CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT
Exhibit 99.1
CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT
THIS CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of July 18, 2014 (the “Closing Date”) by and among MIDCAP FUNDING V, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“MidCap”), as administrative agent (“Agent”), the Lenders listed on the Credit Facility Schedule attached hereto and otherwise party hereto from time to time (each a “Lender”, and collectively the “Lenders”), and CARDIOME PHARMA CORP., an amalgamated corporation validly existing under the Canada Business Corporations Act and extraprovincially registered in the Province of British Columbia (“Parent”), and the other entities shown as signatories hereto as a Borrower (together with Parent, collectively in the singular, “Borrower”), provides the terms on which Lenders agree to lend to Borrower and Borrower shall repay Lenders. The parties agree as follows:
1 | ACCOUNTING AND OTHER TERMS |
Accounting terms not defined in this Agreement shall be construed in accordance with GAAP. Calculations and determinations must be made in accordance with GAAP. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in Section 16. All other terms contained in this Agreement, unless otherwise indicated, shall have the meaning provided by the Code to the extent such terms are defined therein. All headings numbered without a decimal point are herein referred to as “Articles,” and all paragraphs numbered with a decimal point (and all subparagraphs or subsections thereof) are herein referred to as “Sections.”
2 | CREDIT FACILITIES AND TERMS |
2.1 Promise to Pay. Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to each Lender in accordance with each Lender’s respective Pro Rata Share of each Credit Facility, the outstanding principal amount of all Credit Extensions made by such Lender under such Credit Facility, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and any other amounts due hereunder as and when due in accordance with this Agreement.
2.2 Credit Facilities. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender, severally, but not jointly, agrees to make available to Borrower Credit Extensions in respect of each Credit Facility set forth opposite such Lender’s name on the Credit Facility Schedule, in each case not to exceed such Lender’s commitment as identified on the Credit Facility Schedule (such commitment of each Lender, as it may be amended to reflect assignments made in accordance with this Agreement or terminated or reduced in accordance with this Agreement, its “Applicable Commitment”, and the aggregate of all such commitments, the “Applicable Commitments”).
2.3 Term Credit Facilities.
(a) Nature of Credit Facility; Credit Extension Requests. For any Credit Facility identified on the Credit Facility Schedule as a term facility (a “Term Credit Facility”), Credit Extensions in respect of a Term Credit Facility may be requested by Borrower during the Draw Period for such Term Credit Facility. For any Credit Extension requested under a Term Credit Facility (other than a Credit Extension on the Closing Date), Agent must receive the completed Credit Extension Form by 1:00 p.m. (New York time) fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the date of the Credit Extension is to be funded. To the extent any Term Credit Facility proceeds are repaid for any reason, whether voluntarily or involuntarily (including repayments from insurance or condemnation proceeds), Agent and Lenders shall have no obligation to re-advance such sums to Borrower.
(b) Principal Payments. Principal payable on account of a Term Credit Facility shall be payable by Borrower to Agent immediately upon the earlier of (i) the date(s) set forth in the Amortization Schedule for such Term Credit Facility, and (ii) the Maturity Date. Except as this Agreement may specifically provide otherwise, all prepayments of Credit Extensions under Term Credit Facilities shall be applied by Agent to the applicable Term Credit Facility in inverse order of maturity. The monthly payments required under the Amortization Schedule shall continue in the same amount (for so long as the applicable Term Credit Facility shall remain outstanding) notwithstanding any partial prepayment, whether mandatory or optional, of the applicable Term Credit Facility.
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(c) Mandatory Prepayment. If a Term Credit Facility is accelerated following the occurrence of an Event of Default, Borrower shall immediately pay to Agent, for payment to each Lender in accordance with its respective Pro Rata Share, an amount equal to the sum of: (i) all outstanding principal of the Term Credit Facility and all other Obligations, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (ii) any fees payable under the Fee Letters by reason of such prepayment, (iii) the Applicable Prepayment Fee as specified in the Credit Facility Schedule for the Credit Facility being prepaid, and (iv) all other sums that shall have become due and payable, including Protective Advances. Additionally, at the election of Agent, Borrower shall prepay the Term Credit Facilities (to be allocated pro rata among the outstanding Credit Extensions under all Term Credit Facilities) in the following amounts: (A) on the date on which any Credit Party (or Agent as loss payee or assignee) receives any casualty proceeds in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) for personal property, or in excess of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) for real property, in respect of assets upon which Agent maintained a Lien, an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such proceeds (net of out-of-pocket expenses and, in the case of personal property, repayment of any permitted purchase money debt encumbering the personal property that suffered such casualty), or such lesser portion of such proceeds as Agent shall elect to apply to the Obligations; and (B) upon receipt by any Credit Party of the proceeds of any asset disposition of personal property not made in the Ordinary Course of Business (other than transfers permitted by Section 7.1) an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the net cash proceeds of such asset disposition (net of out-of-pocket expenses and repayment of any permitted purchase money debt encumbering such asset), or such lesser portion as Agent shall elect to apply to the Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Borrower shall have the option of applying the proceeds of any casualty policy toward the replacement or repair of destroyed or damaged property; provided that any such replaced or repaired property (x) shall be of equal or like value as the replaced or repaired Collateral and (y) shall be deemed Collateral in which Agent and Lenders have been granted a first priority security interest, and (b) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default, all proceeds payable under such casualty policy shall, at the option of Agent, be payable to Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, on account of the Obligations.
(d) Permitted Prepayment. Except as provided below, Borrower shall have no right to prepay the Credit Extensions made in respect of a Term Credit Facility. Borrower shall have the option to prepay a Term Credit Facility in whole or in part (the amount to be prepaid, the “Prepayable Amount”), provided Borrower (i) provides written notice to Agent of its election to prepay the Prepayable Amount at least ten (10) Business Days prior to such prepayment, and (ii) pays to Agent, for payment to each Lender in accordance with its respective Pro Rata Share, on the date of such prepayment, an amount equal to the sum of (A) the Prepayable Amount, plus accrued interest thereon, (B) any fees payable under the Fee Letters by reason of such prepayment, (C) the Applicable Prepayment Fee as specified in the Credit Facility Schedule for the Credit Facility being prepaid, and (D) all Protective Advances.
2.4 Reserved.
2.5 Reserved.
2.6 Interest and Payments; Administration.
(a) Interest; Computation of Interest. Each Credit Extension shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the date when made until paid in full at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Interest Rate. Each Lender may, upon the failure of Borrower to pay any fees or interest as required herein, capitalize such interest and fees and begin to accrue interest thereon until paid in full, which such interest shall be at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Interest Rate unless and until the Default Rate shall otherwise apply. All other Obligations shall bear interest on the outstanding amount thereof from the date they first become payable by Borrower under the Financing Documents until paid in full at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Interest Rate unless and until the Default Rate shall otherwise apply. Interest on the Credit Extensions and all fees payable under the Financing Documents shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the period during which such interest accrues. In computing interest on any Credit Extension or other advance, the date of the making of such Credit Extension or advance shall be included and the date of payment shall be excluded; provided, however, that if any Credit Extension or advance is repaid on the same day on which it is made, such day shall be included in computing interest on such Credit Extension or advance. As of each Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date, Agent shall determine (which determination shall, absent manifest error in calculation, be final, conclusive and binding upon all parties) the interest rate that shall apply to the Credit Extensions.
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(b) Default Rate. Upon the election of Agent following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Obligations shall bear interest at a rate per annum which is four hundred basis points (4.00%) above the rate that is otherwise applicable thereto (the “Default Rate”). Payment or acceptance of the increased interest rate provided in this subsection is not a permitted alternative to timely payment and shall not constitute a waiver of any Event of Default or otherwise prejudice or limit any rights or remedies of Agent or Lenders.
(c) Payments Generally. All payments in respect of the Obligations shall be made to Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders in accordance with their Pro Rata Share. All Obligations are payable upon demand of Agent in the absence of any other due date specified herein or in any other Financing Document. All fees payable under the Financing Documents shall be deemed non-refundable as of the date paid. Any payment required to be made to Agent or a Lender under this Agreement may be made by debit or automated clearing house payment initiated by Agent or such Lender from any of Borrower’s deposit accounts, including the Designated Funding Account, and Borrower hereby authorizes Agent and each Lender to debit any such accounts for any amounts Borrower owes hereunder when due. Without limiting the foregoing, Borrower shall tender to Agent and Lenders any authorization forms as Agent or any Lender may require to implement such debit or automated clearing house payment. These debits or automated clearing house payments shall not constitute a set-off. Payments of principal and/or interest received after 1:00 p.m. New York time are considered received at the opening of business on the next Business Day. When a payment is due on a day that is not a Business Day, the payment is due the next Business Day and additional fees or interest, as applicable, shall continue to accrue until paid. All payments to be made by Borrower under any Financing Document shall be made without set-off, recoupment or counterclaim, in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds. The balance of the Obligations, as recorded in Agent’s books and records at any time, shall be conclusive and binding evidence of the amounts due and owing to Agent and Lenders by each Borrower absent manifest error; provided, however, that any failure to so record or any error in so recording shall not limit or otherwise affect any Borrower’s duty to pay all amounts owing hereunder or under any Financing Document. Agent shall endeavor to provide Borrower with a monthly statement regarding the Credit Extensions (but neither Agent nor any Lender shall have any liability if Agent shall fail to provide any such statement). Unless Borrower notifies Agent of any objection to any such statement (specifically describing the basis for such objection) within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the date of receipt thereof, it shall be deemed final, binding and conclusive upon Borrower in all respects as to all matters reflected therein.
(d) Interest Payments; Maturity Date. Commencing on the first (1st) Payment Date following the funding of a Credit Extension, and continuing on the Payment Date of each successive month thereafter through and including the Maturity Date, Borrower shall make monthly payments of interest, in arrears, calculated as set forth in this Section 2.6. All unpaid principal and accrued interest is due and payable in full on the Maturity Date or any earlier date specified herein. If the Obligations are not paid in full on or before the Maturity Date, all interest thereafter accruing shall be payable immediately upon accrual.
(e) Fees. Borrower shall pay, as and when due and payable under the terms of the Fee Letters, to Agent and each Lender, for their own accounts and not for the benefit of any other Lenders, the fees set forth in the Fee Letters.
(f) Protective Advances. Borrower shall pay to Agent for the account of Lenders all Protective Advances (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees and expenses for documentation and negotiation of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents) when due under any Financing Document (and in the absence of any other due date specified herein, such Protective Advances shall be due upon demand).
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(g) Maximum Lawful Rate. In no event shall the interest charged hereunder with respect to the Obligations exceed the maximum amount permitted under the Laws of the State of Maryland. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Financing Document, if at any time the rate of interest payable hereunder (the “Stated Rate”) would exceed the highest rate of interest permitted under any applicable Law to be charged (the “Maximum Lawful Rate”), then for so long as the Maximum Lawful Rate would be so exceeded, the rate of interest payable shall be equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate; provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the Stated Rate is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, Borrower shall, to the extent permitted by Law, continue to pay interest at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received is equal to the total interest which would have been received had the Stated Rate been (but for the operation of this provision) the interest rate payable. Thereafter, the interest rate payable shall be the Stated Rate unless and until the Stated Rate again would exceed the Maximum Lawful Rate, in which event this provision shall again apply. In no event shall the total interest received by any Lender exceed the amount which it could lawfully have received, had the interest been calculated for the full term hereof at the Maximum Lawful Rate. If, notwithstanding the prior sentence, any Lender has received interest hereunder in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate, such excess amount shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of such Lender’s Credit Extensions or to other amounts (other than interest) payable hereunder, and if no such Credit Extensions or other amounts are then outstanding, such excess or part thereof remaining shall be paid to Borrower. In computing interest payable with reference to the Maximum Lawful Rate applicable to any Lender, such interest shall be calculated at a daily rate equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate divided by the number of days in the year in which such calculation is made.
(h) Taxes; Additional Costs.
(i) All payments of principal and interest on the Obligations and all other amounts payable hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any present or future income, excise, stamp, documentary, payroll, employment, property or franchise taxes and other taxes, fees, duties, levies, assessments, withholdings or other charges of any nature whatsoever (including interest and penalties thereon) imposed by any taxing authority, excluding (A) taxes imposed on or measured by Agent’s or any Lender’s net income (however denominated), franchise taxes, and branch profits taxes, in each case, imposed by the jurisdictions under which Agent or such Lender is organized or conducts business or as a result of a present or former connection between Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than solely as the result of entering into any of the Financing Documents or taking any action thereunder), and (B) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA (all such taxes other than those excluded in clauses (A) and (b) being called “Taxes” and amounts excluded in clauses (A) and (B) being called “Excluded Taxes”). If any withholding or deduction from any payment to be made by any Credit Party hereunder is required in respect of any Taxes pursuant to any applicable Law, then such Credit Party will: (i) pay directly to the relevant authority the full amount required to be so withheld or deducted; (ii) promptly forward to Agent an official receipt or other documentation satisfactory to Agent evidencing such payment to such authority; and (iii) pay to Agent for the account of Agent and Lenders such additional amount or amounts as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by Agent and each Lender will equal the full amount Agent and such Lender would have received had no such withholding or deduction been required. If any Taxes are directly asserted against Agent or any Lender with respect to any payment received by Agent or such Lender hereunder, Agent or such Lender may pay such Taxes and Borrower will promptly pay such additional amounts (including any penalty, interest or expense) as is necessary in order that the net amount received by such Person after the payment of such Taxes (including any Taxes on such additional amount) shall equal the amount such Person would have received had such Taxes not been asserted so long as such amounts have accrued on or after the day which is two hundred seventy (270) days prior to the date on which Agent or such Lender first made written demand therefor.
(ii) If any Borrower fails to pay any Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to Agent, for the account of Agent and the respective Lenders, the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, Borrower shall indemnify Agent and Lenders for any incremental Taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure.
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(iii) Each Lender that (A) is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, and (B)(1) is a party hereto on the Closing Date or (2) purports to become an assignee of an interest as a Lender under this Agreement after the Closing Date (unless such Lender was already a Lender hereunder immediately prior to such assignment) (each such Lender a “Foreign Lender”) shall execute and deliver to each of Borrower and Agent one or more (as Borrower or Agent may reasonably request) United States Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8ECI, W-8BEN-E, W-8IMY (as applicable) and other applicable forms, certificates or documents prescribed by the United States Internal Revenue Service or reasonably requested by Agent (and periodically update such forms as they expire or become obsolete or inaccurate in any respect) certifying as to such Lender’s entitlement to a complete exemption from withholding or deduction of Taxes. Borrower shall not be required to pay additional amounts to any Lender pursuant to this subsection (h) with respect to United States withholding and income Taxes to the extent that the obligation to pay such additional amounts would not have arisen but for the failure of such Lender to comply with this paragraph other than as a result of a change in law that makes compliance with this paragraph materially more burdensome for such Lender.
(iv) If a payment made to Agent or any Lender on an Obligation would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if Agent or such Lender, as applicable, were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA, Agent or such Lender, as applicable, shall deliver to the Borrower, at the time or times prescribed by applicable Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower, such documentation prescribed by applicable Law and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower as may be necessary for the Borrower to comply with its obligations under FATCA, to determine that Agent or such Lender, as applicable, has or has not complied with its obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this this subsection (h)(iv), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
(v) If Agent or any Lender determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this subsection (h), it shall pay to the indemnifying Borrower an amount equal to such refund, net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including taxes) of Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying Borrower, upon the request of Agent or such Lender, shall repay to Agent or such Lender the amount paid over pursuant to the preceding sentence in the event that Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection (h)(v), in no event will the Agent or such Lender be required to pay any amount to the indemnifying Borrower pursuant to this subsection (h)(v) the payment of which would place the Agent or such Lender in a less favorable net after-tax position than the Agent or such Lender would have been in if the tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such tax had never been paid. This subsection (h)(v) shall not be construed to require Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to any Credit Party or any other Person.
(vi) Except with respect to Taxes and Excluded Taxes, if any Lender shall determine in its commercially reasonable judgment that the adoption or taking effect of, or any change in, any applicable Law regarding capital adequacy, in each instance, after the Closing Date, or any change after the Closing Date in the interpretation, administration or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation, administration or application thereof, or the compliance by any Lender or any Person controlling such Lender with any request, guideline or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency adopted or otherwise taking effect after the Closing Date, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or such controlling Person’s capital as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender or such controlling Person could have achieved but for such adoption, taking effect, change, interpretation, administration, application or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such controlling Person’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) then from time to time, upon written demand by such Lender (which demand shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth the basis for such demand and a calculation of the amount thereof in reasonable detail, a copy of which shall be furnished to Agent), Borrower shall promptly pay to such Lender such additional amount as will compensate such Lender or such controlling Person for such reduction, so long as such amounts have accrued on or after the day which is six (6) months prior to the date on which such Lender first made demand therefor; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (A) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (B) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “change in applicable Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
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(vii) If any Lender requires compensation under this subsection (h), or requires any Borrower to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to this subsection (h), then, upon the written request of Borrower, such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Credit Extensions hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder (subject to the terms of this Agreement) to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (A) would eliminate or materially reduce amounts payable pursuant to any such subsection, as the case may be, in the future, and (B) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender (as determined in its sole discretion). Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(i) Administrative Fees and Charges.
(i) Borrower shall pay to Agent, for its own account and not for the benefit of any other Lenders, all reasonable fees and expenses in connection with audits and inspections of the books and records of the Credit Parties, audits, valuations or appraisals of the Collateral, audits of Borrower’s compliance with applicable Laws and such other matters as Agent shall deem appropriate, which shall be due and payable on the first Business Day of the month following the date of issuance by Agent of a written request for payment thereof to any Borrower; provided, that, as long as no Default has occurred within the preceding twelve (12) months, Agent shall be entitled to such reimbursement for no more than one audit and inspection per calendar year.
(ii) If payments of principal or interest due on the Obligations, or any other amounts due hereunder or under the other Financing Documents, are not timely made and remain overdue for a period of five (5) days, Borrower, without notice or demand by Agent, promptly shall pay to Agent, for its own account and not for the benefit of any other Lenders, as additional compensation to Agent in administering the Obligations, an amount equal to five percent (5.0%) of each delinquent payment.
(j) Canadian Limitations.
(i) For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada) and disclosure thereunder, whenever any interest or any fee to be paid hereunder or in connection herewith is to be calculated on the basis of a 360-day or 365-day year, the yearly rate of interest to which the rate used in such calculation is equivalent is the rate so used multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the same is to be ascertained and divided by 360 or 365, as applicable. The rates of interest under this Agreement are nominal rates, and not effective rates or yields. The principle of deemed reinvestment of interest does not apply to any interest calculation under this Agreement.
(ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (i) a Security Document creates a mortgage on real property or a hypothec on immovables of a Canadian Credit Party or (ii) the rate provided for in Section 2.6(b) is otherwise determined to be unenforceable against a Canadian Credit Party, then, in either case, the Canadian Credit Party shall pay interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate otherwise applicable to such Advances or, in the case of any amount not constituting principal or interest on an Advance, at a rate equal to the Applicable Interest Rate, provided that, without limiting the effect of this Section 2.6(j)(ii), nothing in Section 2.6(j)(ii) shall preclude the operation of Section 2.6(b) in respect of a Canadian Credit Party where (A) a Security Document that creates a mortgage on real property or a hypothec on immovables of a Canadian Credit Party also creates a Lien on other property and assets of such Canadian Credit Party; or (B) the principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by such Canadian Credit Party hereunder is also secured by a Lien other than a mortgage on real property or a hypothec on immovables.
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(iii) If any provision of this Agreement would oblige a Canadian Credit Party to make any payment of interest or other amount payable to any Lender in an amount or calculated at a rate which would be prohibited by law or would result in a receipt by that Lender of “interest” at a “criminal rate” (as such terms are construed under the Criminal Code (Canada)), then, notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rate shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by applicable law or so result in a receipt by that Lender of “interest” at a “criminal rate”, such adjustment to be effected, to the extent necessary (but only to the extent necessary), as follows:
(A) first, by reducing the amount or rate of interest; and
(B) thereafter, by reducing any fees, commissions, costs, expenses, premiums and other amounts required to be paid which would constitute interest for purposes of section 347 of the Criminal Code (Canada).
2.7 Secured Promissory Notes. At the election of any Lender made as to each Credit Facility for which it has made Credit Extensions, each Credit Facility shall be evidenced by one or more secured promissory notes in form and substance substantially to the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (each a “Secured Promissory Note”). Upon receipt of an affidavit of an officer of a Lender as to the loss, theft, destruction, or mutilation of its Secured Promissory Note, Borrower shall issue, in lieu thereof, a replacement Secured Promissory Note in the same principal amount thereof and of like tenor.
3 | CONDITIONS OF credit extensions |
3.1 Conditions Precedent to Initial Credit Extension. Each Lender’s obligation to make the initial Credit Extension is subject to the condition precedent that Agent shall consent to or shall have received, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, such documents, and completion of such other matters, as Agent may reasonably deem necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, all items listed on the Closing Deliveries Schedule attached hereto.
3.2 Conditions Precedent to all Credit Extensions. The obligation of each Lender to make each Credit Extension, including the initial Credit Extension, is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) satisfaction of all Applicable Funding Conditions for the applicable Credit Extension as set forth in the Credit Facility Schedule, each in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and each Lender;
(b) timely receipt by the Agent and each Lender of an executed Credit Extension Form in the form attached hereto;
(c) (i) for Credit Extensions made on the Closing Date, the representations and warranties in Article 5 and elsewhere in the Financing Documents shall be true, correct and complete in all respects on the Closing Date; provided, however, that those representations and warranties expressly referring to a specific date shall be true, correct and complete in all respects as of such date; and
(ii) for Credit Extensions made after the Closing Date, if any, the representations and warranties in Article 5 and elsewhere in the Financing Documents shall be true, correct and complete in all material respects on the date of the Credit Extension Form and on the Funding Date of each Credit Extension; provided, however, that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof; and provided, further that those representations and warranties expressly referring to a specific date shall be true, accurate and complete in all material respects as of such date. Each Credit Extension is Credit Parties’ representation and warranty on that date that the representations and warranties in Article 5 and elsewhere in the Financing Documents remain true, correct and complete in all material respects; provided, however, that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof; and provided, further that those representations and warranties expressly referring to a specific date shall be true, accurate and complete in all material respects as of such date;
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(d) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or result from the Credit Extension;
(e) Agent shall be satisfied, in its reasonable discretion, with the results of any searches conducted under Section 3.5;
(f) receipt by Agent of such evidence as Agent shall request to confirm that the deliveries made in paragraphs 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 14 of the Closing Deliveries Schedule remain current, accurate and in full force and effect, or if not, updates thereto, each in form and substance satisfactory to Agent; and
(g) as determined in such Lender’s sole discretion, there has not been any Material Adverse Change or any material adverse deviation by Credit Parties from the most recent business plan of Credit Parties presented to and accepted by Agent.
3.3 Method of Borrowing. Each Credit Extension in respect of each Credit Facility shall be in an amount at least equal to the applicable Minimum Credit Extension Amount for such Credit Facility as set forth in the Credit Facility Schedule or such lesser amount as shall remain undisbursed under the Applicable Commitments for such Credit Facility. The date of funding for any requested Credit Extension shall be a Business Day. To obtain a Credit Extension, Borrower shall deliver to Agent a completed Credit Extension Form executed by a Responsible Officer. Agent may rely on any notice given by a person whom Agent reasonably believes is a Responsible Officer or designee thereof. Agent and Lenders shall have no duty to verify the authenticity of any such notice.
3.4 Funding of Credit Facilities. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, each Lender, severally and not jointly, shall make available to Agent its Pro Rata Share of the requested Credit Extension, in lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available funds, prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on the specified date for the Credit Extension. Agent shall, unless it shall have determined that one of the conditions set forth in Section 3.1 or 3.2, as applicable, has not been satisfied, by 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on such day, credit the amounts received by it in like funds to Borrower by wire transfer to the Designated Funding Account (or to the account of Borrower in respect of the Obligations, if the Credit Extension is being made to pay an Obligation of Borrower). A Credit Extension made prior to the satisfaction of any conditions set forth in Section 3.1 or 3.2 shall not constitute a waiver by Agent or Lenders of Borrower’s obligation to satisfy such conditions, and any such Credit Extension made in the absence of such satisfaction shall be made in Agent’s discretion.
3.5 Searches. Before the Closing Date, and thereafter (as and when determined by Agent in its reasonable discretion), Agent shall have the right to perform, all at Borrower’s expense, the searches described in clauses (a), (b), and (c) below against Borrower and any other Credit Party, the results of which are to be consistent with the Credit Parties’ representations and warranties under this Agreement and the reasonably satisfactory results of which shall be a condition precedent to all Credit Extensions requested by Borrower: (a) title investigations, UCC or personal property registry searches, writ searches and fixture filings searches; (b) judgment, pending litigation, federal tax lien, personal property tax lien, and corporate and partnership tax lien searches, in each jurisdiction searched under clause (a) above; and (c) searches of applicable corporate, limited liability company, partnership and related records to confirm the continued existence, organization and good standing of the applicable Person and the exact legal name under which such Person is organized; provided, however, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, such searches may be performed in the sole and absolute discretion of Agent.
4 | CREATION OF SECURITY INTEREST |
4.1 Grant of Security Interest.
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(a) Each Credit Party hereby grants Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, to secure the payment and performance in full of all of the Obligations, a continuing security interest in, upon and to, and pledges to Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, all of each Credit Party’s assets (excluding, in the case of the Swiss Guarantors, any assets that are otherwise subject to the security interest granted in the Swiss Security Documents (the “Subject Swiss Collateral”)), wherever located, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising (collectively, the “Collateral”), and all proceeds and products thereof, including all of Credit Parties’ right, title and interest in and to the following personal property (but excluding the Subject Swiss Collateral):
(i) all goods, Accounts (including health-care insurance receivables), Equipment, Inventory, contract rights or rights to payment of money, leases, license agreements, franchise agreements, General Intangibles, commercial tort claims, documents, instruments (including any promissory notes), chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic), cash, deposit accounts, investment accounts, commodity accounts and other Collateral Accounts, all certificates of deposit, fixtures, letters of credit rights (whether or not the letter of credit is evidenced by a writing), securities, and all other investment property, supporting obligations, and financial assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, wherever located; and
(ii) all Borrower’s Books relating to the foregoing, and any and all claims, rights and interests in any of the above and all substitutions for, additions, attachments, accessories, accessions and improvements to and replacements, products, proceeds and insurance proceeds of any or all of the foregoing.
(b) Each Credit Party (other than the Swiss Guarantors) represents, warrants, and covenants that the security interest granted herein is and shall at all times continue to be a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral, subject only to Permitted Liens that may have priority by operation of applicable Law or by the terms of a written intercreditor or subordination agreement entered into by Agent. If any inconsistency exists between this Section 4.1 and the Canadian Security Agreement, this Section 4.1 shall prevail. If any inconsistency exists between this Section 4.1 and any provision of the Swiss Security Documents or the UK Security Documents with respect to any Swiss Guarantor or UK Guarantor (as applicable), the provisions of the Swiss Security Documents or the UK Security Documents (as applicable) shall prevail.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing but without limiting the provisions of Section 7.5(c), the parties hereto agree that the security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement (and any security interest granted pursuant to any other Financing Agreement in the Collateral) does not and will not extend to, and Collateral will not include any agreement, right, franchise, license or permit (the “contractual rights”) to which any Credit Party is a party or of which any Credit Party has the benefit, to the extent that the creation of the security interest herein would constitute a breach of the terms of or permit any person to terminate the contractual rights and such restriction on the creation of a security interest is not terminated or rendered unenforceable or otherwise deemed ineffective by the UCC or any other applicable Law, but any such Credit Party must hold its interest therein in trust for the Agent and will assign such contractual rights to the Agent forthwith upon obtaining the consent of the other party thereto. Each Credit Party agrees that it will use all commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any consent required to permit any contractual rights to be subjected to the security interest.
4.2 Representations and Covenants.
(a) As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party has any ownership interest in any Chattel Paper, letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, Instruments, documents or investment property (other than (i) equity interests in any Subsidiaries of any Credit Party and (ii) as disclosed on the Disclosure Schedule attached hereto).
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(b) Except for tangible Chattel Paper and Instruments in an aggregate amount of less than $50,000, each Credit Party shall deliver to Agent all tangible Chattel Paper and all Instruments and documents (other than (i) tangible Chattel Paper and Instruments located in the United Kingdom, Canada or Switzerland and subject to the UK Security Documents, Canadian Security Documents or the Swiss Security Documents, as applicable, or located in another jurisdiction in which the Credit Parties have granted a perfected first priority Lien on such Collateral (subject only to Permitted Liens) in favor of the Agent and (ii) checks and other tangible drafts promptly (and in any event within ten (10) days) deposited in Credit Parties’ Accounts maintained in accordance with the terms of this Agreement) owned by such Credit Party and constituting part of the Collateral duly endorsed and accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form and substance satisfactory to Agent. Each Credit Party shall provide Agent with “control” (as in the Code) of all electronic Chattel Paper owned by such Credit Party and constituting part of the Collateral by having Agent identified as the assignee on the records pertaining to the single authoritative copy thereof and otherwise complying with the applicable elements of control set forth in the Code. Each Credit Party shall also shall deliver to Agent all security agreements securing any such Chattel Paper and securing any such Instruments. Each Credit Party will xxxx conspicuously all such Chattel Paper and all such Instruments and Documents with a legend, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, indicating that such Chattel Paper and such Instruments and Documents are subject to the security interests and Liens in favor of Agent created pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing Documents.
(c) Except for letters of credit in an aggregate amount of less than $50,000, each Credit Party shall deliver to Agent all letters of credit (other than letters of credit located in the United Kingdom, Canada or Switzerland and subject to the UK Security Documents, Canadian Security Documents or the Swiss Security Documents, as applicable, or located in another jurisdiction in which the Credit Parties have granted a perfected first priority Lien on such Collateral (subject only to Permitted Liens) in favor of the Agent) on which such Credit Party is the beneficiary and which give rise to letter of credit rights owned by such Credit Party which constitute part of the Collateral in each case duly endorsed and accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form and substance satisfactory to Agent. Each Credit Party shall take any and all actions as may be necessary or desirable, or that Agent may request, from time to time, to cause Agent to obtain exclusive “control” (as defined in the Code) of any such letter of credit rights in a manner acceptable to Agent.
(d) Each Credit Party shall promptly advise Agent upon any Credit Party becoming aware that it has any interests in any commercial tort claim that constitutes part of the Collateral, which such notice shall include descriptions of the events and circumstances giving rise to such commercial tort claim and the dates such events and circumstances occurred, the potential defendants with respect such commercial tort claim and any court proceedings that have been instituted with respect to such commercial tort claims, and each Credit Party shall, with respect to any such commercial tort claim, execute and deliver to Agent such documents as Agent shall request to perfect, preserve or protect the Liens, rights and remedies of Agent with respect to any such commercial tort claim.
(e) Except for Accounts and Inventory in an aggregate amount of Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800,000), no Accounts or Inventory or other Collateral shall at any time be in the possession or control of any warehouse, consignee, bailee or the Credit Parties’ agents or processors without prior written notice to Agent and the receipt by Agent, if Agent has so requested, of warehouse receipts, consignment agreements or bailee lien waivers (as applicable) satisfactory to Agent prior to the commencement of such possession or control. Each Credit Party shall, upon the request of Agent, notify any such warehouse, consignee, bailee, agent or processor of the security interests and Liens in favor of Agent created pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing Documents, instruct such Person to hold all such Collateral for Agent’s account subject to Agent’s instructions and shall obtain an acknowledgement confirming the foregoing.
(f) Upon request of Agent, Borrower shall promptly deliver to Agent any and all certificates of title, applications for title or similar evidence of ownership of all such tangible personal property (other than tangible personal property located in the United Kingdom, Canada or Switzerland and subject to the UK Security Documents, Canadian Security Documents or the Swiss Security Documents, as applicable, or located in another jurisdiction in which the Credit Parties have granted a perfected first priority Lien on such Collateral (subject only to Permitted Liens) in favor of the Agent) and shall cause Agent to be named as lienholder on any such certificate of title or other evidence of ownership. Borrower shall not permit any such tangible personal property to become fixtures to real estate unless such real estate is subject to a Lien in favor of Agent.
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(g) Each Credit Party hereby authorizes Agent to file without the signature of such Credit Party one or more UCC financing statements and financing statements in the Personal Property Registry of one or more Canadian jurisdictions relating to all or any part of the Collateral, which financing statements may list Agent as the “secured party” and such Credit Party as the “debtor” and which describe and indicate the collateral covered thereby as all or any part of the Collateral under the Financing Documents (including an indication of the collateral covered by any such financing statement as “all assets” of such Credit Party now owned or hereafter acquired), in such jurisdictions as Agent from time to time determines are appropriate, and to file without the signature of such Credit Party any continuations of or corrective amendments to any such financing statements, in any such case in order for Agent to perfect, preserve or protect the Liens, rights and remedies of Agent with respect to the Collateral. Each Credit Party also ratifies its authorization for Agent to have filed in any jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof. The Borrower hereby waives all rights to receive from the Lender a copy of any financing statement.
(h) As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party holds, and after the Closing Date each Credit Party shall promptly notify Agent in writing upon creation or acquisition by any Credit Party of, any other Collateral that constitutes a claim against any Governmental Authority, excluding any claims against any Governmental Authority which relate to claims in respect of Tax refunds but including, without limitation, the federal government of the United States or any instrumentality or agency thereof, the assignment of which claim is restricted by any applicable Law, including, without limitation, the federal Assignment of Claims Act and any other comparable Law, which claims, when taken together exceed $50,000 in the aggregate at any time. Upon the request of Agent, each Credit Party shall take such steps as may be necessary or desirable, or that Agent may request, to comply with any such applicable Law; provided, however, that so long as no Default or Event Default has occurred and is continuing, no such action will be required with respect to claims that, when taken together, do not exceed $25,000 in the aggregate at any time.
(i) Each Credit Party shall furnish to Agent from time to time any statements and schedules further identifying or describing the Collateral and any other information, reports or evidence concerning the Collateral as Agent may reasonably request from time to time; provided, however, that, except upon a Default or Event of Default that is continuing, such requests shall be made no more frequently than quarterly.
5 | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
Each Credit Party represents and warrants as follows on the Closing Date and the date of each Credit Extension:
5.1 Due Organization, Authorization: Power and Authority.
(a) Each Credit Party is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (if applicable in such entity’s jurisdiction of formation) in its respective jurisdiction of formation. Each Credit Party is qualified and licensed to do business and is in good standing (if applicable in such jurisdiction) in any jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership of property requires that it be qualified except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change. The Financing Documents have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each Credit Party and constitute legal, valid and binding agreements enforceable in accordance with their terms, except to the extent limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, by general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of each Financing Document executed or to be executed by it is in each case within such Credit Party’s powers.
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of the Financing Documents to which it is a party do not (i) conflict with any of such Credit Party’s organizational documents, including any unanimous shareholder agreement (as defined in section 146 of the Canada Business Corporations Act) or any other shareholder agreement in effect; (ii) contravene, conflict with, constitute a default under or violate any Law; (iii) contravene, conflict or violate any applicable order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award of any Governmental Authority by which such Credit Party or any of its property or assets may be bound or affected; (iv) require any action by, filing, registration, or qualification with, or Required Permit from, any Governmental Authority (except such Required Permits which have already been obtained and are in full force and effect and subject to the performance of any perfection, registration or disclosure formalities that may be required under applicable Law); or (v) constitute a default under or conflict with any Material Agreement. No Credit Party is in default under any agreement to which it is a party or by which it is bound in which the default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change.
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5.2 Litigation. Except as disclosed on the Disclosure Schedule or, after the Closing Date, pursuant to Section 6.7, there are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of the Responsible Officers, threatened in writing by or against any Credit Party which involves the possibility of any judgment or liability of more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, or which question the validity of the Financing Documents, or the other documents required thereby or any action to be taken pursuant to any of the foregoing.
5.3 No Material Deterioration in Financial Condition; Financial Statements. All financial statements for the Parent delivered to Agent or any Lender fairly present, in conformity with GAAP, in all material respects the consolidated financial condition and consolidated results of operations of the Parent. There has been no material deterioration in the consolidated financial condition of any Credit Party from the most recent financial statements and projections submitted to Agent or any Lender. There has been no material adverse deviation from the most recent annual operating plan of Parent delivered to Agent and Lenders.
5.4 Solvency. The fair salable value of each Credit Party’s assets (including goodwill minus disposition costs) exceeds the fair value of its liabilities. After giving effect to the transactions described in this Agreement, (a) no Credit Party is left with unreasonably small capital in relation to its business as presently conducted, and (b) each Credit Party is able to pay its debts (including trade debts) as they mature.
5.5 Subsidiaries; Investments. Credit Parties and their respective Subsidiaries do not own any stock, partnership interest or other equity securities, except for Permitted Investments.
5.6 Tax Returns and Payments; Pension Contributions. Except as set forth on the Disclosure Schedules, each Credit Party has timely filed all required tax returns and reports, and each Credit Party has timely paid all material federal, foreign, state and local taxes, assessments, deposits and contributions owed by such Credit Party. For purposes of this Section 5.6, any federal, state, local or foreign tax, assessment, deposit or contribution, and any return with respect thereto, shall be considered “material” if it exceeds $100,000 in the aggregate for all taxes. No Credit Party is aware of any claims or adjustments proposed for any of prior tax years of any Credit Party which could result in additional material taxes becoming due and payable by such Credit Party. Each Credit Party has paid all amounts necessary to fund all present pension, profit sharing and deferred compensation plans in accordance with their terms, and no Credit Party has withdrawn from participation in, or has permitted partial or complete termination of, or permitted the occurrence of any other event with respect to, any such plan which could reasonably be expected to result in any liability of such Credit Party, including any liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or its successors or any other Governmental Authority.
5.7 Canadian Pension Plans.
(a) Each of the Canadian Pension Plans (if any) is fully funded on a solvency basis and going concern basis (using actuarial methods and assumptions which are consistent with the valuations last filed with the applicable Governmental Authorities and which are consistent with GAAP).
(b) Each of the Canadian Pension Plans (if any) is duly registered under the Canadian Income Tax Act and any other applicable pension and benefit Laws that require registration of a Canadian Pension Plan (collectively, the “Applicable Pension and Benefit Laws”), has been administered in accordance with the Canadian Income Tax Act and such other Applicable Pension and Benefit Laws and no event has occurred which could reasonably be expected to cause the loss of such registered status.
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(c) All material obligations of each of the Credit Parties (including fiduciary, funding, investment and administration obligations) required to be performed in connection with the Canadian Pension Plans and the funding agreements therefor have been performed on a timely basis.
(d) There are no outstanding disputes concerning the assets of the Canadian Pension Plans.
None of the Canadian Pension Plans contain or have ever contained a “defined benefit provision”, as that term is defined in subsection 147.1(1) of the Canadian Income Tax Act.
5.8 Centre of Main Interests and establishment for UK Guarantors
(a) Each UK Guarantor’s "centre of main interests" (as that term is used in Article 3(i) of The Council of European Union No 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings (the "Regulation")) is in its jurisdiction of incorporation.
(b) No UK Guarantor has "establishment" (as that term is used in Article 2(h) of the Regulation) in any other jurisdiction.
5.9 Disclosure Schedule. All information set forth in the Disclosure Schedule is true, accurate and complete as of the date hereof. All information set forth in the Perfection Certificate is true, accurate and complete as of the date hereof.
5.10 Legal Form. This Agreement is, and each Financing Document (subject to the performance of any perfection or registration formalities that may be required under applicable law) when duly executed and delivered by the applicable Credit Party will be, in proper legal form under the laws of such Credit Party’s jurisdiction of incorporation for the enforcement thereof against such Credit Party under such law, and if this Agreement were stated to be governed by such law, it would constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Credit Party under such law, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance or transfer, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, and except as the enforceability of this Agreement is subject to the application of general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). All formalities required in each jurisdiction in which a Credit Party is incorporated for the validity and enforceability of each of the Financing Documents to which such Credit Party is a Party have been accomplished, and no Taxes are required to be paid (other than those Taxes that have been duly paid by the applicable Credit Party) and no notarization is required, for the validity and enforceability thereof.
5.11 FCPA and Anti-Corruption Law. For the immediately preceding five year period, neither the Credit Parties nor any of their respective Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person acting in such capacity on behalf of any Credit Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries, has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such Persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder (the “FCPA”), the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada), as amended, or any other applicable anti-corruption law. No part of the proceeds of the Loans shall be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the FCPA. Each Credit Party has conducted its businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and has instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws.
6 | AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
Each Credit Party covenants and agrees as follows:
6.1 Organization and Existence; Government Compliance.
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(a) Each Credit Party shall maintain its legal existence and good standing (if applicable in such entity’s jurisdiction of formation) in its respective jurisdiction of formation and maintain qualification in each jurisdiction in which the failure to so qualify could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change. If a Credit Party is not now a Registered Organization but later becomes one, Credit Parties shall promptly notify Agent of such occurrence and provide Agent with such Credit Party’s organizational identification number.
(b) Each Credit Party shall comply with all Laws, ordinances and regulations to which it or its business locations are subject, the noncompliance with which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Each Credit Party shall obtain and keep in full force and effect and comply with all of the Required Permits, except where failure to have or maintain compliance with or effectiveness of such Required Permit could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Upon request of Agent, each Credit Party shall promptly provide copies of any such obtained Required Permits to Agent. Borrower shall notify Agent within three (3) Business Days (but in any event prior to Borrower submitting any requests for Credit Extensions or release of any reserves) of the occurrence of any facts, events or circumstances known to any Credit Party, whether threatened, existing or pending, that could cause any Required Permit to become limited, suspended or revoked, if such limitation, suspension or revocation would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, or that makes any Credit Party subject to or requires any Credit Party to file a plan of correction with respect to any accreditation survey.
6.2 Financial Statements, Reports, Certificates.
(a) Parent shall deliver to Agent and each Lender: (i) as soon as available, but no later than forty-five (45) days after the last day of each fiscal quarter, a company prepared consolidated and consolidating balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement covering Parent’s consolidated operations for such fiscal quarter certified by a Responsible Officer and in a form acceptable to Agent and each Lender; (ii) as soon as available, but no later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the last day of Parent’s fiscal year, audited consolidated and consolidating financial statements prepared under GAAP, consistently applied, together with an unqualified opinion on the financial statements from KPMG LLP, or another independent certified public accounting firm acceptable to Agent and each Lender in its reasonable discretion; (iii) as soon as available after approval thereof by such Credit Party’s governing board, but no later than thirty (30) days after the last day of Parent’s fiscal year, and as amended and/or updated, Parent’s consolidated financial projections for current fiscal year; (iv) [reserved]; (v) in the event that such Credit Party is or becomes subject to the reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, within five (5) days of filing, all reports on Form 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)or a link thereto on such Credit Party’s or another website on the Internet; (vi) within 10 days of a request by Agent, budgets, sales projections, operating plans and other financial information reasonably requested by Agent or any Lender, as is readily available or is able to be produced by Credit Parties without significant cost or difficulty; (vii) as soon as available, but no later than thirty (30) days after the last day of each month, copies of the month-end account statements for each Collateral Account maintained by a Credit Party, which statements may be provided to Agent and each Lender by Borrower or directly from the applicable institution(s); and (viii) within 10 days of a request by Agent, such information as is readily available or is able to be produced without significant cost or difficulty regarding the Credit Parties or their respective businesses as Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
(b) Within forty-five (45) days after the last day of each month, Parent shall deliver to Agent and each Lender, a duly completed Compliance Certificate (together with such other information as required pursuant to Section 9.2) signed by a Responsible Officer.
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(c) Each Credit Party shall keep proper books of record and account in accordance with GAAP in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. Upon prior written notice (except if any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) and during regular business hours (unless otherwise agreed by the parties), each Credit Party shall allow Agent and Lenders to visit and inspect any properties of such Credit Party, to examine and make abstracts or copies from such Credit Party’s books, to conduct a collateral audit and analysis of its operations and the Collateral to verify the amount and age of the accounts, the identity and credit of the respective account debtors, to review the billing practices of such Credit Party and to discuss its respective affairs, finances and accounts with their respective officers, employees and independent public accountants; provided, however, that such visits and inspections shall be no more frequent than quarterly unless a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Credit Parties shall reimburse Agent and each Lender for all reasonable costs and expenses associated with such visits and inspections; provided, however, that Credit Parties shall be required to reimburse Agent and each Lender for such costs and expenses for no more than one (1) such visit and inspection per twelve (12) month period unless an Event of Default has occurred during such period.
(d) Each Credit Party shall deliver to Agent and each Lender, within ten (10) days after the same are sent or received, copies of all material correspondence, reports, documents and other filings with any Governmental Authority that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on any of the Required Permits material to the Credit Parties’ business or otherwise on the operations of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
(e) So long as Parent shall have sent notification to Agent that such financial statements, statements, reports, notices and filings, as the case may be, have become publicly available, Parent shall be deemed to have satisfied its obligations under Sections 6.2(a)(i), (ii), (iv) and (v) if and to the extent the financial statements, statements, reports, notices and filings, as the case may be, referenced in such covenants shall have been filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and/or the SEC, and are accessible to the Agent, in the SEDAR and/or XXXXX filing systems.
6.3 Maintenance of Property.
(a) Each Credit Party shall (i) cause all equipment and other tangible personal property that is material to its business (other than Inventory, which is the subject of clause (ii) below) to be maintained and preserved in good condition, repair and working order, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and shall promptly make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements in connection therewith that are necessary or desirable to such end and (ii) keep all Inventory (other than Inventory representing less than 5% of total Inventory of Credit Parties, in the aggregate, at any time) in good and marketable condition, free from material defects. Returns and allowances between any Credit Party and its Account Debtors shall follow such Credit Party’s customary practices as they exist at the Closing Date. Borrower shall promptly notify Agent of all returns, recoveries, disputes and claims that involve more than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) of Inventory collectively among all Credit Parties.
(b) No later than November 30, 2014 and at all times thereafter, each Credit Party shall ensure that original or duplicate electronic copies of such Credit Parties Books are located at the Parent’s principal place of business in Vancouver, Canada and available for inspection by Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
6.4 Taxes; Pensions.
(a) Each Credit Party shall timely file all required tax returns and reports and timely pay material all foreign, federal, state, provincial and local taxes, assessments, deposits and contributions owed, and shall deliver to Agent, on demand, appropriate certificates attesting to such payments. Each Credit Party shall pay all amounts necessary to fund all present pension, profit sharing and deferred compensation plans in accordance with their terms. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Credit Party may defer payment of any contested taxes, provided, however, that such Credit Party (a) in good faith contests its obligation to pay the taxes by appropriate proceedings promptly and diligently instituted and conducted, (b) in the case of any material contested taxes, notifies Agent in writing of the commencement of, and any material development in, the proceedings, and (c) posts bonds or takes any other steps required to prevent the Governmental Authority levying such contested taxes from obtaining a Lien upon any of the Collateral. For purposes of this Section 6.4, any federal, state, local or foreign tax, assessment, deposit or contribution, and any return with respect thereto, shall be considered “material” if it exceeds $100,000 in the aggregate for all taxes.
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(b) Each Credit Party shall ensure that neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries shall at any time establish any defined benefit occupational pension scheme in the United Kingdom.
(c) Each Credit Party shall ensure that neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries is or has been at any time in the last six years an employer (for the purposes of sections 38 to 51 of the Pensions Act) of an occupational pension scheme in the United Kingdom which is not a money purchase scheme (both terms as defined in the Pension Schemes Act) and that no contribution notice or financial support direction (both terms as defined in the Pensions Act) has been issued by the Pensions Regulator against or involving any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, nor is each Credit Party aware of any reason justifying the issue of a contribution notice or financial support direction against it or any of its Subsidiaries.
6.5 Insurance. Each Credit Party shall keep its business and the Collateral insured for risks and in amounts standard for companies in such Credit Party’s industry and location and as Agent may reasonably request. Insurance policies shall be in a form, with companies, and in amounts that are satisfactory to Agent, acting reasonably. All property policies shall have a lender’s loss payable endorsement showing Agent as sole lender’s loss payee and waive subrogation against Agent, and all liability policies shall show, or have endorsements showing, Agent as an additional insured. No other loss payees may be shown on the policies unless Agent, acting reasonably, shall otherwise consent in writing. If required by Agent, all policies (or the loss payable and additional insured endorsements) shall provide that the insurer shall endeavor to give Agent at least thirty (30) days’ notice before canceling, amending, or declining to renew its policy. At Agent’s reasonable request, each Credit Party shall deliver certified copies of all such Credit Party insurance policies and evidence of all premium payments. If any Credit Party fails to obtain insurance as required under this Section 6.5 or to pay any amount or furnish any required proof of payment to third persons and Agent, Agent may make all or part of such payment or obtain such insurance policies required in this Section 6.5, and take any action under the policies Agent, acting reasonably, deems prudent.
6.6 Collateral Accounts. Each Credit Party shall provide Agent five (5) days prior written notice before establishing or closing any Collateral Account at or with any bank or financial institution. In addition, for each Collateral Account (other than Excluded Collateral Accounts) that any Credit Party at any time maintains, each Credit Party shall cause the applicable bank or financial institution at or with which any such Collateral Account is maintained to execute and deliver a Control Agreement or other appropriate instrument or agreement with respect to such Collateral Account that (a) ensures, to the extent necessary under applicable law, the perfection and priority of Agent’s Lien in such Collateral Account in accordance with the terms hereunder, (b) provides that such bank or financial institution shall comply with instructions originated by Agent directing disposition of the funds in such Collateral Account without further consent by the applicable Credit Party, and (c) may not be terminated without prior written consent of Agent. The provisions of the previous sentence shall not apply to deposit accounts exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Credit Party’s employees and identified to Agent by such Credit party as such; provided, however, that at all times following the date that is thirty (30) days following the Closing Date, Borrower shall maintain one or more separate Deposit Accounts to hold any and all amounts to be used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments, and shall not commingle any monies allocated for such purposes with funds in any other Deposit Account.
6.7 Notices of Material Agreements, Litigation and Defaults; Cooperation in Litigation. Promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days, except in the case of clause (a), in which case, within three (3) Business Days), (a) upon any Credit Party becoming aware of the existence of any Default or Event of Default, (b) upon the execution and delivery of any Material Agreement and each material amendment, consent, waiver or other modification, and each notice of termination or default or similar notice delivered to or by a Credit Party in connection with any Material Agreement, or (c) upon any Credit Party becoming aware of (or having reason to believe any of the following are pending or threatened in writing) any action, suit, proceeding or investigation by or against Borrower or any Credit Party, which involves the possibility of any judgment or liability of more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00) or that could result in a Material Adverse Change, or which questions the validity of any of the Financing Documents, or the other documents required thereby or any action to be taken pursuant to any of the foregoing, Credit Parties shall give written notice to Agent and each Lender of such occurrence, and such further information (including copies of such documentation) as Agent or any Lender shall reasonably request. From the date hereof and continuing through the termination of this Agreement, Borrower shall, and shall cause each Credit Party to, make available to Agent and each Lender, without expense to Agent or any Lender, each Credit Party’s officers, employees and agents and books, to the extent that Agent or any Lender may deem them reasonably necessary to prosecute or defend any third-party suit or proceeding instituted by or against Agent or any Lender with respect to any Collateral or relating to a Credit Party.
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6.8 Creation/Acquisition of Subsidiaries; Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries.
(a) In the event any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof (other than a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary) creates or, to the extent permitted hereunder, acquires any Subsidiary, Credit Parties and such Subsidiary shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days of such creation or acquisition) notify Agent of the creation or acquisition of such new Subsidiary and either (i) together with such notice and with the consent of Agent, designate such new Subsidiary as a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary, in which case, such new Subsidiary shall be deemed for all purposes hereof to be a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary or (ii) take all such action as may be reasonably required by Agent or the Required Lenders to cause each such new Subsidiary to become a co-Borrower hereunder or to guarantee the Obligations of Borrower under the Financing Documents and, in each case under this subclause (ii), grant a continuing pledge and security interest in and to the assets of such new Subsidiary (substantially as described in Section 4.1); and such Credit Party shall grant and pledge to Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, a perfected security interest in the stock, units or other evidence of ownership of each such new Subsidiary (the foregoing collectively, the “Joinder Requirements”); provided, that Credit Parties shall not be permitted to make any Investment in such Subsidiary until such time as Borrower has satisfied the Joinder Requirements (it being understood and agreed that Investments made in such Subsidiary contemporaneously with the satisfaction of the Joinder Requirements shall not be prohibited).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Credit Parties shall comply, and cause their respective Subsidiaries to comply with the following requirements, and may make Investments of cash and Cash Equivalents in a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary but only to the extent that (i) the aggregate amount of such Investments with respect to all such Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries shall not, at any time, exceed the lesser of (A) the amount necessary to fund the current operating expenses of such Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries (taking into account their revenue from other sources) and (B) $125,000; (ii) the total amount of cash and Cash Equivalents held by the Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries in Accounts other than Collateral Accounts, in aggregate for all such Accounts, shall not, at any time, exceed $500,000; and (iii) the value of the assets (excluding all accounts receivable owed to the Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries and cash and Cash Equivalents) of all the Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries, in the aggregate for all such Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries, shall not, at any time, exceed $1,500,000; provided, however, that no Restricted Foreign Subsidiary shall own or hold any assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents, accounts receivable, Equipment and prepaid expenses. Following (a) the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default and (b) the exercise by Agent of any right, option or remedy provided for hereunder, under any Financing Document or at law or in equity, Borrower shall cause each Restricted Foreign Subsidiary (x) to declare and pay to the applicable Credit Party the maximum amount of dividends and other distributions in respect of its capital stock or other equity interest legally permitted to be paid by each such Restricted Foreign Subsidiary; provided that such Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries shall be able to retain for working capital purposes such other amounts used by the Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of Business and as are reasonable necessary for its operations based on its current projections, as provided to the Agent pursuant to Section 6.2 and (y) to the extent permitted under applicable law and under the terms of the applicable contracts related thereto, assign all claims with respect to its accounts receivable and all rights under the contracts related thereto to the applicable Credit Party and, to the extent not permitted under applicable law and under the terms of the applicable contracts related thereto, to take all actions reasonably requested by Agent to allow such assignment. Without limiting the foregoing, each Credit Party shall maintain, in all material respects, the procedures in place as of the Closing Date for invoicing and collecting payments from its applicable Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries, including with respect to the amount, manner and time for collection on such intercompany invoices. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the request of Agent, Credit Parties shall cause any one or more Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries to become a co-Borrower hereunder or to guarantee the Obligations of Borrower under the Financing Documents in accordance with the Joinder Requirements applicable to new Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 6.8(a) within thirty (30) days of such a request by Agent.
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6.9 Use of Proceeds. Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Credit Extensions solely for (a) transaction fees incurred in connection with the Financing Documents, (b) working capital needs of Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the other Credit Parties, and (c) any other Permitted Purpose specified in the Credit Facility Schedule for such Credit Facility. No portion of the proceeds of the Credit Extensions will be used for family, personal, agricultural or household use.
6.10 Hazardous Materials; Remediation.
(a) If any release or disposal of Hazardous Materials shall occur or shall have occurred on any real property or any other assets of any Credit Party, such Credit Party will cause the prompt containment and removal of such Hazardous Materials and the remediation of such real property or other assets as is necessary to comply with all Laws and to preserve the value of such real property or other assets. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Credit Party shall comply with each Law requiring the performance at any real property by such Credit Party of activities in response to the release or threatened release of a Hazardous Material.
(b) The Credit Parties will provide Agent within thirty (30) days after written demand therefor with a bond, letter of credit or similar financial assurance evidencing to the reasonable satisfaction of Agent that sufficient funds are available to pay the cost of removing, treating and disposing of any Hazardous Materials or Hazardous Materials Contamination and discharging any assessment which may be established on any property as a result thereof, such demand to be made, if at all, upon Agent’s determination that the failure to remove, treat or dispose of any Hazardous Materials or Hazardous Materials Contamination, or the failure to discharge any such assessment could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change.
(c) If there is any conflict between this Section 6.10 and any environmental indemnity agreement which is a Financing Document, the environmental indemnity agreement shall govern and control.
6.11 Power of Attorney. Each of the officers of Agent is hereby irrevocably made, constituted and appointed the true and lawful attorney for each Credit Party (without requiring any of them to act as such) with full power of substitution to do the following, in each case, so long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing: (a) pay, contest or settle any Lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, and adverse claim in or to the Collateral, or any judgment based thereon, or otherwise take any action to terminate or discharge the same; (b) so long as Agent has provided not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Credit Parties to perform the same and the Credit Parties have failed to take such action, (i) execute in the name of any Person comprising any Credit Party any schedules, assignments, instruments, documents, and statements that such Credit Party is obligated to give Agent under this Agreement or that Agent or any Lender deems necessary to perfect or better perfect Agent’s security interest or Lien in any Collateral, (ii) do such other and further acts and deeds in the name of such Credit Party that Agent may deem necessary or desirable to enforce, protect or preserve any Collateral or its rights therein, including, but not limited to, to sign such Credit Party’s name on any invoice or xxxx of lading for any Account or drafts against Account Debtors; and (iii) (A) endorse the name of any Credit Party upon any and all checks, drafts, money orders, and other instruments for the payment of money that are payable to such Credit Party; (B) make, settle, and adjust all claims under the Credit Parties’ insurance policies; (C) take any action any Credit Party is required to take under this Agreement or any other Financing Document; (D) transfer the Collateral into the name of Agent or a third party as the Code permits; (E) exercise any rights and remedies described in this Agreement or the other Financing Documents; and (F) do such other and further acts and deeds in the name of any Credit Party that Agent may deem necessary or desirable to enforce its rights with regard to any Collateral.
6.12 Further Assurances. Each Credit Party shall promptly execute any further instruments and take further action as Agent reasonably requests to perfect or better perfect or continue Agent’s Lien in the Collateral or to effect the purposes of this Agreement or any other Financing Document, including without limitation, executing security documents governed by the law of the jurisdiction of incorporation of any Credit Party that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any state thereof.
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6.13 Right of First Refusal. Borrower hereby agrees that if, at any time during the term hereof, any Borrower receives from a third party an offer, term sheet or commitment, or any Borrower makes a proposal substantially acceptable to or accepted by any person or entity (all of the foregoing being referred to as an “Offer”), which Offer provides for working capital financing, accounts receivable financing, or inventory financing, the applicable Person comprising the Borrower shall first forward the Offer to MCF, which shall have five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof (the “Option Period”) to agree to provide similar financing in the place of such person or entity upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer and to notify such Person in writing of MCF’s acceptance of the Offer (the “Acceptance Notice”). If the Borrower has not received an Acceptance Notice within the Option Period, the Borrower shall be free to consummate the transaction described in the Offer with the third party providing the Offer (the “Financing Transaction”); provided, however, that the foregoing, and MCF’s failure to respond to issue an Acceptance Notice, shall not be construed as a waiver of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of the Financing Documents. In the event that the Financing Transaction is not consummated under similar terms with such person or entity during the one hundred twenty (120) day period following the expiration of the Option Period, or any material term is changed, Borrower shall not be permitted to consummate the Financing Transaction without again complying with this Section. For purposes of this Section, “MCF” shall mean and include either of MCF or any other parent company, subsidiary or Affiliate of MCF, and the Acceptance Notice and consummation of such financing transaction may be executed by MCF or any other parent company, subsidiary or Affiliate of MCF. Nothing in this Section is intended, or shall be construed, to constitute Agent’s, MCF’s or any other Lender’s consent to the consummation of any transaction described in any Offer.
6.14 Post-Closing Obligations. Each Credit Party shall complete each of the post-closing obligations and/or deliver to Agent each of the documents, instruments, agreements and information listed on the Post-Closing Obligations Schedule attached hereto, on or before the date set forth for each such item thereon (as the same may be extended by Agent in writing in its sole discretion), each of which shall be completed or provided in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and Lenders.
6.15 Disclosure Schedule. Without limiting other notice requirements herein, together with any Compliance Certificate required to be delivered under this Agreement, if any information in any Disclosure Schedule has become inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, Borrower shall deliver to Agent, a proposed update to the Disclosure Schedule correcting all inaccurate, outdated, incomplete or misleading information. With respect to any proposed updates to the Disclosure Schedule involving Permitted Liens, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments, Agent will replace the Disclosure Schedule attached hereto with such proposed update only if such updated information is consistent with the definitions of and limitations herein pertaining to Permitted Liens, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments. With respect to any proposed updates to the Disclosure Schedule involving other matters, Agent will replace the applicable portion of the Disclosure Schedule attached hereto with such proposed update upon Agent’s approval thereof.
7 | NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
No Credit Party shall do any of the following without the prior written consent of Agent:
7.1 Dispositions. Convey, sell, abandon, lease, license, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of (collectively, “Transfer”) all or any part of its business or property, except for (a) sales, transfers or dispositions of Inventory in the ordinary course of business; or (b) sales or abandonment of worn-out or obsolete Equipment; (c) sales, transfers or dispositions by one Borrower or Guarantor to another Borrower or Guarantor (subject, as applicable, to Section 6.8), by a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary to another Restricted Foreign Subsidiary or Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries, by a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary to a Borrower or Guarantor or, subject to Section 6.8(b), by a Credit Party to a Restricted Foreign Subsidiary or Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries, and (d) sales or dispositions of Permitted Investments for cash or other Permitted Investments.
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7.2 Changes in Business, Management, Ownership or Business Locations. (a) Engage in, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to engage in, any business other than the businesses currently engaged in by such Credit Party or such Subsidiary, as applicable, or reasonably related thereto; (b) liquidate or dissolve; (c) (i) have a change in its Chief Executive Officer where a suitable permanent replacement, as approved by such Credit Party’s board of directors, has not been named and hired by not later than sixty (60) days after such change, or (ii) enter into any transaction or series of related transactions which would result in a Change in Control; (d) add any new offices or business locations, or enter into any new leases with respect to existing offices or business locations (unless such new or existing offices or business locations (i) contain less than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) in such Credit Party’s assets or property and (ii) do not contain any of such Credit Party’s Books that are not otherwise available (whether in duplicate or original form) at another business location of a Credit Party that is covered by an Access Agreement) without first delivering a fully-executed Access Agreement to Agent; (e) change its jurisdiction of organization; (f) change its organizational structure or type; (g) (e) change its legal name, without furnishing to the Agent at least 30 days’ prior written notice of such change; or (h) change any organizational number (if any) assigned by its jurisdiction of organization. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) if the company has not terminated its lease with respect to, and removed all Collateral from, the premises located at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx X0X 0X0 by December 31, 2014, Borrowers shall provide Agent with an Access Agreement with respect to such location and (ii) with respect to any relocation of Parent’s principal place of business to: Xxxxx 000, 0xx xxxxx(x), 0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx (the “New Headquarters”), Credit Parties shall not be required to provide an Access Agreement for such location if (A) New Headquarters Lease provides access rights for Agent and Lenders in a manner reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (B) along with the delivery of each Compliance Certificate, Credit Parties provide evidence satisfactory to Agent that Parent has made (or caused to be made) each rent payment under and in accordance with the terms of the New Headquarters Lease. In addition to the foregoing, until such time as Credit Parties obtain Access Agreements with respect to the leased premises of the Swiss Guarantors located at (i) Rue des Alpes 21, Xxxx xxxxxxx 0000, 0000 Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx (Correvio International Sàrl) and (ii) Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 000, XX-0000 Xxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx (CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG), Credit Parties shall provide evidence satisfactory to Agent that Parent has made (or caused to be made) each rent payment under and in accordance with the terms of the leases relating to such locations.
7.3 Mergers or Acquisitions. Merge or consolidate with any other Person, or acquire all or substantially all of the capital stock or property of another Person; provided, however, that a Subsidiary of a Credit Party may merge or consolidate into another Subsidiary that is a Credit Party, so long as (a) Borrower has provided Agent with prior written notice of such transaction, (b) a Person already comprising a Credit Party shall be the surviving legal entity, (c) if a Borrower is a party thereto, a Borrower shall be the surviving legal entity, (d) except as otherwise provided in clause (c) above, if a Guarantor is a party thereto, a Guarantor shall be the surviving legal entity, (e) the surviving Credit Party’s tangible net worth is not thereby reduced, (e) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing prior thereto or arises as a result therefrom, and (f) the Credit Parties shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in this Agreement both before and after giving effect to such transaction.
7.4 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume, or be liable for (or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume, or be liable for) any Indebtedness other than Permitted Indebtedness.
7.5 Encumbrance. (a) Create, incur, allow, or suffer (or permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur, allow, or suffer) any Lien on any of its property (including its Intellectual Property), except for Permitted Liens, (b) permit any Collateral to fail to be subject to the first priority security interest granted herein except for Permitted Liens that may have priority by operation of applicable Law or by the terms of a written intercreditor or subordination agreement entered into by Agent, or (c) enter into (or permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into) any agreement, document, instrument or other arrangement (except with or in favor of Agent) with any Person which directly or indirectly prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party from assigning, mortgaging, pledging, granting a security interest in or upon, or encumbering any of a Credit Party’s or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party’s Collateral or Intellectual Property, except as is otherwise permitted in the definition of “Permitted Liens” herein.
7.6 Maintenance of Collateral Accounts. Maintain any Collateral Account, except pursuant to the terms of Section 6.6 and in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.8(b) hereof.
7.7 Distributions; Investments. (a) Pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in common stock) or make any distribution or payment with respect to or redeem, retire or purchase or repurchase any of its equity interests (other than repurchases pursuant to the terms of employee stock purchase plans, employee restricted stock agreements or similar plans), or (b) directly or indirectly make any Investment (including, without limitation, any additional Investment in any Subsidiary) other than Permitted Investments.
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7.8 Transactions with Affiliates. Directly or indirectly enter into or permit to exist any material transaction with any Affiliate of any Credit Party, except for (a) transactions that are in the ordinary course of business (as conducted by such Credit Party in accordance with past practices), upon terms that are no less favorable to such Credit Party than would be obtained in an arm’s length transaction with a non-affiliated Person, (b) transactions with Credit Parties and that are not otherwise prohibited by Article 7 of this Agreement, and (c) transactions permitted by Section 7.7 of this Agreement.
7.9 Reserved.
7.10 Compliance. Become an “investment company” or a company controlled by an “investment company”, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended or undertake as one of its important activities extending credit to purchase or carry margin stock (as defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), or use the proceeds of any Credit Extension for that purpose; fail to meet the minimum funding requirements of ERISA, permit a Reportable Event or Prohibited Transaction, as defined in ERISA, to occur; fail to comply with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act or violate any other Law or regulation, if the violation could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change; withdraw from participation in, permit partial or complete termination of, or permit the occurrence of any other event with respect to, any present pension, profit sharing and deferred compensation plan which could reasonably be expected to result in any liability of such Credit Party, including any liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or its successors or any other governmental agency.
7.11 Amendments to Organization Documents and Material Agreements. Amend, modify or waive any provision of (a) any Material Agreement in a manner that is materially adverse to any Credit Party, that is adverse to Agent or any Lender, that pertains to rights to assign or grant a security interest in such Material Agreement or that could or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, or (b) any of its organizational documents (other than a change in registered agents, or a change that could not reasonably be expected to adversely affect the rights of Agent or Lenders hereunder, but, for the avoidance of doubt, under no circumstances a change of its name, type of organization or jurisdiction of organization, except in accordance with Section 7.2), in each case, without the prior written consent of Agent. Each Credit Party shall provide to Agent copies of all amendments, waivers and modifications of any Material Agreement or organizational documents.
7.12 Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws; Anti-Money Laundering.
(a) Directly or indirectly, knowingly enter into any documents, instruments, agreements or contracts with any Person listed on the OFAC Lists. Each Credit Party shall immediately notify Agent if such Credit Party has knowledge that any Credit Party or any Subsidiary or Affiliate is listed on the OFAC Lists or (a) is convicted on, (b) pleads nolo contendere to, (c) is indicted on, or (d) is arraigned and held over on charges involving money laundering or predicate crimes to money laundering. No Credit Party will, nor will any Credit Party permit any Subsidiary or Affiliate to, directly or indirectly, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including, without limitation, the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in Executive Order No. 13224 or other Anti-Terrorism Law. Agent hereby notifies each Credit Party that pursuant to the requirements of Anti-Terrorism Laws, and Agent’s policies and practices, Agent is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies such Credit Party and its principals, which information includes the name and address of such Credit Party and its principals and such other information that will allow Agent to identify such party in accordance with Anti-Terrorism Laws.
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(b) Credit Parties acknowledge that, pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and other applicable anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, government sanction and “know your client” Laws, whether within Canada or elsewhere (collectively, including any guidelines or orders thereunder, “AML Legislation”), Lenders and Agent may be required to obtain, verify and record information regarding the Credit Parties, their respective directors, authorized signing officers, direct or indirect shareholders or other Persons in control of such Credit Party, and the transactions contemplated hereby. Credit Parties shall promptly provide all such information, including supporting documentation and other evidence, as may be reasonably requested by any Lender or Agent, or any prospective assign or participant of a Lender or Agent, in order to comply with any applicable AML Legislation, whether now or hereafter in existence. If the Agent has ascertained the identity of any Credit Party or any authorized signatories of any Credit party for the purposes of applicable AML Legislation, then the Agent:
(i) shall be deemed to have done so as an agent for each Lender, and this Agreement shall constitute a “written agreement” in such regard between each Lender and the Agent within the meaning of applicable AML Legislation; and
(ii) shall provide to each Lender copies of all information obtained in such regard without any representation or warranty as to its accuracy or completeness.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence and except as may otherwise be agreed in writing, each Lender agrees that the Agent has no obligation to ascertain the identity of any Credit Party or any authorized signatories thereof on behalf of any Lender, or to confirm the completeness or accuracy of any information it obtains from the Borrower or any such authorized signatory in doing so.
(c) No Credit Party shall (nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to) directly or indirectly use the proceeds of any Credit Extension for any purpose which would breach the Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000, the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or other similar legislation in other jurisdictions. Each Credit Party shall conduct its businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws.
7.13 Use of Proceeds. No proceeds of any Credit Extensions shall be extended, on-lent or otherwise advanced to any Swiss Guarantor until such Swiss Credit Party has delivered an officer's certificate to the Agent certifying that such Swiss Guarantor has obtained a tax ruling from the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (a copy of such ruling to be attached to the officer’s certificate) that such action will not result either in past, or in present and future, Swiss Withholding Tax being imposed in respect of any payments of interest or otherwise in respect of the Credit Extensions or any other Obligations hereunder or under any other Financing Document at any time (regardless of the jurisdiction or status of the Persons party hereto from time to time as Lenders). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no proceeds of any Credit Extensions shall be extended, on-lent or otherwise advance to any Swiss Guarantor by any (direct or indirect) Subsidiary of any Swiss Guarantor.
8 | ADDITIONAL COVENANTS |
8.1 | Life Sciences Covenants. |
(a) As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:
“DEA” means the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States of America, and any successor agency thereof or any foreign equivalent thereof, including but not limited to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Drug Enforcement Division.
“Drug Application” means a new drug application, an abbreviated new drug application, or a product or biologic license application for any Product, as appropriate, as those terms are defined in the FDCA.
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“FDA” means the Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America, or any successor entity thereto or any foreign equivalent thereof, including but not limited to Health Canada.
“FDCA” means the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, 21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq., and all regulations promulgated thereunder or any foreign equivalent of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act including, but not limited to the Food and Drugs Act (Canada) and all regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Material Intellectual Property” means all of the Credit Parties’ Intellectual Property designated as such on the Intellectual Property Schedule and such other Intellectual Property of Credit Parties and license or sublicense agreements or other agreements with respect to rights in Intellectual Property that are material to the condition (financial or other), business or operations of the Credit Parties, as determined by Agent in its reasonable discretion.
“Permitted License” means any non-exclusive license of patent rights of any Credit Party or its Subsidiaries granted to third parties in the ordinary course of business and that does not result in a legal transfer of title to the licensed property and is for fair value consideration.
“Products” means any products manufactured, sold, developed, tested or marketed by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries, including without limitation, those products set forth on the Products Schedule (as updated from time to time in accordance with Section 8.1(d)); provided, however, that if Borrower shall fail to comply with the obligations under Section 8.1(d) to give notice to Agent and update the Products Schedule prior to manufacturing, selling, developing, testing or marketing any new Product, any such improperly undisclosed Product shall be deemed to be included in this definition.
“Registered Intellectual Property” means any patent, registered trademark or servicemark, registered copyright, registered mask work, or any pending application for any of the foregoing.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Each Credit Party represents and warrants as follows at all times unless expressly provided below:
(i) Intellectual Property and License Agreements. A list of all of Intellectual Property of each Credit Party and all license agreements, sublicenses, or other rights of any Credit Party to use Intellectual Property (including all in-bound license agreements, but excluding over-the-counter software that is commercially available to the public), as of the Closing Date and, as updated pursuant to Section 8.1(d), is set forth on the Intellectual Property Schedule, which indicates, for each item of property: (A) the name of the Credit Party owning such Intellectual Property or licensee to such license agreement; (B) the Credit Party’s identifier for such property (i.e., name of patent, license, etc.), (C) whether such property is Intellectual Property (or application therefor) owned by a Credit Party or is property to which a Credit Party has rights pursuant to a license agreement, (D) the expiration date of such Intellectual Property or license agreement, and (E) whether such property constitutes Material Intellectual Property. In the case of any Material Intellectual Property that is a license agreement, the Intellectual Property Schedule further indicates, for each: (1) the name and address of the licensor, (2) the name and date of the agreement pursuant to which such item of Material Intellectual Property is licensed, (3) whether or not such license agreement grants an exclusive license to a Credit Party, (4) whether there are any purported restrictions in such license agreement as to the ability of a Credit Party to grant a security interest in and/or to transfer any of its rights as a licensee under such license agreement, and (5) whether a default under or termination of such license agreement could interfere with Agent’s right to sell or assign such license or any other Collateral. Except as noted on the Intellectual Property Schedule, each Credit Party is the sole owner of its Intellectual Property, except for non-exclusive licenses granted to its customers in the ordinary course of business as identified on the Intellectual Property Schedule. Each Patent is valid and enforceable and no part of the Material Intellectual Property has been judged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and to the best of the Credit Parties’ knowledge, no claim has been made that any part of the Intellectual Property violates the rights of any third party.
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(ii) Regulatory Status.
(A) All Products and all Required Permits are listed on the Products Schedule and Required Permits Schedule (as updated from time to time pursuant to Section 8.1(d)), and each Credit Party has delivered to Agent a copy of all Required Permits requested by Agent as of the date hereof or to the extent requested by Agent pursuant to Section 8.1(d).
(B) Without limiting the generality of Section 8.1 above, with respect to any Product being tested or manufactured, each Credit Party and its Subsidiaries have received, and such Product is the subject of, all Required Permits needed in connection with the testing or manufacture of such Product as such testing or manufacturing is currently being conducted by or on behalf of such Credit Party, and each Credit Party and its Subsidiaries have not received any written notice from any applicable Governmental Authority, specifically including the FDA, that such Governmental Authority is conducting an investigation or review of (1) such Credit Party’s or such Subsidiary’s manufacturing facilities and processes for such Product which have disclosed any material deficiencies or violations of Laws and/or the Required Permits related to the manufacture of such Product, or (2) any such Required Permit or that any such Required Permit has been revoked or withdrawn, nor has any such Governmental Authority issued any order or recommendation stating that the development, testing and/or manufacturing of such Product should cease.
(C) Without limiting the generality of Section 8.1 above, with respect to any Product marketed or sold by any Credit Party or its Subsidiaries, such Credit Party and its Subsidiaries have received, and such Product is the subject of, all Required Permits needed in connection with the marketing and sales of such Product as currently being marketed or sold by such Credit Party or its Subsidiaries, and each Credit Party and its Subsidiaries have not received any notice from any applicable Governmental Authority, specifically including the FDA, that such Governmental Authority is conducting an investigation or review of any such Required Permit or approval or that any such Required Permit has been revoked or withdrawn, nor has any such Governmental Authority issued any order or recommendation stating that such marketing or sales of such Product cease or that such Product be withdrawn from the marketplace.
(D) Without limiting the generality of Section 8.1 above, (i) there have been no adverse clinical test results which have or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, and (ii) there have been no Product recalls or voluntary Product withdrawals from any market, other than recalls or withdrawals (x) in a single jurisdiction that does not account for a material portion of the Credit Parties’ revenue or (y) that relate only to specific lots or batches of a Product.
(E) No Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party has experienced any significant failures in its manufacturing of any Product such that the amount of such Product successfully manufactured by such Credit Party or its Subsidiaries in accordance with all specifications except to the extent that such failures do not and or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
(d) Borrower covenants and agrees as follows:
(i) The Credit Parties shall own, or be licensed to use or otherwise have the right to use, all Material Intellectual Property. All Material Intellectual Property of Credit Parties is and shall be fully protected and/or duly and properly registered, filed or issued in the appropriate office and jurisdictions for such registrations, filings or issuances, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. No Credit Party shall become a party to, or become bound by, any material license or other agreement with respect to which such Credit Party is the licensee that prohibits or otherwise restricts the Credit Party from granting a security interest in such Credit Party’s interest in such license or agreement or other property, unless such prohibition or restriction would be unenforceable under applicable law (including, without limitation, Sections 9-406, 9-407 and 9-408 of the Code). Credit Parties shall at all times conduct their business
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without infringement or claim of infringement of any Intellectual Property rights of others, except, in the case of any claim of infringement, to the extent the same could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Each Credit Party shall do the following, to the extent it determines, in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment, that it is prudent to do so: (A) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of its Material Intellectual Property; (B) promptly advise Agent in writing of material infringements of its Material Intellectual Property; and (C) not allow, without Agent’s prior written consent, any Material Intellectual Property to be abandoned, invalidated, forfeited or dedicated to the public or to become unenforceable. If any Credit Party (1) obtains any patent, registered trademark or servicemark, registered copyright, registered mask work, or any pending application for any of the foregoing, whether as owner, licensee or otherwise, or (2) applies for any patent or the registration of any trademark or servicemark, in each case, which comprises Material Intellectual Property, then Borrower shall concurrently provide written notice thereof to Agent and shall execute such intellectual property security agreements and other documents and take such other actions as Agent shall request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, in such Material Intellectual Property. If any Credit Party decides to register any copyrights or mask works in the United States Copyright Office or the Canada Copyright Office (of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office), Borrower shall: (x) provide Agent with at least fifteen (15) days prior written notice of such Credit Party’s intent to register such copyrights or mask works together with a copy of the application it intends to file with the United States Copyright Office (excluding Exhibits thereto) or the application it intends to file with the Canada Copyright Office; (y) to the extent the same constitutes Material Intellectual Property, execute an intellectual property security agreement and such other documents and take such other actions as Agent may request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, in such Material Intellectual Property; and (z) record such intellectual property security agreement with the United States Copyright Office or the Canada Copyright Office contemporaneously with filing the copyright or mask work application(s) with the United States Copyright Office or the Canada Copyright Office (as applicable). Borrower shall promptly provide to Agent copies of all applications that it files for patents or for the registration of trademarks, servicemarks, copyrights or mask works, in each case, to the extent the same constitutes Material Intellectual Property, together with evidence of the recording of the intellectual property security agreement necessary for Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in such Material Intellectual Property.
(ii) In connection with the development, testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of each and any Product by a Credit Party, such Credit Party shall comply fully and completely in all respects with all Required Permits at all times issued by any Governmental Authority (specifically including the FDA) the noncompliance with which could have a Material Adverse Change, with respect to such development, testing, manufacture, marketing or sales of such Product by such Credit Party as such activities are at any such time being conducted by such Credit Party.
(iii) Within ten (10) days of (A) acquiring and/or developing any new Registered Intellectual Property, or (B) entering or becoming bound by any additional license or sublicense agreement or other agreement with respect to rights in Intellectual Property (other than over-the-counter software that is commercially available to the public), in each case, which comprises Material Intellectual Property, deliver to Agent an updated Intellectual Property Schedule reflecting same, and upon any other material change in Credit Parties’ Material Intellectual Property from that listed on the Intellectual Property Schedule. Each Credit Party shall take such commercially reasonable steps as Agent requests to obtain the consent of, or waiver by, any person whose consent or waiver is necessary for (x) all licenses or agreements comprising Material Intellectual Property to be deemed “Collateral” and for Agent to have a security interest in it that might otherwise be restricted or prohibited by Law or by the terms of any such license or agreement, whether now existing or entered into in the future, and (y) Agent to have the ability in the event of a liquidation of any Collateral to dispose of such Collateral in accordance with Agent’s rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents.
(iv) If, after the Closing Date, any Credit Party determines to manufacture, sell, develop, test or market any new Product, such Credit Party shall give prior written notice to Agent of such determination (which shall include a brief description of such Product, plus a list of all Required Permits relating to such new Product (and a copy of such Required Permits if requested by Agent) and/or such Credit Party’s manufacture, sale, development, testing or marketing thereof issued or outstanding as of the date of such notice), along with a copy of an updated Intellectual Property Schedule, Products Schedule and Required Permits Schedule, as applicable; provided, however, that if any Credit Party shall at any time obtain any new or additional Required Permits from the FDA, DEA, or parallel state or local authorities, or foreign counterparts of the FDA, DEA, or parallel state or local authorities, with respect to any Product which has previously been disclosed to Agent, such Credit Party shall promptly give written notice to Agent of such new or additional Required Permits (along with a copy thereof if requested by Agent).
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(e) In addition to the events listed in Article 10, if the same could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, any one of the following shall also constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement: (i) the institution of any proceeding by FDA or similar Governmental Authority to order the withdrawal of any Product or Product category from the market or to enjoin any Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or any representative of any Credit Party or its Subsidiaries from manufacturing, marketing, selling or distributing any Product or Product category, (ii) the institution of any action or proceeding by any DEA, FDA, or any other Governmental Authority to revoke, suspend, reject, withdraw, limit, or restrict any Required Permit held by a Credit Party, its Subsidiaries or any representative of a Credit Party or its Subsidiaries, (iii) the commencement of any enforcement action against one or more Credit Parties, its/their Subsidiaries or any representative of a Credit Party or its Subsidiaries (with respect to the business of Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries) by DEA, FDA, or any other Governmental Authority, (iv) the recall of any Products from the market, the voluntary withdrawal of any Products from the market, or actions to discontinue the sale of any Products, or (v) the occurrence of adverse test results in connection with a Product.
9 | Financial COvenants |
9.1 Parent shall comply with at least one of the following financial covenants:
(a) Minimum Cash: Parent shall, at all times, maintain unrestricted cash and cash equivalents in an amount not less than $8,000,000, which cash and cash equivalents shall be subject to a first priority perfected lien in favor of Agent for the benefit of Lenders and held in a Collateral Account that is subject to a Control Agreement; or
(b) Minimum Revenue: Parent shall not permit its consolidated net revenue as of any Testing Date to be less than the minimum amounts set forth on Minimum Net Revenue Schedule, opposite such Testing Date set forth on such Minimum Net Revenue Schedule. For each period after December 31, 2015, the required minimum net revenues shall be determined by Agent, in consultation with Parent, annually based on the greater of (i) [rate redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] of Parent’s board-approved projections for the applicable trailing twelve month period and (ii) [figure redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] for the applicable trailing twelve month period.
9.2 Parent shall furnish to Agent, together with the monthly financial reporting required of Parent in this Agreement, a Compliance Certificate as evidence of Parent’s compliance with the covenants in this Section 9. The Compliance Certificate shall include, without limitation, (a) a statement and report, on a form approved by Agent, detailing Parent’s calculations, (b) bank statements and (c) if requested by Agent, back-up documentation (including, without limitation, invoices, receipts and other evidence of costs incurred during such quarter as Agent shall reasonably require) evidencing the propriety of the calculations.
10 | EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
10.1 Events of Default. The occurrence of any of the following conditions and/or events, whether voluntary or involuntary, by operation of law or otherwise, shall constitute an “Event of Default” and Credit Parties shall thereupon be in default under this Agreement and each of the other Financing Documents:
(a) Borrower fails to (i) make any payment of principal or interest on any Credit Extension on its due date, or (ii) pay any other Obligations within three (3) Business Days after such Obligations are due and payable (which three (3) Business Day grace period shall not apply to payments due on the Maturity Date or the date of acceleration pursuant to Section 10.2 hereof);
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(b) Any Credit Party defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term contained in this Agreement or in any other Financing Document (other than occurrences described in other provisions of this Section 10.1 for which a different grace or cure period is specified or for which no grace or cure period is specified and thereby constitute immediate Events of Default) and such default is not remedied by the Credit Party or waived by Agent within fifteen (15) days after the earlier of (i) the date of receipt by any Borrower of notice from Agent or Required Lenders of such default, or (ii) the date an officer of such Credit Party becomes aware, or through the exercise of reasonable diligence should have become aware, of such default;
(c) Any Credit Party defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term contained in Section 6.2, 6.5, 6.6, 6.8, 6.10 or 6.14 or Article 7, Article 8 or Article 9;
(d) Any representation, warranty, certification or statement made by any Credit Party or any other Person acting for or on behalf of a Credit Party (i) in any Financing Document or in any certificate, financial statement or other document delivered pursuant to any Financing Document, or (ii) to induce Agent and/or Lenders to enter into this Agreement or any Financing Document is incorrect in any respect (or in any material respect if such representation, warranty, certification or statement is not by its terms already qualified as to materiality) when made (or deemed made);
(e) (i) any Credit Party defaults under or breaches any Material Agreement (after any applicable grace period contained therein), or a Material Agreement shall be terminated by a third party or parties party thereto prior to the expiration thereof, or there is a loss of a material right of a Credit Party under any Material Agreement to which it is a party, in each case which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change, (ii) (A) any Credit Party fails to make (after any applicable grace period) any payment when due (whether due because of scheduled maturity, required prepayment provisions, acceleration, demand or otherwise) on any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of such Credit Party or such Subsidiary having an aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) (“Material Indebtedness”), (B) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under any contractual obligation relating to any such Material Indebtedness, if the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Material Indebtedness or (C) any such Material Indebtedness shall become or be declared to be due and payable, or be required to be prepaid, redeemed, defeased or repurchased (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment), prior to the stated maturity thereof, (iii) any Credit Party defaults (beyond any applicable grace period) under any obligation for payments due or otherwise under any lease agreement for any place of business that meets the criteria for the requirement of an Access Agreement under Section 7.2 or for which an Access Agreement exists or was required to be delivered and the effect of such default is to cause the termination of, or to permit the termination by the landlord of, such lease, (iv) the occurrence of any “Acceleration Event”, as defined in the Purchase Agreement or (v) any Borrower makes any payment on account of any Indebtedness that has been subordinated to any of the Obligations, other than payments specifically permitted by the terms of such subordination;
(f) (i) any Credit Party shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall cease doing business as a going concern, (ii) any Insolvency Proceeding shall be instituted by or against any Credit Party (including without limitation any petition or application being filed or made or other proceeding instituted against such Credit Party seeking a receiving order under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any other jurisdiction) seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, composition of it or its debts or any similar order, in each case 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 custodian, receiver, trustee, conservator, liquidating agent, liquidator, other similar official or other official with similar powers, in each case for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of any such proceedings instituted against (but not by or with the consent of) such Credit Party, either such proceedings shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of thirty (30) days or more or any action sought in such proceedings shall occur or (iii) any Credit Party shall take any corporate or similar action or any other action to authorize any action described in clause (i) or (ii) above; (iv) any Canadian Credit Party shall commit an act of bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), or makes an assignment of its property for the general benefit of its creditors under such Act, or makes a proposal (or files a notice of its intention to do so) under such Act or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any other jurisdiction;
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(g) (i) The service of process seeking to attach, execute or levy upon, seize or confiscate any Collateral Account, or any funds of any Credit Party on deposit with Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of Agent or any Lender in excess of $50,000 in the aggregate or any Intellectual Property, or (ii) a notice of lien or levy, or assessment in excess of $50,000 in the aggregate at any time are filed against any assets of a Credit Party by any government agency, and the same under subclauses (i) and (ii) hereof are not discharged or stayed (whether through the posting of a bond or otherwise) prior to the earlier to occur of fifteen (15) days after the occurrence thereof or such action becoming effective;
(h) (i) any court order enjoins, restrains, or prevents Borrower from conducting any material part of its business, (ii) the institution by any Governmental Authority of criminal proceedings against any Credit Party, or (iii) one or more judgments or orders for the payment of money (not paid or fully covered by insurance and as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage in writing) aggregating in excess of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) shall be rendered against any or all Credit Parties and either (A) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon any such judgments or orders, or (B) there shall be any period of ten (10) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of any such judgments or orders, by reason of a pending appeal, bond or otherwise, shall not be in effect;
(i) any Lien created by any of the Financing Documents shall at any time fail to constitute a valid and perfected Lien on all of the Collateral purported to be encumbered thereby, subject to no prior or equal Lien except Permitted Liens, or any Credit Party shall so assert; any provision of any Financing Document shall fail to be valid and binding on, or enforceable against, a Credit Party, or any Credit Party shall so assert;
(j) A Change in Control occurs or any Credit Party or direct or indirect equity owner in a Credit Party shall enter into agreement which contemplates a Change in Control;
(k) Any Required Permit shall have been (i) revoked, rescinded, suspended, modified in an adverse manner or not renewed in the Ordinary Course of Business for a full term, or (ii) subject to any decision by a Governmental Authority that designates a hearing with respect to any applications for renewal of any of such Required Permit or that could result in the Governmental Authority taking any of the actions described in clause (i) above, and such decision or such revocation, rescission, suspension, modification or non-renewal has, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Change;
(l) If any Borrower is or becomes an entity whose equity is registered with the SEC, and/or is publicly traded on and/or registered with a public securities exchange, such Borrower’s equity fails to remain registered with the SEC in good standing, and/or such equity fails to remain publicly traded on and registered with a public securities exchange; or
(m) The occurrence of any fact, event or circumstance that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
All cure periods provided for in this Section 10.1 shall run concurrently with any cure period provided for in any applicable Financing Documents under which the default occurred.
10.2 Rights and Remedies.
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(a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent may, and at the written direction of the Required Lenders shall, without notice or demand, do any or all of the following: (i) deliver notice of the Event of Default to Borrower, (ii) by notice to any Borrower declare all Obligations immediately due and payable (but if an Event of Default described in Section 10.1(f) occurs all Obligations shall be immediately due and payable without any action by Agent or the Lenders), or (iii) by notice to any Borrower suspend or terminate the obligations, if any, of the Lenders to advance money or extend credit for Borrower’s benefit under this Agreement or under any other agreement between any Credit Party and Agent and/or the Lenders (but if an Event of Default described in Section 10.1(f) occurs all obligations, if any, of the Lenders to advance money or extend credit for Borrower’s benefit under this Agreement or under any other agreement between Borrower and Agent and/or the Lenders shall be immediately terminated without any action by Agent or the Lenders).
(b) Without limiting the rights of Agent and Lenders set forth in Section 10.2(a) above, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent shall have the right, without notice or demand, to do any or all of the following:
(i) with or without legal process, enter any premises where the Collateral may be and take possession of and remove the Collateral from the premises or store it on the premises, and foreclose upon and/or sell, lease or liquidate, the Collateral, in whole or in part;
(ii) apply to the Obligations (A) any balances and deposits of any Credit Party that Agent or any Lender or any Affiliate of Agent or a Lender holds or controls, or (B) any amount held or controlled by Agent or any Lender or any Affiliate of Agent or a Lender owing to or for the credit or the account of any Credit Party;
(iii) settle, compromise or adjust and grant releases with respect to disputes and claims directly with Account Debtors for amounts on terms and in any order that Agent considers advisable, notify any Person owing any Credit Party money of Agent’s security interest in such funds, and verify the amount of such Account;
(iv) make any payments and do any acts it considers necessary or reasonable to protect the Collateral and/or its security interest in the Collateral. Borrower shall assemble the Collateral if Agent requests and make it available as Agent designates. Agent may also render any or all of the Collateral unusable at a Credit Party’s premises and may dispose of such Collateral on such premises without liability for rent or costs. Borrower grants Agent a license to enter and occupy any of its premises, without charge, to exercise any of Agent’s rights or remedies;
(v) pay, purchase, contest, or compromise any Lien which appears to be prior or superior to its security interest and pay all expenses incurred;
(vi) ship, reclaim, recover, store, finish, maintain, repair, prepare for sale, and/or advertise for sale, the Collateral. Agent is hereby granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free license or other right to use, without charge, Borrower’s labels, patents, copyrights, mask works, rights of use of any name, trade secrets, trade names, trademarks, service marks, and advertising matter, or any similar property as it pertains to the Collateral, in completing production of, advertising for sale, and selling any Collateral (and including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof) and, in connection with Agent’s exercise of its rights under this Article 10, Borrower’s rights under all licenses and all franchise agreements shall be deemed to inure to Agent for the benefit of the Lenders;
(vii) place a “hold” on any account maintained with Agent or the Lenders or any Affiliate of Agent or a Lender and/or deliver a notice of exclusive control, any entitlement order, or other directions or instructions pursuant to any Control Agreement or similar agreements providing control of any Collateral;
(viii) demand and receive possession of the Books of Borrower and the other Credit Parties; and
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(ix) exercise all other rights and remedies available to Agent under the Financing Documents or at law or equity, including all remedies provided under the Code (including disposal of the Collateral pursuant to the terms thereof).
10.3 Notices. Any notice that Agent is required to give to a Credit Party under the Code or the Personal Property Security Act of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other intended disposition of the Collateral is to be made shall be deemed to constitute reasonable notice if such notice is given in accordance with this Agreement at least ten (10) days prior to such action.
10.4 Protective Payments. If any Credit Party fails to pay or perform any covenant or obligation under this Agreement or any other Financing Document, Agent may pay or perform such covenant or obligation, and all amounts so paid by Agent are Protective Advances and immediately due and payable, bearing interest at the then highest applicable rate for the Credit Facilities hereunder, and secured by the Collateral. No such payments or performance by Agent shall be construed as an agreement to make similar payments or performance in the future or constitute Agent’s waiver of any Event of Default.
10.5 Liability for Collateral No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative. So long as Agent and the Lenders comply with reasonable banking practices regarding the safekeeping of the Collateral in the possession or under the control of Agent and the Lenders, Agent and the Lenders shall not be liable or responsible for: (a) the safekeeping of the Collateral; (b) any loss or damage to the Collateral; (c) any diminution in the value of the Collateral; or (d) any act or default of any carrier, warehouseman, bailee, or other Person. Subject to the foregoing sentence, Borrower bears all risk of loss, damage or destruction of the Collateral. Agent’s failure, at any time or times, to require strict performance by Borrower of any provision of this Agreement or any other Financing Document shall not waive, affect, or diminish any right of Agent thereafter to demand strict performance and compliance herewith or therewith. No waiver hereunder shall be effective unless signed by Agent and then is only effective for the specific instance and purpose for which it is given. Agent’s rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents are cumulative. Agent has all rights and remedies provided under the Code, by Law, or in equity. Agent’s exercise of one right or remedy is not an election, and Agent’s waiver of any Event of Default is not a continuing waiver. Agent’s delay in exercising any remedy is not a waiver, election, or acquiescence.
10.6 Application of Payments and Proceeds. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i) Borrower, for itself and the other Credit Parties, irrevocably waives the right to direct the application of any and all payments at any time or times thereafter received by Agent from or on behalf of Borrower of all or any part of the Obligations, and, as between Borrower and the Credit Parties on the one hand and Agent and Lenders on the other, Agent shall have the continuing and exclusive right to apply and to reapply any and all payments received against the Obligations in such manner as Agent may deem advisable notwithstanding any previous application by Agent, and (ii) unless the Agent and the Lenders shall agree otherwise, the proceeds of any sale of, or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral shall be applied: first, to the Protective Advances; second, to accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations (including any interest which, but for the provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued on such amounts); third, to the principal amount of the Obligations outstanding; and fourth, to any other indebtedness or obligations of the Credit Parties owing to Agent or any Lender under the Financing Documents. Borrower shall remain fully liable for any deficiency. Any balance remaining shall be delivered to Borrower or to whoever may be lawfully entitled to receive such balance or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct. Unless the Agent and the Lenders shall agree otherwise, in carrying out the foregoing, (x) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category, and (y) each of the Persons entitled to receive a payment in any particular category shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share of amounts available to be applied pursuant thereto for such category.
10.7 Waivers.
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(a) Except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Borrower waives: (i) presentment, demand and protest, and notice of presentment, dishonor, intent to accelerate, acceleration, protest, default, nonpayment, maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension or renewal of any or all Financing Documents and hereby ratifies and confirms whatever Agent or Lenders may do in this regard; (ii) all rights to notice and a hearing prior to Agent’s or any Lender’s entry upon the premises of a Borrower, the taking possession or control of, or to Agent’s or any Lender’s replevy, attachment or levy upon, any Collateral or any bond or security which might be required by any court prior to allowing Agent or any Lender to exercise any of its remedies; and (iii) the benefit of all valuation, appraisal and exemption Laws. Each Borrower acknowledges that it has been advised by counsel of its choices and decisions with respect to this Agreement, the other Financing Documents and the transactions evidenced hereby and thereby.
(b) Each Borrower for itself and all its successors and assigns, (i) agrees that its liability shall not be in any manner affected by any indulgence, extension of time, renewal, waiver, or modification granted or consented to by Lender; (ii) consents to any indulgences and all extensions of time, renewals, waivers, or modifications that may be granted by Agent or any Lender with respect to the payment or other provisions of the Financing Documents, and to any substitution, exchange or release of the Collateral, or any part thereof, with or without substitution, and agrees to the addition or release of any such Person comprising the Borrower, endorsers, guarantors, or sureties, or whether primarily or secondarily liable, without notice to any other Person comprising the Borrower and without affecting its liability hereunder; (iii) agrees that its liability shall be unconditional and without regard to the liability of any other Credit Party, Agent or any Lender for any tax on the indebtedness; and (iv) to the fullest extent permitted by law, expressly waives the benefit of any statute or rule of law or equity now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, which would produce a result contrary to or in conflict with the foregoing.
(c) To the extent that Agent or any Lender may have acquiesced in any noncompliance with any requirements or conditions precedent to the closing of the Credit Facilities or to any subsequent disbursement of Credit Extensions, such acquiescence shall not be deemed to constitute a waiver by Agent or any Lender of such requirements with respect to any future Credit Extensions and Agent may at any time after such acquiescence require Borrower to comply with all such requirements. Any forbearance by Agent or a Lender in exercising any right or remedy under any of the Financing Documents, or otherwise afforded by applicable law, including any failure to accelerate the maturity date of the Credit Facilities, shall not be a waiver of or preclude the exercise of any right or remedy nor shall it serve as a novation of the Financing Documents or as a reinstatement of the Obligations or a waiver of such right of acceleration or the right to insist upon strict compliance of the terms of the Financing Documents. Agent’s or any Lender’s acceptance of payment of any sum secured by any of the Financing Documents after the due date of such payment shall not be a waiver of Agent’s and such Lender’s right to either require prompt payment when due of all other sums so secured or to declare a default for failure to make prompt payment. The procurement of insurance or the payment of taxes or other Liens or charges by Agent as a result of an Event of Default shall not be a waiver of Agent’s right to accelerate the maturity of the Obligations, nor shall Agent’s receipt of any condemnation awards, insurance proceeds, or damages under this Agreement operate to cure or waive any Credit Party’s default in payment of sums secured by any of the Financing Documents.
(d) Without limiting the generality of anything contained in this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, each Borrower agrees that if an Event of Default is continuing (i) Agent and Lenders shall not be subject to any “one action” or “election of remedies” law or rule, and (ii) all Liens and other rights, remedies or privileges provided to Agent or Lenders shall remain in full force and effect until Agent or Lenders have exhausted all remedies against the Collateral and any other properties owned by Borrower and the Financing Documents and other security instruments or agreements securing the Obligations have been foreclosed, sold and/or otherwise realized upon in satisfaction of Borrower’s obligations under the Financing Documents.
(e) Neither Agent nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in payment of any or all of the Obligations. Nothing contained herein or in any other Financing Document shall be construed as requiring Agent or any Lender to resort to any part of the Collateral for the satisfaction of any of Borrower’s obligations under the Financing Documents in preference or priority to any other Collateral, and Agent may seek satisfaction out of all of the Collateral or any part thereof, in its absolute discretion in respect of Borrower’s obligations under the Financing Documents. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Borrower, for itself and its successors and assigns, waives in the event of foreclosure of any or all of the Collateral any equitable right otherwise available to any Credit Party which would require the separate sale of any of the Collateral or require Agent or Lenders to exhaust their remedies against any part of the Collateral before proceeding against any other part of the Collateral; and further in the event of such foreclosure each Borrower does hereby expressly consent to and authorize, at the option of Agent, the foreclosure and sale either separately or together of each part of the Collateral.
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10.8 Injunctive Relief. The parties acknowledge and agree that, in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any Credit Party’s obligations under any Financing Documents, Agent and Lenders may have no adequate remedy in money damages and, accordingly, shall be entitled to an injunction (including, without limitation, a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, writ of attachment, or order compelling an audit) against such breach or threatened breach, including, without limitation, maintaining any cash management and collection procedure described herein. However, no specification in this Agreement of a specific legal or equitable remedy shall be construed as a waiver or prohibition against any other legal or equitable remedies in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any provision of this Agreement. Each Credit Party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the requirement of the posting of any bond in connection with such injunctive relief. By joining in the Financing Documents as a Credit Party, each Credit Party specifically joins in this Section 10.8 as if this Section 10.8 were a part of each Financing Document executed by such Credit Party.
10.9 Other Currency. Without limiting Section 2.6(c) or any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, the obligations of any of the Credit Parties in respect of any amount due under this Agreement shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (the “Other Currency”) (whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the amount in the currency in which it is due (the “Agreed Currency”) that the Agent or Lenders may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in the Other Currency (after any premium and costs of exchange) on the Business Day immediately after the day on which the Agent or Lender receives the payment. If the amount of the Agreed Currency that may be so purchased for any reason falls short of the amount originally due, such Credit Party shall pay all additions amounts, in the Agreed Currency, as may be necessary to compensate for the shortfall. Any obligation of a Credit Party not discharged by that payment shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be due as a separate and independent obligation and, until discharged as provided in this Section 10.9, continue in full force and effect.
11 | NOTICES |
All notices, consents, requests, approvals, demands, or other communication (collectively, “Communication”) by any party to this Agreement or any other Financing Document must be in writing and shall be deemed to have been validly served, given, or delivered: (a) upon the earlier of actual receipt and three (3) Business Days after deposit in the U.S. mail, first class, registered or certified mail return receipt requested, with proper postage prepaid; (b) upon transmission, when sent by electronic mail (if an email address is specified herein) or facsimile transmission; (c) one (1) Business Day after deposit with a reputable overnight courier with all charges prepaid; or (d) when delivered, if hand-delivered by messenger, all of which shall be addressed to the party to be notified and sent to the address, facsimile number, or email address indicated below. Any of Agent, Lender or Borrower may change its mailing or electronic mail address or facsimile number by giving the other party written notice thereof in accordance with the terms of this Article 11.
If to Borrower or any Guarantor:
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, X.X., Xxxxxx X0X 0X0
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx, Chief Executive Officer
Fax: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
with a copy to:
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Blake, Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X. Xxx 00000
Suite 2600, Three Bentall Centre
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V7X 1L3
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Fax: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail: xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
If to Agent or Lenders:
MidCap Funding V, LLC
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Portfolio Management- Life Sciences
Fax: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
with a copy to:
MC Serviceco, LLC
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: General Counsel
Fax: (000) 000-0000
E-Mail: xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
12 | CHOICE OF LAW, VENUE AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER |
12.1 THIS AGREEMENT, EACH SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE AND EACH OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT (OTHER THAN THE SWISS SECURITY DOCUMENTS, THE CANADIAN SECURITY DOCUMENTS AND THE UK SECURITY DOCUMENTS), AND THE RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR SUCH FINANCING DOCUMENT, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES, AND/OR THE INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PARTIES AND ALL OTHER MATTERS RELATING HERETO, THERETO OR ARISING THEREFROM (WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE), SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, AGENT AND LENDERS SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING AGAINST BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHICH AGENT AND LENDERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 12.1) DEEM NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE TO REALIZE ON THE COLLATERAL OR TO OTHERWISE ENFORCE AGENT’S AND LENDERS’ RIGHTS AGAINST BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTY. Borrower expressly submits and consents in advance to such jurisdiction in any action or suit commenced in any such court, and Borrower hereby waives any objection that it may have based upon lack of personal jurisdiction, improper venue, or forum non conveniens and hereby consents to the granting of such legal or equitable relief as is deemed appropriate by such court. Borrower hereby waives personal service of the summons, complaints, and other process issued in such action or suit and agrees that service of such summons, complaints, and other process may be made by registered or certified mail addressed to Borrower at the address set forth in ARTICLE 11 of this Agreement and that service so made shall be deemed completed upon the earlier to occur of Borrower’s actual receipt thereof or three (3) days after deposit in the U.S. mail, proper postage prepaid.
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12.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BORROWER, AGENT AND LENDERS EACH WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR BASED UPON THIS AGREEMENT, THE FINANCING DOCUMENTS (OTHER THAN THE SWISS SECURITY DOCUMENTS) OR ANY CONTEMPLATED TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT, TORT, BREACH OF DUTY AND ALL OTHER CLAIMS. THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR BOTH PARTIES TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS COUNSEL.
12.3 Borrower, Agent and each Lender agree that each Credit Extension (including those made on the Closing Date) shall be deemed to be made in, and the transactions contemplated hereunder and in any other Financing Document (other than Swiss Security Documents, the Canadian Security Documents and the UK Security Documents) shall be deemed to have been performed in, the State of Maryland.
13 | GENERAL PROVISIONS |
13.1 Successors and Assigns.
(a) This Agreement binds and is for the benefit of the successors and permitted assigns of each party. Borrower may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations under it without Agent’s prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in Agent’s discretion). Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or any portion of such Lender’s Applicable Commitment and/or Credit Extensions, together with all related obligations of such Lender hereunder. Borrower and Agent shall be entitled to continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with the interests so assigned until Agent shall have received and accepted an effective assignment agreement in form and substance acceptable to Agent, executed, delivered and fully completed by the applicable parties thereto, and shall have received such other information regarding such Eligible Assignee as Agent reasonably shall require. Notwithstanding anything set forth in this Agreement to the contrary, any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided, however, that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto. If requested by Agent, Borrower agrees to (i) execute any documents reasonably required to effectuate and acknowledge each assignment of an Applicable Commitment or Credit Extension to an assignee hereunder, (ii) make Borrower’s management available to meet with Agent and prospective participants and assignees of Applicable Commitments or Credit Extensions and (iii) assist Agent or the Lenders in the preparation of information relating to the financial affairs of Borrower as any prospective participant or assignee of an Applicable Commitment or Credit Extension reasonably may request.
(b) From and after the date on which the conditions described above in Section 13.1(a) have been met, (i) such Eligible Assignee shall be deemed automatically to have become a party hereto and, to the extent of the interests assigned to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to such assignment agreement, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder, and (ii) the assigning Lender, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such assignment agreement, shall be released from its rights and obligations hereunder (other than those that survive termination). Upon the request of the Eligible Assignee (and, as applicable, the assigning Lender) pursuant to an effective assignment agreement, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to Agent for delivery to the Eligible Assignee (and, as applicable, the assigning Lender) secured notes in the aggregate principal amount of the Eligible Assignee’s Credit Extensions or Applicable Commitments (and, as applicable, secured promissory notes in the principal amount of that portion of the principal amount of the Credit Extensions or Applicable Commitments retained by the assigning Lender).
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(c) Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of Borrower, shall maintain at its offices located in Bethesda, Maryland a copy of each assignment agreement delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of each Lender, and the commitments of, and principal amount of the Credit Extensions owing to, such Lender pursuant to the terms hereof. The entries in such register shall be conclusive, and Borrower, Agent and Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded therein pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. Such register shall be available for inspection by Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time upon reasonable prior notice to Agent.
13.2 Indemnification.
(a) Borrower hereby agrees to promptly pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses of Agent (including, without limitation, the reasonable and documented fees, costs and expenses of counsel to, and independent appraisers and consultants retained by Agent) in connection with the examination, review, due diligence investigation, documentation, negotiation, closing and syndication of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents, in connection with the performance by Agent of its rights and remedies under the Financing Documents and in connection with the continued administration of the Financing Documents including (A) any amendments, modifications, consents and waivers to and/or under any and all Financing Documents, and (B) any periodic public record searches conducted by or at the request of Agent (including, without limitation, title investigations, UCC searches, fixture filing searches, judgment, pending litigation and tax lien searches and searches of applicable corporate, limited liability, partnership and related records concerning the continued existence, organization and good standing of certain Persons); (ii) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Agent in connection with the creation, perfection and maintenance of Liens pursuant to the Financing Documents; (iii) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Agent in connection with (A) protecting, storing, insuring, handling, maintaining or selling any Collateral, (B) any litigation, dispute, suit or proceeding relating to any Financing Document, and (C) any workout, collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings under any and all of the Financing Documents; (iv) [reserved]; and (v) all costs and expenses incurred by Agent or Lenders in connection with any litigation, dispute, suit or proceeding relating to any Financing Document and in connection with any workout, collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings under any and all Financing Documents, whether or not Agent or Lenders are a party thereto. If Agent or any Lender uses in-house counsel for any of these purposes, Borrower further agrees that the Obligations include reasonable charges for such work commensurate with the fees that would otherwise be charged by outside legal counsel selected by Agent or such Lender for the work performed.
(b) Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, pay and hold harmless Agent and Lenders and the officers, directors, employees, trustees, agents, investment advisors, collateral managers, servicers, and counsel of Agent and Lenders (collectively called the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, claims, costs, expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the fees and disbursements of counsel for such Indemnitee) in connection with any investigative, response, remedial, administrative or judicial matter or proceeding, whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a party thereto and including any such proceeding initiated by or on behalf of a Credit Party, and the reasonable expenses of investigation by engineers, environmental consultants and similar technical personnel and any commission, fee or compensation claimed by any broker (other than any broker retained by Agent or Lenders) asserting any right to payment for the transactions contemplated hereby, which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the use or intended use of the proceeds of the Credit Facilities, except that Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to an Indemnitee with respect to any liability resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent that the undertaking set forth in the immediately preceding sentence may be unenforceable, Borrower shall contribute the maximum portion which it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable Law to the payment and satisfaction of all such indemnified liabilities incurred by the Indemnitees or any of them. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Financing Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. This Section 13.2(b) shall not apply with respect to taxes other than any taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-tax claim.
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(c) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this Agreement, the obligations of Borrower under this Section 13.2 shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement. NO INDEMNITEE SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO ANY CREDIT PARTY OR TO ANY OTHER PARTY TO ANY FINANCING DOCUMENT, ANY SUCCESSOR, ASSIGNEE OR THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY OR ANY OTHER PERSON ASSERTING CLAIMS DERIVATIVELY THROUGH SUCH PARTY, FOR INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE ALLEGED AS A RESULT OF CREDIT HAVING BEEN EXTENDED, SUSPENDED OR TERMINATED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT OR AS A RESULT OF ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER.
13.3 Time of Essence. Time is of the essence for the payment and performance of the Obligations in this Agreement.
13.4 Severability of Provisions. Each provision of this Agreement is severable from every other provision in determining the enforceability of any provision.
13.5 Correction of Financing Documents. Agent and the Lenders may correct patent errors and fill in any blanks in this Agreement and the other Financing Documents consistent with the agreement of the parties.
13.6 Integration. This Agreement and the Financing Documents represent the entire agreement about this subject matter and supersede prior negotiations or agreements. All prior agreements, understandings, representations, warranties, and negotiations between the parties about the subject matter of this Agreement and the Financing Documents merge into this Agreement and the Financing Documents.
13.7 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of which, when executed and delivered, is an original, and all taken together, constitute one Agreement. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.
13.8 Survival. All covenants, representations and warranties made in this Agreement continue in full force until this Agreement has terminated pursuant to its terms and all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations and any other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement) have been satisfied. The obligation of Borrower in Section 13.2 to indemnify each Lender and Agent shall survive until the statute of limitations with respect to such claim or cause of action shall have run. All powers of attorney and appointments of Agent or any Lender as Borrower’s attorney in fact hereunder, and all of Agent’s and Lenders’ rights and powers in respect thereof, are coupled with an interest, are irrevocable until all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations and any other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement) have been fully repaid and performed and Agent’s and the Lenders’ obligation to provide Credit Extensions terminates.
13.9 Confidentiality. In handling any confidential information of Borrower, each of the Lenders and Agent shall use all reasonable efforts to maintain, in accordance with its customary practices, the confidentiality of information obtained by it pursuant to any Financing Document, but disclosure of information may be made: (a) to the Lenders’ and Agent’s Subsidiaries or Affiliates; (b) to prospective transferees or purchasers of any interest in the Credit Extensions that are advised of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential; (c) as required by Law, regulation, subpoena, order or other legal, administrative, governmental or regulatory request; (d) to regulators or as otherwise required in connection with an examination or audit, or to any nationally recognized rating agency; (e) as Agent or any Lender considers appropriate in exercising remedies under the Financing Documents; (f) to financing sources that are advised of the confidential nature of such information and are instructed to keep such information confidential; (g) to third party service providers of the Lenders and/or Agent so long as such service providers are bound to such Lender or Agent by obligations of confidentiality; (h) to the extent necessary or customary for inclusion in league table measurements; and (i) in connection with any litigation or other proceeding to which such Lender or Agent or any of their Affiliates is a party or bound, or to the extent necessary to respond to public statements or disclosures by Credit Parties or their Affiliates referring to a Lender or Agent or any of their Affiliates. Confidential information does not include information that either: (i) is in the public domain or in the Lenders’ and/or Agent’s possession when disclosed to the Lenders and/or Agent, or becomes part of the public
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domain after disclosure to the Lenders and/or Agent other than through disclosure by or through the Lenders and/or Agent in breach of this Section 13.9; or (ii) is disclosed to the Lenders and/or Agent by a third party, if the Lenders and/or Agent does not know that the third party is prohibited from disclosing the information. Agent and/or Lenders may, in accordance with the confidentiality obligations set forth herein, use confidential information for any purpose, including, without limitation, for the development of client databases, reporting purposes, and market analysis, so long as Agent and/or Lenders, as applicable, do not disclose Borrower’s identity or the identity of any Person associated with Borrower unless otherwise permitted by this Agreement. The provisions of the immediately preceding sentence shall survive the termination of this Agreement. The agreements provided under this Section 13.9 supersede all prior agreements, understanding, representations, warranties, and negotiations between the parties about the subject matter of this Section 13.9.
13.10 Right of Set-off. Borrower hereby grants to Agent and to each Lender, a lien, security interest and right of set-off as security for all Obligations to Agent and each Lender hereunder, whether now existing or hereafter arising upon and against all deposits, credits, collateral and property, now or hereafter in the possession, custody, safekeeping or control of Agent or the Lenders or any entity under the control of Agent or the Lenders (including an Agent or Lender Affiliate) or in transit to any of them. At any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, without demand or notice, Agent or the Lenders may set-off the same or any part thereof and apply the same to any liability or obligation of Borrower even though unmatured and regardless of the adequacy of any other collateral securing the Obligations. ANY AND ALL RIGHTS TO REQUIRE AGENT TO EXERCISE ITS RIGHTS OR REMEDIES WITH RESPECT TO ANY OTHER COLLATERAL WHICH SECURES THE OBLIGATIONS, PRIOR TO EXERCISING ITS RIGHT OF SET-OFF WITH RESPECT TO SUCH DEPOSITS, CREDITS OR OTHER PROPERTY OF BORROWER, ARE HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVED. The Agent or the applicable Lender, as the case may be, shall notify Borrower of any such set-off from the deposits, credits, collateral or property of Borrower.
13.11 Publicity. Borrower will not directly or indirectly publish, disclose or otherwise use in any public disclosure, advertising material, promotional material, press release or interview, any reference to the name, logo or any trademark of Agent or any Lender or any of their Affiliates or any reference to this Agreement or the financing evidenced hereby, in any case except as required by applicable Law, subpoena or judicial or similar order, in which case Borrower shall endeavor to give Agent prior written notice of such publication or other disclosure. Each Lender and Borrower hereby authorizes each Lender to publish the name of such Lender and Borrower, the existence of the financing arrangements referenced under this Agreement, the primary purpose and/or structure of those arrangements, the amount of credit extended under each facility, the title and role of each party to this Agreement, and the total amount of the financing evidenced hereby in any “tombstone”, comparable advertisement or press release which such Lender elects to submit for publication. In addition, each Lender and Borrower agrees that each Lender may provide lending industry trade organizations with information necessary and customary for inclusion in league table measurements after the Closing Date. With respect to any of the foregoing, such authorization shall be subject to such Lender providing Borrower and the other Lenders with an opportunity to review and confer with such Lender regarding, and approve, the contents of any such tombstone, advertisement or information, as applicable, prior to its initial submission for publication, but subsequent publications of the same tombstone, advertisement or information shall not require Borrower’s approval.
13.12 No Strict Construction. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.
13.13 Approvals. Unless expressly provided herein to the contrary, any approval, consent, waiver or satisfaction of Agent or Lenders with respect to any matter that is the subject of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents may be granted or withheld by Agent and Lenders in their sole and absolute discretion and credit judgment.
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13.14 Amendments; Required Lenders; Inter-Lender Matters.
(a) No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Financing Document, no approval or consent thereunder, or any consent to any departure by Borrower therefrom (in each case, other than amendments, waivers, approvals or consents deemed ministerial by Agent), shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by Borrower, Agent and Required Lenders. Except as set forth in clause (b) below, all such amendments, modifications, terminations or waivers requiring the consent of the “Lenders” shall require the written consent of Required Lenders.
(b) No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Financing Document shall, unless in writing and signed by Agent and by each Lender directly affected thereby: (i) increase or decrease the Applicable Commitment of any Lender (which shall be deemed to affect all Lenders), (ii) reduce the principal of or rate of interest on any Obligation or the amount of any fees payable hereunder, (iii) postpone the date fixed for or waive any payment of principal of or interest on any Credit Extension, or any fees or reimbursement obligation hereunder, (iv) release all or substantially all of the Collateral, or consent to a transfer of any of the Material Intellectual Property, in each case, except as otherwise expressly permitted in the Financing Documents (which shall be deemed to affect all Lenders), (v) subordinate the lien granted in favor of Agent securing the Obligations (which shall be deemed to affect all Lenders, except as otherwise provided below), (vi) release a Credit Party from, or consent to a Credit Party’s assignment or delegation of, such Credit Party’s obligations hereunder and under the other Financing Documents or any Guarantor from its guaranty of the Obligations (which shall be deemed to affect all Lenders) or (vii) amend, modify, terminate or waive this Section 13.14(b) or the definition of “Required Lenders” or “Pro Rata Share” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder, without the consent of each Lender. For purposes of the foregoing, no Lender shall be deemed affected by (i) waiver of the imposition of the Default Rate or imposition of the Default Rate to only a portion of the Obligations, (ii) waiver of the accrual of late charges, (iii) waiver of any fee solely payable to Agent under the Financing Documents, (iv) subordination of a lien granted in favor of Agent provided such subordination is limited to equipment being financed by a third party providing Permitted Indebtedness. Notwithstanding any provision in this Section 13.14 to the contrary, no amendment, modification, termination or waiver affecting or modifying the rights or obligations of Agent hereunder shall be effective unless signed by Agent and Required Lenders
(c) Agent shall not grant its written consent to any deviation or departure by Borrower or any Credit Party from the provisions of Article 7 without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders. Required Lenders shall have the right to direct Agent to take any action described in Section 10.2(b). Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, Agent shall have the right to exercise any and all remedies referenced in Section 10.2 without the written consent of Required Lenders following the occurrence of an “Exigent Circumstance” (as defined below). . Any reference in this Agreement to an allocation between or sharing by the Lenders of any right, interest or obligation “ratably,” “proportionally” or in similar terms shall refer to Pro Rata Share unless expressly provided otherwise. As used in this Section, “Exigent Circumstance” means any event or circumstance that, in the reasonable judgment of Agent, imminently threatens the ability of Agent to realize upon all or any material portion of the Collateral, such as, without limitation, fraudulent removal, concealment, or abscondment thereof, destruction or material waste thereof, or failure of Borrower after reasonable demand to maintain or reinstate adequate casualty insurance coverage, or which, in the judgment of Agent, could result in a material diminution in value of the Collateral.
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13.15 Borrower Liability. If there is more than one Person comprising the Borrower, then (a) any Borrower may, acting singly, request Credit Extensions hereunder, (b) each Person comprising the Borrower hereby appoints each other Person comprising the Borrower as agent for such Person for all purposes hereunder, including with respect to requesting Credit Extensions hereunder, (c) each Borrower shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay and perform all obligations under the Financing Documents, including, but not limited to, the obligation to repay all Credit Extensions made hereunder and all other Obligations, regardless of which Person comprising the Borrower actually receives said Credit Extensions, as if each such Person directly received all Credit Extensions, and (d) each Borrower waives (1) any suretyship defenses available to it under the Code or any other applicable law, and (2) any right to require the Lenders or Agent to: (A) proceed against any Borrower or any other person; (B) proceed against or exhaust any security; or (C) pursue any other remedy. The Lenders or Agent may exercise or not exercise any right or remedy they have against any Credit Party or any security (including the right to foreclose by judicial or non-judicial sale) without affecting any other Credit Party’s liability or any Lien against any other Credit Party’s assets. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or other related document, until payment in full of the Obligations and termination of the Applicable Commitments, each Borrower irrevocably waives all rights that it may have at law or in equity (including, without limitation, any law subrogating Borrower to the rights of the Lenders and Agent under this Agreement) to seek contribution, indemnification or any other form of reimbursement from any other Credit Party, or any other Person now or hereafter primarily or secondarily liable for any of the Obligations, for any payment made by any Credit Party with respect to the Obligations in connection with this Agreement or otherwise and all rights that it might have to benefit from, or to participate in, any security for the Obligations as a result of any payment made by a Credit Party with respect to the Obligations in connection with this Agreement or otherwise. Any agreement providing for indemnification, reimbursement or any other arrangement prohibited under this Section shall be null and void. If any payment is made to a Credit Party in contravention of this Section, such Credit Party shall hold such payment in trust for the Lenders and Agent and such payment shall be promptly delivered to Agent for application to the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured.
13.16 Reinstatement. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition or other proceeding be filed by or against any Credit Party for liquidation or reorganization, should any Credit Party become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of any creditor or creditors or should an interim receiver, receiver, receiver and manager or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of any Credit Party’s assets, and shall continue to be effective or to be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Obligations, or any part thereof, is, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee of the Obligations, whether as a fraudulent preference reviewable transaction or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Obligations shall be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
13.17. USA PATRIOT Act Notification. Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) and each Lender hereby notifies each Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies Borrower, which information includes the name and address of Borrower and such other information that will allow Agent or such Lender, as applicable, to identify Borrower in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.
13.18 Process Agent. Each Credit Party that is incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States (or any state thereof) hereby irrevocably designates, appoints, authorizes and empowers The Corporation Trust Incorporated with an office located at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 on the date hereof (the “Process Agent”), as its agent to receive on behalf of itself, service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other process which may be served in any suit, action or proceeding brought in connection with this Agreement in the circuit court of any county of the state of Maryland, and any appellate court thereof. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, such service may be made by mailing or delivering a copy of such process to such Credit Party in care of the Process Agent at its address specified above, and each such Credit Party hereby authorizes and directs the Process Agent to receive such service on its behalf. The appointment of the Process Agent shall be irrevocable by each such Credit Party until the appointment of a successor Process Agent. Each such Credit Party further agrees promptly to appoint a successor Process Agent in Maryland (which shall accept such appointment in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent) prior to the termination for any reason of the appointment of the initial Process Agent. Nothing in this Section 13.18 shall affect the right of any party hereto to serve process in any manner permitted by applicable law or to enforce in any lawful manner a judgment obtained in one jurisdiction in any other jurisdiction.
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14 | AGENT |
14.1 Appointment and Authorization of Agent. Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and authorizes Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Financing Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to it by the terms of this Agreement or any other Financing Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of Agent and Lenders and none of Credit Parties nor any other Person shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions hereof. The duties of Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere herein or in any other Financing Document, Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Financing Document or otherwise exist against Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Financing Documents with reference to Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority (to the exclusion of the Lenders), and is hereby authorized, to (a) act as collateral agent for Agent and each Lender for purposes of the perfection of all liens created by the Financing Documents and all other purposes stated therein, (b) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (c) take such other action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the perfection and priority of the liens created or purported to be created by the Financing Documents, (d) except as may be otherwise specified in any Financing Document, exercise all remedies given to Agent and the other Lenders with respect to the Collateral, whether under the Financing Documents, applicable law or otherwise and (e) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Financing Documents on behalf of any Lender that has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver; provided, however, that Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Lender to act as collateral sub-agent for Agent and the Lenders for purposes of the perfection of all liens with respect to the Collateral, including any deposit account maintained by a Credit Party with, and cash and cash equivalents held by, such Lender, and may further authorize and direct the Lenders to take further actions as collateral sub-agents for purposes of enforcing such liens or otherwise to transfer the Collateral subject thereto to Agent, and each Lender hereby agrees to take such further actions to the extent, and only to the extent, so authorized and directed.
14.2 Successor Agent.
(a) Agent may at any time assign its rights, powers, privileges and duties hereunder to (i) another Lender, or (ii) any Person to whom Agent, in its capacity as a Lender, has assigned (or will assign, in conjunction with such assignment of agency rights hereunder) fifty percent (50%) or more of the Credit Extensions or Applicable Commitments then held by Agent (in its capacity as a Lender), in each case without the consent of the Lenders or Borrower. Following any such assignment, Agent shall give notice to the Lenders and Borrower. An assignment by Agent pursuant to this subsection (a) shall not be deemed a resignation by Agent for purposes of subsection (b) below.
(b) Without limiting the rights of Agent to designate an assignee pursuant to subsection (a) above, Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders and Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within ten (10) Business Days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent; provided, however, that if Agent shall notify Borrower and the Lenders that no Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice from Agent that no Person has accepted such appointment and, from and following delivery of such notice, (i) the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Financing Documents, and (ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time as Required Lenders appoint a successor Agent as provided for above in this subsection (b).
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(c) Upon (i) an assignment permitted by subsection (a) above, or (ii) the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Agent pursuant to subsection (b) above, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Financing Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this subsection (c)). The fees payable by Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between Borrower and such successor. After the retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Financing Documents, the provisions of this Article shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent and its sub-agents in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Agent was acting or was continuing to act as Agent.
14.3 Delegation of Duties. Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Financing Document by or through its, or its Affiliates’, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to obtain and rely upon the advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct. Any such Person to whom Agent delegates a duty shall benefit from this Article 14 to the extent provided by Agent.
14.4 Liability of Agent. Except as otherwise provided herein, no “Agent-Related Person” (as defined below) shall (a) be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Financing Document or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein), or (b) be responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by any Credit Party or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Financing Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Financing Document, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Financing Document, or for any failure of any Credit Party or any other party to any Financing Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Financing Document, or to inspect the Collateral, other properties or books or records of any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof. The term “Agent-Related Person” means the Agent, together with its Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, auditors and attorneys-in-fact of such Persons; provided, however, that no Agent-Related Person shall be an Affiliate of Borrower.
14.5 Reliance by Agent. Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication, signature, resolution, representation, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by Agent. Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any Financing Document (a) if such action would, in the opinion of Agent, be contrary to law or any Financing Document, (b) if such action would, in the opinion of Agent, expose Agent to any potential liability under any law, statute or regulation or (c) if Agent shall not first have received such advice or concurrence of all Lenders as it deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Financing Document in accordance with a request or consent of all Lenders (or Required Lenders where authorized herein) and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.
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14.6 Notice of Default. Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default and/or Event of Default, unless Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or Borrower, describing such default or Event of Default. Agent will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. While an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Event of Default as Agent shall deem advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders, including without limitation, satisfaction of other security interests, liens or encumbrances on the Collateral not permitted under the Financing Documents, payment of taxes on behalf of Borrower or any other Credit Party, payments to landlords, warehouseman, bailees and other Persons in possession of the Collateral and other actions to protect and safeguard the Collateral, and actions with respect to insurance claims for casualty events affecting a Credit Party and/or the Collateral.
14.7 Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agent. Each Lender acknowledges that no Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by Agent hereafter taken, including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of Borrower or any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed material information in their possession. Each Lender represents to Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of, and investigation into, the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Credit Parties, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit to Borrower hereunder. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of Borrower. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by Agent herein, Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any Credit Party which may come into the possession of any Agent-Related Person.
14.8 Indemnification of Agent. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, each Lender shall, severally and pro rata based on its respective Pro Rata Share, indemnify upon demand each Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of Borrower and without limiting the obligation of Borrower to do so), and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities (which shall not include legal expenses of Agent incurred in connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) incurred by it; provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities to the extent determined in a judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent-Related Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct; provided, however, that no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall, severally and pro rata based on its respective Pro Rata Share, reimburse Agent upon demand for its ratable share of any costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including Protective Advances incurred after the closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) incurred by Agent (in its capacity as Agent, and not as a Lender) in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Financing Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of Borrower. The undertaking in this Section shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations, the termination of this Agreement and the resignation of Agent.
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14.9 Agent in its Individual Capacity. With respect to its Credit Extensions, MidCap shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though it were not Agent, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” include MidCap in its individual capacity. MidCap and its Affiliates may lend money to, invest in, and generally engage in any kind of business with, any Credit Party and any of their Affiliates and any person who may do business with or own securities of any Credit Party or any of their Affiliates, all as if MidCap were not Agent and without any duty to account therefor to Lenders. MidCap and its Affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from a Credit Party for services in connection with this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to Lenders. Each Lender acknowledges the potential conflict of interest between MidCap as a Lender holding disproportionate interests in the Credit Extensions and MidCap as Agent, and expressly consents to, and waives, any claim based upon, such conflict of interest.
14.10 Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Credit Party, Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Credit Extension, shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether Agent shall have made any demand on such Credit Party) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Credit Extensions and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and Agent allowed in such judicial proceeding); and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to Agent and, in the event that Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of Agent and its agents and counsel, including Protective Advances. To the extent that Agent fails timely to do so, each Lender may file a claim relating to such Lender’s claim.
14.11 Collateral and Guaranty Matters. The Lenders irrevocably authorize Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to release (a) any Credit Party and any Lien on any Collateral granted to or held by Agent under any Financing Document upon the date that all Obligations due hereunder have been fully and indefeasibly paid in full (other than inchoate obligations in respect of indemnities) and no Applicable Commitments or other obligations of any Lender to provide funds to Borrower under this Agreement remain outstanding, and (b) any Lien on any Collateral that is transferred or to be transferred as part of or in connection with any transfer permitted hereunder or under any other Financing Document. Upon request by Agent at any time, all Lenders will confirm in writing Agent’s authority to release its interest in particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 14.11.
14.12 Advances; Payments; Non-Funding Lenders.
(a) Advances; Payments. If Agent receives any payment for the account of Lenders on or prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on any Business Day, Agent shall pay to each applicable Lender such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such payment on such Business Day. If Agent receives any payment for the account of Lenders after 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on any Business Day, Agent shall pay to each applicable Lender such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such payment on the next Business Day. To the extent that any Lender has failed to fund any Credit Extension (such a Lender, until such time as such failure has been cured to the satisfaction of Agent, a “Non-Funding Lender”), Agent shall be entitled to set-off the funding short-fall against that Non-Funding Lender’s Pro Rata Share of all payments received from Borrower.
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(b) Return of Payments.
(i) If Agent pays an amount to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by Agent from a Credit Party and such related payment is not received by Agent, then Agent will be entitled to recover such amount (including interest accruing on such amount at the Federal Funds Rate for the first Business Day and thereafter, at the rate otherwise applicable to such Obligation) from such Lender on demand without set-off, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.
(ii) If Agent determines at any time that any amount received by Agent under this Agreement must be returned to a Credit Party or paid to any other person pursuant to any insolvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement or any other Financing Document, Agent will not be required to distribute any portion thereof to any Lender. In addition, each Lender will repay to Agent on demand any portion of such amount that Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with interest at such rate, if any, as Agent is required to pay to a Credit Party or such other person, without set-off, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.
14.13 Miscellaneous.
(a) Neither Agent nor any Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make a Credit Extension or make any other advance required hereunder. The failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make any Credit Extension or any payment required by it hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender (each such other Lender, an “Other Lender”) of its obligations to make the Credit Extension or payment required by it, but neither any Other Lender nor Agent shall be responsible for the failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make a Credit Extension or make any other payment required hereunder. Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, a Non-Funding Lender shall not have any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Financing Document or constitute a “Lender” (or be included in the calculation of “Required Lender” hereunder) for any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Financing Document. At Borrower’s request, Agent or a person reasonably acceptable to Agent shall have the right with Agent’s consent and in Agent’s sole discretion (but shall have no obligation) to purchase from any Non-Funding Lender, and each Non-Funding Lender agrees that it shall, at Agent’s request, sell and assign to Agent or such person, all of the Applicable Commitments and all of the outstanding Credit Extensions of that Non-Funding Lender for an amount equal to the principal balance of the Credit Extensions held by such Non-Funding Lender and all accrued interest and fees with respect thereto through the date of sale, such purchase and sale to be consummated pursuant to an executed assignment agreement reasonably acceptable to Agent.
(b) Each Lender shall promptly remit to the other Lenders such sums as may be necessary to ensure the ratable repayment of each Lender’s portion of any Credit Extension and the ratable distribution of interest, fees and reimbursements paid or made by any Credit Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Agreement requires payments of principal and interest to be made directly to the Lenders, a Lender receiving a scheduled payment shall not be responsible for determining whether the other Lenders also received their scheduled payment on such date; provided, however, if it is determined that a Lender received more than its ratable share of scheduled payments made on any date or dates, then such Lender shall remit to the Agent (for Agent to redistribute to itself and the Lenders in a manner to ensure the payment to Agent of any sums due Agent hereunder and the ratable repayment of each Lender’s portion of any Credit Extension and the ratable distribution of interest, fees and reimbursements) such sums as may be necessary to ensure the ratable payment of such scheduled payments, as instructed by Agent. If any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, properties or securities and whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of set-off, or otherwise, shall be received by a Lender in excess of its ratable share, then (i) the portion of such payment or distribution in excess of such Lender’s ratable share shall be received by such Lender in trust for application to the payments of amounts due on the other Lender’s claims, or, in the case of Collateral, shall hold such Collateral for itself and as agent and bailee for the Agent and other Lenders and (ii) such Lender shall promptly advise the Agent of the receipt of such payment, and, within five (5) Business Days of such receipt and, in the case of payments and distributions, such Lender shall purchase (for cash at face value) from the other Lenders (through the Agent), without recourse, such participations in the Credit Extension made by the other Lenders as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment ratably with each of them in accordance with the respective Pro Rata Shares of the Lenders; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess
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payment is thereafter recovered by or on behalf of a Credit Party from such purchasing Lender, the purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, but without interest; provided, further, that the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by a Credit Party pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, or (y) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Applicable Commitment pursuant to Section 13.1. Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this Section may exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation, but only to the extent such rights of payment have not already been exercised with respect to such participation by the other Lender. No documentation other than notices and the like shall be required to implement the terms of this Section. The Agent shall keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased pursuant to this Section and shall in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases.
14.14 Swiss Collateral.
In relation to the Swiss Security Documents:
(a) Agent shall hold:
(i) any security created or evidenced or expressed to be created or evidenced under or pursuant to a Swiss Security Document by way of a security assignment (Sicherungsabtretung) or transfer for security purposes (Sicherungsübereignung) or any other non-accessory (nicht akzessorische) security; and
(ii) any proceeds and other benefits of such security, as fiduciary (treuhänderisch) in its own name but for the account of all relevant Lenders which have the benefit of such security in accordance with this Agreement and the respective Swiss Security Document; and
(b) each present and future Lender hereby authorizes Agent:
(i) to (A) accept and execute in its name and for its account as its direct representative (direkter Stellvertreter) any Swiss law pledge or any other Swiss law accessory (akzessorische) security created or evidenced or expressed to be created or evidenced under or pursuant to a Swiss Security Document for the benefit of such Lender, and (B) hold, administer and, if necessary, enforce any such security on behalf of each relevant Lender which has the benefit of such security;
(ii) to agree as its direct representative (direkter Stellvertreter) to amendments and alterations to any Swiss Security Document which creates or evidences or is expressed to create or evidence a pledge or any other Swiss law accessory (akzessorische) security;
(iii) to effect as its direct representative (direkter Stellvertreter) any release of a security created or evidenced or expressed to be created or evidenced under a Swiss Security Document in accordance with this Agreement; and
(iv) to exercise as its direct representative (direkter Stellvertreter) such other rights granted to the Agent hereunder or under the relevant Swiss Security Document.
15 | Guaranty |
15.1 Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally (a) guarantees, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by notice of prepayment or otherwise, the due and punctual performance of all of the Obligations, including payment in full of the principal, accrued but unpaid interest and all other amounts due and owing to the Agent and Lenders under the Term Credit Facility and (b) indemnifies each Lender immediately on demand against any cost, loss or liability suffered by such Lender if any obligations guaranteed by it are or become unenforceable, invalid, voided, avoid or illegal, the amount of which such cost, loss or liability shall be equal to the amount which such Lender would otherwise be entitled to recover. Each payment made by any Guarantor pursuant to this Section 15 shall be made in lawful money of the United States in immediately available funds.
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15.2 Payment of Amounts Owed. The Guarantee hereunder is an absolute, unconditional and continuing guarantee of the full and punctual payment and performance of all of the Obligations and not of their collectability only and is in no way conditioned upon any requirement that the Agent or any Lender first attempt to collect any of the Obligations from Borrower or resort to any collateral security or other means of obtaining payment. In the event of any default by Borrower in the payment of the Obligations, after the expiration of any applicable cure or grace period, each Guarantor agrees, on demand by Agent (which demand may be made concurrently with notice to Borrower that Borrower is in default of its obligations), to pay the Obligations, regardless of any defense, right of set-off or recoupment or claims which Borrower or Guarantor may have against Agent or Lenders or the holder of the Secured Promissory Notes (other than, in each case, the defense of payment having been made in full). All of the remedies set forth in this Agreement, in any other Financing Document or at law or equity shall be equally available to Agent and Lenders, and the choice by Agent or Lenders of one such alternative over another shall not be subject to question or challenge by any Guarantor or any other person, nor shall any such choice be asserted as a defense, setoff, recoupment or failure to mitigate damages in any action, proceeding, or counteraction by Agent or Lenders to recover or seeking any other remedy under this Guarantee, nor shall such choice preclude Agent or Lenders from subsequently electing to exercise a different remedy.
15.3 Certain Waivers by Guarantor. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Guarantor does hereby:
(i) waive notice of acceptance of this Agreement by Agent and Lenders and any and all notices and demands of every kind which may be required to be given by any statute, rule or law;
(ii) agree to refrain from asserting, until after repayment in full of the Obligations, any defense, right of set-off, right of recoupment or other claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrower;
(iii) waive any defense, right of set-off, right of recoupment or other claim which such Guarantor may have against Agent, Lenders or the holder of the Secured Promissory Notes;
(iv) waive any and all rights such Guarantor may have under any anti-deficiency statute or other similar protections;
(v) waive all rights at law or in equity to seek subrogation, contribution, indemnification or any other form of reimbursement or repayment from Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other person or entity now or hereafter primarily or secondarily liable for any of the Obligations until the Obligations have been paid in full;
(vi) waive presentment for payment, demand for payment, notice of nonpayment or dishonor, protest and notice of protest, diligence in collection and any and all formalities which otherwise might be legally required to charge such Guarantor with liability;
(vii) waive the benefit of all appraisement, valuation, marshalling, forbearance, stay, extension, redemption, homestead, exemption and moratorium laws now or hereafter in effect;
(viii) waive any defense based on the incapacity, lack of authority, death or disability of any other person or entity or the failure of Agent or Lenders to file or enforce a claim against the estate of any other person or entity in any administrative, bankruptcy or other proceeding;
(ix) waive any defense based on an election of remedies by Agent or Lenders, whether or not such election may affect in any way the recourse, subrogation or other rights of such Guarantor against Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other person in connection with the Obligations;
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(x) waive any defense based on the failure of the Agent or Lenders to (i) provide notice to such Guarantor of a sale or other disposition of any of the security for any of the Obligations, or (ii) conduct such a sale or disposition in a commercially reasonable manner;
(xi) waive any defense based on the negligence of Agent or Lenders in administering this Agreement or the other Financing Documents (including, but not limited to, the failure to perfect any security interest in any Collateral), or taking or failing to take any action in connection therewith, provided, however, that such waiver shall not apply to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent or Lenders, as determined by the final, non-appealable decision of a court having proper jurisdiction;
(xii) waive the defense of expiration of any statute of limitations affecting the liability of such Guarantor hereunder or the enforcement hereof;
(xiii) waive any right to file any Claim (as defined below) as part of, and any right to request consolidation of any action or proceeding relating to a Claim with, any action or proceeding filed or maintained by Agent or Lenders to collect any Obligations of such Guarantor to Agent or Lenders hereunder or to exercise any rights or remedies available to Agent or Lenders under the Financing Documents, at law, in equity or otherwise;
(xiv) agree that neither Agent nor Lenders shall have any obligation to obtain, perfect or retain a security interest in any property to secure any of the Obligations (including any mortgage or security interest contemplated by the Financing Documents), or to protect or insure any such property;
(xv) waive any obligation Agent or Lenders may have to disclose to such Guarantor any facts the Agent or Lenders now or hereafter may know or have reasonably available to it regarding Borrower or Borrower’s financial condition, whether or not the Agent or Lenders have a reasonable opportunity to communicate such facts or have reason to believe that any such facts are unknown to such Guarantor or materially increase the risk to such Guarantor beyond the risk such Guarantor intends to assume hereunder;
(xvi) agree that neither Agent nor Lenders shall be liable in any way for any decrease in the value or marketability of any property securing any of the Obligations which may result from any action or omission of the Agent or Lenders in enforcing any part of this Agreement;
(xvii) waive any defense based on any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability, in whole or in part, of any one or more of the Financing Documents;
(xviii) waive any defense based on any change in the composition of Borrower, and
(xix) waive any defense based on any representations and warranties made by such Guarantor herein or by Borrower herein or in any of the Financing Documents.
For purposes of this section, the term “Claim” shall mean any claim, action or cause of action, defense, counterclaim, retention, set-off or right of recoupment of any kind or nature against the Agent or Lenders, its officers, directors, employees, agents, members, actuaries, accountants, trustees or attorneys, or any affiliate of the Agent or Lenders in connection with the making, closing, administration, collection or enforcement by the Agent or Lenders of the Obligations.
15.4 Guarantor’s Obligations Not Affected by Modifications of Financing Documents. Each Guarantor further agrees that such Guarantor’s liability as guarantor shall not be impaired or affected by any renewals or extensions which may be made from time to time, with or without the knowledge or consent of Guarantor for the time for payment of interest or principal or by any forbearance or delay in collecting interest or principal hereunder, or by any waiver by Agent or Lenders under this Agreement or any other Financing Documents, or by Agent’s or Lenders’ failure or election not to pursue any other remedies it may have against Borrower or Guarantor, or by any change or modification in the Secured Promissory Notes, this Agreement or any other Financing Document, or by the acceptance by Agent or Lenders of any additional security or any increase,
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substitution or change therein, or by the release by Agent or Lenders of any security or any withdrawal thereof or decrease therein, or by the application of payments received from any source to the payment of any obligation other than the Obligations even though Agent or Lenders might lawfully have elected to apply such payments to any part or all of the Obligations, it being the intent hereof that, subject to Agent’s or Lenders’ compliance with the terms of this Section 15 and the Financing Documents, each Guarantor shall remain liable for the payment of the Obligations, until the Obligations have been paid in full, notwithstanding any act or thing which might otherwise operate as a legal or equitable discharge of a surety. Each Guarantor further understands and agrees that Agent or Lenders may at any time enter into agreements with Borrower to amend, modify and/or increase the principal amount of, interest rate applicable to or other economic and non-economic terms of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, and may waive or release any provision or provisions of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, and, with reference to such instruments, may make and enter into any such agreement or agreements as Agent, Lenders and Borrower may deem proper and desirable, without in any manner impairing this Guarantee or any of Agent’s or Lenders’ rights hereunder or each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall apply to the this Agreement and other Financing Documents as so amended, modified, extended, renewed or increased.
15.5 Reinstatement; Deficiency. This Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated (as the case may be) if at any time payment of all or any part of any sum payable pursuant to this Agreement or any other Financing Document is rescinded or otherwise required to be returned by Agent or Lenders upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, or reorganization of Borrower, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor, custodian or conservator of or trustee or similar officer for, Borrower or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payment to Agent or Lenders had not been made, regardless of whether Agent or Lenders contested the order requiring the return of such payment. In the event of the foreclosure of the Financing Documents and of a deficiency, each Guarantor hereby promises and agrees forthwith to pay the amount of such deficiency notwithstanding the fact that recovery of said deficiency against Borrower would not be allowed by applicable law; however, the foregoing shall not be deemed to require that Agent or Lenders institute foreclosure proceedings or otherwise resort to or exhaust any other collateral or security prior to or concurrently with enforcing this guaranty.
15.6 Subordination of Borrower’s Obligations to Guarantors; Claims in Bankruptcy.
(i) Any indebtedness of Borrower to any Guarantor (including, but not limited to, any right of such Guarantor to a return of any capital contributed to Borrower), whether now or hereafter existing, is hereby subordinated to the payment of the Obligations. Each Guarantor agrees that, until the Obligations have been paid in full, such Guarantor will not seek, accept, or retain for its own account, any payment from Borrower on account of such subordinated debt. Any payments to any Guarantor on account of such subordinated debt shall be collected and received by such Guarantor in trust for Agent and Lenders and shall be immediately paid over to Agent, for the benefit of Agent and Lenders, on account of the Obligations without impairing or releasing the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
(ii) Each Guarantor shall promptly file in any bankruptcy or other proceeding in which the filing of claims is required by law, all claims and proofs of claims that such Guarantor may have against Borrower or any other Guarantor and does hereby assign to Agent or its nominee (and will, upon request of Agent, reconfirm in writing the assignment to Agent or its nominee of) all rights of such Guarantor under such claims. If such Guarantor does not file any such claim, Agent, as attorney-in-fact for such Guarantor, is hereby irrevocably authorized to do so in the name of such Guarantor, or in Agent’s discretion, to assign the claim to a designee and cause proof of claim to be filed in the name of Agent’s designee. In all such cases, whether in administration, bankruptcy or otherwise, the person or persons authorized to pay such claim shall pay to Agent, for the benefit of Agent and Lenders, the full amount thereof and, to the full extent necessary for that purpose, each Guarantor hereby assigns to the Lenders all of such Guarantor’s rights to any such payments or distributions to which such Guarantor would otherwise be entitled, such assignment being a present and irrevocable assignment of all such rights.
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15.7 Maximum Liability. The provisions of this Article 15 are severable, and in any action or proceeding involving any state, provincial or federal corporate law, or any state, provincial, federal or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations of any Guarantor under this Article 15 would otherwise be held or determined to be avoidable, invalid or unenforceable on account of the amount of such Guarantor’s liability under this Article 15, then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Article 15 to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by the Guarantors or the Agent or any Lender, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable as determined in such action or proceeding (such highest amount determined hereunder being the relevant Guarantor’s “Maximum Liability”). This Section 15.7 with respect to the Maximum Liability of each Guarantor is intended solely to preserve the rights of the Agent and the Lenders to the maximum extent not subject to avoidance under applicable law, and no Guarantor nor any other Person shall have any right or claim under this Section 15.7 with respect to such Maximum Liability, except to the extent necessary so that the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder shall not be rendered voidable under applicable law. Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the Maximum Liability of each Guarantor without impairing this guaranty or affecting the rights and remedies of the Agent or the Lenders hereunder, provided that, nothing in this sentence shall be construed to increase any Guarantor’s obligations hereunder beyond its Maximum Liability.
15.8 Guarantor’s Investigation. Each Guarantor acknowledges receipt of a copy of each of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents. Each Guarantor has made an independent investigation of the other Credit Parties, including the financial condition of the other Credit Parties. Neither Agent nor any Lender has made and neither Agent nor any Lender does make any representations or warranties as to the income, expense, operation, finances or any other matter or thing affecting any Credit Party nor has Agent or any Lender made any representations or warranties as to the amount or nature of the Obligations of any Credit Party to which this Section 15 applies as specifically herein set forth, nor has Agent or any Lender or any officer, agent or employee of Agent or any Lender or any representative thereof, made any other oral representations, agreements or commitments of any kind or nature, and each Guarantor hereby expressly acknowledges that no such representations or warranties have been made and such Guarantor expressly disclaims reliance on any such representations or warranties
15.9 Termination. The provisions of this Article 15 shall remain in effect until this Agreement has terminated pursuant to its terms and all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations and any other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement) have been satisfied.
15.10 Representative. Each Guarantor hereby designates Parent and its representatives and agents on its behalf for the purpose of giving and receiving all notices and other consents hereunder or under any other Financing Document and taking all other actions on behalf of such Guarantor under the Financing Documents. Parent hereby accepts such appointment.
15.11 Swiss Guarantor Limitations.
(a) If and to the extent that the guarantee granted by a Swiss Guarantor under this Agreement guarantees or otherwise secures obligations other than obligations of one of its direct or indirect subsidiaries (i.e. obligations of such Swiss Guarantor's direct or indirect parent companies (up-stream liabilities) or sister companies (cross-stream liabilities)) (the “Restricted Obligations”) and that the making of a payment in fulfilling the guarantee obligations under this Agreement with respect to Restricted Obligations would under Swiss corporate law, at the time payment is due, not be permitted (i.e. to the extent that complying with the Restricted Obligations would constitute a repayment of capital of a Swiss Guarantor, a violation of the legally protected reserves of a Swiss Guarantor or would otherwise be restricted under Swiss corporate law then applicable), then such obligations and payment amount shall from time to time be limited to the amount permitted to be paid under Swiss corporate law; provided that such limited amount shall at no time be less than such Swiss Guarantor's freely distributable capital (presently being the balance sheet profits and any reserves available, including, without limitation, Kapitaleinlagereserven, if any, available for distribution as dividends to the shareholders/quotaholders of a Swiss Guarantor) at the time or times payment under or pursuant to this Agreement is requested from such Swiss Guarantor, and further provided that such limitation (as may apply from time to time or not) shall not (generally or definitively) release such Swiss Guarantor from payment obligations hereunder in excess thereof, but merely postpone the payment date therefore until such times as payment is again permitted notwithstanding such limitation. Any and all indemnities and guarantees contained in the Financing Documents shall be construed in a manner consistent with this section.
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(b) If a Swiss Guarantor must make a payment in respect of Restricted Obligations under this Agreement and is obliged to withhold Swiss Withholding Tax in respect of such payment, such Swiss Guarantor shall:
(i) procure that such payments can be made without deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax, or with deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax at a reduced rate, by discharging the liability to such tax by notification pursuant to applicable law (including double tax treaties) rather than payment of the tax;
(ii) if the notification procedure pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) above does not apply, deduct Swiss Withholding Tax at the rate of 35% (or such other rate as in force from time to time), or if the notification procedure pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) above applies for a part of the Swiss Withholding Tax only, deduct Swiss Withholding Tax at the reduced rate resulting after the discharge of part of such tax by notification under applicable law, from any payment made by it in respect of Restricted Obligations and promptly pay any such taxes to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration;
(iii) notify the Agent that such notification, or as the case may be, deduction has been made and provide the Agent with evidence that such a notification of the Swiss Federal Tax Administration has been made or, as the case may be, such taxes deducted have been paid to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration;
(iv) in the case of a deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax, use reasonable efforts to ensure that any person which is, as a result of a deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax, entitled to a full or partial refund of the Swiss Withholding Tax, will, as soon as possible after the deduction of the Swiss Withholding Tax, (A) request a refund of the Swiss Withholding Tax under any applicable law (including double tax treaties) and (B) pay to the Agent upon receipt any amount so refunded for application as a further payment of such Swiss Guarantor under and pursuant to this Agreement.
(c) If a Swiss Guarantor is obliged to withhold Swiss Withholding Tax in accordance with paragraph (b) above, the Agent shall be entitled to further enforce the guarantee and any other indemnity granted by such Swiss Guarantor under this Agreement and apply proceeds therefrom against the Restricted Obligations up to an amount which is equal to that amount which would have been obtained if no withholding of Swiss Withholding Tax were required, whereby such further enforcements shall always be limited to the maximum amount of the freely distributable reserves of such Swiss Guarantor as set out in paragraph (a) above.
(d) If and to the extent reasonably requested by the Agent or if and to the extent required under Swiss mandatory law (with regards to restricting distributions) applicable at the time a Swiss Guarantor’s obligations hereunder fall due, in order to allow the Agent (and the secured parties) to obtain a maximum benefit under this Agreement, such Swiss Guarantor shall, and any parent company of such Swiss Guarantor being a party to this Agreement shall procure that such Swiss Guarantor will, promptly implement all such measures and/or promptly procure the fulfillment of all prerequisites allowing it to promptly make the (requested) payment(s) hereunder from time to time, including the following:
(i) preparation of an up-to-date audited balance sheet of such Swiss Guarantor;
(ii) obtain a confirmation of the auditors of such Swiss Guarantor confirming the maximum amount of the freely distributable reserves;
(iii) approval by a shareholders'/quotaholders' meeting of such Swiss Guarantor of the (resulting) distribution;
(iv) to the extent permitted by applicable law write up or realize any of such Swiss Guarantor's assets that are shown in its balance sheet with a book value that is significantly lower than the market value of the assets, in case of realization, however, only if such assets are not necessary for such Swiss Guarantor's business (nicht betriebsnotwendig); and
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(v) all such other measures necessary or useful to allow such Swiss Guarantor to make the payments and perform the obligations hereunder with a minimum of limitations.
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In addition to any terms defined in elsewhere in this Agreement, or in any schedule or exhibit attached hereto, as used in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:
“Access Agreement” means a landlord consent, bailee letter or warehouseman’s letter, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, in favor of Agent executed by such landlord, bailee or warehouseman, as applicable, for any third party location.
“Account” means any “account”, as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made, and includes, without limitation, all accounts receivable and other sums owing to Borrower.
“Account Debtor” means any “account debtor”, as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, a Person that owns or controls directly or indirectly the Person, any Person that controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the Person, and each of that Person’s senior executive officers, directors, partners and, for any Person that is a limited liability company, that Person’s managers and members.
“Agent” means, MidCap, not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as agent on behalf of and for the benefit of the Lenders.
“Agreement” has the meaning given it in the preamble of this Agreement.
“AML” has the meaning given it in Section 7.12.
“Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including Executive Order No. 13224 (effective September 24, 2001), the USA PATRIOT Act, the Laws comprising or implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Laws administered by OFAC.
“Applicable Commitment” has the meaning given it in Section 2.2.
“Applicable Ceiling” means for each Credit Facility the per annum rate of interest specified on the Credit Facility Schedule; provided, however, that for the Applicable Prime Rate, the Applicable Ceiling is a per annum rate that is three hundred basis points above the Applicable Ceiling for the Applicable Libor Rate.
“Applicable Floor” means for each Credit Facility the per annum rate of interest specified on the Credit Facility Schedule; provided, however, that for the Applicable Prime Rate, the Applicable Floor is a per annum rate that is three hundred basis points above the Applicable Floor for the Applicable Libor Rate.
“Applicable Index Rate” means, for any Applicable Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by Agent equal to the Applicable Libor Rate; provided, however, that in the event that any change in market conditions or any law, regulation, treaty, or directive, or any change therein or in the interpretation of application thereof, shall at any time after the date hereof, in the reasonable opinion of Agent or any Lender, make it unlawful or impractical for Agent or such Lender to fund or maintain Obligations bearing interest based upon the Applicable Libor Rate, Agent or such Lender shall give notice of such changed circumstances to Agent and Borrower and the Applicable Index Rate for Obligations outstanding or thereafter extended or made by Agent or such Lender shall thereafter be the Applicable Prime Rate until Agent or such Lender determines (as to the portion of the Credit Extensions or Obligations owed to it) that it would no longer be unlawful or impractical to fund or maintain such Obligations or Credit Extensions at the Applicable Libor Rate. In the event that Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto), as of any Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date, that adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the interest rate applicable to any Credit Facility on the basis provided for herein, then Agent may select a comparable replacement index and corresponding margin.
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“Applicable Interest Period” for each Credit Facility has the meaning specified for that Credit Facility in the Credit Facility Schedule; provided, however, that at any time that the Applicable Prime Rate is the Applicable Index Rate, Applicable Interest Period shall mean the period commencing as of the most recent Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date and continuing until the next Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date or such earlier date as the Applicable Prime Rate shall no longer be the Applicable Index Rate; and provided, further, that at any time the Libor Rate Index is adjusted as set forth in the definition thereof, or re-implemented following invocation of the Applicable Prime Rate as permitted herein, the Applicable Interest Period shall mean the period commencing as of such adjustment or re-implementation and continuing until the next Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date, if any.
“Applicable Interest Rate” means a per annum rate of interest equal to the Applicable Index Rate plus the Applicable Margin.
“Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date” means the second (2nd) Business Day prior to the first (1st) day of the related Applicable Interest Period; provided, however, that at any time that the Applicable Prime Rate is the Applicable Index Rate, Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date means the date of any change in the Base Rate Index; and provided, further, that at any time the Libor Rate Index is adjusted as set forth in the definition thereof, the Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date shall mean the date of such adjustment or the second (2nd) Business Day prior to the first (1st) day of the related Applicable Interest Period, as elected by Agent.
“Applicable Libor Rate” means, for any Applicable Interest Period, the rate per annum, determined by Agent (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100th%), equal to the greater of (a) the Applicable Floor and (b) the Libor Rate Index; provided, however, in no event shall the Applicable Libor Rate for any Applicable Interest Period exceed the Applicable Ceiling.
“Applicable Margin” for each Credit Facility has the meaning specified for that Credit Facility in the Credit Facility Schedule.
“Applicable Prepayment Fee”, for each Credit Facility, has the meaning given it in the Credit Facility Schedule for such Credit Facility.
“Applicable Prime Rate” means, for any Applicable Interest Period, the rate per annum, determined by Agent (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100th%), equal to the greater of (a) the Applicable Floor and (b) the Base Rate Index; provided, however, in no event shall the Applicable Prime Rate for any Applicable Interest Period exceed the Applicable Ceiling.
“Approved Fund” means any (a) investment company, fund, trust, securitization vehicle or conduit 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 business, or (b) any Person (other than a natural person) which temporarily warehouses loans for any Lender or any entity described in the preceding clause (a) and that, with respect to each of the preceding clauses (a) and (b), is administered or managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender or (iii) a Person (other than a natural person) or an Affiliate of a Person (other than a natural person) that administers or manages a Lender.
“Base Rate Index” means, for any Applicable Interest Period, the rate per annum, determined by Agent (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100th%) as being the rate of interest announced, from time to time, within Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Xxxxx Fargo”) at its principal office in San Francisco as its “prime rate,” with the understanding that the “prime rate” is one of Xxxxx Fargo’s base rates (not necessarily the lowest of such rates) and serves as the basis upon which effective rates of interest are calculated for those loans making reference thereto and is evidenced by the recording thereof after its announcement in such internal publications as Xxxxx Fargo may designate; provided, however, that Agent may, upon prior written notice to any Borrower, choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Base Rate Index.
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“Blocked Person” means: (a) any Person listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (b) a Person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (c) a Person with which any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (d) a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in Executive Order No. 13224, or (e) a Person that is named a “specially designated national” or “blocked person” on the most current list published by OFAC or other similar list.
“Borrower” has the meaning given to such term in the first paragraph of this Agreement and includes the successors and permitted assigns of each Borrower. The term “each Borrower” shall refer to each Person comprising the Borrower if there is more than one such Person, or the sole Borrower if there is only one such Person. The term “any Borrower” shall refer to any Person comprising the Borrower if there is more than one such Person, or the sole Borrower if there is only one such Person.
“Borrowing Resolutions” means, with respect to any Person, those resolutions, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, adopted by such Person’s Board of Directors or other appropriate governing body and delivered by such Person to Agent approving the Financing Documents to which such Person is a party and the transactions contemplated thereby, as well as any other approvals as may be necessary or desired to approve the entering into the Financing Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby or in connection therewith.
“Books” means all of books and records of a Person, including ledgers, federal and state tax returns, records regarding the Person’s assets or liabilities, the Collateral, business operations or financial condition, and all computer programs or storage or any equipment containing such information.
“Business Day” means any day that is not (a) a Saturday or Sunday or (b) a day on which Agent is closed.
“Canadian Credit Party” means Parent and other Credit Party party hereto, from time to time, organized under the laws of Canada or any province thereof.
“Canadian Income Tax Act” means the Income Tax Act (Canada), as amended from time to time.
“Canadian Pension Plan” shall mean a “registered pension plan”, as that term is defined in subsection 248(1) of the Canadian Income Tax Act, which is or was sponsored, administered or contributed to, or required to be contributed to by, any Credit Party or under which any Credit Party has any actual or potential liability.
“Canadian Security Documents” means, collectively, (i) security agreements executed by each of the Canadian Credit Parties in favor of the Agent on behalf of the Lenders creating a first ranking security interest over all of the respective present and after-acquired personal property of the Canadian Credit Parties; (ii) securities pledge agreements executed by all of the shareholders of each of the Canadian Credit Parties (other than Parent) in favor of the Agent on behalf of the Lenders creating a first ranking possessory pledge and security interest over all of the shares in the capital of each of the Canadian Credit Parties (other than Parent), all in a form acceptable to the Agent and may be as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Cardiome UK Limited Share Charge” means the charge over all the shares in Cardiome UK Limited governed by English law and entered into by Cardiome Pharma Corp in favour of the Agent, as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
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“Change in Control” means any event, transaction, or occurrence as a result of which (a) any “person” (as such term is defined in Sections 3(a)(9) and 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of Parent, is or becomes a beneficial owner (within the meaning Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of Parent, representing forty percent (40%) or more of the combined voting power of Parent’s then outstanding securities; (b) during any period of twelve consecutive calendar months, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the board of directors or managers of Parent (together with any new directors or managers whose election by the board of directors or managers of Parent was approved by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason other than death or disability to constitute a majority of the directors then in office; (c) Parent ceases to own and control, directly or indirectly, all of the economic and voting rights associated with the outstanding securities of each of its Subsidiaries; (d) Borrower ceases to own and control, directly or indirectly, all of the economic and voting rights associated with the outstanding voting capital stock (or other voting equity interest) of each of its Subsidiaries; or (e) the Chief Executive Officer of Borrower as of the date hereof shall cease to be involved in the day to day operations (including research and development) or management of the business of Borrower, unless a successor of such officer is appointed by the Board of Directors of Borrower and employed within ninety (90) days of such cessation of involvement, and such successor is in compliance with OFAC, money-laundering, anti-terrorism, SEC, drug/device laws and regulations, and other similar regulations (in each case, to the extent applicable to a natural Person).
“Closing Date” has the meaning given it in the preamble of this Agreement.
“Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code in effect on the date hereof, as the same may, from time to time, be enacted and in effect in the State of Maryland; provided, however, that to the extent that the Code is used to define any term herein or in any Financing Document and such term is defined differently in different Articles or Divisions of the Code, the definition of such term contained in Article or Division 9 shall govern; and provided, further, that in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of Law, any or all of the attachment, perfection, or priority of, or remedies with respect to, Agent’s Lien on any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of Maryland, the term “Code” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in such other jurisdiction solely for purposes of the provisions thereof relating to such attachment, perfection, priority, or remedies and for purposes of definitions relating to such provisions.
“Collateral” has the meaning given it in Section 4.1.
“Collateral Account” means any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account.
“Commitment Commencement Date” has the meaning given it in the Credit Facility Schedule.
“Commitment Termination Date” has the meaning given it in the Credit Facility Schedule.
“Commodity Account” means any “commodity account”, as defined in the Code, and includes a “futures account” as defined in the PPSA, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.
“Communication” has the meaning given it in Article 11.
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate, duly executed by an authorized officer of Borrower, appropriately completed and substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
“Contingent Obligation” means, for any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or not, of that Person for (a) any indebtedness, capital lease, dividend, letter of credit or other obligation of another such as an obligation directly or indirectly guaranteed, endorsed, co-made, discounted or sold with recourse by that Person, or for which that Person is directly or indirectly liable; (b) any obligations for undrawn letters of credit for the account of that Person; and (c) all obligations from any interest rate, currency or commodity swap agreement, interest rate cap or collar agreement, or other agreement or arrangement designated to protect a Person against fluctuation in interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices; but “Contingent Obligation” does not include endorsements in the ordinary course of business. The amount of a Contingent Obligation is the stated or determined amount of the primary obligation for which the Contingent Obligation is made or, if not determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability for it determined by the Person in good faith; but the amount may not exceed the maximum of the obligations under any guarantee or other support arrangement.
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“Control Agreement” means any control agreement entered into among the depository institution at which Borrower maintains a Deposit Account or the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which Borrower maintains a Securities Account or a Commodity Account, Borrower, and Agent pursuant to which Agent obtains control (within the meaning of the Code) for the benefit of the Lenders over such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account.
“Correvio (UK) Ltd. Share Charge” means the charge over all the shares in Correvio (UK) Ltd. governed by English law and entered into by Cardiome International AG in favour of the Agent, as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Credit Extension” means an advance or disbursement of proceeds to or for the account of Borrower in respect of a Credit Facility.
“Credit Extension Form” means that certain form attached hereto as Exhibit C, as the same may be from time to time revised by Agent.
“Credit Facility” means a credit facility specified on the Credit Facility Schedule.
“Credit Party” means any Borrower, any Guarantor under a guarantee of the Obligations or any part thereof, and any other Person (other than Agent, a Lender or a participant of a Lender), whether now existing or hereafter acquired or formed, that becomes obligated as a borrower, guarantor, surety, indemnitor, pledgor, assignor or other obligor under any Financing Document, and any Person whose equity interests or portion thereof have been pledged or hypothecated to Agent under any Financing Document; and “Credit Parties” means all such Persons, collectively.
“Default” means any fact, event or circumstance which with notice or passage of time or both, could constitute an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” has the meaning given it in Section 2.6(b).
“Deposit Account” means any “deposit account” as defined in the Code with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.
“Designated Funding Account” is Borrower’s Deposit Account, [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] and over which Agent has been granted control for the ratable benefit of all Lenders.
“Dollars,” “dollars” and “$” each means lawful money of the United States.
“Draw Period” means, for each Credit Facility, the period commencing on the Commitment Commencement Date and ending on the Commitment Termination Date.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund, and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by Agent; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with assignments by a Lender due to a forced divestiture at the request of any regulatory agency, the restrictions set forth herein shall not apply and Eligible Assignee shall mean any Person or party becoming an assignee incident to such forced divestiture.
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“Environmental Law” means each present and future law (statutory or common), ordinance, treaty, rule, regulation, order, policy, other legal requirement or determination of an arbitrator or of a Governmental Authority and/or Required Permits imposing liability or standards of conduct for or relating to the regulation and protection of human health, safety, the workplace, the environment and natural resources, and including public notification requirements and environmental transfer of ownership, notification or approval statutes.
“Equipment” means all “equipment”, as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made, and includes without limitation all machinery, fixtures, goods, vehicles (including motor vehicles and trailers), and any interest in any of the foregoing.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and all regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Event of Default” has the meaning given it in Section 10.1.
“Excluded Collateral Accounts” means the Collateral Accounts of the Credit Parties (i) listed on the Disclosure Schedule, the average daily balance of which in the aggregate, together with the average daily balance of all such other Collateral Accounts, shall not exceed $50,000, (ii) the Excluded Escrow Account, (iii) the Excluded Performance Bond Account, and (iv) the Excluded Rent Account.
“Excluded Escrow Account” means [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] containing cash (which in all cases shall be restricted cash) in an amount not to exceed the lesser of (i) the amount required to be on deposit therein pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and (ii) $1,000,000.
“Excluded Performance Bond Account” means [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] containing cash (which in all cases shall be restricted cash) in an amount not to exceed the amount necessary to satisfy the Contingent Obligations of the Credit Parties incurred pursuant to and in accordance with clause (b) of the definition of “Permitted Contingent Obligations”.
“Excluded Rent Account” means [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] containing cash (which in all cases shall be restricted cash) in an amount not to exceed the lesser of (i) 71,000 Swiss Francs and (ii) the amount necessary to pay six (6) months’ rent in advance under the lease entered into by Correvio International S.a.r.l.’s with respect to the premises located at Rue des Alpes 21, Xxxx xxxxxxx 0000, 0000 Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx.
“Excluded Taxes” has the meaning given it in Section 2.6(h).
“Exigent Circumstance” has the meaning given it in Section 13.14.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version of such Sections that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and any intergovernmental agreements between the United States and any other jurisdiction entered into in connection with the foregoing (including any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement).
“FCPA” has the meaning given it in Section 5.10.
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“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided that if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate quoted to Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by Agent in a commercially reasonable manner.
“Fee Letters” means, collectively, the fee letter agreements among Borrower and Agent and Borrower and each Lender, all as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Financing Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Perfection Certificate, the Security Documents, the Fee Letter(s), each note and guarantee executed by one or more Credit Parties in connection with the indebtedness governed by this Agreement, and each other present or future agreement executed by one or more Credit Parties and, or for the benefit of, the Lenders and/or Agent in connection with this Agreement, all as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Foreign Lender” has the meaning given it in Section 2.6(h)(iii).
“Funding Date” means any date on which a Credit Extension is made to or on account of Borrower which shall be a Business Day.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other Person as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.
“General Intangibles” means all “general intangibles”, as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made, and includes without limitation, all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and like protections in each work of authorship and derivative work, whether published or unpublished, any patents, trademarks, service marks and, to the extent permitted under applicable Law, any applications therefor, whether registered or not, any trade secret rights, including any rights to unpatented inventions, payment intangibles, royalties, contract rights, goodwill, franchise agreements, purchase orders, customer lists, route lists, telephone numbers, domain names, claims, income and other tax refunds, security and other deposits, options to purchase or sell real or personal property, rights in all litigation presently or hereafter pending (whether in contract, tort or otherwise), insurance policies (including, without limitation, key man, property damage, and business interruption insurance), payments of insurance and rights to payment of any kind.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any self-regulatory organization.
“Guarantor” means any present or future guarantor of the Obligations. As of the Closing Date, the following entities are “Guarantors”: CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG, Cardiome UK Limited, Correvio International Sàrl, Correvio (Australia) Pty Ltd., and Correvio (UK) Ltd.
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“Hazardous Materials” means petroleum and petroleum products and compounds containing them, including gasoline, diesel fuel and oil; explosives, flammable materials; radioactive materials; polychlorinated biphenyls and compounds containing them; lead and lead-based paint; asbestos or asbestos-containing materials; underground or above-ground storage tanks, whether empty or containing any substance; any substance the presence of which is prohibited by any Laws; toxic mold, any substance that requires special handling; and any other material or substance now or in the future defined as a “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “hazardous waste,” “toxic substance,” “toxic pollutant,” “contaminant,” “pollutant” or other words of similar import within the meaning of any Environmental Law, including: (a) any “hazardous substance” defined as such in (or for purposes of) CERCLA, or any so-called “superfund” or “superlien” Law, including the judicial interpretation thereof; (b) any “pollutant or contaminant” as defined in 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601(33); (c) any material now defined as “hazardous waste” pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 260; (d) any petroleum or petroleum by-products, including crude oil or any fraction thereof; (e) natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel; (f) any “hazardous chemical” as defined pursuant to 29 C.F.R. Part 1910; (g) any toxic or harmful substances, wastes, materials, pollutants or contaminants (including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCB’s”), flammable explosives, radioactive materials, infectious substances, materials containing lead-based paint or raw materials which include hazardous constituents); and (h) any other toxic substance or contaminant that is subject to any Environmental Laws or other past or present requirement of any Governmental Authority.
“Hazardous Materials Contamination” means contamination (whether now existing or hereafter occurring) of the improvements, buildings, facilities, personalty, soil, groundwater, air or other elements on or of the relevant property by Hazardous Materials, or any derivatives thereof, or on or of any other property as a result of Hazardous Materials, or any derivatives thereof, generated on, emanating from or disposed of in connection with the relevant property.
“Indebtedness” means (a) indebtedness for borrowed money (including the Obligations) or the deferred price of property or services, such as reimbursement and other obligations for surety bonds and letters of credit, (b) obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, (c) capital lease obligations, (d) non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, (e) equity securities of such Person subject to repurchase or redemption other than at the sole option of such Person, (f) obligations secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such obligation is otherwise an obligation of such Person, (g) “earnouts”, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature of such Person arising out of purchase and sale contracts, (h) all Indebtedness of others guaranteed by such Person, (i) off-balance sheet liabilities and/or pension plan or multiemployer plan liabilities of such Person, (j) obligations arising under non-compete agreements, (k) obligations arising under bonus, deferred compensation, incentive compensation or similar arrangements, other than those arising in the Ordinary Course of Business, and (l) Contingent Obligations.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning given it in Section 13.2.
“Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding by or against any Person under the United States Bankruptcy Code, or any other bankruptcy or insolvency Law (including the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada)) including assignments for the benefit of creditors, compositions, extensions generally with its creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other relief, or any proceeding by or against any Person under the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Act.
“Intellectual Property” includes without limitation, all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and like protections in each work of authorship and derivative work, whether published or unpublished, any patents, patent applications and like protections, including improvements, divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues, extensions, and continuations-in-part of the same, trademarks, trade names, service marks, mask works, rights of use of any name, domain names, or any other similar rights, any applications therefor, whether registered or not, know-how, operating manuals, trade secret rights, clinical and non-clinical data, rights to unpatented inventions, and any claims for damage by way of any past, present, or future infringement of any of the foregoing.
“Inventory” means all “inventory”, as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made, and includes without limitation all merchandise, raw materials, parts, supplies, packing and shipping materials, work in process and finished products, including without limitation such inventory as is temporarily out of Borrower’s custody or possession or in transit and including any returned goods and any documents of title representing any of the above.
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“Investment” means, with respect to any Person, directly or indirectly, (a) to purchase or acquire any stock or stock equivalents, or any obligations or other securities of, or any interest in, any Person, including the establishment or creation of a Subsidiary, (b) to make or commit to make any acquisition (including through licensing) of (i) all or substantially all of the assets of another Person, or (ii) any business, Product, business line or product line, division or other unit operation of any Person or (c) make or purchase any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to, or any other investment in, any Person.
“Joinder Requirements” has the meaning given it in Section 6.8(a).
“Laws” means any and all federal, state, provincial, territorial, local and foreign statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations, guidance, guidelines, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, codes, plans, injunctions, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, governmental agreements and governmental restrictions, whether now or hereafter in effect, which are applicable to any Credit Party in any particular circumstance.
“Lender” means any one of the Lenders.
“Lenders” means the Persons identified on the Credit Facility Schedule as amended from time to time to reflect assignments made in accordance with this Agreement.
“Libor Rate Index” means, for any Applicable Interest Period, the rate per annum, determined by Agent (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100th%) by dividing (a) the rate per annum, determined by Agent in accordance with its customary procedures, and utilizing such electronic or other quotation sources as it considers appropriate (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100%), to be the rate at which Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Applicable Interest Period or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the preceding Business Day) in the amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) are offered to major banks in the London interbank market on or about 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on the Applicable Interest Rate Determination Date, for a period of thirty (30) days, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error, by (b) 100% minus the Reserve Percentage; provided, however, that Agent may, upon prior written notice to any Borrower, choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Libor Rate Index. The Libor Rate Index may be adjusted by Agent with respect to any Lender on a prospective basis to take into account any additional or increased costs to such Lender of maintaining or obtaining any eurodollar deposits or increased costs, in each case, due to changes in applicable Law occurring subsequent to the commencement of the then Applicable Interest Period, including changes in tax laws (except changes of general applicability in corporate income tax laws) and changes in the reserve requirements imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor), which additional or increased costs would increase the cost of funding loans bearing interest based upon the Libor Rate Index; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “change in applicable Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued. In any such event, the affected Lender shall give Borrower and Agent notice of such a determination and adjustment and Agent promptly shall transmit the notice to each other Lender and, upon its receipt of the notice from the affected Lender, Borrower may, by notice to such affected Lender require such Lender to furnish to Borrower a statement setting forth the basis for adjusting such Libor Rate Index and the method for determining the amount of such adjustment.
“Lien” means a claim, mortgage, deed of trust, lien, levy, charge, pledge, security interest or other encumbrance of any kind, whether voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of Law or otherwise against any property.
“Material Adverse Change” means (a) a material impairment in the perfection or priority of the Agent’s Lien (or any Lender’s Lien therein to the extent provided for in the Financing Documents) in the Collateral; (b) a material impairment in the value of the Collateral; (c) a material adverse change in the business, operations, or condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any Credit Party; or (d) a material impairment of the prospect of repayment of any portion of the Obligations.
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“Material Agreement” means (a) the agreements existing on the Closing Date and listed in the Disclosure Schedule, (b) the New Headquarters Lease, (c) each agreement or contract to which a Credit Party is a party relating to licensure of Material Intellectual Property or development of Products or Material Intellectual Property, and (d) any agreement or contract to which such Credit Party or its Subsidiaries is a party the termination of which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
“Material Indebtedness” has the meaning given it in Section 10.1.
“Maturity Date” means July 18, 2018.
“Maximum Lawful Rate” has the meaning given it in Section 2.6(g).
“MCF” means MidCap Financial, LLC, and its successors and assigns.
“MidCap” has the meaning given it in the preamble of this Agreement.
“New Headquarters” has the meaning given it in Section 7.2.
“New Headquarters Lease” means the lease agreement related to the New Headquarters and entered into by Borrower after the Closing Date.
“Obligations” means all of Borrower’s obligations to pay when due any debts, principal, interest, Protective Advances, fees, indemnities and other amounts Borrower owes the Agent or Lenders now or later, under this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, including, without limitation, interest accruing after Insolvency Proceedings begin (whether or not allowed) and debts, liabilities, or obligations of Borrower assigned to the Lenders and/or Agent, and the payment and performance of each other Credit Party’s covenants and obligations under the Financing Documents. “Obligations” does not include obligations under any warrants issued to Agent or a Lender.
“OFAC” means the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.
“OFAC Lists” means, collectively, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (Sept. 25, 2001) and/or any other list of terrorists or other restricted Persons maintained pursuant to any of the rules and regulations of OFAC or pursuant to any other applicable Executive Orders.
“Operating Documents” means, for any Person, such Person’s formation documents, as certified with the Secretary of State (or other appropriate Governmental Authority) of such Person’s jurisdiction of formation or, if the Secretary of State (or other appropriate Governmental Authority) does not certify such documents, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the relevant Credit Party, in each case, on a date that is no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date, and (a) if such Person is a corporation, its bylaws and articles of incorporation, articles of association, articles of amalgamation or articles of amendment (as applicable) in current form, (b) if such Person is a limited liability company, its limited liability company agreement (or similar agreement), and (c) if such Person is a partnership, its partnership agreement (or similar agreement), each of the foregoing with all current amendments or modifications thereto.
“Ordinary Course of Business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any Credit Party, the ordinary course of business of such Credit Party, as conducted by such Credit Party in accordance with past practices, which shall in any event be at arms-length.
“Parent” has the meaning given it in the preamble of this Agreement.
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“Payment Date” means the first calendar day of each calendar month.
“Pensions Act” means the Pensions Xxx 0000, enacted in the United Kingdom.
“Pension Schemes Act” means the Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000, enacted in the United Kingdom.
“Perfection Certificate” means the Perfection Certificate delivered to Agent as of the Closing Date, together with any amendments thereto required under this Agreement.
“Permitted Contingent Obligations” means (a) Contingent Obligations resulting from endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business; (b) Contingent Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business with respect to surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other similar obligations not to exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) in the aggregate at any time outstanding; (c) Contingent Obligations arising under indemnity agreements with title insurers; (d) Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification obligations in favor of purchasers in connection with dispositions of personal property assets permitted under Article 7; (e) so long as there exists no Event of Default both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such transaction, Contingent Obligations existing or arising under any swap contract, provided, however, that such obligations are (or were) entered into by Borrower or an Affiliate in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person and not for purposes of speculation; (f) the guarantees given by the Guarantors under the Financing Documents; and (g) other Contingent Obligations not permitted by clauses (a) through (f) above, not to exceed $100,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.
“Permitted Indebtedness” means: (a) Borrower’s Indebtedness to the Lenders and Agent under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents; (b) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date and described on the Disclosure Schedule; (c) Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens; (d) Indebtedness under employee credit card programs in an amount not to exceed $300,000 in the aggregate, (e) so long as there exists no Event of Default both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such transaction, Indebtedness existing or arising under any swap contract, provided, however, that such obligations are (or were) entered into by Borrower or an Affiliate in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person and not for purposes of speculation; (f) Indebtedness of the type described in clauses (j) and (k) of the definition of Indebtedness, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000; (g) unsecured Indebtedness to trade creditors incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business (it being understood that Indebtedness to trade creditors incurred on terms more favorable than were previously available to the applicable Credit Party shall be deemed to be consistent with past practices for the purposes of this clause (g)); (h) Permitted Contingent Obligations; (i) extensions, refinancings, modifications, amendments and restatements of any items of Permitted Indebtedness (b) and (c) above, provided, however, that the principal amount thereof is not increased or the terms thereof are not modified to impose more burdensome terms upon the obligors thereunder; and (j) Indebtedness consisting of intercompany loans and advances made by any Credit Party to any other Credit Party, provided that (1) the obligations of the Credit Parties under such intercompany loan shall be subordinated at all times to the Obligations of the Credit Parties hereunder or under the other Financing Documents in a manner satisfactory to Agent (2) to the extent that such Indebtedness is evidenced by a promissory note or other written instrument, Borrower shall pledge and deliver to Agent, for the benefit of itself and the Lenders, the original promissory note or instrument, as applicable, along with an endorsement in blank in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, and (3) the Credit Parties are in compliance with the terms of Section 6.8(b) regarding Investments in Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries including with respect to any intercompany loans made thereto.
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“Permitted Investments” means: (a) Investments existing on the Closing Date and described on the Disclosure Schedule; (b) Investments consisting of cash equivalents; (c) any Investments in liquid assets permitted by Borrower’s investment policy (as approved by the Borrower’s Board of Directors), as amended from time to time, provided that such investment policy (and any such amendment thereto) has been disclosed to Agent; (d) Investments consisting of the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of any Credit Party; (e) Investments consisting of deposit accounts or securities accounts in which the Agent has a first priority perfected security interest except as otherwise provided by Section 6.6; (f) Investments in Subsidiaries solely to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 6.8; (g) Investments consisting of (i) travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the ordinary course of business to the extent all such loans and advances do not exceed $300,000 in the aggregate at any time, and (ii) loans to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of equity securities of Parent or its Subsidiaries pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by Parent’s board of directors; (h) Investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers or suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business; and (i) Investments consisting of intercompany Indebtedness in accordance with and to the extent permitted by clause (h) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”.
“Permitted Liens” means: (a) Liens existing on the Closing Date and shown on the Disclosure Schedule or arising under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents; (b) Liens securing capital leases or purchase money obligations (i) on Equipment acquired or held by a Credit Party incurred for financing the acquisition of the Equipment securing no more than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) in the aggregate amount outstanding, or (ii) existing on Equipment when acquired, if the Lien is confined to the property and improvements and the proceeds of the Equipment; (c) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to clause (d) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness; (d) Liens for taxes, fees, assessments or other government charges or levies, either not delinquent or being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves are maintained on the Books of the Credit Party against whose asset such Lien exists, provided that no notice of any such Lien has been filed or recorded under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the treasury regulations adopted thereunder; (e) statutory Liens securing claims or demands of materialmen, mechanics, carriers, warehousemen, landlords and other Persons imposed without action of such parties, provided that they have no priority over any of Agent’s Lien and the aggregate amount of such Liens for all Credit Parties does not any time exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000); (f) leases or subleases of real property granted in the ordinary course of business, and leases, subleases, non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses of property (other than real property or Intellectual Property) granted in the ordinary course of business, if the leases, subleases, licenses and sublicenses do not prohibit granting Agent a security interest; (g) banker’s liens, rights of set-off and Liens in favor of financial institutions incurred made in the Ordinary Course of Business arising in connection with a Credit Party’s Collateral Accounts, provided that such Collateral Accounts other than Excluded Collateral Accounts, are subject to a Control Agreement or other intercreditor agreement reasonably satisfactory to Agent; (h) Liens to secure payment of workers’ compensation, employment insurance, old-age pensions, social security and other like obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business (other than Liens imposed by ERISA); (i) Liens arising from judgments, decrees or attachments in circumstances not constituting an Event of Default; (j) easements, reservations, rights-of-way, restrictions, minor defects or irregularities in title and similar charges or encumbrances affecting real property not constituting a Material Adverse Change; and (k) Liens incurred in the extension, renewal or refinancing of the indebtedness secured by Liens described in (a) and (b) above, but any extension, renewal or replacement Lien must be limited to the property encumbered by the existing Lien and the principal amount of the Indebtedness may not increase.
“Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, company, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, institution, public benefit corporation, firm, joint stock company, estate, entity or government agency.
“Personal Property Security Act” or “PPSA” means the Personal Property Security Act (British Columbia).
“Pro Rata Share” means, as determined by Agent, with respect to each Credit Facility and Lender holding an Applicable Commitment or Credit Extensions in respect of such Credit Facility, a percentage (expressed as a decimal, rounded to the ninth decimal place) determined by dividing (a) in the case of fully-funded Credit Facilities, the amount of Credit Extensions held by such Lender in such Credit Facility by the aggregate amount of all outstanding Credit Extensions for such Credit Facility, and (b) in the case of Credit Facilities that are not fully-funded, the amount of Credit Extensions and unfunded Applicable Commitments held by such Lender in such Credit Facility by the aggregate amount of all outstanding Credit Extensions and unfunded Applicable Commitments for such Credit Facility.
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“Process Agent” has the meaning given it in Section 13.18.
“Protective Advances” means all reasonable and documented audit fees and expenses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees and expenses) of Agent and Lenders for preparing, amending, negotiating, administering, defending and enforcing the Financing Documents (including, without limitation, those incurred in connection with appeals or Insolvency Proceedings) or otherwise incurred by Agent or the Lenders in connection with the Financing Documents.
“Purchase Agreement” means that certain Stock and Assets Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 18, 2013, among certain Credit Parties and CarCor Investment Holdings LLC.
“Registered Organization” means any “registered organization” as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.
“Required Lenders” means, unless all of the Lenders and Agent agree otherwise in writing, Lenders having (a) more than sixty percent (60%) of the Applicable Commitments of all Lenders, or (b) if such Applicable Commitments have expired or been terminated, more than sixty percent (60%) of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Credit Extensions.
“Required Permit” means all licenses, certificates, accreditations, product clearances or approvals, provider numbers or provider authorizations, supplier numbers, provider numbers, marketing authorizations, other authorizations, registrations, permits, consents and approvals of a Credit Party (a) issued or required under Laws applicable to the business of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or necessary in the manufacturing, importing, exporting, possession, ownership, warehousing, marketing, promoting, sale, labeling, furnishing, distribution or delivery of goods or services under Laws applicable to the business of Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (b) issued by any Person from which Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries have received an accreditation. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, “Required Permits” includes any Drug Application (including without limitation, at any point in time, all licenses, approvals and permits issued by the FDA or any other applicable Governmental Authority necessary for the testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of any Product by any applicable Borrower(s) as such activities are being conducted by such Borrower with respect to such Product at such time) and any drug listings and drug establishment registrations under 21 U.S.C. Section 510, registrations issued by DEA under 21 U.S.C. Section 823 (if applicable to any Product), and those issued by State governments for the conduct of Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s business.
“Reserve Percentage” means, on any day, for any Lender, the maximum percentage prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor Governmental Authority) for determining the reserve requirements (including any basic, supplemental, marginal, or emergency reserves) that are in effect on such date with respect to eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “eurocurrency liabilities”) of that Lender, but so long as such Lender is not required or directed under applicable regulations to maintain such reserves, the Reserve Percentage shall be zero.
“Responsible Officer” means any of the President and Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer of Borrower.
“Restricted Foreign Subsidiary” means each direct or indirect subsidiary of Parent set forth on the Restricted Foreign Subsidiary Schedule; provided, however, that, at such time as Agent confirms that the Credit Parties have complied with the obligations set forth in Section 6.8 with respect to the joinder of certain Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries as Credit Parties under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, such entities shall cease to be “Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries”.
“Restricted Obligations” has the meaning given to it in Section 15.11.
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“Secretary’s Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, executed by such Person’s secretary on behalf of such Person certifying (a) that such Person has the authority to execute, deliver, and perform its obligations under each of the Financing Documents to which it is a party, (b) that attached as Exhibit A to such certificate is a true, correct, and complete copy of the Borrower Resolutions then in full force and effect authorizing and ratifying the execution, delivery, and performance by such Person of the Financing Documents to which it is a party, (c) the name(s) of the Person(s) authorized to execute the Financing Documents on behalf of such Person, together with a sample of the true signature(s) of such Person(s), and (d) that Agent and the Lenders may conclusively rely on such certificate unless and until such Person shall have delivered to Agent a further certificate canceling or amending such prior certificate.
“Secured Promissory Note” has the meaning given it in Section 2.7.
“Securities Account” means any “securities account”, as defined in the Code, with such additions to such term as may hereafter be made.
“Security Documents” means, collectively, the Canadian Security Documents, the Swiss Security Documents, the UK Security Documents and each other agreement, document or instrument executed concurrently herewith or at any time hereafter pursuant to which one or more Credit Parties or any other Person provides, as security for all or any portion of the Obligations, a Lien on any of its assets in favor of Agent for its own benefit and the benefit of the Lenders, as any or all of the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Stated Rate” has the meaning given it in Section 2.6(g).
“Subject Swiss Collateral” has the meaning given it in Section 4.1.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Person of which more than fifty percent (50.0%) of the voting stock or other equity interests (in the case of Persons other than corporations) is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person.
“Swiss Federal Tax Administration” means the Swiss Federal tax administration (Eidgenössische Steuerverwaltung).
“Swiss Guarantor” means any of CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG, Correvio International Sàrl and each other Guarantor party hereto, from time to time, organized under the laws of Switzerland.
“Swiss Officer’s Certificate” means, with respect to any Swiss Guarantor, a certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, executed by a Swiss Guarantor’s Responsible Officer on behalf of such Swiss Guarantor certifying that (a) the current articles of association and the updated excerpt of the register of commerce are true, complete and up-to-date, (b) the minutes of a meeting of the board of directors are true, complete and up-to-date, (c) the minutes of a meeting of the shareholders/quotaholders are true, complete and up-to date and (d) the name(s) of the Person(s) authorized to execute the Financing Documents on behalf of such Person, together with a sample of the true signature(s) of such Person(s), and (e) that Agent and the Lenders may conclusively rely on such certificate unless and until such Person shall have delivered to Agent a further certificate canceling or amending such prior certificate.
“Swiss Withholding Tax” means any taxes imposed under the Swiss Federal Act on Withholding Tax (Bundesgesetz über die Verrechnungssteuer).
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“Swiss Security Documents” means collectively, (a) security agreements executed by each of the Swiss Guarantors in favor of the Agent on behalf of the Lenders in accordance with Section 14.14 creating a first ranking security interest over all of the Swiss Guarantors' present and future (i) bank account claims, (ii) intellectual property rights and royalty claims, and (iii) trade, intra-group and insurance receivables; (b) share/quota pledge agreements executed by all of the shareholders of each of the Swiss Guarantors in favor of the Agent on behalf of the Lenders in accordance with Section 14.14 creating a first ranking security interest over all of the shares/quota in the capital of each of the Swiss Guarantors; and (c) share pledge agreement executed by all of the shareholders of each of the Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries (other than Rhythm-Search Developments Ltd.) in favor of the Agent on behalf of the Lenders in accordance with Section 14.14 creating a security interest over all of the shares in the capital of each of the Restricted Foreign Subsidiaries (other than Rhythm-Search Developments Ltd.), all in a form acceptable to the Agent and may be as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Taxes” has the meaning given it in Section 2.6(h).
“Testing Date” means each date identified as a “Testing Date” on the Minimum Net Revenue Schedule.
“Transfer” has the meaning given it in Section 7.1.
“UK Guarantors” means, collectively, Cardiome UK Limited, Correvio (UK) Ltd. and each other Guarantor party hereto, from time to time, organized under the laws of the United Kingdom.
“UK Security Documents” means means the Cardiome UK Limited Share Charge and the Correvio (UK) Ltd. Share Charge.
[SIGNATURES APPEAR ON FOLLOWING PAGE(S)]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending that this instrument constitute an instrument executed and delivered under seal, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the Closing Date.
BORROWERS:
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Chief Financial Officer__________________
CARDIOME, INC.
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
ARTESIAN THERAPEUTICS, INC.
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
MURK ACQUISITION SUB, INC.
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
CORREVIO LLC
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Chief Financial Officer__________________
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GUARANTORS:
CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
CORREVIO (UK) LTD.
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
CORREVIO INTERNATIONAL SARL
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
CORREVIO (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD.
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
CARDIOME UK LIMITED
By:___“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx”____________________(SEAL)
Name:_Jennifer Archibald______________________
Title:__Director______________________________
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AGENT:
MIDCAP FUNDING V, LLC,
as Agent for Lenders
By:___“Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx” _____________________(SEAL)
Name:__Colleen S. Kovas______________________
Title: Its Authorized Signatory
LENDERS:
MIDCAP FUNDING V, LLC,
By:___“Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx” _____________________(SEAL)
Name:__Colleen S. Kovas______________________
Title: Its Authorized Signatory
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EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Reserved
Exhibit B Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit C Credit Extension Form
Exhibit D Form of Secured Promissory Note
SCHEDULES
Credit Facility Schedule
Amortization Schedule (for each Credit Facility)
Post-Closing Obligations Schedule
Closing Deliveries Schedule
Disclosure Schedule
Intellectual Property Schedule
Products Schedule
Required Permits Schedule
Restricted Foreign Subsidiary Schedule
Minimum Net Revenue Schedule
EXHIBIT A
Reserved
EXHIBIT B
COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
TO: MidCap Funding V, LLC, as Agent
FROM: __________________________________
DATE: ________________, 201__
The undersigned authorized officer of __________________________________________ (“Parent”) certifies that under the terms and conditions of the Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement between Credit Parties, Agent and the Lenders (as amended, restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Agreement”):
(1) Credit Parties are in complete compliance with all required covenants for the month ending _______________, 201__, except as noted below;
(2) there are no Events of Default;
(3) all representations and warranties in the Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on this date except as noted below; provided, however, that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof; and provided, further, that those representations and warranties expressly referring to a specific date shall be true, accurate and complete in all material respects as of such date;
(4) Each Credit Party has timely filed all required tax returns and reports, and each Credit Party has timely paid all federal and all material foreign, state and local taxes, assessments, deposits and contributions owed by such Credit Party. For purposes of this certification, any state, local or foreign tax, assessment, deposit or contribution, and any return with respect thereto, shall be considered “material” if it exceeds $100,000 in the aggregate for all taxes; and
(5) no Liens have been levied or claims made against Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries relating to unpaid employee payroll or benefits of which Borrower has not previously provided written notification to Agent.
Attached are the required documents supporting the certifications set forth in this Compliance Certificate. The undersigned certifies, in his/her capacity as an officer of the Parent, that these are prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied from one period to the next except as explained in an accompanying letter or footnotes. The undersigned acknowledges, in his/her capacity as an officer of Parent, that no borrowings may be requested at any time or date of determination that Parent is not in compliance with any of the terms of the Agreement, and that compliance is determined not just at the date this certificate is delivered. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Agreement.
Please indicate compliance status by circling Yes/No under “Complies” column. | ||
Reporting/Financial Covenant
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Required | Complies |
Quarterly Financial Statements |
Quarterly within 45 days | Yes No |
Audited Financial Statements | Annually within 120 days after FYE |
Yes No
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Board Approved Projections | Annually within 30 days after FYE |
Yes No
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Compliance Certificate | Monthly within 45 days |
Yes No
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Minimum Cash (per Section 9.1(a)) equals ______ OR Minimum Net Revenue (per Section 9.1(b)) equals _____
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Monthly within 45 days
Quarterly within 45 days |
Yes No
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[Attached is evidence of rent payments for the New Headquarters and any location leased by a Swiss Guarantor][1]
[1] Include only if required pursuant to Section 7.2.
The following are the exceptions with respect to the certification above: (If no exceptions exist, state “No exceptions to note.”)
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By: Name: Title:
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AGENT USE ONLY
Received by: _____________________ authorized signer Date: _________________________
Verified: ________________________ authorized signer Date: _________________________
Compliance Status: Yes No |
EXHIBIT C
CREDIT EXTENSION Form
Deadline is Noon E.S.T.
Date:______________, 201__
Loan Advance:
Complete Outgoing Wire Request section below if all or a portion of the funds from this loan advance are for an outgoing wire.
From Account #________________________________ To Account #___________________________ (Loan Account #) (Deposit Account #)
Amount of Advance $___________________________
All Borrower’s representations and warranties in the Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement are true, correct and complete in all material respects on the date of the request for an advance; provided, however, that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality in the text thereof; and provided, further, that those representations and warranties expressly referring to a specific date shall be true, accurate and complete in all material respects as of such date:
Authorized Signature: Phone Number: __________________ Print Name/Title: |
Outgoing Wire Request:
Complete only if all or a portion of funds from the loan advance above is to be wired.
Beneficiary Name: _____________________________ Amount of Wire: $ Beneficiary Lender: ____________________________ Account Number: City and State:
Beneficiary Lender Transit (ABA) #: Beneficiary Lender Code (Swift, Sort, Chip, etc.): (For International Wire Only) Intermediary Lender: Transit (ABA) #:
For Further Credit to: Special Instruction:
By signing below, I (we) acknowledge and agree that my (our) funds transfer request shall be processed in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the agreements(s) covering funds transfer service(s), which agreements(s) were previously received and executed by me.
Authorized Signature: ___________________________ 2nd Signature (if required): _____________________ Print Name/Title: ______________________________ Print Name/Title: ____________________________ Telephone #: Telephone #: ________________________________
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EXHIBIT D
Form of promissory note
SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE
$[___________] _________, 2014
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, CARDIOME PHARMA CORP., CARDIOME, INC., ARTESIAN THERAPEUTICS, INC., MURK ACQUISITION SUB, INC., and CORREVIO LLC (collectively in the singular “Borrower”) hereby promises to pay to MIDCAP FUNDING V, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company or its registered assigns (“Lender”), with an address of 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, or such other place of payment as the holder of this Secured Promissory Note (this “Note”) may specify from time to time in writing, in lawful money of the United States of America, the principal amount of [______________] ($[__________]), or so much thereof as Lender has advanced to Borrower, on the dates, terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement (as defined below), together with interest thereon in accordance with the terms of and at the rate or rates set forth in the Credit Agreement.
This Note is executed and delivered in connection with that certain Credit and Security Agreement dated as of [_______, 2014] by and among Borrower, MidCap Funding V, LLC, as agent for the lenders thereunder, Lender, and the other lenders named therein from time to time (as the same may from time to time be amended, modified, restated or supplemented in accordance with its terms, the “Credit Agreement”), and is entitled to the benefit and security of the Credit Agreement and the other Financing Documents (as defined in the Credit Agreement), to which reference is made for a statement of all of the terms and conditions thereof. This Note shall evidence the undersigned’s obligation to repay all sums advanced by Lender from time to time under the Credit Agreement and as part of a Credit Facility thereunder. All terms defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the same definitions when used herein, unless otherwise defined herein. All of the terms, covenants, provisions, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements contained in the Financing Documents to be kept, observed and/or performed by the undersigned are made a part of this Note and are incorporated into this Note by this reference to the same extent and with the same force and effect as if they were fully set forth in this Note; the undersigned promises and agrees to keep, observe and perform them or cause them to be kept, observed and performed, strictly in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof. In the event of any conflict between this Note and the Credit Agreement, the Credit Agreement shall govern and control.
All payments hereunder shall be made in accordance with the Credit Agreement, without setoff, recoupment or deduction and regardless of any counterclaim or defense. This Note shall become due and payable in full upon the Maturity Date. An Event of Default under the Credit Agreement shall constitute a default under this Note, and upon any such Event of Default, all principal and interest and other obligations owing under this Note may be accelerated and declared immediately due and payable as provided for in the Credit Agreement. All amounts due hereunder are payable in the lawful currency of the United States of America. Time is of the essence hereof. This Note may be voluntarily prepaid only as permitted under the Credit Agreement.
Borrower hereby makes all waivers set forth in the Credit Agreement with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by this Note. No variation or modification of this Note, or any waiver of any of its provisions or conditions, shall be valid unless such variation or modification is made in accordance with the Credit Agreement. If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Note or the application of any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Note to any party or circumstance shall be found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be, to any extent, invalid or unenforceable, then the remainder of this Note and the application of such term, provision, covenant, or condition to parties or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid or unenforceable, shall not be affected thereby, and each term, provision, covenant or condition shall be valid and enforced to the fullest extent permitted by law. This Note shall be binding upon the undersigned and its successors. The undersigned may not assign any of its rights or delegate any of its obligations under this Note. Each of the undersigned shall be jointly and severally liable for all of the obligations of Borrower under this Note.
This Note has been negotiated and delivered to Lender and is payable in the State of Maryland. The provisions of the Credit Agreement regarding choice of law, jurisdiction, venue and jury trial waiver are incorporated herein and shall govern this Note.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, and intending that this document shall constitute an instrument executed and delivered under seal, Borrower, as of the day and year first above written, has caused this Note to be executed and delivered under seal.
By:________________________________________(SEAL)
Name:______________________________________
Title:_______________________________________
CARDIOME, INC.
By:________________________________________(SEAL)
Name:______________________________________
Title:_______________________________________
ARTESIAN THERAPEUTICS, INC.
By:________________________________________(SEAL)
Name:______________________________________
Title:_______________________________________
MURK ACQUISITION SUB, INC.
By:________________________________________(SEAL)
Name:______________________________________
Title:_______________________________________
CORREVIO LLC
By:________________________________________(SEAL)
Name:______________________________________
Title:_______________________________________
CREDIT FACILITY SCHEDULE
The following Credit Facilities are specified on this Credit Facility Schedule:
Credit Facility #1:
Credit Facility and Type: Term, Tranche 1
Lenders for and their respective Applicable Commitments to this Credit Facility:
Lender | Applicable Commitment |
MidCap Funding V, LLC | Twelve Million Dollars ($12,000,000) |
The following defined terms apply to this Credit Facility:
Applicable Funding Conditions: N/A.
Applicable Interest Period: means the one-month period starting on the first (1st) day of each month and ending on the last day of such month; provided, however, that the first (1st) Applicable Interest Period for each Credit Extension under this Facility shall commence on the date that the applicable Credit Extension is made and end on the last day of such month.
Applicable Ceiling: means one percent (1.0%) per annum for the Applicable Libor Rate.
Applicable Floor: means one half of one percent (0.50%) per annum for the Applicable Libor Rate.
Applicable Margin: a rate of interest equal to eight percent (8%) per annum.
Applicable Prepayment Fee: means the following amount, calculated as of the date (the “Accrual Date”) that the Applicable Prepayment Fee becomes payable in the case of prepayments required under the Financing Documents or the date any voluntary prepayment is made: (a) for an Accrual Date on or after the Closing Date through and including the date which is twelve (12) months after the Closing Date, three percent (3.0%) multiplied by the amount of the outstanding principal of the Credit Extension prepaid or required to be prepaid (whichever is greater); (b) for an Accrual Date on or after the date which is twelve (12) months after the Closing Date through and including the date which is twenty-four (24) months after the Closing Date, two percent (2.0%) multiplied by the amount of the outstanding principal of the Credit Extension prepaid or required to be prepaid (whichever is greater); and (c) for an Accrual Date on or after the date which is twenty-four (24) months after the Closing Date through and including the date immediately preceding the Maturity Date one percent (1.0%) multiplied by the amount of the outstanding principal of the Credit Extension prepaid or required to be prepaid (whichever is greater); provided, however, so long as any such prepayment is made in compliance with the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6.13), the Applicable Prepayment Fee shall be waived upon Borrower’s refinancing of the Term Credit Facilities with a revolving credit facility made by financial institutions other than Agent or any Lender on terms and conditions materially more favorable to Borrower, as determined by Agent in its reasonable discretion, than any revolving credit facility offered by Agent and one or more Lenders.
Commitment Commencement Date: Closing Date.
Commitment Termination Date: the close of the Business Day following the Closing Date.
Minimum Credit Extension Amount: $12,000,000
Permitted Purpose: means general working capital.
Credit Facility #2:
Credit Facility and Type: Term, Tranche 2
Lenders for and their respective Applicable Commitments to this Credit Facility:
Lender | Applicable Commitment |
MidCap Funding V, LLC | Up to Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) |
The following defined terms apply to this Credit Facility:
Applicable Funding Conditions: means the date on which Agent and each Lender determine, in their sole discretion, exercised in good faith, of Agent and each Lender, that the Borrower has consummated (or will consummate, substantially contemporaneously with the advance of proceeds of this Credit Facility) a “Permitted Acquisition” (as defined below).
“Permitted Acquisition” is any acquisition, consummated on or prior to the Commitment Termination Date, by the Borrower of all or the majority of the capital stock of another Person, or substantially all or a majority of the assets of such Person or of a division, product line or line of business of such Person, if such acquisition is acceptable to each Lender in its sole and absolute discretion exercised in good faith.
Applicable Interest Period: means the one-month period starting on the first (1st) day of each month and ending on the last day of such month; provided, however, that the first (1st) Applicable Interest Period for each Credit Extension under this Facility shall commence on the date that the applicable Credit Extension is made and end on the last day of such month.
Applicable Ceiling: means one percent (1.0%) per annum for the Applicable Libor Rate.
Applicable Floor: means one half of one percent (0.50%) per annum for the Applicable Libor Rate.
Applicable Margin: a rate of interest equal to eight percent (8%) per annum.
Applicable Prepayment Fee: means the following amount, calculated as of the date (the “Accrual Date”) that the Applicable Prepayment Fee becomes payable in the case of prepayments required under the Financing Documents or the date any voluntary prepayment is made: (a) for an Accrual Date on or after the Closing Date through and including the date which is twelve (12) months after the Closing Date, three percent (3.0%) multiplied by the amount of the outstanding principal of the Credit Extension prepaid or required to be prepaid (whichever is greater); (b) for an Accrual Date on or after the date which is twelve (12) months after the Closing Date through and including the date which is twenty-four (24) months after the Closing Date, two percent (2.0%) multiplied by the amount of the outstanding principal of the Credit Extension prepaid or required to be prepaid (whichever is greater); and (c) for an Accrual Date on or after the date which is twenty-four (24) months after the Closing Date through and including the date immediately preceding the Maturity Date one percent (1.0%) multiplied by the amount of the outstanding principal of the Credit Extension prepaid or required to be prepaid (whichever is greater); provided, however, so long as any such prepayment is made in compliance with the terms of this Agreement (including Section 6.13), the Applicable Prepayment Fee shall be waived upon Borrower’s refinancing of the Term Credit Facilities with a revolving credit facility made by financial institutions other than Agent or any Lender on terms and conditions materially more favorable to Borrower, as determined by Agent in its reasonable discretion, than any revolving credit facility offered by Agent and one or more Lenders.
Closed Period: Not applicable.
Commitment Commencement Date: Satisfaction of the Applicable Funding Conditions for this Credit Facility.
Commitment Termination Date: the earliest to occur of (a) December 31, 2015, (b) an Event of Default, or (c) the existence of any Default in respect of which Agent has delivered to Borrower a notice terminating the Applicable Commitments.
Minimum Credit Extension Amount: $10,000,000
Permitted Purpose: means acquisition financing for a Permitted Acquisition.
AMORTIZATION SCHEDULE (FOR EACH CREDIT FACILITY)
Credit Facility #1
Commencing on the first day of the full calendar month following the first anniversary of the Closing Date (the “Amortization Start Date”), and continuing on the first day of each calendar month thereafter, an amount equal to the principal amount advanced under Credit Facility #1 divided by the number of full calendar months remaining (including such first full calendar month) before the occurrence of the Maturity Date; provided, however, if consolidated net revenue of the Parent as of the Amortization Start Date is equal to or greater than [figure redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102] for the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the Amortization Start Date, the principal payments shall commence on the first day of the full calendar month following the eighteen month anniversary of the Closing Date (the “Extended Amortization Start Date”) and shall be in an amount equal to the principal amount advanced under Credit Facility #1 divided by the number of full calendar months remaining (including such first full calendar month) before the occurrence of the Maturity Date.
Credit Facility #2
Commencing on the Amortization Start Date or the Extended Amortization Start Date, as the case may be, the principal amount advanced under Credit Facility #2 divided by the number of full calendar months remaining (including such first full calendar month) before the occurrence of the Maturity Date.
POST CLOSING OBLIGATIONS SCHEDULE
Credit Parties shall satisfy and complete each of the following obligations, or provide Agent each of the items listed below, as applicable, on or before the date indicated below, all to the satisfaction of Agent in its sole and absolute discretion:
1. | Credit Parties shall cause Rhythm-Search Developments Ltd. to be dissolved, wound-up, merged out of existence or otherwise terminated as a separate legal entity by March 31, 2015. |
Credit Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide Bailee Agreements for the following locations by the date that is sixty (60) days following the Closing Date: (i) Salo Logistics Center, Joensuunkatu 7 B, Doors: 1-7, 24100 SALO, Finland, (ii) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx 000, 0000XX Xxxxxxx a/d Ijssel, the Netherlands, (iii) Eddastraat 21, Xxxxxxx Industriepark, XX-0000 Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, (iv) Xxxxxxxx - Xxxxxxx - Xxx. 0., 00000 Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx and (v) Im Laternenacker 0,XX-0000 Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx.
2. | Credit Parties shall execute such intellectual property security agreements and other documents and take such other actions as Agent shall request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, with respect to (i) all Brinavess related patents and trademarks registered in (A) Netherlands, (B) Austria, (C) Germany, (D) Finland and (E) Sweden and (ii) all Aggrastat related trademarks registered in (A) Brazil, (B) France, (C) Germany, (D) Italy and (E) Saudi Arabia, in each case by the date that is forty-five (45) days following the Closing Date. |
3. | Credit Parties shall, by the date that is forty-five (45) days following the Closing Date, cause a notice of security interest in intellectual property to be filed in the Canadian Intellectual Property office for each trademark or patent of a Credit Party that is registered in Canada and take such other actions as may be necessary to ensure a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of Lenders, with respect thereto. |
4. | Without limiting the obligations set forth in paragraph 3 above, Credit Parties shall (A) by the date that is one hundred and twenty (120) days following the Closing Date, cause all Material Intellectual Property to be properly registered, filed or issued in the name of the appropriate Credit Party and in the appropriate office and jurisdictions for such registrations, filings or issuances and (B) promptly cause such other Intellectual Property to be so properly registered, filed or issued as Agent may reasonably request from time to time. |
5. | Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent the original share certificates representing the pledged interests in Artesian Therapeutics, Inc. by the date that is five (5) Business Days following the Closing Date. |
6. | Credit Parties shall deliver, by the date that is thirty (30) days following the Closing Date, evidence satisfactory to Agent showing loss payable and/or additional insured clauses or endorsements in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, in respect of each of the insurance policies required by Article 6. |
7. | Credit Parties shall, by the date that is thirty (30) days following the Closing Date, ensure that Borrower is maintaining one or more separate Deposit Accounts to hold any and all amounts to be used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments, and no monies allocated for such purposes are comingled with funds in any other Deposit Account. |
8. | Credit Parties shall, by the date that is ten (10) days following the Closing Date, deliver one or more Control Agreements with each of HSBC Bank USA, HSBC Bank Canada, and Credit Suisse, AG (the “Account Banks”, each in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent, duly executed by the applicable Credit Parties and the applicable Account Bank, for each deposit and securities account with such Account Bank to the extent required pursuant to Section 6.6 herein. |
Credit Parties’ failure to complete and satisfy any of the above obligations on or before the date indicated above, or Borrower’s failure to deliver any of the above listed items on or before the date indicated above, shall constitute an immediate and automatic Event of Default.
CLOSING DELIVERIES SCHEDULE
1. | duly executed signatures to the Financing Documents to which any Credit Party is a party. |
2. duly executed signatures to the Control Agreements with CIBC Wood Gundy and Toronto-Dominion Bank;
3. duly executed original Secured Promissory Notes in favor of each Lender with a face amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Commitment under each Credit Facility;
4. the Operating Documents of each Credit Party and good standing certificates (or, to the extent applicable, the equivalent thereof in the relevant jurisdiction of organization of such Credit Party) of each Credit Party certified by the Secretary of State or similar entity of the jurisdiction of organization of such Credit Party as of a date no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date;
5. good standing certificates (or, to the extent applicable, the equivalent thereof in the relevant jurisdiction of organization of such Credit Party) dated as of a date no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date to the effect that each Credit Party is qualified to transact business in all states in which the nature of such Credit Party’s business so requires;
6. duly executed signatures to the completed Borrowing Resolutions for each Credit Party;
7. certified copies, dated as of a recent date, of financing statement searches, as Agent shall request, accompanied by written evidence (including any UCC termination statements) that the Liens indicated in any such financing statements either constitute Permitted Liens or have been or, in connection with the initial Credit Extension, will be terminated or released;
8. the Perfection Certificate executed by Borrower;
9. [reserved];
10. legal opinions of Credit Parties’ counsel dated as of the Closing Date together with the duly executed signatures thereto;
11. evidence satisfactory to Agent that the insurance policies required by Article 6 are in full force and effect, together with appropriate evidence showing loss payable and/or additional insured clauses or endorsements in favor of Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders;
12. payment of the fees and expenses of Agent and Lenders then accrued in accordance with this Agreement, including pursuant to the Fee Letters;
13. a duly executed original Secretary’s Certificate for each Credit Party dated as of the Closing Date which includes copies of the completed Borrowing Resolutions for such Credit Party;
14. timely receipt by the Agent of an executed disbursement letter;
15. For each Swiss Guarantor, a Swiss Officer's Certificate which includes a copy of the up-to-date articles of association certified by the register of commerce (no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date), a copy of the up-to-date excerpt from the register of commerce certified by the register of commerce (no earlier than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date), a copy of the minutes of the board of directors of CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG and a copy of the minutes of the managing directors of Correvio International Sàrl, a copy of the minutes of the shareholders' meeting of CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG and a copy of the minutes of the quotaholders' meeting of Correvio International Sàrl and a copy of the specimen signatures of authorized signatories for each Swiss Guarantor;
16. transfer of the original share certificate(s) in CARDIOME INTERNATIONAL AG duly endorsed in blank to the Agent, acting as collateral agent in its own name and in the name and on behalf of the pledgees as their direct representative and transfer of the original quota certificate(s) in Correvio International Sàrl duly assigned in blank to the Agent, acting as collateral agent in its own name and in the name and on behalf of the pledgees as their direct representative; and
17. original share certificates and duly executed stock powers for all other applicable Subsidiaries that are the subject of an equity pledge pursuant to a Security Document.
DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE
Scheduled Permitted Liens
Debtor | Secured Party | Collateral | State and Jurisdiction | Filing Date and Number (include original file date and continuations, amendments, etc.) |
n.a. |
Scheduled Permitted Indebtedness
Debtor | Creditor | Amount of Indebtedness outstanding as of _____ __, ____ | Maturity Date |
n.a. |
Schedule Permitted Investments
Debtor | Type of Investment | Date | Amount Outstanding as of _______ |
n.a. |
Scheduled Excluded Deposit Accounts
1. Correvio UK: [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
2. Correvio UK: [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
3. Correvio UK: [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
4. Correvio International Sarl: [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
5. Cardiome Pharma Corp: [bank account number redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
Scheduled Material Agreements
1. Algorithm Distribution Agreement
2. AOP Distribution Agreement
3. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
4. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
5. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
6. CarCor Investment Holdings LLC - Registration Rights Agreement
7. CarCor Investment Holdings LLC - Stock and Asset Purchase Agreement
8. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
9. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
10. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
11. Merck & Co., Inc. - Transition Agreement
12. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
13. [name of agreement redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
Scheduled Litigation
1. n.a.
Scheduled ownership interest in any Chattel Paper, letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, Instruments, documents or investment property
1. n.a.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SCHEDULE
See Attached
PRODUCTS SCHEDULE
Brinavess 20 mg/ml concentrate for solution for infusion (vials of 10 and 25 mL)
Aggrastat® 0.25 mg/mL concentrate for solution for infusion (50 xX xxxx)
Aggrastat® 0.05 mg/mL solution for infusion (250 mL bag)
Vernakalant oral - under development
REQUIRED PERMITS SCHEDULE
[required permits schedule redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
RESTRICTED FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY SCHEDULE
Cardiome Pharma AG, a company formed under the laws of Germany
Correvio GmbH, a company formed under the laws of Germany
Correvio Italia Srl, a company formed under the laws of Italy
Correvio AB, a company formed under the laws of Sweden
Correvio, a company formed under the laws of France
Correvio Spain SL, a company formed under the laws of Spain
Correvio Belgium Sprl, a company formed under the laws of Belgium
Correvio (Australia) Pty Ltd., a company formed under the laws of Australia
Rhythm-Search Developments Ltd.
MINIMUM NET REVENUE SCHEDULE
[minimum net revenue figures redacted in accordance with Section 12.2(3) of National Instrument 51-102]
Testing Date | Minimum Net Revenue ($000s) | Testing Period | |
August 15, 2014 | July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014 | ||
November 15, 2014 | October 1, 2013 - September 30, 2014 | ||
February 15, 2015 | January 1, 2014- December 31, 2014 | ||
May 15, 2015 | April 1, 2014- March 31, 2015 | ||
August 15, 2015 | July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015 | ||
November 15, 2015 | October 1, 2014 - September 31, 2015 | ||
February 15, 2016 | January 1, 2015- December 31, 2015 |