US$500,000,000 CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of September 16, 2016, among DOVER CORPORATION, The LENDERS Party Hereto, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Syndication...
Exhibit 10.1
US$500,000,000
dated as of
September 16, 2016,
among
DOVER CORPORATION,
The LENDERS Party Hereto,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. and
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Syndication Agents,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
XXXXXXX LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED and
XXXXX FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I | ||||
DEFINITIONS | ||||
SECTION 1.01. Definitions |
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SECTION 1.02. Accounting Terms and Determinations |
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SECTION 1.03. Classification of Loans and Borrowings |
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SECTION 1.04. Currency Translation |
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SECTION 1.05. Terms Generally |
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ARTICLE II | ||||
The Credits | ||||
SECTION 2.01. Commitments |
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SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings |
14 | |||
SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings |
14 | |||
SECTION 2.04. [Reserved] |
15 | |||
SECTION 2.05. Funding of Borrowings |
15 | |||
SECTION 2.06. Interest Elections |
15 | |||
SECTION 2.07. Termination and Reduction of Commitments |
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SECTION 2.08. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
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SECTION 2.09. Prepayment of Loans |
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SECTION 2.10. Fees |
17 | |||
SECTION 2.11. Interest |
18 | |||
SECTION 2.12. Alternate Rate of Interest |
18 | |||
SECTION 2.13. Increased Costs |
19 | |||
SECTION 2.14. Break Funding Payments |
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SECTION 2.15. Taxes |
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SECTION 2.16. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs |
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SECTION 2.17. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
24 | |||
SECTION 2.18. [Reserved] |
25 | |||
SECTION 2.19. [Reserved] |
25 | |||
SECTION 2.20. [Reserved] |
25 | |||
SECTION 2.21. Illegality |
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ARTICLE III | ||||
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | ||||
SECTION 3.01. Corporate Existence and Power |
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SECTION 3.02. Corporate and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention |
25 | |||
SECTION 3.03. Binding Effect |
25 | |||
SECTION 3.04. Financial Information; No Material Adverse Change |
26 | |||
SECTION 3.05. Litigation |
26 | |||
SECTION 3.06. Compliance with ERISA |
26 | |||
SECTION 3.07. Environmental Matters |
26 | |||
SECTION 3.08. Taxes |
27 | |||
SECTION 3.09. Subsidiaries |
27 | |||
SECTION 3.10. Not an Investment Company |
27 | |||
SECTION 3.11. Full Disclosure |
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SECTION 3.12. Federal Reserve Regulations |
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SECTION 3.13. Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions |
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ARTICLE IV | ||||
CONDITIONS | ||||
SECTION 4.01. Effectiveness |
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SECTION 4.02. Borrowing |
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ARTICLE V | ||||
COVENANTS | ||||
SECTION 5.01. Information |
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SECTION 5.02. Payment of Obligations |
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SECTION 5.03. Maintenance of Property; Insurance |
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SECTION 5.04. Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence |
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SECTION 5.05. Compliance with Laws |
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SECTION 5.06. Inspection of Property, Books and Records |
31 | |||
SECTION 5.07. Interest Coverage Ratio |
31 | |||
SECTION 5.08. Negative Pledge |
32 | |||
SECTION 5.09. Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets |
32 | |||
SECTION 5.10. Use of Proceeds |
32 | |||
ARTICLE VI | ||||
EVENTS OF DEFAULT | ||||
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default |
33 | |||
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Default |
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ARTICLE VII | ||||
THE AGENT | ||||
SECTION 7.01. Appointment and Authorization |
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SECTION 7.02. Agent and Affiliates |
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SECTION 7.03. Action by Agent |
35 | |||
SECTION 7.04. Consultation with Experts |
35 | |||
SECTION 7.05. Liability of Agent |
35 | |||
SECTION 7.06. Credit Decision |
36 | |||
SECTION 7.07. Successor Agent |
36 | |||
SECTION 7.08. Arrangers and Syndication Agents |
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ARTICLE VIII | ||||
[Reserved] | ||||
ARTICLE IX | ||||
MISCELLANEOUS | ||||
SECTION 9.01. Notices |
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SECTION 9.02. No Waivers |
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SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnification |
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SECTION 9.04. Amendments and Waivers |
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SECTION 9.05. Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 9.06. Collateral |
42 | |||
SECTION 9.07. Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
42 | |||
SECTION 9.08. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
42 | |||
SECTION 9.09. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
43 | |||
SECTION 9.10. Conversion of Currencies |
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SECTION 9.11. Interest Rate Limitation |
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SECTION 9.12. USA Patriot Act |
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SECTION 9.13. Confidentiality |
43 | |||
SECTION 9.14. No Fiduciary Relationship |
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SECTION 9.15. Headings |
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SECTION 9.16. Severability |
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SECTION 9.17. Non-Public Information |
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SECTION 9.18. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions |
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Schedule 2.01 | - | Commitments | ||
Exhibit A | — | Form of Assignment and Assumption | ||
Exhibit B | — | Form of Opinion of Counsel for the Company | ||
Exhibit C | — | Form of Note | ||
Exhibit D-1 | — | Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate for Non-US Lenders that are not Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes | ||
Exhibit D-2 | — | Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate for Non-US Participants that are not Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes | ||
Exhibit D-3 | — | Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate for Non-US Participants that are Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes | ||
Exhibit D-4 | — | Form of US Tax Compliance Certificate for Non-US Lenders that are Partnerships for US Federal Income Tax Purposes | ||
Exhibit E | — | Form of Notice of Borrowing |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of September 16, 2016 (this “Agreement”), among DOVER CORPORATION, the LENDERS party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Agent.
The Company (such term, and each other capitalized term used and not otherwise defined in these recitals having the meaning assigned to it in Article I) has requested the Lenders to extend credit to enable the Company to borrow term loans in an aggregate principal amount of up to US$500,000,000. The proceeds of borrowings hereunder are to be used to provide a portion of the funds required for the Xxxxx Acquisition or to repay other Indebtedness incurred to fund the Xxxxx Acquisition.
The Lenders are willing to extend such credit to the Company on the terms and subject to the conditions herein set forth.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. Definitions. The following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings:
“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate per annum determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the product of (i) the LIBO Rate for US Dollars for such Interest Period multiplied by (ii) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means, with respect to each Lender, an administrative questionnaire in the form supplied by the Agent and submitted to the Agent (with a copy to the Company) duly completed by such Lender.
“Affiliate” means, at any time, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified at such time.
“Agent” means JPMCB in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder, and its successors in such capacity. Unless the context requires otherwise, the term “Agent” shall include any Affiliate of JPMCB through which JPMCB shall perform any of its obligations in such capacity hereunder.
“Agreement” has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.
“Agreement Currency” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10(b).
“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus 1⁄2 of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) for a deposit in US Dollars with a maturity of one month plus 1%. For purposes of clause (c) above, the Adjusted LIBO Rate on any day shall be based on the rate per annum appearing on the applicable Reuters screen page (currently page LIBOR01) displaying interest rates for US Dollar deposits
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
in the London interbank market (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a page of the Reuters screen, on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate as shall be selected by the Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day for deposits in US Dollars with a maturity of one month. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, as the case may be.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and all other laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries concerning or relating to bribery, money laundering or corruption.
“Applicable Creditor” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10(b).
“Applicable Funding Account” means, as to the Company, the account that shall be specified in a written notice signed by a Financial Officer of the Company and delivered to and approved by the Agent.
“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any LIBOR Loan, any ABR Loan or the commitment fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “LIBOR Spread”, “ABR Spread”, or “Commitment Fee Rate”, as the case may be, based upon the ratings by S&P and Xxxxx’x, respectively, applicable on such date to the Index Debt:
Index Debt Ratings |
LIBOR Spread | ABR Spread | Commitment Fee Rate |
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Category 1 A2/A or higher |
0.750 | % | 0.000 | % | 0.070 | % | ||||||
Category 2 A3/A- |
0.875 | % | 0.000 | % | 0.070 | % | ||||||
Category 3 Baa1/BBB+ or lower |
1.000 | % | 0.000 | % | 0.070 | % |
For purposes of the foregoing, (i) if either Xxxxx’x or S&P shall not have in effect a rating for the Index Debt (other than by reason of the circumstances referred to in the last sentence of this definition), then such rating agency shall be deemed to have established a rating in Category 3; (ii) if the ratings established or deemed to have been established by Xxxxx’x and S&P for the Index Debt shall fall within different Categories, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the higher of the two ratings unless either rating is or is deemed to be in Category 3, in which case the Applicable Rate shall be determined by reference to Category 3 and (iii) if the ratings established or deemed to have been established by Xxxxx’x and S&P for the Index Debt shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of Xxxxx’x or S&P), such change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency. Each change in the Applicable Rate shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of Xxxxx’x or S&P shall change, or if either such rating agency shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Company and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings from such rating agency and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Rate shall be determined by reference to the rating most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation.
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
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“Arrangers” means JPMCB, Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated and Xxxxx Fargo Securities, LLC, in their capacities as the joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners for the credit facility provided for herein.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, with the consent of any Person whose consent is required by Section 9.05, and accepted by the Agent, in the form of Exhibit A.
“Availability Period” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date of termination of the Commitments.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Benefit Arrangement” means at any time an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which is not a Plan or a Multiemployer Plan and which is maintained or otherwise contributed to by any member of the ERISA Group.
“Board of Governors” shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Borrowing” means Loans of the same Type made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of LIBOR Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
“Borrowing Minimum” shall mean US$10,000,000.
“Borrowing Multiple” shall mean US$1,000,000.
“Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that when used in connection with a LIBOR Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in deposits in US Dollars in the London interbank market.
“Capital Lease”, as applied to any Person, means any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee which, in accordance with GAAP, is or should be accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the date of this Agreement), of Equity Interests representing more than 30% of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Company; or (b) during any period of 12 consecutive months after the Effective Date, a majority of the members of the board of directors of the Company cease (other than by reason of death or disability) to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of the board on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election, appointment or nomination to the board was approved by individuals referred to in cause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of the board or (iii) whose election, appointment or nomination to the board was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and/or (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of the board. For purposes of determining a majority of the members of the board of directors, vacant seats shall not be included.
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“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 rule, regulation, treaty or other law, (b) any change in any rule, regulation, treaty or other law or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, promulgated or issued.
“Charges” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.11.
“Commitments” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Loans pursuant to Section 2.01, as such commitment may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 or assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.05. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed or acquired its Commitment, as the case may be. The aggregate amount of the Commitments on the Effective Date is US$500,000,000.
“Company” means Dover Corporation, a Delaware corporation, its successors and permitted assigns in accordance with Section 9.05.
“Company Revolving Credit Agreement” means the Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2015, among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company, the lenders thereunder, JPMCB as administrative agent and the other parties thereto.
“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (i) Consolidated Net Interest Expense for such period, (ii) consolidated income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization for such period, (iv) any extraordinary non-cash charges for such period and (v) any non-cash charges for such period related to plant closings or other restructurings of operations or to the writedown of assets (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any additions to bad debt reserves or bad debt expense and any such non-cash charge to the extent it represents an accrual of or a reserve for cash expenditures in any future period), and minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in determining such Consolidated Net Income, any extraordinary gains for such period, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income or loss of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding therefrom any portion thereof attributable to any non-controlling interest in any Subsidiary); provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income of any Subsidiary in which any Person (other than the Company or any Subsidiary or any director holding qualifying shares in compliance with applicable law) owns an Equity Interest, except to the extent that the organizational documents and indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon such Subsidiary do not restrict the ability of such Subsidiary to declare and pay dividends or other distributions to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries in an amount at least equal to such income, (b) the income or loss of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the Company or any Subsidiary or the date that such Person’s assets are acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary and (c) without limiting anything in Section 1.02, the net impact of cumulative changes to GAAP.
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“Consolidated Net Interest Expense” means for any period for which such amount is being determined, total interest expense (including that properly attributable to Capital Leases in accordance with GAAP and amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs) of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including all capitalized interest, all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financings and net costs under interest rate protection agreements (including amortization of discount) all as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, minus the total interest income of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means at any date the consolidated stockholders’ equity of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries determined as of such date.
“Consolidated Subsidiary” means at any date any Subsidiary or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the Company in its consolidated financial statements if such statements were prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Control” means, for a specified Person, the possession, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of another Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling”, “Controlled” and “Controls” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Debt” of any Person means at any date, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business, (d) all obligations of such Person as lessee under Capital Leases, (e) all non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts which, at such date, have been paid under a letter of credit or similar instrument, (f) all Debt secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Debt is otherwise an obligation of such Person, and (g) all Debt of others Guaranteed by such Person.
“Default” means any condition or event which constitutes an Event of Default or which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any institution established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clause (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 shall be satisfied or waived.
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“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person, other than, in each case, a natural person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural person), or the Company or any Subsidiary.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all federal, state, local and foreign governmental (whether executive, legislative or judicial) statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, plans, injunctions, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements and other governmental restrictions relating to the environment, the effect of the environment or exposure to Hazardous Substances on human health or to emissions, discharges or releases of pollutants, contaminants, Hazardous Substances or wastes into the environment including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, ground water, or land, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of pollutants, contaminants, Hazardous Substances or wastes or the clean-up or other remediation thereof.
“Equity Interests” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interests.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any successor statute.
“ERISA Group” means the Company, any Consolidated Subsidiary and all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary, are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Internal Revenue Code.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Events of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, US Federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment or under any Loan Document pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 2.17(b)) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.15, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in such Loan or Commitment or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.15(f) and (d) any US Federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA. For purposes of this definition, a Lender shall be deemed to have acquired its interest in any Loan at the time it acquired the Commitment pursuant to which it made such Loan.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code and any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of the foregoing.
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“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate; provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for all purposes of this Agreement.
“Financial Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, controller or assistant treasurer of the such Person.
“Foreign Lender” means a Lender that is not a US Person.
“Funding Date” means the date as of which the Lenders shall have made the Loans pursuant to Section 2.01.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles applied in the United States.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national body exercising such powers or functions, such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Guarantee” by any Person means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Debt of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
“Hazardous Substances” means any toxic, radioactive, caustic or otherwise hazardous substance, including but not limited to petroleum, its derivatives and by-products.
“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Company under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a) of this definition, Other Taxes.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.03(b).
“Index Debt” means senior, unsecured, long-term indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company that is not guaranteed by any other Person or subject to any other credit enhancement.
“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Company to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.06.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any LIBOR Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.
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“Interest Period” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter, as the Company may elect; provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
“Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor statute.
“Interpolated Screen Rate” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing for any Interest Period, a rate per annum which results from interpolating on a linear basis between (a) the applicable Screen Rate for the longest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is shorter than such Interest Period and (b) the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is longer than such Interest Period, in each case as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day; provided that if such rate would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero.
“JPMCB” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
“Judgment Currency” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10(b).
“Lending Office” means, as to each Lender, its office located at its address set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire (or identified in its Administrative Questionnaire as its Lending Office) or such other office as such Lender may hereafter designate as its Lending Office by notice to the Company and the Agent.
“Lender” means each Person listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that shall have ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to Section 9.05(c).
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any LIBOR Borrowing denominated in any currency for any Interest Period, the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day.
“LIBOR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge or security interest, or any encumbrance or other type of preferential arrangement that has the practical effect of creating a security interest, in respect of such asset. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Company or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
“Loan” means a loan made by a Lender to the Company hereunder.
“Loan Documents” means this Agreement and each promissory note delivered pursuant to this Agreement.
“Local Time” means New York City time.
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“Material Debt” means (other than any amounts owed hereunder) Debt of the Company and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries, arising in one or more related or unrelated transactions, in an aggregate principal amount that exceeds US$150,000,000 or its equivalent in any other currency.
“Material Plan” means at any time a Plan or Plans having aggregate Unfunded Liabilities in excess of US$150,000,000.
“Material Subsidiary” means at any time any Subsidiary, except Subsidiaries that would not meet the definition of a “significant subsidiary” contained as of the date hereof in Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Maturity Date” means the first anniversary of the Funding Date.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.11.
“MNPI” means material information concerning the Company and the Subsidiaries and their securities that has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.
“Multiemployer Plan” means at any time a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which (i) any member of the ERISA Group is then making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or (ii) at any time within the preceding five plan years, any Person, which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group, made contributions.
“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” shall mean the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day received by the Agent from a federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Notice of Borrowing” means a request by the Company for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.
“Obligations” means (a) the principal of and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise and (b) all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Company under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan Document).
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“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.17).
“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by US-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate (from and after such date as the NYFRB shall commence to publish such composite rate).
“Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.05(b).
“Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.05(b).
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
“Person” means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an association, a trust or any other entity or organization, including a Government Authority.
“Plan” means at any time an employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code and either (a) is sponsored, maintained, or contributed to, by any member of the ERISA Group for employees of any member of the ERISA Group or (b) has at any time within the preceding five years been sponsored, maintained, or contributed to, by any Person which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group for employees of any Person which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group.
“Platform” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.17(b).
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Agent as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective on the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.
“Private Side Lender Representatives” means, with respect to any Lender, representatives of such Lender that are not Public Side Lender Representatives.
“Public Side Lender Representatives” means, with respect to any Lender, representatives of such Lender that do not wish to receive MNPI.
“Quotation Day” means for any Interest Period, the day two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.
“Recipient” means the Agent, any Lender or any combination thereof (as the context requires).
“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.05(c)(iv).
“Regulation D” means Regulation D of the Board of Governors, as in effect from time to time.
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“Regulation T” means Regulation T of the Board of Governors, as in effect from time to time.
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors, as in effect from time to time.
“Regulation X” means Regulation X of the Board of Governors, as in effect from time to time.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees and agents of any of the foregoing.
“Required Lenders” means at any time Lenders having Loans and unused Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Loans and unused Commitments at such time.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Financial, Inc., and any successor to its rating agency business.
“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country or territory that is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the date of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury, the US Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, (b) any Person located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).
“Sanctions” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the US government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury or the US Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.
“Screen Rate” means, in respect of the LIBO Rate for any Interest Period, a rate per annum equal to the London interbank offered rate as administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for deposits in US Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period as displayed on the Reuters screen page that displays such rate (currently LIBOR01 or LIBOR02) (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a page of the Reuters screen, on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate as shall be selected by the Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion); provided that (i) if the Screen Rate, determined as provided above, would be less than zero, the Screen Rate shall for all purposes of this Agreement be zero and (ii) if no Screen Rate shall be available for a particular Interest Period but Screen Rates shall be available for maturities both longer and shorter than such Interest Period, than the Screen Rate for such Interest Period shall be the Interpolated Screen Rate and (iii) if no Screen Rate can be determined as provided above in this definition, but a Reference Bank Rate as defined in the Company Revolving Credit Agreement for the applicable Interest Period can be obtained, then the Screen Rate will be deemed to equal such Reference Bank Rate.
“Specified Time” means 11:00 a.m., London time.
“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves),
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expressed as a decimal, established by the Board of Governors to which the Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board of Governors). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. LIBOR Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
“Subsidiary” means, at any time, any corporation or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other persons performing similar functions or to manage such corporation or other entity are at the time directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, owned by the Company.
“Syndication Agents” means Bank of America, N.A. and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax and penalties applicable thereto.
“Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.
“Unfunded Liabilities” means, with respect to any Plan at any time, the amount (if any) by which (a) the value of all benefit liabilities under such Plan, determined on a plan termination basis using the assumptions prescribed by the PBGC for purposes of Section 4044 of ERISA, exceeds (b) the fair market value of all Plan assets allocable to such liabilities under Title IV of ERISA (excluding any accrued but unpaid contributions), all determined as of the then most recent valuation date for such Plan, but only to the extent that such excess represents a potential liability of a member of the ERISA Group to the PBGC or any other Person under Title IV of ERISA.
“United States” means the United States of America, including the States and the District of Columbia, but excluding its territories and possessions.
“US Dollars” or “US$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.
“USA Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
“Xxxxx” means Xxxxx Fueling Systems, Ltd., an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
“Xxxxx Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Company of the ordinary shares of Xxxxx, whether directly or indirectly or by merger of a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company into Xxxxx or otherwise.
“Xxxxx Acquisition Closing Date” means the date as of which the Xxxxx Acquisition shall have been consummated.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
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SECTION 1.02. Accounting Terms and Determinations. Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time, applied on a basis consistent (except for changes concurred in by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm) with the most recent audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries delivered to the Lenders; provided that, if the Company notifies the Agent that the Company wishes to amend any covenant in Article V to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP on the operation of such covenant (or if the Agent notifies the Company that the Required Lenders wish to amend Article V for 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 became effective, until either such notice is withdrawn or such covenant is amended in a manner satisfactory to the Company and the Required Lenders.
SECTION 1.03. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings may be classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a “LIBOR Loan” or “LIBOR Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.04. Currency Translation. For purposes of any determination under Article V (other than Section 5.07) or Article VI or any determination under any other provision of this Agreement expressly requiring the use of a current exchange rate, all amounts incurred, outstanding or proposed to be incurred or outstanding in currencies other than US Dollars shall be translated into US Dollars at currency exchange rates in effect on the date of such determination. For purposes of Section 5.07, amounts in currencies other than US Dollars shall be translated into US Dollars at the currency exchange rates most recently used in preparing the Company’s annual and quarterly financial statements.
SECTION 1.05. 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”. The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all real and personal, tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. The word “law” shall be construed as referring to all statutes, rules, regulations, codes and other laws (including official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply), and all judgments, orders, writs and decrees, of all Governmental Authorities. Unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any definition of or reference to any statute, rule or regulation shall be construed as referring thereto as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor laws), (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all functions thereof, (d) 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 and (e) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement.
ARTICLE II
The Credits
SECTION 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make a Loan denominated in US Dollars to the Company in a single draw (a)
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contemporaneous with the Xxxxx Acquisition or (b) after the Xxxxx Acquisition Closing Date but on or prior to the date that is the tenth Business Day to occur after the Xxxxx Acquisition Closing Date (but in no event later than December 31, 2016) in an aggregate principal amount for all Lenders as requested by the Company in its Notice of Borrowing up to the sum of the Commitments and for such Lender not greater than its Commitment. Amounts repaid or prepaid in respect of the Loans may not be reborrowed.
SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) The Loans shall be made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(b) Subject to Section 2.12, (i) each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of LIBOR Loans or ABR Loans. Each Lender at its option may make any Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Company to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any LIBOR Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of US$1,000,000 and not less than US$10,000,000. Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Borrowing, the Company shall deliver to the Agent a written Notice of Borrowing (in a form substantially as set forth in Exhibit E and signed by a Financial Officer of the Company) (a) in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing not later than 12:00 noon, Local Time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing and (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such Notice of Borrowing shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(a) | the principal amount of such Borrowing; |
(b) | the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; |
(c) | the Type of such Borrowing; |
(d) | in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and |
(e) | the Applicable Funding Account. |
Any Notice of Borrowing that shall fail to specify any of the information required by the preceding provisions of this paragraph may be rejected by the Agent if such failure is not corrected promptly after the Agent shall give written notice thereof to the Company and, if so rejected, will be of no force or effect. Promptly following receipt of a Notice of Borrowing in accordance with this Section, the Agent shall advise each Lender that will make a Loan as part of the requested Borrowing of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
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SECTION 2.04. [Reserved].
SECTION 2.05. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by the later of 10:00 a.m., Local Time, on such date and two hours after the delivery by the Company of the related Notice of Borrowing, to the account of the Agent most recently designated by the Agent for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Agent will make such Loan proceeds available to the Company by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to the Applicable Funding Account of the Company.
(b) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Company a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Company severally agree to pay to the Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Company to but excluding the date of payment to the Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the rate reasonably determined by the Agent to be the cost to it of funding such amount or (ii) in the case of the Company, the interest rate applicable to the subject Loan.
SECTION 2.06. Interest Elections. (a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the permitted Type specified in the applicable Notice of Borrowing and, in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Notice of Borrowing. Thereafter, the Company may elect to convert such Borrowing to a Borrowing of a different Type or, in the case of a LIBOR Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section and on terms consistent with the other provisions of this Agreement. The Company may elect different options with respect to different portions of an affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans resulting from an election made with respect to any such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.
(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Company shall notify the Agent of such election by telephone by the time and date that a Notice of Borrowing would be required under Section 2.03 if the Company were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Agent and signed by a Financial Officer on behalf of the Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the Company shall not be permitted to elect an Interest Period that does not comply with Section 2.02(d).
(c) Each telephonic Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) the Type of the resulting Borrowing; and
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(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is to be a LIBOR Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.
If any such Interest Election Request requests a LIBOR Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Company shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Agent shall advise each affected Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Company fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a LIBOR Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is prepaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be continued as a Borrowing of the same Type with an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(f) Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Company, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing then, if the Required Lenders shall so request in a notice delivered to the Company and the Agent, no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a LIBOR Borrowing.
SECTION 2.07. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) The Commitments shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of (i) the Funding Date, (ii) 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the tenth Business Day after the Xxxxx Acquisition Closing Date or (iii) December 31, 2016.
(b) The Company may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments; provided that each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the Borrowing Minimum.
(c) The Company shall notify the Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Company pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Commitments may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked or extended by the Company (by notice to the Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied or the effectiveness of such other credit facilities is delayed. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their Commitments.
SECTION 2.08. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Company hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Agent for the account of each applicable Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan on the Maturity Date in US Dollars.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the Debt of the Company 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.
(c) The Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type of each such Loan and, in the case of any LIBOR Loan, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Company to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders or any of them and each Lender’s share thereof.
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(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the Obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Company to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(e) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it to the Company be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Company shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.05) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the payee named therein (or to such payee and its registered assigns).
SECTION 2.09. Prepayment of Loans. (a) The Company shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing, in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with paragraph (d) of this Section.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Prior to any prepayment of Borrowings hereunder, the Company shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings to be prepaid and shall specify such selection in the notice of such prepayment pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section.
(d) The Company shall notify the Agent by a notice in accordance with Section 9.01 and signed by a Financial Officer on behalf of the Company of any prepayment of a Borrowing hereunder not later than 12:00 noon, Local Time, on the date of such prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of optional prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.07(c), then such notice of prepayment may be revoked or extended if such notice of termination is revoked or extended in accordance with Section 2.07(c). Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing.
SECTION 2.10. Fees. (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Agent, in US Dollars, for the account of each Lender, a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily unused amount of the Commitment of such Lender, during the period from and including the date of this Agreement to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates. Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date of this Agreement, until the date on which the Commitments shall terminate, and on the date of termination of the Commitments. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(b) [Reserved].
(c) The Company agrees to pay to the Agent and to the Arrangers, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Company, the Agent and the Arrangers.
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(d) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Agent for distribution, in the case of commitment fees, to the Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.11. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b) The Loans comprising each LIBOR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing, plus the Applicable Rate.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) [Reserved].
(e) [Reserved].
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Company hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the interest rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans made to the Company as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(g) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any LIBOR Loan, prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion. All interest shall be payable in the currency in which the applicable Loan is denominated.
(h) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall each be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or, in the case of ABR Borrowings, 366 days in a leap year), and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Adjusted LIBO Rate or Alternate Base Rate shall be determined by the Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.12. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a LIBOR Borrowing:
(a) | the Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or |
(b) | the Agent is advised by Lenders constituting the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining the Loans for such Interest Period; |
then the Agent shall give notice thereof to the Company and the Lenders by telephone or fax as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Agent notifies the Company and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of
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any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, an affected LIBOR Borrowing shall be ineffective, (ii) any affected LIBOR Borrowing that is requested to be continued shall be continued as an ABR Borrowing and (iii) any Notice of Borrowing for an affected LIBOR Borrowing, shall be deemed a request for an ABR Borrowing.
SECTION 2.13. Increased Costs. (a) 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 such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate);
(ii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Loans made by such Lender; or
(iii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of the term “Excluded Taxes” and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or other Recipient of making, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Loan or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, from time to time upon request of such Lender or other Recipient, the Company will pay or cause to be paid to such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs or expenses incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has had or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity), then, from time to time upon request of such Lender, the Company will pay or cause to be paid to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or other Recipient setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or other Recipient or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section delivered to the Company shall be conclusive absent manifest error. In determining such amount or amounts, such Lender or other Recipient may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods. Any such certificate shall contain a statement as to the calculation of such amount or amounts; provided that such Lender shall not be required to disclose any information it considers, in its sole discretion, to be confidential. The Company will pay or cause to be paid to such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 30 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or other Recipient to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or other Recipient’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Company shall not be required to compensate a Lender or other Recipient pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or expenses incurred or reductions suffered more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, notifies the Company of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or
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reductions and of such Lender’s or other Recipient’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or expenses or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.14. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any LIBOR Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether any such notice may be revoked or extended under Section 2.09(d) and is revoked or extended in accordance therewith) or (d) the assignment of any LIBOR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to Section 2.17, then, in any such event, the Company shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense (but not for any lost profit) attributable to such event. Such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan) over (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for deposits in US Dollars of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the London interbank market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth in reasonable detail any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section and explaining in reasonable detail the method by which such amount shall have been determined shall be delivered to the Company and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Company shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 30 days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.15. Taxes. (a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Company under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Company shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.15) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Company. The Company shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.
(c) Evidence of Payment. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Company to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section, the Company shall deliver to the 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 satisfactory evidence of such payment.
(d) Indemnification by the Company. The Company shall indemnify each Recipient, within 15 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified 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 Company by a Lender (with a copy to the Agent), or by the Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Agent, within 15 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Company has not already indemnified the Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Company to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 9.05(b) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such 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 any Lender by the Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Agent under this paragraph (e).
(f) Status of Lenders. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Company and the Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Company or the Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Agent as will enable the Company or the Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.15(f)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Company is a US Person:
(A) any Lender that is a US Person shall deliver to the Company and the Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from US Federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the 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 reasonable request of the Company or the Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
(i) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, US Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, US Federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
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(ii) executed 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 Internal Revenue Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Company within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code (a “US Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or
(iv) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a US Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2 or Exhibit D-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a US Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the 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 reasonable request of the Company or the Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in US Federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Company or the Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to US Federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Company and the Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Agent as may be necessary for the Company and the Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Company and the Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(g) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes (whether in the form of cash or credit) as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such
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refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall pay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority (but only to the extent of such repayment). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph, the indemnified party will be required to pay an amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph only to the extent that such payment would not place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
SECTION 2.16. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs. (a) The Company shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document (whether of principal, interest, fees or otherwise) prior to the time expressly required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such payment or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 12:00 noon, Local Time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Agent for the account of the Lenders to such account as the Agent shall from time to time specify in one or more notices delivered to the Company, except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder of principal or interest in respect of any Loan shall be made in US Dollars. Any payment required to be made by the Agent hereunder shall be deemed to have been made by the time required if the Agent shall, at or before such time, have taken the necessary steps to make such payment in accordance with the regulations or operating procedures of the clearing or settlement system used by the Agent to make such payment.
(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by the Agent from the Company to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due from the Company hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due from the Company 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 of the Loans then due from the Company hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of such principal then due to such parties.
(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of its Loans or accrued interest on any of its Loans (collectively “Claims”) resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Claims than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Claims of the other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amounts of their respective Claims; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Company pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Claims to any assignee or participant, other than to the Company or any Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions
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of this paragraph shall apply). The Company consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Company rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Company in the amount of such participation.
(d) Unless the Agent shall have received notice from the Company prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Agent for the account of any Lenders hereunder that the Company will not make such payment, the Agent may assume that the Company has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Company has not in fact made such payment, then each applicable Lender severally agrees to repay to the Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Agent, at a rate determined by the Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to 2.06(b), 2.15(e) or 9.03(d) then the Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by it for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
SECTION 2.17. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.13, or if the Company is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.15, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its affected Loans or other extensions of credit hereunder or to assign its affected rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.13 or 2.15, as the case may be, 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. The Company hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.13, (ii) the Company is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.15 or (iii) any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed amendment or waiver that under Section 9.04 requires the consent of all the Lenders and with respect to which the Required Lenders shall have granted their consent, then the Company may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.05), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Sections 2.13 or 2.15) and obligations under the Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (x) the Company shall have received the prior written consent of the Agent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (y) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal, funded participations and accrued interest and fees) or the Company (in the case of all other amounts) and (z) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.13 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.15, such assignment will result in a material reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Company to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. Each party hereto agrees that an assignment and delegation required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Company, the Agent and the assignee and that the Lender required to make such assignment and delegation need not be a party thereto.
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SECTION 2.18. [Reserved].
SECTION 2.19. [Reserved].
SECTION 2.20. [Reserved].
SECTION 2.21. Illegality. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article II, if, on or after the date of this Agreement, the adoption or taking effect of any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any change in the implementation, interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the implementation, interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender (or its Lending Office) with any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority shall make it unlawful or impossible for any Lender (or its Lending Office) to make, maintain or fund its LIBOR Loans in US Dollars and such Lender shall so notify the Agent, the Agent shall forthwith give notice thereof to the other Lenders and the Company, whereupon until such Lender notifies the Company and the Agent that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon becoming aware that such circumstances no longer exist), the obligation of such Lender to make LIBOR Loans shall be suspended. Before giving any notice to the Agent pursuant to this Section, any such Lender shall designate a different Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for giving such notice and will not, in the judgment of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. If any such Lender shall determine that it may not lawfully continue to maintain and fund any of its outstanding LIBOR Loans to maturity and shall so specify in such notice, the Company shall immediately prepay in full the then outstanding principal amount of each such LIBOR Loan, together with accrued interest thereon. Concurrently with prepaying each such LIBOR Loan, the Company shall borrow an ABR Loan in an equal principal amount from such Lender (on which interest and principal shall be payable contemporaneously with the related LIBOR Loans of the other Lenders), and such Lender shall make such an ABR Loan.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Company represents and warrants that:
SECTION 3.01. Corporate Existence and Power. The Company is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, and has all corporate powers and all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business as now conducted.
SECTION 3.02. Corporate and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a party are within the Company’s corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, require no action by or in respect of, or filing with, any Governmental Authority and do not contravene, or constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or of any agreement, judgment, injunction, order, decree or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
SECTION 3.03. Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
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SECTION 3.04. Financial Information; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, reported on by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, a copy of which has been heretofore made available to each of the Lenders, fairly present, in conformity with GAAP, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and their consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such fiscal year.
(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of June 30, 2016 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for the six months then ended, set forth in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2016, a copy of which has been heretofore made available to each of the Lenders, fairly present, in conformity with GAAP to the extent described in note 1 thereto applied on a basis consistent with the financial statements referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date and their consolidated results of operations and cash flows for such six month period (subject to normal year-end adjustments).
(c) Except as reflected in the financial statements referred to in paragraph (b) above, between December 31, 2015, and the date hereof, there has been no material adverse change in the business, financial position, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 3.05. Litigation. There is no action, suit or proceeding pending against, or to the knowledge of the Company threatened against or affecting, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries before any court or arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official in which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse decision which could materially adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries considered as a whole or which in any manner draws into question the validity of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
SECTION 3.06. Compliance with ERISA. Except to the extent that failure to so fulfill its obligations or be in compliance could not materially adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole, each member of the ERISA Group has fulfilled its obligations under the minimum funding standards of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to each Plan and is in compliance in all material respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to each Plan. No member of the ERISA Group has (a) sought a waiver of the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code in respect of any Plan, (b) failed to make any required contribution or payment to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or in respect of any Benefit Arrangement, or made any amendment to any Plan or Benefit Arrangement, which has resulted or, solely as a result of the passage of time, could result in the imposition of a Lien or the posting of a bond or other security under Sections 302(f) or 307 of ERISA or Sections 412(n) or 401(a)(29) of the Internal Revenue Code (or any successor provisions thereto) or (c) incurred any liability under Title IV of ERISA other than a liability to the PBGC for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA if such action, failure or incurrence could materially adversely affect the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 3.07. Environmental Matters. In the ordinary course of its business, the Company reviews, or causes its Subsidiaries to review, the effect of Environmental Laws on the business, operations and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries. On the basis of this review, the Company has reasonably concluded that any associated liabilities and costs, as identified and evaluated by the Company in accordance with GAAP, including the costs of compliance with Environmental Laws, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up or closure of their properties, any capital or operating expenditures required to achieve or maintain compliance with environmental protection standards
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imposed by law or as a condition of any license, permit or contract, any periodic or permanent shutdown of any facility or reduction in the level of or change in the nature of operations conducted thereat, any costs or liabilities in connection with on or off-site disposal of wastes or Hazardous Substances, and any liabilities to third parties, including employees, and any related costs and expenses) are unlikely to have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole.
SECTION 3.08. Taxes. United States Federal income tax returns of the Company, which files a consolidated domestic return, have been examined through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 and closed through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012. The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all United States Federal income tax returns and all other material tax returns which are required to be filed by them and have paid all taxes due pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company or any Subsidiary, excluding assessments currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company and its Subsidiaries in respect of taxes or other governmental charges are, in the opinion of the Company, adequate.
SECTION 3.09. Subsidiaries. Each of the Company’s corporate Material Subsidiaries is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, and has all corporate powers and all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business as now conducted.
SECTION 3.10. Not an Investment Company. The Company is not an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
SECTION 3.11. Full Disclosure. All information heretofore furnished by the Company to the Agent or any Lender for purposes of or in connection with the Loan Documents or any transaction contemplated hereby is, and all such information hereafter furnished by the Company to the Agent or any Lender will be, when taken as a whole, true and accurate in all material respects on the date as of which such information is stated or certified. The Company has disclosed to the Lenders in writing any and all facts which materially and adversely affect or may affect (to the extent the Company can now reasonably foresee), the business, operations or financial condition of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents.
SECTION 3.12. Federal Reserve Regulations. None of the Company or any its Subsidiaries is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying “margin stock” (within the meaning of Regulation U) or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation (including on the part of any Lender) of any of the regulations of the Board of Governors, including Regulations U and X. Not more than 25% of the value of the assets subject to any restrictions on the sale, pledge or other disposition of assets under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement to which any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender is party will at any time be represented by margin stock (within such meaning).
SECTION 3.13. Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions. The Company has implemented and maintains in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Company, its Subsidiaries and their directors, officers and employees with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and the Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and directors and to the knowledge of the Company its employees are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of the Company, any Subsidiary or to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary any of their respective directors, officers or employees is a Sanctioned Person, except to the extent permitted for a Person required to comply with Sanctions.
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ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS
SECTION 4.01. Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective as provided in Section 9.08, subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) The Agent shall have received the following documents, each dated the Effective Date unless otherwise indicated:
(i) an opinion of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, General Counsel for the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto and covering such additional matters relating to the transactions contemplated hereby as the Required Lenders may reasonably request; and
(ii) all documents and certificates the Agent may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of the Company, the corporate authority for, and the authorization and validity of, each Loan Document, the financial condition of the Company and any other matters relevant hereto, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent.
(b) The Agent and the Arrangers shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable hereunder or pursuant to the commitment letter or fee letters entered into by any of them and the Company on or prior to the date of this Agreement, including, to the extent invoiced, reimbursement or payment of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) required to be reimbursed or paid by the Company hereunder, under any other Loan Document or under such commitment letter.
(c) The Lenders shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA Patriot Act.
The Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding on all parties hereto.
SECTION 4.02. Borrowing. The obligation of any Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of the Borrowing under Section 2.01 is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(a) | receipt by the Agent of a Notice of Borrowing as required by Section 2.03; |
(b) | the Xxxxx Acquisition either (i) shall have been consummated (A) prior to such Borrowing and (B) on or after the date that is the tenth Business Day before such Borrowing or (ii) shall be consummated contemporaneously with such Borrowing, |
(c) | the fact that, immediately before and after such Borrowing, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and |
(d) | the fact that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true on and as of the date of such Borrowing. |
The Borrowing hereunder shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company on the date of such Borrowing as to the facts specified in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of this Section.
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ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
The Company agrees that, so long as the Commitments shall remain in effect, or the principal of or interest on any Loan, any fees or any other expenses or amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be unpaid:
SECTION 5.01. Information. The Company will deliver to each of the Lenders:
(a) | as soon as available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company or, if earlier, within five days after the Company’s applicable deadline for the filing of its Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholder’s equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year (it being understood that the requirement to deliver such information shall be satisfied if the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for such fiscal year containing such information is available on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx), all reported on in a manner acceptable to the Securities and Exchange Commission (without a “going concern” opinion and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or another independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing; |
(b) | as soon as available and in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Company or, if earlier, within five days after the Company’s applicable deadline for the filing of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter, the related consolidated statements of operations for such quarter and for the portion of the Company’s fiscal year ended at the end of such quarter and the related consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the Company’s fiscal year ended at the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding quarter and the corresponding portion of the Company’s previous fiscal year (it being understood that the requirement to deliver such information shall be satisfied if the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for such fiscal quarter containing such information is available on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx), all presented and certified in accordance with rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission; |
(c) | within the applicable periods set forth under clauses (a) and (b) above, a certificate of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company (x) setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations required to establish whether the Company was in compliance with the requirements of Section 5.07 on the date of such financial statements, (y) stating that the Company is in compliance with Section 5.08 and setting forth in reasonable detail any appropriate calculations required to establish such compliance, and (z) stating whether any Default or Event of Default exists on the date of such certificate and, if any Default or Event of Default then exists, setting forth the details thereof and the action which the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto; |
(d) | simultaneously with the delivery of each certificate referred to in clause (c) above with respect to a completed fiscal year referred to in clause (a) above, a statement of the independent registered public accounting firm which reported on such statements (i) stating whether anything has come to their attention to cause them to believe that any Default or Event of Default existed on the date of such statements and (ii) confirming the calculations set forth in the officer’s certificate delivered simultaneously therewith pursuant to clause (c) above; |
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(e) | within five Business Days after any executive officer of the Company obtains actual knowledge of any Default or Event of Default, if such Default is then continuing, a certificate of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company setting forth the details thereof and the action which the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto; |
(f) | promptly upon the mailing thereof to the shareholders of the Company generally, copies of all financial statements, reports and proxy statements so mailed if not filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission electronically; |
(g) | if and when any member of the ERISA Group (i) gives or is required to give notice to the PBGC of any “reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA) with respect to any Plan which might constitute grounds for a termination of such Plan under Title IV of ERISA, or knows that the plan administrator of any Plan has given or is required to give notice of any such reportable event, a copy of the notice of such reportable event given or required to be given to the PBGC; (ii) receives notice of complete or partial withdrawal liability under Title IV of ERISA or notice that any Multiemployer Plan has been terminated, a copy of such notice; (iii) expects a Multiemployer Plan to be insolvent under Title IV of ERISA or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 305 of ERISA), a certificate of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company setting forth details as to such occurrence and action, if any, which the Company or applicable member of the ERISA Group is required or proposes to take,; (iv) determines that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (within the meaning of Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code), a certificate of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company setting forth details as to such occurrence and action, if any, which the Company or applicable member of the ERISA Group is required or proposes to take; (v) receives notice from the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA of an intent to terminate, impose liability (other than for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA) in respect of, or appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, a copy of such notice; (vi) applies for a waiver of the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code, a copy of such application; (vii) gives notice of intent to terminate any Plan under Section 4041(c) of ERISA, a copy of such notice and other information filed with the PBGC; (viii) gives notice of withdrawal from any Plan pursuant to Section 4063 of ERISA while such member is a “substantial employer” (within the meaning of such Section) with respect to such Plan, a copy of such notice; or (ix) fails to make any required payment or contribution to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or in respect of any Benefit Arrangement, or makes any amendment to any Plan or Benefit Arrangement, which has resulted or, solely as a result of the passage of time, could result in the imposition of a Lien or the posting of a bond or other security under Sections 302(f) or 307 of ERISA or Sections 412(n) or 401(a)(29) of the Internal Revenue Code, or any successor provisions thereto, a certificate of the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company setting forth details as to such occurrence and action, if any, which the Company or applicable member of the ERISA Group is required or proposes to take; provided, however, that certificates from the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company shall be required only if such occurrence or action is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, consolidated financial position or consolidated results of operations of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, considered as a whole; |
(h) | promptly after Xxxxx’x or S&P shall have announced a change in the rating established or deemed to have been established for the Index Debt, written notice of such rating change; |
(i) | promptly following a request therefor, all documentation and other information that a Lender reasonably requests in order to comply with ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA Patriot Act; and |
(j) | from time to time such additional information regarding the financial position or business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as the Agent, at the request of any Lender, may reasonably request. |
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SECTION 5.02. Payment of Obligations. The Company will pay and discharge, and will cause each Subsidiary to pay and discharge, at or before maturity, all their respective material obligations and liabilities, including, without limitation, tax liabilities, except where the same may be contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, and will maintain, and will cause each Subsidiary to maintain, in accordance with GAAP, appropriate reserves for the accrual of any of the same.
SECTION 5.03. Maintenance of Property; Insurance. (a) The Company will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, all property useful and necessary in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
(b) The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain (either in the name of the Company or in such Subsidiary’s own name) with financially sound and responsible insurance companies, insurance on all their respective properties in at least such amounts and against at least such risks (and with such risk retention) as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies of established repute engaged in the same or a similar business; and will furnish to the Lenders, upon request from the Agent, information presented in reasonable detail as to the insurance so carried.
SECTION 5.04. Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence. The Company will continue, and will cause each Subsidiary to continue, to engage in business of the same general type as now conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries, and will preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect, and will cause each Subsidiary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect their respective corporate existence and their respective rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of business; provided that nothing in this Section 5.04 shall prohibit (a) the merger of a Subsidiary into the Company or the merger or consolidation of a Subsidiary with or into another Person (other than the Company) and if, in each case, after giving effect thereto, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (b) the termination of the corporate existence, rights, privileges or franchises, or a change in the business of, any Subsidiary if the Company in good faith determines that such termination or change is in the best interest of the Company and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders or (c) the termination of the corporate existence, rights, privileges or franchises, or other dissolution or winding up of any Subsidiary, if all or substantially all of the assets of such Subsidiary are assigned, transferred, sold, or otherwise alienated to any entity which is also a Subsidiary.
SECTION 5.05. Compliance with Laws. The Company will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, in all respects with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, and requirements of Governmental Authorities (including, without limitation, Environmental Laws and ERISA and the rules and regulations thereunder) except where (a) the necessity of compliance therewith is contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (b) such failure does not have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.
SECTION 5.06. Inspection of Property, Books and Records. The Company will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities; and will permit representatives of any Lender at such Lender’s expense, and will cause each Subsidiary to permit representatives of the Agent at the Agent’s expense, to visit and inspect any of their respective properties, to examine and make abstracts from any of their respective books and records and to discuss their respective affairs, finances and accounts with their respective officers, employees and independent public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may reasonably be desired.
SECTION 5.07. Interest Coverage Ratio. The Company will not permit the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Net Interest Expense, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters commencing before or after the date hereof and ending after the date hereof, be less than 3.00:1.00.
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SECTION 5.08. Negative Pledge. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except:
(a) | Liens existing on the date of this Agreement securing Debt outstanding on the date of this Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding US$75,000,000; |
(b) | any Lien existing on any asset of any corporation or other Person at the time such corporation or other Person becomes a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event; |
(c) | any Lien on any asset securing Debt incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing all or any part of the cost of acquiring such asset; provided that such Lien attaches to such asset concurrently with or within 90 days after the acquisition thereof; |
(d) | any Lien on any asset of any corporation or other Person existing at the time such corporation or other Person is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such event; |
(e) | any Lien existing on any asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition; |
(f) | any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Debt secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this Section; provided that such Debt is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets; |
(g) | Liens arising in the ordinary course of its business which (i) do not secure Debt, (ii) do not secure any obligation in an amount exceeding US$150,000,000 and (iii) do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business; and |
(h) | Liens not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this Section securing Debt in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Worth. |
SECTION 5.09. Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets. The Company and its Subsidiaries will not (a) consolidate or merge with or into any other Person (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that the Company may not merge with a Subsidiary organized in a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia unless the Company is the surviving corporation in such merger), except as expressly permitted by Section 5.04, or (b) sell, lease or otherwise transfer, directly or indirectly (including through a merger or consolidation, and whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions), all or a substantial part of the assets (other than inventory sold in the ordinary course of business) of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than to the Company and its Subsidiaries. For purposes of this Section, a substantial part of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, shall mean 20% or more of the consolidated total assets of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries.
SECTION 5.10. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans will be used only to provide a portion of the funds required for the purchase price for, and costs and expenses related to, the Xxxxx Acquisition or to repay other indebtedness used to fund such purchase price or costs and expenses. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the regulations of the Board of Governors, including Regulations T, U and X. The Company shall not directly or, to its knowledge, indirectly use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not directly or, to the knowledge of the Company or its Subsidiaries, indirectly use, the proceeds of any Borrowing (A) in furtherance of an offer,
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payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, or (B) for the purpose of funding or financing any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person referred to in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of such term, or any Person known by it to be a Sanctioned Person referred to in clause (c) of the definition of such term, or in any Sanctioned Country, in each case in any manner that, if undertaken by the Company, would result in the violation of any applicable Sanctions specified in clause (a) of the defined term “Sanctions.”
ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. If one or more of the following events (“Events of Default”) shall have occurred and be continuing:
(a) | the Company shall fail to pay (i) any principal on any Loan for a period of more than 2 Business Days after the same shall become due or (ii) interest on any Loan or any fees or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document for a period of more than 5 Business Days after the same shall become due; |
(b) | the Company shall fail to observe or perform any covenant contained in Section 5.04 (with respect to existence of the Company), Sections 5.07 to 5.10, inclusive, or Section 5.01(e) (but only so long as the Default or Event of Default referred to in Section 5.01(e) is continuing); |
(c) | the Company shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those covered by clause (a) or (b) above) for 10 days after written notice thereof has been given to the Company by the Agent at the request of any Lender; |
(d) | any representation, warranty, certification or statement made (or deemed made) by the Company in this Agreement or in any certificate, financial statement or other document delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made (or deemed made); |
(e) | the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment in respect of any Material Debt when due or within any applicable grace period; |
(f) | any event or condition shall occur which results in the acceleration of the maturity of any Material Debt or enables the holder of such Debt or obligor with respect to any commitment to provide such Debt or any Person acting on such holder’s or obligor’s behalf to accelerate the maturity thereof or, because such event or condition constitutes a default or event of default or similar event, however defined, under the instrument governing such commitment, to terminate such commitment; |
(g) | the Company or any Material Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due, or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing; |
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(h) | an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Material Subsidiary seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or an order for relief shall be entered against the Company or any Material Subsidiary under the federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect; |
(i) | any member of the ERISA Group shall fail to pay when due an amount or amounts aggregating at any given time in excess of US$150,000,000 which it shall have become liable to pay under Title IV of ERISA; or notice of intent to terminate a Material Plan under a “distress termination” within the meaning of Section 4041(c) of ERISA shall be filed under Title IV of ERISA by any member of the ERISA Group, any plan administrator or any combination of the foregoing; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate, to impose liability (other than for premiums under Section 4007 of ERISA) in respect of, or to cause a trustee to be appointed to administer any Material Plan; or a condition described in Section 4042(a) of ERISA or any successor provision thereto shall exist by reason of which the PBGC would be entitled to obtain a decree adjudicating that any Material Plan must be terminated; or there shall occur a complete or partial withdrawal from, or a default, within the meaning of Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA, with respect to, one or more Multiemployer Plans which could cause one or more members of the ERISA Group to incur a current payment obligation in excess of US$100,000,000; |
(j) | a judgment or order for the payment of money in excess of US$150,000,000 shall be rendered against the Company or any Subsidiary and such judgment or order shall continue unsatisfied and unstayed for a period of 30 days; or |
(k) | a Change in Control shall occur; |
then, and in every such event, the Agent shall, at the request of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Company take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate forthwith the Commitments (if any) and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be forthwith due and payable in whole or in part, whereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued fees and all other liabilities of the Company accrued under all Loan Documents, shall become forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding; and in any event with respect to clause (g) or (h) above, the Commitments (if any) shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued fees and all other liabilities of the Company accrued hereunder or under any other Loan Document, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Company, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Default. The Agent shall give notice to the Company under Section 6.01(c) promptly upon being requested to do so by any Lender and shall thereupon notify all the Lenders thereof.
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ARTICLE VII
THE AGENT
SECTION 7.01. Appointment and Authorization. Each Lender irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Agent to take such action and to exercise such powers under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with all such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
SECTION 7.02. Agent and Affiliates. JPMCB shall have the same rights and powers under the Loan Documents as any other Lender and may exercise or refrain from exercising the same as though it were not the Agent, and JPMCB 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 or any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of the Company as if it were not the Agent hereunder, and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
SECTION 7.03. Action by Agent. The obligations of the Agent hereunder are only those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or to exercise any discretionary power, discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the 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 necessary, or as the Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents); provided that the Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion, could expose the Agent to liability or be contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Company or any Subsidiary or any other Affiliate of the Company that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
SECTION 7.04. Consultation with Experts. The Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Company), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.
SECTION 7.05. Liability of Agent. Neither the Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in connection herewith (a) 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 Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Loan Documents) or (b) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment). Neither the Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be deemed to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof (stating that it is a “notice of default”) is given to the Agent by the Company or any Lender, and neither the Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into or verify (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in connection with any Loan Document or any borrowing hereunder, or the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith; (ii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants or agreements of the Company or any Lender; (iii) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Article IV, except receipt of items required to be delivered to the Agent; or (iv) the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other instrument or writing furnished in connection herewith. Without limiting the foregoing, the Agent shall have no obligation to take any action under Section 5.06. The Agent shall be entitled to rely, 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
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(whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof). The Agent also shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof), and may act upon any such statement prior to receipt of written confirmation thereof.
SECTION 7.06. Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, any Arranger, any Syndication Agent or any other Lender, 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 also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, any Arranger, any Syndication Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking any action under this Agreement. Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement, or delivering its signature page to an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be delivered to, or be approved by or satisfactory to, the Agent or the Lenders on the Effective Date.
SECTION 7.07. Successor Agent. The Agent may resign at any time by giving notice thereof to the Lenders and the Company. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a commercial bank organized or licensed under the laws of the United States of America or of any State thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least US$500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After any retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder as Agent, the provisions of this Article and of Section 9.03 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent.
SECTION 7.08. Arrangers and Syndication Agents. The Arrangers and Syndication Agents shall, in their capacities as such, have no responsibilities, obligations or liabilities under any Loan Document.
ARTICLE VIII
[Reserved]
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.01. Notices. (a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) of this Section), 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 fax, as follows:
(i) in the case of the Company, to the Company at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention of Treasurer (Fax No. 000-000-0000);
(ii) if to the Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Wholesale Loan Operations, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx, XXX0 Xxxxx 0, Xxxxxx, XX 00000, Xxxxxxxxx of Xxxxxx Xxxxx or
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Xxxxxx Xxxxx (Email: 00000000000@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx or Fax No.: (000) 000-0000), with copies to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention of Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx (Fax No.: (000) 000-0000); and
(iii) in the case of any Lender, at its address or facsimile number set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.
Any party hereto may change its address or fax number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.
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 fax 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); and notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in paragraph (b) of this Section shall be effective as provided in such paragraph.
(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including email and Internet and intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices under Article II to any Lender if such Lender has notified the Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. Any notices or other communications to the Agent or the Company may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the recipient thereof prior thereto; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited or rescinded by any such Person by notice to each other such Person.
(c) Unless the Agent otherwise prescribes, notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgment from the intended recipient (such as the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgment); provided that, if such notice, email or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice of communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient.
SECTION 9.02. No Waivers. No failure or delay by the Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnification. (a) The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent and the Arrangers, including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Agent and the Arrangers, in connection with the syndication of the credit facility provided for herein, the preparation and administration of the Loan Documents, any waiver or consent under any Loan Document or any amendment hereof or thereof or any Default or alleged Default under any Loan Document and (ii) if an Event of Default occurs, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Agent and each Lender, including fees and disbursements of counsel, in connection with such Event of Default and collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings resulting therefrom.
(b) The Company agrees to indemnify the Agent, each Arranger, each Lender and the respective Related Parties of the foregoing (each an “Indemnitee”) and hold each Indemnitee harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses of any kind, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel, which may be incurred by such Indemnitee in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding (whether or not such Indemnitee or any other party to this Agreement shall be designated a party thereto) brought or threatened relating to or
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arising out of any Loan Document, any actual or proposed use of proceeds of Loans hereunder or the Xxxxx Acquisition; provided that no Indemnitee shall have the right to be indemnified hereunder for any such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses to the extent incurred (i) as the result of any such Indemnitee’s (or its Related Parties) gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (ii) by a Lender or its Related Parties in connection with a proceeding with any other Lender or any Assignee or Participant that (x) arises in connection with an assignment, participation or other transfer pursuant to Section 9.05, (y) does not relate to any action taken or failed to be taken by the Company and (z) does not relate to any right or obligation of the Company.
(c) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company shall not assert, or permit any of its Affiliates or Related Parties to assert, and each hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), except to the extent such damages arise from such Indemnitees’ gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and nonappealable judgment (it being understood and agreed that the foregoing does not constitute a waiver of any claim or other right with respect to any breach by any Indemnitee of its obligations under Section 9.13). No party hereto, or any of its Related Parties, shall have any liability, 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 or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof or the Xxxxx Acquisition, and no party hereto shall assert, or permit any of its Affiliates or Related Parties to assert, and each hereby waives, any such liability (it being understood and agreed that nothing in this sentence shall relieve the Company of its obligations under the preceding paragraphs of this Section 9.03).
(d) To the extent that the Company fails to pay any amount required to be paid by them under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section to the Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of any of the foregoing (and without limiting their obligation to do so), each Lender severally agrees to pay to the agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata 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 Agent (or such sub-agent) or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection with such capacity. For purposes of this Section, a Lender’s “pro rata share” shall be determined based upon its share of the sum of the total Loans and unused Commitments.
SECTION 9.04. Amendments and Waivers. None of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except, in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Company, the Agent and the Required Lenders and, in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Agent and the Company with the consent of the Required Lenders, provided that (a) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Company and the Agent to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency so long as, in each case, (i) such amendment does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or (ii) the Lenders shall have received at least five Business Days’ prior written notice thereof and the Agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment and (b) no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of interest thereon or reduce any fees payable hereunder without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled maturity date of any Loan, or any date for the payment of any interest or fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 2.16(b) or 2.16(c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender or (v) change any of the provisions of this Section or the
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percentage set forth in the definition of the term “Required Lenders” or any other provision of this Agreement specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify, extend or otherwise affect the rights or obligations of the Agent without the prior written consent of the Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no consent with respect to any amendment, waiver or other modification of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be required of any Lender that receives payment in full of the principal of and interest accrued on each Loan made by, and all other amounts owing to, such Lender or accrued for the account of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents at the time such amendment, waiver or other modification becomes effective and whose Commitments terminate by the terms and upon the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or other modification.
SECTION 9.05. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns, except that (i) the Company may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights under this Agreement without the prior written consent of all Lenders (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Company without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants (to the extent provided in this Section), the Arrangers, the Syndication Agents and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of any of the Agent, the Arrangers, the Syndication Agents and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Any Lender may at any time grant to one or more Eligible Assignees (each a “Participant”) participating interests in its Commitment or any or all of its Loans; provided that without the prior written consent of the Agent and the Company, no such grant of any participating interest may be made by any Lender prior to the date that the Lenders shall have made the Loans to the Company pursuant to Section 2.01. In the event of any such grant by a Lender of a participating interest to a Participant, whether or not upon notice to the Company and the Agent, such Lender shall remain solely responsible for the performance of its obligations hereunder, which obligations shall remain unchanged, and the Company and the Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to which any Lender may grant such a participating interest shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right and responsibility to enforce the obligations of the Company hereunder, including, without limitation, the right to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such participation agreement may provide that such Lender will not agree to any modification, amendment or waiver of this Agreement described in clause (b) of the first proviso to Section 9.04 without the consent of the Participant. The Company agrees that each Participant shall, to the extent provided in its participation agreement, be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15 with respect to its participating interest (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 2.15(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.15(f) shall be delivered to the granting Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 2.16 and 2.17 as if it were an assignee under paragraph (b) of this Section. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Company’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Company to effectuate the provisions of Section 2.17(b) with respect to any Participant. An assignment or other transfer which is not permitted by paragraph (c) or (d) below shall be given effect for purposes of this Agreement only to the extent of a participating interest granted in accordance with this paragraph (b). Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Company, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under any Loan Document (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Loans, Commitments or other obligations under this any Loan Document)
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to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Loans, Commitments or other obligations are in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the US Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Agent (in its capacity as the Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
(c) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (c)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) of (A) the Company; provided that no consent of the Company shall be required for assignments to an Affiliate of such Lender, any other Lender, an Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any Eligible Assignee and (B) the Agent; provided that no consent of the Agent shall be required for assignments to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund.
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 unless each of the Company and the Agent otherwise consents; provided that no such consent of the Company shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;
(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; provided that only one such processing and recordation fee shall be payable in the event of simultaneous assignments from any Lender or its Approved Funds to one or more other Approved Funds of such Lender;
(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Agent an Administrative Questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, State and foreign securities laws; and
(E) if the Assignee is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof, it shall deliver to the Company and the Agent certification as to exemption from deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes in accordance with Section 2.15.
(iii) Subject to the satisfaction of all requirements of this Section, including the acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (c)(iv) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder
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shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15 (in each case, with respect to facts and circumstances occurring on or prior to the effective date of such assignment) and of Section 9.03).
(iv) The Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Company, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it that records of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Company, the Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Company and, as to entries pertaining to it or any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon receipt by the Agent of an Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder) and the processing and recordation fee referred to in this Section, the Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register; provided that the Agent shall not be required to accept such Assignment and Assumption or so record the information contained therein if the Agent reasonably believes that such Assignment and Assumption lacks any written consent required by this Section or is otherwise not in proper form, it being acknowledged that the Agent shall have no duty or obligation (and shall incur no liability) with respect to obtaining (or confirming the receipt) of any such written consent or with respect to the form of (or any defect in) such Assignment and Assumption, any such duty and obligation being solely with the assigning Lender and the assignee. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph, and following such recording, unless otherwise determined by the Agent (such determination to be made in the sole discretion of the Agent, which determination may be conditioned on the consent of the assigning Lender and the assignee), shall be effective notwithstanding any defect in the Assignment and Assumption relating thereto. Each assigning Lender and the assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the Agent that all written consents required by this Section with respect thereto (other than the consent of the Agent) have been obtained and that such Assignment and Assumption is otherwise duly completed and in proper form, and each assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the assigning Lender and the Agent that such assignee is an Eligible Assignee and that it shall have complied with the requirements of clause (E) of paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section.
(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any central bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release the transferor Lender from its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(e) Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, no Eligible Assignee, Participant or other transferee of any Lender’s rights shall be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.13 or 2.15 than such Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the rights transferred, unless (i) such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the applicable participation was acquired, (ii) such transfer is made with the Company’s prior written consent or (iii) by reason of the provisions of Section 2.17 requiring such Lender to designate a different Lending Office under certain circumstances.
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SECTION 9.06. Collateral. Each of the Lenders represents to the Agent and each of the other Lenders that it in good faith is not relying upon any “margin stock” (as defined in Regulation U) as collateral in the extension or maintenance of the credit provided for in this Agreement.
SECTION 9.07. Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
(b) Each of the Company, the Lenders and the Agent hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County, or any appellate court from any thereof, for purposes of all legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the Company, the Lenders and the Agent hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents brought by it or any of its Affiliates shall be brought, and shall be heard and determined, exclusively in such New York State court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the Company, the Lenders and the Agent agrees that a final judgment in any such proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
(c) Each of the Company, the Lenders and the Agent hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such proceeding brought in a court referred to in paragraph (b) above and any claim that any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
(d) Each of the Company, the Lenders and the Agent hereby irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01(a). Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
SECTION 9.08. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic image scan transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof, including the commitments of the Lenders and, if applicable, their Affiliates under the commitment letter entered into in connection with the credit facility established hereby and any commitment advices submitted by them (but do not supersede any other provisions of such commitment letter or any fee letter referred to therein that do not by the terms of such documents terminate upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect). This Agreement shall become effective on the date on which the Agent has received counterparts hereof signed by each of the parties hereto (or, in the case of any party as to which an executed counterpart shall not have been received, written confirmation from such party in form satisfactory to the Agent of the execution of a counterpart hereof by such party); provided that the effectiveness of this Agreement is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 4.01. The provisions of Sections 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 and 9.03 and Articles VII and VIII shall survive the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.
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SECTION 9.09. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO 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 (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE AGENT AND THE LENDERS (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HERETO HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY HERETO 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 BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 9.10. Conversion of Currencies. (a) If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum owing hereunder in one currency into another currency, each party hereto agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction the first currency could be purchased with such other currency on the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which final judgment is given.
(b) The obligations of the Company in respect of any sum due to any party hereto or any holder of the obligations owing hereunder (the “Applicable Creditor”) shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than the currency in which such sum is stated to be due hereunder (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by the Applicable Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Applicable Creditor may in accordance with normal banking procedures in the relevant jurisdiction purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency which may be so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Applicable Creditor in the Agreement Currency, the Company agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Applicable Creditor against such loss. The obligations of the Company contained in this Section 9.10 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all other amounts owing hereunder.
SECTION 9.11. Interest Rate Limitation. 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 which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which 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 Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
SECTION 9.12. USA Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Company that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Company, which information includes the name and address of the Company and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Company in accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act.
SECTION 9.13. Confidentiality. Each of the Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal
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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 Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent required by any regulatory authority, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, provided that as promptly as practicable after receipt thereof the Agent or such Lender shall notify the Company of the receipt of such subpoena or other legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or the enforcement of rights hereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Obligations, (g) with the consent of the Company or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section, (ii) becomes available to the Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company or (iii) is independently developed by the Agent or any Lender without reference to the Information. For the purposes of this Section, “Information” means all information received from the Company relating to the Company or its business, other than (i) any such information that is available to the Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company and (ii) information as to the existence and purpose of this Agreement, the nature and amount of the credit facilities established hereby and the titles and roles of JPMCB and the Arrangers routinely provided by arrangers to data service providers, including league table providers, that serve the lending industry. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of 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 Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
SECTION 9.14. No Fiduciary Relationship. The Company agrees that in connection with all aspects of the transactions contemplated hereby and any communications in connection therewith, the Company, its Subsidiaries and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Agent, the Syndication Agents, the Lenders and their Affiliates, on the other hand, will have a business relationship that does not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty on the part of the Agent, the Syndication Agents, the Lenders or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with any such transactions or communications. The Company understands that the Lenders and their Affiliates may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Company.
SECTION 9.15. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 9.16. 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 9.17. Non-Public Information. (a) Each Lender acknowledges that all information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Company or the Agent pursuant to or in connection with, or in the course of administering, this Agreement will be syndicate-level information, which may contain MNPI. Each Lender represents to the Company and the Agent that (i) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of MNPI and that it will handle MNPI in accordance with such procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws, and (ii) it has identified in its Administrative Questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain MNPI in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal, state and foreign securities laws.
(b) The Company and each Lender acknowledge that, if information furnished by the Company pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement is being distributed by the Agent through
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IntraLinks/IntraAgency, SyndTrak or another website or other information platform (the “Platform”), (i) the Agent may post any information that the Company has indicated as containing MNPI solely on that portion of the Platform as is designated for Private Side Lender Representatives and (ii) if the Company has not indicated whether any information furnished by it pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement contains MNPI, the Agent reserves the right to post such information solely on that portion of the Platform as is designated for Private Side Lender Representatives. The Company agrees to specify whether any information furnished by it to the Agent pursuant to, or in connection with, this Agreement contains MNPI, and the Agent shall be entitled to rely on any such specification by the Company without liability or responsibility for the independent verification thereof.
SECTION 9.18. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among the parties hereto, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and
(b) the effects of any Bail-in Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
i. a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
ii. a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent entity, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
iii. the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
DOVER CORPORATION, | ||
by | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: Vice President and Treasurer |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., in its individual capacity and as Agent, | ||
by | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Executive Director |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: Bank of America, N.A. | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxx | |||
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxx | ||||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||||
Title: Director |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
ING Bank, a Branch of ING-DiBa AG: | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||
Title: Vice President | ||||
by | /s/ Xx. Xxxxxxx Xxx | |||
Name: Xx. Xxxxxxx Xxx | ||||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: The Bank of Nova Scotia | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | ||||
Title: Execution Head & Director |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxx Xxx Xxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxx Xxx Xxxxxx | ||||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: Citibank, N.A. | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxx Manuelle | |||
Name: Xxxxx Manuelle | ||||
Title: Vice President |
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxx X. Xxx | |||
Name: Xxxx X. Xxx | ||||
Title: Vice President | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: XXXXXXX XXXXX BANK USA | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx | ||||
Title: Authorized Signatory |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: HSBC Bank USA, N.A. | ||||
by | /s/ Fik Durmus | |||
Name: Fik Durmus | ||||
Title: Senior Vice President | ||||
For any Lender requiring a second signature block: | ||||
by |
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Name: | ||||
Title: |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: Mizuho Bank (USA) | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxx XxXxxxxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxx XxXxxxxxxxx | ||||
Title: Director |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: The Northern Trust Company | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]
SIGNATURE PAGE TO
THE CREDIT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016,
OF DOVER CORPORATION
Name of Institution: Skandinaviska Enskilda Xxxxxx XX (publ) | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx-Park | |||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxx-Park | ||||
Title: Authorized signatory | ||||
by | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx | |||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxx | ||||
Title: Authorized signatory |
[Signature Page to Dover Credit Agreement]