Credit for the period from the date of issuance of
such Canadian Letter of Credit until the expiration date thereof (including any extensions of such
expiration date that may be made at the election of the account party or the beneficiary), computed
for each day at a rate per annum equal to (A) the Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are
Eurodollar Loans in effect on the date of issuance (or any increase in the amount, or renewal or
extension) thereof times (B) the Stated Amount of such Canadian Letter of Credit on such
day. The foregoing fees shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each
June, September, December and March and on each Adjustment Date as set forth in Section 2.10 and on
the Revolving Facility Termination Date. Such fees shall be payable to the Canadian Administrative
Branch of the Global Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Canadian Lenders.
(ii) The Canadian Borrowers agree to pay a fee in respect of each Canadian Letter of Credit
issued hereunder that is a Commercial Letter of Credit in an amount equal to (A) one-half of the
Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Loans in effect on the date of issuance
times (B) the Stated Amount of such Canadian Letter of Credit. The foregoing fees shall be
payable on the date of issuance of such Canadian Letter of Credit (or such other date as is agreed
to by the Global Agent and the applicable LC Issuer, but in any case
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not later than the expiry date of such Canadian Letter of Credit), to the applicable LC Issuer
for the ratable benefit of the Canadian Lenders based on each Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment
Percentage in effect on the date of issuance.
(iii) Fees under this Section 2.14(d) accrued with respect to a Defaulting Lender during the
period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not
be payable by the Company so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the extent
that such fees shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Company prior to such time; and
provided further that no such fees shall accrue with respect to a Defaulting Lender so long as such
Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(e) Fronting Fees.
(i) The Company agrees to pay directly to each LC Issuer, for its own account, a fronting fee
equal to 0.10% per annum (computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and actual days elapsed)
which fees shall be computed on the daily average Revolving Facility LC Outstandings and shall be
payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each June, September, December and March
following issuance of each Revolving Facility Letter of Credit and on each Adjustment Date as set
forth in Section 2.10 and on the Revolving Facility Termination Date.
(ii) The Canadian Borrowers agree to pay directly to each LC Issuer, for its own account, a
fronting fee equal to 0.10% per annum (computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and actual days
elapsed) which fees shall be computed on the daily average Canadian LC Outstandings and shall be
payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each June, September, December and March
following issuance of each Canadian Letter of Credit and on each Adjustment Date as set forth in
Section 2.10 and on the Canadian Facility Termination Date.
(f) Additional Charges of LC Issuer. The Company and each other Borrower and LC
Obligor, as applicable, agree to pay directly to each LC Issuer upon each LC Issuance, drawing
under, or amendment, extension, renewal or transfer of, a Letter of Credit issued by it such amount
as shall at the time of such LC Issuance, drawing, amendment, extension, renewal or transfer be the
processing charge, fees and administrative expenses payable with respect to the Letters of Credit
that such LC Issuer is customarily charging for issuances of, drawings under or maintenance,
negotiation, administration, amendments, extensions, renewals or transfers of, letters of credit
issued by it.
(g) Global Agent Fees. The Company shall pay to the Global Agent, on the Closing Date
and thereafter, for its own account, the fees payable to the Global Agent set forth in the Fee
Letter.
(h) Computations of Fees. Except for the computation of Commitment Fees which shall
be made on the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, all
computations of LC Fees and other Fees hereunder shall be made on the actual number of days elapsed
over a year of 360 days.
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Section 2.15 Termination and Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Mandatory Termination of Commitments. Unless previously terminated pursuant to
Article VIII, all of the Revolving Commitments shall terminate on the Revolving Facility
Termination Date.
(b) Voluntary Termination of the Commitments. Upon at least three (3) Business Days’
prior irrevocable written notice (or telephonic notice confirmed in writing) to the Global Agent at
its Notice Office (which notice the Global Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders),
the Company shall have the right to terminate in whole the Commitments, provided that (i) all
outstanding Loans and Unpaid Drawings are contemporaneously prepaid in accordance with
Section 2.16, (ii) either there are no outstanding Letters of Credit or the Company shall
contemporaneously cause all outstanding Letters of Credit to be surrendered for cancellation (any
such Letters of Credit to be replaced by letters of credit issued by other financial institutions
acceptable to each LC Issuer and the Required Lenders), and (iii) notwithstanding the foregoing,
such a notice may state that it is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities,
in which case such notice may be revoked by the Company by written notice to the Global Agent at
the Notice Office on or prior to the specified effective date stating that such condition has not
been satisfied, subject, however, to the Company’s payment of any breakage compensation or other
costs associated with such revoked notice pursuant to this Section, in each case in accordance with
Article III.
(c) Partial Reduction of Commitments. Upon at least five Business Days’ prior
irrevocable written notice (or telephonic notice confirmed in writing) to the Global Agent at its
Notice Office (which notice the Global Agent shall promptly transmit to each of the Lenders), the
Company shall have the right to partially and permanently reduce the Unutilized Total Commitment;
provided, however, that (A) any such reduction shall apply to proportionately (based on each
Lender’s Fixed Commitment Percentage) and permanently reduce the Revolving Commitment of each
Lender and the Canadian Commitment of each Canadian Lender, (B) such reduction of the Revolving
Commitment shall apply to proportionately and permanently reduce the Revolving Facility LC
Commitment Amount and the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount, but only to the extent that the
Unutilized Total Revolving Commitment would be reduced below any such limits, (C) no such reduction
shall be permitted if any Borrower would be required to make a mandatory prepayment of Loans or
cash collateralize Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.16, unless such reduction is made
contemporaneously with a prepayment or cash collateralization required pursuant to Section 2.16,
and (D) any partial reduction shall be in the amount of at least $5,000,000 (or, if greater, in
integral multiples of $1,000,000).
Section 2.16 Payments and Prepayments of Loans.
(a) Voluntary Prepayments. Each Borrower shall have the right to prepay any of the
Loans owing by it, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty (except as specified in
subparts (d) and (g) below), from time to time. The Borrower making such prepayment shall give the
Global Agent at the Notice Office written or telephonic notice (in the case of telephonic notice,
promptly confirmed in writing if so requested by the Global Agent) of its intent to prepay the
Loans, the amount of such prepayment and (in the case of Fixed Rate Loans) the specific
Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made, which notice shall be received by the Global Agent by (x)
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11:00 A.M. (local time at the Notice Office) three Business Days prior to the date of such
prepayment, in the case of any prepayment of Fixed Rate Loans, or (y) 11:00 A.M. (local time at the
Notice Office) one Business Day prior to the date of such prepayment, in the case of any prepayment
of Base Rate Loans, and which notice shall promptly be transmitted by the Global Agent to each of
the affected Lenders; provided, however, that (i) in the case of prepayment of any Borrowings, each
partial prepayment of any such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal of at least $2,500,000
(or, if less, the full amount of such Borrowing) or the Dollar Equivalent thereof, or an integral
multiple of $500,000 or the Dollar Equivalent thereof in excess thereof; (ii) no partial prepayment
of any Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall reduce the aggregate principal amount of such Loans
outstanding pursuant to such Borrowing to an amount less than the Minimum Borrowing Amount
applicable thereto; and (iii) each prepayment in respect of any Loans shall, unless otherwise
specified by the applicable Borrower, be applied to repay such Loans in accordance with
Section 2.17(b). Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Global Agent may,
with respect to notices by the Borrowers for voluntary prepayments of less than the full amount of
a Revolving Borrowing of Foreign Currency Loans, engage in reasonable rounding of the applicable
Designated Foreign Currency amounts to be repaid, and the Borrowers’ notice shall thereby be deemed
to reflect such rounded amounts
(b) Replacement of a Lender. In the event any Lender or LC Issuer (i) gives notice
under Section 3.01, (ii) requests compensation under Section 3.02, or requires any Borrower to pay
any additional amount to any Lender, LC Issuer or any Governmental Authority for the account of any
Lender or LC Issuer pursuant to Section 3.03, (iii) is a Defaulting Lender, (iv) becomes subject to
the control of a Governmental Authority (other than normal and customary supervision), or (v) is a
Non-Consenting Lender referred to in Section 11.11, then in any such event the Borrowers may, at
their sole expense, upon notice to such Lender or LC Issuer and the Global Agent, require such
Lender or LC Issuer to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the
restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 11.05), all of its interests, rights
and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that
shall assume such obligations, provided that:
(A) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Global Agent the assignment fee specified in
Section 11.05;
(B) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of
its Loans, Revolving Facility LC Participations, Canadian LC Participations and Swing Loan
Participations, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.04) from the
assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the
Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts);
(C) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under
Section 3.02(a) or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.03, such assignment will
result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter; and
(D) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Law.
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Solely with respect to circumstances described in Section 2.16(b)(i) through 2.16(b)(iii), a Lender
or LC Issuer shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as
a result of a waiver by such Lender, LC Issuer or otherwise, such circumstances entitling the
Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. Nothing in this Section 2.16
or in any other provision of this Agreement shall be deemed to prejudice any rights that the
Borrowers may have against any Defaulting Lender.
(c) Mandatory Payments. The Loans shall be subject to mandatory repayment or
prepayment, and the Revolving LC Outstandings and Canadian LC Outstandings shall be subject to cash
collateralization requirements, in accordance with the following provisions:
(i) Maturity. Unless Continued or Converted in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, the principal amount of each Fixed Rate Loan shall be payable by the applicable Borrower
on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Fixed Rate Loan. The entire principal
amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans owing by each Borrower shall be repaid in full on the
Revolving Facility Termination Date.
(ii) Adjustment Dates. The Borrowers shall repay the principal amount of the
Revolving Loans required to be paid by each of them on any Adjustment Date in accordance with
Section 2.10.
(iii) Loans Exceed the Commitments. If on any date (after giving effect to any other
payments on such date) (A) the Revolving Facility Exposure of any Lender exceeds such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment, (B) the Aggregate Revolving Facility Exposure exceeds the Total Revolving
Commitment, (C) the Foreign Currency Exposure exceeds the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount by five
percent (5%) or more under any calculation pursuant to Section 1.05, (D) the Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower Exposure exceeds the Maximum Foreign Exposure Amount, (E) the Canadian Sub-Facility
Exposure of any Canadian Lender exceeds such Canadian Lender’s Canadian Commitment by five percent
(5%) or more under any calculation pursuant to Section 1.05, (F) the Aggregate Canadian
Sub-Facility Exposure exceeds the Total Canadian Commitment by five percent (5%) or more under any
calculation pursuant to Section 1.05, or (G) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans
outstanding exceeds the Swing Line Commitment, then, in the case of each of the foregoing, the
applicable Borrower or the Company shall prepay on such date the principal amount of Loans and,
after Loans have been paid in full, Unpaid Drawings, in an aggregate amount at least equal to such
excess and conforming in the case of partial prepayments of Loans to the requirements as to the
amounts of partial prepayments of Loans that are contained in subpart (a) above.
(iv) Revolving Facility LC Outstandings Exceed Commitment. If on any date (A) the
Revolving Facility LC Outstandings exceed the Revolving Facility LC Commitment Amount, or (B) the
Canadian LC Outstandings exceed the Canadian LC Commitment Amount, in each case as then in effect
by five percent (5%) or more under any calculation pursuant to
Section 1.05, then the
applicable LC Obligor or the Company shall pay to the Global Agent or the Canadian Administrative
Branch of the Global Agent, as appropriate, an amount in cash equal to such excess and the Global
Agent shall hold such payment as security for the reimbursement obligations of the applicable LC
Obligors hereunder in respect of Revolving Facility Letters of Credit or Canadian Letters of
Credit, as the case may be, pursuant
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to a cash collateral agreement to be entered into in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and the Company (which shall permit certain
investments in Cash Equivalents satisfactory to the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and the Company
until the proceeds are applied to the secured obligations).
(v) Certain Proceeds of Indebtedness. Not later than the Business Day following the
date of the receipt by any Credit Party of the cash proceeds (net of underwriting discounts and
commissions, placement agent fees and other reasonable and customary fees and costs associated
therewith) in excess of $5,000,000 from any sale or issuance of any Indebtedness (other than any
Indebtedness incurred pursuant to any of Section 7.04(a) through (m), (o) and (p)) after the
Closing Date, the Company will make a prepayment of the Loans in an amount equal to 100% of such
net proceeds in excess of such amount in accordance with Section 2.16(d) below.
(vi) Certain Proceeds of Asset Sales. If during any fiscal year of the Company, the
Company or any other Domestic Credit Party receives cumulative Net Cash Proceeds during such fiscal
year from one or more Asset Sales described in Section 7.02(e)(i) or Section 7.02(f) aggregating
$10,000,000 or more for such fiscal year, not later than the Business Day following the date of
receipt of Net Cash Proceeds in excess of such amount, the Company will make a prepayment of the
Loans in an amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds then received in excess of such amount in
accordance with Section 2.16(d) below; provided, that (A) if no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, and (B) the Company notifies the Global Agent of the amount and
nature thereof and of its intention to reinvest all or a portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in
assets used or useful in the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries during such 360 day
period, then no such prepayment shall be required to the extent of the amount of such Net Cash
Proceeds as to which the Company so indicates such reinvestment will take place. If at the end of
any such 360 day period any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $500,000 has not been so
reinvested, the Company will immediately make a prepayment of the Loans, as provided above.
(vii) Certain Proceeds of an Event of Loss. If during any fiscal year of the Company,
the Company or any other Domestic Credit Party receives cumulative Net Cash Proceeds during such
fiscal year from one or more Events of Loss aggregating $10,000,000 or more for such fiscal year,
not later than the Business Day following the date of receipt of Net Cash Proceeds in excess of
such amount, the Company will make a prepayment of the Loans in an amount equal to 100% of the Net
Cash Proceeds then received in excess of such amount from any Event of Loss in accordance with
Section 2.16(d) below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event any property suffers an Event
of Loss and (A) the Net Cash Proceeds received in any fiscal year as a result of such Event of Loss
are less than $5,000,000, (B) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and
(C) the Company notifies the Global Agent and the Lenders in writing that it intends to rebuild or
restore the affected property, that such rebuilding or restoration can be accomplished within 360
days out of such Net Cash Proceeds and other funds available to the Company, then no such
prepayment of the Loans shall be required. Any amounts in excess of $500,000 not so applied to the
costs of rebuilding or restoration or as provided in Section 8.03 shall be applied to the
prepayment of the Loans as provided above.
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(d) Applications of Certain Prepayment Proceeds. Subject to Section 2.16(e) below,
each prepayment required to be made pursuant to Sections 2.16(c)(v), (vi), or (vii) above shall be
applied as a mandatory prepayment of principal of first, the outstanding Swing Loans, and second,
the outstanding Revolving Loans.
(e) Reserved.
(f) Particular Loans to be Prepaid. With respect to each repayment or prepayment of
Loans required by this Section, the Borrower making such repayment or prepayment shall designate
the Types of Loans that are to be repaid or prepaid and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which
such repayment or prepayment is to be made; provided, however, that (i) such Borrower shall first
so designate all Loans that are Base Rate Loans and Fixed Rate Loans with Interest Periods ending
on the date of repayment or prepayment prior to designating any other Fixed Rate Loans for
repayment or prepayment, (ii) if the outstanding principal amount of Fixed Rate Loans made pursuant
to a Borrowing is reduced below the applicable Minimum Borrowing Amount as a result of any such
repayment or prepayment, then all the Loans outstanding pursuant to such Borrowing shall, in the
case of Eurodollar Loans or CDOR Loans, be Converted into Base Rate Loans and, in the case of
Foreign Currency Loans, be repaid in full, and (iii) each repayment and prepayment of any Loans
made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.17(b). In the absence
of a designation by a Borrower as described in the preceding sentence, the Global Agent shall,
subject to the above, make such designation in its sole discretion with a view, but no obligation,
to minimize breakage costs owing under Article III.
(g) Breakage and Other Compensation. Any prepayment made pursuant to this Section
shall be accompanied by any amounts payable in respect thereof under Article III. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if the amount of any prepayment of Loans required under Section 2.16 shall be in
excess of the amount of the Base Rate Loans at the time outstanding (an “Excess Amount”),
only the portion of the amount of such prepayment as is equal to the amount of such outstanding
Base Rate Loans shall be immediately prepaid and, at the election of the Company, the balance of
such required prepayment shall be either (A) deposited in a collateral account held at the Global
Agent and applied to the prepayment of Fixed Rate Loans on the last day of the then next-expiring
Interest Period for Fixed Rate Loans, provided that (i) interest in respect of such Excess Amount
shall continue to accrue thereon at the rate provided hereunder for the Loans which such Excess
Amount is intended to repay until such Excess Amount shall have been used in full to repay such
Loans and (ii) at any time while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Global
Agent may, and upon written direction from the Required Lenders shall, apply any or all proceeds
then on deposit in such collateral account to the payment of such Loans in an amount equal to such
Excess Amount or (B) prepaid immediately, together with any amounts owing to the Lenders under
Article III.
Section 2.17 Method and Place of Payment.
(a) Generally. All payments made by any Borrower hereunder, under any Note or any
other Loan Document, shall be made without setoff, counterclaim or other defense.
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(b) Application of Payments. Except as specifically set forth elsewhere in this
Agreement and subject to Section 8.03, (i) all payments and prepayments of Loans (other than Swing
Loans) and Unpaid Drawings with respect to Letters of Credit shall be applied by the Global Agent
for the ratable benefit of the Lenders entitled thereto (based on each such Lender’s Payment
Sharing Percentage at the time of such payment) to pay or prepay such Loans or Unpaid Drawings,
(ii) all payments or prepayments of Swing Loans and payments of interest thereon shall be applied
to pay or prepay such Swing Loans and unpaid interest thereon, (iii) all payments of Fees shall be
applied as set forth in Section 2.14, and (iv) with respect to any other amounts, such amounts
shall be distributed by the Global Agent for the ratable account of the Lenders entitled thereto in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(c) Payment of Obligations. Except as set forth in subpart (d) below, all payments
under this Agreement with respect to any of the Obligations shall be made to the Global Agent on
the date when due and shall be made at the Payment Office in immediately available funds and,
except as set forth in the next sentence, shall be made in Dollars. With respect to any Foreign
Currency Loan, all payments (including prepayments) to any Lender of the principal of or interest
on such Foreign Currency Loan shall be made in the same Designated Foreign Currency as the original
Loan and with respect to any Revolving Facility Letter of Credit issued in a Designated Foreign
Currency, all Unpaid Drawings with respect to each such Revolving Facility Letter of Credit shall
be made in the same Designated Foreign Currency in which each such Revolving Facility Letter of
Credit was issued, unless the applicable LC Issuer agrees otherwise; provided, however, that if it
is impossible or illegal for any Borrower to effect payment of a Loan in the Designated Foreign
Currency in which such Loan was made, or if any Borrower defaults in its obligation to do so, the
Global Agent may at its option (and shall, in the case of such impossibility or illegality) permit
such payment to be made (i) at and to a different location, subsidiary, affiliate or correspondent
of the Global Agent, or (ii) in the Equivalent Amount of Dollars or (iii) in an Equivalent Amount
of such other currency (freely convertible into Dollars) as the Global Agent may solely at its
option designate. Upon any events described in (i) through (iii) of the preceding sentence, the
Borrowers shall make such payment and the Borrowers agree to hold each Lender harmless from and
against any loss incurred by any Lender arising from the cost to such Lender of any premium, any
costs of exchange, the cost of hedging and covering the Designated Foreign Currency in which such
Loan was originally made, and from any change in the value of Dollars, or such other currency, in
relation to the Designated Foreign Currency that was due and owing. Such loss shall be calculated
for the period commencing with the first day of the Interest Period for such Loan and continuing
through the date of payment thereof. Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of
the hereunder, the Borrowers’ obligations under this Section 2.17(c) shall survive termination of
this Agreement.
(d) Canadian Obligations. All payments under this Agreement with respect to the
Canadian Obligations shall be made to the Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent not
later than 11:00 A.M. (local time at the Canadian Payment Office) on the date when due and shall be
made at the Canadian Payment Office in immediately available funds and in Canadian Dollars.
(e) Timing of Payments. Any payments under this Agreement that are made later than
11:00 A.M. (local time at the Payment Office or the Canadian Payment Office, as the
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case may be) shall be deemed to have been made on the next succeeding Business Day. Whenever
any payment to be made hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the
due date thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to
payments of principal, interest shall be payable during such extension at the applicable rate in
effect immediately prior to such extension.
(f) Distribution to Lenders. Upon the Global Agent’s receipt of payments hereunder,
the Global Agent shall immediately distribute to each Lender or the applicable LC Issuer, as the
case may be, its ratable share (as determined in accordance with subpart (b) above), if any, of the
amount of principal, interest, and Fees received by it for the account of such Lender. Payments
received by the Global Agent in Dollars shall be delivered to the Lenders or the applicable LC
Issuer, as the case may be, in Dollars in immediately available funds. Payments received by the
Global Agent in any Designated Foreign Currency shall be delivered to the Lenders or the applicable
LC Issuer, as the case may be, in such Designated Foreign Currency in same day funds; provided,
however, that if at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Global Agent
to pay fully all amounts of principal, Unpaid Drawings, interest and Fees then due hereunder then,
except as specifically set forth elsewhere in this Agreement and subject to Section 8.03, such
funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and Fees then due hereunder, ratably
among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and Fees then due to
such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and Unpaid Drawings then due
hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal
and Unpaid Drawings then due to such parties.
Section 2.18 Authority of Company; Liability of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers.
(a) Authority of the Company. Each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereby irrevocably
designates and appoints the Company as its agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
and hereby irrevocably authorizes the Company to take such action on its behalf under the
provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers (including,
but not limited to, requesting a Loan or Letter of Credit for such Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers
hereunder) and perform such duties as such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower could exercise on its own
(which the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, do), together with such other powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto, with all such actions by the Company that purport to be on behalf of
any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower being sufficient, without any further action or authorization by
such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, to bind such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower. The Global Agent, the
Lenders and each LC Issuer shall be entitled to rely upon all statements, certificates, notices,
consents, affidavits, letters, cablegrams, telegrams, facsimile transmissions, electronic
transmissions, e-mails, telex or teletype messages, orders or other documents or conversations
furnished or made by the Company pursuant to any of the provisions of this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents, or otherwise in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents, as being made or furnished on behalf of, and with the effect of irrevocably binding,
each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, without any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the authority
of the Company in so doing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Global Agent, the Lenders and each
LC Issuer may also rely on or act in accordance with directions or instructions coming directly
from any such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower.
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(b) Foreign Revolving Facility Borrowers. The parties intend that this Agreement
shall in all circumstances be interpreted to provide that each Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower
is liable only for Loans made to such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower, interest on such Loans,
such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower’s reimbursement obligations with respect to any Revolving
Facility Letter of Credit issued for its account and its ratable share of any of the other
Obligations, including, without limitation, general fees, reimbursements and charges hereunder and
under any other Loan Document that are attributable to it. The liability of any Foreign Revolving
Facility Borrower for the payment of any of the Obligations or the performance of its covenants,
representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be
several from but not joint with the Obligations of any other Borrower. Nothing in this Section is
intended to limit, nor shall it be deemed to limit, any of the liability of the Company for any of
the Obligations, whether in its primary capacity as a Borrower, pursuant to its guaranty
obligations set forth in Article X, at law or otherwise.
(c) Canadian Borrowers. To the extent permitted by law, each Canadian Borrower is and
shall at all times be fully liable, jointly and severally, for all of the Canadian Revolving Loans
made hereunder and for all of the other Canadian Obligations. Each Canadian Borrower agrees that
it is receiving or will receive a direct pecuniary benefit for each Canadian Revolving Loan made
hereunder and each Canadian Letter of Credit issued hereunder. Each request by any of the Canadian
Borrowers for a Borrowing, Continuation or Conversion of any Canadian Revolving Loan or for any
Canadian LC Request shall be deemed to be a joint and several request by all of the Canadian
Borrowers. Each Canadian Borrower hereby authorizes any other Canadian Borrower to request a
Borrowing, Continuation or Conversion of a Canadian Revolving Loan or a Canadian LC Request
hereunder.
Section 2.19 Eligibility and Addition/Release of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers.
(a) No Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers as of the Closing Date. The parties hereto
acknowledge that there are no Foreign Revolving Facility Borrowers or Canadian Borrowers as of the
Closing Date and, as such, no Foreign Subsidiary of the Company shall be permitted to request or
receive the proceeds of any Borrowing nor shall any Letter of Credit be issued for its account.
(b) Eligibility of Foreign Subsidiaries. At the request of the Company, a Foreign
Subsidiary of the Company may become a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereunder, provided that (i)
only a Foreign Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of Canada or any Province thereof may
become a Canadian Borrower and no Foreign Subsidiary organized under the laws of Canada or any
Province thereof may become a Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower; (ii) prior to becoming a Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower, the Company has provided to the Global Agent a written request signed by the
Company and such Foreign Subsidiary, that such Foreign Subsidiary be designated as a Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; (iii) such Foreign Subsidiary shall be
a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company; (iv) the Company and such Foreign Subsidiary shall have
satisfied the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02; (v) the addition of such Foreign
Subsidiary as a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereunder shall not result in withholding tax liability
or other adverse tax consequences or adverse legal impact to the Global Agent, any LC Issuer or any
Lender hereunder; and (vi) at the time of the request by the Company that such Foreign Subsidiary
be
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added as Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and after giving effect to the addition of such Foreign
Subsidiary as a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, no Default or Event of Default shall exist or begin to
exist.
(c) Notification to Lenders. Upon satisfaction by the Company and any Foreign
Subsidiary of the requirements set forth in subpart (b) above, and the Global Agent’s satisfaction
that the addition of such Foreign Subsidiary as a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereunder is
appropriately documented pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the Global Agent
shall promptly notify the Company, such Foreign Subsidiary and the Lenders thereof, and shall
notify the Lenders whether such Foreign Subsidiary is a Canadian Borrower or Foreign Revolving
Facility Borrower, whereupon such Foreign Subsidiary shall be designated a “Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower” pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and such Foreign Subsidiary shall
become bound by all representations, warranties, covenants, provisions and conditions of this
Agreement and each other Loan Document applicable to the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers as if such
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower had been the original party making such representations, warranties and
covenants.
(d) Release of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers. Upon written request of the Company and
any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower may be released as a Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower hereunder, so long as (i) such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower does not have any
Credit Facility Exposure owing to any Lender at such time and has paid all accrued and unpaid
interest and fees and other amounts due by or from such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower hereunder, if
any, owing by it, and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or immediately thereafter
shall begin to exist. No such release shall be effective until confirmed by the Global Agent to
the Company, such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and the Lenders in writing (which the Collateral
Agent agrees to promptly do upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this subpart). The
Lenders hereby authorize the Global Agent to release such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower in accordance
with the terms and conditions of this subpart and agree that the Global Agent may execute and
deliver such documents or agreements as the Global Agent shall deem necessary or appropriate in
connection therewith. No release of a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall affect the Company’s
obligations under Article X of this Agreement or any other Credit Party’s obligations under the
Subsidiary Guaranty.
Section 2.20 Collateral and Collateral Release Date.
At all times on and after the Closing Date, unless and until released in accordance with this
Section, all of the Obligations of the Credit Parties shall be secured by the Collateral on the
terms and conditions set forth in the Security Documents. Upon the written request of the Company
to the Global Agent and the Collateral Agent at any time after the Company has achieved an
Investment Grade Rating from at least two of the Ratings Agencies on or after the Closing Date, the
Collateral Agent shall release and terminate all of the Liens granted to it pursuant to the
Security Documents so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or immediately thereafter would
exist. In connection with the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall, at the Company’s expense,
prepare and file all necessary termination statements and releases terminating and releasing the
Liens granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Documents and shall return to the
Company all share certificates or other Collateral held by the Collateral Agent and transfer
documents relating thereto. The Lenders hereby authorize the
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Global Agent and the Collateral Agent to execute and deliver such documents or agreements as
the Global Agent or the Collateral Agent deem necessary or appropriate in connection with the
foregoing. The release of the Collateral pursuant to this Section shall not be effective until the
date (the “Collateral Release Date”) that (i) the Collateral Agent has filed all
termination statements and releases, deemed necessary or appropriate by the Company, which the
Collateral Agent shall promptly do upon satisfaction by the Company of the conditions set forth in
this Section, and (ii) the Global Agent has provided notice of the same to the Lenders, which
notice the Global Agent shall promptly provide upon the satisfaction by the Company of the
conditions set forth in this Section.
Section 2.21 Liability of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers.
The parties intend that this Agreement shall in all circumstances be interpreted to provide
that each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is liable only for Loans made to such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower, interest on such Loans, such Foreign Borrower’s reimbursement obligations with respect to
any Letter of Credit issued for its account and its ratable share of any of the other Obligations,
including, without limitation, general fees, reimbursements and charges hereunder and under any
other Loan Document that are attributable to it. Nothing in this Section is intended to limit, nor
shall it be deemed to limit, any of the liability of the Company for any of the Obligations,
whether in its primary capacity as a Borrower, pursuant to its guaranty obligations set forth in
Article X, at law or otherwise.
ARTICLE III — TAXES, INCREASED COSTS AND ILLEGALITY
Section 3.01 Interest Rate Unascertainable; Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not
Available.
(a) Unascertainable. If on any date on which any interest rate applicable to any
Fixed Rate Loan would otherwise be determined, the Global Agent shall have determined that:
(i) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining such interest rate, or
(ii) a contingency has occurred which materially and adversely affects the London interbank
eurodollar market or the Canadian commercial banking market relating to such interest rate, the
Global Agent shall have the rights specified in Section 3.01(c).
(b) Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available. If at any time any Lender
shall have determined that:
(i) the making, maintenance or funding of any Fixed Rate Loan has been made impracticable or
unlawful by compliance by such Lender in good faith with any Law or any interpretation or
application thereof by any Governmental Authority or with any request or directive of any such
Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of Law), or
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(ii) the interest rate applicable to a Fixed Rate Loan will not adequately and fairly reflect
such Lender’s actual cost of funds (not the return) for the establishment or maintenance of any
such Loan, or
(iii) after making all reasonable efforts, deposits of the relevant amount in Dollars for the
relevant Interest Period for a Loan, or to banks generally, to which the interest rate applicable
to any Fixed Rate Loan applies, respectively, are not available to such Lender with respect to such
Loan, or to banks generally, in the interbank eurodollar market or the Canadian commercial banking
market, as applicable,
then the Global Agent shall have the rights specified in Section 3.01(c).
(c) Global Agent’s and Lenders’ Rights. In the case of any event specified in Section
3.01(a) above, the Global Agent shall promptly so notify the Lenders and the applicable Borrower
thereof, and in the case of an event specified in Section 3.01(b) above, such Lender shall promptly
so notify the Global Agent and endorse a certificate to such notice as to the specific
circumstances of such notice, and the Global Agent shall promptly send copies of such notice and
certificate to the other Lenders and the applicable Borrower. Upon such date as shall be specified
in such notice (which shall not be earlier than the date such notice is given), the obligation of
(A) the Lenders, in the case of such notice given by the Global Agent, or (B) such Lender, in the
case of such notice given by such Lender, to allow the applicable Borrower to select, convert to or
renew the applicable interest rate shall be suspended until the Global Agent shall have later
notified the Borrower, or such Lender shall have later notified the Global Agent, of the Global
Agent’s or such Lender’s, as the case may be, determination that the circumstances giving rise to
such previous determination no longer exist. If at any time the Global Agent makes a determination
under Section 3.01(a) and the Borrower has previously notified the Global Agent of its selection
of, conversion to or renewal of such interest rate and such interest rate has not yet gone into
effect, such notification shall be deemed to provide for selection of, conversion to or renewal of
the Base Rate or the Canadian Base Rate, as applicable, otherwise available with respect to such
Loans. If any Lender notifies the Global Agent of a determination under Section 3.01(b), the
applicable Borrower shall, subject to the Borrower’s indemnification Obligations under Section
3.04, as to any Fixed Rate Loan of the Lender on the date specified in such notice either convert
such Loan to the Base Rate or the Canadian Base Rate, as applicable, otherwise available with
respect to such Loan or prepay such Loan in accordance with Section 2.16. Absent due notice from
the Borrower of conversion or prepayment, such Loan shall automatically be converted to the Base
Rate or the Canadian Base Rate, as applicable, otherwise available with respect to such Loan upon
such specified date.
Section 3.02 Increased Costs.
(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance
charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit
extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in any Fixed
Rate Loan) or any LC Issuer;
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(ii) subject any Lender or any LC Issuer to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to
this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter of Credit or any Fixed Rate
Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender or any LC Issuer in
respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.03 and the
imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender or any LC
Issuer); or
(iii) impose on any Lender, any LC Issuer, the London interbank market or the Canadian
commercial banking market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or any
Fixed Rate Loan made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or
maintaining any Fixed Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to
increase the cost to such Lender or any LC Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any
Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of
Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or any LC Issuer
hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or
any LC Issuer, the applicable Borrower will pay to such Lender or any LC Issuer, as the case may
be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or any LC Issuer, as the case
may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or any LC Issuer determines that any Change
in Law affecting such Lender or any LC Issuer or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s
or any LC Issuer’s holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or would have the
effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or any LC Issuer’s capital or on the capital
of such Lender’s or any LC Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement,
the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held
by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by any LC Issuer, to a level below that which such
Lender or any LC Issuer or such Lender’s or any LC Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but
for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or any LC Issuer’s policies and the
policies of such Lender’s or any LC Issuer’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy),
then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or any LC Issuer, as the case may be,
such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or any LC Issuer or such Lender’s
or any LC Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement; Repayment of Outstanding Loans; Borrowing of New
Loans. A certificate of a Lender or LC Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to
compensate such Lender or LC Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in
Sections 3.02(a) or 3.02(b) and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest
error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or LC Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as
due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests. Promptly after any Lender or LC Issuer has determined that it
will make a request for increased compensation pursuant to this Section 3.02,
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such Lender or LC Issuer shall notify the Borrower thereof. Failure or delay on the part of
any Lender or any LC Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a
waiver of such Lender’s or LC Issuer’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the
Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or LC Issuer pursuant to this Section for any
increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine (9) months prior to the date that
such Lender or LC Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving
rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or LC Issuer’s intention to claim
compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or
reductions is retroactive, then the nine (9) month period referred to above shall be extended to
include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
Section 3.03 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation
of any Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and
without reduction or withholding for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if any
Borrower shall be required by applicable Law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other
Taxes) from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after
making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under
this Section) the Global Agent, any Lender or any LC Issuer, as the case may be, receives an amount
equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the applicable
Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the applicable Borrower shall timely pay the full
amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrowers. Without limiting the provisions of
Section 3.03(a) above, the Borrowers shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable Law.
(c) Indemnification by the Borrowers. The Borrowers shall indemnify the Global Agent,
each Lender and each LC Issuer, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of
any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or
asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) paid by the Global Agent, such
Lender or such LC Issuer, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses
arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes
were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A
certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or
LC Issuer (with a copy to the Global Agent), or by the Global Agent on its own behalf or on behalf
of a Lender or LC Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified
Taxes or Other Taxes by any Borrower to a Governmental Authority, such Borrower shall deliver to
the Global Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental
Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of
such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Global Agent.
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(e) Status of Lenders. Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or
reduction of withholding tax under the Law of the jurisdiction in which any Borrower is resident
for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the applicable Borrower (with a copy to
the Global Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the
applicable Borrower or the Global Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation
prescribed by applicable Law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a
reduced rate of withholding. Notwithstanding the submission of such documentation claiming a
reduced rate of or exemption from U.S. withholding tax, the Global Agent shall be entitled to
withhold United States federal income taxes at the full 30% withholding rate if in its reasonable
judgment it is required to do so under the due diligence requirements imposed upon a withholding
agent under § 1.1441-7(b) of the United States Income Tax Regulations. Further, the Global Agent
is indemnified under § 1.1461-1(e) of the United States Income Tax Regulations against any claims
and demands of any Lender or assignee or participant of a Lender for the amount of any tax it
deducts and withholds in accordance with regulations under § 1441 of the Internal Revenue Code. In
addition, any Lender, if requested by the Borrower or the Global Agent, shall deliver such other
documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Global
Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Global Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is
subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Borrower is resident
for tax purposes in the United States of America, any Foreign Lender shall deliver to such Borrower
and the Global Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior
to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to
time thereafter upon the request of such Borrower or the Global Agent, but only if such Foreign
Lender is legally entitled to do so), whichever of the following is applicable:
(i) two (2) duly completed valid originals of IRS Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for
benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States of America is a party,
(ii) two (2) duly completed valid originals of IRS Form W-8ECI,
(iii) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio
interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that such Foreign Lender
is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent
shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a
“controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) two duly
completed valid originals of IRS Form W-8BEN,
(iv) any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a
reduction in United States Federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary
documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit the Borrower to determine the
withholding or deduction required to be made (an “Exemption Certificate”), or
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(v) to the extent that any Lender is not a Foreign Lender, such Lender shall submit to the
Global Agent two (2) originals of an IRS Form W-9 or any other form prescribed by applicable Law
demonstrating that such Lender is not a Foreign Lender.
(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If the Global Agent, any Lender or any LC Issuer
determines, in good faith and in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any taxes in
respect of or calculated with reference to Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been
indemnified by any Borrower or with respect to which any Borrower has paid additional amounts
pursuant to this Section 3.03, it shall pay over such refund to such Borrower (but only to the
extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by such Borrower under this Section
3.03 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all
out-of-pocket expenses of the Global Agent, such Lender or such LC Issuer (including any Taxes
imposed with respect to such refund) as is determined by the Global Agent, any Lender or any LC
Issuer in good faith and in its sole discretion, and without interest (other than any interest paid
by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the applicable
Borrower, upon the request of the Global Agent, such Lender or the LC Issuer, agrees to repay as
soon as reasonably practicable the amount paid over to such Borrower (plus any penalties, interest
or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Global Agent, such Lender
or such LC Issuer in the event the Global Agent, such Lender or such LC Issuer is required to repay
such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require the
Global Agent, any Lender or any LC Issuer to make available its tax returns (or any other
information relating to its Taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrowers or any other
Person.
Section 3.04 Indemnity.
In addition to the compensation or payments required by Section 3.02 or Section 3.03, the
Borrowers shall indemnify each Lender against all liabilities, losses or expenses (including loss
of anticipated profits, any foreign exchange losses and any loss or expense arising from the
liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, from fees payable to
terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained or from the performance of any foreign
exchange contract) which such Lender sustains or incurs as a consequence of any:
(a) payment, prepayment, conversion or renewal of any Fixed Rate Loan on a day other than the
last day of the corresponding Interest Period (whether or not such payment or prepayment is
mandatory, voluntary or automatic and whether or not such payment or prepayment is then due),
(b) attempt by any Borrower to revoke (expressly, by later inconsistent notices or otherwise)
in whole or part any loan requests or notices of Conversion or Continuation under this Agreement
including Sections 2.6, 2.8, or 2.13, notices relating to termination of the Commitments under this
Agreement including Section 2.15(b), or notices relating to prepayments under this Agreement
including Section 2.16, or
(c) default by any Borrower in the performance or observance of any covenant or condition
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including any
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failure of any Borrower to pay when due (by acceleration or otherwise) any principal,
interest, Commitment Fee or any other amount due hereunder.
If any Lender sustains or incurs any such loss or expense, it shall from time to time notify
the applicable Borrower of the amount determined in good faith by such Lender (which determination
may include such assumptions, allocations of costs and expenses and averaging or attribution
methods as such Lender shall deem reasonable) to be necessary to indemnify such Lender for such
loss or expense. Such notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for such
determination. Such amount shall be due and payable by the applicable Borrower to such Lender ten
(10) Business Days after such notice is given.
Section 3.05 Mitigation Obligations.
If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.02, or if the Borrower is required to pay
any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender
pursuant to Section 3.03, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different
lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations
hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, if, in the reasonable judgment of such
Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to
Section 3.02 or 3.03, as applicable, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any
unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender in any
respect. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any
Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
ARTICLE IV — CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 4.01 Conditions Precedent at Closing Date.
The obligation of the Lenders to make Loans, and of any LC Issuer to issue Letters of Credit,
is subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions on or prior to the Closing Date:
(i)
Credit Agreement. This Agreement shall have been executed by the Company, the
Global Agent, each LC Issuer and each of the Lenders.
(ii) Notes. The Company shall have executed and delivered to the Global Agent a Swing
Line Note for the Swing Line Lender and a Revolving Facility Note for the account of each Lender
that has requested such a Note.
(iii) Subsidiary Guaranty. The Subsidiary Guarantors shall have duly executed and
delivered the Guaranty of Payment (as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time in
accordance with the terms thereof and hereof, the “Subsidiary Guaranty”), substantially in
the form of Exhibit C-1.
(iv) Security Agreement, Collateral Assignments and Control Agreements. The Company
and each Subsidiary Guarantor shall have duly executed and delivered the Pledge and Security
Agreement (as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms
thereof and hereof, the “Security Agreement”), substantially
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in the form of Exhibit C-2, and shall have executed and delivered the Collateral
Assignment Agreements required pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreement. In addition, the
Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered, Control Agreements required pursuant to the terms
of the Security Agreement, duly executed by the appropriate depositary institution, securities
intermediary or issuer as the case may be, for each of the accounts set forth on Schedule
4.01(iv).
(v) Fees. The Company shall have (A) paid all fees payable pursuant to the Fee Letter
that are required to be paid by the Company on the Closing Date, and (B) paid or caused to be paid
all reasonable fees and expenses of the Global Agent and the Collateral Agent and of special
counsel to the Global Agent and the Collateral Agent that have been invoiced on or prior to the
Closing Date in connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(vi) Corporate Resolutions and Approvals. The Global Agent shall have received
certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company and each Subsidiary
Guarantor, approving the Loan Documents to which the Company or any such Subsidiary Guarantor, as
the case may be, is or may become a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary
corporate action and governmental approvals, if any, with respect to the execution, delivery and
performance by the Company or any such Subsidiary Guarantor of the Loan Documents to which it is or
may become a party.
(vii) Incumbency Certificates. The Global Agent shall have received a certificate of
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and of each Subsidiary Guarantor, certifying
the names and true signatures of the officers of the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as the
case may be, authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which the Company or such Subsidiary
Guarantor is a party and any other documents to which the Company or any such other Subsidiary
Guarantor is a party that may be executed and delivered in connection herewith.
(viii) Opinions of Counsel. The Global Agent shall have received such opinions of
counsel from counsel to the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors as the Global Agent shall
request, each of which shall be addressed to the Global Agent and each of the Lenders and dated the
Closing Date and in form and substance satisfactory to the Global Agent.
(ix) Recordation of Security Documents, Delivery of Collateral, Taxes, etc.
The Security Documents (or proper notices or UCC financing statements in respect thereof) shall
have been duly recorded, published and filed in such manner and in such places as is required by
law to establish, perfect, preserve and protect the rights and security interests of the parties
thereto and their respective successors and assigns, all collateral items required to be physically
delivered to the Collateral Agent thereunder shall have been so delivered, accompanied by any
appropriate instruments of transfer, and all taxes, fees and other charges then due and payable in
connection with the execution, delivery, recording, publishing and filing of such instruments and
the issue and delivery of the Notes shall have been paid in full.
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(x) Evidence of Insurance. The Global Agent shall have received certificates of
insurance and other evidence, satisfactory to it, of compliance with the insurance requirements of
this Agreement and the Security Documents.
(xi) Search Reports. The Global Agent shall have received the results of UCC and
other search reports from one or more commercial search firms acceptable to the Global Agent,
listing all of the effective financing statements filed against any Credit Party, together with
copies of such financing statements.
(xii) Corporate Charter, Other Organizational Documents and Good Standing
Certificates. The Global Agent shall have received: (A) an original certified copy of the
Certificate or Articles of Incorporation or equivalent formation document of each Credit Party and
any and all amendments and restatements thereof, certified as of a recent date by the relevant
Secretary of State and a copy of any Bylaws or equivalent organizational document of each Credit
Party and any and all amendments and restatements thereof, certified by the Secretary or Assistant
Secretary (or any other officer) of each Credit Party as being complete as of the Closing Date; and
(B) an original good standing certificate from the Secretary of State of the state of
incorporation, dated as of a recent date, listing all charter documents affecting such Credit Party
and certifying as to the good standing of such Credit Party.
(xiii) Closing Certificate. The Global Agent shall have received a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit F, dated the Closing Date, of a responsible financial
or accounting officer of the Company to the effect that, at and as of the Closing Date and both
before and after giving effect to the initial Borrowings hereunder and the application of the
proceeds thereof: (A) no Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing; and (B) all
representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein or in the other Loan
Documents are true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date.
(xiv) Proceedings and Documents. All corporate and other proceedings and all
documents incidental to the transactions contemplated hereby shall be satisfactory in substance and
form to the Global Agent and the Lenders and the Global Agent and its special counsel and the
Lenders shall have received all such counterpart originals or certified or other copies of such
documents as the Global Agent or its special counsel or any Lender may reasonably request.
(xv) No Material Adverse Effect. There shall not have occurred any event or condition
since February 28, 2010 that, in the opinion of the Lenders, has had or could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(xvi) No Litigation. There shall not exist any action, suit, investigation or
proceeding pending or threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority
that purports to materially and adversely affect any transaction contemplated hereby or the ability
of any Borrower or any other obligor to perform their respective obligations under the Loan
Documents.
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(xvii) Due Diligence. The Global Agent shall have completed, in form and scope
satisfactory to the Global Agent and the Lenders, the business, legal, accounting and financial due
diligence on the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(xviii) Regulatory Approvals and Consents. All material authorizations, consents,
approvals, licenses, qualifications or formal exemptions, filings, declarations and registrations
with, any court, Governmental Authority or regulatory authority or any securities exchange or any
other person or party (whether or not governmental) required in connection with transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents have been made or obtained.
(xix) Indentures and Receivables Purchase Agreement. The Company shall have delivered
to the Global Agent, fully executed copies of the Senior Indenture (1998), the Senior Indenture
(2006), the Subordinated Indenture and the Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement
(referred to in the definition of Receivables Facility Documents) (in each case, together with any
and all amendments, supplements and/or other modifications thereto), certified by an Authorized
Officer of the Company as being final and complete copies as of the Closing Date.
(xx) Existing Indebtedness. After giving effect to the transactions contemplated
herein, the Term Loans (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) shall have been paid in full
and the Company and its Subsidiaries shall have outstanding no Indebtedness other than (A) the
Loans and (B) Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.04.
(xxi) Landlord’s Agreements. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
deliver or cause to be delivered Landlord’s Agreements, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Global Agent, duly executed by the applicable landlords of the Real Property
set forth on Schedule 4.01(xxi).
(xxii) Miscellaneous. The Credit Parties shall have provided to the Global Agent and
the Lenders such other items and shall have satisfied such other conditions as may be reasonably
required by the Global Agent or the Lenders.
Each Lender agrees that unless the Global Agent has notified the Lenders that any of the
conditions precedent set forth in this Section 4.01 have not been satisfied, such conditions
precedent shall be deemed to have been satisfied upon the Global Agent’s determination that such
conditions precedent have been satisfied.
Section 4.02 Conditions Precedent to Addition of Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers.
The obligation of the Lenders to make Loans, and of any LC Issuer to issue Letters of Credit,
to any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower that becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 2.19,
is subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions at least 10 days prior to the
date on which any such Loan is made to, or Letter of Credit is issued for the account of, such
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower:
(i) Joinder Agreement. Such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall have executed and
delivered to the Global Agent a Joinder Agreement (as modified, amended or
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supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof, a “Joinder
Agreement”), substantially in the form of Exhibit D, pursuant to which such Foreign
Subsidiary Borrower shall have become a party to this Agreement.
(ii) Notes. Such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall have executed and delivered to the
Global Agent a Revolving Facility Note or a Canadian Sub-Facility Note, as the case may be, for the
account of each Lender that has requested a Note.
(iii) Corporate Resolutions and Approvals. The Global Agent shall have received
certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors or equivalent governing body of such
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, approving the Loan Documents to which such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower
is or may become a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and
governmental approvals, if any, with respect to the execution, delivery and performance by such
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower of the Loan Documents to which it is or may become a party.
(iv) Incumbency Certificates. The Global Agent shall have received a certificate of
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or equivalent officers) of such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower, certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such Foreign Subsidiary
Borrower authorized to sign the Loan Documents to such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is a party and
any other documents to which such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower is a party that may be executed and
delivered in connection herewith.
(v) Opinions of Counsel. The Global Agent shall have received such opinions of
counsel from counsel to such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower as the Global Agent shall request, each of
which shall be addressed to the Global Agent and each of the Lenders and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Global Agent.
(vi) Organizational Documents. The Global Agent shall have received an original
certified copy of the Organizational Documents of such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, certified by an
officer of such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower as being true and correct and in full force and effect.
(vii) Amendments to Loan Documents. The Global Agent shall have received such
amendments or other modifications to the Loan Documents, fully executed by the appropriate parties
thereto, that the Global Agent deems necessary or appropriate in connection with the addition of
such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower.
(viii) Proceedings and Documents. All corporate and other proceedings with respect to
the addition of such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower and all documents incidental thereto shall be
satisfactory in substance and form to the Global Agent and the Lenders and the Global Agent and its
special counsel and the Lenders shall have received all such counterpart originals or certified or
other copies of such documents as the Global Agent or its special counsel or any Lender may
reasonably request.
(ix) Miscellaneous. The Company and such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall have
provided to the Global Agent and the Lenders such other items and shall
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have satisfied such other conditions as may be reasonably required by the Global Agent or the
Lenders.
Section 4.03 Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events.
The obligations of the Lenders to make or participate in each Credit Event is subject, at the
time thereof, to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) Notice. The Global Agent shall have received, as applicable, (i) a Notice of
Borrowing meeting the requirements of Section 2.08(b), with respect to any Borrowing, (ii) a Notice
of Continuation or Conversion meeting the requirements of Section 2.13(c) with respect to a
Continuation or Conversion, or (iii) a Revolving Facility LC Request meeting the requirement of
Section 2.06(b) with respect to Revolving Facility LC Issuances or a Canadian Facility LC Request
meeting the requirements of Section 2.07(b) with respect to Canadian LC Issuances, as the case may
be.
(b) No Default; Representations and Warranties. At the time of each Credit Event and
also after giving effect thereto, (i) there shall exist no Default or Event of Default and (ii) all
representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein or in the other Loan
Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such
representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of such Credit Event, except to
the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier specified date,
in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material
respects as of the date when made.
The acceptance of the benefits of each Credit Event shall constitute a representation and
warranty by the applicable Borrower to each of the Lenders that all of the applicable conditions
specified in Section 4.01, Section 4.03 and, if applicable, Section 4.02 have been satisfied as of
the times referred to in such Sections.
Section 4.04 Post-Closing Covenants.
The Company shall:
(i) deliver or cause to be delivered on or before the 180th day after the Closing Date (which
period may be extended by the Global Agent in its reasonable discretion), Control Agreements
required pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreement, duly executed by the appropriate
depositary institution, securities intermediary or issuer as the case may be, for each of the
accounts set forth on Schedule 4.04(i).
(ii) use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver or cause to be delivered on or before the
180th day after the Closing Date (which period may be extended by the Global Agent in its
reasonable discretion), Landlord’s Agreements, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Global Agent, duly executed by the applicable landlords of the Real Property set forth on Schedule
4.04(ii).
(iii) deliver or cause to be delivered on or before the 30th day after the Closing Date(which
period may be extended by the Global Agent in its reasonable discretion),
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Collateral Assignment Agreements for the Credit Parties not parties to the Existing Credit
Agreement and amendments to Collateral Assignment Agreements delivered in connection with the
Existing Credit Agreement adding Intellectual Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) now
owned by the applicable Credit Party but not currently identified in the applicable Collateral
Assignment Agreement.
(iv) deliver or cause to be delivered on or before the 30th day after the Closing Date(which
period may be extended by the Global Agent in its reasonable discretion), updated stock powers duly
executed in blank and undated with respect to Collateral consisting of stock certificates.
ARTICLE V — REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
In order to induce the Global Agent, the Lenders and each LC Issuer to enter into this
Agreement and to make the Loans and to issue and to participate in the Letters of Credit provided
for herein, the Company and, if applicable, each Foreign Subsidiary Borrower (as to itself only)
makes the following representations and warranties to, and agreements with, the Global Agent, the
Lenders and each LC Issuer, all of which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement
and each Credit Event:
Section 5.01 Corporate Status, etc.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) is a duly organized or formed and validly
existing corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as the case may be, in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation (except where failure to be in good
standing would not have a Material Adverse Effect) and has the corporate, partnership or limited
liability company power and authority, as applicable, to own its property and assets and to
transact the business in which it is engaged and presently proposes to engage, and (ii) has duly
qualified and is authorized to do business in all jurisdictions where it is required to be so
qualified or authorized except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. Schedule 5.01 lists, as of the Closing Date, each Subsidiary of the
Company (and the direct and indirect ownership interest of the Company therein).
Section 5.02 Corporate Power and Authority, etc.
Each Credit Party has the corporate or other organizational power and authority to execute,
deliver and carry out the terms and provisions of the Loan Documents to which it is party and has
taken all necessary corporate or other organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery
and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is party. Each Credit Party has duly executed
and delivered each Loan Document to which it is party and each Loan Document to which it is party
constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement and obligation of such Credit Party enforceable
in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may be limited
by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws generally
affecting creditors’ rights and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is
sought in equity or at law).
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Section 5.03 No Violation.
Neither the execution, delivery and performance by any Credit Party of the Loan Documents to
which it is party nor compliance with the terms and provisions thereof (i) will contravene any
provision of any law, statute, rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction or decree of any
Governmental Authority applicable to such Credit Party or its properties and assets, (ii) will
conflict with or result in any breach of, any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of,
or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to
create or impose) any Lien (other than the Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents) upon
any of the property or assets of such Credit Party pursuant to the terms of any promissory note,
bond, debenture, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, credit or loan agreement, or any other
agreement or other instrument, to which such Credit Party is a party or by which it or any of its
property or assets are bound or to which it may be subject, or (iii) will violate any provision of
the Organizational Documents of such Credit Party.
Section 5.04 Governmental Approvals.
No order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing, recording or
registration with, or exemption by, any Governmental Authority is required to authorize or is
required as a condition to (i) the execution, delivery and performance by any Credit Party of any
Loan Document to which it is a party or any of its obligations thereunder, or (ii) the legality,
validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Loan Document to which any Credit Party is a
party, except the filing and recording of financing statements and other documents necessary in
order to perfect the Liens created by the Security Documents and those consents and approvals that
will have been obtained at the time any Subsidiary becomes a Borrower hereunder.
Section 5.05 Litigation.
There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of any Borrower,
threatened with respect to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (i) that have had, or could
reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) that question the validity or
enforceability of any of the Loan Documents, or of any action to be taken by the Company or any of
the other Credit Parties pursuant to any of the Loan Documents.
Section 5.06 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations.
(a) The proceeds of all Loans and LC Issuances shall be utilized to refinance the Existing
Credit Agreement and to provide working capital and funds for general corporate purposes (including
without limitation for Permitted Acquisitions, Share Repurchases and the World Headquarters
Initiative) and capital expenditures, in each case, not inconsistent with the terms of this
Agreement.
(b) No part of the proceeds of any Credit Event will be used directly or indirectly to
purchase or carry Margin Stock, or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying any Margin Stock, in violation of any of the provisions of Regulations T, U or X of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. No Borrower is engaged in the business of
extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock. At no time would more
than 25% of the value of the assets of the Company or of the Company and
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its consolidated Subsidiaries that are subject to any “arrangement” (as such term is used in
Section 221.2(g) of such Regulation U) hereunder be represented by Margin Stock.
Section 5.07 Financial Statements, etc.
(a) The Company has furnished to the Global Agent and the Lenders complete and correct copies
of the audited consolidated statements of financial position (balance sheets) of the Company and
its consolidated Subsidiaries as of February 28, 2010 and the related audited consolidated
statements of operation (income statements), shareholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company
and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the fiscal year of the Company then ended, accompanied by the
report thereon of Ernst & Young LLP, as included in the Company’s Report on Form 10-K filed with
the SEC. All such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently
applied (except as stated therein), and fairly present the financial position of the Company and
its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the respective dates indicated and the consolidated results of
their operations and cash flows for the respective periods indicated. The Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries did not have, as of the date of the latest financial statements referred
to above, and will not have as of the Closing Date after giving effect to the incurrence of Loans
or LC Issuances hereunder, any material or significant contingent liability or liability for taxes,
long-term lease or unusual forward or long-term commitment that is not reflected in the foregoing
financial statements or the notes thereto in accordance with GAAP and that in any such case is
material in relation to the business, operations, properties, assets, financial or other condition
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(b) The financial projections of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal years 2011
through 2015 prepared by the Company and delivered to the Global Agent and the Lenders (the
“Financial Projections”) were prepared on behalf of the Company in good faith after taking
into account historical levels of business activity of the Company and its Subsidiaries, known
trends, including general economic trends, and all other information, assumptions and estimates
considered by management of the Company and its Subsidiaries to be pertinent thereto; provided,
however, that no representation or warranty is made as to the impact of future general economic
conditions or as to whether the Company’s projected consolidated results as set forth in the
Financial Projections will actually be realized, it being recognized by the Lenders that such
projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results for the
periods covered by the Financial Projections may differ materially from the Financial Projections.
No facts are known to the Company as of the Closing Date which are not reflected in the Financial
Projections and if reflected in the Financial Projections would result in a material adverse change
in the assets, liabilities, results of operations or cash flows reflected therein.
Section 5.08 Solvency.
Each Borrower has received consideration that is the reasonable equivalent value of the
obligations and liabilities that such Borrower has incurred to the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and
the Lenders under the Loan Documents. Each Borrower now has capital sufficient to carry on its
business and transactions and all business and transactions in which it is about to engage and is
now solvent and able to pay its debts as they mature and such Borrower, as of the Closing
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Date or as of the date such Borrower became a “Borrower” hereunder, owns property having a
value, both at fair valuation and at present fair salable value, greater than the amount required
to pay such Borrower’s debts; and no Borrower is entering into the Loan Documents with the intent
to hinder, delay or defraud its creditors. For purposes of this Section, “debt” means any
liability on a claim, and “claim” means (x) right to payment whether or not such a right is reduced
to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed,
legal, equitable, secured or unsecured; or (y) right to an equitable remedy for breach of
performance if such breach gives rise to a payment, whether or not such right to an equitable
remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured
or unsecured.
Section 5.09 No Material Adverse Change.
Since February 28, 2010, there has been no change in the condition, business or affairs of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or their properties and assets considered as an
entirety, except for changes none of which, individually or in the aggregate, has had or could
reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.10 Tax Returns and Payments.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has filed all federal income tax returns and all
other material tax returns, domestic and foreign, required to be filed by it and has paid all
material taxes and assessments payable by it that have become due, other than those not yet
delinquent and except for those contested in good faith. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries
have established on their books such charges, accruals and reserves in respect of taxes,
assessments, fees and other governmental charges for all fiscal periods as are required by GAAP.
No Borrower knows of any proposed assessment for additional federal, foreign or state taxes for any
period, or of any basis therefor, which, individually or in the aggregate, taking into account such
charges, accruals and reserves in respect thereof as the Company and its Subsidiaries have made,
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.11 Title to Properties, etc.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good and marketable title, in the case of Real
Property, and good title (or valid Leaseholds, in the case of any leased property, or valid
licenses, in the case of any licensed property), in the case of all other property, to all of its
properties and assets free and clear of Liens other than Permitted Liens. The interests of the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries in the properties reflected in the most recent balance sheet
referred to in Section 5.07(a), taken as a whole, were sufficient, in the judgment of each
Borrower, as of the date of such balance sheet for purposes of the ownership and operation of the
businesses conducted by the Borrowers and such Subsidiaries.
Section 5.12 Lawful Operations, etc.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries: (i) hold all necessary foreign, federal, state,
local and other governmental licenses, registrations, certifications, permits and authorizations
necessary to conduct their business; and (ii) are in full compliance with all material requirements
imposed by law, regulation or rule, whether foreign, federal, state or local, that are applicable
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it, its operations, or their properties and assets, including without limitation, applicable
requirements of Environmental Laws, except in each case for any failure to hold such governmental
licenses, registrations, certifications, permits and/or authorizations, or noncompliance with any
such law, regulation or rule, that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.13 Environmental Matters.
(a) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable
Environmental Laws, except to the extent that any such failure to comply (together with any
resulting penalties, fines or forfeitures) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. All licenses, permits, registrations or approvals required for the conduct of the
business of the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries under any Environmental Law have been
secured and the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries are in substantial compliance therewith,
except for such licenses, permits, registrations or approvals the failure to secure or to comply
therewith is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries has received written notice, or otherwise knows, that it is in any respect in
noncompliance with, breach of or default under any applicable writ, order, judgment, injunction, or
decree to which the Company or such Subsidiary is a party or that would affect the ability of the
Company or such Subsidiary to operate any Real Property and no event has occurred and is continuing
that, with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, would constitute noncompliance,
breach of or default thereunder, except in each such case, such noncompliance, breaches or defaults
as would not reasonably be expected to, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There
are no Environmental Claims pending or, to the best knowledge of any Borrower, threatened wherein
an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. There are no facts, circumstances, conditions or occurrences on any Real Property now or
at any time owned, leased or operated by the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or on any
property adjacent to any such Real Property, that are known by any such Borrower or as to which any
Borrower or any such Subsidiary has received written notice, that could reasonably be expected: (i)
to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any
Real Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (ii) to cause such Real Property to be
subject to any restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, use or transferability of such Real
Property under any Environmental Law, except in each such case, such Environmental Claims or
restrictions that individually or in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Hazardous Materials have not at any time been (i) generated, used, treated or stored on,
or transported to or from, any Real Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii)
released on any such Real Property, in each case where such occurrence or event is not in
compliance with Environmental Laws and is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.14 Compliance with ERISA.
Compliance by the Borrowers with the provisions hereof and Credit Events contemplated hereby
will not involve any prohibited transaction within the meaning of ERISA or Section 4975
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of the Code which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries, (i) have fulfilled all obligations under minimum funding
standards of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan that is not a Multiemployer Plan or a
Multiple Employer Plan, (ii) have satisfied all respective contribution obligations in respect of
each Multiemployer Plan and each Multiple Employer Plan, (iii) are in compliance in all material
respects with all other applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan, each
Multiemployer Plan and each Multiple Employer Plan, and (iv) have not incurred any liability
(contingent or otherwise) under Title IV of ERISA to the PBGC (or otherwise) with respect to any
Plan, any Multiemployer Plan, any Multiple Employer Plan, or any trust established thereunder,
except, in each case under clauses (i) through (iv) above, where the failure to do so could
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. No
Plan or trust created thereunder has been terminated, and there have been no Reportable Events,
with respect to any Plan or trust created thereunder or with respect to any Multiemployer Plan or
Multiple Employer Plan, which termination or Reportable Event will or could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate is at the date
hereof, or has been at any time within the two years preceding the date hereof, an employer
required to contribute to a Multiple Employer Plan, or a “contributing sponsor” (as such term is
defined in Section 4001 of ERISA) in Multiple Employer Plan. Neither the Company nor any ERISA
Affiliate has any contingent liability with respect to any post-retirement “welfare benefit plan”
(as such term is defined in ERISA) except as has been disclosed to the Global Agent and the Lenders
in writing.
Section 5.15 Investment Company Act, etc.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to regulation with respect to the
creation or incurrence of Indebtedness under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the
Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, the Federal Power Act, as amended, or any applicable state
public utility law.
Section 5.16 Insurance.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintains insurance coverage by such insurers and in
such forms and amounts and against such risks as are generally consistent with industry standards
and in each case in compliance with the terms of Section 6.03.
Section 5.17 Burdensome Contracts; Labor Relations.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) is subject to any burdensome contract,
agreement, corporate restriction, judgment, decree or order, (ii) is a party to any labor dispute
affecting any bargaining unit or other group of employees generally, (iii) is subject to any
material strike, slow down, workout or other concerted interruptions of operations by employees of
the Company or any Subsidiary, whether or not relating to any labor contracts, (iv) is subject to
any significant pending or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened, unfair labor practice
complaint, before the National Labor Relations Board, (v) is subject to any significant pending or,
to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened, grievance or significant arbitration proceeding
arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement, (vi) is subject to any significant
pending or, to the knowledge of any Borrower, threatened, significant strike, labor
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dispute, slowdown or stoppage, or (vii) is, to the knowledge of any Borrower, involved or
subject to any union representation organizing or certification matter with respect to the
employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except (with respect to any matter specified
in any of the above clauses), for such matters as, individually or in the aggregate, could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.18 Security Interests.
Once executed and delivered, and until the Collateral Release Date or otherwise terminated in
accordance with the terms thereof, each of the Security Documents creates, as security for the
Obligations (as defined in the Security Agreement), a valid and enforceable, and upon making the
filings and recordings referenced in the next sentence, perfected security interest in and Lien on
all of the Collateral subject thereto from time to time, in favor of the Collateral Agent for the
benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined in the Security Agreement), superior to and prior to the
rights of all third persons and subject to no other Liens, except that the Collateral under the
Security Documents may be subject to Permitted Liens. No filings or recordings are required in
order to perfect the security interests created under any Security Document except for filings or
recordings required in connection with (a) any such Security Document that shall have been made, or
for which satisfactory arrangements have been made, upon or prior to the execution and delivery
thereof, (b) any assets of Xxxx Xxxxx (Australia) Ltd. or Xxxx Xxxxx (N.Z.) Ltd. located in
Australia or New Zealand, as applicable, and (c) any assets located at offices in Hong Kong,
Mexico, the People’s Republic of China and such other foreign jurisdictions as are reasonably
acceptable to the Global Agent. All recording, stamp, intangible or other similar taxes required
to be paid by any Person under applicable legal requirements or other laws applicable to the
property encumbered by the Security Documents in connection with the execution, delivery,
recordation, filing, registration, perfection or enforcement thereof have been paid.
Section 5.19 True and Complete Disclosure.
All factual information (taken as a whole) heretofore or contemporaneously furnished by or on
behalf of any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries in writing to the Global Agent, the Collateral
Agent or any Lender for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction
contemplated herein, other than the Financial Projections (as to which representations are made
only as provided in Section 5.07(b)), is, and all other such factual information (taken as a whole)
hereafter furnished by or on behalf of such Person in writing to the Global Agent, the Collateral
Agent or any Lender will be, true and accurate in all material respects on the date as of which
such information is dated or certified and not incomplete by omitting to state any material fact
necessary to make such information (taken as a whole) not misleading at such time in light of the
circumstances under which such information was provided, except that any such future information
consisting of financial projections prepared by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is only
represented herein as being based on good faith estimates and assumptions believed by such persons
to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such projections as to
future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods
covered by any such projections may differ materially from the projected results.
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Section 5.20 Certain Indentures.
No Event of Default (as defined in each of the Senior Indenture (2006) and the Subordinated
Indenture) or event or condition that, with the passage of time or giving of notice or both, would
constitute an Event of Default (as defined in each of the Senior Indenture (2006) and the
Subordinated Indenture), exists under any of the Senior Indenture (2006) and Subordinated
Indenture), nor will any such Event of Default or event or condition that, with the passage of time
or giving of notice or both, would constitute such an Event of Default, exist under any of Senior
Indenture (2006) and the Subordinated Indenture immediately after the occurrence of any Credit
Event.
Section 5.21 Defaults.
No Default or Event of Default exists as of the Closing Date hereunder, nor will any Default
or Event of Default begin to exist immediately after the execution and delivery hereof.
Section 5.22 Anti-Terrorism Law Compliance.
Neither the Company, any other Credit Party, nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to or in
violation of any law, regulation, or list of any government agency (including, without limitation,
the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control list, Executive Order No. 13224 or the USA Patriot Act)
that prohibits or limits the conduct of business with or the receiving of funds, goods or services
to or for the benefit of certain Persons specified therein or that prohibits or limits any Lender
or LC Issuer from making any advance or extension of credit to any Borrower or from otherwise
conducting business with any Borrower.
ARTICLE VI — AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Each Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that on the Closing Date and thereafter so long as
this Agreement is in effect and until such time as the Commitments have been terminated, no Notes
remain outstanding and the Loans, together with interest, Fees and all other Obligations incurred
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, have been paid in full:
Section 6.01 Reporting Requirements.
The Borrowers will furnish to the Global Agent:
(a) Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event within 100
days after the close of each fiscal year of the Company, the consolidated statement of financial
position (balance sheet) of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such
fiscal year and the related consolidated statement of operations (income statement), of
stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for such fiscal year, in each case setting forth comparative
figures for the preceding fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and accompanied by the opinion with
respect to such consolidated financial statements of independent public accountants of recognized
national standing selected by the Company, which opinion shall be unqualified and shall (i) state
that such accountants audited such consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally
accepted auditing standards, that such accountants believe that such audit provides a reasonable
basis for their opinion, and that in their opinion such consolidated financial
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statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of
the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year and the
consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for such fiscal year in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles, or (ii) contain such statements as are customarily
included in unqualified reports of independent accountants in conformity with the recommendations
and requirements of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (or any successor
organization).
(b) Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event within 60
days after the close of each of the quarterly accounting periods in each fiscal year of the
Company, the unaudited consolidated statement of financial position of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarterly period and the related unaudited
consolidated statements of operations and of cash flows for such quarterly period and/or for the
fiscal year to date, and setting forth, in the case of such unaudited consolidated statements of
income and of cash flows, comparative figures for the related periods in the prior fiscal year, and
which shall be certified on behalf of the Company by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer,
Assistant Treasurer or Controller of the Company, subject to changes resulting from normal year-end
audit adjustments.
(c) Officer’s Compliance Certificates. By no later than 100 days after the close of
each fiscal year of the Company and no later than 60 days after the close of each of the first
three quarterly accounting periods in each fiscal year of the Company, a certificate (a
“Compliance Certificate”), substantially in the form of Exhibit E, signed by the
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer or Controller of the Company to the effect
that, to the best knowledge of the Company, no Default or Event of Default exists or, if any
Default or Event of Default does exist, specifying the nature and extent thereof and the actions
the Borrowers have taken or propose to take with respect thereto, which certificate shall set forth
the calculations required to establish compliance with the provisions of Section 7.07, Section
7.12, Section 7.05(d) and (q), and Section 7.06(c), (d) and (e).
(d) Forecasts. Not later than 100 days after the commencement of any fiscal year of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, an update of the Company’s annual forecast for such fiscal year
and the subsequent two years in reasonable detail.
(e) Notices. Promptly, and in any event within three Business Days, after the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of:
(i) the occurrence of any event that constitutes a Default or Event of Default, which notice
shall specify the nature thereof, the period of existence thereof and what action the Borrowers
have taken or propose to take with respect thereto, and
(ii) the commencement of, or any other material development concerning, any litigation or
governmental or regulatory proceeding pending against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, if
the same would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(f) ERISA. Promptly, and in any event within 10 days after the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate knows of the occurrence of any of the events described in clauses (i) through (viii)
below (but only if and to the extent that any such event individually, or when considered together
with all other such events that have then occurred, would be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect), the Company will notify the Global Agent thereof and, if requested by the Global
Agent, deliver to the Global Agent such details and information as to such occurrence (which may
include copies of any notices required or proposed to be given by the Company or the ERISA
Affiliate to, or filed with, the PBGC, a Plan participant or the Plan administrator with respect
thereto, and the action, if any, that the Company or such ERISA Affiliate is required or proposes
to take:
(i) that a Reportable Event has occurred with respect to any Plan;
(ii) the institution of any steps by the Company, any ERISA Affiliate, the PBGC or any other
Person to terminate any Plan;
(iii) the institution of any steps by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate to withdraw from any
Plan;
(iv) the institution of any steps by the Company or any Subsidiary to withdraw from any
Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan;
(v) a non-exempt “prohibited transaction” within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA in
connection with any Plan;
(vi) that a Plan has an Unfunded Plan Status;
(vii) any material increase in the contingent liability of the Company or any Subsidiary with
respect to any post-retirement welfare liability; or
(viii) the taking of any action by, or the threatening of the taking of any action by, the
Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or the PBGC with respect to any of the foregoing.
(g) Environmental Matters. Promptly upon, and in any event within 10 Business Days
after, an officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries obtains knowledge thereof, notice of
one or more of the following environmental matters to the extent any of the following could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) any pending or threatened
Environmental Claim against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property owned or
operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) any condition or occurrence on or arising
from any Real Property owned or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that (A) results
in noncompliance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any applicable Environmental Law or
(B) would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or any such Real Property; (iii) any condition or occurrence on any Real
Property owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably
be expected to cause such Real Property to be subject to any restrictions on the ownership,
occupancy, use or transferability by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of such Real Property
under any Environmental Law; and
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(iv) the taking of any removal or remedial action in response to the actual or alleged
presence of any Hazardous Material on any Real Property owned, leased or operated by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries as required by any Environmental Law or any governmental or other global
agency. All such notices shall describe in reasonable detail the nature of the Environmental
Claim, the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s response thereto and the potential exposure in dollars of
the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect thereto.
(h) SEC Reports and Registration Statements. Promptly after filing with the SEC,
copies of all annual, quarterly or current reports that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
files with the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q or 8-K (or any successor forms), provided that the
notification by the Company of the electronic filing of any of the foregoing reports with the SEC
shall satisfy the requirements of this clause (h) (without, however, affecting the Company’s
obligations under Sections 6.01(a) and (b) above).
(i) Annual, Quarterly and Other Reports. Promptly after transmission thereof to its
stockholders (but without duplication of the Company’s obligations under Sections 6.01(a), copies
of all annual, quarterly and other reports and all proxy statements that the Company furnishes to
its stockholders generally.
(j) Other Notices. Promptly after the transmission or receipt thereof, as applicable,
copies of all material notices received or sent by the Company or any Subsidiary to or from the
holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee with respect thereto.
(k) Other Information. Promptly, such other information or documents (financial or
otherwise) relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as the Global Agent (for itself or on
behalf of any Lender) may reasonably request from time to time.
Section 6.02 Books, Records and Inspections.
The Borrowers will, and will cause each of their Subsidiaries to, (i) keep proper books of
record and account, in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions
and the assets and business of the Borrowers or such Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in
accordance with GAAP (if applicable, or such other foreign accounting principles applicable to any
Foreign Subsidiary in its jurisdiction of organization) ; and (ii) permit, upon at least two
Business Days’ notice to any Borrower, officers and designated representatives of the Global Agent
or, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any of the Lenders to
visit and inspect any of the properties or assets of the Borrowers and any of their Subsidiaries in
whomsoever’s possession (but only to the extent such Borrower or such Subsidiary has the right to
do so to the extent in the possession of another Person), to examine the books of account of the
Borrowers and any of their Subsidiaries, and make copies thereof and take extracts therefrom, and
to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Borrowers and of any of their Subsidiaries
with, and be advised as to the same by, its and their officers and independent accountants and
independent actuaries, if any, all at such reasonable times and intervals and to such reasonable
extent as the Global Agent or, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default any of the Lenders may request (subject in all such cases to Section 11.14).
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Section 6.03 Insurance.
(a) The Borrowers will, and will cause each of their Subsidiaries to, (i) maintain insurance
coverage by such insurers and in such forms and amounts and against such risks as are generally
consistent with the insurance coverage maintained by the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the
Closing Date, and (ii) promptly upon any Lender’s written request, furnish to such Lender such
information about such insurance as such Lender may from time to time reasonably request, which
information shall be prepared in form and detail satisfactory to such Lender and, if requested,
certified by an Authorized Officer of the appropriate Borrower.
(b) The Company will, and will cause each other Credit Party to, at all times keep its
respective property that is subject to the Lien of any Security Document insured in favor of the
Collateral Agent, and all policies or certificates (or certified copies thereof) with respect to
such insurance (and any other insurance maintained by the Company or any such Credit Party)
(i) shall be endorsed to the Global Agent’s satisfaction for the benefit of the Collateral Agent
(including, without limitation, by naming the Collateral Agent as loss payee (with respect to
Collateral) or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, as an additional insured), (ii) shall
state that such insurance policies shall not be canceled without 30 days’ prior written notice
thereof (or 10 days’ prior written notice in the case of cancellation for the non-payment of
premiums) by the respective insurer to the Collateral Agent, (iii) shall provide that the
respective insurers irrevocably waive any and all rights of subrogation with respect to the
Collateral Agent, the Global Agent and the Lenders, and (iv) shall in the case of any such
certificates or endorsements in favor of the Collateral Agent, be delivered to or deposited with
the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall deliver copies of any certificates of insurance
to a Lender upon such Lender’s reasonable request.
(c) If the Company or any other Credit Party shall fail to maintain any insurance in
accordance with this Section, or if the Company or any such Credit Party shall fail to so endorse
and deliver or deposit all endorsements or certificates with respect thereto, the Global Agent
shall have the right (but shall be under no obligation), upon prior written notice to the Company,
to procure such insurance and the Company agrees to reimburse the Global Agent on demand, for all
costs and expenses of procuring such insurance.
Section 6.04 Payment of Taxes and Claims.
Each Borrower will pay and discharge, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay and
discharge, all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or
upon its income or profits, or upon any properties belonging to it, prior to the date on which
penalties attach thereto, and all lawful claims that, if unpaid, might become a Lien or charge upon
any properties of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such tax, assessment, charge, levy
or claim that is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it has maintained
adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, the Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay in full all of its
wage obligations to its employees in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C.
Sections 206-207) and any comparable provisions of applicable law.
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Section 6.05 Corporate Franchises.
Each Borrower will do, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to do, or cause to be done, all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, and its
material rights and authority; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to
prohibit any transaction permitted by Section 7.02.
Section 6.06 Good Repair.
Each Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, ensure that its material
properties and equipment used or useful in its business in whomsoever’s possession they may be, are
kept in good repair, working order and condition, normal wear and tear excepted, and that from time
to time there are made in such properties and equipment all needful and proper repairs, renewals,
replacements, extensions, additions, betterments and improvements thereto, to the extent and in the
manner customary for companies in similar businesses.
Section 6.07 Compliance with Statutes, etc.
Each Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable
statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all Governmental
Authorities in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its property, other than
those the noncompliance with which would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
Section 6.08 Compliance with Environmental Laws.
Without limitation of the covenants contained in Section 6.07:
(a) Each Borrower will comply, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, with all
Environmental Laws applicable to the ownership, lease or use of all Real Property now or hereafter
owned, leased or operated by such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and will promptly pay or
cause to be paid all costs and expenses incurred in connection with such compliance, except to the
extent that (i) such compliance with Environmental Laws is being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been established to the extent
required by GAAP or such noncompliance is de minimus, and (ii) such noncompliance is not reasonably
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Each Borrower will keep or cause to be kept, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to
keep or cause to be kept, all such Real Property free and clear of any Liens imposed pursuant to
such Environmental Laws other than Permitted Liens.
(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will generate, use, treat, store, release
or dispose of, or permit the generation, use, treatment, storage, release or disposal of, Hazardous
Materials on any Real Property now or hereafter owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or transport or permit the transportation of Hazardous Materials to or from any
such Real Property other than in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws and in the ordinary
course of business, except for such noncompliance as would not be reasonably expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
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(d) If required to do so under any applicable order of any Governmental Authority, the Company
will undertake, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to undertake, any clean up, removal, remedial or
other action necessary to remove and clean up any Hazardous Materials from any Real Property owned,
leased or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in accordance with, in all material
respects, the requirements of all applicable Environmental Laws and in accordance with, in all
material respects, such orders of all Governmental Authorities, except to the extent that the
Company or such Subsidiary is contesting such order in good faith and by appropriate proceedings
and for which adequate reserves have been established to the extent required by GAAP.
Section 6.09 Certain Subsidiaries to Join in Subsidiary Guaranty.
Subject to Section 6.10(b) below, in the event that at any time after the Closing Date, the
Company acquires, creates or has any Domestic Subsidiary that is not already a party to the
Subsidiary Guaranty, or any Foreign Subsidiary Borrower acquires, creates or has any Subsidiary
that is not already a party to a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty, the Company or such Foreign Borrower
Subsidiary will promptly, but in any event within 10 Business Days, cause such Subsidiary to
deliver to the Global Agent, in sufficient quantities for the Lenders, (a) (i) a joinder
supplement, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Global Agent, duly executed by
such Domestic Subsidiary, pursuant to which such Domestic Subsidiary joins in the Subsidiary
Guaranty as a guarantor thereunder or (ii) a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty duly executed by such
Foreign Subsidiary, and (b) resolutions of the Board of Directors or equivalent governing body of
such Subsidiary, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Subsidiary, as duly
adopted and in full force and effect, authorizing the execution and delivery of such joinder
supplement and the other Loan Documents to which such Subsidiary is, or will be a party, together
with such other corporate documentation and an opinion of counsel as the Global Agent shall
reasonably request, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to the Global Agent; provided,
however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in this Agreement to the contrary,
(i) neither the Receivables Subsidiary nor AGSC shall be required to become a Subsidiary Guarantor
hereunder so long as the Permitted Receivables Facility shall not have been terminated, (ii) a
Subsidiary shall not be required to become a party to the Subsidiary Guaranty or a Foreign
Subsidiary Guaranty, as applicable, so long as (A) the total assets of such Subsidiary shall be
less than $5,000,000, and (B) the aggregate of the total assets of all such Subsidiaries with total
asset values of less than $5,000,000 that are not parties to the Subsidiary Guaranty or a Foreign
Subsidiary Guaranty, as applicable, shall not exceed $50,000,000 and (iii) a Foreign Subsidiary
shall only be required to guaranty the Obligations of a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower that is
organized under the laws of the same country as such Foreign Subsidiary.
Section 6.10 Additional Security; Further Assurances.
(a) Additional Security. Subject to subpart (b) below, in the event that at any time
prior to the Collateral Release Date, the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor (or a Person that has
become a Subsidiary Guarantor or has executed a Foreign Subsidiary Guaranty pursuant to
Section 6.09 after the Closing Date) acquires, owns or holds an interest in any personal property
that is not at the time included in the Collateral (unless such personal property is exempted from
becoming Collateral pursuant to the terms hereof or any other Loan Document),
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the Company will promptly notify the Global Agent in writing of such event, identifying the
property or interests in question and referring specifically to the rights of the Global Agent and
the Lenders under this Section, and the Company will, or will cause such Subsidiary to, within 10
Business Days following request by the Global Agent, grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit
of the Secured Creditors (as defined in the Security Agreement) a Lien on such personal property
pursuant to the terms of such security agreements, assignments, or other documents as the Global
Agent deems appropriate (collectively, the “Additional Security Document”) or a joinder in
any existing Security Document.
(b) Foreign and Non-Material Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding anything in subpart (a)
above or elsewhere in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) neither the Receivables Subsidiary nor
AGSC shall be required to become a party to any Security Documents so long as the Permitted
Receivables Facility shall not have been terminated, (ii) a Subsidiary shall not be required to
become (or remain) a party to any of the Security Documents or to become (or remain) a Subsidiary
Guarantor, as the case may be, so long as (A) the total assets of such Subsidiary shall be less
than $5,000,000, and (B) the aggregate of the total assets of all such Subsidiaries with total
asset values of less than $5,000,000 that are not parties to the Subsidiary Guaranty shall not
exceed $50,000,000, (iii) the stock or other equity interest of any Foreign Subsidiary (or any
Domestic Subsidiary substantially all of whose assets consist of equity interests in “controlled
foreign corporations” under Section 957 of the Code) shall not serve as security for any of the
Obligations of any Domestic Credit Party, other than the stock or other equity interest of any
first tier Foreign Subsidiary of a Domestic Credit Party (or any Domestic Subsidiary described in
the first parenthetical clause of this subclause (iii)) representing no more than 65% of the total
combined voting power of all classes of stock or other equity interest of such Foreign Subsidiary
(or any Domestic Subsidiary described in the first parenthetical clause of this subclause (iii))
entitled to vote and having total assets greater than $5,000,000, and (iv) the stock or other
equity interest of any Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary Borrower shall serve as security for any
of the Obligations of such Foreign Subsidiary Borrower, except to the extent a pledge thereof would
(taking into account any corresponding or ancillary tax benefits or favorable tax attributes,
whether or not in the same tax regime) reasonably be expected to result in material adverse tax
consequences to the Company, as confirmed by an opinion of counsel of the applicable jurisdiction
which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Global Agent.
(c) Further Assurances. Prior to the Collateral Release Date, the Company will, and
will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, at the expense of the Company, make, execute, endorse,
acknowledge, file and/or deliver to the Global Agent from time to time such conveyances, financing
statements, transfer endorsements, powers of attorney, opinions of local counsel, corporate
resolutions, Landlords Agreements, certificates, and other assurances or instruments and take such
further steps relating to the Collateral covered by any of the Security Documents, including
without limitation Additional Security Documents, as the Global Agent or the Collateral Agent may
reasonably require.
(d) Landlord/Mortgagees Waivers. Prior to the Collateral Release Date, the Company
will promptly upon request of the Global Agent exercise commercially reasonable efforts to obtain,
and maintain in effect, Landlord’s Agreements on any Real Property on which any items of tangible
Collateral with an aggregate book value in excess of $4,000,000 are located
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(each such location being herein referred to as a “Material Leased Location”), in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Global Agent.
Section 6.11 [Reserved]
Section 6.12 Senior Debt.
The Company will at all times ensure that the claims of the Lenders in respect of the
Obligations of the Borrowers will not be subordinate to, and will in all respects rank at least
pari passu with the claims of, every unsecured creditor of the Borrowers and the claims of the
creditors under the Senior Indenture (1998) and Senior Indenture (2006).
ARTICLE VII — NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Each Borrower hereby covenants and agrees that on the Closing Date and thereafter for so long
as this Agreement is in effect and until such time as the Commitments have been terminated, no
Notes remain outstanding and the Loans, together with interest, Fees and all other Obligations
incurred hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, have been paid in full:
Section 7.01 Changes in Business.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will engage in any business if, as a result,
the general nature of the business, taken on a consolidated basis, which would then be engaged in
by the Company and its Subsidiaries, would be substantially changed from the general nature of the
business engaged in by the Company and its Subsidiaries on the Closing Date.
Section 7.02 Consolidation, Merger, Acquisitions, Asset Sales, etc.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) wind up, liquidate
or dissolve their affairs, (ii) enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, (iii) make
or otherwise effect any Acquisition, (iv) sell or otherwise dispose of any of their property or
assets outside the ordinary course of business, or otherwise make or otherwise effect any Asset
Sale, or (v) agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except that, if no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom each of the
following shall be permitted:
(a) the merger, consolidation or amalgamation of (i) any Subsidiary of the Company (other than
the Receivables Subsidiary) with or into the Company, provided the Company is the surviving or
continuing or resulting corporation; (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the Receivables
Subsidiary) with or into any Subsidiary Guarantor, provided that the surviving or continuing or
resulting corporation is a Subsidiary Guarantor; (iii) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company with
or into any Foreign Credit Party, provided that such Foreign Credit Party is the surviving
continuing or resulting corporation; (iv) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company (other than a
Foreign Credit Party) with or into any other Foreign Subsidiary of the Company (other than a
Foreign Credit Party), or (v) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Subsidiary
Guarantor with or into any other Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Subsidiary
Guarantor so long as no merger, consolidation or
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amalgamation permitted pursuant to the foregoing Section 7.02(a) is made in order to avoid the
application of Section 6.09 or Section 6.10;
(b) any Asset Sale by (i) the Company to any other Domestic Credit Party, or by any Foreign
Credit Party to any other Foreign Credit Party, (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the
Receivables Subsidiary) to any Domestic Credit Party; (iii) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company
(other than a Foreign Credit Party) to any other Foreign Subsidiary or any Domestic Subsidiary that
is not a Subsidiary Guarantor; (iv) any Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor to
any Foreign Subsidiary or to any other Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor; or
(v) the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company so
long as the fair market value of all such asset sales made pursuant to this clause (v) does not
exceed $10,000,000 during any fiscal year; so long as no Asset Sale permitted pursuant to the
foregoing 7.02(b) is made in order to avoid the application of Section 6.09 or Section 6.10.
(c) the Company or any Subsidiary (other than the Receivables Subsidiary) may make any
Acquisition that is a Permitted Acquisition, provided that all of the conditions contained in the
definition of the term Permitted Acquisition are satisfied;
(d) AGSC, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may sell Receivables Related Assets
(including by capital contribution) in connection with the Permitted Receivables Facility;
(e) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may (i) make a Permitted Asset Disposition or
(ii) wind up, liquidate or dissolve any Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party or, if such
Subsidiary is a Credit Party, would not (but for already being a Credit Party) at the time of any
such winding-up, liquidation or dissolution, be required to become a Credit Party pursuant to
Section 6.09;
(f) in addition to any Asset Sale permitted above, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may
consummate any Asset Sale, provided that (i) the consideration for each such Asset Sale represents
fair value and at least 75% of such consideration consists of cash except that any portion of such
consideration consisting of the assumption of liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries by the transferee shall be excluded from such calculation; (ii) in the case
of any Asset Sale involving consideration in excess of $10,000,000, at least five Business Days
prior to the date of completion of such Asset Sale, the Company shall have delivered to the Global
Agent an officer’s certificate executed on behalf of the Company by an Authorized Officer, which
certificate shall contain (A) a description of the proposed transaction, the date such transaction
is scheduled to be consummated, the estimated sale price or other consideration for such
transaction, and (B) a certification that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, or would result from consummation of such transaction; and (iii) the aggregate amount
of all Asset Sales made pursuant to this subpart during any fiscal year of the Company shall not
exceed $150,000,000;
(g) the Receivables Subsidiary may sell or transfer Account Receivables to any Person (other
than the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or Affiliates) in connection with any
receivables put option, credit default swap, credit insurance arrangement or
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other transaction pursuant to which the Receivables Subsidiary xxxxxx credit risk related to
account debtors under certain Account Receivables, provided that (i) no obligation of the
Receivables Subsidiary in connection with such transaction shall be guaranteed by the Company or
any Subsidiary of the Company, and (ii) there shall be no recourse to or obligation of the Company
or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the Receivables Subsidiary) whatsoever in connection
with such transaction other than pursuant to customary representations, warranties, covenants and
indemnities entered into in connection with such put option, credit default swap, credit insurance
arrangement or other transaction;
(h) Asset Sales in connection with the World Headquarters Initiative in an aggregate amount
not to exceed $75,000,000;
(i) Asset Sales with respect to inventory, supplies, materials and equipment in connection
with the restructuring and expansion of the Company’s Chinese operations in an aggregate amount not
to exceed $5,000,000;
(j) to the extent the following would otherwise be prohibited by this Section 7.02,
Investments permitted by Section 7.05, Liens permitted by Section 7.03, and dividends,
distributions and Share Repurchases permitted by Section 7.06; and
(k) the sale of defaulted receivables in the ordinary course of business and not as part of an
accounts receivable financing transaction.
Section 7.03 Liens.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or
suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any property or assets of any kind (real or
personal, tangible or intangible) of the Company or any such Subsidiary whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, except that the foregoing shall not apply to:
(a) any Standard Permitted Lien;
(b) Liens in existence on the Closing Date that are listed in Schedule 7.03, provided
that such Liens shall only secure such obligations that they secure on the Closing Date and
extensions, renewals and refinancings of such obligations permitted by Section 7.04(b);
(c) Liens (i) that are placed upon fixed or capital assets, acquired, constructed or improved
by the Company or any Subsidiary, provided that (A) such Liens secure Indebtedness permitted by
Section 7.04(f), (B) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or
within 120 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (C)
the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 90% of the cost of acquiring, constructing or
improving such fixed or capital assets; and (D) such Liens shall not apply to any other property or
assets of the Company or any Subsidiary; or (ii) arising out of the refinancing, replacement,
extension, renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any such Liens, provided that the
principal amount of such Indebtedness is not increased and such Indebtedness is not secured by any
additional assets;
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(d) Liens on Receivables Related Assets arising in connection with the sale of such
Receivables Related Assets in connection with the Permitted Receivables Facility;
(e) any Lien (i) granted to the Global Agent or the Collateral Agent securing any of the
Obligations or any other Indebtedness of the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents, any
Indebtedness under any Designated Hedge Agreement, or (ii) granted to the Collateral Agent to
secure the Obligations (as defined in the Security Agreement);
(f) Liens on consigned Scan-Based Inventory (as defined in the Security Agreement), but only
to the extent a Grantor Customer (as defined in the Security Agreement) has a Lien, or has a
creditor that has a Lien, on the inventory of such Grantor Customer;
(g) Liens on assets securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.04(m), provided that any
such Lien shall only secure the obligations that it secures on the date of the applicable Permitted
Acquisition and does not extend to any property of any Subsidiary of the Company;
(h) Liens in favor of a Person (other than the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or
Affiliates) on intellectual property and other tangible or intangible video digital or
entertainment assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries produced, manufactured, developed,
marketed or otherwise distributed by such Person, provided that (i) such Liens do not secure
Indebtedness, (ii) in any twelve month period, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries may
grant such Liens, provided that the aggregate book value of the assets subject to such Liens
granted in such twelve month period shall not exceed $20,000,000, and (iii) the benefit of such
Liens may also run in favor of such Person’s lender or lenders for the limited purpose of allowing
such lender or lenders to complete and liquidate products of such Person bearing or utilizing such
property or assets, and provided further, that in connection with any such Lien, the Collateral
Agent may enter into agreements on behalf of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Creditors (which
agreements shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) regarding the
relative priority of such Lien and the Liens created under the Loan Documents and/or the
subordination or impairment of any rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Secured
Creditors in respect of the assets subject to such Lien (including without limitation,
subordinating the Liens in favor of the Global Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors with
respect to such assets in favor of such Person); or
(i) Liens on fixed or capital assets securing purchase money Indebtedness permitted under
Section 7.04(o) to be incurred in connection with the World Headquarters Initiative.
Section 7.04 Indebtedness.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, contract, create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except:
(a) the Indebtedness incurred under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
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(b) the Indebtedness set forth on Schedule 7.04, and any refinancing, replacement,
extension, renewal or refunding of any such Indebtedness not involving an increase in the principal
amount thereof;
(c) the unsecured Indebtedness evidenced by the notes issued pursuant to the Senior Indenture
(2006), provided that the principal amount of such Indebtedness shall not at any time exceed
$225,000,000, and any refinancing, replacement, extension, renewal or refunding of any such
Indebtedness (i) not involving an increase in the principal amount thereof, (ii) with a final
maturity date that is no earlier than the earlier of (A) the final maturity date prior to such
refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding, and (B) the date that is 181 days after the Revolving
Facility Termination Date in effect at the time of such refinancing, replacement, extension,
renewal or refunding (it being understood that any provision requiring an offer to purchase such
Indebtedness as a result of a change of control or asset sale shall not violate the foregoing
restriction), and (iii) the covenants, events of default, subsidiary guarantees and other terms of
which (other than interest rate and redemption premiums), taken as a whole, are on market terms for
similar issuers at the time of issuance and are no more restrictive than the terms of this
Agreement as reasonably determined by the Global Agent;
(d) the unsecured Indebtedness of the Company in connection with the notes issued pursuant to
the Subordinated Indenture, provided, that the aggregate principal amount of all of such
Indebtedness shall not at any time exceed $32,700,000 and any refinancing, replacement, extension,
renewal or refunding of any such Indebtedness (i) not involving an increase in the principal amount
thereof, (ii) with a final maturity date that is no earlier than the earlier of (A) the final
maturity date prior to such refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding, and (B) the date that is
181 days after the Revolving Facility Termination Date in effect at the time of such refinancing,
replacement, extension, renewal or refunding (it being understood that any provision requiring an
offer to purchase such Indebtedness as a result of a change of control or asset sale shall not
violate the foregoing restriction), and (iii) the covenants, events of default, subsidiary
guarantees and other terms of which (other than interest rate and redemption premiums), taken as a
whole, are on market terms for similar issuers at the time of issuance and are no more restrictive
than the terms of this Agreement as reasonably determined by the Global Agent;
(e) the Indebtedness of the Company in connection with the notes or securities issued pursuant
to the Senior Indenture (1998), so long as the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness
shall not at any time exceed $181,000;
(f) (i) the Indebtedness consisting of Capital Lease Obligations of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, (ii) purchase money Indebtedness secured by a Lien referred to in Section 7.03(c),
and (iii) any refinancing, replacement, extension, renewal or refunding of any such Indebtedness
not involving an increase in the principal amount thereof, provided the aggregate outstanding
principal amount (using Capitalized Lease Obligations in lieu of principal amount, in the case of
any Capital Lease) of Indebtedness permitted by this subpart (f) shall not exceed $25,000,000 at
any time;
(g) the Indebtedness constituting Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Loans and Investments;
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(h) any intercompany loans (i) made by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to any
Domestic Credit Party; or (ii) made by any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company (other than a Foreign
Credit Party) to any other Foreign Subsidiary of the Company;
(i) the Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries under Hedge Agreements, provided
(i) such Hedge Agreements have been entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for
speculative purposes, (ii) the aggregate amount of the net obligations or Indebtedness under all
such Hedge Agreements does not exceed $25,000,000 at any time, and (iii) such Hedge Agreements
shall conform to ISDA standards and shall be in all other respects acceptable to the Global Agent;
(j) any Guaranty Obligations permitted by Section 7.05;
(k) (i) the Indebtedness of the Receivables Subsidiary under the Permitted Receivables
Facility, so long as the funded amount shall not exceed $100,000,000 at any time, or (ii) the
Indebtedness of the Receivables Subsidiary or AGSC to the Company or any other Subsidiary of the
Company in connection with the Permitted Receivables Facility in accordance with the Receivables
Facility Documents;
(l) the Indebtedness of the Company to AGSC in connection with the Permitted Receivables
Facility in accordance with the Receivables Facility Documents provided all of such Indebtedness
shall constitute Subordinated Indebtedness;
(m) Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other acquisition of
assets permitted under this Agreement, and any refinancing, replacement, extension, renewal or
refunding of any such Indebtedness not involving an increase in the principal amount thereof, so
long as (i) such Indebtedness existed at the time of such Permitted Acquisition or the acquisition
and was not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or the acquisition, (ii) after
giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, the Company would be in compliance on a pro
forma basis with the covenants set forth in Section 7.07, and (iii) the aggregate principal amount
of all such Indebtedness shall not at any time exceed $50,000,000;
(n) other Indebtedness of the Company to the extent not permitted by any of the foregoing
clauses, provided that (i) all such Indebtedness constitutes Subordinated Indebtedness, (ii) no
Default or Event of Default shall then exist or immediately after incurring any of such
Indebtedness will exist, (iii) (A) with respect to such Indebtedness in a principal amount of
$5,000,000 or more, the documentation with respect to such Indebtedness shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Global Agent, and (B) with respect to such Indebtedness in a
principal amount of less than $5,000,000, the terms of the subordination applicable thereto shall
be in form and substance satisfactory to the Global Agent, and (iv) the Company and its
Subsidiaries shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.07 both
immediately before and after giving pro forma effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness;
(o) unsecured or purchase money Indebtedness incurred in connection with the Company’s World
Headquarters Initiative not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of $75,000,000; and
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(p) additional Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent not
permitted by any of the foregoing clauses, provided that the aggregate outstanding principal amount
of all such Indebtedness does not exceed $75,000,000 at any time.
Section 7.05 Investments and Guaranty Obligations.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly,
(i) make or commit to make any Investment or (ii) be or become obligated under any Guaranty
Obligations, except:
(a) Investments by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in cash and Cash Equivalents;
(b) any endorsement of a check or other medium of payment for deposit or collection, or any
similar transaction in the normal course of business;
(c) the Company and its Subsidiaries may acquire and hold receivables and similar items owing
to them in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with
customary trade terms;
(d) any Permitted Creditor Investment;
(e) loans and advances to employees for business-related travel expenses, moving expenses,
costs of replacement homes, business machines or supplies, automobiles and other similar expenses,
in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business or in accordance with the Company’s
relocation policy in connection with the World Headquarters Initiative, provided the aggregate
outstanding amount of all such loans and advances shall not exceed $5,000,000 at any time;
(f) to the extent not permitted by any of the other subparts in this Section, Investments
existing as of the Closing Date and described on Schedule 7.05;
(g) any Guaranty Obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary in favor of the Global Agent,
each LC Issuer and the Lenders and any other Benefited Creditors under any Designated Hedge
Agreements pursuant to the Loan Documents;
(h) the Indebtedness of the Receivables Subsidiary to the Company or AGSC and Indebtedness of
AGSC to the Company in connection with the Permitted Receivables Facility in accordance with the
Receivables Facility Documents;
(i) Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company to AGSC in connection with the Permitted
Receivables Facility in accordance with the Receivables Facility Documents;
(j) Investments of the Company and its Subsidiaries in Hedge Agreements permitted to be to
entered into pursuant to this Agreement;
(k) Investments (i) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any Subsidiary existing as of
the Closing Date, (ii) of the Company in any Domestic Credit Party,
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(iii) of any Domestic Credit Party in any other Domestic Credit Party (other than the
Company), (iv) of any Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Credit Party in any other Domestic
Subsidiary (other than the Company), or (v) constituting Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Loans and
Investments;
(l) Investments (i) of any Foreign Subsidiary in any other Subsidiary of the Company existing
as of the Closing Date, (ii) of any Foreign Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Credit Party) in any
other Subsidiary of the Company (other than the Receivables Subsidiary), or (iii) of any Foreign
Credit Party in any Domestic Credit Party (other than the Company);
(m) intercompany loans and advances permitted by Section 7.04(h);
(n) the Acquisitions permitted by Section 7.02;
(o) Investments constituting Restricted Payments permitted by Section 7.06;
(p) any Guaranty Obligation incurred by any Domestic Credit Party with respect to Indebtedness
of another Domestic Credit Party which Indebtedness is permitted by Section 7.04;
(q) other Investments by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than the
Receivables Subsidiary) in any other Person made after the Closing Date and not permitted pursuant
to the foregoing subparts, provided that (i) at the time of making any such Investment no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, or would result therefrom, and (ii) the
maximum cumulative amount of all such Investments that are so made pursuant to this subpart and
outstanding at any time shall not exceed an aggregate of $150,000,000, taking into account the
repayment of any loans or advances comprising such Investments;
(r) the non-cash portion of consideration received in connection with transactions permitted
pursuant to Section 7.02(f);
(s) Guaranty Obligations constituting Indebtedness that is permitted under Section 7.04 (other
than pursuant to clause (j) thereof); and
(t) Investments in connection with the restructuring or expansion of the Company’s Chinese
operations consisting of (i) the creation of a new or restructured corporate entity under the laws
of China (which may take the form of one or more wholly foreign owned entities (WFOE), (ii) the
acquisition or ownership of equity or other interests in any such entities, (iii) contributions to
an entity described in clause (i) or (ii) above (whether as debt or equity) in an amount of up to
$5,000,000 in each fiscal year, and (iv) the Asset Sales permitted under Section 7.02(i).
Section 7.06 Restricted Payments.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, declare or make, or
agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except:
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(a) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may declare and pay or make Capital Distributions
that are payable solely in additional shares of its common stock (or warrants, options or other
rights to acquire additional shares of its common stock);
(b) (i) any Subsidiary of the Company may declare and pay or make Capital Distributions to any
Domestic Credit Party, (ii) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company (other than a Foreign Credit
Party) may declare and pay or make Capital Distributions to any other Foreign Subsidiary or to any
Domestic Credit Party, and (iii) any Foreign Credit Party may declare and pay or make Capital
Distributions to any Domestic Credit Party;
(c) the Company may declare and pay or make Cash Dividends, provided that (i) no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) the Company
will be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.07 after giving pro forma
effect to each such Cash Dividend and prior to or concurrently with each such declaration of a Cash
Dividend that exceeds $20,000,000, the Company shall have provided to the Global Agent a
certificate of an Authorized Officer demonstrating such pro forma compliance and certifying as to
compliance with the other provisions of this subpart (c) in connection with such Cash Dividend, and
(iii) the aggregate amount of all Cash Dividends made by the Company during any fiscal year shall
not exceed the Maximum Dividend Amount; provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, if the
Leverage Ratio for both (a) the most recent Testing Period then ended and (b) after giving effect
to such Cash Dividend, on a pro forma basis, is less than 2.25 to 1.00, then the limitation in this
clause (iii) shall not apply;
(d) the Company may make Share Repurchases, provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) the Company will be in
compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.07 after giving pro forma effect to
each such Share Repurchase and prior to or concurrently with each such Share Repurchase that
exceeds $20,000,000, the Company shall have provided to the Global Agent a certificate of an
Authorized Officer demonstrating such pro forma compliance and certifying as to compliance with the
other provisions of this subpart (d) in connection with such Share Repurchase, (iii) the aggregate
amount of all Share Repurchases with respect to its Class A common shares made by the Company
during any fiscal year shall not exceed the Maximum Share Repurchase Amount, and (iv) the aggregate
amount of all Shares Repurchases with respect to its Class B common shares made by the Company
during any fiscal year shall not exceed $125,000,000; provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing,
(A) the aggregate amount of all Share Repurchases under the forgoing clause (iii) and (iv) shall
not exceed $125,000,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year and (B) if the Leverage Ratio for both
(1) the most recent Testing Period then ended and (2) after giving effect to such Share Repurchase,
on a pro forma basis, is less than 2.25 to 1.00, then the limitation in clauses (iii) and (iv)
shall not apply.
(e) the Company may make a Permitted Note Purchase, provided that (i) no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) each note or other
security purchased, redeemed or exchanged in connection with each Permitted Note Purchase shall be
permanently cancelled promptly, but in no event later than ten Business Days, following each such
Permitted Note Purchase, (iii) the Leverage Ratio for both (a) the most recent Testing Period then
ended and (b) after giving effect to such Permitted Note
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Purchase, on a pro forma basis, is less than 2.25 to 1.00, (iv) immediately after giving
effect to each Permitted Note Purchase, the Company shall be in pro forma compliance with the
financial covenants set forth in Section 7.07 and, prior to or concurrently with each such
Permitted Note Purchase that exceeds $20,000,000 in principal amount, the Company shall have
provided to the Global Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer demonstrating such pro forma
compliance and certifying as to compliance with the other provisions of this subpart (e) in
connection with such Permitted Note Purchase, and (v) concurrently with the delivery by the Company
of the financial statements required pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and Section 6.01(b), the Company
shall deliver a certificate describing the aggregate amount of Permitted Note Purchases made during
the fiscal quarter or quarters covered by such financial statements and certifying that such
Permitted Note Purchases were made in compliance with the provisions of this subpart (e).
Section 7.07 Financial Covenants.
(a) Leverage Ratio. The Company will not permit the Leverage Ratio for any Testing
Period to exceed 3.00 to 1.00.
(b) Interest Coverage Ratio. The Company will not permit the Interest Coverage Ratio
for any Testing Period to be less than 3.00 to 1.00.
Section 7.08 Limitation on Certain Restrictive Agreements.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly,
enter into, incur or permit to exist or become effective, any “negative pledge” covenant or other
agreement, restriction or arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon
(a) the ability of the Company or any Subsidiary to create, incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon
any of its property or assets as security for Indebtedness, or (b) the ability of any such
Subsidiary to make Capital Distributions or any other interest or participation in its profits
owned by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company
or a Subsidiary of the Company, or to make loans or advances to the Company or any of the Company’s
other Subsidiaries, or transfer any of its property or assets to the Company or any of the
Company’s other Subsidiaries, except for such restrictions existing under or by reason of
(i) applicable law, (ii) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (iii) customary provisions
restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest, (iv) customary
provisions restricting assignment or pledging of any licensing agreement or other similar
agreements (including licenses of intellectual property) entered into in the ordinary course of
business or the transfer or other encumbrance of inventory or other assets utilizing licensed
property, (v) customary provisions restricting the transfer or further encumbering of assets
subject to Liens permitted under Section 7.03(c), (vi) restrictions contained in the Receivables
Facility Documents, the Senior Indenture (1998), the Senior Indenture (2006), the Subordinated
Indenture or any agreement or other document executed in connection with any of the foregoing as in
effect on the Closing Date or any notes or any agreement or other document executed in connection
therewith (and any similar restrictions contained in any agreement governing any refinancing or
refunding thereof not prohibited by this Agreement), (vii) customary restrictions affecting only a
Subsidiary of the Company under any agreement or instrument governing any of the Indebtedness of a
Subsidiary permitted pursuant to Section 7.04, (viii) restrictions affecting any Foreign Subsidiary
(other than a Foreign Credit Party) of the
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Company under any agreement or instrument governing any Indebtedness of such Foreign
Subsidiary permitted pursuant to Section 7.04, and customary restrictions contained in “comfort”
letters and guarantees of any such Indebtedness, (ix) any document relating to Indebtedness secured
by a Lien permitted by Section 7.03, insofar as the provisions thereof limit grants of liens on the
assets securing such Indebtedness, (x) any Operating Lease or Capital Lease, insofar as the
provisions thereof limit grants of a security interest in, or other assignments of, the related
leasehold interest to any other Person, (xi) any customary restriction on a Subsidiary imposed
pursuant to an agreement entered into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the
Equity Interests or assets of a Subsidiary permitted under this Agreement pending the closing of
such sale or disposition, (xii) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar
agreements applicable to joint ventures entered into in the ordinary course of business,
(xiii) customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary
course of business, (xiv) customary restrictions and conditions contained in any agreement relating
to the sale of any asset permitted under Section 7.02 pending the consummation of such sale, and
(xv) any agreement to which a Subsidiary is a party that is in effect at the time such subsidiary
becomes a Subsidiary, so long as such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such
Person becoming a Subsidiary.
Section 7.09 Amendments to Certain Documents.
Except as permitted pursuant to Section 7.04(c) and (d), the Company will not, and will not
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend, restate, supplement or otherwise modify or replace in any
respect the Senior Indenture (2006) or the Subordinated Indenture (including any agreements or
other documents executed in connection therewith) without the prior written consent of the Required
Lenders, provided that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may amend, supplement or otherwise
modify any of the foregoing agreements with the prior written consent of the Global Agent (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), so long as any such amendment or
modification does not, in the opinion of the Global Agent, materially and adversely impact the
rights or remedies of the Global Agent and the Lenders hereunder.
Section 7.10 Transactions with Affiliates.
The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any transaction or
series of transactions with any Affiliate (other than, in the case of the Company, any Subsidiary,
and in the case of a Subsidiary, the Company or another Subsidiary) other than in the ordinary
course of business of and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Company’s or such
Subsidiary’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Company or such
Subsidiary than would be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than
an Affiliate, except (i) sales of goods to an Affiliate for use or distribution outside the United
States that in the good faith judgment of the Company comply with any applicable legal requirements
of the Code, (ii) agreements and transactions with and payments to officers, directors and
shareholders that are either (A) entered into in the ordinary course of business and not prohibited
by any of the provisions of this Agreement, or (B) entered into outside the ordinary course of
business, approved by the directors or shareholders of the Company (or any committee thereof), and
not prohibited by any of the provisions of this Agreement, or (iii) as disclosed on Schedule 7.10.
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Section 7.11 [Reserved]
Section 7.12 Capital Expenditures.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make or incur any
Consolidated Capital Expenditures that in the aggregate exceed (i) $80,000,000 during the fiscal
year of the Company ending February 28, 2011 and February 28, 2012, and (ii) $75,000,000 during the
fiscal year ending February 28, 2013 and each such fiscal year thereafter; provided, to the extent
the $80,000,000 capital expenditure basket for the fiscal year ending February 28, 2011 is not
fully utilized during such fiscal year, it can be carried forward to any subsequent fiscal year;
provided, further, that Consolidated Capital Expenditures (A) made from the proceeds of Asset Sales
permitted hereunder and/or Events of Loss and (B) in connection with the World Headquarters
Initiative in an amount not to exceed $75,000,000 shall be excluded from the foregoing calculation
of Consolidated Capital Expenditures, subject to the limitation that Consolidated Capital
Expenditures excluded pursuant to (1) Section 7.02(h) and (2) the preceding clause (B) shall in no
event exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate.
Section 7.13 Anti-Terrorism Laws.
Neither the Company, any other Credit Party, nor any of its Subsidiaries is or shall be (i) a
Person with whom any Lender is restricted from doing business under Executive Order No. 13224 or
any other Anti-Terrorism Law, (ii) engaged in any business involved in making or receiving any
contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of such a Person or in any
transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, the prohibitions set
forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) otherwise in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law. The
Company and the other Credit Parties shall provide to the Lenders any certifications or information
that a Lender requests to confirm compliance by the Company and the other Credit Parties with
Anti-Terrorism Laws.
ARTICLE VIII — EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Section 8.01 Events of Default.
Any of the following specified events shall constitute an event of default (each an “Event
of Default”):
(a) Payments: any Borrower shall (i) default in the payment when due (whether at
maturity, on a date fixed for a scheduled repayment, on a date on which a required prepayment is to
be made, upon acceleration or otherwise) of any principal of the Loans or any reimbursement
obligation in respect of any Unpaid Drawing; or (ii) default, and such default shall continue for
three or more Business Days, in the payment when due of any interest on the Loans or Unpaid
Drawings or any Fees or any other amounts owing hereunder or under any other Loan Document; or
(b) Representations, etc.: any representation, warranty or statement made by the
Company or any other Credit Party herein or in any other Loan Document or in any statement or
certificate delivered or required to be delivered pursuant hereto or thereto shall prove to be
untrue in any material respect on the date as of which made or deemed made; or
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(c) Certain Covenants: any Borrower shall default in the due performance or
observance by it of any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 4.04, Section 6.01,
Section 6.09, Section 6.10, Section 6.11, Section 6.12, or Article VII of this Agreement; or
(d) Other Covenants: any Credit Party shall default in the due performance or
observance by it of any term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, other than those referred to in Section 8.01(a), (b) or (c) above, and such default is
not remedied within 30 days after the earlier of (i) an Authorized Officer of any Credit Party
obtaining actual knowledge of such default and (ii) the Company receiving written notice of such
default from the Global Agent or the Required Lenders (any such notice to be identified as a
“notice of default” and to refer specifically to this paragraph); or
(e) Cross Default Under Other Agreements: the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall
(i) default in any payment with respect to any Material Indebtedness (other than the Obligations),
and such default shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the
agreement or instrument relating to such Material Indebtedness, or (ii) default in the observance
or performance of any agreement or condition relating to any such Material Indebtedness or
contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto (and all grace
periods applicable to such observance, performance or condition shall have expired), or any other
event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to
cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Material Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on
behalf of such holder or holders) to cause any such Material Indebtedness to become due prior to
its stated maturity; or any such Material Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
shall be declared to be due and payable, or shall be required to be prepaid (other than by a
regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption, prior to the stated maturity thereof); or
(iii) without limitation of the foregoing clauses, default in any payment obligation under a
Designated Hedge Agreement, and such default shall continue after the applicable grace period, if
any, specified in such Designated Hedge Agreement or any other agreement or instrument relating
thereto; or
(f) Invalidity of Loan Documents: (i) any provision of any Loan Document, at any time
after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or
under such Loan Document or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force
and effect; (ii) any Credit Party or any other Person contests in any manner the validity or
enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Credit Party denies that it has any or
further liability or obligation under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or
rescind any Loan Document; or (iii) at any time prior to the Collateral Release Date, the
Collateral Agent shall not have or shall cease to have a valid and perfected Lien in any Collateral
purported to be covered by the Security Documents with the priority required by the relevant
Security Documents, in each case for any reason other than the failure of the Collateral Agent, the
Global Agent or any Lender to take any action that they are required to take; or
(g) Judgments: (i) one or more judgments, orders or decrees shall be entered against
the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries involving a liability (other than a liability covered by
insurance, as to which the carrier has adequate claims paying ability and has not effectively
reserved its rights) of $20,000,000 or more in the aggregate for all such judgments, orders and
decrees for the Company and its Subsidiaries, and any such judgments or orders or
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decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 30
days (or such longer period, not in excess of 60 days, during which enforcement thereof, and the
filing of any judgment lien, is effectively stayed or prohibited) from the entry thereof; or (ii)
one or more judgments, orders or decrees shall be entered against the Company and/or any of its
Subsidiaries involving a required divestiture of any material properties, assets or business
reasonably estimated to have a fair value in excess of $20,000,000, and any such judgments, orders
or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, satisfied or stayed or bonded pending appeal
within 30 days (or such longer period, not in excess of 60 days, during which enforcement thereof,
and the filing of any judgment lien, is effectively stayed or prohibited) from the entry thereof;
or
(h) Insolvency Event: any Insolvency Event shall occur with respect to the Company,
any other Credit Party (other than a Credit Party that does not have total assets in excess of
$5,000,000), or any other Subsidiary of the Company that has total assets or annual revenues in
excess of $5,000,000; or
(i) ERISA: (i) any of the events described in clauses (i) through (viii) of Section
6.01 (f) shall have occurred; or (ii) there shall result from any such event or events the
imposition of a Lien, the granting of a security interest, or a liability or a material risk of
incurring a liability; and (iii) any such event or events described in clause (i) above or any such
Lien, security interest or liability described in clause (ii) above, individually, and/or in the
aggregate, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, has had, or would reasonably be expected to
have, a Material Adverse Effect;
(j) [Reserved]
(k) Change of Control: if there occurs a Change of Control.
Section 8.02 Remedies.
Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, and at any time thereafter if any Event of
Default shall then be continuing, the Global Agent shall, upon the written request of the Required
Lenders, by written notice to the Borrowers or any thereof, take any or all of the following
actions, without prejudice to the rights of the Global Agent or any Lender to enforce its claims
against the Company or any other Credit Party in any manner permitted under applicable law:
(a) declare the Commitments terminated, whereupon the Commitment of each Lender shall
forthwith terminate immediately without any other notice of any kind;
(b) declare the principal of and any accrued interest in respect of all Loans, all Unpaid
Drawings and all other Obligations owing hereunder and thereunder to be, whereupon the same shall
become, forthwith due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind,
all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers;
(c) terminate any Letter of Credit that may be terminated in accordance with its terms or
require the applicable LC Obligors to deposit cash in a deposit account designated by the Global
Agent in an amount equal to 105% of the Revolving Facility LC Outstandings or the
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Canadian LC Outstandings, as the case may be, of such LC Obligor to secure such LC Obligor’s
reimbursement obligations with respect to such Revolving Facility LC Outstandings or Canadian LC
Outstandings; or
(d) exercise any other right or remedy available under any of the Loan Documents or applicable
law;
provided that, if an Event of Default specified in Section 8.01(h) shall occur, the result that
would occur upon the giving of written notice by the Global Agent as specified in clauses (a)
and/or (b) above shall occur automatically without the giving of any such notice.
Section 8.03 Application of Certain Payments and Proceeds.
All payments and other amounts received by the Global Agent or any Lender (i) at any time on
or after the Equalization Date or (ii) at any time from the exercise of remedies hereunder or under
the other Loan Documents, whether received from the Collateral Agent, any Credit Party or
otherwise, shall in each case unless otherwise required by the terms of the other Loan Documents or
by applicable law be applied as follows:
(a) Obligations Generally. Except with respect to any amounts that are required to
first be applied pursuant to subparts (b) or (c) below, all amounts received by or with respect to,
and all proceeds of Collateral coming from, the Company or any other Domestic Credit Party shall be
applied:
(i) first, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities
and expenses and other amounts (including attorneys’ fees and amounts due under Article III)
payable to the Global Agent and the Collateral Agent in its respective capacity as such;
(ii) second, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities
and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and amounts due under Article III) payable to each Lender
or each LC Issuer, ratably among them in proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(iii) third, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid
interest on the Loans and Unpaid Drawings with respect to Letters of Credit, ratably among the
Lenders in proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(iv) fourth, pro rata to the payment of (A) that portion of the Obligations constituting
unpaid principal of the Loans and Unpaid Drawings, ratably among the Lenders and each LC Issuer in
proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts, and (B) the amounts due to Designated Hedge
Creditors under Designated Hedge Agreements;
(v) fifth, to the Global Agent for the benefit of each LC Issuer to cash collateralize the
Stated Amount of outstanding Letters of Credit;
(vi) sixth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Credit Parties owing under or in
respect of the Loan Documents that are then due and payable to the Global
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Agent, each LC Issuer, the Swing Line Lender, the Lenders and the Designated Hedge Creditors,
ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to them on such
date; and
(vii) finally, any remaining surplus after all of the Obligations have been paid in full, to
the Borrowers or to whomsoever shall be lawfully entitled thereto.
(b) Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower Obligations. All amounts received by or with
respect to, and all proceeds of Collateral, if any, coming from, any Foreign Revolving Facility
Borrower or any other Foreign Credit Party shall be applied:
(i) first, to the payment of that portion of the Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower
Obligations owing by such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower constituting fees, indemnities and
expenses and other amounts (including attorneys’ fees and amounts due under Article III) payable to
the Global Agent and the Collateral Agent in its respective capacity as such;
(ii) second, to the payment of that portion of the Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower
Obligations owing by such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower constituting fees, indemnities and
expenses (including attorneys’ fees and amounts due under Article III) payable to each Lender and
each LC Issuer, ratably among them in proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(iii) third, to the payment of that portion of the Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower
Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans made to such Foreign Revolving
Facility Borrower and Unpaid Drawings with respect to Revolving Facility Letters of Credit issued
for the account of such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower, ratably among the Lenders and each LC
Issuer in proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(iv) fourth, to the payment of that portion of the Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower
Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans made to such Foreign Revolving Facility
Borrower and Unpaid Drawings with respect to Revolving Facility Letters of Credit issued for the
account of such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower, ratably among the Lenders and each LC Issuer
in proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(v) fifth, to the Global Agent for the benefit of each LC Issuer to cash collateralize the
Stated Amount of Revolving Facility Letters of Credit issued for the account of such Foreign
Revolving Facility Borrower;
(vi) sixth, to the payment of all other Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower Obligations of
such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower owing under or in respect of the Loan Documents that are
then due and payable to the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and the Lenders, ratably based upon the
respective aggregate amounts of all such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower Obligations owing to
them by such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower on such date; and
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(vii) finally, any remaining surplus after all of the Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower
Obligations of such Foreign Revolving Facility Borrower have been paid in full, to such Foreign
Revolving Facility Borrower or to whomsoever shall be lawfully entitled thereto.
(c) Canadian Obligations. All amounts received by or with respect to, and all
proceeds of Collateral, if any, coming from, any Canadian Borrower shall be applied:
(i) first, to the payment of that portion of the Canadian Obligations owing by the Canadian
Borrowers constituting fees, indemnities and expenses and other amounts (including attorneys’ fees
and amounts due under Article III) payable to the Global Agent and the Collateral Agent in its
respective capacity as such;
(ii) second, to the payment of that portion of the Canadian Obligations owing by the Canadian
Borrowers constituting fees, indemnities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and amounts due
under Article III) payable to each Canadian Lender and each LC Issuer, ratably among them in
proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(iii) third, to the payment of that portion of the Canadian Obligations constituting accrued
and unpaid interest on the Canadian Revolving Loans made to the Canadian Borrowers and Unpaid
Drawings with respect to Canadian Letters of Credit issued for the account of each Canadian
Borrower, ratably among the Canadian Lenders and each LC Issuer in proportion to the aggregate of
all such amounts;
(iv) fourth, to the payment of that portion of the Canadian Obligations constituting unpaid
principal of the Canadian Revolving Loans made to the Canadian Borrowers and Unpaid Drawings with
respect to Canadian Letters of Credit issued for the account of each Canadian Borrower, ratably
among the Canadian Lenders and each LC Issuer in proportion to the aggregate of all such amounts;
(v) fifth, to the Canadian Administrative Branch of the Global Agent for the benefit of each
LC Issuer to cash collateralize the Stated Amount of Canadian Letters of Credit issued for the
account of each Canadian Borrower;
(vi) sixth, to the payment of all other Canadian Obligations owing under or in respect of the
Loan Documents that are then due and payable to the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and the Canadian
Lenders, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Canadian Obligations owing
to them by the Canadian Borrowers on such date; and
(vii) finally, any remaining surplus after all of the Canadian Obligations have been paid in
full, to the Canadian Borrowers or to whomsoever shall be lawfully entitled thereto.
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Section 8.04 Equalization.
(a) Equalization Prior to Equalization Date.
(i) Generally. Subject to subpart (b) below, if at any time any Lender receives any
amount (other than amounts that are received from a Canadian Borrower with respect to the Canadian
Obligations and are subject to subpart (a)(ii) below) hereunder (whether by voluntary payment, by
realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of setoff or banker’s lien, by counterclaim
or cross action, by the enforcement of any right under the Loan Documents, or otherwise) that is
applicable to the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the Loans (other than Swing Loans),
Revolving Facility LC Participations, Swing Line Participations or Fees (other than Fees that are
intended to be paid solely to the Global Agent or a LC Issuer and amounts payable to a Lender under
Article III), of a sum that with respect to the related sum or sums received by other Lenders is in
a greater proportion than the total of such Obligation then owed and due to such Lender (based on
such Lender’s ratable share thereof as determined in accordance with Section 2.17, Section 8.03 or
specifically set forth elsewhere in this Agreement) bears to the total of such Obligation then owed
and due to all of the Lenders immediately prior to such receipt,
then such Lender receiving
such excess payment shall purchase for cash without recourse or warranty from the other Lenders an
interest in the Obligations (other than the Canadian Obligations) to such Lenders in such amount as
shall result in a proportional participation by all of the Lenders in such amount.
(ii) Canadian Sub-Facility. Subject to subpart (b) below, if at any time any Canadian
Lender receives any amount hereunder from the Canadian Borrowers (whether by voluntary payment, by
realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of setoff or banker’s lien, by counterclaim
or cross action, by the enforcement of any right under the Loan Documents, or otherwise) that is
applicable to the payment of the principal of, or interest on, the Canadian Loans (other than
amounts payable to a Canadian Lender under Article III) or Canadian LC Participations of a sum that
with respect to the related sum or sums received by other Canadian Lenders is in a greater
proportion than the total such Canadian Obligations then owed and due to such Canadian Lender bears
to the total of such Canadian Obligation then owed and due to all of the Canadian Lenders
immediately prior to such receipt, thensuch Lender receiving such excess payment shall
purchase for cash without recourse or warranty from the other Canadian Lenders an interest in the
Canadian Obligations to such Canadian Lenders in such amount as shall result in a proportional
participation by all of the Canadian Lenders in such amount.
(iii) Recovery of Amounts. If any amount paid to any Lender pursuant to subparts (i)
or (ii) above is recovered in whole or in part from such Lender, such original purchase shall be
rescinded, and the purchase price restored ratably to the extent of the recovery.
(b) Equalization after Equalization Date. If at any time on or after the Equalization
Date, the Credit Facility Exposure owing to any Lender is greater than an amount equal to such
Lender’s Equalization Percentage of the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure, then on such date any
of the Credit Facility Exposure not denominated in Dollars shall be converted to Dollars and each
of the other Lenders shall purchase from such Lender for cash at par an amount of the Obligations
of such Lender as shall be necessary such that the Credit Facility
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Exposure owing to such Lender is equal to the amount of its Equalization Percentage of the
Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure.
(c) Consent of Borrowers. The Borrowers consent to the foregoing and agree, to the
extent they may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation
pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of set-off and
counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor
of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.
(d) Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
the provisions of this Section shall be subject to the express provisions of this Agreement that
require, or permit, differing payments to be made to Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders, as
opposed to Defaulting Lenders. If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by
it pursuant to this Section, then the Global Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any
contrary provision of this Agreement), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Global Agent
for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations to the Global Agent under such
Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid. In addition to the foregoing, any
Lender that fails at any time to comply with the provisions of this Section 8.04 shall be deemed a
Defaulting Lender until such time as it performs its obligations hereunder and is not otherwise a
Defaulting Lender for any other reason. A Defaulting Lender shall be deemed to have assigned any
and all payments due to it from the Borrowers, whether on account of or relating to outstanding
Loans, Letters of Credit, interest, fees or otherwise, to the remaining Non-Defaulting Lenders for
application to, and reduction of, their respective Equalization Percentage of the Aggregate Credit
Facility Exposure. The Defaulting Lender hereby authorizes the Global Agent to distribute such
payments to the Non-Defaulting Lenders in proportion to their respective Equalization Percentages
of the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure to which such Lenders are entitled. A Defaulting Lender
shall be deemed to have satisfied the provisions of this Section 8.04 when and if, as a result of
application of the assigned payments to all Equalization Percentages of the Aggregate Credit
Facility Exposure to the Non-Defaulting Lenders, the Lenders’ respective Equalization Percentage of
the Aggregate Credit Facility Exposure have returned to those in effect immediately prior to such
violation of this Section 8.04.
Section 8.05 Set-Off.
Subject to Section 2.21, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each
Lender, each LC Issuer, and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time
and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any
and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency)
at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender,
such LC Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Credit Party
against any and all of the Obligations of such Credit Party now or hereafter existing under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender, such LC Issuer, or Affiliate, irrespective of
whether or not such Lender, LC Issuer, or Affiliate shall have made any demand under this Agreement
or any other Loan Document and although such Obligations of the Borrowers or such Credit Party may
be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender or such LC Issuer
different from the branch or office holding such deposit
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or obligated on such Indebtedness. The rights of each Lender, each LC Issuer Lender and their
respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including
other rights of setoff) that such Lender, such LC Issuer or their respective Affiliates may have.
Each Lender and the LC Issuer agrees to notify the Borrowers and the Global Agent promptly after
any such setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the
validity of such setoff and application.
ARTICLE IX — THE GLOBAL AGENT
Section 9.01 Appointment and Authority.
Each of the Lenders and the LC Issuers hereby irrevocably appoints PNC to act on its behalf as
the Global Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Global Agent to
take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Global Agent by
the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto. The provisions of this Article IX are solely for the benefit of the Global Agent, the
Lenders and the LC Issuers, and no Credit Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of
any of such provisions.
Section 9.02 Rights as a Lender.
The Person serving as the Global Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its
capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Global
Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the
context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Global Agent hereunder in its
individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act
as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of
business with the Company, any other Credit Party or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate of any
Credit Party as if such Person were not the Global Agent hereunder and without any duty to account
therefor to the Lenders.
Section 9.03 Exculpatory Provisions.
The Global Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth
herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Global Agent:
(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary
powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan
Documents that the Global Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required
Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for
herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided that the Global Agent shall not be required to
take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Global Agent to
liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Law; and
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(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any
duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to
the Company, any other Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates that is communicated to
or obtained by the Person serving as the Global Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
The Global Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the
consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the
Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Global Agent shall believe in good faith shall be
necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 11.11 or 8.02) or (ii) in the absence of
its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Global Agent shall be deemed not to have
knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until notice describing such Default or
Event of Default is given to the Global Agent by the Company, a Lender or a LC Issuer.
The Global Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into
(i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered
hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance
of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or
genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or
document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein,
other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Global Agent.
Section 9.04 Reliance by Global Agent.
The Global Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying
upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing
(including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution)
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper
Person. The Global Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and
believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for
relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan,
or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a
Lender or a LC Issuer, the Global Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such
Lender or such LC Issuer unless the Global Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from
such Lender or such LC Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of
Credit. The Global Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Company),
independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action
taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
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Section 9.05 Delegation of Duties.
The Global Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers
hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by
the Global Agent. The Global Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties
and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory
provisions of this Article IX shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the
Global Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection
with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Global
Agent.
Section 9.06 Resignation of Global Agent.
The Global Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the LC Issuers
and the Company. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have
the right, with approval from the Company (so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing), to appoint a successor, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If
no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such
appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Global Agent gives notice of its
resignation, then the retiring Global Agent may on behalf of the Lenders and the LC Issuers,
appoint a successor Global Agent; provided that if the Global Agent shall notify the Company, the
Lenders and the LC Issuers that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such
resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (i) the retiring
Global Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Global Agent on behalf of
the Lenders or the LC Issuers under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Global Agent shall
continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Global Agent is appointed)
and (ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the
Global Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and each LC Issuer directly, until such
time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Global Agent as provided for above in this Section
9.06. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Global Agent hereunder, such successor
shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
retiring (or retired) Global Agent, and the retiring Global Agent shall be discharged from all of
its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged
therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Company to a successor
Global Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between
the Company and such successor. After the retiring Global Agent’s resignation hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article IX and Section 11.02 shall continue in
effect for the benefit of such retiring Global Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related
Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring
Global Agent was acting as Global Agent.
If PNC resigns as Global Agent under this Section 9.06, PNC shall also resign as an LC Issuer.
Upon the appointment of a successor Global Agent hereunder, such successor shall (i) succeed to
all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of PNC as a retiring LC Issuer and the Global
Agent and PNC shall be discharged from all of its respective duties and obligations as
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an LC Issuer and the Global Agent under the Loan Documents, and (ii) issue letters of credit in
substitution for the Letters of Credit issued by PNC, if any, outstanding at the time of such
succession or make other arrangement satisfactory to PNC to effectively assume the obligations of
PNC with respect to such Letters of Credit.
Section 9.07 Non-Reliance on Global Agent and Other Lenders.
Each Lender and each LC Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance
upon the Global Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision
to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and each LC Issuer also acknowledges that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Global Agent or any other Lender or any of their
Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem
appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon
this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished
hereunder or thereunder.
Section 9.08 Other Agents.
Any Lender identified herein as a Co-Agent, Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent, Managing
Agent, Manager, Lead Arranger, Arranger or any other corresponding title, other than “Global
Agent,” shall have no right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document except those applicable to all Lenders as such. Each Lender
acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any Lender so identified in deciding to
enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking any action hereunder.
Section 9.09 Global Agent’s Fee.
The Company shall pay to the Global Agent a nonrefundable fee under the terms of the Fee
Letter.
Section 9.10 Authorization to Release Collateral and Guarantors.
The Lenders and each LC Issuer authorize the Global Agent to release (i) any Collateral
consisting of assets or equity interests sold or otherwise disposed of in a sale or other
disposition or transfer permitted under Section 7.02, and (ii) any Guarantor from its obligations
under the Guaranty Agreement if the ownership interests in such Guarantor are sold or otherwise
disposed of or transferred to persons other than Credit Parties in a transaction permitted under
Section 7.02.
Section 9.11 No Reliance on Global Agent’s Customer Identification Program.
Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that neither such Lender, nor any of its Affiliates,
participants or assignees, may rely on the Global Agent to carry out such Lender’s, Affiliate’s,
participant’s or assignee’s customer identification program, or other obligations required or
imposed under or pursuant to the USA Patriot Act or the regulations thereunder, including the
regulations contained in 31 CFR 103.121 (as hereafter amended or replaced, the “CIP
Regulations”), or any other Anti-Terrorism Law, including any programs involving any of the
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following items relating to or in connection with any of the Credit Parties, their Affiliates
or their agents, the Loan Documents or the transactions hereunder or contemplated hereby: (i) any
identity verification procedures, (ii) any recordkeeping, (iii) comparisons with government lists,
(iv) customer notices or (v) other procedures required under the CIP Regulations or such other
Laws.
ARTICLE X — GUARANTY
Section 10.01 Guaranty by the Company.
The Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, for the benefit of the
Benefited Creditors, all of the following (collectively, the “Company Guaranteed
Obligations”): (a) (i) the principal of and interest on the Notes issued by, and the Loans made
to, and the other Obligations of, the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers under this Agreement, and (ii)
all reimbursement obligations and Unpaid Drawings with respect to Letters of Credit issued for the
benefit of any LC Obligor (other than the Company) under this Agreement, and (b) all amounts,
indemnities and reimbursement obligations, direct or indirect, contingent or absolute, of every
type or description, and at any time existing, owing by any Subsidiary of the Company under any
Designated Hedge Agreement or any other document or agreement executed and delivered in connection
therewith to any Designated Hedge Creditor, in all cases under subparts (a) or (b) above, whether
now existing, or hereafter incurred or arising, including any such interest or other amounts
incurred or arising during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership
or similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding or subject to
an automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code). Upon failure by any Credit Party
to pay punctually any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations, the Company shall forthwith on demand
by the Global Agent pay the amount not so paid at the place and in the currency and otherwise in
the manner specified in this Agreement or any other applicable agreement or instrument. This
guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
Section 10.02 Additional Undertaking.
As a separate, additional and continuing obligation, the Company unconditionally and
irrevocably undertakes and agrees, for the benefit of the Benefited Creditors that, should any
amounts not be recoverable from the Company under Section 10.01 for any reason whatsoever
(including, without limitation, by reason of any provision of any Loan Document or any other
agreement or instrument executed in connection therewith being or becoming void, unenforceable, or
otherwise invalid under any applicable law) then, notwithstanding any notice or knowledge thereof
by any Lender, the Global Agent, any of their respective Affiliates, or any other person, at any
time, the Company as sole, original and independent obligor, upon demand by the Global Agent, will
make payment to the Global Agent, for the account of the Benefited Creditors, of all such
obligations not so recoverable by way of full indemnity, in such currency and otherwise in such
manner as is provided in the Loan Documents or any other applicable agreement or instrument.
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Section 10.03 Guaranty Unconditional.
The obligations of the Company under this Article shall be unconditional and absolute and,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall not be released, discharged or otherwise
affected by the occurrence, one or more times, of any of the following:
(a) any extension, renewal, settlement, compromise, waiver or release in respect to any
Company Guaranteed Obligation under any agreement or instrument, by operation of law or otherwise;
(b) any modification or amendment of or supplement to this Agreement, any Note, any other Loan
Document, or any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed
Obligation;
(c) any release, non-perfection or invalidity of any direct or indirect security for any
Company Guaranteed Obligation under any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any
Company Guaranteed Obligation;
(d) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of any Credit Party or other
Subsidiary or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting any
Credit Party or other Subsidiary or its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any
obligation of any Credit Party or other Subsidiary contained in any agreement or instrument
evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation;
(e) the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights which the Company may have at any time
against any other Credit Party, the Global Agent, any Lender, any Affiliate of any Lender or any
other person, whether in connection herewith or any unrelated transactions;
(f) any invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against any other Credit Party for any
reason of any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation,
or any provision of applicable law or regulation purporting to prohibit the payment by any Credit
Party of any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations; or
(g) any other act or omission of any kind by any other Credit Party, the Global Agent, any
Lender or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions
of this Article, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a Subsidiary’s obligations under the
Subsidiary Guaranty or the Company’s obligations under this Article other than the irrevocable
payment in full of all Company Guaranteed Obligations.
Section 10.04 Company Obligations to Remain in Effect; Restoration.
The Company’s obligations under this Article shall remain in full force and effect until the
Commitments shall have terminated, and the principal of and interest on the Notes and other Company
Guaranteed Obligations, and all other amounts payable by the Company, any other Credit Party or
other Subsidiary, under the Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument evidencing or
relating to any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations, shall have been paid in full. If at any
time any payment of any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must be otherwise
restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or
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reorganization of such Credit Party, the Company’s obligations under this Article with respect
to such payment shall be reinstated at such time as though such payment had been due but not made
at such time.
Section 10.05 Waiver of Acceptance, etc.
The Company irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest and any notice
not provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any action be taken by any
person against any other Credit Party or any other Person, or against any collateral or guaranty of
any other Person.
Section 10.06 Subrogation.
Until the indefeasible payment in full of all of the Obligations and the termination of the
Commitments hereunder, the Company shall have no rights, by operation of law or otherwise, upon
making any payment under this Article to be subrogated to the rights of the payee against any other
Credit Party with respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated
by any such Credit Party in respect thereof.
Section 10.07 Effect of Stay.
In the event that acceleration of the time for payment of any amount payable by any Credit
Party under any Company Guaranteed Obligation is stayed upon insolvency, bankruptcy or
reorganization of such Credit Party, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the
terms of any applicable agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed
Obligation shall nonetheless be payable by the Company under this Article forthwith on demand by
the Global Agent.
ARTICLE XI — MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.01 Reserved.
Section 11.02 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(a) Costs and Expenses. The Borrowers shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out
of pocket expenses incurred by the Global Agent, the Collateral Agent and its Affiliates (including
the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Global Agent and the Collateral
Agent), and shall pay all fees and time charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be
employees of the Global Agent unless such costs result from services provided by such internal
counsel are duplicative of services then being provided by outside counsel to the Global Agent, the
Collateral Agent or any Affiliate, as applicable, in connection with the syndication of the credit
facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and
administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or
waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable and documented out of pocket expenses incurred
by any LC Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of
Credit or any demand for payment thereunder, (iii) all out of pocket expenses incurred by the
Global Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or
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any LC Issuer (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Global
Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any LC Issuer), and shall pay all fees and time charges
and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of the Global Agent, the Collateral Agent, any
Lender or any LC Issuer unless such costs result from services provided by such internal counsel
that are duplicative of services then being provided by outside counsel to the Global Agent, the
Collateral Agent, any Lender or any LC Issuer, as applicable, in connection with the enforcement or
protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with the Loans made or Letters of
Credit issued hereunder, including all such out of pocket expenses incurred during any workout,
restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit, and (iv) all
reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses of the Global Agent’s regular employees and agents
engaged periodically to perform audits of the Credit Parties’ books, records and business
properties.
(b) Indemnification by the Borrowers. The Borrowers shall indemnify the Global Agent
(and any sub-agent thereof), the Collateral Agent, each Lender and each LC Issuer, and each Related
Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”)
against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities
and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any
Indemnitee), and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all fees and time charges
and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of any Indemnitee unless such costs result
from services provided by such internal counsel that are duplicative of services then being
provided by outside counsel to any Indemnitee, incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any
Indemnitee by any third party or by the Borrowers or any other Credit Party arising out of, in
connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan
Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance or
nonperformance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit
or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by any LC Issuer to
honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with
such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) breach of
representations, warranties or covenants of the Borrowers under the Loan Documents, or (iv) any
actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the
foregoing, including any such items or losses relating to or arising under Environmental Laws or
pertaining to environmental matters, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether
brought by a third party or by the Borrowers or any other Credit Party, and regardless of whether
any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be
available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a
claim brought by the Borrowers or any other Credit Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad
faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Borrowers
or such Credit Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
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(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Borrowers for any reason fails
to indefeasibly pay any amount required under Section 11.02(a) or (b) to be paid by it to the
Global Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), any LC Issuer or any Related Party of any of the
foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Global Agent (or any such sub-agent), any LC
Issuer or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s Ratable Share (determined as of the
time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid
amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or
related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Global Agent (or any
such sub-agent) or any LC Issuer in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of
the foregoing acting for the Global Agent (or any such sub-agent) or any LC Issuer in connection
with such capacity.
(d) General Limitation of Liability; Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc.
(i) No claim may be made by any Credit Party, any Lender, the Global Agent, any LC Issuer or
any other Person against any Indemnitee for any damages other than actual compensatory damages in
respect of any claim for breach of contract or any other theory of liability arising out of or
related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or
any act, omission or event occurring in connection therewith.
(ii) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, the Credit Parties, the Lenders, the
Global Agent and the LC Issuers shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any
Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages
(as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of,
this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the
proceeds thereof, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist.
(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten
(10) days after demand therefor.
Section 11.03 Holidays.
Whenever payment of a Loan to be made or taken hereunder shall be due on a day which is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be due on the next Business Day (except as otherwise expressly
provided herein) and such extension of time shall be included in computing interest and fees,
except that the Loans shall be due on the Business Day preceding the Revolving Facility Termination
Date if the Revolving Facility Termination Date is not a Business Day. Whenever any payment or
action to be made or taken hereunder (other than payment of the Loans) shall be stated to be due on
a day which is not a Business Day, such payment or action shall be made or taken on the next
following Business Day, and such extension of time shall not be included in computing interest or
fees, if any, in connection with such payment or action.
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Section 11.04 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication.
(a) Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other communications
expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in Section 11.04(b), all
notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by
hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier (i)
if to a Lender, to it at its address set forth in its administrative questionnaire, or (ii) if to
any other Person, to it at its address set forth on Schedule 1.
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail,
shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by telecopier shall be deemed to
have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the
recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day
for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in
Section 11.04(b), shall be effective as provided in such Section.
(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and
any LC Issuer hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail
and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Global Agent; provided
that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or the LC Issuer if such Lender or the
LC Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Global Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices
under this Section by electronic communication. The Global Agent or the Company may, in their
respective discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by
electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such
procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless the Global Agent
otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be
deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such
as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written
acknowledgement); provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal
business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at
the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or
communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed
receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of
notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address
therefor.
(c) Change of Address, Etc. Any party hereto may change its address, e-mail address
or telecopier number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties
hereto.
Section 11.05 Successors and Assigns.
(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure
to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns; provided, however, that no Borrower may assign or transfer any of its rights or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of all the Lenders (other than
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any Defaulting Lender), and, provided, further, that any assignment or participation by a
Lender of any of its rights and obligations hereunder shall be effected in accordance with this
Section.
(b) Participations. Each Lender may at any time grant participations in any of its
rights hereunder or under any of the Notes to an Eligible Assignee, provided that in the case of
any such participation,
(i) the participant shall not have any rights under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, including rights of consent, approval or waiver (the participant’s rights against such
Lender in respect of such participation to be those set forth in the agreement executed by such
Lender in favor of the participant relating thereto),
(ii) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its
Commitments hereunder) shall remain unchanged,
(iii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the
performance of such obligations,
(iv) such Lender shall remain the holder of any Note for all purposes of this Agreement, and
(v) the Borrowers, the Global Agent, and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and
directly with the selling Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement, and all amounts payable by the Borrowers hereunder shall be determined as if such Lender
had not sold such participation, except that the participant shall be entitled to the benefits of
Article III to the extent that such Lender would be entitled to such benefits if the participation
had not been entered into or sold,
and, provided further, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Lender
shall transfer, grant or sell any participation under which the participant shall have rights to
approve any amendment to or waiver of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or consent to the
departure therefrom except to the extent such amendment or waiver or consent would (w) extend the
final scheduled maturity of the Loans or Letter of Credit in which such participant is
participating, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or Fees thereon (except
in connection with a waiver of the applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates),
or reduce the principal amount thereof or extend the time of payment thereof, or increase such
participant’s participating interest in any Commitment over the amount thereof then in effect (it
being understood that a waiver of any Default or Event of Default shall not constitute a change in
the terms of any such Commitment), (x) release all or any substantial portion of the Collateral, or
release any guarantor from its guaranty of any of the Obligations, except strictly in accordance
with the terms of the Loan Documents, or (y) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Borrower
of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement.
(c) Assignments by Lenders.
(i) Any Lender may assign all, or if less than all, a fixed portion, of its Loans, Revolving
Facility LC Participations, Canadian LC Participations, Swing Loan Participations and/or
Commitments and its rights and obligations hereunder to one or more
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Eligible Assignees, each of which shall become a party to this Agreement as a Lender by
execution of an Assignment Agreement; provided, however, that
(A) except in the case (x) of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning
Lender’s Loans and/or Commitments or (y) an assignment to another Lender, an Affiliate of such
Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender, the aggregate amount of the Revolving
Commitment so assigned (which for this purpose includes the Loans outstanding thereunder) shall not
be less than $5,000,000;
(B) no Lender that is a Canadian Lender (whether directly or by its Canadian Lending
Installation) may (i) at any time prior to the Equalization Date, assign any portion of its
Revolving Commitment (including the outstanding Revolving Loans made by it thereunder) without also
assigning to the same Eligible Assignee (or the Canadian Lending Installation of such Eligible
Assignee) a proportionate amount of the Canadian Commitment (and the outstanding Canadian Revolving
Loans made by it thereunder) of such Lender (or the Canadian Lending Installation of such Lender),
or (ii) assign any portion of its Canadian Commitment to an Eligible Assignee who is (or whose
Canadian Lending Installation is) not a resident of Canada within the meaning of the Income Tax Act
(Canada) for the purposes of the withholding tax provisions in Part XIII of the Income Tax Act
(Canada);
(C) in the case of any assignment to an Eligible Assignee at the time of any such assignment
the Lender Register shall be deemed modified to reflect the Commitments of such new Lender and of
the existing Lenders;
(D) upon surrender of the old Notes, if any, upon request of the new Lender, new Notes will be
issued, at the Borrowers’ expense, to such new Lender and to the assigning Lender, to the extent
needed to reflect the revised Commitments; and
(E) unless waived by the Global Agent, the Global Agent shall receive at the time of each such
assignment, from the assigning or assignee Lender, the payment of a non-refundable assignment fee
of $3,500.
(ii) To the extent of any assignment pursuant to this subpart (c), the assigning Lender shall
be relieved of its obligations hereunder with respect to its assigned Commitments.
(iii) At the time of each assignment pursuant to this subpart (c) to a Person that is not
already a Lender hereunder and that is not a United States Person (as such term is defined in
Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for Federal income tax purposes the respective assignee Lender
shall provide to the Company and the Global Agent the appropriate Internal Revenue Service Forms
(and, if applicable an Exemption Certificate) described in Section 3.03. To the extent that an
assignment of all or any portion of a Lender’s Commitment and related outstanding Obligations
pursuant to this subpart (c) would, at the time of such assignment, result in increased costs under
Section 3.02 from those being charged by the respective assigning Lender prior to such assignment,
then the Company shall not be obligated to pay such increased costs (although the Borrowers shall
be obligated to pay any other increased costs of the type described above resulting from changes
after the date of the respective assignment).
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(iv) With respect to any Lender, the transfer of any Commitment of such Lender and the rights
to the principal of, and interest on, any Loan made pursuant to such Commitment shall not be
effective until such transfer is recorded on the Lender Register maintained by the Global Agent
with respect to ownership of such Commitment and Loans and prior to such recordation all amounts
owing to the transferor with respect to such Commitment and Loans shall remain owing to the
transferor. The registration of assignment or transfer of all or part of any Commitments and Loans
shall be recorded by the Global Agent on the Lender Register only upon the acceptance by the Global
Agent of a properly executed and delivered Assignment Agreement pursuant to this subpart (c).
(v) Nothing in this Section shall prevent or prohibit (A) any Lender that is a bank, trust
company or other financial institution from pledging its Notes or Loans to a Federal Reserve Bank
in support of borrowings made by such Lender from such Federal Reserve Bank, or (B) any Lender that
is a trust, limited liability company, partnership or other investment company from pledging its
Notes or Loans to a trustee or agent for the benefit of holders of certificates or debt securities
issued by it. No such pledge, or any assignment pursuant to or in lieu of an enforcement of such a
pledge, shall relieve the transferor Lender from its obligations hereunder.
(d) No SEC Registration or Blue Sky Compliance. Notwithstanding any other provisions
of this Section, no transfer or assignment of the interests or obligations of any Lender hereunder
or any grant of participation therein shall be permitted if such transfer, assignment or grant
would require any Borrower to file a registration statement with the SEC or to qualify the Loans
under the “Blue Sky” laws of any state.
(e) Representations of Lenders. Each Lender initially party to this Agreement hereby
represents, and each Person that becomes a Lender pursuant to an assignment permitted by this
Section will, upon its becoming party to this Agreement, represent that it is a commercial lender,
other financial institution or other “accredited” investor (as defined in SEC Regulation D) that
makes or acquires loans in the ordinary course of its business and that it will make or acquire
Loans for its own account in the ordinary course of such business; provided, however, that subject
to the preceding Section 11.05(b) and (c), the disposition of any promissory notes or other
evidences of or interests in Indebtedness held by such Lender shall at all times be within its
exclusive control.
Section 11.06 No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative.
No failure or delay on the part of the Global Agent or any Lender in exercising any right,
power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document and no course of dealing between the
Borrowers and the Global Agent or any Lender shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan
Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power
or privilege hereunder or thereunder. No notice to or demand on any Borrower in any case shall
entitle such Borrower to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or
constitute a waiver of the rights of the Global Agent or the Lenders to any other or further action
in any circumstances without notice or demand. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
the making of a Loan or any LC Issuance shall not be construed as a waiver of
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any Default or Event of Default, regardless of whether the Global Agent, any Lender or any LC
Issuer may have had notice or knowledge of such Default or Event of Default at the time. The
rights and remedies herein expressly provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or
remedies that the Global Agent or any Lender would otherwise have.
Section 11.07 CHOICE OF LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF VENUE; SERVICE OF
PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
(a) Governing Law. This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract under the Laws of
the State of Ohio without regard to its conflict of laws principles. Each standby Letter of Credit
issued under this Agreement shall be subject either to the rules of the Uniform Customs and
Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of
Commerce (the “ICC”) at the time of issuance (“UCP”) or the rules of the
International Standby Practices (ICC Publication Number 590) (“ISP98”), as determined by
any LC Issuer, and each trade Letter of Credit shall be subject to UCP, and in each case to the
extent not inconsistent therewith, the Laws of the State of Ohio without regard to is conflict of
laws principles.
(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH BORROWER AND EACH OTHER CREDIT PARTY IRREVOCABLY
AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE
COURTS OF THE STATE OF OHIO SITTING IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF
THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR
RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND
DETERMINED IN SUCH OHIO STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH
FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR
PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT
OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT
SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE GLOBAL AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY LC ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO
BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST THE
BORROWERS OR ANY OTHER CREDIT PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH BORROWER AND EACH OTHER CREDIT PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT
MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN THIS SECTION
11.07. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE
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FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE
MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT AND AGREES NOT ASSERT ANY SUCH DEFENSE.
(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS
IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 11.05. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE
RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
(e) WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY
OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, GLOBAL AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF
ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE
EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE
OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS
BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
Section 11.08 Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties
hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original,
but all of which shall together constitute one and the same agreement. A set of counterparts
executed by all the parties hereto shall be lodged with the Company and the Global Agent.
Section 11.09 Integration.
This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to
fees payable to the Global Agent, for its own account and benefit and/or for the account, benefit
of, and distribution to, the Lenders, constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to
the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and
understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof or thereof.
Section 11.10 Headings Descriptive.
The headings of the several Sections and other portions of this Agreement are inserted for
convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or construction of any provision of
this Agreement.
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Section 11.11 Amendment or Waiver.
(a) Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document, nor any terms hereof or thereof, may
be amended, changed, waived or otherwise modified unless such amendment, change, waiver or
other modification is in writing and signed by the Borrowers and the Global Agent, and also signed
(or consented to in writing) by the Required Lenders; provided, however, that
(i) no change, waiver or other modification shall:
(A) increase the amount of any Commitment of any Lender hereunder, without the written consent
of such Lender;
(B) extend or postpone the Revolving Facility Termination Date or the maturity date provided
for herein that is applicable to any Loan of any Lender, extend or postpone the expiration date of
any Letter of Credit as to which such Lender is a Revolving Facility LC Participant or Canadian LC
Participant, as applicable, beyond the latest expiration date for a Letter of Credit provided for
herein, or extend or postpone any scheduled expiration or termination date provided for herein that
is applicable to a Commitment of any Lender, without the written consent of such Lender;
(C) reduce the principal amount of or extend the time of payment of any Loan made by any
Lender, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of, or excuse the payment of, interest
thereon (other than as a result of waiving the applicability of any post-default increase in
interest rates), without the written consent of such Lender;
(D) reduce the amount of any Unpaid Drawing as to which any Lender is a Revolving Facility LC
Participant or Canadian LC Participant, as the case may be, or reduce the rate or extend the time
of payment of, or excuse the payment of, interest thereon (other than as a result of waiving the
applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates), without the written consent of such
Lender; or
(E) reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of, or excuse the payment of, any Fees to
which any Lender is entitled hereunder, without the written consent of such Lender; and
(ii) no change, waiver or other modification or termination shall, without the written consent
of each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) affected thereby,
(A) release any Borrower from any of its obligations, except with respect to the release of a
Foreign Subsidiary Borrower made pursuant to Section 2.19;
(B) release the Company from its guaranty obligations under Article X or release any Credit
Party from the Subsidiary Guaranty, except, in the case of a Subsidiary Guarantor, in accordance
with a transaction permitted under this Agreement (including without limitation under Section
9.10);
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(C) release all or any substantial portion of the Collateral, except in accordance with
Section 2.20 or in connection with a transaction permitted under this Agreement;
(D) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section 11.11, Section 8.03, or Section 8.04,
or any other provision of any of the Loan Documents pursuant to which the consent or approval of
all Lenders, or a number or specified percentage or other required grouping of Lenders or Lenders
having Commitments, is by the terms of such provision explicitly required;
(E) reduce the percentage specified in, or otherwise modify, the definition of Required
Lenders;
(F) alter the manner in which payments or prepayments of principal, interest or other amounts
hereunder shall be applied as among the Lenders or Types of Loans; or
(G) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Borrower of any of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement.
Any waiver, consent, amendment or other modification with respect to this Agreement given or made
in accordance with this Section shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
specific purpose for which it was given or made.
(b) No provision of Section 2.06, Section 2.07 or any other provision in this Agreement
specifically relating to Letters of Credit or Article IX may be amended without the consent of (x)
any LC Issuer adversely affected thereby or (y) the Global Agent, respectively.
(c) To the extent the Required Lenders (or all of the Lenders (other than any Defaulting
Lender), as applicable, as shall be required by this Section) waive the provisions of Section 7.02
with respect to the sale, transfer or other disposition of any Collateral, or any Collateral is
sold, transferred or disposed of as permitted by Section 7.02, (i) such Collateral shall be sold,
transferred or disposed of free and clear of the Liens created by the respective Security
Documents; (ii) if such Collateral includes all of the capital stock of a Subsidiary that is a
party to the Subsidiary Guaranty or whose stock is pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement, such
capital stock shall be released from the Security Agreement and such Subsidiary shall be released
from the Subsidiary Guaranty; and (iii) the Global Agent shall be authorized to take actions deemed
appropriate by it in order to effectuate the foregoing.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing in this Section 11.11, if in connection with any proposed
waiver, amendment or modification referred to in subsections (a), (b) and (c) above, the consent of
the Required Lenders is obtained but the consent of one or more of such other Lenders whose consent
is required is not obtained (each a “Non-Consenting Lender”), then the Borrowers shall have
the right to replace any such Non-Consenting Lender with one or more replacement Lenders pursuant
to Section 2.16(b).
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Section 11.12 Survival of Indemnities.
All indemnities set forth herein including, without limitation, in Article III (subject to the
limitations set forth Section 3.02(d)) or Section 11.02 shall survive the execution and delivery of
this Agreement and the making and repayment of the Obligations.
Section 11.13 Domicile of Loans.
Each Lender may transfer and carry its Loans at, to or for the account of any branch office,
subsidiary or affiliate of such Lender, including any Canadian Lending Installation; provided,
however, that the Borrowers shall not be responsible for costs arising under Section 3.02 resulting
from any such transfer to the extent not otherwise applicable to such Lender prior to such
transfer.
Section 11.14 Confidentiality.
(a) Each of the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and the Lenders agrees to maintain the
confidentiality of the Confidential Information, except that Confidential Information may be
disclosed (i) to its Affiliates and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents,
including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the persons to
whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Confidential
Information and instructed to keep such Confidential Information confidential), (ii) to any direct
or indirect contractual counterparty in any Hedge Agreement (or to any such contractual
counterparty’s professional advisor, so long as such contractual counterparty (or such professional
advisor) agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section, (iii) to the extent requested by any
regulatory authority or required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar
legal process, provided that unless specifically prohibited by applicable law, regulation or court
order, each Lender shall make reasonable efforts to notify the Company of any such request or
requirement prior to disclosure of such information (other than any request in connection with any
examination of the financial condition or other routine examination of such Lender by such
Governmental Authority), (iv) to any other party to this Agreement, (v) to any other
creditor of any Credit Party that is one of the Secured Parties (as defined in the Security
Agreement) under the Security Agreement, so long as such creditor agrees to be bound by the
provisions of this Section, (vi) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under
any of the other Loan Documents, or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or
any of the other Loan Documents or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (vii) subject
to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to any
assignee of or participant in, or any prospective assignee of or participant in, any of its rights
or obligations under this Agreement, (viii) with the consent of the Company, or (ix) to the extent
such Confidential Information (A) is or becomes publicly available other than as a result of a
breach of this Section, or (B) becomes available to the Global Agent, any LC Issuer or any Lender
on a non-confidential basis from a source other than a Credit Party and not otherwise in violation
of this Section.
(b) As used in this Section, “Confidential Information” shall mean all information
received from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating to such Person or its business, other
than any such information that is available to the Global Agent, any LC Issuer or
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any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by such Person; provided, however,
that, in the case of information received from such Person after the Closing Date, such information
is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential.
(c) Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Confidential Information as
provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such
Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Confidential
Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information. The Borrowers hereby
agree that the failure of the Global Agent, any LC Issuer or any Lender to comply with the
provisions of this Section shall not relieve any Borrower, or any other Credit Party, of any of its
obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
Section 11.15 [Reserved]
Section 11.16 No Duty.
All attorneys, accountants, appraisers, consultants and other professional persons (including
the firms or other entities on behalf of which any such Person may act) retained by the Global
Agent or any Lender with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have
the right to act exclusively in the interest of the Global Agent or such Lender, as the case may
be, and shall have no duty of disclosure, duty of loyalty, duty of care, or other duty or
obligation of any type or nature whatsoever to the Company, to any of its Subsidiaries, or to any
other Person, with respect to any matters within the scope of such representation or related to
their activities in connection with such representation. Each Borrower agrees, on behalf of itself
and its Subsidiaries, not to assert any claim or counterclaim against any such persons with regard
to such matters, all such claims and counterclaims, now existing or hereafter arising, whether
known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseeable, being hereby waived, released and forever discharged.
Section 11.17 Lenders and Agent Not Fiduciary to Borrowers, etc.
The relationship among the Company and its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Global
Agent, each LC Issuer and the Lenders, on the other hand, is solely that of debtor and creditor,
and the Global Agent, each LC Issuer and the Lenders have no fiduciary or other special
relationship with the Company and its Subsidiaries, and no term or provision of any Loan Document,
no course of dealing, no written or oral communication, or other action, shall be construed so as
to deem such relationship to be other than that of debtor and creditor.
Section 11.18 Survival of Representations and Warranties.
All representations and warranties herein shall survive the making of Loans and all LC
Issuances hereunder, the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Notes and the other
documents the forms of which are attached as Exhibits hereto, the issue and delivery of the Notes,
any disposition thereof by any holder thereof, and any investigation made by the Global Agent or
any Lender or any other holder of any of the Notes or on its behalf. All statements contained in
any certificate or other document delivered to the Global Agent or any Lender or any holder of any
Notes by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant hereto or otherwise
specifically for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby
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shall constitute representations and warranties by the Borrowers hereunder, made as of the
respective dates specified therein or, if no date is specified, as of the respective dates
furnished to the Global Agent or any Lender.
Section 11.19 Severability.
Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity,
illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular
jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 11.20 Independence of Covenants.
All covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular action,
event, condition or circumstance is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it would
be permitted by an exception to, or would otherwise be within the limitations or restrictions of,
another covenant, shall not avoid the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default if such action
is taken or event, condition or circumstance exists.
Section 11.21 Interest Rate Limitation.
(a) Maximum Rate. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the
interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are
treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively, the “Charges”), shall
exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged,
taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the
rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in
respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and
Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of
the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such
Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate
therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Base Rate to the date
of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
(b) Canadian Interest Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in
no event shall the aggregate “interest” (as defined in section 347 of the Criminal Code, Revised
Statutes of Canada, 1985, C. 46 as the same may be amended, replaced or re-enacted from time to
time) payable under this Agreement with respect to the Canadian Obligations exceed the effective
annual rate of interest on the “credit advanced” (as defined in that section) under this Agreement
lawfully permitted under that section and, if any payment, collection or demand pursuant to this
Agreement in respect of “interest” (as defined in that section) is determined to be contrary to the
provisions of that section, such payment, collection or demand shall be deemed to have been made by
mutual mistake of the applicable Canadian Borrower and the Canadian Lenders and the amount of such
payment or collection shall be refunded to such Canadian Borrower; for purposes of this Agreement
the effective annual rate of interest shall be determined in accordance with generally accepted
actuarial practices and
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principles over the term of the applicable credit advanced on the basis of annual compounding
of the lawfully permitted rate of interest and, in the event of dispute, a certificate of a Fellow
of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries appointed by the Global Agent will be conclusive for the
purposes of such determination. The amount of the payment that is to be refunded will be
determined by the Global Agent.
Section 11.22 Judgment Currency.
If the Global Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, obtains a judgment or judgments against any
Borrower in a Designated Foreign Currency, the obligations of such Borrower in respect of any sum
adjudged to be due to the Global Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the Notes (the
“Judgment Amount”) shall be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day
following receipt by the Global Agent of the Judgment Amount in the Designated Foreign Currency,
the Global Agent, in accordance with normal banking procedures, may purchase Dollars with the
Judgment Amount in such Designated Foreign Currency. If the amount of Dollars so purchased is less
than the amount of Dollars that could have been purchased with the Judgment Amount on the date or
dates the Judgment Amount (excluding the portion of the Judgment Amount which has accrued as a
result of the failure of such Borrower to pay the sum originally due hereunder or under the Notes
when it was originally due hereunder or under the Notes) was originally due and owing (the
“Original Due Date”) to the Global Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the Notes (the
“Loss”), such Borrower agrees as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such
judgment, to indemnify the Global Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, against the Loss, and
if the amount of Dollars so purchased exceeds the amount of Dollars that could have been purchased
with the Judgment Amount on the Original Due Date, the Global Agent or such Lender agrees to remit
such excess to such Borrower.
Section 11.23 USA Patriot Act Notification.
Each Lender and the Global Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies
the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act
such Lender and the Global Agent are required to obtain, verify and record information that
identifies each of the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties, which information includes the name
and address of each of the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties and other information that will
allow such Lender or the Global Agent, as applicable, to identify each of the Borrowers and the
other Credit Parties in accordance with the USA Patriot Act.
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Section 11.24 Amendment and Restatement; No Novation.
The Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as provided
herein, and this Agreement is not intended to constitute, nor does it constitute, an interruption,
suspension of continuity, satisfaction, discharge of prior duties, novation, or termination of the
liens, security interests, indebtedness, loans, liabilities, expenses, or obligations under the
Existing Credit Agreement. Security interests and Liens taken pursuant to any of the Loan
Documents (including those executed in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement) to secure the
Obligations are not affected by this amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement and
continue to remain in effect as security for the Obligations.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused a counterpart of this Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a
Lender, a LC Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and the
Global Agent
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/s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx |
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Senior Vice President |
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PNC BANK CANADA BRANCH, as a Canadian
Lender
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxx / /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
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Xxxx Xxxxx / Xxxx Xxxxx |
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Assistant Vice President / Senior Vice
President & Principal Officer |
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender and a
Co-Syndication Agent
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as a Lender,
as a Canadian Lender and a Co-Syndication Agent
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a
Lender and a Co-Documentation Agent
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/s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxx |
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Title: |
Senior Vice President |
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THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, as a Lender, as
a Canadian Lender and a Co-Documentation Agent
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/s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Director |
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RBS CITIZENS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as a Lender
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A., as a Lender
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxx Xxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY, as a
Lender
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/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice President |
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FIFTH THIRD BANK, as a Lender
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/s/ Xxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Xxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: |
Vice president |
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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a
Lender
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/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Vice President |
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THE BANK OF TOKYO — MITSUBISHI UFJ,
LTD., as a Lender
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/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx |
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Authorized Signatory |
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BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as a Lender
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/s/ X. Xxxxx
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X. Xxxxx |
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Relationship Director |
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THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE
BANK OF IRELAND, as a Lender
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/s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxx Xxxxx |
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Authorized Signatory |
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: |
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
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Authorized Signatory |
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UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH, as a Lender
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/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx |
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Associate Director |
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/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxx |
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Associate Director |
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