CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of March 15, 2005 Among MAGUIRE PROPERTIES, INC. as a Loan Party and MAGUIRE PROPERTIES, L.P. as Revolving Credit Borrower and a Guarantor and MAGUIRE PROPERTIES HOLDINGS I, LLC as Term B Borrower and a Guarantor and THE...
Exhibit
99.32
EXECUTION
COPY
$550,000,000
Dated as
of March 15, 2005
Among
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, INC.
as a Loan Party
and
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, L.P.
as Revolving Credit Borrower and a Guarantor
and
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES HOLDINGS I, LLC
as Term B Borrower and a Guarantor
and
THE
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN
as Subsidiary Guarantors
and
THE
INITIAL LENDERS, INITIAL ISSUING BANK AND
SWING
LINE BANK NAMED HEREIN
as Initial Lenders,
Initial Issuing Bank and Swing Line Bank
and
CREDIT
SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
and
CREDIT
SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner
T A B L
E O F C O N T E N T S
Section |
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ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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SECTION
1.01. Certain Defined Terms |
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SECTION
1.02. Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional
Provisions |
27 | |
SECTION
1.03. Accounting Terms |
27 | |
ARTICLE
II AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND THE LETTERS OF
CREDIT |
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SECTION
2.01. The Advances and the Letters of Credit |
27 | |
SECTION
2.02. Making the Advances |
29 | |
SECTION
2.03. Issuance of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of
Credit. |
31 | |
SECTION
2.04. Repayment of Advances |
32 | |
SECTION
2.05. Termination or Reduction of the Commitments |
33 | |
SECTION
2.06. Prepayments |
34 | |
SECTION
2.07. Interest |
35 | |
SECTION
2.08. Fees |
36 | |
SECTION
2.09. Conversion of Advances |
36 | |
SECTION
2.10. Increased Costs, Etc |
37 | |
SECTION
2.11. Payments and Computations |
39 | |
SECTION
2.12. Taxes |
41 | |
SECTION
2.13. Sharing of Payments, Etc |
44 | |
SECTION
2.14. Use of Proceeds |
44 | |
SECTION
2.15. Defaulting Lenders |
44 | |
SECTION
2.16. Evidence of Debt |
47 | |
ARTICLE
III CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS AND OF LENDING AND ISSUANCES OF LETTERS OF
CREDIT |
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SECTION
3.01. Conditions Precedent |
48 | |
SECTION
3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing and Issuance and
Renewal |
53 | |
SECTION
3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01 |
53 | |
ARTICLE
IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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SECTION
4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Loan Parties |
54 | |
ARTICLE
V COVENANTS OF THE LOAN PARTIES |
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SECTION
5.01. Affirmative Covenants |
58 | |
SECTION
5.02. Negative Covenants |
63 | |
SECTION
5.03. Reporting Requirements |
71 | |
SECTION
5.04. Financial Covenants |
73 | |
ARTICLE
VI EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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SECTION
6.01. Events of Default |
74 | |
SECTION
6.02. Actions in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default |
77 |
ARTICLE
VII THE AGENTS |
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SECTION
7.01. Authorization and Action |
76 | |
SECTION
7.02. Agents’ Reliance, Etc |
77 | |
SECTION
7.03. CSFB and Affiliates |
78 | |
SECTION
7.04. Lender Party Credit Decision |
78 | |
SECTION
7.05. Indemnification |
78 | |
SECTION
7.06. Successor Agents. |
79 | |
SECTION
7.07. Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers. |
81 | |
ARTICLE
VIII GUARANTY |
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SECTION
8.01. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability. |
81 | |
SECTION
8.02. Guaranty Absolute. |
82 | |
SECTION
8.03. Waivers and Acknowledgments. |
83 | |
SECTION
8.04. Subrogation. |
84 | |
SECTION
8.05. Guaranty Supplements |
85 | |
SECTION
8.06. Subordination. |
85 | |
SECTION
8.07. Continuing Guaranty; Assignments. |
85 | |
SECTION
8.08. Release of Certain Guarantors. |
86 | |
ARTICLE
IX MISCELLANEOUS |
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SECTION
9.01. Amendments, Etc. |
86 | |
SECTION
9.02. Notices, Etc. |
88 | |
SECTION
9.03. No Waiver; Remedies |
89 | |
SECTION
9.04. Costs and Expenses |
89 | |
SECTION
9.05. Right of Set-off |
91 | |
SECTION
9.06. Binding Effect |
91 | |
SECTION
9.07. Assignments and Participations |
91 | |
SECTION
9.08. Execution in Counterparts |
95 | |
SECTION
9.09. No Liability of the Issuing Bank |
95 | |
SECTION
9.10. Confidentiality |
96 | |
SECTION
9.11. Release of Collateral |
96 | |
SECTION
9.12. Patriot Act Notice. |
97 | |
SECTION
9.13. Jurisdiction, Etc. |
97 | |
SECTION
9.14. Governing Law |
97 | |
SECTION
9.15. Waiver of Jury Trial |
97 |
CREDIT
AGREEMENT dated as of March 15, 2005 among Xxxxxxx Properties, Inc., a Maryland
corporation (the “General
Partner”),
Xxxxxxx Properties, L.P., a Maryland limited partnership (the “Revolving
Credit Borrower”),
Xxxxxxx Properties Holdings I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
“Term
B Borrower,” and
together with the Revolving Credit Borrower, the “Borrowers”), the
Subsidiary Guarantors (as hereinafter defined), Lenders (as hereinafter
defined), the Issuing Bank (as hereinafter defined), the Swing Line Bank (as
hereinafter defined), Credit Suisse First Boston (“CSFB”), as
collateral agent (together with any successor collateral agent appointed
pursuant to Article VII, the “Collateral
Agent”) for
the Secured Parties (as hereinafter defined), and CSFB, as administrative agent
(together with any successor administrative agent appointed pursuant to
Article VII, the “Administrative
Agent” and,
together with the Collateral Agent, the “Agents”).
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS:
(1) The
Revolving Credit Borrower has entered into an Agreement to Sell and Purchase and
Joint Escrow Instructions dated as of January 27, 2005 (the “Purchase
Agreement”) with
Fifth Street Properties, LLC (the “Seller”)
pursuant to which the Revolving Credit Borrower and certain of its Subsidiaries
(as hereinafter defined) will acquire (the “Acquisition”) the
portfolio of commercial real estate properties listed on Part III of Schedule
III hereto (the “Acquired
Properties”) for
not more than $1,355,000,000 in cash (plus the assumption of up to $155,000,000
of project financing in connection with the 777 Tower).
(2) The
Acquisition will be financed through the incurrence (a) by the Term B Borrower
of the Term B Advances (as hereinafter defined) (b) by the Revolving Credit
Borrower of Revolving Credit Advances and (c) by the Initial CMBS Borrower (as
hereinafter defined) and its Subsidiaries of up to $900,000,000 under the CMBS
Bridge Financing (as hereinafter defined) and/or through the CMBS Mortgage
Financings (as hereinafter defined).
(3) The
Borrowers have requested that, concurrently with the closing of the Acquisition,
the Lender Parties lend to the Term B Borrower up to the full amount of the Term
B Facility and commit to provide up to the full amount of the Revolving Credit
Facility to pay to Seller a portion of the consideration for the Acquisition,
pay transaction fees and expenses, refinance certain Existing Debt (as
hereinafter defined) of the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries and
that, from time to time, the Lender Parties lend to the Revolving Credit
Borrower and issue Letters of Credit for the account of the Revolving Credit
Borrower to provide working capital for the Revolving Credit Borrower and its
Subsidiaries. The Lender Parties have indicated their willingness to agree to
lend such amounts on the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and
agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION
1.01. Certain
Defined Terms
. As used
in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such
meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the
terms defined):
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“777
Tower” means
the 000 Xxxxx xxxxxxx xx Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx.
“Administrative
Agent” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Administrative
Agent’s Account” means
the account of the Administrative Agent specified by the Administrative Agent in
writing to the Lender Parties from time to time.
“Advance” means a
Term B Advance, a Revolving Credit Advance, a Swing Line Advance or a Letter of
Credit Advance.
“Adjusted
EBITDA” means,
for any Real Property or Person for any period, EBITDA of or attributable to
such Real Property or Person for such period adjusted to exclude (a) the effects
of all extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring non-cash gains, non-cash losses,
non-cash charges or expenses and (b) cash expenses for Transaction Costs;
provided,
however, that,
for purposes of this definition, in the case of any acquisition or disposition
of any direct or indirect interest in any Real Property (including through the
acquisition of Equity Interests) by the General Partner or any of its
Subsidiaries during such period, Adjusted EBITDA of such Person will be adjusted
to (x) include, in the case of an acquisition, an amount equal to the product of
(i) the actual Adjusted EBITDA of such Person generated by the Real Property so
acquired during such period, multiplied
by (ii) a
fraction the numerator of which is the total number of days in such period and
the denominator of which is the actual number of days in such period that such
Real Property was owned by the General Partner or such Subsidiary and (y)
exclude, in the case of a disposition, an amount equal to the actual Adjusted
EBITDA generated by the Real Property so disposed of during such
period.
“Affiliate” means,
as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is
controlled by or is under common control with such Person or is a director or
officer of such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term “control”
(including the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control
with”) of a Person means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to
vote 10% or more of the Voting Interests of such Person or to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of Voting Interests, by contract or otherwise.
“Agents” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Agreement
Value” means,
for each Hedge Agreement, on any date of determination, an amount determined by
the Administrative Agent equal to the amount, if any, that would be payable by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to its counterparty to such Hedge
Agreement, as if (a) such Hedge Agreement was being terminated early on such
date of determination, (b) such Loan Party or Subsidiary was the sole “Affected
Party,” and (c) the Administrative Agent was the sole party determining such
payment amount (with the Administrative Agent making such determination pursuant
to the provisions of the form of Master Agreement).
“Annualized
Net Operating Income”
means,
for any Real Property for any fiscal quarter, the product of (a) Net Operating
Income attributable to such Real Property for such fiscal quarter (adjusted (i)
to include Net Operating Income for new leases commenced in such quarter and to
exclude Net Operating Income for leases terminated in such quarter, in each case
as if such leases were effective or terminated, as the case may be, for the
entire quarter, and (ii) to give effect to
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rent
increases and decreases becoming effective in such quarter as if such increases
or decreases, as the case may be, were in effect for the entire quarter)
multiplied
by
(b) four.
“Applicable
Borrower” means
(a) in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the Letter of Credit Facility
and the Swing Line Facility, the Revolving Credit Borrower and (b) in respect of
the Term B Facility, the Term B Borrower.
“Applicable
Capitalization Rate” means,
with respect to any Real Property of a type set forth below, the percentage set
forth below for such type of Real Property:
Asset
Type |
Applicable
Capitalization Rate |
LA
Downtown Office Real Property |
6.0% |
Other
Office Real Property and Retail Real Property |
7.0% |
Hotel
Real Property |
9.0% |
“Applicable
Lending Office” means,
with respect to each Lender Party, such Lender Party’s Domestic Lending Office
in the case of a Base Rate Advance and such Lender Party’s Eurodollar Lending
Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance.
“Applicable
Margin” means
(a) in respect of the Term B Facility, 0.75% per annum for Base Rate Advances
and 1.75% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Advances, (b) in respect of the Swing
Line Facility, as set forth in clause (c) below for Base Rate Advances and (c)
in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, (i) following the Effective Date
until the first receipt by the Administrative Agent of the financial statements
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(c), 0.75% per annum for Base
Rate Advances and 1.75% per annum for Eurodollar Rate Advances and (ii)
thereafter, a percentage per annum determined by reference to the Leverage
Ratio as set
forth below:
Leverage
Ratio |
Base
Rate Advances |
Eurodollar
Rate Advances |
Level
I
Less
than Level II |
0.50% |
1.50% |
Level
II
Less
than Level III but greater than or equal to 0.55:1.0 |
0.75% |
1.75% |
Level
III
Greater
than or equal to 0.70:1.0 |
1.00% |
2.00% |
The
Applicable Margin for each Revolving Credit Advance shall be determined by
reference to the Leverage Ratio in effect from time to time; provided,
however, that (A)
no reduction in the Applicable Margin shall be effective until three Business
Days after the date on which the Administrative Agent receives the financial
statements required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.03(b) or (c), as
the case may be, and a certificate of the chief financial officer of the
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Revolving
Credit Borrower demonstrating such Leverage Ratio and (B) the Applicable
Margin shall be at Level III for so long as the Revolving Credit Borrower
has not submitted to the Administrative Agent the information described in
clause (A) of this proviso as and when required under Section 5.03(b) or
(c), as the case may be.
“Applicable
Release Price” means,
as to any Real Property specified on Part II of Schedule VI hereto, the amount
specified for such Real Property on Schedule VI hereto.
“Appropriate
Lender” means,
at any time, with respect to (a) any of the Term B Facility or the
Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such
Facility at such time, (b) the Letter of Credit Facility,
(i) the Issuing
Bank and (ii) if the other Revolving Credit Lenders have made Letter of
Credit Advances pursuant to Section 2.03(c) that are outstanding at such
time, each such other Revolving Credit Lender and (c) the Swing Line
Facility, (i) the Swing Line Bank and (ii) if the other Revolving Credit
Lenders have made Swing Line Advances pursuant to Section 2.02(b) that are
outstanding at such time, each such other Revolving Credit Lender.
“Approved
Fund” means
any Fund that is administered or managed by (i) a Lender Party, (ii) an
Affiliate of a Lender Party or (iii) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that
administers or manages a Lender Party.
“Asset
Value” means,
at any date of determination, (a) in the case of any Real Property (other than
any Development Property or Other Real Property), (i) the Annualized Net
Operating Income attributable to such Real Property for the fiscal quarter most
recently ended less all
management fees payable to an unaffiliated property manager in respect of such
Real Property during such period, divided
by (ii) the
Applicable Capitalization Rate (based on the relevant asset type), provided, however, that in
the case of any Real Property (other than any Development Property or Other Real
Property) in which the General Partner or any of its Subsidiaries has acquired
any direct or indirect interest (including through the acquisition of Equity
Interests) during any fiscal quarter, “Asset
Value” for
such fiscal quarter shall be the lesser of (1) the Annualized Net Operating
Income for such Real Property divided
by the
Applicable Capitalization Rate and (2) the purchase price of such Real Property,
and (b) in the case of any Development Property or Other Real Property, the most
recently appraised value (such appraisal to have been conducted within the last
twelve months) of such Development Property or Other Real Property or, in the
absence of any such appraisal, the book value of such Development Property or
Other Real Property.
“Assignment
and Assumption” means
an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender Party and an Eligible
Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section
9.07 or by the definition of “Eligible
Assignee”), and
accepted by the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 9.07 and
in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto or any other form approved by
the Administrative Agent.
“Available
Amount” of any
Letter of Credit means, at any time, the maximum amount available to be drawn
under such Letter of Credit at such time (assuming compliance at such time with
all conditions to drawing).
“Bankruptcy
Law” means
Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar foreign, federal or state law for the relief
of debtors.
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“Base
Rate” means a
fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per
annum shall at all times be equal to the higher of:
(a) the rate
of interest announced by CSFB in New York, New York, from time to
time, as CSFB’s “prime rate”; and
(b) ½ of 1%
per annum above the Federal Funds Rate.
“Base
Rate Advance” means
an Advance that bears interest as provided in
Section 2.07(a)(i).
“Borrower” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Borrower’s
Account” means
the account of each Borrower specified by such Borrower in writing to the
Administrative Agent from time to time.
“Borrowing” means a
Term B Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Swing Line
Borrowing.
“Bosa
Property” means
that certain Development Property of approximately seven acres located at Park
Place II in Irvine, California and currently under contract to be sold to Irvine
Residential Highrise 2 LLC, a subsidiary of Bosa Development California,
Inc.
“Bosa
Sale Proceeds” means
Net Cash Proceeds from the sale of the Bosa Property.
“Business
Day” means a
day of the year on which banks are not required or authorized by law to close in
New York City and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any Eurodollar
Rate Advances, on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank
market.
“Capital
Expenditures” means,
for any Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication, (a) all
expenditures made, directly or indirectly, by such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries during such period for equipment, fixed assets, real property or
improvements, or for replacements or substitutions therefor or additions
thereto, that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, reflected as
additions to property, plant or equipment on a Consolidated balance sheet of
such Person or have a useful life of more than one year plus (b) the
aggregate principal amount of all Debt (including Obligations under Capitalized
Leases) assumed or incurred in connection with any such expenditures;
provided,
however, that
“Capital Expenditures” shall not include (x) expenditures made in connection
with the replacement, substitution or restoration of assets (i) to the extent
financed from insurance proceeds paid on account of the loss of or damage to the
assets being replaced or restored or (ii) with awards of compensation arising
from the taking or the threat of taking by eminent domain or condemnation of the
assets being replaced, (y) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased
simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment but only to the extent
that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by
the seller of such equipment for the equipment being traded in at such time or
(z) the purchase of plant, property and equipment made within 270 days of the
sale of any asset to the extent purchased with the proceeds of such
sale.
“Capitalized
Leases” means
all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as
capitalized leases.
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“Cash
Equivalents” means
any of the following, to the extent owned by the Revolving Credit Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens other than Liens permitted
under Section 5.02(a) and having a maturity of not greater than 90 days from the
date of issuance thereof: (a) readily marketable direct obligations of the
Government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof or
obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the
Government of the United States, (b) insured certificates of deposit of or time
deposits with any commercial bank that is a Lender Party or a member of the
Federal Reserve System, issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper
rated as described in clause (c) below, is organized under the laws of the
United States or any State thereof and has combined capital and surplus of at
least $1,000,000,000 or (c) commercial paper in an aggregate amount of not more
than $50,000,000 per issuer outstanding at any time, issued by any corporation
organized under the laws of any State of the United States and rated at least
“Prime-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by Xxxxx’x or “A-1” (or the then
equivalent grade) by S&P.
“CFC” means
an entity that is a controlled foreign corporation of the Revolving Credit
Borrower under Section 957 of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Change
of Control” means
the occurrence of any of the following: (a) any Person or two or more Persons
acting in concert shall have acquired beneficial ownership (within the meaning
of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, of Voting Interests of the
General Partner (or other securities convertible into such Voting Interests)
representing 35% or more of the combined voting power of all Voting Interests of
the General Partner; or (b) during any period of up to 24 consecutive months,
commencing after the date of this Agreement, individuals who at the beginning of
such 24-month period were directors of the General Partner shall cease for any
reason to constitute a majority of the board of directors of the General
Partner; or (c) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert shall have
acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or
arrangement that, upon consummation, will result in its or their acquisition of
the power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the
management or policies of the General Partner; or (d) the General Partner ceases
to be the general partner of the Revolving Credit Borrower; (e) the General
Partner ceases to be the legal and beneficial owner of all of the general
partnership interests in the Revolving Credit Borrower and of Voting Interests
of the Revolving Credit Borrower representing at least 35% of the combined
voting power of all Voting Interests of the Revolving Credit Borrower; or (f)
the Revolving Credit Borrower ceases to own directly 100% of the Equity
Interests in the Term B Borrower.
“CMBS” means
commercial mortgage backed securities.
“CMBS
Bridge Financing” means,
collectively, as applicable, the financing provided under the Loan Agreement
dated on or about the Effective Date by and between the Initial CMBS Borrower,
as borrower, and Column Financial, Inc., as lender, and/or the Loan Agreement
dated on or about the Effective Date by and between Xxxxxxx Properties TRS
Holdings, Inc., a Maryland corporation, as borrower, and Column Financial, Inc.,
as lender, as amended.
“CMBS
Documents” means
the definitive documentation for the CMBS Bridge Financing and the CMBS Mortgage
financing.
“CMBS
Mortgage Financing” means
any Mortgage Financing of a CMBS Property.
“CMBS
Properties” means
the Acquired Properties listed in Part II of Schedule III to this
Agreement.
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“CMBS
Subsidiaries” means
the Initial CMBS Borrower and its Subsidiaries (each of which (other than the
New TRS Subsidiaries) shall be a bankruptcy remote, special purpose entity
having one or more independent directors and otherwise structured on terms
acceptable to the Administrative Agent).
“Collateral” means
all “Collateral” and “Mortgaged Property” referred to in the Collateral
Documents and all other property that is or is intended to be subject to any
Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“Collateral
Account” has the
meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“Collateral
Agent” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Collateral
Agent’s Office” means,
with respect to the Collateral Agent or any successor Collateral Agent, the
office of such Agent as such Agent may from time to time specify to the
Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.
“Collateral
Documents” means
the Security Agreement, the Mortgages, each of the collateral documents,
instruments and agreements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(j), and each other
agreement that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Commitment” means a
Term B Commitment, a Revolving Credit Commitment or a Letter of Credit
Commitment.
“Confidential
Information” means
information that any Loan Party furnishes to any Agent or any Lender Party in a
writing, but does not include any such information that is or becomes generally
available to the public or that is or becomes available to such Agent or such
Lender Party from a source other than the Loan Parties.
“Consolidated” refers
to the consolidation of accounts in accordance with GAAP.
“Conversion,”
“Convert” and
“Converted” each
refer to a conversion of Advances of one Type into Advances of the other Type
pursuant to Section 2.09 or
2.10.
“CSFB” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Debt” of any
Person means, without duplication for purposes of calculating financial ratios,
(a) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (b) all Obligations of such
Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services other than trade
payables incurred in the ordinary course of business and not overdue by more
than 60 days, (c) all Obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds,
debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all Obligations of such Person
created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement
with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and
remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default
are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) all Obligations
of such Person as lessee under Capitalized Leases, (f) all Obligations of
such Person under acceptance, letter of credit or similar facilities,
(g) all Obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or
otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interests in such Person or
any other Person (other than Preferred Interests that are issued by any Loan
Party or Subsidiary thereof and classified as either equity or minority
interests in accordance with GAAP) or any warrants, rights or options to acquire
such capital stock, valued,
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in the
case of Redeemable Preferred Interests, at the greater of its voluntary or
involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued
and unpaid dividends, (h) all Obligations of such Person in respect of
Hedge Agreements, valued at the Agreement Value thereof, (i) all Guarantee
Obligations of such Person, (j) all Synthetic Debt of such Person and
(k) all indebtedness and other payment Obligations referred to in
clauses (a) through (j) above of another Person secured by (or for which
the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
secured by) any Lien on property (including, without limitation, accounts and
contract rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not assumed
or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness or other payment
Obligations.
“Debt
for Borrowed Money” of any
Person means the sum of (i) all items that, in accordance with GAAP, would be
classified as indebtedness on a Consolidated balance sheet of such Person, (ii)
all Synthetic Debt of such Person at such date and (iii) Mortgage Financing in
the form of Preferred Interests; provided,
however, that in
the case of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries “Debt for Borrowed Money”
shall also include, without duplication, the JV Pro Rata Share of Debt for
Borrowed Money for each Joint Venture; provided,
further, that
Debt for Borrowed Money shall not include indebtedness to the extent such
indebtedness is secured by an effective Lien on cash or Cash Equivalents in a
manner not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement that is intended to secure
such indebtedness.
“Default” means
any Event of Default or any event that would constitute an Event of Default but
for the passage of time or the requirement that notice be given or
both.
“Default
Interest” has the
meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).
“Defaulted
Advance” means,
with respect to any Lender Party at any time, the portion of any Advance
required to be made by such Lender Party to the Applicable Borrower pursuant to
Section 2.01 or 2.02 at or prior to such time that has not been made by
such Lender Party or by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender
Party pursuant to Section 2.02(e) as of such time. In the event that a portion
of a Defaulted Advance shall be deemed made pursuant to Section 2.15(a),
the remaining portion of such Defaulted Advance shall be considered a Defaulted
Advance originally required to be made pursuant to Section 2.01 on the same
date as the Defaulted Advance so deemed made in part.
“Defaulted
Amount” means,
with respect to any Lender Party at any time, any amount required to be paid by
such Lender Party to any Agent or any other Lender Party hereunder or under any
other Loan Document at or prior to such time that has not been so paid as of
such time, including, without limitation, any amount required to be paid by such
Lender Party to (a) the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.02(b) to
purchase a portion of a Swing Line Advance made by the Swing Line Bank, (b) the
Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.03(c) to purchase a portion of a Letter
of Credit Advance made by the Issuing Bank, (c) the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 2.02(e) to reimburse the Administrative Agent for the
amount of any Advance made by the Administrative Agent for the account of such
Lender Party, (d) any other Lender Party pursuant to Section 2.13 to
purchase any participation in Advances owing to such other Lender Party and
(e) any Agent or the Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 7.05 to
reimburse such Agent or the Issuing Bank for such Lender Party’s ratable share
of any amount required to be paid by the Lender Parties to such Agent or the
Issuing Bank as provided therein. In the event that a portion of a Defaulted
Amount shall be deemed paid pursuant to Section 2.15(b), the remaining
portion of such Defaulted Amount shall be considered a Defaulted Amount
originally required to be paid hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the
same date as the Defaulted Amount so deemed paid in part.
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“Defaulting
Lender” means,
at any time, any Lender Party that, at such time, (a) owes a Defaulted
Advance or a Defaulted Amount or (b) shall take any action or be the
subject of any action or proceeding of a type described in
Section 6.01(f).
“Development
Properties”
means all Real Property listed on Part I of Schedule VI hereto and as to any
future acquisitions of Real Property, properties classified as development
properties or identified as undeveloped land or land held for sale or similar
designation on a Consolidated balance sheet of the General Partner and its
Subsidiaries (it being understood that with respect to Real Property that
includes a developed portion, “Development Property” shall refer to that portion
of the Real Property intended for future development).
“Disclosed
Litigation” has the
meaning specified in Section 4.01(f).
“Domestic
Lending Office” means,
with respect to any Lender Party, the office of such Lender Party specified as
its “Domestic Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in
the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it became a Lender Party, as the
case may be, or such other office of such Lender Party as such Lender Party may
from time to time specify to the Applicable Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
“EBITDA” means,
for any Real Property or Person for any period, the sum of (i) net income
(or net loss), (ii) interest expense, (iii) income tax expense,
(iv) depreciation expense and (v) amortization expense, in each case
of or attributable to such Real Property or Person and determined in accordance
with GAAP for such period, including, in the case of any Joint Venture, the JV
Pro Rata Share of the EBITDA of such Joint Venture for such period.
“Effective
Date” has the
meaning specified in Section 3.01.
“Eligible
Assignee” means
(a) a Lender Party; (b) an Affiliate of a Lender Party; (c) an Approved Fund;
and (d) any other Person (other than an individual) approved by (i) the
Administrative Agent, (ii) in the case of an assignment of a Revolving Credit
Commitment, the Issuing Bank and (iii) following the Lead Arranger’s completion
of the primary syndication of the Facilities (as notified by the Lead Arranger
to the Borrowers) and unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Applicable Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed); provided,
however, that
neither any Loan Party nor any Affiliate of a Loan Party shall qualify as an
Eligible Assignee under this definition.
“Environmental
Action” means
any action, suit, demand, demand letter, claim, notice of non-compliance or
violation, notice of liability or potential liability, investigation,
proceeding, consent order or consent agreement relating to any Environmental
Law, Environmental Permit or Hazardous Material or arising from alleged injury
or threat to health, safety or the environment, including, without limitation,
(a) by any governmental or regulatory authority for enforcement, cleanup,
removal, response, remedial actions or damages and (b) by any governmental
or regulatory authority or third party for damages, contribution,
indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief.
“Environmental
Law” means
any applicable Federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, ordinance, rule,
regulation, code, order, writ, judgment, injunction, or legally enforceable
decree or judicial or agency interpretation, policy or guidance relating to
pollution or protection of the environment, health, safety or natural resources,
including, without limitation, those relating to the use, handling,
transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge of Hazardous
Materials.
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“Environmental
Permit” means
any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization
required under any Environmental Law.
“Equity
Interests” means,
with respect to any Person, shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or
profit interests in) such Person, warrants, options or other rights for the
purchase or other acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, securities convertible into
or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit
interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or
other acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and
other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without
limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or
nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other
interests are authorized or otherwise existing on any date of
determination.
“ERISA” means
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued
thereunder.
“ERISA
Affiliate” means
any Person that for purposes of Title IV of ERISA is a member of the
controlled group of any Loan Party, or under common control with any Loan Party,
within the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue
Code.
“ERISA
Event” means
(a)(i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the meaning of
Section 4043 of ERISA, with respect to any Plan unless the 30-day notice
requirement with respect to such event has been waived by the PBGC or applicable
regulations or (ii) the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply with
respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA,
of a Plan, and an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or
(13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to
such Plan within the following 30 days; (b) the application for a minimum
funding waiver with respect to a Plan; (c) the provision by the
administrator of any Plan of a notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant
to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a
plan amendment referred to in Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (d) the cessation
of operations a facility of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate in the
circumstances described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (e) the
withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiple Employer
Plan during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the conditions for imposition of a
lien under Section 302(f) of ERISA shall have been met with respect to any
Plan; (g) the adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of
security to such Plan pursuant to Section 307 of ERISA; or (h) the
institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan pursuant to
Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or condition
described in Section 4042 of ERISA that constitutes grounds for the
termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, such
Plan.
“Escrow
Bank” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Eurocurrency
Liabilities” has the
meaning specified in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar
Lending Office” means,
with respect to any Lender Party, the office of such Lender Party specified as
its “Eurodollar Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or
in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it became a Lender Party (or,
if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office), or such other
office of such Lender Party as such Lender Party may from time to time specify
to the Applicable Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
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“Eurodollar
Rate” means,
for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the
same Borrowing, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate per annum obtained
by multiplying (a) the rate per annum determined by the Administrative
Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time), on the date that is two
Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period by reference to
the British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates for deposits in U.S.
dollars (as set forth by any service selected by the Administrative Agent that
has been nominated by the British Bankers’ Association as an authorized
information vendor for the purpose of displaying such rates) for a period equal
to such Interest Period (provided,
however, that,
to the extent that an interest rate is not ascertainable pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this definition, such rate shall be the interest rate
per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates
per annum at which deposits in dollars are offered for such relevant Interest
Period to major banks in the London interbank market in London, England by the
Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the date that
is two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period) by (b) the
Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage.
“Eurodollar
Rate Advance” means
an Advance that bears interest as provided in
Section 2.07(a)(ii).
“Eurodollar
Rate Reserve Percentage” 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) expressed as a decimal established by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any other banking
authority, domestic or foreign, to which the Administrative Agent or any Lender
(including any branch, Affiliate or other fronting office making or holding an
Advance) is subject for Eurocurrency Liabilities. Eurodollar Rate Advances
shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency Liabilities 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. The Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage shall be
adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any
reserve percentage.
“Events
of Default” has the
meaning specified in Section 6.01.
“Excluded
Bosa Sale Proceeds” means
Bosa Sale Proceeds in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (a) the amount of
Excess CMBS Financing Proceeds used pursuant to clause (C) of the first proviso
to Section 5.02(b)(x) and (b) the amount of Bosa Sale Proceeds required to
prepay the Park Place Facility.
“Excess
CMBS Financing Proceeds” has the
meaning specified in Section 5.02(b)(x).
“Existing
Debt” means
Debt of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before the
occurrence of the Effective Date.
“Facility” means
the Term B Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Facility or
the Letter of Credit Facility.
“Federal
Funds Rate” means,
for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for each day during
such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal
funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day,
for the next preceding Business
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Day) by
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published
for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day
for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal
funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“Fee
Letter” means
the fee letter dated January 28, 2005 among the Revolving Credit Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and Column Financial Inc., as
amended.
“Fiscal
Year” means a
fiscal year of the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
ending on December 31 in any calendar year.
“Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio” means,
for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, the ratio of (a) Adjusted
EBITDA to (b) the sum of (i) interest payable in cash on, and amortization
of debt discount in respect of, all Debt for Borrowed Money plus (ii)
scheduled principal repayments of all Debt for Borrowed Money (other than the
Term B Facility) payable plus (iii)
all dividends payable on any Preferred Interests, in each case, of or by the
General Partner and its Subsidiaries and determined on a Consolidated basis for
such period.
“Fund” means
any Person (other than an individual) that is or will be engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar
extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
“Funds
From Operations” means
net income (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains (or losses) from
sales of property and extraordinary items plus
depreciation and amortization, and including, in the case of any Joint Venture,
the JV Pro Rata Share of the Funds From Operations of such Joint Venture for
such period.
“GAAP” has the
meaning specified in Section 1.03.
“General
Partner” means
Xxxxxxx Properties, Inc., a Maryland corporation and general partner of the
Revolving Credit Borrower.
“Governmental
Authority” means
any nation or government, any state, province, city, municipal entity or other
political subdivision thereof, and any governmental, executive, legislative,
judicial, administrative or regulatory agency, department, authority,
instrumentality, commission, board, bureau or similar body, whether xxxxxxx,
xxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxx, local or foreign.
“Governmental
Authorization” means
any authorization, approval, consent, franchise, license, covenant, order,
ruling, permit, certification, exemption, notice, declaration or similar right,
undertaking or other action of, to or by, or any filing, qualification or
registration with, any Governmental Authority.
“Gross
Income from Operations” means,
as projected for the succeeding twelve-month period based on customary good
faith estimates determined in a manner reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, all income, computed in accordance with GAAP, derived from
the ownership and operation of the Acquired Properties during such period,
including, but not limited to, rents, utility charges, escalations, service fees
or charges, license fees, parking fees, rent concessions or credits, and other
pass-through or reimbursements paid by tenants under the leases of any nature
but excluding, rents from month-to-month tenants or tenants that are included in
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any
proceeding of a type described in Section 6.01(f), any insurance proceeds and
condemnation proceeds.
“Guarantee
Obligation” means,
with respect to any Person, any Obligation or arrangement of such Person to
guarantee or intended to guarantee any Debt, leases, dividends or other payment
Obligations (“primary
obligations”) of any
other Person (the “primary
obligor”) in any
manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, (a) the
direct or indirect guarantee, endorsement (other than for collection or deposit
in the ordinary course of business), co-making, discounting with recourse or
sale with recourse by such Person of the Obligation of a primary obligor, (b)
the Obligation to make take-or-pay or similar payments, if required, regardless
of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement or (c) any
Obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any
such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security
therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the purchase or
payment of any such primary obligation or (B) to maintain working capital
or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth
or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, assets,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any
such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of
such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the
holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof. The amount of
any Guarantee Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee
Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary obligation
for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument
evidencing such Guarantee Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the
maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such
Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by such Person in good
faith.
“Guaranteed
Obligations” has the
meaning specified in Section 8.01(a).
“Guaranties” means
the guarantee of each of the Revolving Credit Borrower and the Term B Borrower
under Article VIII hereof and the Subsidiary Guaranty.
“Guarantors” means
each Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Guaranty
Supplement” has the
meaning specified in Section 8.05.
“Hazardous
Materials” means
(a) petroleum or petroleum products, by-products or breakdown products,
radioactive materials, friable or damaged asbestos-containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gas and (b) any other chemicals,
materials or substances designated, classified or regulated as hazardous or
toxic or as a pollutant or contaminant under any Environmental Law.
“Hedge
Agreements” means
interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest rate future or option
contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts and
other hedging agreements.
“Hedge
Bank” means
(a) any Lender Party or an Affiliate of a Lender Party, (b) the Lead Arranger or
any Affiliate of the Lead Arranger and (c) any other Person that was a Lender at
the time it entered into a Secured Hedge Agreement, in each case in its capacity
as a party to a Secured Hedge Agreement.
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“Hotel
Real Property” means
Real Property that operates or is intended to be operated as a hotel, motel or
other lodging for transient use of rooms or is a structure from which a hotel,
motel or other lodging for transient use of rooms is operated or intended to be
operated.
“Identified
Properties” means
the real estate properties listed on Schedule V hereto.
“Indemnified
Party” has the
meaning specified in Section 9.04(b).
“Information
Memorandum” means
the information memorandum dated February 2005, used by the Lead Arranger in
connection with the syndication of the Commitments.
“Initial
CMBS Borrower” means
Xxxxxxx Properties Holdings II, LLC, a bankruptcy remote, special purpose
Delaware limited liability company having one or more independent directors and
otherwise structured on terms acceptable to the Administrative
Agent
“Initial
Extension of Credit” means
the earlier to occur of the initial Borrowing and the initial issuance of a
Letter of Credit hereunder.
“Initial
Issuing Bank” means
the bank listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Issuing
Bank.
“Initial
Lender Parties” means
the Initial Issuing Bank, the Initial Lenders and the Initial Swing Line
Bank.
“Initial
Lenders” means
the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders listed on the
signature pages hereof as the Initial Lenders.
“Initial
Swing Line Bank” means
the bank listed on the signature pages hereof as the Initial Swing Line
Bank.
“Insufficiency” means,
with respect to any Plan, the amount, if any, of its unfunded benefit
liabilities, as defined in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA.
“Interest
Coverage Ratio” means,
for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, the ratio of
(a) Adjusted EBITDA to (b) interest (including capitalized interest)
payable on, and amortization of debt discount in respect of, all Debt for
Borrowed Money, in each case, of or by the Revolving Credit Borrower and its
Subsidiaries and determined on a Consolidated basis for such period,
provided that for
purposes of this clause (b), interest shall include, in the case of any Joint
Venture, its JV Pro Rata Share of the interest of such Joint Venture for such
period.
“Interest
Period” means,
for each Eurodollar Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, the
period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the date of the
Conversion of any Base Rate Advance into such Eurodollar Rate Advance, and
ending on the last day of the period selected by the Applicable Borrower
pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent period
commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period and
ending on the last day of the period selected by the Applicable Borrower
pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of each such Interest Period
shall be one, two, three or six months, as the Applicable Borrower may, upon
notice received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M.
(New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of
such Interest Period, select; provided,
however,
that:
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(a) the
Applicable Borrower may not select any Interest Period with respect to any
Eurodollar Rate Advance under a Facility that ends after any principal repayment
installment date for such Facility unless, after giving effect to such
selection, the aggregate principal amount of Base Rate Advances and of
Eurodollar Rate Advances having Interest Periods that end on or prior to such
principal repayment installment date for such Facility shall be at least equal
to the aggregate principal amount of Advances under such Facility due and
payable on or prior to such date;
(b) Interest
Periods commencing on the same date for Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part
of the same Borrowing shall be of the same duration;
(c) whenever
the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a
Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on
the next succeeding Business Day, provided,
however, that, if
such extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the
next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur
on the next preceding Business Day; and
(d) whenever
the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a day of an initial calendar
month for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month
that succeeds such initial calendar month by the number of months equal to the
number of months in such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the
last Business Day of such succeeding calendar month.
“Internal
Revenue Code” means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Investment” in any
Person means any loan or advance to such Person, any purchase or other
acquisition of Real Property, any Equity Interests or Debt or the assets
comprising a division or business unit or a substantial part or all of the
business of such Person, any capital contribution to such Person or any other
direct or indirect investment in such Person, including, without limitation, any
acquisition by way of a merger or consolidation (or similar transaction) and any
arrangement pursuant to which the investor incurs Debt of the types referred to
in clause (i) or (j) of the definition of “Debt” in
respect of such Person.
“Issuing
Bank” means
the Initial Issuing Bank and any Eligible Assignee to which the Letter of Credit
Commitment hereunder has been assigned pursuant to Section 9.07 so long as such
Eligible Assignee expressly agrees to perform in accordance with their terms all
of the obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be
performed by it as an Issuing Bank and notifies the Administrative Agent of its
Applicable Lending Office and the amount of its Letter of Credit Commitment
(which information shall be recorded by the Administrative Agent in the
Register), for so long as such Initial Issuing Bank or Eligible Assignee, as the
case may be, shall have a Letter of Credit Commitment.
“Joint
Venture” means
any joint venture (a) in which the General Partner or any of its Subsidiaries
holds any Equity Interest, (b) that is not a Subsidiary of the General Partner
or any of its Subsidiaries and (c) the accounts of which would not appear on the
Consolidated financial statements of the General Partner.
“JV
Pro Rata Share” means,
with respect to any Joint Venture at any time, the fraction, expressed as a
percentage, obtained by dividing (a) the total value of all Equity Interests in
such
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Joint
Venture held by the General Partner and any of its Subsidiaries by (b) the total
value of all outstanding Equity Interests in such Joint Venture at such
time.
“LA
Downtown Office Real Property” means
the Office Real Property listed on Schedule IV hereto and other Office Real
Property acquired by the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries of a
substantially similar type located in the central business district of downtown
Los Angeles.
“L/C
Disbursement” shall
mean a payment or disbursement made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of
Credit.
“L/C
Related Documents” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.04(d)(ii)(A).
“Lead
Arranger” means
CSFB.
“Leased
Real Property” means
each parcel of Real Property leased or subleased by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to any Real Property Lease.
“Lender
Party” means
any Lender, the Issuing Bank or the Swing Line Bank.
“Lenders” means
the Initial Lenders and each Person that shall become a Lender hereunder
pursuant to Section 9.07 for so long as such Initial Lender or Person, as
the case may be, shall be a party to this Agreement.
“Letter
of Credit” means
any letter of credit issued under the Letter of Credit Facility.
“Letter
of Credit Advance” means
an advance made by the Issuing Bank or any Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to
Section 2.03(c).
“Letter
of Credit Agreement” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
“Letter
of Credit Commitment” means,
with respect to the Issuing Bank, the amount set forth opposite the name on
Schedule I hereto under the caption “Letter of Credit Commitment” or, if
the Issuing Bank has entered into an Assignment and Assumption, set forth for
the Issuing Bank in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant
to Section 9.07(d) as the Issuing Bank’s “Letter of Credit Commitment,” as
such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to
Section 2.05.
“Letter
of Credit Facility” means,
at any time, an amount equal to the amount of the Issuing Bank’s Letter of
Credit Commitment at such time, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to
such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Letters
of Credit” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.01(d).
“Leverage
Ratio” means
the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of (a) Debt for Borrowed Money of the
General Partner and its Subsidiaries to (b) Total Asset Value, in each case as
at the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the General
Partner.
“Lien” means
any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or any
other type of preferential arrangement, including, without limitation, the lien
or retained
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security
title of a conditional vendor and any easement, right of way or other
encumbrance on title to real property.
“Limited
Recourse Carve-Outs” means
customary carve-outs to Non-Recourse Debt such as, for example, personal
recourse of the Revolving Credit Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Revolving
Credit Borrower for fraud, misrepresentation, bankruptcy, misapplication of
cash, waste, environmental claims and liabilities and other circumstances
customarily excluded by lenders from exculpation provisions and/or included in
separate indemnification agreements in non-recourse financings of real
estate.
“Limited
Recourse Guarantee Obligations” means
Guarantee Obligations for Limited Recourse Carve-Outs.
“Loan
Documents” means
(a) for purposes of this Agreement and the Guaranties, (i) this Agreement,
(ii) the Notes, (iii) the Guaranties, (iv) the Collateral
Documents, (v) the Fee Letter and (vi) each Letter of Credit
Agreement, in each case as amended, and (b) for purposes of the Collateral
Documents, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the
Guaranties, (iv) the Collateral Documents, (v) the Fee Letter,
(vi) each Letter of Credit Agreement and (vii) each Secured Hedge
Agreement, in each case as amended.
“Loan
Parties” means
the General Partner, the Borrowers and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
“Margin
Stock” has the
meaning specified in Regulation U.
“Material
Adverse Change” means
any event, development or circumstance that has had or could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
“Material
Adverse Effect” means a
material adverse effect on (a) the Transaction, (b) the business, assets,
property, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the General Partner
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (c) the validity or
enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or the rights of the Lender
Parties.
“Material
Contract” means,
with respect to any Loan Party, each contract to which such Loan Party is a
party involving aggregate consideration payable to or by such Loan Party in an
amount of $25,000,000 or more per annum or otherwise material to the business,
condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or
prospects of such Loan Party.
“Xxxxx’x” means
Xxxxx’x Investors Services, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage
Financing” means
the issuance of CMBS or other commercial mortgage financing, mezzanine
financing, Preferred Interests and similar Real Property related financing
entered into by any Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower (other than the
Term B Borrower) that is directly or indirectly collateralized by, or in the
case of Preferred Interests, that directly or indirectly derive their value
from, Real Property or, in each case, any Refinancing Debt incurred to refinance
such Mortgage Financing; provided,
however, that the
Borrowers shall have no Guarantee Obligations in respect of any such Mortgage
Financing other than Limited Recourse Guarantee Obligations and other Guarantee
Obligations specifically permitted by Section 5.02(b).
“Mortgage
Policies” has the
meaning specified in Section 3.01(a)(iii)(B).
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“Mortgages” has the
meaning specified in Section 3.01(a)(iii).
“Multiemployer
Plan” means a
multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any
Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make
contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made or
accrued an obligation to make contributions.
“Multiple
Employer Plan” means a
single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, in which
(a) any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliates are contributing sponsors or (b) any
Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and at least one Person other than the Loan
Parties and the ERISA Affiliates were previously contributing sponsors if any
Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate could reasonably be expected to have liability
under Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to
be terminated.
“Net
Cash Proceeds” means,
with respect to (a) any sale, transfer or other disposition (including,
without limitation, any event for which insurance proceeds or casualty or
condemnation awards are received) of any asset or (b) the incurrence or
issuance of any Debt or (c) the sale or issuance of any Equity Interests
(including, without limitation, any capital contribution) by any Person, the
aggregate amount of cash received from time to time (whether as initial
consideration or through payment or disposition of deferred consideration) by or
on behalf of such Person in connection with such transaction after deducting
therefrom only (without duplication) (i) brokerage commissions,
underwriting fees and discounts, legal fees, finder’s fees and other similar
fees and commissions, (ii) the amount of taxes payable in connection with
or as a result of such transaction, (iii) the principal amount of, premium,
if any, and interest on any Debt that, by the terms of the agreement or
instrument governing such Debt, is required to be repaid upon such disposition,
in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that the amounts so deducted
are, at the time of receipt of such cash (or within 10 days thereafter),
actually paid to a Person that is not an Affiliate of such Person or any Loan
Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party and are properly attributable to such
transaction or to the asset that is the subject thereof; and (iv) proceeds
required to be distributed to the General Partner in order to comply with
Section 5.01(o) and to avoid the imposition of income or excise taxes on the
General Partner, provided,
however, that in
the case of taxes that are deductible under clause (ii) above but for the
fact that, at the time of receipt of such cash, such taxes have not been
actually paid or are not then payable, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary may
deduct an amount (the “Reserved
Amount”) equal
to the amount reserved in accordance with GAAP for such Loan Party’s or such
Subsidiary’s reasonable estimate of such taxes, other than taxes for which such
Loan Party or such Subsidiary is indemnified, provided
further, however, that, at
the time such taxes are paid, an amount equal to the amount, if any, by which
the Reserved Amount for such taxes exceeds the amount of such taxes actually
paid shall constitute “Net Cash Proceeds” of the type for which such taxes were
reserved for all purposes hereunder; provided
further that,
Net Cash Proceeds shall not include (1) Excess CMBS Financing Proceeds, (2)
Excluded Bosa Sale Proceeds and (3) so long as no Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing at the time of receipt thereof or within three Business Days
following such receipt, (A) any cash receipts from any transaction described in
clause (a) above (other than cash receipts from the sale, transfer or other
disposition of any Identified Property) that are reinvested in the business of
the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries within 270 days after the
date of receipt thereof, (B) any cash receipts described in clause (a) above
from insurance proceeds, casualty or condemnation awards that are required to be
retained by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, or retained by a creditor with a
Lien on such assets or the ground lessor of the Leased Real Property on which
such assets are located, in each case pursuant to the terms of a financing
agreement in respect of such asset or assets or the terms of the lease for such
Leased Real Property, as the case may be, for rebuilding or replacement of the
applicable
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asset or
assets, so long as any such receipts retained by such Loan Party in respect of a
total casualty loss of any Real Property Collateral are held in the Collateral
Account until the same are used for such rebuilding or replacement or
(C) cash receipts from any transaction described in clause (a) above that
(individually or in the aggregate) do not exceed $2,500,000.
“Net
Operating Income” means,
with respect to any Real Property for any period, the total rental and other
income from the operation of such Real Property for such period, after deducting
all expenses and other proper charges incurred by the Revolving Credit Borrower
in connection with the operation and maintenance of such Real Property during
such period, including, without limitation, management fees, real estate taxes
and bad debt expenses, but before payment or provision for debt service charges,
income taxes and depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses, in each
case for such period, all as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“New
TRS Subsidiaries” means
the Subsidiaries identified on Schedule 4.01(b) hereto as “New TRS
Subsidiaries”.
“Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary” means
(a) the CMBS Subsidiaries, (b) to the extent that the 777 Tower is owned by a
Subsidiary of the Term B Borrower, such Subsidiary, (c) the TRS Subsidiaries,
and (d) any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower
(other than the Term B Borrower) that (i) is not required to be or to become a
Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or (ii) is unable
to guaranty the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents at such
time because it is party to one or more Non-Guarantor Subsidiary Agreements that
prohibit such
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary from entering into the Guaranty set forth in Article VIII or a
Guaranty Supplement.
“Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary Agreement” means
for each Subsidiary of the Term B Borrower, any agreement entered into in
connection with a Mortgage Financing or Permitted Construction Financing, in
each case permitted under Section 5.02(b), that prohibits such Subsidiary from
being a Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder, subject to compliance with Section
8.08.
“Non-Recourse
Debt” means
Debt with respect to which recourse for payment is limited to (a) any
building(s) or parcel(s) of Real Property or any related assets encumbered by a
Lien securing such Debt and/or (b) the general credit of any Property-Level
Subsidiary and/or the Equity Interests therein, it being understood that the
instruments governing such Debt may include Limited Recourse
Carve-Outs.
“Note” means a
Term B Note or a Revolving Credit Note.
“Notice
of Borrowing” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.02(a).
“Notice
of Issuance” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
“Notice
of Renewal” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.01(d).
“Notice
of Swing Line Borrowing” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.02(b).
“Notice
of Termination” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.01(d).
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“Obligation” means,
with respect to any Person, any payment, performance or other obligation of such
Person of any kind, including, without limitation, any liability of such Person
on any claim, whether or not the right of any creditor to payment in respect of
such claim is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent,
matured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured, and
whether or not such claim is discharged, stayed or otherwise affected by any
proceeding referred to in Section 6.01(f). Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents
include (a) the obligation to pay principal, interest, Letter of Credit
commissions, charges, expenses, fees, attorneys’ fees and disbursements,
indemnities and other amounts payable by such Loan Party under any Loan Document
and (b) the obligation of such Loan Party to reimburse any amount in
respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender Party, in its sole discretion,
may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Office
Real Property” means
Real Property (exclusive of any Development Property) that is an office building
or a structure from which commercial businesses operate.
“Operating
Expenses” means,
as projected for the succeeding twelve-month period based on customary good
faith estimates determined in a manner reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, the total of all expenditures, computed in accordance with
GAAP, of whatever kind during such period relating to the operation, maintenance
and management of the Acquired Properties that are incurred on a regular monthly
or other periodic basis, including without limitation, utilities, ordinary
repairs and maintenance, insurance, license fees, property taxes and
assessments, advertising expenses, management fees, payroll and related taxes,
operational equipment or other lease payments as approved by the Administrative
Agent, and other similar costs, but excluding depreciation, debt service,
Capital Expenditures and any other reserves required under the Loan
Documents.
“Other
Real Property” means
Real Property that is neither Hotel Real Property nor Office Real Property nor
Retail Real Property.
“Other
Taxes” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.12(b).
“Owned
Real Property” means
any Real Property owned by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries from time
to time.
“Park
Place Facility” means
that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated on or about the
Effective Date among Park Place MD, as borrower, Wachovia Capital Markets LLC,
as arranger, Wachovia Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and
the lenders party thereto, as amended.
“Park
Place MD” means
Xxxxxxx Properties - Park Place Master Development, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company.
“Patriot
Act” means
the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law
October 26, 2001, as amended.
“PBGC” means
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any successor).
“Permitted
Construction Financing” means
Non-Recourse Debt incurred to finance the construction or improvement of a
Development Property; provided,
however, that the
Borrowers
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shall
have used commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the agreement of the
construction lender(s) to the pledge of (or maintenance of the pledge of) the
direct or indirect Equity Interest in the Property Level Subsidiary for such
Development Property under the terms of the Collateral Documents, and if such
agreement has not been obtained, prepaid the Term B Loan in an amount equal to
the Applicable Release Price, if any, for such Development Property;
provided,
however, that
Guarantee Obligations shall be permitted in respect of such Permitted
Construction Financing to the extent provided in Section
5.02(b)(xii).
“Permitted
Encumbrances” has the
meaning specified in the Mortgages.
“Permitted
Liens” means
such of the following as to which no enforcement, collection, execution, levy or
foreclosure proceeding shall have been commenced: (a) Liens for taxes,
assessments and governmental charges or levies not yet delinquent;
(b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’,
workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary
course of business securing obligations that (i) are not overdue for a period of
more than 30 days and (ii) individually or together with all other Permitted
Liens outstanding on any date of determination do not materially adversely
affect the use of the property to which they relate; (c) pledges or
deposits to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar
legislation or to secure public, regulatory, ordinary course contractual,
warranty or statutory obligations (other than, in the case of contractual or
warranty obligations, any such obligations that give rise to Debt); (d)
covenants, conditions and restrictions and easements, rights of way and other
encumbrances on title to real property that do not render title to the property
encumbered thereby unmarketable or materially adversely affect the use of such
property for its present purposes; (e) any Permitted Encumbrances; (f) Tenant
Leases; (g) any attachment or judgment Liens not resulting in an Event of
Default under Section 6.01(g); and (h) Liens arising from the filing of any UCC
financing statement regarding leases or charges not prohibited by this
Agreement.
“Person” means
an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), limited
liability company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint
venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency
thereof.
“Plan” means a
Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
“Pledged
Equity” has the
meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
“Post-Petition
Interest” has the
meaning specified in Section 8.06(b).
“Preferred
Interests” means,
with respect to any Person, Equity Interests issued by such Person that are
entitled to a preference or priority over any other Equity Interests issued by
such Person upon any distribution of such Person’s property and assets, whether
by dividend or upon liquidation.
“Projected
Net Operating Income” means,
as of the Effective Date, for the succeeding twelve-month period, the amount
obtained by subtracting Operating Expenses for such period from Gross Income
from Operations for such period.
“Property-Level
Subsidiary” means
any Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower that holds a direct fee or
leasehold interest in any single building (or group of related buildings) or
parcel (or group of related parcels) of real property and related assets and not
in any other
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building
or parcel of Real Property or any direct or indirect parent of any such
Subsidiary that has as its primary business to hold, directly or indirectly, the
Equity Interests in such Subsidiary.
“Pro
Rata Share” of any
amount means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the
product of such amount times a
fraction the numerator of which is the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Commitment at such time (or, if the Commitments shall have been terminated
pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01, such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment
as in effect immediately prior to such termination) and the denominator of which
is the Revolving Credit Facility at such time (or, if the Commitments shall have
been terminated pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01, the Revolving Credit
Facility as in effect immediately prior to such termination).
“Purchase
Agreement” has the
meaning specified in the preliminary statements hereto.
“Real
Property” means
all right, title and interest of any Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries in
and to any
land and any improvements located thereon, together with all equipment,
furniture, materials, supplies and personal property in which such Person has an
interest now or hereafter located on or used in connection with such land and
improvements, and all appurtenances, additions, improvements, renewals,
substitutions and replacements thereof now or hereafter acquired by such
Person.
“Real
Property Collateral” means
the Acquired Properties and other Real Properties of the Loan Parties listed in
Part I of Schedule III hereto and any other owned or leased real property that
becomes subject to a Mortgage pursuant to Section 5.01(j).
“Real
Property Lease” means
all leases of Real Property under which any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries is a lessee from time to time.
“Redeemable” means,
with respect to any Equity Interest, any such Equity Interest that (a) the
issuer has undertaken to redeem at a fixed or determinable date or dates,
whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise, or upon the occurrence of a
condition not solely within the control of the issuer or (b) is redeemable
at the option of the holder.
“Refinancing
Debt” means,
with respect to any Debt, any Debt extending the maturity of, or refunding or
refinancing, in whole or in part, such Debt, provided that (i)
the terms of any Refinancing Debt, and of any agreement entered into and of any
instrument issued in connection therewith, are otherwise permitted by the Loan
Documents, (ii) the principal (or committed) amount of such Debt shall not be
increased above the principal (or committed) amount thereof outstanding
immediately prior to such extension, refunding or refinancing (plus the amount
of all fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with such extension,
refunding or refinancing) and the direct and contingent obligors therefor shall
not be changed, as a result of or in connection with such extension, refunding
or refinancing, and (iii) the terms relating to principal amount, amortization,
maturity and subordination (if any), taken as a whole, of any such Refinancing
Debt, and of any agreement entered into and of any instrument issued in
connection therewith, are no less favorable in any material respect to the Loan
Parties or the Lender Parties than the terms of any agreement or instrument
governing the Debt being extended, refunded or refinanced and the interest rate
applicable to any such Refinancing Debt does not exceed the then applicable
market interest rate.
“Register” has the
meaning specified in Section 9.07(e).
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“Regulation
U” means
Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in
effect from time to time.
“REIT” means a
Person that is qualified to be treated for tax purposes as a real estate
investment trust under Sections 856-860 of the Internal Revenue
Code.
“Related
Documents” means
the Purchase Agreement and the CMBS Documents.
“Required
Lenders” means,
at any time, Lenders owed or holding at least a majority in interest of the sum
of (a) the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such
time, (b) the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit
outstanding at such time and (c) the aggregate Unused Revolving Credit
Commitments at such time; provided,
however, that if
any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender at such time, there shall be excluded
from the determination of Required Lenders at such time (A) the aggregate
principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender (in its capacity as a
Lender) and outstanding at such time, (B) such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of
the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time
and (C) the Unused Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender at such time.
For purposes of this definition, the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line
Advances owing to the Swing Line Bank and of Letter of Credit Advances owing to
the Issuing Bank and the Available Amount of each Letter of Credit shall be
considered to be owed to the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with
their respective Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Retail
Real Property” means
Real Property that is operated primarily or is intended to be operated primarily
as a retail complex or retail center.
“Revolving
Credit Advance” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
“Revolving
Credit Borrower” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Revolving
Credit Borrowing” means a
borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Advances of the same Type
made by the Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Revolving
Credit Commitment” means,
with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the amount set forth
opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption
“Revolving Credit Commitment” or, if such Lender has entered into one or more
Assignment and Assumptions, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained
by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as such Lender’s
“Revolving Credit Commitment,” as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such
time pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Revolving
Credit Facility” means,
at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving
Credit Commitments at such time.
“Revolving
Credit Lender” means
any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment.
“Revolving
Credit Note” means a
promissory note of the Revolving Credit Borrower payable to the order of any
Revolving Credit Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto,
evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Revolving Credit Borrower to such
Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Advances, Letter of Credit Advances
and Swing Line Advances made by such Lender, as amended.
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“S&P” means
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies,
Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Secured
Hedge Agreement” means
any Hedge Agreement required or permitted under Article V that is entered into
by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank.
“Secured
Obligations” has the
meaning specified in Section 2 of the Security Agreement.
“Secured
Parties” means
the Agents, the Lender Parties and the Hedge Banks.
“Security
Agreement” has the
meaning specified in Section 3.01(a)(ii).
“Seller” has the
meaning specified in the preliminary statements hereto.
“Single
Employer Plan” means a
single employer plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, in which
(a) any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate, and no Person other than the
Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates, is a contributing sponsor or (b) any Loan
Party or any ERISA Affiliate, and no Person other than the Loan Parties and the
ERISA Affiliates, is a contributing sponsor if such Loan Party or ERISA
Affiliate could reasonably be expected to have liability under Section 4069
of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
“Solvent” and
“Solvency” mean,
with respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date (a) the
fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of
liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such
Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is
not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of
such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such
Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or
liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as
they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a
transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which
such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The
amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount
that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time,
represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or
matured liability.
“Specified
Applications” has the
meaning specified in Section 5.02(b)(x).
“Subordinated
Obligations” has the
meaning specified in Section 8.06.
“Subsidiary” of any
Person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability
company, trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the
issued and outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a
majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether
at the time capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation
shall or might have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency),
(b) the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership, joint
venture or limited liability company or (c) the beneficial interest in such
trust or estate, in each case is at the time directly or indirectly owned or
controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of its other
Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person’s other Subsidiaries.
“Subsidiary
Guarantors” means
the Subsidiaries of the Revolving Credit Borrower listed on Schedule II
hereto and each other Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower that shall be
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required
to execute and deliver a guaranty pursuant to Section 5.01(j), which, in
each case, shall not include any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary.
“Subsidiary
Guaranty” means
the guaranty of the Subsidiary Guarantors set forth in Article VIII,
together with each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to
Section 5.01(j), in each case as amended, amended and restated, modified or
otherwise supplemented.
“Supplemental
Collateral Agent” has the
meaning specified in Section 7.01(c).
“Surviving
Debt” means
Debt of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before and
after giving effect to the Initial Extension of Credit.
“Swing
Line Advance” means
an advance made by (a) the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.01(c) or
(b) any Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to
Section 2.02(b).
“Swing
Line Bank” means
the Initial Swing Line Bank and any Eligible Assignee to which the Swing Line
Commitment hereunder has been assigned pursuant to Section 9.07 so long as such
Eligible Assignee expressly agrees to perform in accordance with their terms all
obligations that by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by
it as a Swing Line Bank and notifies the Administrative Agent of its Applicable
Lending Office and the amount of its Swing Line Commitment (which information
shall be recorded by the Administrative Agent in the Register), for so long as
such Initial Swing Line Bank or Eligible Assignee, as the case may be, shall
have a Swing Line Commitment.
“Swing
Line Borrowing” means a
borrowing consisting of a Swing Line Advance made by the Swing Line Bank
pursuant to Section 2.01(c) or the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to
Section 2.02(b).
“Swing
Line Commitment” means,
with respect to the Swing Line Bank at any time, the amount set forth opposite
the Swing Line Bank’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Swing Line
Commitment” or, if the Swing Line Bank has entered into an Assignment and
Assumption, set forth for the Swing Line Bank in the Register maintained by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as the Swing Line Bank’s “Swing
Line Commitment,” as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time
pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Swing
Line Facility” means,
at any time, an amount equal to the amount of the Swing Line Bank’s Swing Line
Commitment at such time, as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time
pursuant to Section 2.05.
“Synthetic
Debt” means the
monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance
sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of
property creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such
Person (excluding operating leases) but which upon the insolvency or bankruptcy
of such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person
(without regard to accounting treatment).
“Taxes” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.12(a).
“Tenant
Leases” means
operating leases, subleases, licenses, occupancy agreements and rights-of-use
entered into by the Revolving Credit Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in its
capacity as a lessor or a similar capacity in the ordinary course of
business.
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“Term
B Advance” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).
“Term
B Borrower” has the
meaning specified in the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“Term
B Borrowing” means a
borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term B Advances of the same Type made by
the Term B Lenders.
“Term
B Commitment” means,
with respect to any Term B Lender at any time, the amount set forth opposite
such Lender’s name on Schedule I hereto under the caption “Term B
Commitment” or, if such Lender has entered into one or more Assignment and
Assumption, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(d) as such Lender’s “Term B
Commitment,” as such amount may be reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to
Section 2.05.
“Term
B Facility” means,
at any time, the aggregate amount of the Term B Lenders’ Term B Commitments at
such time.
“Term
B Lender” means
any Lender that has a Term B Commitment.
“Term
B Maturity Date” means
the date that is five years following the Effective Date.
“Term
B Note” means a
promissory note of the Term B Borrower payable to the order of any Term B
Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit A-2 hereto, evidencing the
indebtedness of the Term B Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Term B
Advance made by such Lender, as amended.
“Termination
Date” means
the earlier of (a) the date that is four years following the Effective Date and
(b) the date of termination in whole of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the
Letter of Credit Commitment and the Swing Line Commitment pursuant to
Section 2.05 or 6.01.
“Total
Asset Value” means,
on any date of determination, the sum of the Asset Values for all Real Property
at such date.
“Transfer” has the
meaning specified in Section 5.02(e).
“Transaction” means
the Acquisition and the
other transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
“Transaction
Costs” means
the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transaction up to an
aggregate amount of approximately $25,000,000.
“Transaction
Documents” means,
collectively, the Loan Documents and the Related Documents.
“TRS
Subsidiaries” means
Xxxxxxx Properties Services, Inc., Xxxxxxx Properties-Solana Services, L.P.,
MP-Solana Services GP, LLC and MP-Solana Services LP, LLC and the New TRS
Subsidiaries.
“Type” refers
to the distinction between Advances bearing interest at the Base Rate and
Advances bearing interest at the Eurodollar Rate.
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“Unused
Revolving Credit Commitment” means,
with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, (a) such Lender’s
Revolving Credit Commitment at such time minus
(b) the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving
Credit Advances, Swing Line Advances and Letter of Credit Advances made by such
Lender (in its capacity as a Lender) and outstanding at such time plus
(ii) such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of (A) the aggregate Available
Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time, (B) the aggregate
principal amount of all Letter of Credit Advances made by the Issuing Bank
pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and outstanding at such time and (C) the
aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Advances made by the Swing Line
Bank pursuant to Section 2.01(c) and outstanding at such time.
“Voting
Interests” means
shares of capital stock issued by a corporation, or equivalent Equity Interests
in any other Person, the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of
contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons
performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the right so to vote has
been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.
“Withdrawal
Liability” has the
meaning specified in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of
ERISA.
SECTION
1.02. Computation
of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions
. In this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents in the computation of periods of time
from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means
“from and including” and the words “to” and
“until” each
mean “to but excluding”. References in the Loan Documents to any agreement or
contract “as
amended” shall
mean and be a reference to such agreement or contract as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with its terms.
SECTION
1.03. Accounting
Terms
. All
accounting terms not specifically defined herein shall be construed in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistent with those
applied in the preparation of the financial statements referred to in
Section 4.01(g) (“GAAP”).
ARTICLE
II
AMOUNTS
AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES
AND
THE LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION
2.01. The
Advances and the Letters of Credit
. (a)
The
Term B Advances. Each
Term B Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set
forth, to make a single advance (a “Term
B Advance”) to the
Term B Borrower on the Effective Date in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s
Term B Commitment at such time. The Term B Borrowing shall consist of Term B
Advances made simultaneously by the Term B Lenders ratably according to their
Term B Commitments. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid
or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
(b) The
Revolving Credit Advances. Each
Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions
hereinafter set forth, to make advances (each a “Revolving
Credit Advance”) to the
Revolving Credit Borrower from time to time on any Business Day during the
period from the
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Effective
Date until the Termination Date in an amount for each such Advance not to exceed
such Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment at such time. Each Revolving
Credit Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or an integral
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (other than a Borrowing the proceeds of
which shall be used solely to repay or prepay in full outstanding Swing Line
Advances or outstanding Letter of Credit Advances) and shall consist of
Revolving Credit Advances made simultaneously by the Revolving Credit Lenders
ratably according to their Revolving Credit Commitments. Within the limits of
each Revolving Credit Lender’s Unused Revolving Credit Commitment in effect from
time to time, the Revolving Credit Borrower may borrow under this
Section 2.01(b), prepay pursuant to Section 2.06(a) and reborrow under
this Section 2.01(b).
(c) The
Swing Line Advances. The
Swing Line Bank agrees on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to
make Swing Line Advances to the Revolving Credit Borrower from time to time on
any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until the Termination
Date (i) in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the
Swing Line Bank’s Swing Line Commitment at such time and (ii) in an amount
for each such Swing Line Borrowing not to exceed the aggregate of the Unused
Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders at such time. Each
Swing Line Borrowing shall be in an amount of $1,000,000 or an integral multiple
of $500,000 in excess thereof and shall be made as a Base Rate Advance. Within
the limits of the Swing Line Facility and within the limits referred to in
clause (ii) above, the Revolving Credit Borrower may borrow under this
Section 2.01(c), repay pursuant to Section 2.04(c) or prepay pursuant
to Section 2.06(a) and reborrow under this
Section 2.01(c).
Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Advance, each Revolving Credit
Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to,
purchase from the Swing Line Bank a risk participation in such Swing Line
Advance in an amount equal to the product of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share
times the
amount of such Swing Line Advance.
(d) The
Letters of Credit. The
Issuing Bank agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to issue
(or cause its Affiliate that is a commercial bank to issue on its behalf)
standby letters of credit (the “Letters
of Credit”) in
U.S. Dollars for the account of the Revolving Credit Borrower from time to time
on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until five days
before the Termination Date in an aggregate Available Amount (i) for all
Letters of Credit not to exceed at any time the lesser of (x) the Letter of
Credit Facility at such time and (y) the Issuing Bank’s Letter of Credit
Commitment at such time and (ii) for each such Letter of Credit not to
exceed the Unused Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders
at such time. No Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date (including all
rights of the Revolving Credit Borrower or the beneficiary to require renewal)
later than the earlier of five days before the Termination Date and one year
after the date of issuance thereof, but may by its terms be renewable annually
upon notice (a “Notice
of Renewal”) given
to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent on or prior to any date for
notice of renewal set forth in such Letter of Credit but in any event at least
five Business Days prior to the date of the proposed renewal of such Letter of
Credit and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in Article
III unless the Issuing Bank has notified the Revolving Credit Borrower (with a
copy to the Administrative Agent) on or prior to the date for notice of
termination set forth in such Letter of Credit but in any event at least 30
Business Days prior to the date of automatic renewal of its election not to
renew such Letter of Credit (a “Notice
of Termination”);
provided that the
terms of each Letter of Credit that is automatically renewable annually shall
(x) require the Issuing Bank to give the beneficiary named in such Letter
of Credit notice of any Notice of Termination, (y) permit such beneficiary,
upon receipt of such notice, to draw under such Letter of Credit prior to the
date such Letter of Credit otherwise would have been automatically renewed and
(z) not permit the expiration date (after giving effect to any renewal) of
such Letter of Credit in any event to be extended to a date later than five days
before the Termination Date. If either a Notice of Renewal is not given by the
Revolving Credit Borrower or a Notice of Termination is given by the Issuing
Bank pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, such Letter of Credit shall
expire on the date on which it otherwise would have been automatically renewed;
provided,
however, that
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even in
the absence of receipt of a Notice of Renewal the Issuing Bank may in its
discretion, unless instructed to the contrary by the Administrative Agent or the
Revolving Credit Borrower, deem that a Notice of Renewal had been timely
delivered and in such case, a Notice of Renewal shall be deemed to have been so
delivered for all purposes under this Agreement. Within the limits of the Letter
of Credit Facility, and subject to the limits referred to above, the Revolving
Credit Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit under this
Section 2.01(d), repay any Letter of Credit Advances resulting from
drawings thereunder pursuant to Section 2.04(d) and request the issuance of
additional Letters of Credit under this Section 2.01(d).
SECTION
2.02. Making
the Advances
. (a)
Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.02(b) or 2.03, each Borrowing
shall be made on notice, given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York
City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing
in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, or the
Business Day of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of
Base Rate Advances, by the Applicable Borrower to the Administrative Agent,
which shall give to each Appropriate Lender prompt notice thereof. Each such
notice of a Borrowing (a “Notice
of Borrowing”) shall
be by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing, or telecopier, in
substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, specifying therein the requested
(i) date of such Borrowing, (ii) Facility under which such Borrowing
is to be made, (iii) Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing,
(iv) aggregate amount of such Borrowing and (v) in the case of a
Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, initial Interest Period for
each such Advance. Each Appropriate Lender shall, before 11:00 A.M.
(New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing, make available for the
account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent at the
Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day funds, such Lender’s ratable portion
of such Borrowing in accordance with the respective Commitments under the
applicable Facility of such Lender and the other Appropriate Lenders. After the
Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the
applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent
will make such funds available to the Applicable Borrower by crediting the
applicable Borrower’s Account; provided,
however, that, in
the case of any Revolving Credit Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall first
apply such funds to prepay ratably the aggregate principal amount of any Swing
Line Advances and Letter of Credit Advances outstanding at such time, together
with interest accrued and unpaid thereon to and as of such date.
(b) (i) Each
Swing Line Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than
11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the date of the proposed Swing Line
Borrowing, by the Revolving Credit Borrower to the Swing Line Bank and the
Administrative Agent. Each such notice of a Swing Line Borrowing (a
“Notice
of Swing Line Borrowing”) shall
be by telephone, confirmed immediately in writing, or telecopier, specifying
therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing and (ii) amount of
such Borrowing. The Swing Line Bank will make the amount of the requested Swing
Line Advances available to the Revolving Credit Borrower by crediting the
Revolving Credit Borrower’s Account.
(ii) The Swing
Line Bank may, at any time in its sole and absolute discretion, request on
behalf of the Revolving Credit Borrower (and the Revolving Credit Borrower
hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Bank to so request on its behalf)
that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Advance in an amount equal to
such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount of Swing Line Advances then
outstanding. Such request shall be deemed to be a Notice of Borrowing for
purposes hereof and shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Section
2.02(a) without regard solely to the minimum amounts specified therein but
subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3.02. The
Swing Line Bank shall furnish the Revolving Credit Borrower with a copy of the
applicable Notice of Borrowing promptly after delivering such notice to the
Administrative
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Agent.
Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of
the amount specified in such Notice of Borrowing available for the account of
its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Swing Line Bank, by deposit to the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same date
funds, not later than 11:00 A.M. on the day specified in such Notice of
Borrowing.
(iii) If for
any reason any Swing Line Advance cannot be refinanced by a Revolving Credit
Borrowing as contemplated by Section 2.02(b)(ii), the request for Base Rate
Advances submitted by the Swing Line Bank as set forth in Section 2.02(b)(ii)
shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Bank that each of the
Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line
Advance and each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent
for the account of the Swing Line Bank pursuant to Section 2.02(b)(ii) shall be
deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(iv) If and to
the extent that any Revolving Credit Lender shall not have made the amount of
its Pro Rata Share of such Swing Line Advance available to the Administrative
Agent in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02(b)(ii), such Revolving
Credit Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such
amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date of the
applicable Notice of Borrowing delivered by the Swing Line Bank until the date
such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds
Rate.
(v) Each
Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Advances or to
purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Advance pursuant to this
Section 2.02(b) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by
any circumstance, including (A) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense
or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line Bank, either
Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence and
continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition,
whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided,
however, that each
Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Advances pursuant
to this Section 2.02(b) is subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth
in Section 3.02. No funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise
impair the obligation of the Revolving Credit Borrower to repay Swing Line
Advances, together with interest as provided herein.
(c) Anything
in subsection (a) above to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) the
Borrowers may not select Eurodollar Rate Advances for the initial Borrowing
hereunder and for the period from the date hereof to the date that is 10
Business Days following the Effective Date (or such earlier date as shall be
specified in its sole discretion by the Administrative Agent) or for any
Borrowing if the aggregate amount of such Borrowing is less than $5,000,000 or
if the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Advances
shall then be suspended pursuant to Section 2.09 or 2.10 and (ii) the
Term B Advances may not be outstanding as part of more than five separate
Borrowings and the Revolving Credit Advances may not be outstanding as part of
more than ten separate Borrowings.
(d) Each
Notice of Borrowing and each Notice of Swing Line Borrowing shall be irrevocable
and binding on the Applicable Borrower. In the case of any Borrowing that the
related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to be comprised of Eurodollar Rate
Advances, the Applicable Borrower shall indemnify each Appropriate Lender
against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender as a result of any
failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing
for such Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III,
including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of anticipated profits),
cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of
deposits or
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other
funds acquired by such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as
part of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not
made on such date.
(e) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from an Appropriate Lender
prior to the date of any Borrowing under a Facility under which such Lender has
a Commitment that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative
Agent such Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent
may assume that such Lender has made such portion available to the
Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with
subsection (a) of this Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent may,
in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Applicable Borrower on
such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall
not have so made such ratable portion available to the Administrative Agent,
such Lender and the Applicable Borrower severally agree to repay or pay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount and to pay
interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to
the Applicable Borrower until the date such amount is repaid or paid to the
Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Applicable Borrower, the
interest rate applicable at such time under Section 2.07 to Advances
comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal
Funds Rate. If such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent such
corresponding amount, such amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Advance
as part of such Borrowing for all purposes.
(f) The
failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as part of any
Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any,
hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall
be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance to be
made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
SECTION
2.03. Issuance
of and Drawings and Reimbursement Under Letters of Credit.
(a)
Request
for Issuance. Each
Letter of Credit shall be issued upon notice, given not later than
11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the fifth Business Day prior to the
date of the proposed issuance of such Letter of Credit, by the Revolving Credit
Borrower to the Issuing Bank, which shall give to the Administrative Agent and
each Revolving Credit Lender prompt notice thereof (a “Notice
of Issuance”) by
telecopier, specifying therein the requested (A) date of such issuance
(which shall be a Business Day), (B) Available Amount of such Letter of
Credit, (C) expiration date of such Letter of Credit, (D) name and
address of the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit and (E) form of such
Letter of Credit, and shall be accompanied by such application and agreement for
letter of credit as the Issuing Bank may specify to the Revolving Credit
Borrower for use in connection with such requested Letter of Credit (a
“Letter
of Credit Agreement”). If
the requested form of such Letter of Credit is acceptable to the Issuing Bank in
its sole discretion the Issuing Bank will, upon fulfillment of the applicable
conditions set forth in Article III, make such Letter of Credit available
to the Revolving Credit Borrower at its office referred to in Section 9.02
or as otherwise agreed with the Revolving Credit Borrower in connection with
such issuance. In the event and to the extent that the provisions of any Letter
of Credit Agreement shall conflict with this Agreement, the provisions of this
Agreement shall govern.
(b) Letter
of Credit Reports. The
Issuing Bank shall furnish (A) to the Administrative Agent on the first
Business Day of each week a written report summarizing issuance and expiration
dates of Letters of Credit issued during the previous week and drawings during
such week under all Letters of Credit, (B) to each Revolving Credit Lender
on the first Business Day of each month a written report summarizing issuance
and expiration dates of Letters of Credit issued during the preceding month and
drawings during such month under all Letters of Credit and (C) to the
Administrative Agent and each Revolving Credit Lender on a quarterly basis a
written report setting forth the average daily aggregate Available Amount during
the preceding calendar quarter of all Letters of Credit.
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(c) Participations
in Letters of Credit. Upon
the issuance of a Letter of Credit by the Issuing Bank under Section 2.03(a),
the Issuing Bank shall be deemed, without further action by any party hereto, to
have sold to each Revolving Credit Lender, and each such Revolving Credit Lender
shall be deemed, without further action by any party hereto, to have purchased
from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount for
each Revolving Credit Lender equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the
Available Amount of such Letter of Credit, effective upon the issuance of such
Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each
Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each L/C Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and
not reimbursed by the Revolving Credit Borrower forthwith on the date due as
provided in Section 2.04(d) by making available for the account of its
Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
Issuing Bank by deposit to the Administrative Agent’s Account, in same day
funds, an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such L/C Disbursement.
Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to
acquire participations pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) in respect of Letters of
Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default
or the termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made
without any off-set, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. If and to
the extent that any Revolving Credit Lender shall not have so made the amount of
such L/C Disbursement available to the Administrative Agent, such Revolving
Credit Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such
amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such L/C
Disbursement is due pursuant to Section 2.04(d) until the date such amount is
paid to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate for its account or
the account of the Issuing Bank, as applicable. If such Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent such amount for the account of the Issuing
Bank on any Business Day, such amount so paid in respect of principal shall
constitute a Letter of Credit Advance made by such Lender on such Business Day
for purposes of this Agreement, and the outstanding principal amount of the
Letter of Credit Advance made by the Issuing Bank shall be reduced by such
amount on such Business Day.
(d) Drawing
and Reimbursement. The
payment by the Issuing Bank of a draft drawn under any Letter of Credit shall
constitute for all purposes of this Agreement the making by the Issuing Bank of
a Letter of Credit Advance, which shall be a Base Rate Advance, in the amount of
such draft.
(e) Failure
to Make Letter of Credit Advances. The
failure of any Lender to make the Letter of Credit Advance to be made by it on
the date specified in Section 2.03(c) shall not relieve any other Lender of its
obligation hereunder to make its Letter of Credit Advance on such date, but no
Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the
Letter of Credit Advance to be made by such other Lender on such
date.
SECTION
2.04. Repayment
of Advances
. (a)
Term B
Advances. The
Term B Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account
of the Term B Lenders the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term B
Advances in quarterly installments payable on the last Business Day of each
March, June, September and December, commencing on June 30, 2005, in an amount
equal to 0.25% of the initial aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances
(which amount shall be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in
accordance with the order of priority set forth in Section 2.06);
provided,
however, that the
final principal installment shall be repaid on the Term B Maturity Date and in
any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
Term B Advances outstanding on such date.
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(b) Revolving
Credit Advances. The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the
ratable account of the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Termination Date the
aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Advances then
outstanding.
(c) Swing
Line Advances. The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Swing Line Bank and each other Revolving Credit Lender that has
made a Swing Line Advance the outstanding principal amount of each Swing Line
Advance made by each of them no later than the Termination Date.
(d) Letter
of Credit Advances. (i) The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Issuing Bank and each other Revolving Credit Lender that has made
a Letter of Credit Advance on the earlier of one Business Day following the
making of such Letter of Credit Advance and the Termination Date the outstanding
principal amount of each Letter of Credit Advance made by each of
them.
(ii) The
Obligations of the Revolving Credit Borrower under this Agreement, any Letter of
Credit Agreement and any other agreement or instrument relating to any Letter of
Credit shall be unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such Letter of Credit Agreement and
such other agreement or instrument under all circumstances, including, without
limitation, the following circumstances:
(A) any lack
of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document, any Letter of Credit
Agreement, any Letter of Credit or any other agreement or instrument relating
thereto (all of the foregoing being, collectively, the “L/C
Related Documents”);
(B) any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all
or any of the Obligations of the Revolving Credit Borrower in respect of any L/C
Related Document or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure
from all or any of the L/C Related Documents;
(C) the
existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Revolving
Credit Borrower may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee
of a Letter of Credit (or any Persons for which any such beneficiary or any such
transferee may be acting), the Issuing Bank or any other Person, whether in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the L/C Related Documents or
any unrelated transaction;
(D) any
statement or any other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be
forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement
therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(E) payment
by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft,
certificate or other document that does not strictly comply with the terms of
such Letter of Credit;
(F) any
exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral or other collateral, or
any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the
Guaranties or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of the
Revolving Credit Borrower in respect of the L/C Related Documents;
or
(G) any other
circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, including, without limitation, any other circumstance that might
otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Revolving
Credit Borrower or a guarantor.
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SECTION
2.05. Termination
or Reduction of the Commitments
.
(a) Optional. The
Applicable Borrower may, upon at least three Business Days’ notice to the
Administrative Agent, terminate in whole or reduce in part the unused portions
of the Swing Line Facility and the Letter of Credit Facility and the Unused
Revolving Credit Commitments; provided,
however, that
each partial reduction of a Facility (i) shall be in an aggregate amount of
$5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and
(ii) shall be made ratably among the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with
their Commitments with respect to such Facility.
(b) Mandatory. (i)
The
Letter of Credit Facility shall be permanently reduced from time to time on the
date of each reduction in the Revolving Credit Facility by the amount, if any,
by which the amount of the Letter of Credit Facility exceeds the Revolving
Credit Facility after giving effect to such reduction of the Revolving Credit
Facility.
(ii) The Swing
Line Facility shall be permanently reduced from time to time on the date of each
reduction in the Revolving Credit Facility by the amount, if any, by which the
amount of the Swing Line Facility exceeds the Revolving Credit Facility after
giving effect to such reduction of the Revolving Credit Facility.
SECTION
2.06. Prepayments
. (a)
Optional. The
Applicable Borrower may, upon at least one Business Day’s notice in the case of
Base Rate Advances and three Business Days’ notice in the case of Eurodollar
Rate Advances, in each case to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed
date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and if such notice is
given the Applicable Borrower shall, prepay the outstanding aggregate principal
amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably
in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the
aggregate principal amount prepaid; provided,
however, that
(x) each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of
$5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and
(y) if any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance is made on a date other
than the last day of an Interest Period for such Advance, the Applicable
Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 9.04(c). Each
such prepayment of any Term B Advances shall be applied as specified by the Term
B Borrower.
(b) Mandatory. (i)
Except to
the extent required to prepay amounts owing under the CMBS Bridge Financing, the
Borrowers shall, within 3 Business Days of the date of receipt of any Net Cash
Proceeds by the Revolving Credit Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, on or
after the Effective Date, of any CMBS Mortgage Financing or from the sale,
transfer or other disposition of any CMBS Property (including any insurance
proceeds or condemnation awards or any refund in respect of the purchase price
for any acquisition thereof) to Person
that is not a Subsidiary of the General Partner, prepay an aggregate principal
amount of the Term B Advances comprising part of the same Borrowings in an
amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds. Each such prepayment shall be
applied to the installments of the Term B Facility in direct order of
maturity.
(ii) Within 3
Business Days of the date of receipt of any Net Cash Proceeds by the Revolving
Credit Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (A) of any Mortgage Financing (other
than any CMBS Mortgage Financing), (B) from the sale, transfer or other
disposition of any Real Property (other than the CMBS Properties) (including any
insurance proceeds or condemnation award or any refund in respect of the
purchase price for any acquisition thereof) to a Person that is not a Subsidiary
of the General Partner or (C) from the incurrence or issuance by the General
Partner or any of its Subsidiaries of any Debt (other than Debt incurred or
issued pursuant to Section 5.02(b) but including Debt incurred or issued
pursuant to Section 5.02(b)(viii) and Refinancing Debt incurred or issued
pursuant to Section
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5.02(b)(iv)),
the Borrowers shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances
comprising part of the same Borrowings in an amount equal to 100% of such Net
Cash Proceeds. Each such prepayment shall be applied to the installments of the
Term B Facility in direct order of maturity.
(iii) Within 3
Business Days of the date of receipt of any Net Cash Proceeds by the Revolving
Credit Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from the issuance by the General
Partner or any of its Subsidiaries of any Equity Interests (other than Equity
Interests issued pursuant to Section 5.02(g) or to any Subsidiary of the General
Partner), prepay an aggregate principal amount of the Term B Advances comprising
part of the same Borrowings in an amount equal to 50% of such Net Cash Proceeds.
Each such prepayment shall be applied to the installments of the Term B Facility
in direct order of maturity.
(iv) Promptly
following the making of a request for the release of any Guaranty or Collateral
in connection with any Mortgage Financing or Permitted Construction Financing to
the extent such release is otherwise permitted by this Agreement (and as a
condition precedent to such release), the Borrowers shall prepay an aggregate
principal amount of the Term B Advances comprising part of the same Borrowings
in an amount equal to the Applicable Release Price for such Collateral (any such
amount to be less any
amount otherwise payable pursuant to this Section 2.06(b) in respect of such
Mortgage Financing or Permitted Construction Financing). Each such prepayment
shall be applied to the installments of the Term B Facility in direct order of
maturity.
(v) The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall, on each Business Day, pay to the Administrative
Agent for deposit in the Collateral Account an amount sufficient to cause the
aggregate amount on deposit in the Collateral Account to equal the amount by
which the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding
exceeds the Letter of Credit Facility on such Business Day.
(vi) All
prepayments under this subsection (b) shall be made together with accrued
interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid,
together with any amounts owing pursuant to Section 9.04(c).
SECTION
2.07. Interest
. (a)
Scheduled
Interest. The
Applicable Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each
Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such Advance until such principal
amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum:
(i) Base
Rate Advances. During
such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at
all times to the sum of (A) the Base Rate in effect from time to time
plus
(B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears
quarterly on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December,
commencing on June 30, 2005, during such periods and, in the case of Term B
Advances, on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in
full.
(ii) Eurodollar
Rate Advances. During
such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar Rate Advance, a rate per annum
equal at all times during each Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of
(A) the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance
plus
(B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears
on the last day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a
duration of more than three months, on each day that occurs during such Interest
Period every three months from the first day of such Interest Period and on the
date such Eurodollar Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid in
full.
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(b) Default
Interest.
Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at the election of
the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may, and upon the request of
the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, require that each Borrower
pay interest (“Default
Interest”) on (i)
the unpaid principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender Party, payable
in arrears on the dates referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as
applicable, and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per
annum above the rate per annum required to be paid on such Advance pursuant to
clause (i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as applicable, and (ii) to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, the amount of any interest, fee or other
amount payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to any Agent or
any Lender Party that is not paid when due, from the date such amount shall be
due until such amount shall be paid in full, payable in arrears on the date such
amount shall be paid in full and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all
times to 2% per annum above the rate per annum required to be paid on Base Rate
Advances pursuant to clause (i) of Section 2.07(a); provided,
however, that
following the acceleration of the Advances, or the giving of notice by the Agent
to accelerate the Advances, pursuant to Section 6.01, Default Interest shall
accrue and be payable hereunder whether or not previously required by the
Administrative Agent.
(c) Notice
of Interest Period and Interest Rate.
Promptly after receipt of a Notice of Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(a), a
notice of Conversion pursuant to Section 2.09 or a notice of selection of
an Interest Period pursuant to the terms of the definition of “Interest Period,”
the Administrative Agent shall give notice to the Applicable Borrower and each
Appropriate Lender of the applicable Interest Period and the applicable interest
rate determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes of clause (a)(i) or
(a)(ii) above.
SECTION
2.08. Fees
. (a)
Commitment
Fee. The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account
of the Lenders a commitment fee, from the Effective Date in the case of each
Initial Lender and from the effective date specified in the Assignment and
Assumption pursuant to which it became a Lender in the case of each other Lender
until the Termination Date, payable in arrears quarterly on the last Business
Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing June 30, 2005, and
on the Termination Date at the rate of 1/2 of 1% per annum on the average daily
unused portion of each Appropriate Lender’s average daily Unused Revolving
Credit Commitment of such Lender during such quarter; provided,
however, that any
commitment fee accrued with respect to any of the Commitments of a Defaulting
Lender during the period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting
Lender and unpaid at such time shall not be payable by the Revolving Credit
Borrower so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the
extent that such commitment fee shall otherwise have been due and payable by the
Revolving Credit Borrower prior to such time; and provided
further that no
commitment fee shall accrue on any of the Commitments of a Defaulting Lender so
long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(b) Letter
of Credit Fees, Etc. (i) The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account
of each Revolving Credit Lender a commission, payable in arrears quarterly on
the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing
June 30, 2005, and on the Termination Date, on such Lender’s Pro Rata Share
of the average daily aggregate Available Amount during such quarter of all
Letters of Credit outstanding from time to time at a rate equal to the
Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Advances under the Revolving Credit
Facility. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at the election of
the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may, and, upon the request of
the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall require that the amount of
the commission payable by the Revolving Credit Borrower under this clause (b)(i)
be increased by 2% per annum.
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(ii) The
Revolving Credit Borrower shall pay to the Issuing Bank, for its own account,
such commissions, issuance fees, fronting fees, transfer fees and other fees and
charges in connection with the issuance or administration of each Letter of
Credit as the Revolving Credit Borrower and the Issuing Bank shall agree.
(c) Agents’
Fees. The
Borrowers shall pay to each Agent for its own account such fees as may from time
to time be agreed between the Borrowers and such Agent.
SECTION
2.09. Conversion
of Advances
. (a)
Optional. The
Applicable Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to the
Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on
the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion and subject
to the provisions of Section 2.10,
Convert all or any portion of the Advances of one Type comprising the same
Borrowing into Advances of the other Type; provided,
however, that any
Conversion of Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate Advances shall be made
only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Advances,
any Conversion of Base Rate Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be in
an amount not less than the minimum amount specified in Section 2.02(c), no
Conversion of any Advances shall result in more separate Borrowings than
permitted under Section 2.02(c) and each Conversion of Advances comprising
part of the same Borrowing under any Facility shall be made ratably among the
Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their Commitments under such Facility.
Each such notice of Conversion shall, within the restrictions specified above,
specify (i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the Advances to be
Converted and (iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar Rate Advances,
the duration of the initial Interest Period for such Advances. Each notice of
Conversion shall be irrevocable and binding on the Applicable
Borrower.
(b) Mandatory. (i) On
the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar Rate
Advances comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by payment or prepayment or
otherwise, to less than $5,000,000, such Advances shall automatically Convert
into Base Rate Advances.
(ii) If the
Applicable Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for
any Eurodollar Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions contained in the
definition of “Interest Period” in Section 1.01, the Administrative Agent
will forthwith so notify the Applicable Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders,
whereupon each such Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day
of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate
Advance.
(iii) Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, (x) each Eurodollar
Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest
Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (y) the obligation of
the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall
be suspended.
SECTION
2.10. Increased
Costs, Etc
. (a) If,
due to either (i) the introduction of or any change (other than any change
by way of imposition or increase of reserve requirements included in the
Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage) in or in the interpretation of any law or
regulation, in each case after the date hereof, or (ii) the compliance with
any guideline or request after the date hereof from any central bank or other
governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law), there shall be
any increase in the cost to any Lender Party of agreeing to make or of making,
funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate Advances or of agreeing to issue or of
issuing or maintaining or participating in Letters of Credit or of agreeing to
make or of making or maintaining Letter of Credit Advances (excluding, for
purposes of this Section 2.10, any such increased costs resulting
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from
(x) Taxes or Other Taxes (as to which Section 2.12 shall govern) and
(y) changes in the basis of taxation of overall net income or overall gross
income by the United States or by the foreign jurisdiction or state under the
laws of which such Lender Party is organized or has its Applicable Lending
Office or any political subdivision thereof), then the Applicable Borrower shall
from time to time, upon demand by such Lender Party (with a copy of such demand
to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of
such Lender Party additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender Party
for such increased cost; provided,
however, that the
Applicable Borrower shall not be responsible for costs under this Section
2.10(a) arising more than 180 days prior to receipt by the Applicable Borrower
of the demand from the affected Lender Party pursuant to this Section 2.10(a);
provided,
further, that a
Lender Party claiming additional amounts under this Section 2.10(a) agrees to
use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and
regulatory restrictions) to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if
the making of such a designation would avoid the need for, or reduce the amount
of, such increased cost that may thereafter accrue and would not, in the
reasonable judgment of such Lender Party, be otherwise disadvantageous to such
Lender Party. A certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted
to the Applicable Borrower by such Lender Party, shall be conclusive and binding
for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(b) If any
Lender Party determines that compliance with any law or regulation after the
date hereof or any guideline or request after the date hereof from any central
bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law)
affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be
maintained by such Lender Party or any corporation controlling such Lender Party
and that the amount of such capital is increased by or based upon the existence
of such Lender Party’s commitment to lend or to issue or participate in Letters
of Credit hereunder and other commitments of such type or the issuance or
maintenance of or participation in the Letters of Credit (or similar contingent
obligations), then, upon demand by such Lender Party or such corporation (with a
copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the Applicable Borrower shall
pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender Party, from time
to time as specified by such Lender Party, additional amounts sufficient to
compensate such Lender Party in the light of such circumstances, to the extent
that such Lender Party reasonably determines such increase in capital to be
allocable to the existence of such Lender Party’s commitment to lend or to issue
or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder or to the issuance or maintenance
of or participation in any Letters of Credit; provided,
however, that the
Applicable Borrower shall not be responsible for costs under this Section
2.10(b) arising more than 180 days prior to receipt by the Applicable Borrower
of the demand from the affected Lender Party pursuant to this Section 2.10(b). A
certificate as to such amounts submitted to the Applicable Borrower by such
Lender Party shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
(c) If, with
respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advances under any Facility, Lenders owed at
least 51% of the then aggregate unpaid principal amount thereof notify the
Administrative Agent that the Eurodollar Rate for any Interest Period for such
Advances will not adequately reflect the cost to such Lenders of making, funding
or maintaining their Eurodollar Rate Advances for such Interest Period, the
Administrative Agent shall forthwith so notify the Applicable Borrower and the
Appropriate Lenders, whereupon (i) each such Eurodollar Rate Advance under
such Facility will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest
Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and (ii) the obligation
of the Appropriate Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate
Advances shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the
Applicable Borrower that such Lenders have determined that the circumstances
causing such suspension no longer exist.
(d) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, if the introduction of or any change in
or in the interpretation of any law or regulation shall make it unlawful, or any
central bank or other governmental authority shall assert that it is unlawful,
for any Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations
hereunder to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund or
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maintain
Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder, then, on notice thereof and demand therefor
by such Lender to the Applicable Borrower through the Administrative Agent,
(i) each Eurodollar Rate Advance under each Facility under which such
Lender has a Commitment will automatically, upon such demand, Convert into a
Base Rate Advance and (ii) the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to
make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended
until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Applicable Borrower that such
Lender has determined that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer
exist; provided,
however, that,
before making any such demand, such Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts
(consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions) to
designate a different Eurodollar Lending Office if the making of such a
designation would allow such Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to continue
to perform its obligations to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to
fund or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances and would not, in the judgment of such
Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender.
(e) In the
event that any Lender Party demands payment of costs or additional amounts
pursuant to Section 2.10 or Section 2.12 or asserts, pursuant to Section
2.10(d), that it is unlawful for such Lender Party to make Eurodollar Rate
Advances or becomes a Defaulting Lender then (subject to such Lender Party’s
right to rescind such demand or assertion within 10 days after the notice from
the Applicable Borrower referred to below) the Applicable Borrower may, upon 20
days’ prior written notice to such Lender Party and the Administrative Agent,
elect to cause such Lender Party to assign its Advances and Commitments in full
to one or more Persons selected by the Applicable Borrower so long as (a) each
such Person satisfies the criteria of an Eligible Assignee and is reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (b) such Lender Party receives payment
in full in cash of the outstanding principal amount of all Advances made by it
and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon and all other amounts due and
payable to such Lender Party as of the date of such assignment (including,
without limitation, amounts owing pursuant to Sections 2.10, 2.12 and 9.04) and
(c) each such assignee agrees to accept such assignment and to assume all
obligations of such Lender Party hereunder in accordance with Section
9.07.
SECTION
2.11. Payments
and Computations
. (a)
Each Borrower shall make each payment hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents, irrespective of any right of counterclaim or set-off (except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.15), not later than 11:00 A.M.
(New York City time) on the day when due in U.S. dollars to the
Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account in same day funds,
with payments being received by the Administrative Agent after such time being
deemed, in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent, to have been
received on the next succeeding Business Day. The Administrative Agent will
promptly thereafter cause like funds to be distributed (i) if such payment
by the Applicable Borrower is in respect of principal, interest, commitment fees
or any other Obligation then payable hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents to more than one Lender Party, to such Lender Parties for the account
of their respective Applicable Lending Offices ratably in accordance with the
amounts of such respective Obligations then payable to such Lender Parties and
(ii) if such payment by the Applicable Borrower is in respect of any
Obligation then payable hereunder to one Lender Party, to such Lender Party for
the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an
Assignment and Assumption and recording of the information contained therein in
the Register pursuant to Section 9.07(f), from and after the effective date
of such Assignment and Assumption, the Administrative Agent shall make all
payments hereunder and under the other Loan Documents in respect of the interest
assigned thereby to the Lender Party assignee thereunder except for accrued
interest owing to the Lender Party assignor which shall be payable directly to
such Lender Party.
(b) Each
Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender Party and each of its Affiliates, if and
to the extent payment owed to such Lender Party is not made when due hereunder
or under the other Loan
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Documents
to charge from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, against any
or all of the Applicable Borrower’s accounts with such Lender Party or such
Affiliate any amount so due.
(c) All
computations of interest based on the Base Rate shall be made by the
Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may
be, and all computations of interest based on the Eurodollar Rate or the Federal
Funds Rate and of fees and Letter of Credit commissions shall be made by the
Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the
actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day)
occurring in the period for which such interest, fees or commissions are
payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate, fee
or commission hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error.
(d) Whenever
any payment hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall be stated to be
due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next
succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be
included in the computation of payment of interest or commitment or letter of
credit fee or commission, as the case may be; provided,
however, that, if
such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar
Rate Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment
shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.
(e) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Applicable Borrower
prior to the date on which any payment is due to any Lender Party hereunder that
the Applicable Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative
Agent may assume that the Applicable Borrower has made such payment in full to
the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in
reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each such Lender Party
on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender Party. If
and to the extent the Applicable Borrower shall not have so made such payment in
full to the Administrative Agent, each such Lender Party shall repay to the
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender
Party together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is
distributed to such Lender Party until the date such Lender Party repays such
amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds Rate.
(f) Whenever
any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and
payable to the Agents and the Lender Parties under or in respect of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be
distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Agents and the Lender
Parties in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the
payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses that
are due and payable to the Agents (solely in their respective capacities as
Agents) under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on
such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such fees,
indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Agents on such
date;
(ii) second, to the
payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses that
are due and payable to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank (solely in their
respective capacities as such) under or in respect of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate
amounts of all such fees, indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to
the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank on such date;
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(iii) third, to the
payment of all of the indemnification payments, costs and expenses that are due
and payable to the Lenders under Sections 9.04 hereof, Section 17 of the
Security Agreement and any similar section of any of the other Loan Documents on
such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such
indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Lenders on such
date;
(iv) fourth, to the
payment of all of the amounts that are due and payable to the Administrative
Agent and the Lender Parties under Sections 2.10 and 2.12 hereof on such date,
ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts thereof owing to the
Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties on such date;
(v) fifth, to the
payment of all of the fees that are due and payable to the Appropriate Lenders
under Section 2.08(a) on such date, ratably based upon the respective undrawn
aggregate Commitments of such Lenders under the Facilities on such
date;
(vi) sixth, to the
payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations under or in
respect of the Loan Documents that is due and payable to the Agents and the
Lender Parties under Section 2.07(b) on such date, ratably based upon the
respective aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to the Agents and the
Lender Parties on such date;
(vii) seventh, to the
payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the Advances that is due
and payable to the Lender Parties under Section 2.07(a) on such date, ratably
based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to the
Lender Parties on such date;
(viii) eighth, to the
payment of the principal amount of all of the outstanding Advances that is due
and payable to the Lender Parties on such date, ratably based upon the
respective aggregate amounts of all such principal owing to the Administrative
Agent and the Lender Parties on such date; and
(ix) ninth, to the
payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties owing under or in respect
of the Loan Documents that are due and payable to the Agents and the other
Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate
amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Agents and the other Secured
Parties on such date.
If the
Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the
Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for
which the Loan Documents do not specify the Advances or the Facility to which,
or the manner in which, such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent
may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of
the Lender Parties in accordance with such Lender Party’s Pro Rata Share of the
sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of all Advances outstanding at such
time and (b) the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding
at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Advances or
other Obligations then owing to such Lender Party, and, in the case of the Term
Facility, for application to such principal repayment installments thereof, as
the Administrative Agent shall direct.
SECTION
2.12. Taxes
. (a) Any
and all payments by any Loan Party to or for the account of any Lender Party or
any Agent hereunder or any other Loan Document shall be made, in accordance with
Section 2.11 or the applicable provisions of such other Loan Document, if
any, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all
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present
or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all
liabilities with respect thereto, excluding, in the
case of each Lender Party and each Agent, taxes that are imposed on its overall
net income by the United States and taxes that are imposed on its overall net
income (and franchise or other similar taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by the
state or foreign jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender Party or such
Agent, as the case may be, is organized or any political subdivision thereof
and, in the case of each Lender Party, taxes that are imposed on its overall net
income (and franchise or other similar taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by the
state or foreign jurisdiction of such Lender Party’s Applicable Lending Office
or any political subdivision thereof (all such non-excluded taxes, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities in respect of
payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document being hereinafter referred
to as “Taxes”). If
any Loan Party shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect
of any sum payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to any Lender
Party or any Agent, (i) the sum payable by such Loan Party shall be
increased as may be necessary so that after such Loan Party and the
Administrative Agent have made all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.12) such Lender
Party or such Agent, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it
would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Loan Party
shall make all such deductions and (iii) such Loan Party shall pay the full
amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in
accordance with applicable law.
(b) In
addition, each Loan Party shall pay any present or future stamp, documentary,
excise, property, intangible, mortgage recording or similar taxes, charges or
levies that arise from any payment made by such Loan Party hereunder or under
any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or registration of,
performance under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents (hereinafter referred to as “Other
Taxes”). Each
Lender Party represents as of the date hereof that, to the best of its knowledge
without having conducted any investigation, except for any Other Taxes that may
be imposed under the federal, state or local laws of the United States (or any
political subdivision thereof), it is not aware of the imposition of any Other
Taxes with respect to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(c) The Loan
Parties shall indemnify each Lender Party and each Agent for and hold them
harmless against the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes, and for the full
amount of taxes of any kind imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction (taking into
account any available credits, as determined in the reasonable discretion of the
Lender Party or each Agent (as the case may be), arising from the imposition of
the underlying Taxes or Other Taxes) on amounts payable under this
Section 2.12, imposed on or paid by such Lender Party or such Agent (as the
case may be) and any liability (including penalties, additions to tax, interest
and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification
shall be made within 30 days from the date such Lender Party or such Agent (as
the case may be) makes written demand therefore,
provided,
however, that
the Applicable Borrower shall not be obligated to make payment to any Lender
Party or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) pursuant to this Section
2.12 in respect of penalties, interest and other liabilities attributable to any
Taxes or Other Taxes, if such penalties, interest and other liabilities are
attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Lender Party
or the Administrative Agent.
(d) Within 30
days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the appropriate Loan Party shall
furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in
Section 9.02, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing such
payment, to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof
of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Each
Lender Party organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United
States shall, on or prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this
Agreement in the case of each Initial Lender Party and on the date of the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it becomes a
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Lender
Party in the case of each other Lender Party, and from time to time thereafter
as reasonably requested in writing by any Loan Party or as otherwise described
below (but only so long thereafter as such Lender Party remains lawfully able to
do so), provide each of the Administrative Agent and such Loan Party with (x)
two original Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8BEN or W-8ECI or W-8IMY, as
appropriate, or any successor or other form prescribed by the Internal Revenue
Service, certifying that such Lender Party is exempt from or entitled to a
reduced rate of United States withholding tax on payments pursuant to this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents or , (y) in the case of a Lender Party
that has certified in writing to the Administrative Agent and the applicable
Loan Party that it is not (i) a “bank” (as defined in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of
the Internal Revenue Code), (ii) a 10-percent shareholder (within the meaning of
Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code) of either Borrower or (iii) a
controlled foreign corporation related to any Loan Party (within the meaning of
Section 864(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code), two copies of the Internal
Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or any successor or other form prescribed by the
Internal Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender Party is exempt from
United States withholding tax on payments pursuant to this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents. If the forms provided by a Lender Party at the time such
Lender Party first becomes a party to this Agreement indicate a United States
interest withholding tax rate in excess of zero, withholding tax at such rate
shall be considered excluded from Taxes unless and until such Lender Party
provides the appropriate forms certifying that a lesser rate applies, whereupon
withholding tax at such lesser rate only shall be considered excluded from Taxes
for periods governed by such forms; provided,
however, that
if, at the effective date of the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which a
Lender Party becomes a party to this Agreement, the Lender Party assignor was
entitled to payments under subsection (a) of this Section 2.12 in
respect of United States withholding tax with respect to interest paid at such
date, then, to such extent, the term Taxes shall include (in addition to
withholding taxes that may be imposed in the future or other amounts otherwise
includable in Taxes) United States withholding tax, if any, applicable with
respect to the Lender Party assignee on such date. If any form or document
referred to in this subsection (e) requires the disclosure of information,
other than information necessary to compute the tax payable and information
required on the date hereof by Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or
W-8EC1 or W-8IMY, that the applicable Lender Party reasonably considers to be
confidential, such Lender Party shall give notice thereof to each Borrower and
shall not be obligated to include in such form or document such confidential
information. Further,
each Lender Party organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside of the
United States agrees to deliver to the applicable Loan Party and the
Administrative Agent two further fully completed and signed copies of the above
reference forms, or successor and related applicable forms, promptly after the
occurrence of any event requiring a change from the most recent form(s)
previously delivered by it in accordance with applicable United States laws and
regulations and to deliver promptly to the applicable Loan Party and the
Administrative Agent such additional statements and forms as shall be reasonably
requested by the applicable Loan Party from time to time unless, in any such
case, any change in law or regulation has occurred subsequent to the date such
Lender Party became a party to this Agreement which renders all such forms
inapplicable or which would prevent such Lender Party from properly completing
and executing any such form with respect to it and such Lender Party promptly
notifies the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent if it is no
longer able to deliver, or if it is required to withdraw or cancel, any form or
statement previously delivered by it pursuant to this Section 2.12(e). For
purposes of subsection (e) of this Section 2.12, the terms
“United
States” shall
have the meanings specified in Section 7701 of the Internal Revenue
Code.
(f) For any
period with respect to which a Lender Party has failed to provide either
Borrower with the appropriate form, certificate or other document described in
subsection (e) above (other
than if such
failure is due to a change in law, or in the interpretation or application
thereof, occurring after the date on which a form, certificate or other document
originally was required to be provided or if such form, certificate or other
document otherwise is not required under subsection (e) above), such Lender
Party shall not be entitled to indemnification under subsection (a) or (c)
of this Section 2.12 with respect to Taxes imposed by the United States by
reason of such failure; provided,
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however, that
should a Lender Party become subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver
a form, certificate or other document required hereunder, the Loan Parties shall
take such steps as such Lender Party shall reasonably request to assist such
Lender Party to recover such Taxes.
(g) Any
Lender Party claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section
2.12 agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and
legal and regulatory restrictions) to change the jurisdiction of its Eurodollar
Lending Office if the making of such a change would avoid the need for, or
reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that may thereafter accrue and
would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender Party, be otherwise
disadvantageous to such Lender Party.
(h) If any
Lender Party or the Administrative Agent receives a refund of Taxes or Other
Taxes paid by the Applicable Borrower or for which the Applicable Borrower has
indemnified any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be,
pursuant to this Section 2.12, then such Lender Party or the Administrative
Agent, as applicable, shall pay such amount, net of any expenses incurred by
such Lender Party or the Administrative Agent, to the Applicable Borrower within
30 days of the receipt of such Taxes or Other Taxes. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, (i) the Applicable Borrower shall not be entitled to review the tax
records or financial information of any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent
and (ii) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender Party shall have
any obligation to pursue (and no Loan Party shall have any right to asset) any
refund of Taxes or Other Taxes that may be paid by the Applicable
Borrower.
SECTION
2.13. Sharing
of Payments, Etc
. If any
Lender Party shall obtain at any time any payment (whether voluntary,
involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise, other
than as a result of an assignment pursuant to Section 9.07) (a) on
account of Obligations due and payable to such Lender Party hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according
to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to
such Lender Party at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the
Obligations due and payable to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the other
Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations due and
payable to all Lender Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at
such time obtained by all the Lender Parties at such time or (b) on account
of Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender Party hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share
(according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing to
such Lender Party at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the
Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lender Parties hereunder and
under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the
Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lender Parties hereunder and
under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lender
Parties at such time, such Lender Party shall forthwith purchase from the other
Lender Parties such interests or participating interests in the Obligations due
and payable or owing to them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause
such purchasing Lender Party to share the excess payment ratably with each of
them; provided,
however, that if
all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such
purchasing Lender Party, such purchase from each other Lender Party shall be
rescinded and such other Lender Party shall repay to the purchasing Lender Party
the purchase price to the extent of such Lender Party’s ratable share (according
to the proportion of (i) the purchase price paid to such Lender Party to
(ii) the aggregate purchase price paid to all Lender Parties) of such
recovery together with an amount equal to such Lender Party’s ratable share
(according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such other Lender Party’s
required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the
purchasing Lender Party) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the
purchasing Lender Party in respect of the total amount so recovered;
provided
further that, so
long as the Obligations under the Loan Documents shall not have been
accelerated, any excess payment received by
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any
Appropriate Lender shall be shared on a pro rata basis only with other
Appropriate Lenders. The Loan Parties agree that any Lender Party so purchasing
an interest or participating interest from another Lender Party pursuant to this
Section 2.13 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its
rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such interest
or participating interest, as the case may be, as fully as if such Lender Party
were the direct creditor of the Loan Parties in the amount of such interest or
participating interest, as the case may be.
SECTION
2.14. Use of
Proceeds
. (a) The
proceeds of the Term B Advances will be used by the Term B Borrower, on the
Effective Date, solely to (i) finance, in part, the Acquisition, (ii) refinance
Existing Debt and (iii) pay the Transaction Costs and (b) the proceeds of the
Revolving Credit Advances will be used by the Revolving Credit Borrower (i) on
the Effective Date, solely to (A) refinance Existing Debt and (B) pay the
Transaction Costs and (ii) after the Effective Date, solely for working capital
and other general corporate purposes of the Revolving Credit Borrower and its
Subsidiaries; provided,
however, in the
event that the Revolving Credit Borrower applies a portion of the Excess CMBS
Financing Proceeds to the repayment of Revolving Credit Advances pursuant to
Section 5.02(b)(x)(E), a portion of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be
restricted in use to Specified Applications in an amount, as determined on any
date, equal to (A) the aggregate amount of Excess CMBS Financing Proceeds used
to repay Revolving Credit Advances as of such date less (B) the
aggregate amount of Revolving Credit Advances that have theretofore been applied
to Specified Applications.
SECTION
2.15. Defaulting
Lenders
.
(a) In the event that, at any one time, (i) any Lender Party
shall be a Defaulting Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall owe a
Defaulted Advance to the Applicable Borrower and (iii) the Applicable
Borrower shall be required to make any payment hereunder or under any other Loan
Document to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the Applicable
Borrower may, so long as no Default shall occur or be continuing at such time
and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, set off and otherwise
apply the Obligation of the Applicable Borrower to make such payment to or for
the account of such Defaulting Lender against the obligation of such Defaulting
Lender to make such Defaulted Advance. In the event that, on any date, the
Applicable Borrower shall so set off and otherwise apply its obligation to make
any such payment against the obligation of such Defaulting Lender to make any
such Defaulted Advance on or prior to such date, the amount so set off and
otherwise applied by the Applicable Borrower shall constitute for all purposes
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents an Advance by such Defaulting
Lender made on the date of such setoff under the Facility pursuant to which such
Defaulted Advance was originally required to have been made pursuant to
Section 2.01. Such Advance shall be considered, for all purposes of this
Agreement, to comprise part of the Borrowing in connection with which such
Defaulted Advance was originally required to have been made pursuant to
Section 2.01, even if the other Advances comprising such Borrowing shall be
Eurodollar Rate Advances on the date such Advance is deemed to be made pursuant
to this subsection (a). The Applicable Borrower shall notify the
Administrative Agent at any time the Applicable Borrower exercises its right of
set-off pursuant to this subsection (a) and shall set forth in such notice
(A) the name of the Defaulting Lender and the Defaulted Advance required to
be made by such Defaulting Lender and (B) the amount set off and otherwise
applied in respect of such Defaulted Advance pursuant to this
subsection (a). Any portion of such payment otherwise required to be made
by the Applicable Borrower to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender which
is paid by the Applicable Borrower, after giving effect to the amount set off
and otherwise applied by the Applicable Borrower pursuant to this
subsection (a), shall be applied by the Administrative Agent as specified
in subsection (b) or (c) of this Section 2.15.
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(b) In the
event that, at any one time, (i) any Lender Party shall be a Defaulting
Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall owe a Defaulted Amount to any
Agent or any of the other Lender Parties and (iii) the Applicable Borrower
shall make any payment hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the
Administrative Agent may, on its behalf or on behalf of such other Agents or
such other Lender Parties and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
apply at such time the amount so paid by the Applicable Borrower to or for the
account of such Defaulting Lender to the payment of each such Defaulted Amount
to the extent required to pay such Defaulted Amount. In the event that the
Administrative Agent shall so apply any such amount to the payment of any such
Defaulted Amount on any date, the amount so applied by the Administrative Agent
shall constitute for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
payment, to such extent, of such Defaulted Amount on such date. Any such amount
so applied by the Administrative Agent shall be retained by the Administrative
Agent or distributed by the Administrative Agent to such other Agents or such
other Lender Parties, ratably in accordance with the respective portions of such
Defaulted Amounts payable at such time to the Administrative Agent, such other
Agents and such other Lender Parties and, if the amount of such payment made by
the Applicable Borrower shall at such time be insufficient to pay all Defaulted
Amounts owing at such time to the Administrative Agent, such other Agents and
such other Lender Parties, in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the
Agents for any Defaulted Amounts then owing to them, in their capacities as
such, ratably in accordance with such respective Defaulted Amounts then owing to
the Agents;
(ii) second, to the
Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank for any Defaulted Amounts then owing to
them, in their capacities as such, ratably in accordance with such respective
Defaulted Amounts then owing to the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank;
and
(iii) third, to any
other Lender Parties for any Defaulted Amounts then owing to such other Lender
Parties, ratably in accordance with such respective Defaulted Amounts then owing
to such other Lender Parties.
Any
portion of such amount paid by the Applicable Borrower for the account of such
Defaulting Lender remaining, after giving effect to the amount applied by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this subsection (b), shall be applied by
the Administrative Agent as specified in subsection (c) of this
Section 2.15.
(c) In the
event that, at any one time, (i) any Lender Party shall be a Defaulting
Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender shall not owe a Defaulted Advance or a
Defaulted Amount and (iii) the Applicable Borrower, any Agent or any other
Lender Party shall be required to pay or distribute any amount hereunder or
under any other Loan Document to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender,
then the Applicable Borrower or such Agent or such other Lender Party shall pay
such amount to the Administrative Agent to be held by the Administrative Agent,
to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in escrow or the
Administrative Agent shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
hold in escrow such amount otherwise held by it. Any funds held by the
Administrative Agent in escrow under this subsection (c) shall be deposited
by the Administrative Agent in an account with the Administrative Agent or
another commercial bank selected by the Administrative Agent (the “Escrow
Bank”), in
the name and under the control of the Administrative Agent, but subject to the
provisions of this subsection (c). The terms applicable to such account,
including the rate of interest payable with respect to the credit balance of
such account from time to time, shall be the Escrow Bank’s standard terms
applicable to escrow accounts maintained with it. Any interest credited to such
account from time to time shall be held by the Administrative Agent in escrow
under, and applied by the Administrative Agent from time to time in accordance
with the provisions of, this subsection (c). The Administrative Agent
shall, to
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the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, apply all funds so held in escrow
from time to time to the extent necessary to make any Advances required to be
made by such Defaulting Lender and to pay any amount payable by such Defaulting
Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to the Administrative Agent
or any other Lender Party, as and when such Advances or amounts are required to
be made or paid and, if the amount so held in escrow shall at any time be
insufficient to make and pay all such Advances and amounts required to be made
or paid at such time, in the following order of priority:
(i) first, to the
Agents for any amounts then due and payable by such Defaulting Lender to them
hereunder, in their capacities as such, ratably in accordance with such
respective amounts then due and payable to the Agents;
(ii) second, to the
Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank for any amounts then due and payable to
them hereunder, in their capacities as such, by such Defaulting Lender, ratably
in accordance with such respective amounts then due and payable to the Issuing
Bank and the Swing Line Bank;
(iii) third,
to any
other Lender Parties for any amount then due and payable by such Defaulting
Lender to such other Lender Parties hereunder, ratably in accordance with such
respective amounts then due and payable to such other Lender Parties;
and
(iv) fourth, to the
Applicable Borrower for any Advance then required to be made by such Defaulting
Lender pursuant to a Commitment of such Defaulting Lender.
In the
event that any Lender Party that is a Defaulting Lender shall, at any time,
cease to be a Defaulting Lender, any funds held by the Administrative Agent in
escrow at such time with respect to such Lender Party shall be distributed by
the Administrative Agent to such Lender Party and applied by such Lender Party
to the Obligations owing to such Lender Party at such time under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents ratably in accordance with the respective amounts
of such Obligations outstanding at such time.
(d) The
rights and remedies against a Defaulting Lender under this Section 2.15 are
in addition to other rights and remedies that the Applicable Borrower may have
against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Defaulted Advance and that
any Agent or any Lender Party may have against such Defaulting Lender with
respect to any Defaulted Amount.
SECTION
2.16. Evidence
of Debt
. (a)
Each Lender Party shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an
account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Applicable Borrower to
such Lender resulting from each Advance owing to such Lender Party from time to
time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such
Lender from time to time hereunder. Each Borrower agrees that upon notice by any
Lender Party to such Borrower (with a copy of such notice to the Administrative
Agent) to the effect that a promissory note or other evidence of indebtedness is
required or appropriate in order for such Lender Party to evidence (whether for
purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise) the Advances owing to, or to be
made by, such Lender Party, the Applicable Borrower shall promptly execute and
deliver to such Lender Party, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, a
Revolving Credit Note, a Term B Note, as applicable, in substantially the form
of Exhibits A-1 and A-2 hereto, respectively, payable to the order of such
Lender Party in a principal amount equal to the Revolving Credit Commitment or
the Term B Commitment, respectively, of such Lender Party. All references to
Notes in the Loan Documents shall mean Notes, if any, to the extent issued
hereunder.
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(b) The
Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.07(e)
shall include a control account, and a subsidiary account for each Lender Party,
in which accounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the date and
amount of each Borrowing made hereunder, the Type of Advances comprising such
Borrowing and, if appropriate, the Interest Period applicable thereto,
(ii) the terms of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to and accepted
by it, (iii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to
become due and payable from the Applicable Borrower to each Lender Party
hereunder, and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative
Agent from the Applicable Borrower hereunder and each Lender Party’s share
thereof.
(c) Entries
made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to
subsection (b) above, and by each Lender Party in its account or accounts
pursuant to subsection (a) above, shall be prima
facie evidence
of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and
payable from the Applicable Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each
Lender Party and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender Party,
under this Agreement, absent manifest error; provided,
however, that
the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender Party to make an entry,
or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or
accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Applicable
Borrower under this Agreement.
ARTICLE
III
CONDITIONS
TO EFFECTIVENESS AND OF LENDING AND
ISSUANCES
OF LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION
3.01. Conditions
Precedent
. Section
2.01 of this Agreement shall become effective on and as of the first date (the
“Effective
Date”) on
which the following conditions have been satisfied and the obligation of each
Lender to make an Advance or of the Issuing Bank to issue a Letter of Credit on
the Effective Date is subject to the satisfaction of such conditions precedent
before or concurrently with the Effective Date:
(a) The
Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the day of the Effective
Date the following, each dated such day (unless otherwise specified), in form
and substance satisfactory to the Lender Parties (unless otherwise specified)
and (except for the Notes) in sufficient copies for each Lender
Party:
(i) The Notes
payable to the order of the Lenders to the extent requested by the Lenders
pursuant to the terms of Section 2.16.
(ii) A
security agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (the
“Security
Agreement”), duly
executed by each applicable Loan Party (other than the General Partner),
together with:
(A) to the
extent certificated, certificates representing the Pledged Equity referred to
therein accompanied by undated stock (or its equivalent) powers executed in
blank,
(B) proper
financing statements in form appropriate for filing under the Uniform Commercial
Code of all jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or
desirable in order to perfect and protect the first priority liens and security
interests created under the Security Agreement, covering the Collateral
described in the Security Agreement,
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(C) completed
requests for information, dated on or before the Effective Date all effective
financing statements filed in the jurisdictions referred to in clause (B) above
that name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such other financing
statements,
(D) evidence
of the completion of all other recordings and filings of or with respect to the
Security Agreement that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable
in order to perfect and protect the security interest created thereunder,
and
(E) evidence
that all other action that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or
desirable in order to perfect and protect the first priority liens and security
interests created under the Security Agreement has been taken (including,
without limitation, receipt of duly executed payoff letters, UCC-3 termination
statements and third-party consents).
(iii) Deeds of
trust, trust deeds, mortgages, leasehold mortgages and leasehold deeds of trust
in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto (with such changes as may be
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel to account for local
law matters) and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and covering the Real Property Collateral (together with
the Assignments of Leases and Rents referred to therein and each other mortgage
delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(j), in each case as amended, the
“Mortgages”), duly
executed by the appropriate Loan Party, together with:
(A) evidence
that counterparts of the Mortgages have been duly executed, acknowledged and
delivered in form suitable for filing or recording, in all filing or recording
offices that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order
to create a valid first and subsisting Lien on the property described therein in
favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, subject
only to Permitted Encumbrances, and that all filing and recording taxes and fees
have been paid,
(B) fully
paid American Land Title Association Lender’s Extended Coverage title insurance
policies (the “Mortgage
Policies”) in
form and substance, with endorsements and in amount acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, issued, coinsured and reinsured by title insurers
acceptable to the Administrative Agent, insuring the Mortgages to be valid first
and subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all
defects (including, but not limited to, mechanics’ and materialmen’s Liens) and
encumbrances, excepting only Permitted Liens and Permitted Encumbrances, and
providing for such other affirmative insurance (including endorsements for
future advances under the Loan Documents and for mechanics’ and materialmen’s
Liens) and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Administrative
Agent may deem necessary or desirable,
(C) American
Land Title Association/American Congress on Surveying and Mapping form surveys,
for which all necessary fees (where applicable) have been paid, and dated no
more than 30 days before the Effective Date (or such other date approved by the
Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), certified to the Administrative
Agent and the issuer of the Mortgage
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Policies
in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent by a land surveyor duly
registered and licensed in the States in which the property described in such
surveys is located and acceptable to the Administrative Agent, showing all
buildings and other improvements, any off-site improvements, the location of any
easements, parking spaces, rights of way, building set-back lines and other
dimensional regulations and the absence of encroachments, either by such
improvements or on to such property, and other defects, other than encroachments
and other defects acceptable to the Administrative Agent,
(D) consent
agreements, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
executed by each of the lessors of the Leased Real Properties listed in Part I
of Schedule III hereto (to the extent required by the terms of the
applicable lease), along with (x) a memorandum of lease in recordable form
with respect to such leasehold interest, executed and acknowledged by the owner
of the affected real property, as lessor, or (y) evidence that the
applicable lease with respect to such leasehold interest or a memorandum thereof
has been recorded in all places necessary or desirable, in the Administrative
Agent’s reasonable judgment, to give constructive notice to third-party
purchasers of such leasehold interest, or (z) if such leasehold interest
was acquired or subleased from the holder of a recorded leasehold interest, the
applicable assignment or sublease document, executed and acknowledged by such
holder, in each case in form sufficient to give such constructive notice upon
recordation and otherwise in form satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent,
(E) evidence
of the insurance required by the terms of the Mortgages,
(F) an
appraisal of each of the properties described in the Mortgages complying with
the requirements of the Federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and
Enforcement Act of 1989, which appraisals shall be from a Person acceptable to
the Administrative Agent and otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the
Lender Parties, and
(G) such
other consents, agreements and confirmations of lessors and third parties as the
Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable and evidence that all other
actions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order
to create valid first and subsisting Liens on the property described in the
Mortgages has been taken.
(iv) Certified
copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors, general partner or managing
member, as applicable, of each Loan Party approving the Transaction and each
Transaction Document to which it is or is to be a party, and of all documents
evidencing other necessary corporate action and governmental and other third
party approvals and consents, if any, with respect to the Transaction and each
Transaction Document to which it is or is to be a party.
(v) A copy of
a certificate of the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction of incorporation,
organization or formation of each Loan Party and of each general partner or
managing member (if any) of each Loan Party, dated reasonably near the Effective
Date, certifying (A) as to a true and correct copy of the charter,
certificate of limited partnership, limited liability company agreement or other
organizational document of
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such Loan
Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, and each
amendment thereto on file in such Secretary’s office and (B) that (1) such
amendments are the only amendments to such charter, certificate of limited
partnership, limited liability company agreement or other organizational
document of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may
be, on file in such Secretary’s office, (2) such Loan Party, general
partner or managing member, as the case may be, has paid all franchise taxes to
the date of such certificate and (3) such Loan Party, general partner or
managing member, as the case may be, is duly
incorporated and in good standing or presently subsisting under the laws of the
State of the jurisdiction of its incorporation.
(vi) A
certificate of each Loan Party and of each general partner or managing member
(if any) of each Loan Party, signed on behalf of such Loan Party by its
President or a Vice President and its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or
those of its general partner or managing member, if applicable), dated the
Effective Date (the statements made in which certificate shall be true on and as
of the Effective Date), certifying as to (A) the absence of any amendments
to the constitutive documents of such Loan Party, general partner or managing
member, as applicable, since the date of the Secretary of State’s certificate
referred to in Section 3.01(a)(v), (B) a true and correct copy of the
bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other governing document
of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as applicable, as in
effect on the date on which the resolutions referred to in
Section 3.01(a)(iv) were adopted and on the Effective Date, (C) the
due incorporation and good standing or valid existence of such Loan Party,
general partner or managing member, as applicable, as a
corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company organized under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation,
and the absence of any proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of such
Loan Party, general partner or managing member, (D) the truth of the
representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents as though made on
and as of the Effective Date and (E) the absence of any event occurring and
continuing, or resulting from the Initial Extension of Credit, that constitutes
a Default.
(vii) A
certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party and of
each general partner or managing member (if any) of each Loan Party, signed on
behalf of such Loan Party by its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or those
of its general partner or managing member, if applicable) certifying the names
and true signatures of the officers of such Loan Party, general partner or
managing member authorized to sign each Transaction Document to which it is or
is to be a party and the other documents to be delivered hereunder and
thereunder.
(viii) Certified
copies of each of the Related Documents, duly executed by the parties thereto
and in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender Parties, together with all
agreements, instruments and other documents delivered in connection therewith as
the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.
(ix) A
certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit F hereto attesting to the
Solvency of each Loan Party before and after giving effect to the Transaction,
from its chief financial officer.
(x) Audited
annual financial statements dated December 31, 2003, interim financial
statements dated the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial
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statements
are available, pro forma financial statements and forecasts prepared by
management of the Revolving Credit Borrower, in form and substance satisfactory
to the Lender Parties, of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow
statements on a quarterly basis for the first two years following the Effective
Date and on an annual basis for each year thereafter until the Termination Date,
together with a business plan prepared by management of the General
Partner reasonably
acceptable to the Lender Parties for each year of the Facilities through 2009
setting forth an analysis of the business and prospects of the General Partner
and its Subsidiaries.
(xi) An
environmental assessment report with respect to the Acquired Properties, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Lender Parties, from an environmental
consulting firm acceptable to the Administrative Agent, as to any hazards, costs
or liabilities under Environmental Laws with respect to the Acquired Properties
to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries may be subject, the amount
and nature of which and the Revolving Credit Borrower’s plans with respect to
which shall be acceptable to the Lender Parties, together with evidence, in form
and substance satisfactory to the Lender Parties, that all applicable
Environmental Laws shall have been complied with.
(xii) An
engineering report for each Acquired Property, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, showing that all improvements are in
good workable condition and comply with all applicable regulations (including,
without limitation, the American Disabilities Act) or, in the case of any
material non-compliance, an estimate of the cost and description of any deferred
maintenance and repairs.
(xiii) A Notice
of Borrowing or Notice of Issuance, as applicable, relating to the Initial
Extension of Credit.
(xiv) A
favorable opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in
substantially the form of Exhibit G hereto and as to such other matters as
any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
(xv) A
favorable opinion of Xxxxxxx LLP, Maryland counsel for the Loan Parties, in
substantially the form of Exhibit H hereto and as to such other matters as
any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request.
(b) The
Acquisition shall have been consummated in accordance with the terms of the
Purchase Agreement, without any material waiver or amendment not consented to by
the Administrative Agent of any material term, provision or condition set forth
therein, and in compliance with all applicable laws.
(c) The
Administrative Agent shall be satisfied that all Existing Debt, other than
Surviving Debt, has been prepaid, redeemed or defeased in full or otherwise
satisfied and extinguished and all commitments relating thereto terminated and
that all Surviving Debt shall be on terms and conditions satisfactory to the
Lender Parties.
(d) The
Lender Parties shall have received a certificate of the chief financial officer
of the General Partner to the effect that (i) the aggregate Projected Net
Operating Income of the Acquired Properties as of the Effective Date is not less
than $78,500,000, (ii) that the Leverage Ratio, determined on a pro forma basis
giving effect to the Transaction, is not greater than 0.725:1.00, (iii) that the
Consolidated Net Operating Income for the Acquired Properties for the
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fiscal
year ended December 31, 2004 was at least $70,000,000 and (iv) that the
Consolidated Net Operating Income for the General Partner and its Subsidiaries
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 was at least
$200,000,000.
(e) Before
giving effect to the Transaction, there shall not have occurred any event,
change or condition since December 31, 2003 that, individually or in the
aggregate, has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse
effect on (i) the Transaction, or (ii) the business, assets, liabilities,
operations, condition (financial or otherwise), operating results, projections
or prospects of the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, or the General Partner and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii)
the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents or the rights and
remedies of the Lender Parties thereunder.
(f) The
Borrowers shall have paid all accrued fees of the Agents and the Lender Parties
and all accrued expenses of the Agents (including the reasonable accrued fees
and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent and local counsel to the
Lender Parties).
(g) The
Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall have received at least
$900,000,000 in gross proceeds from the borrowing under the CMBS Bridge
Financing and/or through the CMBS Mortgage Financings.
SECTION
3.02. Conditions
Precedent to Each Borrowing and Issuance and Renewal
. The
obligation of each Appropriate Lender to make an Advance (other than a Letter of
Credit Advance made by the Issuing Bank or a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to
Section 2.03(c) and a Swing Line Advance made by a Revolving Credit Lender
pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) on the occasion of each Borrowing (including
the initial Borrowing), and the obligation of the Issuing Bank to issue a Letter
of Credit (including the initial issuance) or renew a Letter of Credit and the
right of the Revolving Credit Borrower to request a Swing Line Borrowing, shall
be subject to the further conditions precedent that on the date of such
Borrowing or issuance or renewal the following statements shall be true and the
Administrative Agent shall have received for the account of such Lender or the
Issuing Bank a certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of the Applicable
Borrower, dated the date of such Borrowing or issuance or renewal, stating
that:
(a) the
representations and warranties contained in each Loan Document are correct on
and as of such date, before and after giving effect to such Borrowing or
issuance or renewal and to the application of the proceeds therefrom, as though
made on and as of such date, other than any such representations or warranties
that, by their terms, refer to a specific date other than the date of such
Borrowing or issuance or renewal, in which case as of such specific date;
(b) no
Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Borrowing or
issuance or renewal or from the application of the proceeds therefrom;
and
(c) in the
case of any Revolving Credit Borrowing or issuance of a Letter of Credit, such
Borrowing or issuance complies with Section 2.14(b).
SECTION
3.03. Determinations
Under Section 3.01
. For
purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in
Section 3.01, each Lender Party shall be deemed to have consented to,
approved or accepted or to be satisfied with each document or other matter
required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or
satisfactory to the Lender Parties unless an officer of the Administrative Agent
responsible for the transactions contemplated
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by the
Loan Documents shall have received notice from such Lender Party prior to the
Effective Date specifying its objection thereto and, if the Initial Extension of
Credit consists of a Borrowing, such Lender Party shall not have made available
to the Administrative Agent such Lender Party’s ratable portion of such
Borrowing.
ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
SECTION
4.01. Representations
and Warranties of the Loan
Parties
. Each
Loan Party represents and warrants as follows:
(a) Each Loan
Party and each of its Subsidiaries and each general partner or managing member,
if any, of each Loan Party (i) is a corporation, limited liability company
or limited partnership duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, (ii) is duly qualified
and in good standing as a foreign corporation or company in each other
jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its
business requires it to so qualify or be licensed except where the failure to so
qualify or be licensed could not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect and (iii) has all requisite corporate, limited liability company or
partnership (as applicable) power and authority (including, without limitation,
all Governmental Authorizations) to own or lease and operate its properties and
to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The
General Partner meets all of the requirements for qualification and taxation as
a REIT. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Revolving Credit Borrower
have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and all of such
interests owned by the General Partner are owned free and clear of all
Liens.
(b) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(b) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all
Subsidiaries of each Loan Party, showing as of the date hereof (as to each such
Subsidiary) the jurisdiction of its formation, the number of shares, membership
interests or partnership interests (as applicable) of each class of its Equity
Interests authorized, and the number outstanding, on the date hereof and the
percentage of each such class of its Equity Interests owned (directly or
indirectly) by such Loan Party and the number of shares covered by all
outstanding options, warrants, rights of conversion or purchase and similar
rights at the date hereof. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in each Loan
Party’s Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable
and are owned by such Loan Party or one or more of its Subsidiaries free and
clear of all Liens, except for Liens permitted under Section 5.02(a) and those
created under the Collateral Documents and, with respect to the Real Property
Collateral, except for Permitted Encumbrances.
(c) The
execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party and of each general
partner or managing member (if any) of each Loan Party of each Transaction
Document to which it is or is to be a party are within the corporate, limited
liability company or partnership powers of such Loan Party, general partner or
managing member, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited
liability company or partnership action, and do not (i) contravene the
charter or bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other governing
document of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member,
(ii) violate any law, rule, regulation (including, without limitation,
Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System),
order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award,
(iii) conflict with or result in the breach of, or constitute a default or
require any payment to be made under, any
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material
contract, loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other
instrument binding on or affecting any Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their properties, or any general partner or managing member of any Loan
Party or (iv) except for the Liens created under the Loan Documents, result
in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any
of the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, which in the
case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above could be reasonably likely to have a
Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is in
violation of any such law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction,
decree, determination or award or in breach of any such contract, loan
agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, lease or other instrument, the
violation or breach of which could be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(d) No
Governmental Authorization, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental
Authority or any other third party is required for (i) the due execution,
delivery, recordation, filing or performance by any Loan Party of any
Transaction Document to which it is or is to be a party, or for the consummation
of the Transaction, (ii) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted
by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (iii) the perfection or
maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the
first priority nature thereof) or (iv) the exercise by any Agent or any
Lender Party of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect
of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for the
authorizations and notices listed on Schedule 4.01(d) hereto, all of which
(except as noted thereon) have been or will be duly obtained, taken, given or
made and are in full force and effect. All applicable waiting periods in
connection with the Transaction have expired without any action having been
taken by any competent authority restraining, preventing or imposing materially
adverse conditions upon the Transaction or the rights of the Loan Parties or
their Subsidiaries freely to transfer or otherwise dispose of, or to create any
Lien on, any properties now owned or hereafter acquired by any of them. The
Acquisition has been consummated in accordance in all material respects with the
Purchase Agreement and applicable law.
(e) This
Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document when delivered hereunder will
have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party and general partner or
managing member (if any) of each Loan Party party thereto. This Agreement is,
and each other Transaction Document when delivered hereunder will be, the legal,
valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party and general partner or managing
member (if any) of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against such Loan
Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, in accordance
with its terms.
(f) There is
no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries, including any Environmental Action, pending
or, to our actual knowledge, threatened before any Governmental Authority or
arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect (other than the matters described on Schedule 4.01(f) hereto (the
“Disclosed
Litigation”)) or
(ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any
Transaction Document or the consummation of the Transaction, and there has been
no adverse change in the status, or financial effect on any Loan Party or any of
its Subsidiaries, of the Disclosed Litigation from that described on
Schedule 4.01(f) hereto.
(g) The
Consolidated balance sheet of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries and, to
the extent available on the Effective Date, the Acquired Properties, as at
December 31, 2003, and the related Consolidated statement of income and
Consolidated statement of cash flows of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries
and, to the extent available on the Effective Date, the Acquired Properties, for
the fiscal year then ended, accompanied by an unqualified opinion of KPMG LLP,
independent public accountants, and the Consolidated balance sheets of the
General
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Partner
and its Subsidiaries and, to the extent available, the Acquired Properties, as
at as at the end of the most recently-ended fiscal quarter, and the related
Consolidated statements of income, Consolidated statement of cash flows and
stockholders’ equity of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries, in each case,
for the three months then ended, duly certified by the chief financial officer
of the General Partner, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender
Party, fairly present, in the case of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries,
and, on the Effective Date, to our actual knowledge fairly present, in the case
of the Acquired Properties, subject, in the case of said balance sheet as of the
end of such three-month period, and said statements of income and cash flows for
the three months then ended, to year-end audit adjustments, the Consolidated
financial condition of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries and, if
applicable, the Acquired Properties, as at such dates and the Consolidated
results of operations of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries and, if
applicable, the Acquired Properties, for the periods ended on such dates, all in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent
basis, and since December 31, 2003, there has been no Material Adverse
Change.
(h) The
Consolidated pro forma balance sheet of the General Partner and its
Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2004, and the related Consolidated
pro forma statements of income and cash flows of the General Partner and
its Subsidiaries for the 12 months then ended, certified by the chief financial
officer of the General Partner, copies of which have been furnished to each
Lender Party, fairly present the Consolidated pro forma financial condition
of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries as at such date and the Consolidated
pro forma results of operations of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries
for the period ended on such date, in each case giving effect to the
Transaction, all in accordance with GAAP.
(i) The
Consolidated forecasted balance sheet, statement of income, statement of cash
flows and stockholders’ equity of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries
delivered to the Lender Parties pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(x) or 5.03 were
prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which
assumptions were fair in light of the conditions existing at the time of
delivery of such forecasts, and represented, at the time of delivery, the
Revolving Credit Borrower’s best estimate of its future financial
performance.
(j) Neither
the Information Memorandum nor any other information, exhibit or report
furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Agent or any Lender Party in
connection with the negotiation and syndication of the Loan Documents or
pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents contained any untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements made therein not misleading.
(k) Neither
Borrower is engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, and no proceeds of any Advance or drawings
under any Letter of Credit will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or
to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin
Stock.
(l) Neither
any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries is an “investment company,” or an
“affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for, an
“investment company,” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended. Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any
general partner of managing member of any Loan Party, as applicable, is a
“holding company,” or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company,” or an
“affiliate” of a “holding company” or of a “subsidiary company” of a “holding
company,” as such terms are defined in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935, as amended. Neither the making of any Advances, nor the issuance of any
Letters of Credit, nor the application of the proceeds or repayment thereof by
the Borrowers, nor the consummation of the other transactions
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contemplated
by the Transaction Documents, will violate any provision of any such Act or any
rule, regulation or order of the Securities and Exchange Commission
thereunder.
(m) All
filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and protect the
security interest in the Collateral created under the Collateral Documents have
been or will be duly made or taken and are or when made or taken will be in full
force and effect, and the Collateral Documents create in favor of the Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a valid and, together with such
filings and other actions, perfected first priority security interest in the
Collateral, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations, and all filings and
other actions necessary to perfect and protect such security interest have been
duly taken. The Loan Parties are the legal and beneficial owners of the
Collateral free and clear of any Lien, except for the liens and security
interests created or permitted under the Loan Documents and Permitted
Liens.
(n) Each Loan
Party is, individually and together with its Subsidiaries, Solvent.
(o) Except as
otherwise set forth in the environmental reports listed on Schedule 4.01(o)
hereto (correct copies of which have been made available to the Administrative
Agent), the operations and properties of each Loan Party and each of its
Subsidiaries comply in all material respects with all applicable Environmental
Laws and Environmental Permits, all past non-compliance with such Environmental
Laws and Environmental Permits has been resolved without ongoing obligations or
costs, and no circumstances exist that could be reasonably likely to (i) form
the basis of an Environmental Action against any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their properties that could reasonably be expected have a
Material Adverse Effect or (ii) cause any such property to be subject to any
material restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any
Environmental Law.
(p) Neither
the business nor the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries are
affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor
dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public
enemy or other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that could be
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(q) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(q) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Existing
Debt (other than Surviving Debt) having a principal amount of at least
$1,000,000, showing as of the date hereof the obligor and the principal amount
outstanding thereunder.
(r) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(r) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Surviving
Debt having a principal amount of at least $1,000,000, showing as of the date
hereof the obligor and the principal amount outstanding thereunder, the maturity
date thereof and the amortization schedule therefor.
(s) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(s) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Liens on
the property or assets of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries securing
Debt for Borrowed Money or Obligations under acceptance, letter of credit or
similar facilities, showing as of the date hereof the lienholder thereof, the
principal amount of the obligations secured thereby and the property or assets
of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary subject thereto.
(t) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(t) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all Owned
Real Property with a value of $1,000,000 or more showing as of the date hereof
the street address, county or other relevant jurisdiction, state, record owner
and book value
thereof. Each Loan Party or such Subsidiary has good, marketable and insurable
fee simple title to such Owned Real Property, free and clear of all Liens, other
than Permitted Liens.
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(u) (1) Set
forth on Schedule 4.01(u)(i) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all
Real Property Leases (other than Real Property Leases of office space for
building management and personnel of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries)
showing as of the date hereof the lease, property, lessee, lessor, expiration
date of the lease, and annual rent. Each such Real Property Lease is the legal,
valid and binding obligation of the applicable Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof,
enforceable against such Loan Party or Subsidiary in accordance with its
terms.
(2) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(u)(ii) hereto is (to the knowledge of the Revolving Credit
Borrower in the case of the Acquired Properties) a complete and accurate list of
the twenty highest revenue-generating Tenant Leases of the General Partner and
its Subsidiaries showing as of the date hereof the tenant,
building, location, lessee, expiration date, annualized rent and total leased
square feet. Each
such Tenant Lease is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the applicable
Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof, enforceable against such Loan Party or
Subsidiary in accordance with its terms.
(v) Set forth
on Schedule 4.01(v) hereto is a complete and accurate list of all
Investments held by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries on the date
hereof, showing as of the date hereof the amount, obligor or issuer and
maturity, if any, thereof.
ARTICLE
V
COVENANTS
OF THE LOAN
PARTIES
SECTION
5.01. Affirmative
Covenants
. So long
as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document
shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender
Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, each Loan Party will:
(a) Compliance
with Laws, Etc. Comply,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, in all material respects, with all
applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, such compliance to include,
without limitation, compliance with ERISA and the Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations Chapter of the Organized Crime Control Act of
1970.
(b) Payment
of Taxes, Etc. Pay and
discharge, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, before the
same shall become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and
governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its property and
(ii) all lawful material claims that, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien
upon its property; provided,
however, that
neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or
discharge any such tax, assessment, charge or claim that is being contested in
good faith and by proper proceedings and as to which appropriate reserves are
being maintained, unless and until any Lien resulting therefrom attaches to any
material property and becomes enforceable against its other
creditors.
(c) Compliance
with Environmental Laws. Comply,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply and take commercially reasonable
steps to ensure that all lessees and other Persons operating or occupying its
properties comply, in all material respects, with all applicable Environmental
Laws and Environmental Permits; obtain and renew, and cause each of its
Subsidiaries to obtain and renew, all Environmental Permits necessary for its
operations and properties; and conduct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
conduct, any investigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any
cleanup, removal, remedial or other action necessary to remove and clean up all
Hazardous Materials from any of its properties, in accordance with the
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requirements
of all Environmental Laws in each case where the failure to do so could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided,
however, that
neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to
undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other action to the extent that
its obligation to do so is being contested in good faith and by proper
proceedings and appropriate reserves are being maintained with respect to such
circumstances.
(d) Maintenance
of Insurance.
Maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance (including
with respect to the Real Property Collateral, the insurance required by the
terms of the Mortgages) including, without limitation, business interruption
insurance and earthquake insurance, with responsible and reputable insurance
companies or associations in such amounts and covering such risks as is usually
carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties
in the same general areas in which such Loan Party or such Subsidiary
operates.
(e) Preservation
of Legal Existence, Etc.
Preserve
and maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to preserve and maintain, its
existence, legal structure, legal name, rights (charter and statutory), permits,
licenses, approvals, privileges and franchises; provided,
however, that
the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries may consummate any merger, consolidation
or other transaction permitted under Section 5.02(d) or any Transfer not
prohibited under Section 5.02(e), and provided
further that no
Non-Guarantor Subsidiary shall be required to preserve its existence or be
prevented from winding-up or dissolving, if, in either case, (i) the
non-preservation, winding-up or dissolution of such Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, as
applicable, is (A) as a result of a transaction not prohibited under
Section 5.02(d) or (B) upon or following any Transfer not prohibited under
Section 5.02(e) in which substantially all of the assets of such Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary were sold or otherwise disposed of and (ii) the failure to preserve
such Non-Guarantor Subsidiary’s existence is not otherwise disadvantageous in
any material respect to the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries taken as a
whole.
(f) Visitation
Rights. At any
reasonable time and from time to time, permit any of the Agents or any of the
Lender Parties, or any agents or representatives thereof, to examine and make
copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account of, and visit the
properties of, each Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries, and to discuss the
affairs, finances and accounts of such Loan Party and any of its Subsidiaries
with any of their officers or directors and with their independent certified
public accountants, provided that the applicable Loan Party may, if it so
chooses, be present at or participate in any such discussion.
(g) Keeping
of Books. Keep,
and cause each of its Subsidiaries to keep, proper books of record and account,
in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions
and the assets and business of each Loan Party and each such Subsidiary in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in effect from time to
time.
(h) Maintenance
of Properties, Etc.
Maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain and
preserve, all of its properties that are used or useful in the conduct of its
business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear
excepted.
(i) Transactions
with Affiliates; Separateness of CMBS Subsidiaries. Except
as otherwise permitted hereunder, conduct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
conduct, all transactions otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents with any
of their Affiliates on terms that are fair and reasonable and no less favorable
to the Revolving Credit Borrower or such Subsidiary than it would obtain in a
comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate. In
addition, each Loan Party will cause the CMBS Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to
be
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structurally
separate from the Loan Parties, including through the election of one or more
independent directors, ensuring that all obligations of the CMBS Subsidiaries
are non-recourse to the Guarantors and that all transactions between the CMBS
Subsidiaries and the Guarantors are conducted on an arm’s-length
basis.
(j) Covenant
to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security. Upon
(x) the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Subsidiaries
(other than Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries) of the Term B Borrower by any applicable
Loan Party or (y) the acquisition of any Leased Real Property or Owned Real
Property with a value in excess of $5,000,000 by any Loan Party, and such
property shall not already be subject to, and is required under the terms of the
Loan Documents to be subject to, a perfected first priority security interest in
favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall
not be subject to a Mortgage Financing or other financing permitted by the terms
of this Agreement, then in each case at the Borrowers’ expense:
(i) in
connection with the formation or acquisition of a Subsidiary (other than a
Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) that is not a CFC, within 20 days after such formation
or acquisition, cause each such Subsidiary, and cause each direct and indirect
parent of such Subsidiary (if it has not already done so), to duly execute and
deliver to the Collateral Agent a guaranty or guaranty supplement, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, guaranteeing the other Loan
Parties’ obligations under the Loan Documents,
(ii) within 20
days after such formation or acquisition, furnish to the Collateral Agent a
description of the Real Properties of such Subsidiary or the Owned Real Property
or Leased Real Property so acquired, in each case in detail satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent,
(iii) within 30
days after (A) such acquisition of any Owned Real Property or Leased Real
Property duly execute and deliver, and cause each Loan Party to duly execute and
deliver, to the Collateral Agent such additional mortgages, pledges,
assignments, security agreement supplements and other security agreements as
specified by, and in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent
(including, without limitation, a Mortgage, together with the Assignment of
Leases and Rents referred to therein (and all other items, to the extent
applicable, listed in Section 3.01(a)(iii)(B) through (F)) securing payment of
all the Obligations of such Loan Party under the Loan Documents and constituting
Liens on all such properties and (B) such formation or acquisition, duly execute
and deliver and cause such Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver to the
Collateral Agent mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements
and other security agreements as specified by, and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, securing payment of all of the obligations
of such Subsidiary or Loan Party, respectively, under the Loan Documents;
provided that (A)
the stock of any Subsidiary held by a CFC or a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary shall
not be pledged and (B) if such new property is Equity Interests in a CFC, no
more than 66% of such Equity Interests shall be required to be pledged in favor
of the Secured Parties,
(iv) within 30
days after such formation or acquisition, take, and cause each Loan Party and
each newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary (other than any Subsidiary that
is a CFC or a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary or a Subsidiary that is held directly or
indirectly by a CFC or Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) to take, whatever action
(including, without limitation, the recording of mortgages, the filing of
Uniform
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Commercial
Code financing statements, the giving of notices and the endorsement of notices
on title documents) may be necessary or advisable in the opinion of the
Collateral Agent to vest in the Collateral Agent (or in any representative of
the Collateral Agent designated by it) valid and subsisting Liens on the
properties purported to be subject to the mortgages, pledges, assignments,
security agreement supplements and security agreements delivered pursuant to
this Section 5.01(j), enforceable against all third parties in accordance
with their terms,
(v) as
promptly as practicable after such formation or acquisition, deliver to the
Collateral Agent, upon the request of the Collateral Agent in its sole
discretion, a signed copy of a favorable opinion, addressed to the Collateral
Agent and the other Secured Parties, of counsel for the Loan Parties acceptable
to the Collateral Agent as to (1) the matters contained in clauses (i),
(iii) and (iv) above, (2) such guaranties, guaranty supplements, mortgages,
pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements and security agreements
being legal, valid and binding obligations of each Loan Party party thereto
enforceable in accordance with their terms, as to the matters contained in
clause (iv) above, (3) such recordings, filings, notices, endorsements and
other actions being sufficient to create valid perfected Liens on such
properties, and (4) such other matters as the Collateral Agent may reasonably
request,
(vi) as
promptly as practicable after such formation or acquisition, deliver, upon the
request of the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion, to the Collateral Agent
with respect to each parcel of Real Property owned or held by each Loan Party
and each newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary (other than any Subsidiary
that is a CFC or a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary or a Subsidiary that is held
directly or indirectly by a CFC or a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) title reports,
surveys and engineering, soils and other reports, and environmental assessment
reports, each in scope, form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent,
provided,
however, that to
the extent that any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall have otherwise
received any of the foregoing items with respect to such Real Property, such
items shall, promptly after the receipt thereof, be delivered to the Collateral
Agent, and
(vii) at any
time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver, and cause each Loan
Party and each newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary (other than any
Subsidiary that is a CFC or a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary or a Subsidiary that is
held directly or indirectly by a CFC or Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) to execute and
deliver, any and all further instruments and documents and take, and cause each
Loan Party and each newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary (other than any
Subsidiary that is a CFC or a Non-Guarantor Subsidiary or a Subsidiary that is
held directly or indirectly by a CFC or Non-Guarantor Subsidiary) to take, all
such other action as the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable in
obtaining the full benefits of, or in perfecting and preserving the Liens of,
such guaranties, mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements
and security agreements, in each case on the properties purported to be subject
to the mortgages, pledges, assignments, security agreement supplements and
security agreements delivered pursuant to this
Section 5.01(j).
(k) Further
Assurances. (i)
Promptly upon request by any Agent, or any Lender Party through the
Administrative Agent, correct, and cause each of its Subsidiaries promptly to
correct, any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan
Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation
thereof.
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(ii) Promptly
upon request by any Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent,
do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register
and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, conveyances, pledge
agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, trust deeds, assignments, financing
statements and continuations thereof, termination statements, notices of
assignment, transfers, certificates, assurances and other instruments as any
Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably
require from time to time in order to (A) carry out more effectively the
purposes of the Loan Documents, (B) to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, subject any Loan Party’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ properties,
assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter required to be covered
by any of the Collateral Documents, (C) perfect and maintain the validity,
effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the
Liens required to be created thereunder and (D) assure, convey, grant,
assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the
Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to
the Secured Parties under any Loan Document or under any other instrument
executed in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party or any of
its Subsidiaries is or is to be a party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
do so.
(iii) Take each
action set forth on Schedule 5.01(k) hereto within the time period set forth in
such schedule for the taking of such action.
(l) Performance
of Related Documents. Perform
and observe, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to perform and observe, all of
the terms and provisions of each Related Document (not including, for purposes
of this subsection (l), the CMBS Documents) to be performed or observed by it,
maintain each such Related Document in full force and effect, enforce such
Related Document in accordance with its terms, take all such action to such end
as may be from time to time reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent
and, upon reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, make to each other
party to each such Related Document such demands and requests for information
and reports or for action as any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is
entitled to make under such Related Document.
(m) Preparation
of Environmental Reports. At the
request of the Required Lenders, should the Required Lenders reasonably believe
there has been a violation of any applicable Environmental Law, a material
release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials, a threat to human health
or the environment, an Event of Default or a material violation of any
Environmental Permit, acting through the Administrative Agent, from time to
time, provide to the Lender Parties within 60 days after such request, at the
expense of the Borrowers, an environmental site assessment report for any of its
or its Subsidiaries’ Real Property Collateral described in such request,
prepared by an environmental consulting firm acceptable to the Required Lenders,
indicating the presence or absence of Hazardous Materials and the estimated cost
of any compliance, removal or remedial action in connection with any Hazardous
Materials on such properties; without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
if the Required Lenders determine at any time that a material risk exists that
any such report will not be provided within the time referred to above, the
Required Lenders, acting through the Collateral Agent, may retain an
environmental consulting firm to prepare such report at the expense of the
Borrowers, and the Borrowers hereby grant and agree to cause any Subsidiary that
owns any Real Property Collateral described in such request to grant at the time
of such request to the Agents, the Lender Parties, such firm and any agents or
representatives thereof an irrevocable non-exclusive license, subject to the
rights of tenants, to enter onto their respective properties to undertake such
an assessment.
(n) Compliance
with Terms of Leaseholds. Make
all payments and otherwise perform all obligations in respect of all Real
Property Leases and Tenant Leases, keep such leases in full
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force and
effect and not allow such leases to lapse or be terminated or any rights to
renew such leases to be forfeited or cancelled, notify the Administrative Agent
of any material default by any party with respect to such leases and cooperate
with the Administrative Agent in all respects to cure any such default, and
cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so in each case where the failure to do so
could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
(o) Maintenance
of REIT Status. The
General Partner shall, at all times, conduct its affairs and the affairs of its
Subsidiaries in a manner so as to continue to qualify as a REIT.
(p) NYSE
Listing.
The General Partner, shall, at all times (i) cause its common shares to be duly
listed on the New York Stock Exchange and (ii) timely file all reports required
to be filed by it in connection therewith.
(q) Interest
Rate Hedging. Enter
into prior to the date that is three months following the Effective Date, and
maintain at all times thereafter, interest rate hedging arrangements to hedge
floating rate Debt to fixed rate Debt on terms reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent, such that not less than 66⅔% of the Consolidated Debt for
Borrowed Money of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries (taking into account
the notional amount covered by the interest rate hedging arrangements) bears
interest at a fixed rate.
(r) Performance
of Material Contracts. Perform
and observe all the terms and provisions of each Material Contract to be
performed or observed by it, maintain each such Material Contract in full force
and effect, enforce each such Material Contract in accordance with its terms,
take all such action to such end as may be from time to time requested by the
Administrative Agent and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, make to each
other party to each such Material Contract such demands and requests for
information and reports or for action as any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries is entitled to make under such Material Contract, and cause each of
its Subsidiaries to do so, except, in any case, where the failure to do so,
either individually or in the aggregate, could not be reasonably likely to have
a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION
5.02. Negative
Covenants
. So long
as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document
shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender
Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, no Loan Party will, at any
time:
(a) Liens,
Etc. Create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Lien on or with respect to any of its
properties of any character (including, without limitation, accounts) whether
now owned or hereafter acquired, or sign or file or suffer to exist, or permit
any of its Subsidiaries to authorize or file or suffer to exist, under the
Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction, a financing statement that names
such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries as debtor, or sign or suffer to
exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sign or suffer to exist, any
security agreement authorizing any secured party thereunder to file such
financing statement, or assign, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to assign, any
accounts or other right to receive income, except:
(i) Liens
created under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Permitted
Liens;
(iii) Liens
existing on the date hereof and described on Schedule 4.01(s)
hereto;
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(iv) purchase
money Liens upon or in real property or equipment acquired or held by the
Revolving Credit Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business to secure the purchase price of such property or equipment or to secure
Debt incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction
or improvement of any such property or equipment to be subject to such Liens, or
Liens existing on any such property or equipment at the time of acquisition
(other than any such Liens created in contemplation of such acquisition that do
not secure the purchase price), or extensions, renewals or replacements of any
of the foregoing for the same or a lesser amount; provided,
however, that no
such Lien shall extend to or cover any property other than the property or
equipment being acquired, constructed or improved, and no such extension,
renewal or replacement shall extend to or cover any property not theretofore
subject to the Lien being extended, renewed or replaced; and provided further that the
aggregate principal amount of the Debt secured by Liens permitted by this
clause (iv) shall not exceed the amount permitted under Section 5.02(b)(ii)
at any time outstanding;
(v) Liens
arising in connection with Capitalized Leases permitted under Section
5.02(b)(iii); provided that no
such Lien shall extend to or cover any Collateral or assets other than the
assets subject to such Capitalized Leases;
(vi) Liens on
property of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged into or
consolidated with such Loan Party or any Subsidiary of such Loan Party or
becomes a Subsidiary of such Loan Party; provided that (x)
such merger or consolidation is otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents and
(y) such Liens were not created in contemplation of such merger, consolidation
or investment and do not extend to any assets other than those of the Person
merged into or consolidated with such Loan Party or such Subsidiary or acquired
by the Revolving Credit Borrower or such Subsidiary;
(vii) Liens on
the CMBS Properties and related assets and properties of the CMBS Subsidiaries
(including pledges of the Equity Interests in Property-Level Subsidiaries of the
Initial CMBS Borrower), in each case securing payment of the CMBS Bridge
Financing or the CMBS Mortgage Financings;
(viii) Liens on
Real Property and related assets and properties (other than Equity Interests) of
such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and pledges of the Equity Interests
in Property-Level Subsidiaries that are not direct Subsidiaries of the
Borrowers, in each case securing payment of any Mortgage Financing to the extent
permitted under Section 5.02(b)(viii);
(ix) other
Liens securing Debt outstanding in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$10,000,000, provided that no
such Lien shall extend to or cover any Collateral;
(x) Liens
securing Permitted Construction Financing on the Real Property related thereto;
(xi) Liens on
(i) the contract to sell the Bosa Property to Irvine Residential Highrise 2 LLC,
as subsidiary of Bosa Development California, Inc., and on the Bosa Sale
Proceeds, (ii) the Bosa Property and (iii) all other assets and properties of
Park Place MD, in each case securing Debt permitted under Section
5.02(b)(xviii); and
(xii) the
replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted by clauses (iii)
through (viii) and clause (x) above upon or in the same property theretofore
subject thereto or
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the
replacement, extension or renewal (without increase in the amount (except for
fees, costs and expenses associated therewith) or change in any direct or
contingent obligor other than Non-Guarantor Subsidiaries) of the Debt secured
thereby.
(b) Debt. Create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist, any Debt, except:
(i) Debt
under the Loan Documents;
(ii) Debt
secured by Liens permitted by Section 5.02(a)(iv) not to exceed in the
aggregate $20,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(iii) (A)
Capitalized Leases not to exceed in the aggregate $25,000,000 at any time
outstanding, and (B) in the case of Capitalized Leases to which any Subsidiary
of such Loan Party is a party, Debt of such Loan Party of the type described in
clause (i) of the definition of “Debt”
guaranteeing the Obligations of such Subsidiary under such Capitalized
Leases;
(iv) the
Surviving Debt, and any Refinancing Debt of any Surviving Debt;
(v) Debt in
respect of Hedge Agreements designed to hedge against fluctuations in interest
rates incurred in the ordinary course of business and consistent with prudent
business practice;
(vi) in the
case of any Loan Party, Debt owed to the Revolving Credit Borrower or
wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower, which Debt shall be
subordinated to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan
Documents;
(vii) in the
case of any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, Debt owed to the Revolving Credit Borrower
or Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower;
(viii) So long
as no Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such
incurrence or issuance (unless the Net Cash Proceeds therefrom are applied to
the prepayment of the Term B Advances pursuant to Section 2.06), Non-Recourse
Debt under Mortgage Financings in respect of Real Property Collateral or other
Real Property of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (other than the CMBS
Subsidiaries);
(ix) unsecured
Debt incurred in the ordinary course of business, maturing within one year from
the date incurred, and aggregating on a Consolidated basis, not more than
$25,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
(x) Debt of
the CMBS Subsidiaries under the CMBS Bridge Financing and the CMBS Mortgage
Financings; provided,
however, that the
initial net cash proceeds thereof in excess of $900,000,000 (such excess amount
being the “Excess
CMBS Financing Proceeds”) shall
be restricted in use to (A) up to $100,000,000 in the aggregate in (1)
Investments in Southern California Office Real Properties comparable to the
Revolving Credit Borrower’s existing portfolio which generate stabilized Net
Operating Income returns of 7.0% on acquisition cost thereof (including, without
limitation, the San Diego Tech Center) and (2) income-accretive
Capital Expenditures for improvements on existing Southern California Office
Real Properties of the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries which
generate stabilized Net Operating Income returns of 7.0% on the amount expended,
provided
that such Office Real Property is subject to a Mortgage or that the Equity
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Interests
in a Property-Level Subsidiary that directly or indirectly owns such Real
Property constitute Pledged Equity, (B) up
to $25,000,000 in required reserves for future leasing costs, (C) up
to $45,000,000 to prepay in full the Park
Place Facility, (D)
prepay the Term B Advances pursuant to Section 2.06(a) (the Investments and uses
described in the foregoing sub-clauses (A) through (C) and this sub-clause (D)
being, collectively, the “Specified
Applications”) and
(E) to repay Revolving Credit Advances pursuant to Section 2.06(a); provided,
further, that the
aggregate amount used pursuant to clauses (A), (B), (C) and (E) of the foregoing
proviso shall not exceed the sum of (1) $125,000,000 and (2) an amount equal to
the amount used pursuant to clause (C) of
the foregoing proviso in Bosa Sale
Proceeds; and
provided, further, that
prior to the making of any Investment or application of any reserve referred to
in the preceding proviso, such excess amount shall be deposited in the
Collateral Account to cash collateralize the Facilities, and any such
Investment, when made, shall secure the Facilities, in each case on terms
acceptable to the Administrative Agent (it being understood that pledges of
Equity Interests in the Property-Level Subsidiary that owns the Real Property
purchased through such Investment would be acceptable);
(xi) Debt of
any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower after the
date hereof in accordance with the terms of Section 5.02(f), which Debt is
existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit
Borrower (other than Debt incurred solely in contemplation of such Person
becoming a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower);
(xii) Debt
consisting of Guarantee Obligations in respect of Permitted Construction
Financing in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000;
(xiii) Debt
consisting of Limited Recourse Guarantee Obligations incurred in the ordinary
course of business;
(xiv) Debt
incurred to finance customary leasehold improvements required by the terms of,
or as a condition to the entering into of, Tenant Leases (including, with
respect to the 777 Tower, Guarantee Obligations of the General Partner in an
aggregate not to exceed $10,000,000);
(xv) Guarantee
Obligations consisting of master leases with Subsidiaries and guaranties
covering rent abatements or other rent concessions or rent and other income with
respect to vacancies or other property-related sources of potential revenue in
an aggregate amount not to exceed $15,000,000 in any fiscal year;
(xvi) Permitted
Construction Financing and Refinancing Debt of Permitted Construction Financing;
(xvii) in the
case of the TRS Subsidiaries, Guarantee Obligations incurred in the ordinary
course of business of the TRS Subsidiaries arising under management, leasing and
development agreements entered into by the TRS Subsidiaries relating to the
provision of administrative and operational, management, leasing and/or
development services, so long as the aggregate amount of such Guarantee
Obligations does not at any time exceed $50,000,000;
(xviii) Debt of
Park Place MD under the Park Place Facility and Guarantee Obligations of the
Revolving Credit Borrower and the General Partner in respect of the Park Place
Facility in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $45,000,000;
and
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(xix) Debt
assumed as part of the purchase of the 777 Tower in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $155,000,000.
(c) Change
in Nature of Business.
Make, or
permit any of its Subsidiaries to make, any material change in the nature of its
business as carried on at the date hereof;
or engage in, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to engage in, any material new
line of business that is substantially different from those lines of business
conducted by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party on the Effective
Date, including the ownership, development, construction, management and rental
of commercial real estate properties in the United States consistent in quality
with the Real Property, and other business activities substantially related,
necessary or incidental thereto.
(d) Mergers,
Etc. Except
as permitted by Sections 5.02(e) and (f), merge or consolidate with or into, or
convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a
series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now
owned or hereafter acquired) to, any Person, or permit any of its Subsidiaries
to do so; provided,
however, that
(i) any Subsidiary of a Loan Party may merge or consolidate with or into, or
dispose of assets to, any other Subsidiary of such Loan Party (provided that (A)
if one or more Subsidiaries is also a Loan Party, any such Loan Party shall be
the surviving entity and (B) if the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary (or in
the Equity Interests of its direct or indirect parent that is a direct
Subsidiary of the Term B Borrower) are subject to a pledge under the Collateral
Documents, the Equity Interests in the surviving entity (or in the Equity
Interests of its direct or indirect parent that is a direct Subsidiary of the
Term B Borrower) shall be subject a pledge under the Collateral Documents) or
any other Loan Party (provided that such Loan Party or, in the case of any Loan
Party other than the Borrowers, another Loan Party shall be the surviving
entity), (ii) any Loan Party may merge with any other Person so long as such
Loan Party or another Loan Party is the surviving entity and (iii) any
Subsidiary of the Initial CMBS Borrower may become a direct subsidiary of the
Revolving Credit Borrower, provided, in each
case, that no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
proposed transaction or would result therefrom.
(e) Sales,
Etc., of Assets. (i)
transfer or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option or other right to
purchase, or otherwise acquire, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to sell,
transfer or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option or other right to
purchase, lease or otherwise acquire (each action described in clauses (i) and
(ii) of this subsection (e) being a “Transfer”), any
Real Property or Real Properties (or any Equity Interests in connection
therewith) (other than the Identified Properties) in any six month period for an
amount greater than $50,000,000, unless the Loan Parties are in compliance with
the covenants contained in Section 5.04, calculated based on the financial
statements most recently delivered to the Lender Parties pursuant to
Section 5.03 (A) as though such transaction had occurred at the beginning
of the four-quarter period covered thereby and (B) on a pro forma basis
(excluding in each instance from such calculation the Real Property or Real
Properties that are the subject of the transaction), as evidenced by a
certificate of the chief financial officer (or such person performing similar
functions) of the Revolving Credit Borrower delivered to the Administrative
Agent prior to such transaction demonstrating such compliance.
(f) Investments
in Other Persons. Make or
hold, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make or hold, any Investment other
than:
(i) Investments
by (A) Loan Parties in their Subsidiaries outstanding on the date hereof and
additional investments in such Subsidiaries and (B) Subsidiaries of the
Revolving Credit Borrower that are not Loan Parties in their
Subsidiaries;
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(ii) Investments
in Cash Equivalents;
(iii) Investments
consisting of intercompany Debt permitted under Section 5.02(b)(vii) or (viii);
(iv) Investments
(including through newly-formed Subsidiaries) consisting of (x) so long as the
Leverage Ratio is at least 0.025:1.0 below the Leverage Ratio required to be
maintained at such time pursuant to Section 5.04(a) on a pro forma basis after
giving effect to the making of such Investment, the acquisition of Office Real
Property (or of all of the Equity Interests in, or all or substantially all of
the assets of, a Person primarily engaged in owning or managing Office Real
Property, which Person will, upon consummation of such acquisition of Equity
Interests or assets, become a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit
Borrower) in an aggregate amount not to exceed 10% of Total Asset Value in any
single transaction and (y) the acquisition of other Real Property (or of the
Equity Interests in a Person primarily engaged in owning or managing Real
Property) in an aggregate amount for all such Investments made pursuant to this
clause (y) not to exceed 5% of Total Asset Value at such time; provided,
however, that,
with respect to each purchase or other acquisition made pursuant to this clause
(iv):
(A) the Loan
Parties and, if applicable, any such newly created or acquired Subsidiary, shall
comply with the applicable requirements of Section 5.01(j),
(B) such
purchase or other acquisition shall not include or result in any contingent
liabilities that could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the
business, financial condition, operations or prospects of the General Partner
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
(C) the
purchase price for any such Investment shall be determined by reference to the
total cash and noncash consideration (including, without limitation, the fair
market value of all Equity Interests issued or transferred to the sellers of
such Person or assets, all indemnities, earnouts and other contingent payment
obligations to, and the aggregate amounts paid or to be paid under noncompete,
consulting and other affiliated agreements with, the sellers of such Person or
assets, all write-downs of property and assets and reserves for liabilities with
respect thereto and all assumptions of debt, liabilities and other obligations
in connection therewith) paid by or on behalf of the Revolving Credit Borrower
and its Subsidiaries for any such purchase or other acquisition,
(D) (1)
immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such purchase or
other acquisition, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and
(2) immediately after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition, the
Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance
with all of the covenants set forth in Section 5.04, such compliance to be
determined on the basis of the financial information most recently delivered to
the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties pursuant to Section 5.03 as
though such purchase or other acquisition had been consummated as of the first
day of the fiscal period covered thereby, and
(E) the
General Partner shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent, on behalf of
the Lender Parties, at least five Business Days prior to the date on which any
such purchase or other acquisition is to be consummated, a certificate of its
chief financial officer, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, certifying that all of the requirements set forth in this
clause (iv) have been
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satisfied
or will be satisfied on or prior to the consummation of such purchase or other
acquisition;
(v) Investments
by the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries in Hedge Agreements
permitted under Section 5.02(b)(v); and
(vi) Other
Investments (including through newly-formed or acquired Subsidiaries) in Real
Property and other assets reasonably related to the Revolving Credit Borrower’s
and its Subsidiaries’ Real Property operations in an aggregate amount not
exceeding (A) $5,000,000 in any single transaction or series of related
transactions and (B) $25,000,000 for all such Investments.
(g) Restricted
Payments. In the
case of the General Partner, declare or pay any dividends, purchase, redeem,
retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its Equity Interests now
or hereafter outstanding, return any capital to its stockholders, partners or
members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) as such, make any distribution of
assets, Equity Interests, obligations or securities to its stockholders,
partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) as such; provided,
however, so long
as (i) no Default of the type described in Section 6.01(a) or (f) shall have
occurred and be continuing and (ii) the Advances and all interest and other
amounts payable under Loan Documents shall not have been declared due and
payable pursuant to Section 6.01, then the General Partner may (A) redeem any of
its Preferred Interests out of the proceeds of a refinancing thereof on terms
and conditions, taken as a whole, not materially less favorable to the General
Partner than the terms and conditions applicable to the Preferred Interests
being redeemed or refinanced and (B) declare and pay dividends (y) to the
extent the aggregate amount of such payments over the preceding twelve months is
less than 95% of Funds From Operations or (z) as may otherwise be required
in order to comply with Section 5.01(o) and to avoid the imposition of income or
excise taxes on the General Partner, and, provided,
further, at all
times the General Partner may declare and pay dividends in order to comply with
Section 5.01(o).
(h) Amendments
of Constitutive Documents. Amend,
or permit any of its Subsidiaries to amend, its limited partnership agreement,
certificate of incorporation or bylaws or other constitutive documents, without
the consent of the Administrative Agent; provided,
however, that
the Administrative Agent shall be required to consent to any such amendment if
(i) in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent such amendment would
not result in a Default and is not materially adverse to any Lender Party or
(ii) such amendment is reasonably required to comply with Section
5.01(o).
(i) Accounting
Changes. Make or
permit, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to make or permit, any change in (i)
accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required by generally
accepted accounting principles, or (ii) Fiscal Year.
(j) Speculative
Transactions. Engage,
or permit any of its Subsidiaries to engage, in any transaction involving
commodity options or futures contracts or any similar speculative
transactions.
(k) Payment
Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries.
Directly or indirectly, enter into or suffer to exist, or permit any of its
Subsidiaries to enter into or suffer to exist, any agreement or arrangement
limiting the ability of any of its Subsidiaries to declare or pay dividends or
other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests or repay or prepay any
Debt owed to, make loans or advances to, or otherwise transfer assets to or
invest in, the Revolving Credit Borrower or any
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Subsidiary
of the Revolving Credit Borrower (whether through a covenant restricting
dividends, loans, asset transfers or investments, a financial covenant or
otherwise), except (i) the Loan Documents, (ii) any agreement or instrument
evidencing Surviving Debt or Debt permitted under 5.02(b) existing on the
Effective Date (including the Park Place Facility), (iii) any agreement in
effect at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit
Borrower, so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation
of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower, (iv) any
restrictions with respect to any Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower
imposed pursuant to an agreement which has been entered into for the sale or
disposition of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests or assets of
such Subsidiary to an unaffiliated Person that is not prohibited by Section
5.02(e), (v) any restrictions with respect to any Subsidiary of the Revolving
Credit Borrower that is not a Loan Party, all or substantially all of whose
assets consist of property encumbered by Liens permitted under subsection
5.02(a), (vi) restrictions imposed by applicable laws, (vii) restrictions under
leases of, or mortgages and other agreements relating to Liens on, specified
property or assets limiting or prohibiting transfers of such property or assets
(including, without limitation, non-assignment clauses, due-on-sale clauses and
clauses prohibiting junior Liens), (viii) restrictions under Permitted
Construction Financing or Mortgage Financing incurred by Subsidiaries of the
Revolving Credit Borrower that are not Loan Parties, and (ix) any restrictions
existing under any agreement that amends, refinances or replaces any agreement
containing restrictions permitted under the preceding clauses (i) through
(viii), provided
that the
terms and conditions of any such agreement, as they relate to any such
restrictions, are no less favorable to General Partner, the Borrowers and such
Subsidiaries, as applicable, taken as a whole, than those under the agreement so
amended, refinanced or replaced.
(l) Amendment,
Etc., of Material Contracts. Cancel
or terminate any Material Contract or consent to or accept any cancellation or
termination thereof, amend or otherwise modify any Material Contract or give any
consent, waiver or approval thereunder, waive any default under or breach of any
Material Contract, agree in any manner to any other amendment, modification or
change of any term or condition of any Material Contract or take any other
action in connection with any Material Contract that would materially impair the
value of the interest or rights of any Loan Party thereunder or that would
materially impair the interest or rights of the Administrative Agent or any
Lender Party, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do any of the
foregoing.
(m) Negative
Pledge. Enter
into or suffer to exist, or permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to enter into or
suffer to exist, any agreement prohibiting or conditioning the creation or
assumption of any Lien upon any of its property or assets except (i) in favor of
the Secured Parties or (ii) in connection with (A) any Surviving Debt and any
Refinancing Debt extending, refunding or refinancing such Surviving Debt, (B)
any purchase money Debt permitted by Section 5.02(b)(ii) solely to the extent
that the agreement or instrument governing such Debt prohibits a Lien on the
property acquired with the proceeds of such Debt, (C) any Capitalized Lease
permitted by Section 5.02(b)(iii) solely to the extent that such Capitalized
Lease prohibits a Lien on the property subject thereto, (D) any Debt outstanding
on the date any Person first becomes a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit
Borrower (so long as such agreement was not entered into solely in contemplation
of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Revolving Credit Borrower) or (E)
any Mortgage Financing or Permitted Construction Financing in respect of the
Real Property owned by such Subsidiary Guarantor to the extent such Mortgage
Financing or Permitted Construction Financing is permitted under this
Agreement.
(n) Non-Guarantor
Subsidiary Agreements. Enter
into or suffer to exist, or permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to enter into a
Non-Guarantor Subsidiary Agreement, except in connection with a Mortgage
Financing or Permitted Construction Financing, in each case that is permitted
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under
Section 5.02(b), and as to which such Subsidiary Guarantor has complied with the
requirements of Section 8.08.
(o) General
Partner as Holding Company.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the General Partner
shall not enter into or conduct any business, or engage in any activity
(including, without limitation, any action or transaction that is required or
restricted with respect to the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries
under Sections 5.01 and 5.02 without regard to any of the enumerated exceptions
to such covenants, except to the extent specifically applicable to the General
Partner), other than (i) the holding of the Equity Interests of the Revolving
Credit Borrower; (ii) the performance of its duties as general partner of the
Revolving Credit Borrower; (iii) the performance of its Obligations (subject to
the limitations set forth in this Agreement) under this Agreement and its
obligations under agreements in existence on the Effective Date (including its
Guarantee Obligations in respect of the Park Place Facility); (iv) the making of
equity Investments in the Revolving Credit Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
provided each
such Investment (A) shall be on terms acceptable to the Administrative Agent and
(B) shall be evidenced by stock certificates, promissory notes or instruments in
form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (v) the maintenance
of any deposit accounts required in connection with the conduct by the General
Partner of business or activities otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents;
(vi) activities reasonably required to maintain its status as a REIT; and (vii)
activities incidental to each of the foregoing.
SECTION
5.03. Reporting
Requirements
. So long
as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document
shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender
Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Loan Parties will furnish to the
Administrative Agent (for distribution promptly to the Lender
Parties):
(a) Default
Notice. As soon
as possible and in any event within two days after any Borrower has or should
have had knowledge of the occurrence of each Default or any event, development
or occurrence reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect continuing on
the date of such statement, a statement of the chief financial officer of the
Applicable Borrower setting forth details of such Default and the action that
such Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
(b) Annual
Financials.
As soon
as available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year,
a copy of the annual audit report for such year for the General Partner and its
Subsidiaries, including therein Consolidated balance sheets of the General
Partner and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Year and Consolidated
statements of income, a Consolidated statement of cash flows and stockholders’
equity of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, in each
case accompanied by (i) an opinion acceptable to the Required Lenders of KPMG
LLP or other independent public accountants (without a “going concern” or like
qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the
scope of such audit) and (ii) a report of such independent public accountants as
to the General Counsel’s internal controls required under Section 404 of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 certified in a manner to which the Required Lenders
have not objected, together with (x) a certificate of such accounting firm
to the Lender Parties stating that in the course of the regular audit of the
business of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries, which audit was conducted
by such accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards, such accounting firm has obtained no knowledge that a Default has
occurred and is continuing, or if, in the opinion of such accounting firm, a
Default has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the
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nature
thereof, (y) a schedule in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of
the computations used by such accountants in determining, as of the end of such
Fiscal Year, compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.04,
provided that in
the event of any change in GAAP used in the preparation of such financial
statements, the General Partner shall also provide a statement of reconciliation
conforming such financial statements to GAAP and (z) a certificate of the
chief financial officer (or person performing similar functions) of the General
Partner stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a default
has occurred and is continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the
action that the General Partner has taken and proposes to take with respect
thereto.
(c) Quarterly
Financials.
As soon
as available and in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first
three quarters of each Fiscal Year, Consolidated balance sheets of the General
Partner and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and Consolidated
statements of income, a Consolidated statement of cash flows and stockholders’
equity of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries for the period commencing at
the end of the previous fiscal quarter and ending with the end of such fiscal
quarter and Consolidated statements of income , a Consolidated statement of cash
flows and stockholders’ equity of the General Partner and its Subsidiaries for
the period commencing at the end of the previous Fiscal Year and ending with the
end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
corresponding figures for the corresponding date or period of the preceding
Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and duly certified (subject to normal
year-end audit adjustments) by the chief financial officer (or person performing
similar functions) of the General Partner as having been prepared in accordance
with GAAP, together with (i) a certificate of said officer stating that no
Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default has occurred and is
continuing, a statement as to the nature thereof and the action that the General
Partner has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto and (ii) a
schedule in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of the computations
used by the General Partner in determining compliance with the covenants
contained in Section 5.04, provided that in
the event of any change in GAAP used in the preparation of such financial
statements, the General Partner shall also provide a statement of reconciliation
conforming such financial statements to GAAP.
(d) Annual
Forecasts. As soon
as available and in any event no later than 30 days following the end of each
Fiscal Year, forecasts prepared by management of the General Partner, in form
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of balance sheets, income statements
and cash flow statements on a monthly basis for the Fiscal Year following such
Fiscal Year and on a quarterly basis for each Fiscal Year thereafter until the
Termination Date.
(e) Litigation.
Promptly after the commencement thereof, notice of all actions, suits,
investigations, litigation and proceedings before any Governmental Authority
affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of the type described in
Section 4.01(f), and promptly after the occurrence thereof, notice of any
material adverse change in the status or the financial effect on any Loan Party
or any of its Subsidiaries of the Disclosed Litigation from that described on
Schedule 4.01(f) hereto.
(f) Environmental
Conditions.
Promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice of any Environmental
Action against or of any noncompliance by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit that could
(i) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or
(ii) cause any property described in the Mortgages to be subject to any
restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any
Environmental Law.
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(g) Real
Property. As soon
as available and in any event within 30 days after the end of each Fiscal Year,
a report supplementing Schedules 4.01(t) and 4.01(u)(i) and (ii) hereto,
including an identification of all Owned Real Property and Leased Real Property
disposed of by the Revolving Credit Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during
such Fiscal Year, a list and description (containing the applicable items set
forth in Section 4.01(t) and 4.01(u)(i)) of all Real Property acquired or leased
during such Fiscal Year and a description of such other changes in the
information included in such Schedules as may be necessary for such Schedules to
be accurate and complete.
(h) Insurance. As soon
as available and in any event within 30 days after the end of each Fiscal Year,
a report summarizing the insurance coverage (specifying type, amount and
carrier) in effect for each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries and containing such
additional information as any Agent, or any Lender Party through the
Administrative Agent, may reasonably specify.
(i) Other
Information. Such
other information respecting the business, condition (financial or otherwise),
operations, performance, properties or prospects of any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries as any Agent, or any Lender Party through the Administrative Agent,
may from time to time reasonably request.
SECTION
5.04. Financial
Covenants
. So long
as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document
shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or any Lender
Party shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Revolving Credit Borrower
will:
(a) Maximum
Total Leverage Ratio.
Maintain a Leverage Ratio of not more than the amount set forth below for each
fiscal quarter of the General Partner ending during each period set forth
below:
Period
Ending |
Ratio |
March
31, 2005 through December 31, 2005 |
0.725:1.00 |
March
31, 2006 through December 31, 2006 |
0.700:1.00 |
March
31, 2007 through December 31, 2007 |
0.625:1.00 |
March
31, 2008 and thereafter |
0.600:1.00 |
(b) Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio.
Maintain for each period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the General
Partner ending during the periods set forth below a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
of not less than the amount set forth below for such period:
Period
Ending |
Ratio |
March
31, 2005 through December 31, 2006 |
1.50:1.00 |
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March
31, 2007 through December 31, 2007 |
1.55:1.00 |
March
31, 2008 and thereafter |
1.75:1.00 |
(c) Interest
Coverage Ratio.
Maintain for each period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the General
Partner ending during the periods set forth below an Interest Coverage Ratio of
not less than the amount set forth below for such period:
Period
Ending |
Ratio |
March
31, 2005 through December 31, 2006 |
1.75:1.00 |
March
31, 2007 through December 31, 2007 |
1.80:1.00 |
March
31, 2008 and thereafter |
2.00:1.00 |
(d) Tangible
Net Worth.
Maintain at all times an excess of Consolidated total tangible assets over
Consolidated total liabilities, in each case, of the Revolving Credit Borrower
and its Subsidiaries of not less than $500,000,000.
ARTICLE
VI
EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
SECTION
6.01. Events of
Default
. If any
of the following events (“Events
of Default”) shall
occur and be continuing:
(a) (i)
either Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Advance when the same
shall become due and payable or (ii) either Borrower shall fail to pay any
interest on any Advance, or any Loan Party shall fail to make any other payment
under any Loan Document, in each case under this clause (ii) within three
Business Days after the same shall become due and payable; or
(b) any
representation or warranty made by any Loan Party (or any of its officers) under
or in connection with any Loan Document shall prove to have been incorrect in
any material respect when made; or
(c) either
Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement
contained in Xxxxxxx 0.00, 0.00(x), (x), (x), (x), (x) or (p), 5.02, 5.03
or 5.04; or
(d) any Loan
Party shall fail to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement
contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed if such
failure shall remain unremedied for 15 days after the earlier of the date on
which (i) any officer of
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a Loan
Party becomes aware of such failure or (ii) written notice thereof shall
have been given to the Borrowers by any Agent or any Lender Party;
or
(e) any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to pay any principal of, premium or
interest on or any other amount payable in respect of any Debt of such Loan
Party or such Subsidiary (as the case may be) that is outstanding in a principal
amount (or, in the case of any Hedge Agreement, an Agreement Value) of at least
$15,000,000 either individually or in the aggregate for all such Loan Parties
and Subsidiaries (but excluding Debt outstanding hereunder), when the same
becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment,
acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the
applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument
relating to such Debt; or any other event shall occur or condition shall exist
under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Debt and shall continue
after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or
instrument, if the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to
permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Debt or otherwise to cause, or
to permit the holder thereof to cause, such Debt to mature; or any such Debt
shall be declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid or redeemed
(other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment or redemption),
purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such
Debt shall be required to be made, in each case prior to the stated maturity
thereof; or
(f) any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall generally not pay its debts as such debts
become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally,
or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any
proceeding shall be instituted by or against any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking
liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection,
relief, or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an
order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee or other similar
official for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of
any such proceeding instituted against it (but not instituted by it) that is
being diligently contested by it in good faith, either such proceeding shall
remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 30 days or any of the actions
sought in such proceeding (including, without limitation, the entry of an order
for relief against, or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or
other similar official for, it or any substantial part of its property) shall
occur; or any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall take any corporate
action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in this
subsection (f); or
(g) any
judgments or orders, either individually or in the aggregate, for the payment of
money in excess of $15,000,000 shall be rendered against any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been
commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order or (ii) there shall
be any period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such
judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in
effect; provided,
however, that
any such judgment or order shall not give rise to an Event of Default under this
Section 6.01(g) if and for so long as (x) the amount of such judgment or order
is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance between the defendant and
an insurer, which shall be rated at least “A” by A.M. Best Company and (y) such
insurer has been notified, and has not disputed the claim made for payment, of
the amount of such judgment or order; or
(h) any
non-monetary judgment or order shall be rendered against any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries that could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect, and there
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shall be
any period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such
judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in
effect; or
(i) any Loan
Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 3.01 or 5.01(j) shall
for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable in any material
respect against any Loan Party party to it, or any such Loan Party shall so
state in writing; or
(j) any
Collateral Document or financing statement after delivery thereof pursuant to
Section 3.01 or 5.01(j) shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the
terms thereof) cease to create a valid and perfected first priority lien on and
security interest in the Collateral purported to be covered thereby with respect
to Collateral with a value in excess of $5,000,000; or
(k) a Change
of Control shall occur; or
(l) any ERISA
Event shall have occurred with respect to a Plan and the sum (determined as of
the date of occurrence of such ERISA Event) of the Insufficiency of such Plan
and the Insufficiency of any and all other Plans with respect to which an ERISA
Event shall have occurred and then exist (or the liability of the Loan Parties
and the ERISA Affiliates related to such ERISA Event) exceeds $15,000,000;
or
(m) any Loan
Party or any ERISA Affiliate shall have been notified by the sponsor of a
Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred Withdrawal Liability to such
Multiemployer Plan in an amount that, when aggregated with all other amounts
required to be paid to Multiemployer Plans by the Loan Parties and the ERISA
Affiliates as Withdrawal Liability (determined as of the date of such
notification), exceeds $15,000,000 or requires payments exceeding $3,500,000 per
annum; or
(n) any Loan
Party or any ERISA Affiliate shall have been notified by the sponsor of a
Multiemployer Plan that such Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or is being
terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, and as a result of
such reorganization or termination the aggregate annual contributions of the
Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates to all Multiemployer Plans that are then
in reorganization or being terminated have been or will be increased over the
amounts contributed to such Multiemployer Plans for the plan years of such
Multiemployer Plans immediately preceding the plan year in which such
reorganization or termination occurs by an amount exceeding $3,500,000;
or
(o) an “Event
of Default” (as defined in any Mortgage) shall have occurred and be continuing;
then, and
in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request, or
may with the consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrowers,
declare the Commitments of each Lender Party and the obligation of each Lender
Party to make Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances by the Issuing Bank
or a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and Swing Line
Advances by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) and of
the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit to be terminated, whereupon the same
shall forthwith terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or may with the
consent, of the Required Lenders, by notice to the Borrowers, declare the
Advances, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be forthwith due and payable,
whereupon the Advances, all such interest and all such amounts shall become and
be forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or further
notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by either Borrower;
provided,
however, that in
the event of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to
either Borrower under the Federal Bankruptcy Code,
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(x) the
Commitments of each Lender Party and the obligation of each Lender Party to make
Advances (other than Letter of Credit Advances by the Issuing Bank or a
Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(c) and Swing Line Advances
by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Section 2.02(b)) and of the
Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit shall automatically be terminated and
(y) the Advances, all such interest and all such amounts shall
automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by
each Borrower.
SECTION
6.02. Actions
in Respect of the Letters of Credit upon Default
. If any
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent
may, or shall at the request of the Required Lenders, irrespective of whether it
is taking any of the actions described in Section 6.01 or otherwise, make
demand upon the Revolving Credit Borrower to, and forthwith upon such demand the
Revolving Credit Borrower will, pay to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the
Lender Parties in same day funds at the Collateral Agent’s Office, for deposit
in the Collateral Account, an amount equal to the aggregate Available Amount of
all Letters of Credit then outstanding; provided,
however, that in
the event of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to
the Revolving Credit Borrower under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the Revolving
Credit Borrower shall be obligated to pay to the Collateral Agent on behalf of
the Lender Parties in same day funds at the Collateral Agent’s Office, for
deposit in the Collateral Account, an amount equal to the aggregate Available
Amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding, without presentment, demand,
protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by
the Revolving Credit Borrower. If at any time the Administrative Agent or the
Collateral Agent determines that any funds held in the Collateral Account are
subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Agents and the Lender
Parties or that the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate
Available Amount of all Letters of Credit, the Revolving Credit Borrower will,
forthwith upon demand by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, pay
to the Collateral Agent, as additional funds to be deposited and held in the
Collateral Account, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such aggregate
Available Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held in
the Collateral Account that the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as
the case may be, determines to be free and clear of any such right and claim.
Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit in the
Collateral Account, such funds shall be applied to reimburse the Issuing Bank or
Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable, to the extent permitted by applicable
law.
ARTICLE
VII
THE
AGENTS
SECTION
7.01. Authorization
and Action
. (a)
Each Lender Party (in its capacities as a Lender, the Swing Line Bank (if
applicable), the Issuing Bank (if applicable) and on behalf of itself and its
Affiliates as potential Hedge Banks) hereby appoints and authorizes each Agent
to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and
discretion under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated to
such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and
discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly
provided for by the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement
or collection of the Advances), no Agent shall be required to exercise any
discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from
acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting)
upon the instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall be
binding upon all Lender Parties, all Hedge Banks and all holders of Notes;
provided,
however, that no
Agent shall be required to take any action that exposes such Agent to personal
liability or that is contrary
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to this
Agreement or applicable law. Each Agent agrees to give to each Lender Party
prompt notice of each notice given to it by either Borrower pursuant to the
terms of this Agreement.
(b) In
furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender Party (in its capacities as a Lender,
the Swing Line Bank (if applicable), the Issuing Bank (if applicable) and on
behalf of itself and its Affiliates as potential Hedge Banks) hereby appoints
and authorizes the Collateral Agent to act as the agent of such Lender Party for
purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral
granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Secured Obligations,
together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto.
In this connection, the Collateral Agent (and any Supplemental Collateral Agents
appointed by the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 7.01(c) for purposes of
holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted
under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights or remedies
thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Agent), shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Article VII (including, without limitation, Section 7.05 as
though any such Supplemental Collateral Agents were an “Agent” under the Loan
Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
(c) Any Agent
may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document
(including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or
any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any
rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Agent) by or
through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice
of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to
such duties. The Collateral Agent may also from time to time, when the
Collateral Agent deems it to be necessary or desirable, appoint one or more
trustees, co-trustees, collateral co-agents, collateral subagents or
attorneys-in-fact (each, a “Supplemental
Collateral Agent”) with
respect to all or any part of the Collateral; provided,
however, that no
such Supplemental Collateral Agent shall be authorized to take any action with
respect to any Collateral unless and except to the extent expressly authorized
in writing by the Collateral Agent. Should any instrument in writing from either
Borrower or any other Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Collateral
Agent so appointed by the Collateral Agent to more fully or certainly vest in
and confirm to such Supplemental Collateral Agent such rights, powers,
privileges and duties, such Borrower shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to,
execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon
request by the Collateral Agent. If any Supplemental Collateral Agent, or
successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed,
all rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Collateral Agent,
to the extent permitted by law, shall automatically vest in and be exercised by
the Collateral Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Collateral
Agent. No Agent shall be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any
agent, attorney-in-fact or Supplemental Collateral Agent that it selects in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.01(c) in the absence
of such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION
7.02. Agents’
Reliance, Etc
.
Neither
any Agent nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees
shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under
or in connection with the Loan Documents, except for its or their own gross
negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of the
foregoing, each Agent: (a) may consult with legal counsel (including
counsel for any Loan Party), independent public accountants and other experts
selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be
taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel,
accountants or experts; (b) makes no warranty or representation to any
Lender Party and shall not be responsible to any Lender Party for any
statements, warranties or representations (whether written or oral) made in or
in connection with the Loan Documents; (c) shall not have any duty to
ascertain or to inquire as to the performance, observance or satisfaction of any
of the terms, covenants or conditions of any Loan Document on the part of any
Loan Party or the existence at any time of any Default under the Loan
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Documents
or to inspect the property (including the books and records) of any Loan Party;
(d) shall not be responsible to any Lender Party for the due execution,
legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the
perfection or priority of any lien or security interest created or purported to
be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document or any other
instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto; and (e) shall incur no
liability under or in respect of any Loan Document by acting upon any notice,
consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telegram or
telecopy) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or
parties.
SECTION
7.03. CSFB and
Affiliates
. With
respect to its Commitments, the Advances made by it and any Notes issued to it,
CSFB shall have the same rights and powers under the Loan Documents as any other
Lender Party and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent; and the
term “Lender Party” or “Lender Parties” shall, unless otherwise expressly
indicated, include CSFB its individual capacities. CSFB and its affiliates may
accept deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept
investment banking engagements from and generally engage in any kind of business
with, any Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries and any Person that may do
business with or own securities of any Loan Party or any such Subsidiary, all as
if CSFB were not an Agent and without any duty to account therefor to the Lender
Parties. No Agent shall have any duty to disclose any information obtained or
received by it or any of its Affiliates relating to any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries to the extent such information was obtained or received in any
capacity other than as such Agent.
SECTION
7.04. Lender
Party Credit Decision
. Each
Lender Party acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon
any Agent or any other Lender Party and based on the financial statements
referred to in Section 4.01 and such other documents and information as it
has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
this Agreement. Each Lender Party also acknowledges that it will, independently
and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender Party and based on such
documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to
make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this
Agreement.
SECTION
7.05. Indemnification
. (a)
Each Lender Party severally agrees to indemnify each Agent (to the extent not
promptly reimbursed by the Borrowers) from and against such Lender Party’s
ratable share (determined as provided below) of any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed
on, incurred by, or asserted against such Agent in any way relating to or
arising out of the Loan Documents or any action taken or omitted by such Agent
under the Loan Documents (collectively, the “Indemnified
Costs”);
provided,
however, that no
Lender Party shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements resulting from such Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct
as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender Party agrees to
reimburse each Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any costs and
expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel) payable
by the Borrowers under Section 9.04, to the extent that such Agent is not
promptly reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the Borrowers. In the case of
any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified
Costs, this Section 7.05 applies whether any such investigation, litigation
or proceeding is brought by any Lender Party or any other Person.
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(b) Each
Lender Party severally agrees to indemnify the Issuing Bank (to the extent not
promptly reimbursed by the Revolving Credit Borrower) from and against such
Lender Party’s ratable share (determined as provided below) of any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be
imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Issuing Bank in any way
relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents or any action taken or omitted
by the Issuing Bank under the Loan Documents; provided,
however, that no
Lender Party shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements resulting from the Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or willful
misconduct as found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender Party agrees to
reimburse the Issuing Bank promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any
costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of counsel)
payable by the Borrowers under Section 9.04, to the extent that the Issuing Bank
is not promptly reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the
Borrowers.
(c) For
purposes of this Section 7.05, each Lender Party’s respective ratable share
of any amount shall be determined, at any time, according to the sum of
(i) the aggregate principal amount of the Advances outstanding at such time
and owing to such Lender Party, (ii) such Lender Party’s Pro Rata Share of
the aggregate Available Amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such
time, (iii) the aggregate unused portions of such Lender Party’s Term B
Commitments at such time and (iv) such Lender Party’s Unused Revolving
Credit Commitments at such time; provided that the
aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Advances owing to the Swing Line Bank
and of Letter of Credit Advances owing to the Issuing Bank shall be considered
to be owed to the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their
respective Revolving Credit Commitments. The failure of any Lender Party to
reimburse any Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, promptly upon
demand for its ratable share of any amount required to be paid by the Lender
Parties to such Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, as provided
herein shall not relieve any other Lender Party of its obligation hereunder to
reimburse such Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for its ratable
share of such amount, but no Lender Party shall be responsible for the failure
of any other Lender Party to reimburse such Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the
case may be, for such other Lender Party’s ratable share of such amount. Without
prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any Lender Party hereunder,
the agreement and obligations of each Lender Party contained in this
Section 7.05 shall survive the payment in full of principal, interest and
all other amounts payable hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents.
SECTION
7.06. Successor
Agents.
(a) Any
Agent may resign as to any or all of the Facilities at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Lender Parties and the Borrowers and may be
removed as to all of the Facilities at any time with or without cause by the
Required Lenders; provided,
however, that
any removal of the Administrative Agent will not be effective until it has also
been replaced as Collateral Agent, Swing Line Bank and Issuing Bank and released
from all of its obligations in respect thereof. Upon any such resignation or
removal, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent
as to such of the Facilities as to which such Agent has resigned or been
removed, which appointment shall, provided that no Default has occurred and is
continuing, be subject to the consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed. If no successor Agent shall have been so
appointed by the Required Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment,
within 30 days after the retiring Agent’s giving of notice of resignation or the
Required Lenders’ removal of the retiring Agent, then the retiring Agent may, on
behalf of the Lender Parties, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or of any State
thereof and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000,
which appointment shall, provided that no Default has occurred and is
continuing, be subject to the consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld or
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delayed.
Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent
as to all of the Facilities and, in the case of a successor Collateral Agent,
upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or
amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and
such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the
Required Lenders may request, in order to continue the perfection of the Liens
granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents, such successor
Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers,
discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent
shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents.
Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent
as to less than all of the Facilities and, in the case of a successor Collateral
Agent, upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements,
or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and
such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the
Required Lenders may request, in order to continue the perfection of the Liens
granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents, such successor
Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers,
discretion, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent as to such Facilities,
other than with respect to funds transfers and other similar aspects of the
administration of Borrowings under such Facilities, issuances of Letters of
Credit (notwithstanding any resignation as Agent with respect to the Letter of
Credit Facility) and payments by the Borrowers in respect of such Facilities,
and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and
obligations under this Agreement as to such Facilities, other than as aforesaid.
If within 45 days after written notice is given of the retiring Agent’s
resignation or removal under this Section 7.06 no successor Agent shall have
been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment, then on such
45th day
(a) the retiring Agent’s resignation or removal shall become effective,
(b) the retiring Agent shall thereupon be discharged from its duties and
obligations under the Loan Documents and (c) the Required Lenders shall
thereafter perform all duties of the retiring Agent under the Loan Documents
until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as
provided above. After any retiring Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as
Agent as to any of the Facilities shall have become effective, the provisions of
this Article VII shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or
omitted to be taken by it while it was Agent as to such Facilities under this
Agreement.
SECTION
7.07. Other
Agents; Arrangers and Managers.
None of
the Lender Parties or other Persons identified on the facing page or signature
pages of this Agreement as a “syndication agent,” “documentation agent,”
“bookrunner,” or “lead arranger” shall have any right, power, obligation,
liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than to the extent
expressly set forth herein and, in the case of such Lenders, those applicable to
all Lender Parties as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lender
Parties or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any
fiduciary relationship with any Lender. Each Lender Party acknowledges that it
has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lender Parties or other Persons
so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not
taking action hereunder.
ARTICLE
VIII
GUARANTY
SECTION
8.01. Guaranty; Limitation of Liability.
(a)
Each
Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby absolutely, unconditionally and
irrevocably guarantees the punctual payment when due, whether at scheduled
maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by acceleration, demand or
otherwise, of all Obligations of each other Loan Party now or hereafter existing
under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any
extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all
of the foregoing
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Obligations),
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal,
interest, premiums, fees, indemnities, contract causes of action, costs,
expenses or otherwise (such Obligations being the “Guaranteed
Obligations”), and
agrees to pay any and all expenses (including, without limitation, fees and
expenses of counsel) incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other Lender
Party in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor’s liability
shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations
and would be owed by any other Loan Party to any Lender Party under or in
respect of the Loan Documents but for the fact that they are unenforceable or
not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar
proceeding involving such other Loan Party.
(b) Each
Guarantor, and by its acceptance of this Guaranty, the Administrative Agent and
each other Lender Party, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such
Persons that this Guaranty and the Obligations of the Term B Borrower (in
respect of the Obligations of the Revolving Credit Borrower) and each
Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder not constitute a fraudulent transfer or
conveyance for purposes of Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance
Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or
state law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Obligations of the
Term B Borrower (in respect of the Obligations of the Revolving Credit Borrower)
and each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention,
the Administrative Agent, the other Lender Parties and the Guarantors hereby
irrevocably agree that the Obligations of the Term B Borrower (in respect of the
Obligations of the Revolving Credit Borrower) and each Subsidiary Guarantor
under this Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will
result in the Obligations of the Term B Borrower (in respect of the Obligations
of the Revolving Credit Borrower) or such Guarantor under this Guaranty not
constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
(c) Each
Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that in the event any
payment shall be required to be made to any Lender Party under this Guaranty or
any other guaranty, such Guarantor will contribute, to the maximum extent
permitted by law, such amounts to each other Guarantor and each other guarantor
so as to maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Lender Parties under or in
respect of the Loan Documents.
SECTION
8.02. Guaranty
Absolute.
Each
Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in
accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, regardless of any law,
regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any
of such terms or the rights of any Lender Party with respect thereto. The
Obligations of each Guarantor under or in respect of this Guaranty are
independent of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any other
Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan Documents, and a separate action or
actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce this
Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against either Borrower
or any other Loan Party or whether either Borrower or any other Loan Party is
joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under this
Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and
each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or
hereafter acquire in any way relating to, any or all of the
following:
(a) any lack
of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or
instrument relating thereto;
(b) any
change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all
or any of the Guaranteed Obligations
or any other Obligations of any other Loan Party under or in respect of the Loan
Documents, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from
any Loan
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Document,
including, without limitation, any increase in the Guaranteed Obligations
resulting from the extension of additional credit to any Loan Party or any of
its Subsidiaries or otherwise;
(c) any
taking, exchange, release or non-perfection of any Collateral or any other
collateral, or any taking, release or amendment
or waiver of, or consent to departure from, any other guaranty, for all or any
of the Guaranteed Obligations;
(d) any
manner
of application of Collateral or any other collateral, or proceeds thereof, to
all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any manner of sale or other
disposition of any Collateral or any other collateral for all or any of the
Guaranteed Obligations or any other Obligations of any Loan Party under the Loan
Documents or any other assets of any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(e) any
change, restructuring
or termination of the corporate structure or existence of any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries;
(f) any
failure of any Lender Party to disclose to any Loan Party any information
relating to the business, condition (financial
or otherwise), operations, performance, properties or prospects of any other
Loan Party now or hereafter known to such Lender Party (each Guarantor waiving
any duty on the part of the Lender Parties to disclose such
information);
(g) the
failure of any other Person to execute or deliver this Guaranty, any Guaranty
Supplement or any other guaranty or agreement
or the release or reduction of liability of any Guarantor or other guarantor or
surety with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; or
(h) any
other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations)
or any existence of or reliance on any representation by any Lender Party that
might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan
Party or any other guarantor or surety.
This
Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if
at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or
must otherwise be returned by any Lender Party or any other Person upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of either Borrower or any other Loan
Party or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
SECTION
8.03. Waivers
and Acknowledgments.
(a) Each
Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives promptness, diligence,
notice of acceptance, presentment, demand for performance, notice of
nonperformance, default, acceleration, protest or dishonor and any other notice
with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty and any
requirement that any Lender Party protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien or
any property subject thereto or exhaust any right or take any action against any
Loan Party or any other Person or any Collateral.
(b) Each
Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any right to revoke this
Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies
to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether existing now or in the
future.
(c) Each
Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i) any defense
arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by
any Lender Party that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise
adversely affects the subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or
indemnification rights of such Guarantor or other rights of such Guarantor to
proceed against any of the other Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other
Person or any Collateral
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and
(ii) any defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against or
in respect of the Obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
(d) Each
Guarantor acknowledges that the Collateral Agent may, without notice to or
demand upon such Guarantor and without affecting the liability of such Guarantor
under this Guaranty, foreclose under any mortgage by nonjudicial sale, and each
Guarantor hereby waives any defense to the recovery by the Collateral Agent and
the other Lender Parties against such Guarantor of any deficiency after such
nonjudicial sale and any defense or benefits that may be afforded by Sections
580a and 580d of the California Code of Civil Procedure or any statute or law in
any other jurisdiction having similar effect.
(e) Each
Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any duty on the part of
any Lender Party to disclose to such Guarantor any matter, fact or thing
relating to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations,
performance, properties or prospects of any other Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries now or hereafter known by such Lender Party.
(f) Each
Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive substantial direct and indirect
benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Loan Documents and
that the waivers set forth in Section 8.02 and this Section 8.03 are
knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION
8.04. Subrogation.
Each
Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees not to exercise any
rights that it may now have or hereafter acquire against either Borrower, any
other Loan Party or any other insider guarantor that arise from the existence,
payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s Obligations under or in
respect of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document, including, without
limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution
or indemnification and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of any
Lender Party against either Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other insider
guarantor or any Collateral, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises
in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including, without
limitation, the right to take or receive from either Borrower, any other Loan
Party or any other insider guarantor, directly or indirectly, in cash or other
property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of
such claim, remedy or right, unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations
and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full
in cash, all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements shall have
expired or been terminated and the Commitments shall have expired or been
terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the
immediately preceding sentence at any time prior to the latest of (a) the
payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Guaranty, (b) the Termination Date and (c) the latest
date of expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge
Agreements, such amount shall be received and held in trust for the benefit of
the Lender Parties, shall be segregated from other property and funds of such
Guarantor and shall forthwith be paid or delivered to the Administrative Agent
in the same form as so received (with any necessary endorsement or assignment)
to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts
payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with
the terms of the Loan Documents, or to be held as Collateral for any Guaranteed
Obligations or other amounts payable under this Guaranty thereafter arising. If
(i) any Guarantor shall make payment to any Lender Party of all or any part
of the Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) all of the Guaranteed Obligations and
all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been paid in full in
cash and (iii) all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements shall
have expired or been terminated, the Lender Parties will, at such Guarantor’s
request and expense, execute and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate
documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty, necessary to
evidence the transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor of an interest in the
Guaranteed Obligations resulting from such payment made by such Guarantor
pursuant to this Guaranty.
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SECTION
8.05. Guaranty
Supplements
. Upon
the execution and delivery by any Person of a guaranty supplement in
substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto (each, a “Guaranty
Supplement”),
(a) such Person shall be referred to as an “Additional
Guarantor” and
shall become and be a Guarantor hereunder, and each reference in this Guaranty
to a “Guarantor” shall
also mean and be a reference to such Additional Guarantor, and each reference in
any other Loan Document to a “Subsidiary Guarantor” shall also mean and be a
reference to such Additional Guarantor, and (b) each reference herein to
“ this
Guaranty,” “hereunder,” “hereof” or words of like import referring to this
Guaranty, and each reference in any other Loan Document to the “Guaranty,”
“thereunder,” “thereof” or words of like import referring to this Guaranty,
shall mean and be a reference to this Guaranty as supplemented by such Guaranty
Supplement.
SECTION
8.06. Subordination.
Each
Guarantor hereby subordinates any and all debts, liabilities and other
Obligations (other than ordinary course operating liabilities) owed to such
Guarantor by each other Loan Party (the “Subordinated
Obligations”) to the
Guaranteed Obligations to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in
this Section 8.06:
(a) Prohibited
Payments, Etc. Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Guarantor may receive
payments from any other Loan Party on account of the Subordinated Obligations.
After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, however,
unless the Required Lenders otherwise agree, no Guarantor shall demand, accept
or take any action to collect any payment on account of the Subordinated
Obligations.
(b) Prior
Payment of Guaranteed Obligations.
In any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law relating to any other Loan Party,
each Guarantor agrees that the Lender Parties shall be entitled to receive
payment in full in cash of all Guaranteed Obligations (including all interest
and expenses accruing after the commencement of a proceeding under any
Bankruptcy Law, whether or not constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding
(“Post-Petition
Interest”))
before such Guarantor receives payment of any Subordinated
Obligations.
(c) Turn-Over.
After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, each Guarantor
shall, if the Administrative Agent so requests, collect, enforce and receive
payments on account of the Subordinated Obligations as trustee for the Lender
Parties and deliver such payments to the Administrative Agent on account of the
Guaranteed Obligations (including all Post-Petition Interest), together with any
necessary endorsements or other instruments of transfer, but without reducing or
affecting in any manner the liability of such Guarantor under the other
provisions of this Guaranty.
(d) Administrative
Agent Authorization.
After the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, the
Administrative Agent is authorized and empowered (but without any obligation to
so do), in its discretion, (i) in the name of each Guarantor, to collect and
enforce, and to submit claims in respect of, the Subordinated Obligations and to
apply any amounts received thereon to the Guaranteed Obligations (including any
and all Post-Petition Interest), and (ii) to require each Guarantor (A) to
collect and enforce, and to submit claims in respect of, Subordinated
Obligations and (B) to pay any amounts received on such obligations to the
Administrative Agent for application to the Guaranteed Obligations (including
any and all Post-Petition Interest).
SECTION
8.07. Continuing
Guaranty; Assignments.
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(a) This
Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and
effect until the latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the
Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, (ii)
the Termination Date and (iii) the latest date of expiration or termination
of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, (b) be binding
upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure to the
benefit of and be enforceable by the Lender Parties and their successors,
transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of clause (c) of
the immediately preceding sentence, any Lender Party may assign or otherwise
transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including, without limitation, all or any portion of its Commitments, the
Advances owing to it and any Note or Notes held by it) to any other Person, and
such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect
thereof granted to such Lender Party herein or otherwise, in each case as and to
the extent provided in Section 9.07. No Guarantor shall have the right to
assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written
consent of the Secured Parties.
SECTION
8.08. Release
of Certain Guarantors.
If in
connection with the incurrence of any Mortgage Financing or Permitted
Construction Financing, any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than the Term B
Borrower) that owns the Real Property that is the subject of such Mortgage
Financing or Permitted Construction Financing, as the case may be, is required
by the terms of such Mortgage Financing or Permitted Construction Financing, as
the case may be, to cease to be a Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder, the
Administrative Agent shall be authorized to release such Subsidiary Guarantor
from its Obligations hereunder and to take such action as such Subsidiary
Guarantor shall reasonably request, at such Subsidiary Guarantor’s expense, to
evidence such release; provided,
however, that (a)
such Subsidiary Guarantor shall have used commercially reasonable efforts to
obtain the consent of the applicable construction lender(s) to the Subsidiary
Guaranty and (b) the Borrowers or such Subsidiary Guarantor shall have made any
required prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(b).
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION
9.01. Amendments,
Etc.
No
amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, nor consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, shall in any
event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed (or, in the
case of the Collateral Documents, consented to) by the Required Lenders, and
then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and
for the specific purpose for which given; provided,
however, that
(a) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by
all of the Lender Parties (other than any Lender Party that is, at such time, a
Defaulting Lender), do any of the following at any time:
(i) waive any
of the conditions specified in Section 3.01 or, in the case of the Initial
Extension of Credit, Section 3.02,
(ii) change
the number of Lenders or the percentage of (x) the Commitments, (y) the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Advances or (z) the aggregate Available
Amount of outstanding Letters of Credit that, in each case, shall be required
for the Lenders or any of them to take any action hereunder,
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(iii) other
than in connection with a transaction specifically permitted hereby (including
to the extent permitted by Section 8.08), release one or more Guarantors (or
otherwise limit such Guarantors’ liability with respect to the Obligations owing
to the Agents and the Lender Parties under the Guaranties) if such release or
limitation is in respect of a material portion of the value of the Guaranties to
the Lender Parties,
(iv) other
than in connection with a transaction or transactions specifically permitted
hereby, release all or substantially all the Collateral in any transaction or
series of related transactions,
(v) amend
Section 2.13 or this Section 9.01,
(vi) reduce
the principal of, or interest (other than default interest) on, the Advances or
any fees or other amounts payable hereunder, or
(vii) postpone
any date scheduled for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances
pursuant to Section 2.04 or 2.07 or any date fixed for payment of fees or
other amounts payable hereunder,
and (b)
no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the
Required Lenders and each Lender specified below for such amendment, waiver or
consent:
(A) increase
the Commitments of a Lender Party without the consent of such Lender
Party;
(B) reduce
the principal of, or stated rate of interest on, the Advances owed to a Lender
Party or any fees or other amounts stated to be payable hereunder or under the
other Loan Documents to such Lender Party without the consent of such Lender
Party;
(C) postpone
any date scheduled for any payment of principal of, or interest on, the Advances
pursuant to Section 2.04 or 2.07 or any date fixed for any payment of fees
hereunder to a Lender Party without the consent of such Lender Party;
(D) change
the order of application of any reduction in the Commitments or any prepayment
of Advances among the Facilities from the application thereof set forth in the
applicable provisions of Section 2.05(b) or 2.06(b), respectively, in any
manner that materially adversely affects the Lenders under one Facility without
the consent of holders of a majority of the Commitments or Advances outstanding
under such Facility; or
(E) impose
any additional restrictions on the ability of such Lender to assign its
Commitments and Advances under this Agreement.
provided
further that no
amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing
Line Bank or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, in addition to the Lenders
required above to take such action, affect the rights or obligations of the
Swing Line Bank or of the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, under this
Agreement; and provided
further that no
amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by an Agent in
addition to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or
duties of such Agent under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; and
provided
further that
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall have the right at
any time, in its sole discretion and without the consent of any other Person
party hereto, to designate any Lender as a “syndication agent” or “documentation
agent” or to grant any similar title to any Lender (in each case
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subject
to Section 7.07) and to amend this Agreement solely to reflect such Lender’s
name in such capacity with appropriate changes to the title page and the recital
of parties hereto.
SECTION
9.02. Notices,
Etc.
(a) All
notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be either (x) in
writing (including telegraphic or telecopy communication) and mailed,
telegraphed, telecopied or delivered, or (y) as and to the extent set forth in
Section 9.02(b) and in the proviso to this Section 9.02(a), in an electronic
medium and as delivered as set forth in Section 9.02(b) if to any Loan Party, at
its address at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx,
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to Xxxx Lammas,
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary; if to any Initial Lender
Party, at its Domestic Lending Office specified opposite its name on
Schedule I hereto; if to any other Lender Party, at its Domestic Lending
Office specified in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which it became a
Lender Party; if to the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent, at its
address at Eleven Madison Avenue, New York, New York,
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, or, as to any party, at such other
address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other
parties; provided,
however, that
materials and information described in Section 9.02(b) shall be delivered to the
Administrative Agent in accordance with the provisions thereof or as otherwise
specified to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent. All such notices and
other communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed or telecopied, be effective
when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company or transmitted
by telecopier, respectively, except that notices and communications to any Agent
pursuant to Article II, III or VII shall not be effective until received by
such Agent. Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of a signature
page to any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Notes
or of any Exhibit hereto to be executed and delivered hereunder shall be
effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart thereof. As agreed to
among the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender Parties
from time to time, notices and other communications may also be delivered by
e-mail to the e-mail address of a representative of the applicable Person
provided from time to time by such Person.
(b) The
Collateral Agent shall notify each of the Ground Lessors (as defined in the
Mortgages) of the occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder of which the
Collateral Agent has actual knowledge by registered or certified mail to such
Ground Lessor’s address set forth in the Participation Agreement or Subject
Lease to which it is a party; on the Effective Date the addresses of such Ground
Lessors are: The Pasadena Community Development Commission, 000 X. Xxxxxxxx
Xxx., Xx. 000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000; and The Cerritos Redevelopment
Agency, Civic Center, Bloomfield Avenue at 183rd Street, Cerritos, California
90703, Attention: Executive Director. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the failure of the Collateral Agent to provide such notice to such
Ground Lessors shall not impair or otherwise affect any of the rights and
remedies of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents or applicable
law.
(c) Each
Borrower hereby agrees that it will provide to the Administrative Agent all
information, documents and other materials that it is obligated to furnish to
the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents, including, without
limitation, all notices, requests, financial statements, financial and other
reports, certificates and other information materials, but excluding (i) any
Notice of Borrowing, Notice of Issuance, Notice of Renewal or notice of
Conversion pursuant to Section 2.09, (ii) any notice of any prepayment of the
Advances pursuant to Section 2.06, (iii) any notice of a Default or Event of
Default under this Agreement or (iv) any certificate, agreement or other
document required to be delivered to satisfy any condition set forth in Article
III of this Agreement (all such non-excluded communications being referred to
herein collectively as “Communications”), by
delivering the Communications by e-mail to an e-mail address specified by the
Administrative Agent to such Borrower. In addition, each Borrower agrees to
continue to provide the Communications to the Administrative
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Agent in
the manner specified in the Loan Documents but only to the extent requested by
the Administrative Agent. Each Borrower further agrees that the Administrative
Agent may make the Communications available to the Lenders by posting the
Communications on Intralinks or a
substantially similar electronic transmission system (the
“Platform”).
(d) The
Platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and the Agent
Parties (as defined below) make no representation or warranty of any kind as the
accuracy or completeness of the Communications or as to the adequacy of the
Platform, and expressly disclaim any liability for any errors or omissions in
the Communications. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its
Affiliates or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents,
Advisors or representatives (collectively, the “Agent
Parties”) have
any liability to the Borrowers, any Lender Party or any other Person or entity
for damages of any kind, including, without limitation, any direct or indirect,
special, incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses (whether in
tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of either Borrower’s or the
Administrative Agent’s delivery of any Communications through the internet,
except to the extent the liability of any Agent Party is found in a final
non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
primarily from such Agent Party’s gross negligence or willful
misconduct.
(e) The
Administrative Agent agrees that the receipt of the Communications by the
Administrative Agent at its e-mail address set forth above shall constitute
effective delivery of the Communications to the Administrative Agent for
purposes of the Loan Documents. Each Lender Party agrees that notice to it (as
provided in the next sentence) specifying that the Communications have been
posted to the Platform shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications
to such Lender Party for purposes of the Loan Documents. Each Lender Party
agrees to notify the Administrative Agent in writing (including by e-mail) from
time to time of such Lender Party’s e-mail address to which the foregoing notice
may be sent by electronic transmission and (ii) that the foregoing notice may be
sent to such e-mail address. Nothing herein shall prejudice the right of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender Party to give any notice or other
communication pursuant to any Loan Document in any other manner specified in
such Loan Document.
SECTION
9.03. No
Waiver; Remedies
. No
failure on the part of any Lender Party or any Agent to exercise, and no delay
in exercising, any right hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall
operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of
any remedies provided by law.
SECTION
9.04. Costs and
Expenses
. (a)
Each Borrower agrees to pay on demand (i) all costs and expenses of each
Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration,
modification and amendment of, or any consent or waiver under, the Loan
Documents (including, without limitation, (A) all due diligence, collateral
review, syndication, transportation, computer, duplication, appraisal, audit,
insurance, consultant, search, filing and recording fees and expenses and
(B) the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for each Agent with respect
thereto, with respect to advising such Agent as to its rights and
responsibilities, or the perfection, protection or preservation of rights or
interests, under the Loan Documents, with respect to negotiations with any Loan
Party or with other creditors of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries
arising out of any Default or any events or circumstances that may give rise to
a Default and with respect to presenting claims in or otherwise participating in
or monitoring any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding involving
creditors’ rights generally and any proceeding ancillary thereto) and
(ii) all costs
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and
expenses of each Agent and each Lender Party in connection with the enforcement
of the Loan Documents, whether in any action, suit or litigation, or any
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar proceeding affecting creditors’ rights
generally (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel for the Administrative Agent and each Lender Party with respect
thereto).
(b) Each
Borrower agrees to indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless each Agent, each
Lender Party and each of their Affiliates and their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an “Indemnified
Party”) from
and against, and shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses,
liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any
Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by
reason of (including, without limitation, in connection with any investigation,
litigation or proceeding or preparation of a defense in connection therewith)
(i) the Facilities, the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Advances
or the Letters of Credit, the Transaction Documents or any of the transactions
contemplated thereby, or (ii) the actual or alleged presence of Hazardous
Materials on any property of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any
Environmental Action relating in any way to any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or
expense is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other
proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 9.04(b) applies, such
indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or
proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, shareholders or
creditors or any Indemnified Party or any other Person, whether or not any
Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not the
Transaction is consummated. Each Borrower also agrees not to assert any claim
against any Agent, any Lender Party or any of their Affiliates, or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors, on any theory of
liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages arising out
of or otherwise relating to the Facilities, the actual or proposed use of the
proceeds of the Advances or the Letters of Credit, the Transaction Documents or
any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(c) If any
payment of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurodollar Rate Advance is made
by the Applicable Borrower to or for the account of a Lender Party other than on
the last day of the Interest Period for such Advance, as a result of a payment
or Conversion pursuant to Section 2.06, 2.09(b)(i) or 2.10(d), acceleration
of the maturity of the Advances pursuant to Section 6.01 or for any other
reason, or by an Eligible Assignee to a Lender Party other than on the last day
of the Interest Period for such Advance upon an assignment of rights and
obligations under this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.07 as a result of a
demand by the Applicable Borrower pursuant to Section 2.10(e), or if the
Applicable Borrower fails to make any payment or prepayment of an Advance for
which a notice of prepayment has been given or that is otherwise required to be
made, whether pursuant to Section 2.04, 2.06 or 6.01 or otherwise, the
Applicable Borrower shall, upon demand by such Lender Party (with a copy of such
demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of such Lender Party any amounts required to compensate such Lender
Party for any additional losses, costs or expenses that it may reasonably incur
as a result of such payment or Conversion or such failure to pay or prepay, as
the case may be, including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of
anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or
reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by any Lender Party to fund or
maintain such Advance.
(d) If any
Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by
it under any Loan Document, including, without limitation, fees and expenses of
counsel and indemnities, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender Party, in its sole
discretion.
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(e) Without
prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any Loan Party hereunder or
under any other Loan Document, the agreements and obligations of the Borrowers
contained in Sections 2.10 and 2.12 and this Section 9.04 shall
survive the payment in full of principal, interest and all other amounts payable
hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents.
SECTION
9.05. Right of
Set-off
. Upon
(a) the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and
(b) the making of the request or the granting of the consent specified by
Section 6.01 to authorize the Administrative Agent to declare the Advances
due and payable pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, each Agent and
each Lender Party and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized
at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to
set off and otherwise apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any
time owing by such Agent, such Lender Party or such Affiliate to or for the
credit or the account of either Borrower against any and all of the Obligations
of either Borrower now or hereafter existing under the Loan Documents,
irrespective of whether such Agent or such Lender Party shall have made any
demand under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents and although such
Obligations may be unmatured. Each Agent and each Lender Party agrees promptly
to notify the Applicable Borrower after any such set-off and application;
provided,
however, that the
failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and
application. The rights of each Agent and each Lender Party and their respective
Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies
(including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) that such Agent, such
Lender Party and their respective Affiliates may have.
SECTION
9.06. Binding
Effect
. This
Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the
Borrowers and each Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have been notified
by each Initial Lender Party that such Initial Lender Party has executed it and
thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrowers, each
Agent and each Lender Party and their respective successors and assigns, except
that neither Borrower shall have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any
interest herein without the prior written consent of each Lender
Party.
SECTION
9.07. Assignments
and Participations
. (a)
Whenever in this Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such
reference shall be deemed to include the permitted successors and assigns of
such party; and all covenants, promises and agreements by or on behalf of the
Applicable Borrower, the Agents and the Lender Parties that are contained in
this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective
successors and assigns.
(b) Each
Lender may and, so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if
demanded by the Applicable Borrower (following a demand by such Lender pursuant
to Section 2.10 or 2.12) upon at least five Business Days’ notice to such
Lender and the Administrative Agent, will, assign to one or more Eligible
Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement
(including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment or
Commitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes, if any, held by
it); provided,
however, that
(i) each such assignment shall be of a uniform, and not a varying,
percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of any or all
Facilities, (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Person that,
immediately prior to such assignment, was a Lender, an Affiliate of any Lender
or an Approved Fund of any Lender or an assignment of all of a Lender’s rights
and obligations under this Agreement, the aggregate amount of the Commitments
being assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to such assignment (determined
as of the date of the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment)
shall in no event be less
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than (A)
$5,000,000, in the case of the Revolving Credit Facility and (B) $1,000,000, in
the case of the Term B Facility (or, in each case, such lesser amount as shall
be approved by the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Default shall have
occurred and be continuing at the time of effectiveness of such assignment, the
Applicable Borrower), (iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible
Assignee, (iv) each such assignment made as a result of a demand by the
Applicable Borrower pursuant to Section 2.10(e) shall be arranged by the
Applicable Borrower after consultation with the Administrative Agent and shall
be either an assignment of all of the rights and obligations of the assigning
Lender under this Agreement or an assignment of a portion of such rights and
obligations made concurrently with another such assignment or other such
assignments that together cover all of the rights and obligations of the
assigning Lender under this Agreement, (v) no Lender shall be obligated to
make any such assignment as a result of a demand by the Applicable Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.10(e) unless and until such Lender shall have
received one or more payments from either the Applicable Borrower or one or more
Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount at least equal to the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender, together with
accrued interest thereon to the date of payment of such principal amount and all
other amounts payable to such Lender under this Agreement, (vi) no such
assignments shall be permitted without the consent of the Administrative Agent
until the Administrative Agent shall have notified the Lender Parties that
syndication of the Commitments hereunder has been completed, (vii) no such
assignment of a Revolving Credit Commitment shall be permitted without the
consent of the Issuing Bank and the Swing Line Bank, (viii) the parties to each
such assignment shall (A) electronically execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption via an electronic settlement
system acceptable to the Administrative Agent (which initially shall be
ClearPar, LLC) or (B) manually execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent
an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of
$3,500 (unless such fee is waived at the discretion of the Administrative Agent)
and (ix) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire and all applicable tax
documentation.
(c) Upon such
execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date
specified in such Assignment and Assumption, (i) the assignee thereunder
shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder
have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, have the
rights and obligations of a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be,
hereunder and (ii) the Lender or Issuing Bank assignor thereunder shall, to
the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it
pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, relinquish its rights (other than
its rights under Sections 2.10, 2.12 and 9.04 to the extent any claim
thereunder relates to an event arising prior to such assignment) and be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Assumption covering all of the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s or
Issuing Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender or
Issuing Bank shall cease to be a party hereto).
(d) By
executing and delivering an Assignment and Assumption, each Lender Party
assignor thereunder and each assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each
other and the other parties thereto and hereto as follows: (i) such Lender Party
warrants that it is the legal and beneficial owner of the interest being
assigned thereby free and clear of any adverse claim and that its Term B
Commitment or Revolving Credit Commitment, as applicable, and the outstanding
balances of its Term B Advances or Revolving Credit Advances, as applicable, in
each case without giving effect to assignments thereof which have not become
effective, are as set forth in such Assignment and Assumption, (ii) except as
set forth in (i) above, such Lender Party makes no representation or warranty
and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or
representations made in or in connection with any Loan Document, or the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value
of any Loan Document, or the perfection or priority of any lien or security
interest created or purported to be created under or in connection with this or
any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto, or the financial condition of the Applicable Borrower or any
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Subsidiary
of such Borrower or the performance or observance by the Applicable Borrower or
any Subsidiary of such Borrower of any of its obligations under this Agreement,
any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto; (iii) such assignee represents and warrants that it is legally
authorized to enter into such Assignment and Assumption; (iv) such assignee
confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement, together with copies of
the most recent financial statements referred to in Section 4.01 and such other
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Assumption; (v) such
assignee will independently and without reliance upon the Agents, such assigning
Lender or any other Lender Party and based on such documents and information as
it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions
in taking or not taking action under this Agreement; (vi) such assignee appoints
and authorizes each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to
exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to such Agent,
respectively, by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto; and (vii) such assignee agrees that it will perform in
accordance with their terms all the obligations which by the terms of this
Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender or Issuing Bank, as the
case may be.
(e) The
Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose (but only for this purpose) as the
agent of the Applicable Borrower, shall maintain at its address referred to in
Section 9.02 a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to and
accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of
the Lender Parties and the Commitment under each Facility of, and principal
amount of the Advances owing under each Facility to, each Lender Party from time
to time (the “Register”). The
entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error, and the Applicable Borrower, the Agents and the Lender Parties
may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender Party
hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available
for inspection by the Borrowers or any Agent or any Lender Party at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(f) Upon its
receipt of an Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender Party
and an assignee, together with any Note or Notes subject to such assignment and
an administrative questionnaire (including all applicable tax documentation)
completed in respect of the assignee (unless the assignee shall already be a
Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph
(b) above, if any, and, if required, the written consent of the Applicable
Borrower, the Lender Party and the Administrative Agent to such assignment, the
Administrative Agent shall (i) accept such Assignment and Assumption, (ii)
record the information contained therein in the Register, and (iii) give
prompt notice thereof to the Applicable Borrower and each other Agent. In the
case of any assignment by a Lender, within five Business Days after its receipt
of such notice, the Applicable Borrower, at its own expense, shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent in exchange for the surrendered Note or
Notes (if any) a new Note to the order of such Eligible Assignee in an amount
equal to the Commitment assumed by it under each Facility pursuant to such
Assignment and Assumption and, if any assigning Lender that had a Note or Notes
prior to such assignment has retained a Commitment hereunder under such
Facility, a new Note to the order of such assigning Lender in an amount equal to
the Commitment retained by it hereunder. Such new Note or Notes shall be dated
the effective date of such Assignment and Assumption and shall otherwise be in
substantially the form of Exhibit A-1 or A-2 hereto, as the case may be. No
assignment shall be effective unless it has been recorded in the Register as
provided in this paragraph (f).
(g) The
Issuing Bank may assign to an Eligible Assignee all of its rights and
obligations under the undrawn portion of its Letter of Credit Commitment at any
time; provided,
however, that (i)
each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee and (ii) the parties to
each such assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for
its acceptance and recording in the Register, an Assignment and
Assumption.
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(h) Each
Lender may without the consent of the Applicable Borrower, the other Lender
Parties or the Administrative Agent sell participations to one or more banks or
other entities in all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Advances owing
to it and any Note or Notes held by it, if any); provided,
however, that
(i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii)
such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the
performance of such obligations, (iii) the participating banks or other entities
shall be entitled to the benefit of the cost protection provisions contained in
Sections 2.10 and 2.12 to the same extent as if they were Lenders (but, with
respect to any particular participant, to no greater extent than the Lender that
sold the participation to such participant and in the case of a participant
organized in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, provided such
participant complies with the provisions of Section 2.12(e) as if it were a
Lender) and (iv) the Applicable Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other
Lender Parties shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in
connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, and
such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the obligations of the
Applicable Borrower relating to the Advances or L/C Disbursements and to approve
any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement (other
than amendments, modifications or waivers decreasing any fees payable hereunder
or the amount of principal of or the rate at which interest is payable on the
Advances, extending any scheduled principal payment date or date fixed for the
payment of interest on the Advances, increasing or extending the Commitments or
releasing any Guarantor or all or substantially all of the
Collateral).
(i) Any
Lender Party or participant may, in connection with any assignment or
participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section
9.07, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or
participant any information relating to the Applicable Borrower furnished to
such Lender Party by or on behalf of the Applicable Borrower; provided,
however, that,
prior to any such disclosure of information designated by the Applicable
Borrower as confidential, each such assignee or participant or proposed assignee
or participant shall execute an agreement whereby such assignee or participant
shall agree (subject to customary exceptions) to preserve the confidentiality of
such confidential information on terms no less restrictive than those applicable
to the Lenders pursuant to Section 9.10.
(j) Any
Lender Party may (without the consent of the Applicable Borrower or the
Administrative Agent) at any time assign all or any portion of its rights under
this Agreement to secure extensions of credit to such Lender Party or in support
of obligations owed by such Lender Party (including, if such Lender Party is a
fund that invests in bank loans, to a trustee for holders of obligations owed,
or securities issued, by such fund); provided,
however, that no
such assignment shall release a Lender Party from any of its obligations
hereunder or substitute any such assignee for such Lender Party as a party
hereto and any foreclosure or exercise of remedies by such assignee or trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 9.07 regarding assignments in
all respects.
(k) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender Party (a “Granting
Lender”) may
grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”),
identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the
Administrative Agent and the Applicable Borrower, the option to provide to the
Applicable Borrower all or any part of any Advance that such Granting Lender
would otherwise be obligated to make to the Applicable Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement; provided,
however, that
(i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to make any Advance
and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to
provide all or any part of such Advance, the Granting Lender shall be obligated
to make such Advance pursuant to the terms hereof. The making of an Advance by
an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same
extent, and as if, such Advance were made by such Granting Lender. Each party
hereto hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar
payment obligation under
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this
Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the Granting Lender). In
furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement
shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is
one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial
paper or other senior indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against, or
join any other person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the
laws of the United States or any State thereof. In addition, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Section 9.07, any SPC may (i) with
notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the Applicable Borrower and
the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee therefor, assign
all or a portion of its interests in any Advances to the Granting Lender or to
any financial institutions (consented to by the Applicable Borrower and
Administrative Agent) providing liquidity and/or credit support to or for the
account of such SPC to support the funding or maintenance of Advances and (ii)
disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its
Advances to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any
surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC. This
subsection (k) may not be amended without the prior written consent of each
Granting Lender, all or any part of whose Advances are being funded by the SPC
at the time of such amendment.
(l) No
Borrower shall assign or delegate any of its rights or duties hereunder without
the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender Party, and
any attempted assignment without such consent shall be null and
void.
(m) In the
event that Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service, Xxxxx’x, Xxxxxxxx’x BankWatch
(or InsuranceWatch Ratings Service, in the case of Lender Parties that are
insurance companies (or Best’s Insurance Reports, if such insurance company is
not rated by InsuranceWatch Ratings Service)) shall, after the date that any
Lender Party becomes a Revolving Credit Lender, downgrade the long-term
certificate deposit ratings of such Lender Party, and the resulting ratings
shall be below BBB-, Baa3 or C (or BB, in the case of a Lender Party that is an
insurance company (or B, in the case of an insurance company not rated by
InsuranceWatch Ratings Service)), then the Issuing Bank shall have the right,
but not the obligation, at its own expense, upon notice to such Lender Party and
the Administrative Agent, to replace (or to request the Revolving Credit
Borrower to use its reasonable efforts to replace) such Lender Party with an
assignee (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in
paragraph (b) above), and such Lender Party hereby agrees to transfer and assign
without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained
in paragraph (b) above) all its interests, rights and obligations in respect of
its Revolving Credit Commitment to such assignee; provided,
however, that
(i) no such assignment shall conflict with any law, rule and regulation or order
of any Governmental Authority and (ii) the Issuing Bank or such assignee, as the
case may be, shall pay to such Lender Party in immediately available funds on
the date of such assignment the principal of and interest accrued to the date of
payment on the Advances made by such Lender Party hereunder and all other
amounts accrued for such Lender Party’s account or owed to it
hereunder.
SECTION
9.08. Execution
in Counterparts
. This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties
hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed
to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the
same agreement. Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of a signature
page to this Agreement shall be effective as delivery of an original executed
counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION
9.09. No
Liability of the Issuing Bank
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. The
Revolving Credit Borrower assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any
beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit with respect to its use of
such Letter of Credit. Neither the Issuing Bank nor any of its officers or
directors shall be liable or responsible for: (a) the use that may be made
of any Letter of Credit or any acts or omissions of any beneficiary or
transferee in connection therewith; (b) the validity, sufficiency or
genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents
should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or
forged; (c) payment by the Issuing Bank against presentation of documents
that do not comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit, including failure of
any documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to the Letter of
Credit; or (d) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or failing to
make payment under any Letter of Credit, except that the Revolving Credit
Borrower shall have a claim against the Issuing Bank, and the Issuing Bank shall
be liable to the Revolving Credit Borrower, to the extent of any direct, but not
consequential, damages suffered by the Revolving Credit Borrower that the
Revolving Credit Borrower proves were caused by (i) the Issuing Bank’s willful
misconduct or gross negligence as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment
by a court of competent jurisdiction in determining whether documents presented
under any Letter of Credit comply with the terms of the Letter of Credit or (ii)
the Issuing Bank’s willful failure to make lawful payment under a Letter of
Credit after the presentation to it of a draft and certificates strictly
complying with the terms and conditions of the Letter of Credit. In furtherance
and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Issuing Bank may accept documents
that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further
investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the
contrary.
SECTION
9.10. Confidentiality
. Neither
any Agent nor any Lender Party shall disclose any Confidential Information to
any Person without the consent of each Borrower, other than (a) to such
Agent’s or such Lender Party’s Affiliates and their officers, directors,
employees, agents and advisors and to actual or prospective Eligible Assignees
and participants, and then only on a confidential basis, (b) as required by
any law, rule or regulation or judicial process, (c) as requested or
required by any state, Federal or foreign authority or examiner (including the
National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or
quasi-regulatory authority) regulating such Lender Party, (d) to any rating
agency when required by it, provided that,
prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the
confidentiality of any Confidential Information relating to the Loan Parties
received by it from such Lender Party, (e) in connection with any litigation or
proceeding to which such Agent or such Lender Party or any of its Affiliates may
be a party or (f) in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
SECTION
9.11. Release
of Collateral
. Upon
(a) the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of any item of Collateral of
any Loan Party in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, (b) any
request for the release of Excess CMBS Financing Proceeds on deposit in the
Collateral Account (i) to be applied to the rebuilding or replacement of any
Identified Property as described in sub-clause (3)(B) of the third proviso to
the definition of “Net Cash Proceeds” contained in Section 1.01 or (ii) in order
to make any Investment or for any other use, in each case, permitted by Section
5.02(b)(x) or (c) request by the Borrowers in connection with any financing
permitted by the terms of this Agreement that requires the release of Collateral
and subject to the making of any required prepayment under Section 2.06(b) and
any other requirements hereunder, in each case the Collateral Agent will, at the
Borrowers’ expense, execute and deliver to such Loan Party such documents as
such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of
Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the
Collateral Documents in accordance with the terms of the Loan
Documents.
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SECTION
9.12. Patriot
Act Notice.
Each
Lender Party and each Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender Party)
hereby notifies the Loan Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the
Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that
identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of
such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender Party or such
Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the Patriot
Act. Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, provide
to the extent commercially reasonable, such information and take such actions as
are reasonably requested by any Agents or any Lender Party in order to assist
the Agents and the Lender Parties in maintaining compliance with the Patriot
Act.
SECTION
9.13. Jurisdiction,
Etc.
(a) Each
of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself
and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court
or Federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City,
and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to which
it is a party, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of
the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims
in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in any
such New York State court or, to the fullest extent permitted by law, in such
Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any
such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that any party may otherwise
have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(b) Each of
the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent
it may legally and effectively do so, any objection that it may now or hereafter
have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to which it is a
party in any New York State or Federal court. Each of the parties hereto hereby
irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an
inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such
court.
SECTION
9.14. Governing
Law
. This
Agreement and the Notes shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION
9.15. Waiver of
Jury Trial
. Each of
the Borrowers, the Agents and the Lender Parties irrevocably waives all right to
trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based on
contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or relating to any of the Loan
Documents, the Advances, the Letters of Credit or the actions of any Agent or
any Lender Party in the negotiation, administration, performance or enforcement
thereof.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by
their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above
written.
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, INC., | ||
as
a Loan Party | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title:
Executive Vice President & CFO |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, L.P., | ||
as
Revolving Credit Borrower and Guarantor | ||
By: |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, INC., its | |
general
partner | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title:
Executive Vice President & CFO |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES HOLDINGS I, LLC, | ||
as
Term B Borrower and Guarantor | ||
By: |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, L.P., its | |
managing
member | ||
By: |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, INC., | |
its
general partner | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title:
Executive Vice President & CFO | ||
CREDIT
SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, | ||
acting
through its New York Branch, | ||
as
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent | ||
By: |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, INC., | |
a
Maryland corporation | ||
its
sole general partner | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxx X’Xxxx | |
Name:
Xxxx X’Xxxx | ||
Title:
Director | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name:
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Title:
Associate |
Initial
Lenders | ||
CREDIT
SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, | ||
acting
through its New York Branch, | ||
as
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent | ||
By: |
XXXXXXX
PROPERTIES, INC., | |
a
Maryland corporation | ||
its
sole general partner | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxx X’Xxxx | |
Name:
Xxxx X’Xxxx | ||
Title:
Director | ||
By: |
/s/
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name:
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Title:
Associate |